Now Trump Is Threatening to Force Google to Prioritize Right Wing Media

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It just never stops with the self-obsessed con man occupying the Oval Office. Now he’s promoting a completely false (of course, when is it not?) conspiracy theory that Google is somehow suppressing his sycophantic right wing media in search results. It’s so stupid and dishonest it makes my brain hurt.

And because he’s the president, God help us, Google actually felt compelled to respond.

Of course, there’s an insidious reason why the Con Man in Chief is pushing this idiotic fake outrage, as Greg Sargent describes:

But while this might seem like typical Trumpian buffoonery, at its core is some deadly serious business. These attacks on the media — which are now spreading to extensive conspiracy-mongering about social media’s role in spreading information — form one part of an interlocking, two-piece Trumpian strategy (whether by instinct or design is unclear) that serves to underscore the urgency of this fall’s elections.

Trump is unleashing endless lies and attacks directed at the mechanisms of accountability that actually are functioning right now — the media, law enforcement and special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation — to persuade his supporters not only that they shouldn’t believe anything they hear from these sources, but also to energize them and get them to vote, to protect him from those institutions’ alleged conspiracy against him.

At the same time, that campaign of lies is designed to get Republican voters out for the purpose of keeping in place the mechanism of accountability that is not functioning right now — the GOP-led Congress — preventing a Democratic takeover of the House, which would impose genuine accountability.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:19:21pm

I fondly dream of the day I can wake up and smile because Donald Trump isn’t President anymore.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:21:12pm

It’s the War on Search Engine Algorithms!

Even easier to win than a trade war!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:21:26pm
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Ace Rothstein  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:22:04pm

I miss you, President Obama.

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gocart mozart  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:22:39pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:23:12pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:23:19pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

That’s too perfect.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:23:42pm

I googled “Trump News”, which of course is now all about his tweet, and the third and fourth sources were the WSJ and Fox News.

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Kragar  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:24:36pm
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bratwurst  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:28:50pm

I must confess I got a giggle today listening to Rush Limbaugh have to explain to his mouth breathing audience why Net Neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with perceived neutral search results online.

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DodgerFan1988  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:33:24pm

“But let’s talk about Mollie Tibbetts murder.”

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JordanRules  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:35:48pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:36:16pm

re: #10 bratwurst

I must confess I got a giggle today listening to Rush Limbaugh have to explain to his mouth breathing audience why Net Neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with perceived neutral search results online.

these are people to whom you have to explain that salmonella is not caused by salmons

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:36:44pm

Putting as many right wing assholes onto the benches as they can…

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Sir John Barron  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:39:13pm

re: #10 bratwurst

I must confess I got a giggle today listening to Rush Limbaugh have to explain to his mouth breathing audience why Net Neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with perceived neutral search results online.

Bring back net neutrality and fairness doctrine!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:40:33pm

Note to Steve Crowder. That’s fascism not gays being able to marry.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:41:07pm

This fucking idiot.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:41:23pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:42:14pm

re: #10 bratwurst

I must confess I got a giggle today listening to Rush Limbaugh have to explain to his mouth breathing audience why Net Neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with perceived neutral search results online.

Limbaugh should just stick to what he knows: failed marriages and hillbilly heroin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:45:14pm

Ex-Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver guilty of murdering teenager Jordan Edwards

DALLAS

A Dallas County jury has found ex-Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver guilty of murder in the death of 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, an African-American youth who was unarmed when Oliver shot him in April 2017.

The jury deliberated for about 12 hours over a period of two days before reaching its verdict. The courtroom erupted in cries and cheers from Edwards’ family afterward as they clapped and hugged each other.

As the jury rendered its decision, a photo of Edwards rested underneath Judge Brandon Birmingham’s bench — where it was left during the duration of the weeklong trial.

Oliver shot into the back of a 2004 black Impala where Edwards was a passenger on April 29 last year. The then-officer claimed the car was about to run over his partner, Officer Tyler Gross, but several witnesses and video taken from the officer’s body camera show the car was moving away from Gross.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:47:11pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

Ex-Balch Springs police officer Roy Oliver guilty of murdering teenager Jordan Edwards

Throw away the key.

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Kragar  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:49:37pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:52:15pm

re: #22 Kragar

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He’s right. Twitter has given him an uninterrupted platform to blab about every goddamn thing from Rosie O’Donnell to how unfair it is that everyone but FNC actually calls him out on his shit.

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Mike Lamb  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:54:49pm

re: #12 JordanRules

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So am I to understand that Senate Dems cut a deal on judicial appointments in exchange for bipartisan support to rename a building after McCain? Do I have that right?

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:54:58pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:55:48pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

He’s right. Twitter has given him an uninterrupted platform to blab about every goddamn thing from Rosie O’Donnell to how unfair it is that everyone but FNC actually calls him out on his shit.

Google, Twitter and FB must report only positive, loving, slobbering news of the Marmalade Shitgobbin.

/

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JordanRules  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:56:07pm
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Sir John Barron  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:56:44pm

re: #22 Kragar

Trump warns that Google, Twitter and Facebook are “treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.” pic.twitter.com

— Kelly Daschle

Or? Or, what, Fascist Dictator Wannabe?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:58:02pm

re: #27 JordanRules

The Oklahoma church that put up this sign now claims it was “accidental.”

Like when Trump fell into that porn star, and that Playboy model.

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JordanRules  Aug 28, 2018 • 12:59:33pm

re: #24 Mike Lamb

So am I to understand that Senate Dems cut a deal on judicial appointments in exchange for bipartisan support to rename a building after McCain? Do I have that right?

I can’t tell yet. Still looking for additional details.
I can’t imagine what Schumer could have secured to make this okay, but we shall see.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:04:08pm

re: #27 JordanRules

Another reason why churches need to be taxed. If they want to play the politics game, they got pay like everything else!

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gwangung  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:04:33pm

re: #28 Sir John Barron

Or? Or, what, Fascist Dictator Wannabe?

Mouth is writing checks his brain can’t cash.

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:04:39pm

Was checking my ATT/Yahoo and saw this. I figured this would be on YouTube so I went and found it.

I also looked at the first comment and the replies to it…and that was enough to know it would be about what was expected. Of course that also meant that I would have to read about Blacks using their heads and not falling for Democrats because they started the KKK.

Like yesterday seeing a British Grand Prix driver saying ‘fake news” at a Belgian race and saying we are going to see Trumpisms for a long time, this brought that all up to me again today.

Here are two ESPN talking heads talking about Tiger Woods saying we need to respect the office of the President…and not liking it so much.

Max and Stephen A. react to Tiger Woods’ comments on President Trump | First Take | ESPN

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:05:10pm

re: #27 JordanRules

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Bullshit. That wasn’t incidental. Own it you inbred evangelical fucks.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:06:02pm

re: #9 Kragar

This is truly good news. Some cold justice for the parents and loved ones of the deceased but better than the cop walking away free which happens way too often.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:07:40pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:08:25pm

re: #35 Patricia Kayden

This is truly good news. Some cold justice for the parents and loved ones of the deceased but better than the cop walking away free which happens way too often.

Would never have happened without video. This is why cops need to wear body cameras.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:13:28pm

re: #37 Big Beautiful Door

Would never have happened without video. This is why cops need to wear body cameras.

Yes, definitely. That should be mandated on a nationwide-basis.

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Kragar  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:13:59pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:15:11pm

re: #39 Kragar

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Not shocked. He knows how to pander to the Evangelical morons very well for someone who has no background in the religious right.

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wrenchwench  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:15:37pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

re: #36 Charles Johnson

I put those together to see what it looked like.

It looks like you’ve been trying to tear this world down before it happened. Could have worked if we had known what the Russians were doing.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:16:13pm

re: #39 Kragar

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And there are still people who want these Pulpit Pimps to keep riding on the tax-exempt Gravy Train…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:18:03pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

Not shocked. He knows how to pander to the Evangelical morons very well for someone who has no background in the religious right.

Religious Right leaders saw in Trump one of the greatest grifters of all time and hitched their wagons to him.

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:18:10pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

Not shocked. He knows how to pander to the Evangelical morons very well for someone who has no background in the religious right.

And he knows that those same religious nuts will get the messaged to their followers and they will do what they do…follow Trump’s bullshit and make life in America even more dangerous for everyone.

What a bastardization of Christianity.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:19:34pm

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Religious Right leaders saw in Trump one of the greatest grifters of all time and hitched their wagons to him.

Because just like Trump, they’re bigoted, generally-hateful, and pretend to be Christian.

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:19:48pm

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Religious Right leaders saw in Trump one of the greatest grifters of all time and hitched their wagons to him.

Pass the plate…we got our god right here on earth, in America, he is our leader.

Life is good…

…for us preachers, not so much for our foolish flock.

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SteveMcGriftFlynnComey... ...corruptemoligate RN  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:20:55pm

re: #33 ObserverArt

My experience of listening to Woods is that this is his way of giving a non answer. In all these years he has rarely opened up to reveal anything and one of those times he did everybody missed the point

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:21:11pm

re: #33 ObserverArt

Here are two ESPN talking heads talking about Tiger Woods saying we need to respect the office of the President…and not liking it so much.

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country.”
—Theodore Roosevelt.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:24:43pm
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meteor  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:26:08pm
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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:26:31pm

re: #47 SteveMcGriftFlynnComey… …corruptemoligate RN

My experience of listening to Woods is that this is his way of giving a non answer. In all these years he has rarely opened up to reveal anything and one of those times he did everybody missed the point

They sort of touch on that in their discussion. And they also get to the point that Tiger, golf and Trump go together and Tiger is a friend of Trump because of that sporting connection.

Tiger is dancing and Steven A goes to that in a way that will make a lot of people uncomfortable…Tiger’s mixed ethnicity and what that means to people of those ethnic backgrounds and how it can be used as a plus and a minus.

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:29:06pm

re: #50 meteor

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Otters are just so fun.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:29:11pm

How is this for timing

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:30:52pm

Thanks Obama

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:33:25pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Otters are just so fun.

If you’re not a clam…

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Sir John Barron  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:33:41pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

Oh is she back at it again?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:36:13pm

re: #56 Sir John Barron

Oh is she back at it again?

See, a normal person would have seen the ‘stuck key’ incident as a sign that perhaps they were suffering from extreme confirmation bias. But the lack of shame that infects the Right extends to lack of self awareness.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:37:05pm

re: #19 HappyWarrior

Limbaugh should just stick to what he knows: failed marriages and hillbilly heroin.

limbaugh
gingrich
trump
giuliani

i count 13 wives between them

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:38:23pm

re: #57 Blind Frog Belly White

See, a normal person would have seen the ‘stuck key’ incident as a sign that perhaps they were suffering from extreme confirmation bias. But the lack of shame that infects the Right extends to lack of self awareness.

It’s sticking your fingers in your brain and saying lalalalala…I don’t want to understand what I clearly see.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:38:48pm

re: #22 Kragar

Trump warns that Google, Twitter and Facebook are “treading on very, very troubled territory and they have to be careful.”

this doesnt even mean what he thinks it means

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Skip Intro  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:39:33pm

re: #24 Mike Lamb

So am I to understand that Senate Dems cut a deal on judicial appointments in exchange for bipartisan support to rename a building after McCain? Do I have that right?

Hope not. They can’t be that incompetent.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:40:53pm

Trump is agitating for a civil war.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:42:01pm

re: #27 JordanRules

The Oklahoma church that put up this sign now claims it was “accidental.”

So I guess, someone slipped and fell while carrying 65 letters and a comma, and they all flew through the air and stuck to the sign in a way that just happened to spell a pro-GOP Biblical double entendre?

the watchmaker argument
therefore a designer

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:43:01pm
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Dr. Matt  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:43:47pm

Google best not bark up the wrong hot potato!11!!!

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:44:12pm

re: #37 Big Beautiful Door

Would never have happened without video. This is why cops need to wear body cameras.

and even then they lie

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:45:39pm

re: #43 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Religious Right leaders saw in Trump one of the greatest grifters of all time and hitched their wagons to him.

everyone needs a role model
(except arpaio)

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MsJ  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:47:08pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:47:44pm

re: #62 jaunte

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Trump is agitating for a civil war.

And so are these Radical Religious Right Xtians. They want blood in the streets. And then there are real assholes like Anne Graham who pray for San Francisco and Hollywood to be nuked.

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jeffreyw  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:47:59pm

Imgur


The food is bad and the plates are too small.

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MsJ  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:48:04pm
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Single-handed sailor  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:48:20pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:49:42pm

re: #70 jeffreyw

Broccoli beef and orange chicken. I’m drooling!

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:50:30pm

re: #62 jaunte

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Trump is agitating for a civil war.

look i get this election is a referendum (where did he get that word?)
and i get “violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG”

but those two paragraphs dont make any sense at all

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:51:07pm

re: #74 dangerman

look i get this election is a referendum (where did he get that word?)
and i get “violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG”

but those two paragraphs dont make any sense at all

Since when does Trump make sense?

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MsJ  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:52:36pm

re: #74 dangerman

look i get this election is a referendum (where did he get that word?)
and i get “violence!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG”

but those two paragraphs dont make any sense at all

When does trump ever make sense?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:53:38pm

re: #75 Big Beautiful Door

Since when does Trump make sense?

I said it before - Bill Clinton’s political wizardry was making everyone he spoke with think he understood them.

Trump’s is making people he speaks to think THEY understand HIM.

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jeffreyw  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:55:09pm

re: #73 Joe Bacon 🌹

Broccoli beef and orange chicken. I’m drooling!

There are several, ah, layers of flavor. Some kimchi under there.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:55:21pm

just Trump spoon-feeding the Fundamentalist Christian militant uprising fantasy the hard right wing has been dreaming of for decades. …Trump conning a room full of con men.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:55:37pm

re: #72 Single-handed sailor

Fox News has had “Russia expert” Robert Driscoll on the air multiple times to provide analysis of the Mueller investigation, and never once did they mention that Driscoll is the attorney representing alleged Russian spy Maria Butina

i am fine with all the bozos like him and giuliani and dersh going on tv and spouting all their russia investigation expertise

they know nothing
all they’re doing is making shit up

they’re calling strike three while mueller is selecting a bat and walking to the on-deck circle

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Skip Intro  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:57:09pm

re: #30 JordanRules

I can’t tell yet. Still looking for additional details.
I can’t imagine what Schumer could have secured to make this okay, but we shall see.

A promise from McConnell? Yeah, that would be a good deal.

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:57:25pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:58:00pm

re: #72 Single-handed sailor

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FNC: We distort and then you decide.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:58:38pm

re: #75 Big Beautiful Door

Since when does Trump make sense?

it’s all so incoherent. you walk away agreeing with him, you must really be an idiot.
because he hasnt actually said anything

yeah i know i know, that’s how its supposed to work.
lost my head there for a moment

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JordanRules  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:58:55pm

Doofus.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:59:19pm
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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:59:22pm

re: #77 Blind Frog Belly White

I said it before - Bill Clinton’s political wizardry was making everyone he spoke with think he understood them.

Trump’s is making people he speaks to think THEY understand HIM.

yeah. this

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 1:59:54pm

re: #85 JordanRules

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Doofus.

Goddamn does he always have to talk like an uneducated moron?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:00:13pm

re: #87 dangerman

yeah. this

He talks like a moron.

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MsJ  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:00:13pm
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MsJ  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:01:32pm

re: #89 HappyWarrior

He talks like a moron.

He is a moron.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:01:46pm

re: #91 MsJ

He is a moron.

True true.

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:01:53pm

re: #84 dangerman

it’s all so incoherent. you walk away agreeing with him, you must really be an idiot.
because he hasnt actually said anything

yeah i know i know, that’s how its supposed to work.
lost my head there for a moment

What scares me is it takes real work to believe The Big Don and yet so many people do. You really need many stages of denial and delusions to get there. It is some powerful willful ignorance at work.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:03:05pm

The way he talks. I can’t expls why but it infuriates me.

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danarchy  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:03:19pm

re: #68 MsJ

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This whole thing is dumb. The thing is a glorified zip gun that fails after you fire it too many times. I can go to home depot and buy the parts to build a zip gun in less time it would take a 3D printer to print this thing.

I’d be more worried about the lower receivers that can be printed and paired with unregulated parts to make a fairly reliable semi auto rifle.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:03:21pm

re: #93 ObserverArt

What scares me is it takes real work to believe The Big Don and yet so many people do. You really need many stages of denial and delusions to get there. It is some powerful willful ignorance at work.

Nothing about Trump supporters makes sense until one acknowledges the bigotry driving his support.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:03:56pm

re: #95 danarchy

This whole thing is dumb. The thing is a glorified zip gun that fails after you fire it too many times. I can go to home depot and buy the parts to build a zip gun in less time it would take a 3D printer to print this thing.

I’d be more worried about the lower receivers that can be printed and paired with unregulated parts to make a fairly reliable semi auto rifle.

this has nothing to do with any well-regulated militia I can think of

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:04:24pm

re: #95 danarchy

This whole thing is dumb. The thing is a glorified zip gun that fails after you fire it too many times. I can go to home depot and buy the parts to build a zip gun in less time it would take a 3D printer to print this thing.

I’d be more worried about the lower receivers that can be printed and paired with unregulated parts to make a fairly reliable semi auto rifle.

Way less time. People who don’t have 3d printers have no idea just how slow they are.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:05:29pm

re: #88 HappyWarrior

Goddamn does he always have to talk like an uneducated moron?

Well, he IS an uneducated moron, so…..

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:05:34pm

re: #96 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Nothing about Trump supporters makes sense until one acknowledges the bigotry driving his support.

And greed. Surely greed and hate are big drivers of all the Trump love.

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Skip Intro  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:07:18pm

re: #62 jaunte

He was threatening civil war if he lost in 2016. Now he’s 1000 times worse and has spent 2 years firing up his mob with fear and hate.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:10:07pm

Wait for it.
spoiler: at about 0.10

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mmmirele  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:10:38pm

re: #27 JordanRules

What makes that sign annoying was that prior to the runoff, the pastor of the church (Danny Stockstill) was running for Congress, but he didn’t make it to the runoff.

For what it’s worth, this particular church has had declining attendance. So what it did to reverse the trend was (a) drop Baptist from its name (b) change up its worship to be more “modern” (c) change Sunday School to 13 week sessions and (d) drop congregational polity for what they describe as “seven-person executive team makes most decisions, and that allows the congregation to relax more, let go of the ownership more and enjoy the church more, he said.”

That last item actually means there was an elder coup in the church. It’s entirely likely that it has become a Calvinista Baptist church. I’d be able to tell if I could look at their beliefs, but their website has been completely worked over and there’s no information.

tulsaworld.com

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:11:16pm

re: #86 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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i read the opinion

“that sort of argument clearly does not make the grade”

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BeachDem  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:13:03pm

re: #51 ObserverArt

They sort of touch on that in their discussion. And they also get to the point that Tiger, golf and Trump go together and Tiger is a friend of Trump because of that sporting connection.

Tiger is dancing and Steven A goes to that in a way that will make a lot of people uncomfortable…Tiger’s mixed ethnicity and what that means to people of those ethnic backgrounds and how it can be used as a plus and a minus.

Speaking of the yam and sports—here’s his deep understanding of soccer:

“Soccer is a game, I guess you call it football. But over here, maybe at some point they’ll change the name, I’m not sure. But we’ll see. It’s working very well either way.”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:13:43pm

re: #102 The Vicious Babushka

Wait for it.
spoiler: at about 0.10

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Drain the swamp: vote for me, an actual convicted con who will die his first day in Washington when he finds out he can’t arrest people for being Hispanic.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:14:12pm

re: #105 BeachDem

Speaking of the yam and sports—here’s his deep understanding of soccer:

“Soccer is a game, I guess you call it football. But over here, maybe at some point they’ll change the name, I’m not sure. But we’ll see. It’s working very well either way.”

Such deep thoughts by the stable genius.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:14:24pm

re: #93 ObserverArt

What scares me is it takes real work to believe The Big Don and yet so many people do. You really need many stages of denial and delusions to get there. It is some powerful willful ignorance at work.

its one thing to buy into and believe the wild stuff he says

its still another to understand what he’s trying to say - his sentences are often incoherent, illogical, and meaningless

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Jason Munro  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:15:32pm

re: #96 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

re: #100 ObserverArt

And greed. Surely greed and hate are big drivers of all the Trump love.

And ignorance. People who hate that fancy politicians with there “vocabulary” and “knowledge” talk down to them all the time are the PERFECT marks for Trump’s con.

Combined with the general disdain for politics (and bigotry and greed) all fueled by pervasive propaganda, and it’s the perfect storm of derp. It’s like some sort of twisted political Stockholm syndrome, and it’s sad as fuck.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:16:30pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

Drain the swamp: vote for me, an actual convicted con who will die his first day in Washington when he finds out he can’t arrest people for being Hispanic.

I really hope Sheriff Joe wins the GOP nomination, because that should make it a lot easier for the Democratic nominee to win, and we need to steal as many seats from the GOP as possible.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:18:00pm

re: #110 Big Beautiful Door

I really hope Sheriff Joe wins the GOP nomination, because that should make it a lot easier for the Democratic nominee to win, and we need to steal as many seats from the GOP as possible.

Ditto. That’s why I was relieved Corey Stewart somehow won the GOP senate nomination here.

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danarchy  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:19:01pm

re: #110 Big Beautiful Door

I really hope Sheriff Joe wins the GOP nomination, because that should make it a lot easier for the Democratic nominee to win, and we need to steal as many seats from the GOP as possible.

Unfortunately the polls have him in a distant third tied with undecided.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:19:26pm

re: #111 HappyWarrior

Ditto. That’s why I was relieved Corey Stewart somehow won the GOP senate nomination here.

He was the most racist candidate, of course.

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Big Beautiful Door  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:20:06pm

re: #112 danarchy

Unfortunately the polls have him in a distant third tied with undecided.

C’mon GOP troglodytes, don’t fail us now!

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:21:10pm
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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:21:54pm

re: #108 dangerman

its one thing to buy into and believe the wild stuff he says

its still another to understand what he’s trying to say - his sentences are often incoherent, illogical, and meaningless

That is what I mean by the work it takes. They can take his comments as sort of Trump code and make them into what they want to hear which is exactly what he wants them to hear.

It is Trump speaking in political “tongues.”

It is too easy to get caught up in the logic and formality of language. If you have your head on straight it doesn’t make sense. If you are a Trumper it is clear as a bell.

Don’t get tied into what should be. We lost that back in November of ‘16.

We shouldn’t be here.

We have to deal with the what it is, even if it doesn’t make a damn lick of sense.

Here is where we are.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:22:10pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:25:04pm

re: #113 Big Beautiful Door

He was the most racist candidate, of course.

Yep. That’s exactly why he won.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:27:58pm
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Belafon  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:28:25pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

Maybe he wants to put them in his ant farm.

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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:28:55pm

re: #116 ObserverArt

That is what I mean by the work it takes. They can take his comments as sort of Trump code and make them into what they want to hear which is exactly what he wants them to hear.

It is Trump speaking in political “tongues.”

It is too easy to get caught up in the logic and formality of language. If you have your head on straight it doesn’t make sense. If you are a Trumper it is clear as a bell.

Don’t get tied into what should be. We lost that back in November of ‘16.

We shouldn’t be here.

We have to deal with the what it is, even if it doesn’t make a damn lick of sense.

Here is where we are.

you are 100%

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:29:11pm
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dangerman  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:30:04pm

re: #120 Belafon

Maybe he wants to put them in his ant farm.

maybe that’s what he meant by ‘ant farm’

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HappyWarrior  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:32:46pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

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Ben Shapiro should start by apologizing to Chuck Hagel for the hideous Friends of Hamas lie. He doesn’t have the right to lecture anyone on self policing and I really wish he would fuck off and shut up for once.

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Jason Munro  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:33:25pm

re: #119 Charles Johnson

Just spit-balling here but maybe one side needs more self policing? I don’t know, maybe the policies they support ARE FUCKING RACIST.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:33:47pm
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jaunte  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:36:18pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:37:03pm
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Stanley Sea  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:43:52pm

re: #85 JordanRules

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Doofus.

Have the NAFTA 3 been awarded the cup? I thought it was pending…??

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jaunte  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:44:08pm

“…We do know that it seems like Paul Manafort is getting tired of being transported to jail, and has thus waived his right to be present for pretrial stuff. Maybe he is a-skeered of being in regular jail where any old Igor can sneak in with some polonium in his butt, hey, did we say polonium in this post yet? Because that’s a thing Russia does, GLENN GREENWALD.”

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Sir John Barron  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:45:47pm

re: #128 The Vicious Babushka

What tyrannical system will Drump complain about tomorrow as being rigged against him?

///

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:49:30pm

Elon Musk is still doing the drugs

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:55:54pm

pathetic

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:58:14pm
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BeachDem  Aug 28, 2018 • 2:59:11pm

re: #127 jaunte

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That whole thread is hilarious. (And Bakari is a star!)

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:01:08pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:05:56pm

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

Whenever Serena’s in the news, there’s always some clown who says she’s ‘built like a guy’.

All I can say, is if guys were built like that, I might rethink my heterosexuality.
//

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makeitstop  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:08:32pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:18:02pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

When a real human being unironically paraphrases (barely!) Harry Lime’s most sinister, monstrous statement in The Third Man.

We’re fucked.

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Single-handed sailor  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:18:17pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:19:43pm

Okay, so the weird thing about Trump’s “violently, violently, with the violence!” spew is that he’s saying that WE’LL become violent IF WE WIN.

Why? If we we win, and we over turn ‘everything’, why would we bother being violent?

It’s the sort of thing that one moron will say to a bunch of other morons, and they’ll all think it makes perfect sense, because they’re, you know, morons.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:22:03pm

re: #140 Single-handed sailor

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I’d like for Hannity to do a story on how an unnamed ‘highly placed official’ is using his office to enrich himself at the expense of the rest of us, using an unnamed company to funnel the profits into his unnamed pocket, and how he gave key positions to family members.

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ObserverArt  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:23:41pm

re: #142 Blind Frog Belly White

I’d like for Hannity to do a story on how an unnamed ‘highly placed official’ is using his office to enrich himself at the expense of the rest of us, using an unnamed company to funnel the profits into his unnamed pocket, and how he gave key positions to family members.

They’d never buy it. Unpossible!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:26:46pm

BEES!!!

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sagehen  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:27:12pm

re: #141 Blind Frog Belly White

Okay, so the weird thing about Trump’s “violently, violently, with the violence!” spew is that he’s saying that WE’LL become violent IF WE WIN.

Why? If we we win, and we over turn ‘everything’, why would we bother being violent?

It’s the sort of thing that one moron will say to a bunch of other morons, and they’ll all think it makes perfect sense, because they’re, you know, morons.

But of course, if we take the house… even if we take the house and senate, we can’t overturn anything as long as Mango Mussolini remains in place.

All we can do is investigations, and keep him from passing any more laws or appointing any more judges.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:48:52pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

Elon Musk is still doing the drugs

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This is sad. Jeff Bezos needs to pick up SpaceX before Elon’s disintegration spreads there too.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 3:58:59pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

Elon Musk is still doing the drugs

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More likely narcissism and constant stress.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Aug 28, 2018 • 4:00:39pm

re: #141 Blind Frog Belly White

Okay, so the weird thing about Trump’s “violently, violently, with the violence!” spew is that he’s saying that WE’LL become violent IF WE WIN.

Why? If we we win, and we over turn ‘everything’, why would we bother being violent?

It’s the sort of thing that one moron will say to a bunch of other morons, and they’ll all think it makes perfect sense, because they’re, you know, morons.

Unfortunately it’s always projection. The right intends to be violent if Trump is brought to justice.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Aug 28, 2018 • 4:22:02pm

re: #139 The Ghost of a Flea

Look down there. Tell me. Would you really feel any pity if one of those dots stopped moving forever? If I offered you twenty thousand pounds for every dot that stopped, would you really, old man, tell me to keep my money, or would you calculate how many dots you could afford to spare? Free of income tax, old man. Free of income tax - the only way you can save money nowadays.

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Barefoot Grin  Aug 28, 2018 • 4:40:44pm

re: #144 Blind Frog Belly White

BEES!!!

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Drive it into the Astrodome and turn up the AC! Wait, the Astrodome is 1500 miles away and doesn’t exist, right? Ok, never mind.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 29, 2018 • 2:18:05am

re: #115 Charles Johnson

Sharyl Attkisson is the loon who was certain the NSA had hacked her computer and was deleting her words as she typed them. Caused a huge right wing outrage, turned out to be a stuck delete key.

Because raging and convoluted deep-state conspiracy theory is easier for these people’s brains to grasp than simple reality.


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