The Bob Cesca Show: Chicken Boy

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

Chicken Boy — NSFW; Jody Hamilton from the Stephanie Miller Show is here; Cat vomit and tendinitis trouble; The bombshell Trump tax fraud story by the New York Times; Don’t Mess With The IRS; Fred Trump and all of Biff’s bailouts; Red Hats and the Trump Sideshow; Brett Kavanaugh’s FBI report is done; Senators miss the point; Kavanaugh’s temperament is disqualifying; The gaslighting is over the top; Eli Lake’s stupid take; Young voters and the midterms; and so much more.

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323 comments
1
Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 2:59:39pm

Evening Lizardim from the frigid and cloudy wild north country. So do we have a new SCOTUS justice yet?

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 2:59:41pm
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Barefoot Grin  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:01:16pm

Sen. Leahy inexplicably posts selfie. Twitter explodes with “Leahy Challenge.”

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:04:50pm

Bob said the awesome word I created, Fuckery! I’m famous.

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:09:33pm

Charles, allowing spelling edits on LGF has changed my life. Almost as awesome as Bob saying Fuckery… he said it again!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:17:29pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:19:32pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

This looks really great.

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Ermehgerd YASSSSS.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:20:34pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:24:50pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:27:40pm

re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth

Richard Blumenthal: “I have seen it and I want to re-read parts of it, but my very emphatic opinion is that this set of interviews is at best, most charitably, woefully incomplete. To put it bluntly, it smacks of a whitewash, even a cover up.” msnbc.com

5:15 PM - Oct 4, 2018

If this is accurate, it is very troubling. It suggests that at least parts of the FBI are Trumpified. Of course, it might not be the questions themselves that are the problem, but the fact that the FBI did not follow-up with questioning other people.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:29:23pm

oh…

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:30:14pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

And there’s a problem with this, how?

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:30:46pm

re: #10 Hecuba’s daughter

If this is accurate, it is very troubling. It suggests that at least parts of the FBI are Trumpified. Of course, it might not be the questions themselves that are the problem, but the fact that the FBI did not follow-up with questioning other people.

My guess is that the White House gave very specific instructions on who they could talk to and about what topics they could talk about. The FBI, and the DOJ as a whole, is part of the executive and as such answers to the president. If the president gives them direction on something, they have to follow those directions (unless the directions are facially illegal). This whitewashing cover up is wholly Trump’s doing, not the FBI. The FBI was used as a tool of Trump’s bullshit.

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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:31:36pm

P P Arnold, The Turning Tide 2017 (vinyl record)

Finally released from the ‘68-‘71 studio sessions that were put on a shelf until now. The 3rd (?) solo album from singer PP Arnold featuring all-star cast…
Producer, Guitar - Eric Clapton (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Bass - Carl Radle (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Drums - Jim Gordon (tracks: 1, 8, 13), Roger Pope (tracks: 3, 7)
Keyboards - Bobby Whitlock (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Producer, Backing Vocals - Barry Gibb (tracks: 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12)
Backing Vocals - Madeline Bell (tracks: 6), Rita Coolidge (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Bass - Dave Glover (tracks: 3, 7)
Producer, Piano, Guitar, Organ [Hamond B3] - Caleb Quaye (tracks: 3,4, 7)
Saxophone - Bobby Keys (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Trumpet - Jim Price (tracks: 1, 8, 13)

“Medicated Goo” [Written by Steve Winwood/Jimmy Miller and Produced by Eric Clapton]
“Born” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“If This Were My World” [Written and Produced by Caleb Quaye and PP Arnold]
“High And Windy Mountain” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Spinning Wheel” [Written by David Clayton Thomas and Produced By Barry Gibb]
“Bury Me Down By the River” [Written by Barry and Maurice Gibb and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Children of The Last War” [Written and Produced by Caleb Quaye and PP Arnold]
“Brand New Day” [Written by Van Morrison and Produced by Eric Clapton]
“The Turning Tide” [Written and Produced By Barry Gibb]
“You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” [Written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson & Barry Gordy and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Give a Hand Take a Hand” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Happiness” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” [Written by Mick Jagger/Keith Richards and Produced by Eric Clapton]

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:34:10pm

re: #13 KGxvi

My guess is that the White House gave very specific instructions on who they could talk to and about what topics they could talk about. The FBI, and the DOJ as a whole, is part of the executive and as such answers to the president. If the president gives them direction on something, they have to follow those directions (unless the directions are facially illegal). This whitewashing cover up is wholly Trump’s doing, not the FBI. The FBI was used as a tool of Trump’s bullshit.

So how are we protected against a President who is a criminal? Why can’t he just shut down any investigation that displeases him?

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:34:34pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

This looks really great.

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The long version of the second season of Sherlock looks pretty cool.

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:34:37pm

re: #7 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Ermehgerd YASSSSS.

I still need to finish Luke Cage and Iron Fist… and for that matter, the last (not current) season of Arrow. I am so far behind on my comic book shows.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:35:02pm

re: #12 BigPapa

And there’s a problem with this, how?

Could be highschool rather than college.

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:35:14pm

re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter

So how are we protected against a President who is a criminal? Why can’t he just shut down any investigation that displeases him?

He could. Our only protection is impeachment and removal.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:35:33pm
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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:35:58pm

re: #12 BigPapa

And there’s a problem with this, how?

They had a study on TV the other day that said that pot was worse for a teens brain than alcohol.

More importantly, though, pot will never be legal for minors.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:39:30pm
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Eventual Carrion  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:40:25pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh…

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What better when seeking higher office?

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:41:02pm

re: #21 Belafon

They had a study on TV the other day that said that pot was worse for a teens brain than alcohol.

More importantly, though, pot will never be legal for minors.

Thasst busllhit. I SMOked al thrrou highs hool an turneD Ot fine

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:42:46pm

re: #14 gocart mozart

[Embedded content]

Finally released from the ‘68-‘71 studio sessions that were put on a shelf until now. The 3rd (?) solo album from singer PP Arnold featuring all-star cast…
Producer, Guitar - Eric Clapton (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Bass - Carl Radle (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Drums - Jim Gordon (tracks: 1, 8, 13), Roger Pope (tracks: 3, 7)
Keyboards - Bobby Whitlock (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Producer, Backing Vocals - Barry Gibb (tracks: 2, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12)
Backing Vocals - Madeline Bell (tracks: 6), Rita Coolidge (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Bass - Dave Glover (tracks: 3, 7)
Producer, Piano, Guitar, Organ [Hamond B3] - Caleb Quaye (tracks: 3,4, 7)
Saxophone - Bobby Keys (tracks: 1, 8, 13)
Trumpet - Jim Price (tracks: 1, 8, 13)

“Medicated Goo” [Written by Steve Winwood/Jimmy Miller and Produced by Eric Clapton]
“Born” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“If This Were My World” [Written and Produced by Caleb Quaye and PP Arnold]
“High And Windy Mountain” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Spinning Wheel” [Written by David Clayton Thomas and Produced By Barry Gibb]
“Bury Me Down By the River” [Written by Barry and Maurice Gibb and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Children of The Last War” [Written and Produced by Caleb Quaye and PP Arnold]
“Brand New Day” [Written by Van Morrison and Produced by Eric Clapton]
“The Turning Tide” [Written and Produced By Barry Gibb]
“You’ve Made Me So Very Happy” [Written by Brenda Holloway, Patrice Holloway, Frank Wilson & Barry Gordy and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Give a Hand Take a Hand” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“Happiness” [Written and Produced by Barry Gibb]
“You Can’t Always Get What You Want” [Written by Mick Jagger/Keith Richards and Produced by Eric Clapton]

I listened to it this morning while I was working out. Amazing to hear PP at the peak of her powers!

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:45:42pm

Hm.

They’re not sure at this point?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:46:14pm

re: #26 makeitstop

Hm.

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They’re not sure at this point?

Funny, that. The rest of us are all sure. What do we know that he doesn’t?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:47:36pm

re: #27 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Funny, that. The rest of us are all sure. What do we know that he doesn’t?

Turn it around. What does he know that we don’t.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:48:04pm

re: #28 Blind Frog Belly White

Turn it around. What does he know that we don’t.

Shaddup, you. I’m tryna not get my hopes up.

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:48:21pm

re: #27 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Funny, that. The rest of us are all sure. What do we know that he doesn’t?

I’m thinking all the bluster about ‘absolutely no corroboration’ this morning was bullshit.

If Mark Judge’s interview is in that report, he probably dropped a fucking bomb.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:49:48pm
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steve_davis  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:49:58pm

re: #24 BigPapa

Thasst busllhit. I SMOked al thrrou highs hool an turneD Ot fine

oh god, never get into this debate in a discussion thread. I made the mistake of posting just how wrecked my senior year of high school was, thanks to incredibly cheap early 80’s pot and a nice pot pipe. The pro-marijuana shock brigade does not take kindly to disturbance of the high mimetic.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:53:33pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:54:44pm

re: #30 makeitstop

I’m thinking all the bluster about ‘absolutely no corroboration’ this morning was bullshit.

If Mark Judge’s interview is in that report, he probably dropped a fucking bomb.

More likely a lot of “I don’t remember”.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:56:11pm

re: #14 gocart mozart

Just heard of her for the first time yesterday when you posted her singing “First Cut is the Deepest”. Now, I’m obsessed — she has such a great voice.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:57:00pm

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:57:36pm

re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter

So how are we protected against a President who is a criminal? Why can’t he just shut down any investigation that displeases him?

My last comment was very short, and it probably comes as a shock to a lot of people, so I’ll explain a bit more in detail below the fold

Per the Constitution, “The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” This is the basis of the unitary executive theory that many on the right (including Kavanaugh) argue in favor of. The truth is, there isn’t a lot of debate in the legal community as to whether we have a unitary executive, because the text is pretty clear that we do. All executive power essentially flows from the office of the president. The debate is mostly in the margins or when dealing with the administrative state.

Executive appointees serve, as the saying goes, at the pleasure of the president. Which is why the president can fire most appointees on a whim. There’s been a few instances when Congress has tried to limited that power - like the Tenure of Office Act which was the underlying issue in Johnson’s impeachment. It was eventually repealed and in the 1920’s when reviewing a case involving a similar law (dealing with the Postmaster General who was no longer considered a cabinet level official), the Supreme Court found the law in that case to be unconstitutional and suggested that the Tenure of Office Act was also unconstitutional.

Now, Congress can vest the appointment power in other officials within the executive branch. But ultimately the people making those decisions are still going to have to answer to the president, and you end up with a Saturday Night Massacre situation.

Nixon tried to end the investigation into his wrongdoing. And members of Congress finally told him it was enough, and if he didn’t resign, he’d be impeached and removed. The Independent Counsel law was created after Nixon resigned. Unfortunately, pretty much everyone hated that law once it went into effect - every president who served while the law was in place was subject to an investigation under it. That’s why Congress let it expire.

And the fact is, we’ve had other times in history when the president acted illegally and Congress went along with it. For example, despite a Supreme Court ruling against the removal of Native Americans from Florida, Jackson allegedly said, “Chief Justice Marshall has rendered his decision, now let him enforce it.”

Ultimately, if Congress is unwilling to serve as a check against the president, the president can do a lot of terrible shit. We’re only as good as our elected officials, and right now, that’s not great.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:58:03pm

re: #34 Blind Frog Belly White

More likely a lot of “I don’t remember”.

When the WH and the GOP said no corroboration, what they meant was “no corroboration” for anyone’s story because 2 of the 3 participants weren’t interviewed, and the third probably said he was blacked out most of his high school years.

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Mike Lamb  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:58:13pm

re: #26 makeitstop

Hm.

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They’re not sure at this point?

They might be unsure and still pushing the vote, thinking that it would Kavnaugh being voted down would energize their people to get out to vote in the mid-terms andwhile also knowing that they can find someone else with Kavanaugh’s judicial worldview but without the warts. Two-fer.

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:59:14pm

re: #34 Blind Frog Belly White

More likely a lot of “I don’t remember”.

And a lot of “on advice of counsel, I’m going to exercise my constitutional right against self incrimination.”

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unproven innocence  Oct 4, 2018 • 3:59:36pm

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I wonder if any other senator also had other commitments this weekend.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:00:18pm

Turning the FBI into an insane dungeon master to own the libs.

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:01:07pm

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

That seems like a big fucking deal.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:01:16pm

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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SCENE: A meeting room. GOP Senators are sitting around the conference table, looking nervous.

SENATOR 1: So… That report, looks pretty bad, yeah?
SENATOR 2: Yeah, I’d say.
SENATOR 3: People will try to kill us if we push this through.
SENATOR 2: Then again, the crazies that keep voting for us will kill us if we don’t.
SENATOR 1: So how do we pull this off?

[Silence for a few seconds, and then:]

SENATOR 2: Hey, wait a minute… What are everyone’s plans this weekend?
SENATOR 1: Planning on catching up on some paperwork.
SENATOR 3: Going back to hide from my constituents while they picket my offices and I pretend to listen.
SENATOR 2: I also heard Senator Daines’s daughter is getting married this weekend and he won’t want to miss it.
SENATOR 1: I … think I see where you’re going with this. So, schedule it for this weekend, then?
SENATORS 2 AND 3 (in unison): FUCK YES!

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:01:59pm

re: #37 KGxvi

My last comment was very short, and it probably comes as a shock to a lot of people, so I’ll explain a bit more in detail below the fold

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So the only thing that really protects us from a dictator-for-life is the 22nd Amendment?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:05:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:06:02pm

re: #33 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Do. Not. Mess. With. Daughter’s. Wedding.

DO. NOT.

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:07:32pm

re: #45 Hecuba’s daughter

So the only thing that really protects us from a dictator-for-life is the 22nd Amendment?

One of the arguments behind the 22nd Amendment was that FDR was too powerful by his third term. So, that’s part of what saves us. The other thing that saves us is that the presidential election is actually 51 separate elections for electors. It’s a lot harder to turn that many elections into sham elections like we see in many parts of the world. Electors could also “save” us, that was actually closer to the “original intent” that Hamilton and Madison hand in mind when the Electoral College was created. But now electors are basically party operatives, and in several states legally bound to vote per the popular vote.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:11:18pm

re: #46 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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It still says Hillary would have been worse.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:14:56pm

re: #43 KGxvi

That seems like a big fucking deal.

We’ll see. 49 GOP “Yes” and an abstention still confirms Kavanaugh

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:14:57pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:15:31pm

re: #49 Joe Bacon 🌹

It still says Hillary would have been worse.

My understanding is that a literal Satan, like from Christian mythology, would open a dimensional-gate, and drag America down to a place of eternal torture. That’s why we had to vote for Trump.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:16:09pm

During the Reagan - Bush years, I recall reading the Handmaid’sTale and then a book by Susan Faluda, Backlash. There was a real fear that our society was regressing, that women were losing our rights, that the environment was under siege. We had a President who was contemptuous of people on welfare, who ignored the AIDs crisis, who launched his 1980 campaign with a states’ rights speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, who promoted huge tax cuts for the wealthy under trickle-down economics leading to huge budget deficits. It was a depressing time and the 1988 campaign was vicious. But we managed to recover from that.

We are going to get through this too.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:16:14pm

Welp, I made tacos even though I have never had a real actual taco to compare it to. This is what it looked like. I took a bunch of leftover roast beef and cooked it up with taco seasoning and a bunch of onions and jalapenos.

It was really spicy (which I like) but I had to eat a popsicle afterwards.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:17:07pm

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cheerleader reportedly handed out pot brownies for homecoming votes dlvr.it]

she has my vote.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:17:59pm

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:18:27pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

Usually more so with burritos, but yes.

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:18:47pm

Another mini-Nuremberg tonight?

That fat old fuck must really be feeling inadequate.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:19:10pm

re: #53 Hecuba’s daughter

During the Reagan - Bush years, I recall reading the Handmaid’sTale and then a book by Susan Faluda, Backlash. There was a real fear that our society was regressing, that women were losing our rights, that the environment was under siege. We had a President who was contemptuous of people on welfare, who ignored the AIDs crisis, who launched his 1980 campaign with a states’ rights speech in Philadelphia, Mississippi, who promoted huge tax cuts for the wealthy under trickle-down economics leading to huge budget deficits. It was a depressing time and the 1988 campaign was vicious. But we managed to recover from that.

We are going to get through this too.

Unless we don’t. Not to be a downer, but compared to this shit, Reagan was a goddam cakewalk.

Just as an example, we’re at the other end of almost 40 years of tax cuts leading to bigger and bigger deficits, and the House just passed ANOTHER 3.8 Trillion in tax cuts.

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CleverToad  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:19:27pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

every.single.time

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:20:10pm

re: #50 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

We’ll see. 49 GOP “Yes” and an abstention still confirms Kavanaugh

True, but it also means (assuming Manchin does the right thing), that we only need one of Flake/Murkowski/Collins to make it 49-50 against. Collins is up in the next cycle, she’s going to have to cast a vote - an abstention would be used against her from right and left.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:20:12pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

Almost all the tacos I’ve ever gotten at taquerias use two tortillas each.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:20:39pm

re: #59 Blind Frog Belly White

Unless we don’t. Not to be a downer, but compared to this shit, Reagan was a goddam cakewalk.

Just as an example, we’re at the other end of almost 40 years of tax cuts leading to bigger and bigger deficits, and the House just passed ANOTHER 3.8 Trillion in tax cuts.

The House passed it — this is not something that is likely to pass the Senate.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:24:57pm

re: #55 I Would Prefer Not To

she has my vote.

Ummm, sounds like they were supplied to unwitting recipients.
Seems to me she needs to go to jail, not Homecoming.

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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:25:43pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Ummm, sounds like they were supplied to unwitting recipients.
Seems to me she needs to go to jail, not Homecoming.

Jail or the Supreme Court?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:25:54pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Ummm, sounds like they were supplied to unwitting recipients.
Seems to me she needs to go to jail, not Homecoming.

What’s the difference?

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:26:00pm

When Nixon was president, he looked absolutely invincible, until he didn’t.

When Reagan was president, he got into his second term before his mind left him. But for a time, he looked absolutely invincible.

When Bush the Lesser was in office, he looked absolutely invincible for a while. He wasn’t. Karl Rove came out and bragged about a permanent Republican majority. Didn’t happen.

Rule One of Republicans - they always over-reach. Always. And Democrats are always there to clean up the mess.

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wrenchwench  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:26:58pm

re: #65 KGxvi

Jail or the Supreme Court?

Some very high court, if not the Supremes.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:27:19pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:27:26pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:28:40pm
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KGxvi  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:29:14pm

re: #69 Patricia Kayden

Boo Radley faced prison and/or death for his alleged crimes. Kavanaugh would face (checks notes) returning to a lifetime appointment on the second highest/most important court in the land.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:29:44pm

re: #69 Patricia Kayden

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So… He’s white, therefore we should believe him?

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:32:24pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

Welp, I made tacos even though I have never had a real actual taco to compare it to. This is what it looked like. I took a bunch of leftover roast beef and cooked it up with taco seasoning and a bunch of onions and jalapenos.

It was really spicy (which I like) but I had to eat a popsicle afterwards.

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It also needs lettuce — cold, crispy shredded lettuce that’ll be a contrasting temperature and texture to the stuff you already have.

I don’t know what you’d use for a kosher substitute ingredient instead of cheese… but there must be something.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:32:50pm

re: #72 KGxvi

Boo Radley faced prison and/or death for his alleged crimes. Kavanaugh would face (checks notes) returning to a lifetime appointment on the second highest/most important court in the land.

Maybe he’s not guilty. That’s why you do a full investigation. Even if it takes a few weeks and costs a few bucks. The comparison is just fucking stupid.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:33:34pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

That might be why, every time I have gotten tacos with corn tortillas, they come in twos.

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:33:52pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

If you make the corn tortillas yourself and use them before they get crispy…

Or you could use flour tortillas, those are soft and generally hold together.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:34:42pm

re: #59 Blind Frog Belly White

But we’re also much closer to that demographic shift, and women are waaaaay more pissed of now.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:34:50pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

Most of the comments were not supportive of him. Sometimes Stephens really shows insight, other times he reverts to the typical brainless right-wing diatribe. He really misses not being able to support everything a GOP President does; maybe he is trying to weasel his way back into Trump good graces.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:35:44pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

Welp, I made tacos even though I have never had a real actual taco to compare it to. This is what it looked like. I took a bunch of leftover roast beef and cooked it up with taco seasoning and a bunch of onions and jalapenos.

It was really spicy (which I like) but I had to eat a popsicle afterwards.

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looks good. I would use meat like that for a burrito. Mix in some rice and beans, tomatoes and you have a winner. Serve with the traditional Mexican dessert: PIE.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:36:04pm

re: #67 makeitstop

When Nixon was president, he looked absolutely invincible, until he didn’t.

When Reagan was president, he got into his second term before his mind left him. But for a time, he looked absolutely invincible.

When Bush the Lesser was in office, he looked absolutely invincible for a while. He wasn’t. Karl Rove came out and bragged about a permanent Republican majority. Didn’t happen.

Rule One of Republicans - they always over-reach. Always. And Democrats are always there to clean up the mess.

Again, not to be a downer, but “Whatever doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.”

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sagehen  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:37:54pm

re: #75 I Would Prefer Not To

Maybe he’s not guilty. That’s why you do a full investigation. Even if it takes a few weeks and costs a few bucks. The comparison is just fucking stupid.

ah… but if it takes a few weeks, he’d have to miss the first, maybe even the second case. And they need him to say that a federal pardon keeps someone from facing state charges.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:37:57pm

re: #70 gocart mozart

The Daily Beast reported that Saak Albertovich Karapetyan was aboard an unauthorized helicopter flight, which crashed near the village of Vonyshevo, outside of Moscow

Yeah, she didn’t authorize it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:38:05pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

Apropos of which, here’s a good takedown of it….

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:38:05pm

re: #81 Blind Frog Belly White

Again, not to be a downer, but “Whatever doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.”

Maxim 35: That which does not kill me has made a tactical error.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:39:51pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:40:10pm

Let’s hope this bares fruit

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:40:17pm

re: #72 KGxvi

Boo Radley faced prison and/or death for his alleged crimes. Kavanaugh would face (checks notes) returning to a lifetime appointment on the second highest/most important court in the land.

You mean Tom Robinson. :)

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:41:48pm

re: #87 gocart mozart

Let’s hope this bares fruit

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I want Burton to make them fret like we used to for Atwater & Rove.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:41:54pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

SOROS!!! Everybody DRINK!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:42:04pm

re: #52 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

My understanding is that a literal Satan, like from Christian mythology, would open a dimensional-gate, and drag America down to a place of eternal torture. That’s why we had to vote for Trump.

Elect the yam and get a head start enduring the eternal torture by starting in the here and now…

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plansbandc  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:42:53pm

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:45:08pm

re: #92 plansbandc

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

Nope. Not doing it. I may not live to see the damage undone, but you know who will? My 7-year-old son and my 5-year-old daughter. I owe it to them to do my utmost to make sure that they do see the damage undone in their day. If my last breath comes before America rejoins the modern world, oh well, at least I went down with a (metaphorical, not literal) gun in my hand.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:45:10pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

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Yeah that makes sense. Meanwhile your movement is so Trumpcentric that a bunch of you can’t handle Jen Rubin listed. BTW Soros is a survivor of Nazi occupation. Meanwhile you two are a bunch of babies who would shit yourself if you ever had to the life Soros’s experienced.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:45:28pm
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wrenchwench  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:45:49pm

re: #92 plansbandc

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

Hasn’t happened yet. You’re gonna get a great congresswoman, and so am I. We get to watch Beto work on fixing Texas and the USA. Take a break, but come back renewed.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:46:07pm

re: #92 plansbandc

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

At least wait till after the midterms. We cannot give up while there is still hope of regaining at least one House. A game may be over — but the match continues.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:46:24pm

I think this is correct, and I think that’s why Kavanaugh was instructed to be combative and conspiratorial. It made the whole question of ‘Who do you believe’ not an exercised in reason, but rather a rallying cry for the team.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:47:08pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

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Man they suck at comedy. Oh and sex assault is actually a crime unlike witchcraft you stupid bastard.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:47:16pm

re: #92 plansbandc

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

Take a break. Heal. Come back later.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:49:01pm

Just looking at some news. 7 Russian agents indicted.

300+ anti- Kavanaugh protesters arrested at Capitol.

Something wrong with this picture, proportions perhaps.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:49:47pm

re: #101 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Just looking at some news. 7 Russian agents indicted.

300+ anti- Kavanaugh protesters arrested at Capitol.

Something wrong with this picture, proportions perhaps.

Very.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:50:56pm

re: #77 sagehen

If you make the corn tortillas yourself and use them before they get crispy…

Or you could use flour tortillas, those are soft and generally hold together.

That, along with lettuce (or cucumber & tomato) comes close to being a shwarma.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:51:03pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:51:43pm

re: #99 HappyWarrior

Man they suck at comedy. Oh and sex assault is actually a crime unlike witchcraft you stupid bastard.

Technically — Graham may be just saying that polygraph tests are as unreliable as the test for a witch. Someone should have pointed out to him that Kavanaugh supported polygraphs.

As others have said, Graham needs an alpha male to worship — and the only one left in the Republican party is Trump

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:53:01pm

JFC

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Skip Intro  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:53:26pm

re: #67 makeitstop

And then the voters put the Republicans in charge again.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:53:43pm

re: #105 Hecuba’s daughter

Technically — Graham may be just saying that polygraph tests are as unreliable as the test for a witch. Someone should have pointed out to him that Kavanaugh supported polygraphs.

As others have said, Graham needs an alpha male to worship — and the only one left in the Republican party is Trump

I don’t know nor do I care. Likening this to witchunts is bs.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:55:37pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:56:07pm

I’m at eleventy on CAN’T EVEN

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:57:50pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:58:06pm

So the WSJ now publishes a Kavanaugh opinion piece apologizing for his emotional response and claiming that he will be “open-minded, independent, and dedicated to the Constitution and public good”

And if you believe that, I have a great bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:58:30pm

Apparently a GOP Senator is missing the vote.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:59:44pm

re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter

So the WSJ now publishes a Kavanaugh opinion piece apologizing for his emotional response and claiming that he will be “open-minded, independent, and dedicated to the Constitution and public good”

And if you believe that, I have a great bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

That’s how an abuser apologizes. Note he used a right wing media source.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 4:59:45pm
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Skip Intro  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:00:01pm

re: #113 HappyWarrior

Apparently a GOP Senator is missing the vote.

That’s what Pence is for. Too bad Collins won’t get her pass to vote no.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:00:22pm

re: #115 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

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That’s how I read that read too.

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:00:33pm

re: #113 HappyWarrior

Apparently a GOP Senator is missing the vote.

We still need to hold all Dems and get at least one Republican to vote “No”.

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Skip Intro  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:01:04pm

re: #115 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

The media? The media’s job is to towel off his ball sweat, and they’re really good at it.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:02:44pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:03:28pm

re: #118 Hecuba’s daughter

We still need to hold all Dems and get at least one Republican to vote “No”.

Yeah I know.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:04:53pm

re: #104 Patricia Kayden

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Term limits were Hatch’s big issue in his first Senate run.
Incumbent Frank Moss had served 3 terms.
“What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home,” candidate Hatch said.
This was in 1976. Hatch won and he has been there ever since.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:06:02pm

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Term limits were Hatch’s big issue in his first Senate run.
Incumbent Frank Moss had served 3 terms.
“What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home,” candidate Hatch said.
This was in 1976. Hatch won and he has been there ever since.

It’s amazing to think how long he’s been there. I think former Rep. Dingell has the record for being in the longest.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:08:48pm

re: #120 Patricia Kayden

For the Christian Taliban, I’m sure.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:09:47pm

Trump always wants to be the biggest, greatest, etc… I will concede that he seems to have been in office longer than any other President.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:09:56pm

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Term limits were Hatch’s big issue in his first Senate run.
Incumbent Frank Moss had served 3 terms.
“What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home,” candidate Hatch said.
This was in 1976. Hatch won and he has been there ever since.

It’s OK if you’re a Republican batshit crazy wingnut.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:11:08pm

(pretty sure that the word “sign” in the first tweet was supposed to be “side”)

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ObserverArt  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:11:19pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

Andrew Lawrence
@ndrew_lawrence
Louis Gohmert tells Lou Dobbs that Democrats “might as well raise their forearm and raise their hands and yell ‘Heil Soros’ is the way they’re headed”

7:38 PM - Oct 4, 2018

Louie. Go suck a Koch.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:12:36pm

wtf

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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:15:05pm

re: #122 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Term limits were Hatch’s big issue in his first Senate run.
Incumbent Frank Moss had served 3 terms.
“What do you call a Senator who’s served in office for 18 years? You call him home,” candidate Hatch said.
This was in 1976. Hatch won and he has been there ever since.

That was also part of the Gingrich Contract on America — and it succeeded. Of course no one, except Joe Scarborough, took it seriously. However, there are a lot of people of all political persuasions who believe this is a great idea. I am not enthusiastic, especially for legislators (it’s essential for President and ok for Governors) since it would leave this country under the control of un-elected staff.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:15:24pm
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ObserverArt  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:15:44pm

re: #92 plansbandc

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

Does this mean no voting?

Because if it does that is really kind of sad for anyone that is a member of a political blog.

Please at least stay a participant in the actual elections.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:16:13pm

re: #112 Hecuba’s daughter

So the WSJ now publishes a Kavanaugh opinion piece apologizing for his emotional response and claiming that he will be “open-minded, independent, and dedicated to the Constitution and public good”

And if you believe that, I have a great bridge to sell you in Brooklyn.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:16:57pm

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

wtf

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Would this be the same China he Tarriffed to hell and back and preemptively accused of meddling in the next two major federal elections?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:17:29pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:18:21pm

re: #135 Charles Johnson

He’s giving the GOP swing votes more cover to vote Yes.

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Interesting Times  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:19:10pm

re: #135 Charles Johnson

Was this the grand PR blitz his defenders were saying he’d go on earlier this week? Lame.

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:19:28pm

The board needs some pick me ups.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:20:27pm
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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:22:06pm

re: #92 plansbandc

Tonight and maybe for good, I have given up. I can’t watch this or participate in this anymore. I’m done.

Bless you all for carrying on, but I am done. We’ve lost. Evil wins. Game over.

Nope, not going to happen. Evil only wins when good refuses to fight back. I refuse to back down. But I can understand how you feel. Step back for a bit, decompress and then come back fighting all the stronger.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:22:30pm

re: #130 Hecuba’s daughter

That was also part of the Gingrich Contract on America — and it succeeded. Of course no one, except Joe Scarborough, took it seriously. However, there are a lot of people of all political persuasions who believe this is a great idea. I am not enthusiastic, especially for legislators (it’s essential for President and ok for Governors) since it would leave this country under the control of un-elected staff.

Washington passed term limits by initiative in 1992, “The Year of the Woman™”, when Patty Murray was first elected Senator. (26 years ago? SMH!) She should have been out after 2004, but these term limits somehow became a dead letter. There was no counter-initiative…I suppose I should look that up.

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Skip Intro  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:22:53pm

re: #135 Charles Johnson

Where would the GOP be without Rupert Murdoch?

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:24:08pm

re: #135 Charles Johnson

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:26:11pm

re: #131 Patricia Kayden

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See, Senator Manchin? Contrary to the prevailing opinion in Washington these days, women are not stupid. Nor are your constituents, much as we may lambaste them.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:27:15pm

Fuck gong back in time and killing Baby Hitler. Better to go back and off Baby Gingrich and Baby McConnell.
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Interesting Times  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:27:49pm

Heh:

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b.d.(soros funded)  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:28:02pm

Evening Lizards

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ObserverArt  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:28:42pm

re: #142 Skip Intro

Where would the GOP be without Rupert Murdoch?

I think the entire world would be better without him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:32:58pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:33:08pm

re: #145 Blind Frog Belly White

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Fuck gong back in time and killing Baby Hitler. Better to go back and off Baby Gingrich and Baby McConnell.
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Nah, just delay the Army medics who rescued them from the Roswell UFO.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:35:23pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:37:33pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:38:26pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:38:50pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:39:46pm

re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White

Just like a band who cycles through the same songs every single show. Eventually the fans get bored.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:39:54pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:40:45pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

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expressions of all of the people behind him…

O_o

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:41:04pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ugh. It’s depressing that those kinds of assholes live here in the wild north country… But, then again, we ARE the home of Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), as much as I may not want to admit it.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:41:07pm

re: #154 Blind Frog Belly White

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I don’t think that he is that perceptive. He just spews same shit he always says, and repeats the shit that gets a big reaction.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:41:29pm

re: #156 Charles Johnson

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Reason #1006 that I don’t like Brett Kavanaugh: I can’t stand beer. Sorry not sorry.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:45:13pm

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t think that he is that perceptive. He just spews same shit he always says, and repeats the shit that gets a big reaction.

That’s pretty much what she’s saying.

But others have commented on how he reads the room at his rallies, and gives them what they want. It’s why he struggles to give speeches like the UN, where 1) he ain’t exactly Flavor of the Month, and 2) they don’t shout “Lock Her Up!”

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:45:42pm
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b.d.(soros funded)  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:46:21pm

There is no better way to reach the common man than writing an op-ed in the WSJ

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:49:07pm

re: #163 b.d.(sober as a judge)

There is no better way to reach the common man than writing an op-ed in the WSJ

Why, many’s the time I’ve seen the workers at the plant rush to their lockers at lunch to grab their WSJ’s so they could read the opinion page.

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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:49:36pm
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stpaulbear  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:50:15pm

re: #158 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Ugh. It’s depressing that those kinds of assholes live here in the wild north country… But, then again, we ARE the home of Michele Bachmann (R-Mars), as much as I may not want to admit it.

Emmer and Lewis are as bad as Bachmann. They just have less imagination.

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Skip Intro  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:50:46pm

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

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stpaulbear  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:54:36pm

re: #165 gocart mozart

…he sees McConnell as the “gravedigger of American democracy,”

Just had to requote that because its so utterly correct. It’s a perfect description.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:54:55pm

re: #110 The Vicious Babushka

I’m at eleventy on CAN’T EVEN

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Franken was weak because he didn’t blow all those women off.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:54:56pm
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Single-handed sailor  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:56:40pm
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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 5:57:37pm

re: #115 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

What should Democrats do?

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:03:30pm

re: #172 Belafon

What should Democrats do?

Apparently, fight dirty. However, I ascribe to the ancient aphorism: “Never argue with an idiot. They only drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience.”

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b.d.(soros funded)  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:03:36pm

The last line of the TMZ article about Kavanaugh’s WSJ op-ed:

One thing that might have helped is if he included the words “sorry” or “I apologize” in his letter … but he didn’t.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:05:04pm

I got the coveted Norm Ornstein retweet tonight, followed up by the even more coveted Aimee Mann like.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:05:36pm

re: #167 Skip Intro

Trump says he could beat Vladimir Putin in a boxing match.

Yeah like he beat Vince McMahon.

Donald Trump Beats Up Vince McMahon

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ObserverArt  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:07:47pm

re: #169 Belafon

Franken was weak because he didn’t blow all those women off.

It shows how proud Trump was with his new boy toy Brett crying like an unstable drunkard in his beer and then flipping into a rage.

Trumps loves a good show full of lying and bullying.

His take on Franken is just another display of how much an asshole he really is.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:07:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:10:32pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:11:43pm

re: #180 Charles Johnson

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And rape victims don’t have to listen to the good ol’ boys banding together and calling them liars and gold-diggers.

Yeah, that’s more than just a little bit personal. But that’s a story for another time.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:13:07pm

re: #180 Charles Johnson

You and me both, boss.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:14:49pm

re: #179 Blind Frog Belly White

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We’re all accepting the GOP spin that confirmation is a done deal, but there are rumblings that that ain’t quite so. Perhaps if they didn’t protest too much it would be more believable….

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:15:02pm

But I don’t like him NOW.

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Dave In Austin  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:16:12pm

The Shoe The Shoe!! Winning!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:16:24pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:18:32pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

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Payday in Vladivostok!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:20:07pm

re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White

Payday in Vladivostok!

I suppose it is tomorrow there, isn’t it?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:20:17pm

re: #180 Charles Johnson

And Kavanagh has no fucking chance of making the Supreme Court.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:21:05pm

re: #189 Eclectic Cyborg

And Kavanagh has no fucking chance of making the Supreme Court.

In the world Charles describes, Brett Kavanaugh would be nothing more than a stain on the history books for the time he was emplaced as a federal judge, before he was impeached.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:21:42pm

re: #174 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Apparently, fight dirty. However, I ascribe to the ancient aphorism: “Never argue with an idiot. They only drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience.”

I think they have to fight, and I will admit, prior to this year, they weren’t great at it. But they have gotten a lot better. I do think there are lines they shouldn’t cross, basically anything that hurts our ability to get back to a functioning Democracy. I think what they have done re Kavanaugh has been as good as it gets.

They aren’t going to win all the time. I hope their fighting inspires people to keep supporting them. That’s how they will win.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:22:21pm

re: #190 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

In the world Charles describes, Brett Kavanaugh would be nothing more than a stain on the history books for the time he was emplaced as a federal judge, before he was impeached.

Probably not impeached. Like Icarus, he’d be safe as long as he didn’t fly too close to the sun.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:22:55pm

re: #191 Belafon

Fighting is fine. But, like you, I agree that there are lines they shouldn’t cross. That’s why my original post said “fight dirty”. Apparently we’re supposed to cross those lines in order to beat the people who have no lines at all.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:23:30pm

re: #183 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

We’re all accepting the GOP spin that confirmation is a done deal, but there are rumblings that that ain’t quite so. Perhaps if they didn’t protest too much it would be more believable….

On the other hand, keep up the protests, people.

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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:24:16pm
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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:24:55pm

re: #185 Dave In Austin

The Shoe The Shoe!! Winning!

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Interesting Times  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:28:01pm

I’m thinking the same thing, actually - wouldn’t it have made more sense not to publish until *after* the Beer Keg Brett saga played out?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:28:05pm
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Dave In Austin  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:30:27pm

Oh My!!

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:31:00pm

re: #168 stpaulbear

Just had to requote that because its so utterly correct. It’s a perfect description.

I’m going to reply to his Tweets with that for a while.

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:31:13pm

re: #193 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Fighting is fine. But, like you, I agree that there are lines they shouldn’t cross. That’s why my original post said “fight dirty”. Apparently we’re supposed to cross those lines in order to beat the people who have no lines at all.

They cross those lines while coming at us. Then we deal with them on home ground. Our ground. Whose streets? OUR STREETS.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:31:56pm

re: #199 Dave In Austin

I would hack the crap out of one of those things and play pranks on people.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:32:45pm

Got past the guard booth, and had to be chased down and tackled

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:32:51pm
Republicans in red states keep trying to attack Democratic House candidates for raising money from out of state, but it’s looking an awful lot like Republicans are really just mad that Democrats aren’t giving up and going away. Instead, Democratic candidates are raising some eye-popping amounts of money and threatening a swath of Republican seats, leaving those Republican attacks looking suspiciously like sour grapes.

Attacks like this, from a Texas Republican House candidate: “Every time you see one of those trendy little hipster black-and-white Beto [O’Rourke] signs around this district—that’s from the $10 million he raised in the second quarter, from 221,000 donors came from all over the country, trying to attack Texas values.” What goes unmentioned is that Sen. Ted Cruz had, through the first half of the year, raised a higher percentage of his money from out of state than O’Rourke.

..

Republicans expected 2018 to be rough, but they had hoped the Democratic fundraising would taper off before October. This spring, as Democrats faced dozens of expensive primaries, Republicans hoped that the winners would run out of resources, take left-wing positions and be vulnerable for super PAC attacks that could define them early. In nearly every close race, Democrats avoided those problems.

dailykos.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:33:22pm
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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:33:51pm

re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Got past the guard booth, and had to be chased down and tackled

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Well, we do have a right to bear arms.

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b.d.(soros funded)  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:34:17pm

re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Got past the guard booth, and had to be chased down and tackled

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They would have shot him if he were a black bear.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:34:22pm

re: #185 Dave In Austin

The Shoe The Shoe!! Winning!

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I’d pass that along to friends if not for Philin’s bio.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:35:31pm

re: #206 Belafon

Well, we do have a right to bear arms.

This is also an illustration of why we do not arm bears.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:35:36pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:35:54pm

re: #169 Belafon

Franken was weak because he didn’t blow all those women off.

yep. It’s because Franken resigned his seat instead of fighting the charges and insulting the women, the process Trump would have followed in the same situation. Regardless of the merits of any allegations, Trump’s reaction is deny, deny, deny. He admits he has never asked God for forgiveness, because apparently he believes he hasn’t committed any serious transgressions. A narcissist to the core.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:36:20pm

for Charles, to illustrate his current mood:

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:36:42pm

re: #211 Hecuba’s daughter

yep. It’s because Franken resigned his seat instead of fighting the charges and insulting the women, the process Trump would have followed in the same situation. Regardless of the merits of any allegations, Trump’s reaction is deny, deny, deny. He admits he has never asked God for forgiveness, because apparently he believes he hasn’t committed any serious transgressions. A narcissist to the core.

Let’s not forget the ever-so-scholarly article that stated that Trump has not sinned, not even once, since he was anointed as God’s Chosen President.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:38:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:40:03pm
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can't think of a decent username  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:40:17pm

re: #211 Hecuba’s daughter

yep. It’s because Franken resigned his seat instead of fighting the charges and insulting the women, the process Trump would have followed in the same situation. Regardless of the merits of any allegations, Trump’s reaction is deny, deny, deny. He admits he has never asked God for forgiveness, because apparently he believes he hasn’t committed any serious transgressions. A narcissist to the core.

I think Trump likes the entertainment of watching someone get mad and raise a stink. If Kavanaugh had thrown something at a senator, Trump would’ve loved it even more.

Maybe if the White House staff would plug in some wrestling or some old Bugs Bunny or Animaniacs cartoons, Trump would settle down and quit bothering us.

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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:41:03pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:42:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:42:49pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:42:58pm
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Interesting Times  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:43:37pm

re: #218 gocart mozart

This video was posted upthread earlier. Is it actually real? Or did someone edit the toilet paper into it? (please let it be real).

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:44:51pm

Trump Men love This New Trick!!

Nooses in cells, rotting teeth — report details harsh conditions at Adelanto immigration facility

latimes.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:46:22pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:47:24pm
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Interesting Times  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:48:40pm

re: #224 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:49:27pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:51:03pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:51:40pm

Justin Trudeau sticks a finger in the eye of the Bridge Troll.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:53:42pm

lots of empty seats

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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:54:02pm

From my FB

Let’s go back down memory lane when Sen Al Franken was in the #metoo hot seat the right wing / GOP was all for all of this. Yes indeed they loved it like they love ugly red hats, tiki torches and the little secret ok as a white nationalist troll gesture.

By the way I put all my political posts on FB public. I’m not ashamed of anything I have to say there. Too bad their api code sucks and FB won’t thumbnail(?) well here.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:54:07pm
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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:56:20pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:56:58pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:58:04pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Oct 4, 2018 • 6:59:03pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:00:01pm

gaaahhh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:01:44pm
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stpaulbear  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:04:01pm

From the WaPo

Retired Justice Stevens calls Kavanaugh’s hearing performance disqualifying

Imagine how much fun his co-supremes are going to have arguing law if this guy actually gets confirmed. He’s just going to love having to work equally with smart, strong women.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:04:51pm

re: #231 goddamnedfrank

Dr. Ford was there as a daughter, wife and loved one as well. Her family has been so harassed that they’re under guard and out if their home. Kavanaugh really needs to stop with the whining.

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gocart mozart  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:05:08pm
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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:06:05pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

Even animals hate his guts. They can sense his awfulness. No wonder he doesn’t have a pet.

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stpaulbear  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:06:06pm

re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth

lots of empty seats

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GOOD! I’m glad to hear reports that his visit to MN hasn’t been a raving success. Someone earlier mentioned that people were leaving early.

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:08:52pm

So all that gloating and guaranteeing the Kavanaugh was a done deal today was a bluff. And any progress they made towards convincing the public that they were winning is now mostly undone by that boneheaded op-ed.

McConnell is gonna have to lie extra hard tomorrow to make up the ground they just lost.

And six senators are still undecided and one Republican is gonna miss the vote.

The Gravedigger of Democracy is gonna need a bigger shovel. Still, this is not over.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:09:02pm

re: #222 Unshaken Defiance

Trump Men love This New Trick!!

latimes.com

We’ve become numb. This isn’t even front page news anymore.

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calochortus  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:10:26pm

I took a mental health day with Mr. C. today. We hiked at Portola State Park and wandered along the bluffs at Bean Hollow State Beach. It was lovely. Now I’ve caught up on what I “missed” during the day and I’m going to turn off my computer and enjoy a glass of wine and some random British mystery program (Midsommer? Vera? We’ll have to see what Mr. C. feels like.)

Keep fighting the good fight, but don’t forget to take a little time for yourselves.

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Patricia Kayden  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:11:23pm

re: #217 gocart mozart

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“And just wait until I get on that Court. Y’all gonna be very sorry then.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:11:43pm

I don’t know what Raw Story says about this, but my understanding is that Manchin made it through only half of the report this morning before the Democrats’ allotted hour was up and had to leave the room. He says he’s going back to finish reading it tomorrow morning.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:12:10pm

My youngest, the budding musician/engineer (I’m trying to get him to also be a neurosurgeon), has written a new song. There’s a site that’s designed to do 8-bit video game music, and he’s kind of pushed it as far as he can. He’s learning audiotool.com, but the learning curve’s a bit more than 8-bit, so he took an idea he had and wrote it there:

Iframe

I’m encouraging him to write it via audiotool or finale.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:14:55pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:15:14pm

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Also, the corn tortilla fell apart so I had to use two tortillas to hold the taco together. Does this happen often?

Once I had the “”World Famous” Oki-Dog on Fairfax. Two hot dogs wrapped in pastrami, doused with chili and wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Messiest thing I ever ate…and I was wearing a white shirt and pants. Both of them got dribbled on…so I guess my shirt and pants were hungry, too!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:16:55pm
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ipsos  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:17:36pm

re: #250 Joe Bacon 🌹

Once I had the “”World Famous” Oki-Dog on Fairfax. Two hot dogs wrapped in pastrami, doused with chili and wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Messiest thing I ever ate…and I was wearing a white shirt and pants. Both of them got dribbled on…so I guess my shirt and pants were hungry, too!

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(checks airfare to LAX… OK, I’m on my way!!!)

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:17:51pm

re: #235 Unshaken Defiance

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I’m glad that Charles wasn’t tossed in Twitter jail—I still have 3 days to go for “slandering” Franky Graham Cracker!

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Big Beautiful Door  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:18:58pm

re: #15 Hecuba’s daughter

So how are we protected against a President who is a criminal? Why can’t he just shut down any investigation that displeases him?

The WH is the client in the case of background checks. The norm in criminal investigations is supposed to be that the DOJ and the FBI is independent. And so far they have resisted Trump’s efforts to quash the Mueller investigation.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:20:11pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:21:02pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m sure this dog could be retrained:

Nixon where the buffalo roam

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:21:03pm

re: #254 Big Beautiful Door

The WH is the client in the case of background checks. The norm in criminal investigations is supposed to be that the DOJ and the FBI is independent. And so far they have resisted Trump’s efforts to quash the Mueller investigation.

That will change after the election when Trump fires Sessions and puts a stooge (probably Ben Carson) in as Attorney General.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:21:32pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:23:17pm

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kavanaugh’s testimony was a week ago today. He could have acknowledged immediately after that he went too far. But he didn’t. He only writes his op ed when his nomination hangs in the balance. He obviously doesn’t mean a word of it.

8:42 PM - Oct 4, 2018

Did Kavanaugh actually pen this op-ed — or for the matter, his opening statement? Or was he assisted by WH staff and their allies?

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:23:31pm

re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I get this feeling that the American expert is playing for his American audience, Trump and those who want to dismiss Russian involvement.

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:26:32pm

After seeing this, I’m now pretty convinced that Judicial Crisis Network had a hand in that op-ed.

They’re really not very good at this stuff.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:26:38pm

re: #250 Joe Bacon 🌹

Once I had the “”World Famous” Oki-Dog on Fairfax. Two hot dogs wrapped in pastrami, doused with chili and wrapped in a flour tortilla.

Messiest thing I ever ate…and I was wearing a white shirt and pants. Both of them got dribbled on…so I guess my shirt and pants were hungry, too!

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Much as I love Mexican food—not that that is, mind you—it does have the highest proportion of menu items you can’t eat without making a hell of a mess.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:27:07pm

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

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On Open Line Friday, on the Rush Limbaugh Show: Soon-to-be Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh!!!!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:28:40pm

re: #262 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Much as I love Mexican food—not that that is, mind you—it does have the highest proportion of menu items you can’t eat without making a hell of a mess.

I am very much a Chipotle fanatic; in fact, I will probably have some for lunch tomorrow. The number of times I have eaten at Chipotle (which is as Mexican as Toxic Hell) without napkins is, in fact, less than the number of positive integers.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:30:40pm

re: #264 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I am very much a Chipotle fanatic; in fact, I will probably have some for lunch tomorrow. The number of times I have eaten at Chipotle (which is as Mexican as Toxic Hell) without napkins is, in fact, less than the number of positive integers.

I cannot eat at Chipotle. I ate there once and got very sick.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:31:31pm

re: #264 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I am very much a Chipotle fanatic; in fact, I will probably have some for lunch tomorrow. The number of times I have eaten at Chipotle (which is as Mexican as Toxic Hell) without napkins is, in fact, less than the number of positive integers.

We have both Freebirds and Chipotle here in Rockwall. We had a Q’doba - my favorite - for a while, but it’s location was poor and didn’t stay open.

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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:31:38pm

The mini-Nuremberg train is starting to lose steam.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:32:35pm

re: #265 Joe Bacon 🌹

I cannot eat at Chipotle. I ate there once and got very sick.

To be fair in the opposite direction: On my first date with Mrs. Fish, she took me to an authentic Mexican restaurant. And when I say “authentic”, I mean a restaurant run by actual Mexicans, serving actual Mexican delicacies. I spent most of the rest of that night trying my damnedest not to vomit. So, yes, I understand your point, fake Tex-Mex makes you sick, but genuine Mexican food apparently makes me sick.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:32:47pm
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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:33:20pm

re: #261 makeitstop

One thing I’ve noticed in the recent hackery in right wing media: the amateurism is being laid bare as they call all players on deck. Sometimes the RW Yakkers have on 2nd stringers to push the party line and can barely move outside the talking points.

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:34:01pm

re: #264 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I am very much a Chipotle fanatic; in fact, I will probably have some for lunch tomorrow. The number of times I have eaten at Chipotle (which is as Mexican as Toxic Hell) without napkins is, in fact, less than the number of positive integers.

You need to have a burrito at a real Mexican restaurant. No Se Hagen Bolas, Jilbertitos, Don Gilbertos, those are names of real Mexican restaurants I go out of my way to eat at when I can in Colorado. If you’re ever in the Denver area just find a place to eat near the corner of Federal and Alameda, the buildings are usually yellow. Thank me later.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:35:33pm

re: #271 teleskiguy

You need to have a burrito at a real Mexican restaurant. No Se Hagen Bolas, Jilbertitos, Don Gilbertos, those are names of real Mexican restaurants I go out of my way to eat at when I can in Colorado. If you’re ever in the Denver area just find a place to eat near the corner of Federal and Alameda, the buildings are usually yellow. Thank me later.

See my qualifier. Chipotle is as Mexican as Toxic Hell, which is to say, not even in the slightest.

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austin_blue  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:35:55pm

re: #87 gocart mozart

Let’s hope this bares fruit

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Why do think nekkid apples will help?

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TedStriker  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:36:13pm

re: #174 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Apparently, fight dirty. However, I ascribe to the ancient aphorism: “Never argue with an idiot. They only drag you down to their level, and then beat you with experience.”

We don’t necessarily need to fight “dirty”; I subscribe to another ancient aphorism that would be of help:

“Work smarter, not harder”

Because we actually give a shit about people as people, we tend to let emotion cause us to have too many own goals and missed opportunities against the Trumpist GOP; they have their shit down to a science (even as they abhor actual science) like a well-oiled machine many times; we need to be smarter in counteracting that.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:37:38pm
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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:37:53pm

The mark of a damn good Mexican restaurant? If they make their own tortillas.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:39:46pm

re: #276 teleskiguy

The mark of a damn good Mexican restaurant? If they make their own tortillas.

I have to admit, that’s one thing I did appreciate about the genuine Mexican chain (if you can call it that; in actuality, it’s two locations run by the same family) in the area. They use genuine Mexican recipes and make their own corn tortillas.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:41:24pm

re: #276 teleskiguy

The mark of a damn good Mexican restaurant? If they make their own tortillas.

The middle tier Tex-Mex restaurants here in Texas - Rosa’s, Taco Cabana - do that.

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Single-handed sailor  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:42:42pm
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makeitstop  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:44:48pm
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TedStriker  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:45:21pm

re: #276 teleskiguy

The mark of a damn good Mexican restaurant? If they make their own tortillas.

A good Mexican restaurant doesn’t even need to make their own tortillas, unless they’re in the middle of BFE; most cities with a sizable Hispanic population usually have at least one company with a tortilla plant that can make then easier and quicker, but just as fresh (fresh “real” tortillas go stale quickly). As long as restaurants sources their tortillas from a local plant that knows what they’re doing, I have no issues with that, because that lets them concentrate on doing their job better, which is to use those tortillas to make good food.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:46:09pm

Apparently, there will be a Star Wars live-action TV series. Not sure if I should be excited or worried.

starwars.com

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:46:13pm

re: #280 makeitstop

I called his office today and told him that if he voted no on confirming Blackout Brett that I would vote to reelect him in 2020. Heh.

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retired cynic  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:47:34pm

re: #283 teleskiguy

Thank you for your service.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:47:54pm

re: #282 wheat-dogg

Apparently, there will be a Star Wars live-action TV series. Not sure if I should be excited or worried.

starwars.com

At least it’s owned by Disney and not DC.

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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:48:46pm

Now I want a Russo Brothers (tm) Star Wars story.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:50:31pm

re: #276 teleskiguy

The mark of a damn good Mexican restaurant? If they make their own tortillas.

I used to live a few blocks from a place called Beso del Sol that called itself a New Mexican restaurant. Their tortillas were more like really flat hoecakes, but I really liked their food. 45th & Fremont in Seattle if it’s still there.

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austin_blue  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:51:54pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

I got the coveted Norm Ornstein retweet tonight, followed up by the even more coveted Aimee Mann like.

Those Voices Carry.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:54:33pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:55:41pm
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austin_blue  Oct 4, 2018 • 7:59:42pm

re: #203 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Got past the guard booth, and had to be chased down and tackled

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As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls

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Schweppes7  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:01:38pm

re: #280 makeitstop

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retired cynic  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:02:41pm

re: #292 Schweppes7

Ffffffffff

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:03:03pm

OK, just opened up the junk mail folder 2 days of junk in it and there are 12 e-mails from Danny O’Connor…C’mon now a dozen over 2 days…

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:03:35pm

re: #285 Belafon

At least it’s owned by Disney and not DC.

DC would make it all dark and brooding, and pack a lot of extra, new characters into the plot to confuse most of the audience.

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Schweppes7  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:03:39pm

re: #293 retired cynic

Yeah I let myself get a brief feeling of hope for a few seconds too. Luckily this one was shattered pretty quickly…..

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Kilroy was here  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:04:10pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:04:32pm

re: #292 Schweppes7

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Hoping that Mark Udall has a rematch with that ass in 2020!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:09:20pm

Also from Balloon Juice—if I still had my hope organ this might stimulate it:

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:10:07pm

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:12:36pm

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:13:27pm
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Interesting Times  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:13:45pm

re: #170 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Three guesses where this headline is from:

Heidi Heitkamp Not Voting For Quaaludes McRapeVan, Because Fuck You Is Why

Speaking of Senator Heitkamp, I could’ve sworn that when I looked at her twitter feed either yesterday or the day before, she had only ~22K followers. Now, she’s at almost 100K!

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:14:23pm

Damn. MAD magazine speaking truth.

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A hollow voice says, Covfefe.  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:15:20pm

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:17:25pm

And Sweden has a new Queen.
//

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jaunte  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:17:43pm
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Belafon  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:18:19pm

re: #304 wheat-dogg

I’ll have to see if I can find that one.

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:19:04pm

re: #306 wheat-dogg

Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony!

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:21:17pm

For comparison, the UK’s NHS paid for nearly all of Stephen Hawking’s medical expenses for decades.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:22:03pm

re: #308 Belafon

I’ll have to see if I can find that one.

It’s the December issue, with Alfred E. Neumann as the twins from The Shining.

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Kilroy was here  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:22:55pm

re: #309 teleskiguy

Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’
swords is no basis for a system of government! Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic
ceremony!

Today… maybe it should..

Could it be worse? (Don’t answer that)

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:23:02pm

re: #309 teleskiguy

Oh, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:23:35pm

re: #313 teleskiguy

Oh but if I went ‘round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:23:47pm

re: #310 wheat-dogg

For comparison, the UK’s NHS paid for nearly all of Stephen Hawking’s medical expenses for decades.

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Truly depressing. If the Republicans had their way they would have seen nothing wrong with letting him die years ago to cull the herd…

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teleskiguy  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:24:10pm

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!

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meteor  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:25:43pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:26:56pm

re: #315 Joe Bacon 🌹

Truly depressing. If the Republicans had their way they would have seen nothing wrong with letting him die years ago to cull the herd…

The Republicans should have loved him. He was the one who excruciatingly labeled the Higgs boson “The God Particle”.

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:34:36pm

I know she meant well, but…..

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BigPapa  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:37:16pm

The girl pulled the sword out of a lake. She rules the world. That’s the fucking rules.

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wheat-dogg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:37:30pm

re: #318 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The Republicans should have loved him. He was the one who excruciatingly labeled the Higgs boson “The God Particle”.

Nah. He was an atheist.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:41:23pm

re: #321 wheat-dogg

Nah. He was an atheist.

Which is why the moniker was meaningless to him, but it sure got the popular press into a froth—worse than George Smoot’s COBE map “Face of God” comment.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 4, 2018 • 8:50:42pm

re: #307 jaunte

I keep thinking of the lyrics from a song called, ironically enough “The way you lie”

Baby, please come back
It wasn’t you, baby it was me
Maybe our relationship isn’t as crazy as it seems
Maybe that’s what happens when a tornado meets a volcano
All I know is I love you too much to walk away though
Come inside, pick up your bags off the sidewalk
Don’t you hear sincerity in my voice when I talk
Told you this is my fault
Look me in the eyeball
Next time I’m pissed, I’ll aim my fist at the drywall
Next time? There won’t be no next time!
I apologize even though I know it’s lies
I’m tired of the games I just want her back
I know I’m a liar
If she ever tries to fucking leave again
I’mma tie her to the bed and set this house on fire


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