Once Again, the Illiterate Narcissist in Chief Admits to a Crime on Twitter

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This morning, Donald Trump settled in on his solid gold throne, yanked out his iPhone, and admitted to a federal crime on Twitter. Again. It’s really amazing how often Trump does this — so often it seems deliberate, Trump’s way of demonstrating his dominance by daring anyone to do something about it. I really think he gets some kind of twisted thrill out of this.

And yes, he did misspell a two-syllable word while incriminating himself. Twice.

To recap: after initially saying he didn’t know anything about it, Trump is now openly admitting he paid off a porn star to keep quiet about having sex with him and tried to cover it up, so he could win the presidential election.

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337 comments
1
Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:41:12am

No wonder good lawyers don’t want to touch him with a 1000 yard stick. This is any babysitter’s nightmare job.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:42:35am

At this point I think we are just weeks away until Donnie starts dropping N-Bombs on twitter.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:44:46am
Lawyer’s liability if he made a mistake, not me

Um, yeah…

that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.

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Chrysicat  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:45:05am

re: #2 Dr. Matt

At this point I think we are just weeks away until Donnie starts dropping N-Bombs on twitter.

K-bombs too, if his performance at the Hanukkah commemoration is any indicator of true feelings. Calling Israel “your country”? He couldn’t have been any more clear that the only Jews who belong in the US are, to his belief, Javanka’s immediate family!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:47:30am

So I’m waiting for either him to slip up everything and admit everything ala Scooby Doo villain style or to claim he did all this because he wanted to prevent “Crooked Hillary” from becoming President and if it’s the latter, you can bet your ass that all the Republicans pretty much will accept it because they hated HRC more than they love our country.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:49:16am

Warning: shoes dropping

Maria Butina, an accused Russian spy who nuzzled up to the National Rifle Association before the 2016 election, appears to have reached a plea deal with the Justice Department, according to a new court filing in her criminal case.

Her attorneys and prosecutors filed a two-page request on Monday for a “change of plea” hearing before a federal judge as soon as Tuesday. “The parties have resolved this matter,” the filing in DC federal court said Monday morning. Butina’s case was brought by federal prosecutors in DC and not by Robert Mueller’s team in the special counsel’s office.
A plea hearing has not yet been set.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:50:09am

re: #5 HappyWarrior

So I’m waiting for either him to slip up everything and admit everything ala Scooby Doo villain style or to claim he did all this because he wanted to prevent “Crooked Hillary” from becoming President and if it’s the latter, you can bet your ass that all the Republicans pretty much will accept it because they hated HRC more than they love our country.

They hate any Democrat. They are working for a one party dictatorship and with the help of the Koch Bros attempt to replace our Constitution, they may succeed.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:51:33am

re: #3 KGxvi

Um, yeah…

that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.

The reality is that the lawyer was operating at Trump’s direction. That makes it a criminal conspiracy to engage in felonious conduct that Cohen knew was wrong. That’s why they were hiding the character of the transaction.

It wasn’t just campaign finance violation and forgetting to submit a record document. It was hiding the document from scrutiny, trying to claim that it was an invoice for work done with a dummy corporation that didn’t exist but for to pay off Daniels (and the other woman), and then had Trump Org do additional laundering of money to try and shield the nature and purpose of the transaction.

Only ones spewing that this wasn’t a crime or that it was a mere campaign finance violation are Trump nuts who ignore that the SDNY makes it crystal clear that Trump engaged in conspiracy to commit money laundering by and through Cohen and Trump Org.

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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:56:12am

re: #5 HappyWarrior

So I’m waiting for either him to slip up everything and admit everything ala Scooby Doo villain style or to claim he did all this because he wanted to prevent “Crooked Hillary” from becoming President and if it’s the latter, you can bet your ass that all the Republicans pretty much will accept it because they hated HRC more than they love our country.

So you et al committed crimes and possibly treason cause you didn’t like the probable democratic outcome? Ie “hillary wins, not you “?

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:56:31am

re: #6 KGxvi

Butina is one of the direct Russian influencers between Russian govt and Trumpworld.

How did she operate? Well, she directed funding and influence through her connections at the NRA.

NRA received a bunch of dark money from… Russia. That money ended up getting distributed to their favored Congressional members - GOPErs. The NRA spread money around to GOP candidates, many of whom strongly backed Trump.

Butina’s changing her plea because she’s tired of spending her time in jail for being an undeclared foreign agent - aka a spy.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 10:59:46am

re: #10 lawhawk


Butina’s changing her plea because she’s tired of spending her time in jail for being an undeclared foreign agent - aka a spy.

As a spy, won’t she still be imprisoned? Or does she then have an opportunity to be traded for someone that the Russians have incarcerated?

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:01:52am

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:02:51am

In other news of corruption, looks like Bloomberg’s financial company is about to be rocked by a huge scandal involving pay to play and construction kickbacks.

At this point it doesn’t look like Mike Bloomberg knew of the conduct, and that the costs ended up costing his company millions of dollars more thanks to the kickback and pay to play schemes among top executives at Bloomberg and Turner Construction.

They’re going to try and show that this was rogue employees who operated outside the knowledge and consent of Bloomberg and the Board.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:05:20am

re: #11 Hecuba’s daughter

As a spy, won’t she still be imprisoned? Or does she then have an opportunity to be traded for someone that the Russians have incarcerated?

Depends on what she’s pleading to. The article suggests, no matter what, she’ll likely have to return to Russia after she serves any additional time.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:05:53am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

Make Godzilla our pet????

No… we are his.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:07:23am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:07:54am

re: #15 lawhawk

Make Godzilla our pet????

No… we are his.

Looks genuinely promising. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:08:03am

re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter

They hate any Democrat. They are working for a one party dictatorship and with the help of the Koch Bros attempt to replace our Constitution, they may succeed.

They really hate HRC though.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:10:34am

re: #17 Dr Lizardo

One of the problems I had with the last Godzilla movie (Ken Watanabe, not the awful Broderick one), is that the fight scenes were all generally done at night and very darkly lit to overcome the fact that the CGI was not quite there. This seems to have much the same issue. We don’t get daytime fights at least in the trailer, which is a shame.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:10:41am
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Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:10:57am

re: #13 lawhawk

In other news of corruption, looks like Bloomberg’s financial company is about to be rocked by a huge scandal involving pay to play and construction kickbacks.

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At this point it doesn’t look like Mike Bloomberg knew of the conduct, and that the costs ended up costing his company millions of dollars more thanks to the kickback and pay to play schemes among top executives at Bloomberg and Turner Construction.

They’re going to try and show that this was rogue employees who operated outside the knowledge and consent of Bloomberg and the Board.

Damn.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:11:48am

re: #18 HappyWarrior

They really hate HRC though.

Obama made that mistake. He thought that he could work with Republicans because their hatred was directed toward the Clintons. Oops! Anyone with the Dem brand will be treated as villains who must be destroyed by the current Republican party.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:13:02am

Alrighty then….time to call it a day. Have fun, Lizards.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:13:18am

re: #22 Hecuba’s daughter

Obama made that mistake. He thought that he could work with Republicans because their hatred was directed toward the Clintons. Oops! Anyone with the Dem brand will be treated as villains who must be destroyed by the current Republican party.

I know. Definitely one of Obama’s mistakes for sure.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:16:25am

re: #21 Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!

My impression has been that the construction industry is riddled with corruption nationwide; that there are always ties to mobsters, whether native born or Russian. No one from the real estate industry should ever have been given the opportunity to run this country.

Bloomberg made his money from finance not real estate. And it looks like real estate imposed serious costs on his organization.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:17:12am
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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:18:15am

re: #5 HappyWarrior

So I’m waiting for either him to slip up everything and admit everything ala Scooby Doo villain style or to claim he did all this because he wanted to prevent “Crooked Hillary” from becoming President and if it’s the latter, you can bet your ass that all the Republicans pretty much will accept it because they hated HRC more than they love our country.

The wingnut explanation will follow the example set by Nixon: “His only crime was he got caught.” Remember, according to wingnuts, Dems engage in all sorts of crimes (“dead” voters, “illegal” voters, “creating votes,” etc) every election, so Repubs breaking the law are really just “leveling the playing field.” We’ll be told that Donny didn’t “really” break the law, that all he did was pay off some porn stars who were going to lie to the press about him (why pay if nothing happened? Because the press would have blown it out or proportion).

As for Russia and the obstruction of justice? It’ll be an article of faith that there never was anything to do with Russia, so how could he have obstructed justice if there was no crime to be investigated? It was all a bunch of lies, all the “evidence” was debunked, and the whole thing was a plan by “the swamp” to force him from office. And they’ll insist that, had he not been the subject of such a bullshit investigation, he could have accomplished way more and earned a place as the “best modern president.”

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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:18:42am

re: #19 lawhawk

One of the problems I had with the last Godzilla movie (Ken Watanabe, not the awful Broderick one), is that the fight scenes were all generally done at night and very darkly lit to overcome the fact that the CGI was not quite there. This seems to have much the same issue. We don’t get daytime fights at least in the trailer, which is a shame.

I want a guy in a rubber suit running around a stage of miniatures
Otherwise what’s the point?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:18:57am

re: #27 Targetpractice

The wingnut explanation will follow the example set by Nixon: “His only crime was he got caught.” Remember, according to wingnuts, Dems engage in all sorts of crimes (“dead” voters, “illegal” voters, “creating votes,” etc) every election, so Repubs breaking the law are really just “leveling the playing field.” We’ll be told that Donny didn’t “really” break the law, that all he did was pay off some porn stars who were going to lie to the press about him (why pay if nothing happened? Because the press would have blown it out or proportion).

As for Russia and the obstruction of justice? It’ll be an article of faith that there never was anything to do with Russia, so how could he have obstructed justice if there was no crime to be investigated? It was all a bunch of lies, all the “evidence” was debunked, and the whole thing was a plan by “the swamp” to force him from office. And they’ll insist that, had he not been the subject of such a bullshit investigation, he could have accomplished way more and earned a place as the “best modern president.”

Yeah the “he got caught” was the Watergate excuse oto.

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:19:34am
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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:20:32am

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And don’t legitimize crackpots

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:20:42am

re: #24 HappyWarrior

I know. Definitely one of Obama’s mistakes for sure.

I don’t know that it was a mistake. It’s sort of cliche, but the president is supposed to represent everyone, and so it makes sense that someone taking the job seriously would at least try to work with people in the opposing party. In those early days of the GOP losing its mind, there was still a chance that they could have not gone over the edge - hell, the ACA was basically their own plan, written by the Heritage Foundation in the 90s.

But after a decade of the GOP being completely out of its mind, the next Democratic president is going to have to make them show that they can be trusted.

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ericblair  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:21:56am

re: #14 KGxvi

Depends on what she’s pleading to. The article suggests, no matter what, she’ll likely have to return to Russia after she serves any additional time.

We’re going to have to see what the actual story is, here. If she implicates the Russian government, her life isn’t worth a pelmeni fart if she goes home. I expected her most of all to stay shtum, but perhaps asylum is part of the deal. Which would be ironic, considering.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:22:11am

re: #32 KGxvi

I don’t know that it was a mistake. It’s sort of cliche, but the president is supposed to represent everyone, and so it makes sense that someone taking the job seriously would at least try to work with people in the opposing party. In those early days of the GOP losing its mind, there was still a chance that they could have not gone over the edge - hell, the ACA was basically their own plan, written by the Heritage Foundation in the 90s.

But after a decade of the GOP being completely out of its mind, the next Democratic president is going to have to make them show that they can be trusted.

I think you could call it a mistake given the tone of the 2008 campaign but he wasn’t wrong for his approach. That’s all on McConnell and Boehner.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:22:57am

re: #25 Hecuba’s daughter

My impression has been that the construction industry is riddled with corruption nationwide; that there are always ties to mobsters, whether native born or Russian. No one from the real estate industry should ever have been given the opportunity to run this country.

Bloomberg made his money from finance not real estate. And it looks like real estate imposed serious costs on his organization.

I think that’s more of an east coast thing. Having grown up in construction on the west coast, I think most everything out here is on the up and up.

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:25:18am

Compare to the huge leeway and careful swaddling that we give to our *white* collar actual criminals.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:27:43am

re: #35 KGxvi

I think that’s more of an east coast thing. Having grown up in construction on the west coast, I think most everything out here is on the up and up.

I know that the Gambinos, hey another Trump connection had times to the construction industry.

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:27:50am

@NeverTrumpTexan

Trump is the child of an immigrant who has clearly failed to assimilate, embrace our values and learn our language.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:28:09am

re: #36 jaunte

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Compare to the huge leeway and careful swaddling that we give to our *white* collar actual criminals.

The justice system sucks.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:28:52am

re: #36 jaunte

I posted about that earlier, but there are so many questions here:

1) why were cops called in the first place
2) why did NYPD respond with excessive force to a situation that didn’t warrant even a police call in first place
3) why aren’t those officers all assigned to desk duty pending full investigation of their criminal conduct.
4) why is the woman still in custody
5) being poor while black is a justification for so much state sanctioned violence such as this. Apparently the woman couldn’t find a seat because the office was full and no seats.
No one was willing to give up a seat to this woman, so she sat on the floor - which was apparently the crime for which the office security called.

Instead of getting the woman a chair, or trying to defuse the situation, the cops escalated it to the point of forcibly ripping the toddler from mom’s arms.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:28:55am

re: #34 HappyWarrior

I think you could call it a mistake given the tone of the 2008 campaign but he wasn’t wrong for his approach. That’s all on McConnell and Boehner.

It’s not that his approach was wrong — it was his belief that the outcome would be different from how it turned out. He was too optimistic that he could persuade the GOP to work in the best interests of the country. Maybe it was too much time spent in Illinois where the GOP party was much more moderate because it had to work with a Democratic legislature. Also recall that Senator Peter Fitzgerald was ostracized by the Republican party because he and Hillary got along. He was a model of the old school Republicans, as was Governor George Ryan (criminal that he was).

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:29:57am

re: #40 lawhawk

Petty bureaucratic tyranny reinforcing its own worst impulses.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:30:38am

re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter

It’s not that his approach was wrong — it was his belief that the outcome would be different from how it turned out. He was too optimistic that he could persuade the GOP to work in the best interests of the country. Maybe it was too much time spent in Illinois where the GOP party was much more moderate because it had to work with a Democratic legislature. Also recall that Senator Peter Fitzgerald was ostracized by the Republican party because he and Hillary got along. He was a model of the old school Republicans, as was Governor George Ryan (criminal that he was).

Right. TBH I think it was partially that but partially his nature too. Remember his Dem 2004 keynote- No blue states or red states, only the United States. I think he did believe in that and he still does but McConnell’s hyperpartisanship really fucked things up.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:33:39am
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jamjam  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:34:48am

re: #7 Hecuba’s daughter

They hate any Democrat. They are working for a one party dictatorship and with the help of the Koch Bros attempt to replace our Constitution, they may succeed.

Sad but for many GOP members, true. Look back over the last 10 years. Redistricting, gerrymandering (Tom Delay). Voter ID. Ginning up this idea that illegal immigrants area plot by Democrats to get more votes. (They don’t care about immigrants stealing jobs or any of the other excuses, the real idea is, “get the base to believe the Democrats are doing what WE are doing, which is, trying everything to deny Democrat vote legitimacy.”

This nonsense about vote counting fraud in Florida, is exactly what they did in 2000. It’s a long con, and they will always promote this garbage to the RW outlets, via Fox, and Rush and Levin, and their strangehold on talk radio.. which is stunning and scary if you see how many people they reach.

The whole concept is to convince their voters that, the means justify the ends, and that everything they’re doing is to stop Democrats from stealing votes - in reality, their strategy.

Every single part of this sort of culture war, is a plot by Republicans, to control elections and there is no depth to which they will not stoop to deny the legitimacy of Democrat administrations or Democrat votes.

Denying the vote on Obama’s SC pick. Typical of that strategy. Citizens United has been a HUGE boon for them too.

Some are craven enough to admit that denying Democrat legitimacy is a means to ensuring conservative SC justices. Another part of the long term tactic to control every part of government.

Most worrying to me is probably the appointment of lower court judges. The judges with whom most people are going to have interactions with. Trump has already appointed so many of these lower court judges who don’t get as much, if any, media coverage but these are the courts who shape people’s lives much more closely than the Supreme Court.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:34:53am

re: #44 darthstar

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Would that make Jared a betacuck conned by a Mooslam? //

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:36:15am

re: #44 darthstar

If I were Jared, I would definitely not agree to go fishing in Tahoe

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steve_davis  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:39:22am

re: #5 HappyWarrior

So I’m waiting for either him to slip up everything and admit everything ala Scooby Doo villain style or to claim he did all this because he wanted to prevent “Crooked Hillary” from becoming President and if it’s the latter, you can bet your ass that all the Republicans pretty much will accept it because they hated HRC more than they love our country.

ala scooby doo style would be some big blonde doofus in a neck scarf pulling off Trump’s face and us discovering it’s really Danny Bonaduce.

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jamjam  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:39:42am

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I should probably print that and put it on my corkboard !

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:44:30am

Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space:

The instrument will be able to take unprecedented observations in this part of interstellar space and send them back to mission scientists. The scientists can still communicate with Voyager 2, even in interstellar space, but the data takes about 16.5 hours to travel back to Earth.

Even though it’s at 3.6 degrees Kelvin, they think they can get anywhere from 5 to 10 years worth of data from it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:45:20am

re: #3 KGxvi

Um, yeah…

that’s not how this works, that’s not how any of this works.

“Yes, officer we both planning to rob the store but my idiot partner went in the wrong door so you can see how this is not really MY fault…”

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Danack  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:45:59am

re: #33 ericblair

We’re going to have to see what the actual story is, here. If she implicates the Russian government, her life isn’t worth a pelmeni fart if she goes home.

While I agree we need to wait and see what the actual story is, I don’t believe it is the case that she needs to remain silent to avoid angering the Russian spy agencies.

She is and was a professional spy, who came to do a particular job of infiltrating and inducing Republicans to personally commit doing acts that are to Russia’s benefits and to further expose those Republicans to being used by other Russian agents to do their bidding (do what we want or we’ll expose how much money you’ve taken).

Although some of the actions she took were illegal in the US they aren’t something the Russians are going to be either embarrassed by or and I doubt she has any information that would reveal any Russian spy secrets.

On the other hand, it is slightly embarrassing for the Russian spy agencies and for President Putin to have a spy being left in an American prison. It implies that the Russians aren’t able to protect their own people.

For me, it’s a reasonable scenario for Maria Butina to have reached a plea deal where she confirms everything the FBI already know, confirms that the actions she took were designed to corrupt Republicans, and that she was successful in those attempts.

Assuming that’s the case and that the plea deal was for time served, or for a few months more imprisonment, I can’t see why she wouldn’t have a heroines reception (away from the cameras) when she returned to Russia.

She accomplished her mission of deeply corrupting the US government, and didn’t reveal any information that wasn’t already known. What’s for the Russian secret services to be annoyed by?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:46:02am

re: #48 steve_davis

ala scooby doo style would be some big blonde doofus in a neck scarf pulling off Trump’s face and us discovering it’s really Danny Bonaduce.

Andy Kaufman.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:46:49am

re: #13 lawhawk

In other news of corruption, looks like Bloomberg’s financial company is about to be rocked by a huge scandal involving pay to play and construction kickbacks.

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At this point it doesn’t look like Mike Bloomberg knew of the conduct, and that the costs ended up costing his company millions of dollars more thanks to the kickback and pay to play schemes among top executives at Bloomberg and Turner Construction.

They’re going to try and show that this was rogue employees who operated outside the knowledge and consent of Bloomberg and the Board.

Fun fact: Enron tried to blame their collapse on Rogue employees too.

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Varek Raith  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:46:53am

re: #53 HappyWarrior

Andy Kaufman.

Al Capone’s Vault.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:49:02am

re: #52 Danack

See also the last Russian honeypot - Anna Chapman….

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:49:03am

re: #36 jaunte

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Compare to the huge leeway and careful swaddling that we give to our *white* collar actual criminals.

If she’d been a white lady the cops would have probably offered to find her a chair.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:49:15am

re: #47 KGxvi

If I were Jared, I would definitely not agree to go fishing in Tahoe

Jared would be well advised to stay away from freight elevators, windows, and only use valet parking.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:49:57am

I’m really excited about the Mariia Butina plea deal - seeing the NRA get fucked is icing on the cake.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:51:32am

$400 fine and probation for “unlawful restraint.”


Ex-Baylor Frat President Accused of Rape Won’t Serve Any Prison Time

Jacob Anderson, the former president of Baylor University’s Phi Delta Theta fraternity accused of raping a woman at an off-campus party in 2015, will not serve any prison time. Nor will he be required to register as a sex offender. Instead, he will pay a $400 fine and receive counseling, the Waco Tribune reports, as part of a plea deal offered by the district attorney’s office. If the 24-year-old completes three years on deferred probation, he won’t even have a criminal record.

Through tears, the victim said in court that Judge Ralph Strother has “let my rapist go free.”

In March 2016, an officer told the Waco-Tribune that, according to the arrest affidavit, the woman, then a sophomore at the university, was given a drink at an off-campus frat party and “became very disoriented, was taken outside by our suspect, who is Jacob Walter Anderson, and she said when they got outside, Anderson forcibly sexually assaulted her.”
*snip*
Former McLennan County District Attorney Vic Feazell, a lawyer who represents the victim’s family, told KWTX: “As a former DA, I never, ever have seen such a sweetheart deal for a defendant like this.”

“It pays to be rich and white in McLennan County when you’re charged with a crime,” he said.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:52:27am
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William Lewis  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:52:29am

re: #12 Dr Lizardo

And now, a little break from all the lunacy, brought to you by MOAR MONSTERY KAIJU GOODNESS!!

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Watched it. I’m far more excited by the Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel trailers. But then the only Godzilla thing I appreciate is this one:

Godzilla Blue Oyster Cult Music Video HD

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:53:29am

re: #58 darthstar

Jared would be well advised to stay away from freight elevators, windows, and only use valet parking.

and bathtubs…

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:54:21am
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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:54:57am

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Criming while white…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:58:29am

re: #65 lawhawk

Criming while white…

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steve_davis  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:58:46am

re: #50 KGxvi

Voyager 2 has reached interstellar space:

Even though it’s at 3.6 degrees Kelvin, they think they can get anywhere from 5 to 10 years worth of data from it.

wanna sense of how much space is in space? according to wikipedia, voyager 2 encountered jupiter in 1979. it’s taken it 40 years to make it out to where it now is.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 11:59:30am

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

$400 fine and probation for “unlawful restraint.”


Ex-Baylor Frat President Accused of Rape Won’t Serve Any Prison Time

Good thing he didn’t defend himself against a slave owner or not know voting laws.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:00:00pm

re: #64 Charles Johnson

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So insightful Chris.

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steve_davis  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:00:19pm

re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg

If she’d been a white lady the cops would have probably offered to find her a chair.

i like to think if i’d been there, i would have offered her mine.

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jamjam  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:00:20pm

re: #43 HappyWarrior

Right. TBH I think it was partially that but partially his nature too. Remember his Dem 2004 keynote- No blue states or red states, only the United States. I think he did believe in that and he still does but McConnell’s hyperpartisanship really fucked things up.

So true guys. I was thinking about this the other day. Obama has such a fundamental belief in the appeal to reason and logic, that regardless of what side of the aisle you’re on, if you’re on government you’re working to help your constituents, and, that there’s a commonality there.
He always believed he could, through appeals to common sense, get through to even the most hardline opponent.
He’s such a decent person and exemplifies decency in his conduct, in and out of the political sphere. His books are a great example of how he thinks.
But unfortunately he wasn’t dealing with people who genuinely care about the future of the country, except in the sense that they should control the nation. The current ideology, and as I pointed out before, the ideology of guys like Tom Delay, the ideology of the GOP for at least 10 years, has been, essentially, a movement toward one party rule.
They always deny Democrat legitimacy. They did it to Kerry (Jerome Corsi actually, with the Swift Boat nonsense - these old fools have been on the job for years). They did it to the Clinton administration, as the PBS Frontline doco on Clinton makes clear.
They did it to Obama with their intimations of his being a foreigner, a Muslim, a terrorist “pal”.
They use the Heritage Foundation, Fox News,and these really pernicious plans, long developed: eg
Attack the media as being biased. We know they’re not, but if we can convince people they ARE, then we can scare journalists away from reporting the truth.
At first we’ll get them to be so afraid of attacks that they’re biased, reporters will always present “both sides” regardless of how absurd one side of an argument or issue may be. (Global warming is a perfect example - this wasn’t and should not be a partisan issue, it’s a scientific one, yet the media always do the “both sides” thing.
It’s not the Media’s role to present both sides. A journalist is supposed to report the truth. Not pit 2 sides against each other, or give equal space to outlying, absurd opinions.
The next step, of course, is to get media outlets and their journalists packed with Heritage Foundation types. The Heritage Foundation wrote a few policy plans on this. They weren’t hiding their plans.
Attack the media constantly for being biased.
Get reporters to cover “both sides” with equal weight..half and half.
Eventually, ensure all reporters are too frightened, unable or unwilling to report the truth, and then, ideally, stack the media outlets with right wingers. Or better yet, delegitimise media outlets that aren’t GOP propaganda outlets like Fox.
They’ve done a very good job so far.
It’s scary stuff because public trust in the media is so low, meaning, the plan is working.
Erode trust in the actual truth, get people to believe our truth. Balkanisation of media via the Internet, has done no great service to the facts either. The RW dominate so much of the information outlets.
So many people have no idea about the facts of Trump’s life, or don’t care, immediately dismissing any attacks on Trump as media lies.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:00:44pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:01:15pm

re: #44 darthstar


Molly Jong-Fast

@MollyJongFast
“The bromance between Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son in law, and Mohammed Bin Salman also known as MBS, turned out not to have been that at all; rather, Kushner has been the victim of a long campaign to use his stupid against him.” forward.com

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1:13 PM - Dec 10, 2018

So the Forward makes an effort to whitewash Jared — he’s not stupid, he’s a sociopath like his father and his father-in-law. And like his BFF MBS.

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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:01:32pm

re: #30 jaunte

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Contrast with 13 above re Bloomberg

“Expected to be arrested tomorrow”
Some kind of privilege there

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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:02:26pm

re: #36 jaunte

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Compare to the huge leeway and careful swaddling that we give to our *white* collar actual criminals.

Sorry didn’t read ahead…damn phone

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:03:23pm

re: #73 Hecuba’s daughter

So the Forward makes an effort to whitewash Jared — he’s not stupid, he’s a sociopath like his father and his father-in-law. And like his BFF MBS.

I don’t think being a sociopath and being stupid are mutually exclusive. Jared wanted the power having a prince as a friend would bring, and would overlook a killing to get it, and was too dumb to see how he’s being played.

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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:03:59pm

re: #40 lawhawk

I posted about that earlier, but there are so many questions here:

1) why were cops called in the first place
2) why did NYPD respond with excessive force to a situation that didn’t warrant even a police call in first place
3) why aren’t those officers all assigned to desk duty pending full investigation of their criminal conduct.
4) why is the woman still in custody
5) being poor while black is a justification for so much state sanctioned violence such as this. Apparently the woman couldn’t find a seat because the office was full and no seats.
No one was willing to give up a seat to this woman, so she sat on the floor - which was apparently the crime for which the office security called.

Instead of getting the woman a chair, or trying to defuse the situation, the cops escalated it to the point of forcibly ripping the toddler from mom’s arms.

Four hours she sat on the floor waiting ….

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:04:26pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:06:03pm

re: #76 Belafon

I don’t think being a sociopath and being stupid are mutually exclusive. Jared wanted the power having a prince as a friend would bring, and would overlook a killing to get it, and was too dumb to see how he’s being played.

That’s true. But how exactly is Jared being played? He’s a willing participant as an accessory after the fact to this crime. He doesn’t care that a journalist is murdered.

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:07:42pm

re: #72 Dave In Austin

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Nine Benghazi investigations, Kevin. Go fornicate with yourself.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:07:49pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

It’s also how to run a functional comments section not overrun by trolls. Judicious use of banhammer to remove those who wont debate honestly or use the forum to spam.

Thanks…as always… for that.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:08:48pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:08:50pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

Nine Benghazi investigations, Kevin. Go fornicate with yourself.

And no investigations into the Niger fiasco.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:09:57pm

re: #79 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s true. But how exactly is Jared being played? He’s a willing participant as an accessory after the fact to this crime. He doesn’t care that a journalist is murdered.

Jared is doing this to save his family from bankruptcy, but he hasn’t paid attention to the fine print regarding the conditions surrounding the loan paybacks

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:11:53pm

re: #81 lawhawk

It’s also how to run a functional comments section not overrun by trolls. Judicious use of banhammer to remove those who wont debate honestly or use the forum to spam.

Thanks…as always… for that.

Yep. I learned that one the hard way. :)

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:12:30pm
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Single-handed sailor  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:13:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:13:33pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

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blocking also prevents them from harassing your followers, yes?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:13:59pm

re: #87 Single-handed sailor

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Awaiting the everybody does it excuse from the people who want to deport Dreamers.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:14:06pm

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

blocking also prevents them from harassing your followers, yes?

Right.

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Kragar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:15:22pm
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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:17:56pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

I got blocked by Stonekettle…never figured out why. Emailed him via his blog respectfully asking why…no response. Decided that, while we may share the same opinion on most political topics, regaining his approval or caring about it was a waste of fucking time.

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Kragar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:20:32pm

re: #92 darthstar

I got blocked by Stonekettle…never figured out why. Emailed him via his blog respectfully asking why…no response. Decided that, while we may share the same opinion on most political topics, regaining his approval or caring about it was a waste of fucking time.

I’ve gotten blocked a few people here and there. I figured I somehow ended up on somebodies blocklist and it got carried over from there. Oh well.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:23:02pm

re: #93 Kragar

I’ve gotten blocked a few people here and there. I figured I somehow ended up on somebodies blocklist and it got carried over from there. Oh well.

Yep…I’ve temporarily muted people who obsessed about X or Y for a few weeks - to let an issue blow over - but I tend not to block anybody. If someone wants to read my shit, that’s their privilege…who am I to deny them access to my greatness?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:25:31pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:25:51pm

re: #82 darthstar

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Did Chuckles actually identify where in the past the dems did this and exactly what did they do?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:26:43pm
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jamjam  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:26:55pm

That’s why I admire and respect what Charles does here so much. He has copped so much crap, and continues to wade through insidious and serious attempts to stop him telling the truth. There are entire websites dedicated to stalking him. I read one yesterday. It’s name isn’t worth mentioning.
But fighting back against the lies, and the spin, and the truly dictatorial instincts of the modern Republican Party, is a thankless fight, and one that’s absolutely fundamental if we want to stop the decline of outright fraudulent claims masquerading as news.
(And the GOP have taken this fake news mantra and run with it, because, the objective is to delegitimise any media not spewing their talking points).
I could go on about this for way too long, but another huge reason for Trump’s election is that a massive portion of the electorate live on what Jon Stewart called “bullshit Mountain”, they are convinced Kerry was a traitor who wanted to get his Vietnam buddies killed. They’re convinced Obama is a Muslim Brotherhood member.
They believe it because, in absence of critical thinking, they don’t question what’s presented to them. And in a way, they become more attached to Fox and Rush and Savage, the more the lies of those individuals are shown to them. Because if it’s the liberal lying media versus the truth tellers, then they side with the truth tellers.
It’s a bizarre state of affairs. The concept of what actually happened, of reality, and of history is becoming tenuous, is becoming opinion.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:27:59pm

re: #91 Kragar

In a normal admin, Chief of Staff would be one of the most coveted positions in all government because you’re the gatekeeper to the Oval Office. You help set agenda. You are involved in key personnel and other decisions that affect the WH operation. You’re always on call, and you’re indispensable. Whoever is POTUS needs to be able to trust CoS implicitly and that person has to have sound judgment.

Trump has turned every position into a shithole of incompetence, graft, compromised cronies, and bigots who get to impose their racist agendas with zero oversight from a compliant and compromised GOP controlled Congress.

CoS under Trump is toxic, particularly because Trump is toxic. Kelly lasted as long as he did because no one else would take the job.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:29:32pm

re: #96 Hecuba’s daughter

Did Chuckles actually identify where in the past the dems did this and exactly what did they do?

No…he was just chewing on a turd from the Magical Balance Fairy.

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ericblair  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:32:07pm

re: #52 Danack

She accomplished her mission of deeply corrupting the US government, and didn’t reveal any information that wasn’t already known. What’s for the Russian secret services to be annoyed by?

It’s possible, but that’s an assumption. The FBI isn’t stupid; they wouldn’t be giving her a deal for nothing. And having your agent in foreign custody admitting to a number of crimes, which she will have to do, isn’t a look that most countries like to see.

Also, Russia’s secondary propaganda line is that the United States is deeply corrupt, just as corrupt as Russia, the US is a bunch of hypocrites and you’re no better off there. Having to admit that it’s Russia that’s doing the corrupting undercuts that a lot.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:33:50pm

re: #92 darthstar

I got blocked by Stonekettle…never figured out why. Emailed him via his blog respectfully asking why…no response. Decided that, while we may share the same opinion on most political topics, regaining his approval or caring about it was a waste of fucking time.

Same thing happened to me. Don’t know why. Tried the same things…. Nothing.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:35:34pm

Trump: You know what? Fuck it. I don’t need a Cueif of Staff. I’m smart enough to handle things myself.

Half /

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:36:25pm

re: #102 Dave In Austin

I got blocked by Imani Gandy a while back - probably because she got inundated by trolls and I got caught up in it. Tried to reach out to her otherwise, but never got a response. Not worth time to seek her approval. She’s got more important things to do as well…

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jamjam  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:37:22pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Yep. I learned that one the hard way. :)

Absolutely. This goes to what I was just saying actually.

I’ve said it before many times, but the way Charles runs LGF renders it impervious to bullshit; there are so view media outlets today, like this one.

What you do, Charles and, what LGF does is provide a routine, constant and factual analysis of the news, of politics and of modern government.
In the era of Trump, we need more sites like LGF.
I’m genuinely thankful Charles, and having been here a while I know a little bit of what you’ve had to endure, but your honesty and your focus on getting the message out, is so important. You comment with clarity on what is important, and you break stories nobody else can or will.
The Pages section is just one element of a community where people can and do engage with political issues, and can shine light on other issues.
I’ve said it frequently but every time I come over here I’m relieved and grateful. We’ve got LGF, and Charles Johnson, and that is a real source of optimism.
If we had ten more people with his integrity, ten more sites with the same no-nonsense, community based approach to current affairs, it would be of incalculable benefit.
I’ve gotta get going for now but I actually wrote a bit more about how useful this site is, I might make a page myself and post it later on.
Cheers guys and thanks Charles. There’s no website, no source of truth anywhere else, that’s as necessary right now, that’s as useful right now, as LGF.
I always see LGF as an island of credulity, a fortress of truth. I don’t think that’s hyperbole. I think it’s absolutely true.
Ok guys, take care and all the best, thanks !

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William Lewis  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:37:32pm

re: #66 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:37:36pm

I’d bet on 1 or 6

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:39:13pm

re: #79 Hecuba’s daughter

That’s true. But how exactly is Jared being played? He’s a willing participant as an accessory after the fact to this crime. He doesn’t care that a journalist is murdered.

I guess what’s he gotten out of it, especially in comparison to being seen as a patsy to the Prince. That really isn’t going to buy him much.

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William Lewis  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:43:39pm

re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’d bet on 1 or 6

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Probably. But I’d love 4 or 5 just because either would piss off the gun humping racists of the GOP.

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:43:42pm

I’n gonna go down the conspiracy rabbit hole.

Did Russia set Trump up by telling him they could make him rich by building in Russia and suggest the best way to those riches was a little help in the campaign from them.

I am now thinking the Russians wanted their in to Washington DC and they knew Trump was the guy to provide it.

Trump may never have wanted to win, but the Russians did.

Along comes Manafort to seal the Russian connections to the campaign workings. Then comes the meeting in the Tower, Pence as VP, changes in the Republican platform, involving Flynn, Papadopoulos, Assange, Russian money to the NRA, etc., all foisted on Trump and accepted because of greed.

They may even be responsible for the whole Russian bots and Brad Parscale doing the web things the Trumps may not have even been aware of. Again…the Russians wanted the win.

And the whole time the Russians were leaving breadcrumb tracers that they told Trump about that would make him easily guilty of all kinds of things like Mueller is finding.

And Surprise! Trump wins…and a few days later the Russians tell Donny how “he won by being dirty” and if he resists them in any manner, they expose all those clues and Trump is caught.

Trump is then trapped and it was a combination of Trump family greed and stupidity that allowed the Russians to pull it off.

Once President, Trump had to play the part because he knows the Russians have him set to take the whole fall.

He can’t even fess up that all of this was out of his control because he sold himself as so damn smart and in control he would look way too stupid and he knows he did allow them…he may just not have known how eager they were. He thought they were helping. They were helping themselves.

Just kicking it around…something about the Russian connections tell me they invited themselves into the campaign because they knew Trump and Gang were too stupid to see they were being setup and used at the same time. Once in, they went on their own to win it.

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Dave In Austin  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:46:28pm

Osprey

H/T Wilson Chen
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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:46:58pm

re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’d bet on 1 or 6

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Looking at the entire list — Meghan Markle? Ryan Coogler? Seriously?

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:48:25pm

re: #110 ObserverArt

It’s gonna be that convoluted anyway, whatever the raw details.

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Kragar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:55:12pm
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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:55:48pm

re: #111 Dave In Austin

Osprey

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Some little critter’s dinner.

We have a number of red tail hawks hanging out around our house as we have some green belt between ourselves and the coast and lots of gophers. They’re beautiful to watch hunting and hanging out on top of the telephone poles.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:55:57pm

Yeah, there’s no such thing as white privilege

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 12:58:45pm

re: #116 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Yeah, there’s no such thing as white privilege

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I had my car reported in college when I lived in a gated condo complex for a while. I was asked to either park it on the street or remove all of my Grateful Dead stickers because some of the homeowners found it to be ‘unsightly.’ I told them to go fuck themselves because I paid rent for my place and the parking spot that went with it.

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danarchy  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:10:37pm

re: #96 Hecuba’s daughter

Did Chuckles actually identify where in the past the dems did this and exactly what did they do?

Don’t know if it is exactly analogous, but the MA legislature changed the laws on vacancy appointments specifically so Romney wouldn’t be able to appoint someone to replace Kerry if he won the presidency in 2004.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:10:40pm
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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:15:08pm

The hagiography/revisionist history of Kelly is already underway…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:25:56pm

re: #120 lawhawk

The hagiography/revisionist history of Kelly is already underway…

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Despite losing a son, Kelly had no problem in lying to and insulting a Gold Star widow.
And the death of that widow’s husband was a coverup that makes the Benghazi witch hunt pale in comparison.

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Kragar  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:29:27pm
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Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:31:25pm

re: #118 danarchy

Don’t know if it is exactly analogous, but the MA legislature changed the laws on vacancy appointments specifically so Romney wouldn’t be able to appoint someone to replace Kerry if he won the presidency in 2004.

And it backfired spectacularly, IIRC.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:37:11pm
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Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:40:08pm

re: #110 ObserverArt

I’n gonna go down the conspiracy rabbit hole.

Did Russia set Trump up by telling him they could make him rich by building in Russia and suggest the best way to those riches was a little help in the campaign from them.

I am now thinking the Russians wanted their in to Washington DC and they knew Trump was the guy to provide it.

Trump may never have wanted to win, but the Russians did.

Along comes Manafort to seal the Russian connections to the campaign workings. Then comes the meeting in the Tower, Pence as VP, changes in the Republican platform, involving Flynn, Papadopoulos, Assange, Russian money to the NRA, etc., all foisted on Trump and accepted because of greed.

They may even be responsible for the whole Russian bots and Brad Parscale doing the web things the Trumps may not have even been aware of. Again…the Russians wanted the win.

And the whole time the Russians were leaving breadcrumb tracers that they told Trump about that would make him easily guilty of all kinds of things like Mueller is finding.

And Surprise! Trump wins…and a few days later the Russians tell Donny how “he won by being dirty” and if he resists them in any manner, they expose all those clues and Trump is caught.

Trump is then trapped and it was a combination of Trump family greed and stupidity that allowed the Russians to pull it off.

Once President, Trump had to play the part because he knows the Russians have him set to take the whole fall.

He can’t even fess up that all of this was out of his control because he sold himself as so damn smart and in control he would look way too stupid and he knows he did allow them…he may just not have known how eager they were. He thought they were helping. They were helping themselves.

Just kicking it around…something about the Russian connections tell me they invited themselves into the campaign because they knew Trump and Gang were too stupid to see they were being setup and used at the same time. Once in, they went on their own to win it.

This scenario requires something Trump is incapable of, honest self-evaluation. Most likely it played mostly the same, but they did by stroking his ego (“running for president increases the value of your brand”, “you’re too brilliant to be caught”, etc.) and when Trump won, they change the narrative a little, but kept inflating his ego (“you are obviously better suited to run the US”, “you will help bring a new world peace, better than Reagan”, etc.).

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:40:30pm

re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:41:30pm

CNN Chyron when I walked by: Chris Christie strong contender for CoS.

I couldn’t hear to see if they said because he was all that was left.

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nines09  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:42:22pm

re: #111 Dave In Austin

Many a vacation we sat on the beaches in and around Ocean City Maryland and watched the ospreys dive into the waters about 100 yards off shore. I’m assuming it was a sandbar. They ALWAYS came back up with a fish, usually a decent sized fish. They would go into that shape right before hitting the water.
Watching them break back to the surface and just lift and shake off the water with a fish was mesmerizing.
Poetry.
They would fly over the beach back towards the bay where they had nests. Always carried the fish headfirst into the flight. Amazing.
On a good day you would see about 10 or 20 flights.
Beautiful birds. Beautiful.

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Seafaring, coquito drinking Santa!  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:43:04pm

re: #127 Belafon

CNN Chyron when I walked by: Chris Christie strong contender for CoS.

I couldn’t hear to see if they said because he was all that was left.

It would be the perfect position for Christie. I mean, he’s obviously used to being left hanging by Trump. And now they’ll pay him for it!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:43:29pm

re: #124 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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It’s all related you hack. And if memory serves Monica was a byproduct of the Whitewater investigation.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:55:42pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:55:50pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:56:21pm
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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 1:58:25pm

Hatch can’t go soon enough…

He’s another apologist for the GOP and Trump. He’s excusing widespread criminality at the highest levels of government because the GOP’s guy - Trump - and all of Trump’s people are getting indicted, cutting plea deals, and getting convicted of all kinds of crimes stemming from the now indisputable fact that Trump is a con artist who thinks he’s above the law and employs people who think the same way.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:00:16pm

re: #134 lawhawk

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Hatch can’t go soon enough…

He’s another apologist for the GOP and Trump. He’s excusing widespread criminality at the highest levels of government because the GOP’s guy - Trump - and all of Trump’s people are getting indicted, cutting plea deals, and getting convicted of all kinds of crimes stemming from the now indisputable fact that Trump is a con artist who thinks he’s above the law and employs people who think the same way.

Hatch always was an asshole. Pains me to say it since I hate Mitt Romney but he’ll be a step up for Utah since in his vain attempts to sometimes appear presidential, Mitt sometimes accidentally does the right thing.

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:08:09pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:10:34pm

re: #134 lawhawk

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Hatch can’t go soon enough…

He’s another apologist for the GOP and Trump. He’s excusing widespread criminality at the highest levels of government because the GOP’s guy - Trump - and all of Trump’s people are getting indicted, cutting plea deals, and getting convicted of all kinds of crimes stemming from the now indisputable fact that Trump is a con artist who thinks he’s above the law and employs people who think the same way.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:13:19pm

re: #122 Kragar

I’m sure he’ll get hired somewhere appropriate…

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:14:38pm
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CongoJack  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:16:45pm

re: #139 gocart mozart

Hilarious hearing the “no, no, no” in a calm British voice.

Can someone tell me what the hell is going on in that video?

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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:17:40pm

Seen on the streets if Denver
You may have to rotate (damn phone)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:18:30pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:22:46pm
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calochortus  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:25:22pm

re: #140 CongoJack

Hilarious hearing the “no, no, no” in a calm British voice.

Can someone tell me what the hell is going on in that video?

If I understand correctly, which I may very well not, the mace gives the House of Commons royal authority to conduct business. Removing it suspends that authority and is a form of protest under extreme conditions. The protest is noted, the member of the House of Commons doing it gets his wrist slapped, everyone is suitably shocked, and life goes on as normal.

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:25:37pm

re: #126 lawhawk

Sudden Shift In Byron York Straw-Clutching

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:26:33pm
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CongoJack  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:26:47pm

re: #144 calochortus

If I understand correctly, which I may very well not, the mace gives the House of Commons royal authority to conduct business. Removing it suspends that authority and is a form of protest under extreme conditions. The protest is noted, the member of the House of Commons doing it gets his wrist slapped, everyone is suitably shocked, and life goes on as normal.

Ah… well… good… that is decidedly British.

Thanks!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:29:14pm

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:29:18pm

re: #2 Dr. Matt

At this point I think we are just weeks away until Donnie starts dropping N-Bombs on twitter.

And this time it will be in public. I’m sure he’s used that word many many times before.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:29:50pm

re: #10 lawhawk

Butina is one of the direct Russian influencers between Russian govt and Trumpworld.

How did she operate? Well, she directed funding and influence through her connections at the NRA.

NRA received a bunch of dark money from… Russia. That money ended up getting distributed to their favored Congressional members - GOPErs. The NRA spread money around to GOP candidates, many of whom strongly backed Trump.

Butina’s changing her plea because she’s tired of spending her time in jail for being an undeclared foreign agent - aka a spy.

She’ll need to disappear into witness protection or there will be an assassin in her future.

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calochortus  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:32:01pm

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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Yes, please!

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:33:15pm

re: #139 gocart mozart

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fern01  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:33:41pm

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’d make a bet that Christie will NEVER be anything in the trump admin. trump likes to drag him around on a chain - then let go.

Edit: I also think Christie might be too smart to take the job - the media rehashing bridgegate is probabaly not in his best interest.

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:34:49pm

I forgot: Straws are grasped. Pearls are clutched.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:35:35pm

re: #127 Belafon

CNN Chyron when I walked by: Chris Christie strong contender for CoS.

I couldn’t hear to see if they said because he was all that was left.

Javanka would veto that appointment. Though maybe if they realize there is no other experienced contender, they would relent. In Michael Lewis’ The Fifth Risk, Chris Christie makes a brief appearance and acquits himself well.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:38:56pm

re: #139 gocart mozart

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:39:45pm

re: #116 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Reminds me of the old Ask a Mexican column in the OC Weekly, where he talked about his car getting ticketed in Irvine, even though it wasn’t parked illegally.

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:40:03pm
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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:42:44pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m shocked that Mr. “It was constitutional when we proposed it but it’s unconstitutional now” would have such a position.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:43:12pm

re: #159 KGxvi

I’m shocked that Mr. “It was constitutional when we proposed it but it’s unconstitutional now” would have such a position.

inorite???

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:43:22pm
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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:44:13pm
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Skip Intro  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:46:27pm

I could watch this for hours.

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:48:02pm

re: #118 danarchy

Don’t know if it is exactly analogous, but the MA legislature changed the laws on vacancy appointments specifically so Romney wouldn’t be able to appoint someone to replace Kerry if he won the presidency in 2004.

Not really analogous since it limited the current governor and not the replacement who was just elected.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:48:11pm

I’m putting this one in a spoiler because I know damn well someone would be asking me to otherwise.

Safe for work if there’s nobody behind you who can see your screen. Don’t know if it has sound. I always have my speakers muted.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:48:16pm

re: #163 Skip Intro

I could watch this for hours.

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My night’s schedule is now filled.

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CongoJack  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:48:18pm

re: #163 Skip Intro

I could watch this for hours.

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According to the thread it was in AUS and not a “Trumpie”

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:49:14pm

re: #167 CongoJack

According to the thread it was in AUS and not a “Trumpie”

spoil sport!

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:50:32pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:50:42pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:53:18pm

re: #165 darthstar

quite the mess under that table…

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:54:19pm

re: #143 Backwoods_Sleuth

I respect Tribe a whole lot, but I think he’s wrong on this. The main problem with his position is that the president is the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution. The constitution specifically vests the executive power of the government in the president alone (which is why cabinet secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president), and he is responsible for seeing that the law is faithfully executed. So, in essence, Trump would be standing on both sides of the proverbial V in a United States v Trump case. He would, theoretically, at least, have final say in how the prosecutors proceeded against him. That conundrum is why the Framers, as evidenced by Hamilton’s writings in the Federalist Papers saw impeachment as a necessary first step in dealing with a criminal president.

An alternative view would be to say that a sitting president is subject to indictment, but the statute of limitations is tolled while he is in office.

This is different from enforcing a subpoena, because in those cases, it is technically within the Court’s power to compel witnesses to produce evidence.

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nines09  Dec 10, 2018 • 2:54:41pm

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

quite the mess under that table…

Day 8 of the bender.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:00:13pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:00:14pm

re: #161 gocart mozart

I watched that in a theater in NYC

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:01:43pm
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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:03:39pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:03:48pm
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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:05:40pm

re: #177 jaunte

I also accidentally engaged in a quid pro quo with a hostile foreign nation in seeking office. I mean, that could happen to anyone, who knew you were supposed to call the FBI?

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:11:17pm

re: #153 fern01

I’d make a bet that Christie will NEVER be anything in the trump admin. trump likes to drag him around on a chain - then let go.

Edit: I also think Christie might be too smart to take the job - the media rehashing bridgegate is probabaly not in his best interest.

Christie desperately wanted the AG job at the outset, and got humiliated repeatedly by Trump in the process because Trump judges people harshly based on appearances. There are exceptions, for instance Wilbur Ross is allowed to look like (and be) a doddering old fool because he’s super fucking wealthy, Christie isn’t. The biggest obstacle at this point however isn’t bridgegate, or Christie’s weight, it’s wolf-pack politics. All the sycophantic taint sniffers who were clambering to be part of Trump’s administration two years ago now smell blood. They now see Trump as deeply wounded, and all the erstwhile Republican suck-ups sense weakness and are starting to distance themselves.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:17:16pm

Only the best people, the best:

The American delegation came to promote coal.

And the kids laughed in their faces.

That was the bizarre and symbolic scene that unfolded Monday at the UN COP24 climate talks at a spaceship-shaped conference center in Polish coal country.

And of course, they just really don’t get it:

Griffith stood quietly behind a lectern during Monday’s demonstration. “All too often, we can’t have an open and honest discussion about the realities,” he said after what he termed a “disturbance” had finished.

“All energy sources are important, and they will be utilized unapologetically,” he said. “The important piece is to utilize them in the most cleanly and efficient way, and that’s something I think all countries are committed to.”

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:18:41pm

re: #163 Skip Intro

I could watch this for hours.

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Here is the full YouTube.

Fail Man walks into lamp post

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:23:32pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:25:40pm
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goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:26:05pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:28:30pm
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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:29:09pm

re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth

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We say never again yet always make excuses how this again is different. And I get that people are reluctant to compare what’s going in Syria to the Holocaust but the Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers. The gas chambers were the climax of years of persecution.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:30:59pm

We have a real opportunity to be a leader among the nations by welcoming those fleeing violence, poverty, and hunger. That we choose not to be is a betrayal of what brought so many of our families to this country in the first place.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:34:53pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:36:12pm

re: #139 gocart mozart

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:37:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:38:12pm

:(

WYOMING, Mich. (WKRC) - A woman in Michigan has died after drowning in a lake near her home while trying to save a loved one.

Tracey Cashman reportedly gave her life trying to save her dog, Lola, from freezing to death. Police say the dog fell through the ice at the lake during a walk.

“It was a quick trip… she didn’t have her jacket.. Didn’t take her phone, She must have let the dog off her leash.. and the dog ran out in the back pond on the ice,” said Rhonda Moore, Cashman’s mother, to WWMT News.

After being saved, Lola returned home. She was soaking wet, and alone.

Cashman’s family searched for her for hours, finally calling 911.

Her body was discovered by first responders during a cold water rescue.

Cashman was a worker for a local public school district. Tributes poured in for her after her death was announced on social media.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:40:03pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

I thought they get the sword from a strange woman lying in a pond now?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:45:24pm

re: #139 gocart mozart

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:46:10pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

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Best movie ever!

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:46:24pm

So Britain has fallen, huh? Doesn’t that mean Arthur has to come back and kick somebody’s ass?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:46:28pm

re: #107 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’d bet on 1 or 6

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5 Mueller.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:46:48pm

re: #193 KGxvi

I thought they get the sword from a strange woman lying in a pond now?

a watery tart

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:47:13pm

Merry Christmas

lol - “super pissed”

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:49:34pm

Former prosecutor John Flannery on The Beat (Ari is off tonight) just said the Trump Tower to be built in Russia was originally to be called The Ivanka.

(Groan)

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:50:03pm

re: #6 KGxvi

Warning: shoes dropping

I just paged this with the very same tagline: “shoes dropping.”

This is going to be a whole shitshow for all the far-right-wing gun nuts, racists, shitweasels and jack-o-lantern grinning hillbillies that make up the modern NRA.

As a kid, I learned how to safely handle guns in NRA classes. They were all about making sure kids who went hunting knew to always check the chamber, to never point a loaded gun at anything you didn’t want to kill, etc.

What a disgrace.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:50:32pm

By the way, saw this at the store over the weekend:

Monopoly Cheaters Edition

As if a game designed to ruin friendships and end in the board being thrown across the room and names being called isn’t enough…

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:50:48pm

re: #200 ObserverArt

Former prosecutor John Flannery on The Beat (Ari is off tonight) just said the Trump Tower to be built in Russia was originally to be called The Ivanka.

(Groan)

It would have no floors and no internal walls: shallow and hollow.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:52:00pm

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

a watery tart

All I’m saying is, after the last couple of years, it’s starting to look like a slightly better system of government.

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:53:08pm

So facebook has a shit-ton of ads these days - one of them is from Roman - the new online dick pill company. Some dude responded to their facebook ad about having a hard time contacting them as they didn’t return his email. They responded that he should DM them. I’m looking at this, and the growing list of people cracking jokes in that part of the thread and thinking, “Dude…you just told everyone on facebook that your dick doesn’t work.”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:53:22pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:54:00pm

One of the greatest scenes in Coen brothers history. (Note: it ain’t supposed to be realistic, so never mind the endless ammo. That’s part of its insane appeal.)

Millers Crossing Danny Boy Scene

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:54:05pm

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Targetpractice  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:54:09pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:54:35pm

re: #207 Charles Johnson

One of the greatest scenes in Coen brothers history. (Note: it ain’t supposed to be realistic, so never mind the endless ammo. That’s part of its insane appeal.)

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OMG, yes! Ballet and bullets….

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:57:28pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2018 • 3:59:59pm

re: #141 dangerman

Seen on the streets if Denver
You may have to rotate (damn phone)

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Not my car.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:00:37pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

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hahaha

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mmmirele  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:03:01pm

re: #19 lawhawk

One of the problems I had with the last Godzilla movie (Ken Watanabe, not the awful Broderick one), is that the fight scenes were all generally done at night and very darkly lit to overcome the fact that the CGI was not quite there. This seems to have much the same issue. We don’t get daytime fights at least in the trailer, which is a shame.

Yeah, my brother and I were watching the last American one on TV a couple of Saturdays back and I kept complaining about how murky it was. The trailer for this one seems slightly better in this regard. *Slightly*. I told my brother I’d rather see the cheesy special effects Toho Godzilla movies because those are at least in the daytime!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:06:11pm

re: #193 KGxvi

I thought they get the sword from a strange woman lying in a pond now?

Two different swords depending on the mythos. The sword in the stone to determine king and Lady of the Lake to bequeath Excalibur. Or, Excalibur is the sword in the stone and bequeaths kinghood, or the Lady of the Lake bequeaths kingdom and the sword in the stone is Excalibur.

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:06:34pm

re: #206 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Have not watched it all, but this video claims McInnes may have been banned due to a third party claiming usage of their property/content. He goes on to say The Blaze owned all of McInnes stuff and they probably pulled it from YouTube. Lots of McInnes specualtion. Some of it seems to be McInnes may be cleaning this up to distance himself from The Proud Boys.

Poor Gavin!

Lot’s of repositioning going on in wingnut world. They must sense both Trump going down and people getting sick of some of their shit.

Terrible video. He runs an ad for his backers right off and takes up the first minute.

Gavin McInnes BANNED From Youtube, And Now Every Platform (UPDATED)

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:07:07pm

re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Two different swords depending on the mythos. The sword in the stone to determine king and Lady of the Lake to bequeath Excalibur. Or, Excalibur is the sword in the stone and bequeaths kinghood, or the Lady of the Lake bequeaths kingdom and the sword in the stone is Excalibur.

So, what you’re saying is they should do both, then?

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:07:18pm
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plansbandc  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:07:44pm

re: #165 darthstar

OMG what did I just watch?! Eye bleach STAT!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:07:53pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

A Very Serious Pose for McInnes.

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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:10:44pm

re: #218 gocart mozart

Pro-life groups swiftly expressed their displeasure following Monday’s announcement.

“We are disappointed the Supreme Court declined to hear this case,” said Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List. “The pro-life citizens of states like Kansas and Louisiana, through their elected representatives, have clearly expressed their will: they do not want Medicaid tax dollars used to prop up abortion businesses like Planned Parenthood.”

And the Courts have clearly expressed that your will is unconstitutional, so kindly fuck right off.

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:13:11pm

Sure, he’s still under agreement to tell Mueller everything he knows

What a bunch of deranged lunatics.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:14:31pm
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KGxvi  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:14:48pm

Also, I find it funny that anti-choice folks use Susan B Anthony’s name, when there’s:

a) no evidence that she ever publicly stated an opinion on the matter, and;

b) had this quote: Anthony predicted “an epoch of single women. If women will not accept marriage with subjugation, nor men proffer it without, there is, there can be, no alternative. The woman who will not be ruled must live without marriage.” (per wikipedia, citing an actual historian)

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:16:39pm

re: #207 Charles Johnson

One of the greatest scenes in Coen brothers history. (Note: it ain’t supposed to be realistic, so never mind the endless ammo. That’s part of its insane appeal.)

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Video

Speaking of Coen Brothers, just watched The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; brilliant!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:17:11pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

That image always makes me think of Stephen Baldwin

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Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:17:43pm
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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:19:18pm

re: #223 lawhawk

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darthstar  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:20:31pm
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Teukka  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:21:26pm

re: #169 darthstar

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Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:22:05pm

re: #228 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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The librul MSM labeled that mother fucker a budget wonk genius. He’s nothing but a frat boy asshole who hates the poor.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:23:57pm
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freetoken  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:25:35pm

Back for yet another starring role, the original kaiju:

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:25:53pm

re: #232 Dr. Matt

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I guess Voight figures if we already have an unqualified President, why not an equally unqualified CoS?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:26:57pm

re: #232 Dr. Matt

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He looks the part, and he’s loyal to Trump, so in Trump’s mind Voight is eminently qualified.

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:36:39pm

re: #234 HappyWarrior

James Woods wasn’t available?

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Dr. Matt  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:38:49pm

re: #236 lawhawk

James Woods wasn’t available?

Interchangeable has-been douche bags.

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:42:00pm

Last segment on Hardball:
Dallas Woodhouse has some huge gall, trying to both-sides the absentee ballot theft in NC.

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prairiefire  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:42:44pm

So does this Monday, today feel like the beginning of the end for Trump for anybody else besides me ? Bueller?

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:42:56pm

re: #236 lawhawk

James Woods wasn’t available?

Whoever gets cast as CoS, I’m looking more forward to Season 3 of The Apprentice: Celebrity President Edition than Seasons 1 or 2, with a whole new cast of characters in the House.

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Jay C  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:43:27pm

re: #223 lawhawk

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Have I mentioned that I really like AOC?

She seems to have an innate skill at finding the weak points in “conventional political wisdom” - and at twisting the rhetorical knife once she does.

More of this, please….

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:43:55pm

re: #240 NO SMOCKING GUN!

Whoever gets cast as CoS, I’m looking more forward to Season 3 of The Apprentice: Celebrity President Edition than Seasons 1 or 2, with a whole new cast of characters in the House.

I’m looking forward to the plot twist where Melania leaves Donald for Ivanka. //

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:43:58pm

re: #237 Dr. Matt

Interchangeable has-been douche bags.

Well, to be fair, Voight is a never-was douchebag….

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:44:01pm

re: #236 lawhawk

James Woods wasn’t available?

An entire White House staff of celebrity RWNJs would be a huge comedy if we could watch from orbit.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:45:39pm

re: #243 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, to be fair, Voight is a never-was douchebag….

I dunno about that. Maybe not a great actor but he had some good films but I do get you, he’s never stood out to me as a particularly great actor whose casting would make me really want to see something and he’s gotten insufferable since he’s gone full wingnut.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:48:06pm

re: #242 HappyWarrior

I’m looking forward to the plot twist where Melania leaves Donald for Ivanka. //

That will be a very special episode!

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:50:03pm

re: #242 HappyWarrior

I’m looking forward to the plot twist where Melania leaves Donald for Ivanka. //

[trump] I DON’T BLAME HER, I WISH I COULD HAVE DONE THE SAME THING [/trump]

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:52:37pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:55:23pm

re: #242 HappyWarrior

I’m looking forward to the plot twist where Melania leaves Donald for Ivanka. //

I’m waiting for the Melania/Jared thing to break out into the open.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:55:29pm

re: #182 ObserverArt

Here is the full YouTube.

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Video

Australia. The obvious take away: Red hats are associated with mental failure in all parts of the world. Ban red hats!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 4:59:58pm

re: #249 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m waiting for the Melania/Jared thing to break out into the open.

“Mrs. Trump, I think you’re trying to seduce me.”

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Jay C  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:06:34pm

re: #249 GlutenFreeJesus

I’m waiting for the Melania/Jared thing to break out into the open.

Since we’re speculating full-metal soap opera, why not the Melania/Jared/Ivanka thing?
AKA the “Covfefe Triangle”…

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:07:36pm

So do I have to wait ten days to buy a semi auto smocking gun?

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:11:07pm

re: #239 prairiefire

So does this Monday, today feel like the beginning of the end for Trump for anybody else besides me ? Bueller?

I used to get that and then resolved to reject all that until he is out of office and fully confesses.

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teleskiguy  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:13:27pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:17:45pm

re: #141 dangerman

Seen on the streets if Denver
You may have to rotate (damn phone)

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LOL. Not my car (it’s black).

Well, in thirty minutes I’m off to get fired from the village board.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:18:51pm

re: #193 KGxvi

I thought they get the sword from a strange woman lying in a pond now?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:21:20pm
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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:21:30pm

re: #215 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Two different swords depending on the mythos. The sword in the stone to determine king and Lady of the Lake to bequeath Excalibur. Or, Excalibur is the sword in the stone and bequeaths kinghood, or the Lady of the Lake bequeaths kingdom and the sword in the stone is Excalibur.

Just go with the movie: the Lady gives it to Uther, who later sticks it in the stone for his son to remove.

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Varek Raith  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:22:56pm

re: #258 The Vicious Babushka

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I do believe that is a ‘burn’.
:)

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Ace Rothstein  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:23:01pm

re: #232 Dr. Matt

He was so awesome as Nate in “Heat.” Then Obama got elected and he completely lost his mind.

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:25:07pm

re: #248 jaunte

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Wanna bet Mueller knows this?

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:28:16pm
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Varek Raith  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:30:09pm

re: #263 gocart mozart

What did @jackass do now?

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:31:11pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:32:37pm

BYE FELICIA!

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jaunte  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:33:22pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

McCarthy conflating jaywalking with murder.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:33:36pm

re: #265 jaunte

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:34:12pm

re: #172 KGxvi

I respect Tribe a whole lot, but I think he’s wrong on this. The main problem with his position is that the president is the chief law enforcement officer under the constitution. The constitution specifically vests the executive power of the government in the president alone (which is why cabinet secretaries serve at the pleasure of the president), and he is responsible for seeing that the law is faithfully executed. So, in essence, Trump would be standing on both sides of the proverbial V in a United States v Trump case. He would, theoretically, at least, have final say in how the prosecutors proceeded against him. That conundrum is why the Framers, as evidenced by Hamilton’s writings in the Federalist Papers saw impeachment as a necessary first step in dealing with a criminal president.

An alternative view would be to say that a sitting president is subject to indictment, but the statute of limitations is tolled while he is in office.

This is different from enforcing a subpoena, because in those cases, it is technically within the Court’s power to compel witnesses to produce evidence.

Think of it in terms of a small town. The Chief of Police commits some crime. He can still be indicted. Whether the town removes him from his post is irrelevant to his prosecution.

If the standard is “no one is above the law,” that includes the President.

Some of the alleged financial crimes were committed a few years ago. If he was to be reëlected, then the statutes of limitations run out on those crimes before he leaves office.

Claiming he cannot be prosecuted for a crime while in office means he can run out the clock if reëlected. (The same would go for any other president.)

The Supreme Court case against Bill Clinton turned on essentially the argument “the President is too busy to be sued.” The Court’s answer was “no, you’re not above the law.”

Surely Trump can take some time out of Twitter and golf to attend to criminal cases. He already has experience in that area (the case against him during the Nixon administration for housing discrimination).

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:34:53pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:39:00pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:40:08pm

re: #271 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Oh, hell. Not this again…

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:41:22pm

re: #264 Varek Raith

Tweet has been deleted. He was responding to Jack’s meditation trip to Myanmar.
By the way. This is John Lurie of the Lounge Lizards

The Lounge Lizards - Voice of Chunk

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:42:32pm

re: #271 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Crap.

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Anymouse 🌹  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:42:32pm

Well, I’m off to my fate. Catch y’all a bit later.

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:42:53pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:44:52pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:44:55pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:48:35pm
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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:50:18pm

re: #276 gocart mozart

Seriously, how many decades have people talked about Hollywood not having any new ideas?

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:51:06pm

re: #266 The Vicious Babushka

BYE FELICIA!

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Wait, you mean even after Citizens United? Jesus Shitonashingle Christ.

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:51:48pm

I’m trying to future vision to this Friday, say 4:00 PM, and what will be the state of the Trump White House?

I think it is the last day of congress for the year. Republicans will go home to lick wounds and hide from constituents. Trump will be the last thing they will want to talk about.

Cohen gets his sentencing this week, with probably a bit more coming out as to why the government thinks he has still lied and refused to really cooperate.

Will there be a new Chief of Staff and can that be answered before more people announce they are out too?

And through it all Trump will rage and rage and tweet saying even more unhinged things.

I hope the state Friday sees Trump as a smoking wreck left almost powerless as he slips further out of anyone’s favor.

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Patricia Kayden  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:51:57pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

Nine Benghazi investigations, Kevin. Go fornicate with yourself.

And House Republicans questioned Comey for seven hours about Clinton’s emails and plan to call him back in the next couple of weeks. They can shut the hell up.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:57:34pm

re: #279 gocart mozart

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I remember Hatch when I’d watch Cspan with my grandma as a kid. A dick then and now.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 5:59:50pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:01:36pm
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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:02:47pm
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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:03:41pm

re: #285 Charles Johnson

One of the first lessons I learned on the internet and its predecessors (Compuserve, Genie, et al) is that people who spell the word “smoking” as “smocking” are probably dumbasses in many other ways.

Their a bunch of loosers

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Varek Raith  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:04:36pm

re: #288 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

Their a bunch of loosers

There.
e_e

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Single-handed sailor  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:05:30pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:06:26pm

re: #288 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

Their a bunch of loosers

The one that threw me a curve was the exclusively internet coinage “whinge”, apparently meaning “whine”. Does it rhyme with “hinge”? Where does this word come from?

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:06:33pm

Unfu…. nope. Totally fucking believable.

Everyone involved in Trumpworld, the GOP, and NRA are fucking idiots but they think everyone else is dumber than they are.

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Jay C  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:11:25pm

re: #291 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The one that threw me a curve was the exclusively internet coinage “whinge”, apparently meaning “whine”. Does it rhyme with “hinge”? Where does this word come from?

Not an “internet coinage” - a Britishism for “whine” and/or “complain”: from Middle English (same root as “whine”); and does rhyme with “hinge”

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Varek Raith  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:11:26pm

re: #292 lawhawk

XD

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makeitstop  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:11:46pm

re: #291 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The one that threw me a curve was the exclusively internet coinage “whinge”, apparently meaning “whine”. Does it rhyme with “hinge”? Where does this word come from?

My mom used to use ‘whinge.’ and she passed away long before the internet.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:12:29pm

YA THINK?

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:15:04pm
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Jay C  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:16:22pm

re: #296 The Vicious Babushka

YA THINK?

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Good. As long as he resigns after Jan. 20 ( so his replacement- asshole Pence, unfortunately- can’t qualify for two terms.
Not that he’d be likely to be re-elected anyway: I think Trumpstench is going to be a long-lasting after-odor….

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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:17:36pm

re: #292 lawhawk

One level is that they would sell out. The stark reality is how cheap, how easily they were turned.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:18:55pm
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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:20:50pm

re: #299 Unshaken Defiance

One level is that they would sell out. The stark reality is how cheap, how easily they were turned.

Sellout? They willingly went over to the Russians for a couple of dates.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:20:54pm

re: #293 Jay C

Not an “internet coinage” - a Britishism for “whine” and/or “complain”: from Middle English (same root as “whine”); and does rhyme with “hinge”

re: #295 makeitstop

My mom used to use ‘whinge.’ and she passed away long before the internet.

Ooookay. Never heard it or read it in 60 years of voracious reading (probably ~50% British) except in blogs and tweets, but I’ll take your word for it.

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:21:46pm

Kevin McCarthy is a doofus as a politician. That BS of him trying say Democrats would be better served by not bringing up all these Trump investigations because there is work to do is really boldly dumb.

He is going to say some stupid shit as House Minority Leader come January. He’s just getting started.

He has put his foot in his mouth before, and they have him as party leader…so, apparently he is a Republican star. To me he looks like an even more dense Paul Ryan.

He is going to also get chewed on by The Freedom Caucus group who will see him as weak and too willing to deal, and do it badly.

Welcome to the 116th Congress Republican style!

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:21:47pm
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Jay C  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:21:58pm

re: #300 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Too bad the REQUIRED SKILLS part is obscured:

It’s. Fluent in Russian.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:22:04pm
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dangerman  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:22:39pm

re: #212 The Vicious Babushka

Not my car.

the spelling gave it away

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ObserverArt  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:24:38pm

re: #296 The Vicious Babushka

YA THINK?

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Fears about getting impeached means: Totally innocent!

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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:25:16pm

re: #291 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The history:

Whinge isn’t just a spelling variant of “whine.” “Whinge” and “whine” are actually entirely different words with separate histories. “Whine” traces to an Old English verb, “hwinan,” which means “to make a humming or whirring sound.” When “hwinan” became “whinen” in Middle English, it meant “to wail distressfully”; “whine” didn’t acquire its “complain” sense until the 16th century. “Whinge,” on the other hand, comes from a different Old English verb, “hwinsian,” which means “to wail or moan discontentedly.” “Whinge” retains that original sense today, though nowadays it puts less emphasis on the sound of the complaining and more on the discontentment behind the complaint.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:26:00pm

re: #294 Varek Raith

XD

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I love the “unnamed gun-rights organization”. Like “Individual-1, since elected President”. Nobody could crack that code….

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lawhawk  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:27:13pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:27:23pm

re: #301 lawhawk

Sigh. How/when did we get so… weak?
Rhetorical of course.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:27:26pm
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:28:14pm

In Japan there is a popular band called Mr. Children. This tweet makes a distinction between Trump and his “children” but I think the Japanese band name is a great concatenation of the lot.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:28:42pm
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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:36:23pm

re: #293 Jay C

Not an “internet coinage” - a Britishism for “whine” and/or “complain”: from Middle English (same root as “whine”); and does rhyme with “hinge”

Thank you. I’d also noticed it being used a lot this past year and didn’t recall ever seeing it before. It’s been something I’d wondered about as well.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:38:09pm

re: #316 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Thank you. I’d also noticed it being used a lot this past year and didn’t recall ever seeing it before. It’s been something I’d wondered about as well.

Me, too. From a couple of years ago. Thanks.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:41:08pm

re: #317 Barefoot Grin

Me, too. From a couple of years ago. Thanks.

Yes, you aren’t crazy.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:43:08pm

White House Ficus To Leave For Virginia Arboretum After Declining Trump’s Offer To Be Chief Of Staff politics.theonion.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:43:19pm

Have they done a YouTube video of Donald Trump screaming in the White House, with funny German subtitles?

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Hecuba's daughter  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:43:29pm

re: #316 Sionainn, Fierce Mother

Thank you. I’d also noticed it being used a lot this past year and didn’t recall ever seeing it before. It’s been something I’d wondered about as well.

I think the Hound used it in the last season of GOT, so in 2017.

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Sionainn, Fierce Mother  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:45:44pm

re: #321 Hecuba’s daughter

I think the Hound used it in the last season of GOT, so in 2017.

There is so much I missed in GoT. Too many characters and from one season to the next, I lose track of who half of them are. LOL.

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:46:53pm

This gif exists

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bd(Redacted)  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:47:44pm

re: #319 NO SMOCKING GUN!

White House Ficus To Leave For Virginia Arboretum After Declining Trump’s Offer To Be Chief Of Staff politics.theonion.com

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:54:37pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:57:23pm

My deadline to make changes to my medical insurance, and the signup for dental and vision under the federal employees plan was today

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Charles Johnson  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:58:08pm

OK, Van Jones is now officially way off the fucking rails.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Dec 10, 2018 • 6:58:17pm
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Belafon  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:00:13pm

re: #328 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Is God so powerful that he can prevent himself from getting a blue checkmark?

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:01:19pm
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Danack  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:16:37pm

Long, worth the journey:

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fern01  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:17:32pm

re: #296 The Vicious Babushka

YA THINK?

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He should be concerned. Important to note that President Obama NEVER had any concerns about impeachement - even when the GOP took over the house (and the senate)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:17:43pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

OK, Van Jones is now officially way off the fucking rails.

THIS.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:18:23pm

re: #161 gocart mozart

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One of my favorite movies! I keep the DVD in my RAZZIES Holy of Holies box!

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gocart mozart  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:18:31pm
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fern01  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:21:25pm

re: #302 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Ooookay. Never heard it or read it in 60 years of voracious reading (probably ~50% British) except in blogs and tweets, but I’ll take your word for it.

Definitely an Australian term and presumably comes from the English (UK) language.

It’s also used to remonstrate with children - “We’ll get there soon - don’t whinge”

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nines09  Dec 10, 2018 • 7:43:14pm

re: #331 Danack

That is incredible. Just incredible.


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