A Stunning Solo Performance by Andy Timmons: "Heroes" (David Bowie Cover)

A Stunning Solo Performance by Andy Timmons: “Heroes” (David Bowie Cover)

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A tribute to two of my heroes, David Bowie and Mick Ronson (end solo). A nod at the fade-out to Tom Scholz (another great influence!).
Instruments played:
1963 Epiphone Texan acoustic
1966 Ludwig “Pink Champagne Sparkle” drums
Late ’70s Fender Precision bass
Ibanez ATZ-100 prototype guitar
Mid -90’s Gibson Les Paul
Ibanez Roadcore guitar
1969 Marshall Super Lead 100 watt head
2x12 Mesa Boogie Rectifier cabinet
1964 Vox AC30 Top Boost

Arranged, performed, recorded and mixed by Andy Timmons. Mastered by Rob Wechsler.
Video by Joslin Dsouza joslinmusic.com

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Targetpractice Dec 22, 2018 • 9:28:54pm

From downstairs:

re: #315 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, the Republicans’ overcrowded 2016 field (17? 18?) spelled disaster all right, but just for everybody else.

The hilarity of all this is that the same nuts now arguing that the field is “too crowded” are the same ones who spent the past 2 years arguing the reason why Donny won is because Hillary seemed as if she was “anointed” due to a small Dem field.

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 22, 2018 • 9:37:12pm

Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed to leave in February but he just resigned prior to leaving. Grandstander? The Fake News is making such a big deal about this nothing event!

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

There are 70+ world leaders that know @brett_mcgurk because he built the @coalition to destroy ISIS in Iraq and Syria. https://t.co/OzQ8TWjEzV

— Carl Woog (@CarlWoog) December 23, 2018

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 22, 2018 • 9:38:08pm

If we ever needed heroes, it’s right now.

Targetpractice Dec 22, 2018 • 9:40:09pm

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Donny furthering the work that Dubya started in destroying our international alliances so that, when we do need their help in the future, they’ll sit on the sidelines munching popcorn instead.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 22, 2018 • 9:42:36pm

teleskiguy Dec 22, 2018 • 9:44:14pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon 🌹

heh

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Dec 22, 2018 • 9:52:36pm

re: #5 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Barron to Tiffany: “Well, sis, those idiots just THOUGHT they were lucky to be born first.”

Single-handed sailor Dec 22, 2018 • 9:53:29pm

Even President Ronald Reagan tried for 8 years to build a Border Wall, or Fence, and was unable to do so. Others also have tried. We will get it done, one way or the other!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018

Far and away, almost all of Ronald Reagan’s references to a border wall were about tearing down the Berlin Wall. Could find no speech where he mentioned building a US border wall. https://t.co/n0PXyFeQeQ

— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) December 21, 2018

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 22, 2018 • 9:57:13pm

Not going to waste any time watching the DC Gasbags tomorrow because I know they will all be double snorting the Magic Balance Fairy Dust.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 22, 2018 • 10:00:18pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹

Not going to waste any time watching the DC Gasbags tomorrow because I know they will all be double snorting the Magic Balance Fairy Dust.

OTOH They may be concerned about Mattis and McGurk — and there is no way to MBF that debacle.

Targetpractice Dec 22, 2018 • 10:01:03pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹

Not going to waste any time watching the DC Gasbags tomorrow because I know they will all be double snorting the Magic Balance Fairy Dust.

Most are not even going to bother invoking the MBF, they’re going to straight-up argue that the Dems are wrong for not giving Donny the $5B, arguing that it’s better to give the screaming child what he demands. Look for one or more to even suggest that the Dems are wrong for not trading the wall money for something they want, saying that that’s how you “negotiate.”

austin_blue Dec 22, 2018 • 10:04:55pm

It’s not a bad cover, Andy, but jeez, couldn’t you take the time to take a bath and wash your hair before the recording?

I mean, really, you look like you just snorted a bump on a three-day jag.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 22, 2018 • 10:06:32pm

re: #10 Hecuba’s daughter

OTOH They may be concerned about Mattis and McGurk — and there is no way to MBF that debacle.

Just wait till you see Hugh Hewitt bullshit that away on Press The Meat with the approval of Chuck U Todd!

Hecuba's daughter Dec 22, 2018 • 10:10:30pm

re: #11 Targetpractice

Most are not even going to bother invoking the MBF, they’re going to straight-up argue that the Dems are wrong for not giving Donny the $5B, arguing that it’s better to give the screaming child what he demands. Look for one or more to even suggest that the Dems are wrong for not trading the wall money for something they want, saying that that’s how you “negotiate.”

Theoretically the Dems could offer what they offered at the beginning of the year: DACA protection, but this time in exchange for far less money than their original offer — and also comprehensive immigration reform. But there isn’t sufficient time to draft a detailed law before Thursday — and you cannot rely on any promise from Trump or the Senate Republicans to negotiate in good faith next year. You certainly cannot rely on Trump to keep any promise he makes on anything for more than 5 minutes.

NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 22, 2018 • 10:10:43pm

re: #9 Joe Bacon 🌹

Not going to waste any time watching the DC Gasbags tomorrow because I know they will all be double snorting the Magic Balance Fairy Dust.

“Both sides need to come together and compromise!”

NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 22, 2018 • 10:12:27pm

re: #11 Targetpractice

Most are not even going to bother invoking the MBF, they’re going to straight-up argue that the Dems are wrong for not giving Donny the $5B, arguing that it’s better to give the screaming child what he demands. Look for one or more to even suggest that the Dems are wrong for not trading the wall money for something they want, saying that that’s how you “negotiate.”

The Democrats were willing to trade wall money for protection for dreamers, and everytime they thought they had a deal with Trump, Kelly would bring in congressional hardliners to talk him out of it.

Targetpractice Dec 22, 2018 • 10:17:51pm

Smartest thing the Dems can do is simply not “negotiate,” but instead hold to their concession of $1.6B for border security on the understanding none of that money can go towards Trump’s vanity project. That bill passed the Senate with unanimous consent, and would have passed in the House if Donny hadn’t yanked Ryan’s chain. So what they have is a bipartisan bill that was guaranteed passage on Wednesday versus a totally partisan bill that simply cannot find the votes to win passage.

Donny declared he’d take responsibility for a shutdown, and then engineered the shutdown by threatening the veto of the Senate CR. Attempts to spin that by saying Schumer should allow the House bill a vote are ridiculous.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 22, 2018 • 10:32:46pm

re: #16 NO SMOCKING GUN!

The Democrats were willing to trade wall money for protection for dreamers, and everytime they thought they had a deal with Trump, Kelly would bring in congressional hardliners to talk him out of it.

Kelly is gone. But again there isn’t time remaining this year for any new serious legislation.

austin_blue Dec 22, 2018 • 10:44:36pm

re: #14 Hecuba’s daughter

Theoretically the Dems could offer what they offered at the beginning of the year: DACA protection, but this time in exchange for far less money than their original offer — and also comprehensive immigration reform. But there isn’t sufficient time to draft a detailed law before Thursday — and you cannot rely on any promise from Trump or the Senate Republicans to negotiate in good faith next year. You certainly cannot rely on Trump to keep any promise he makes on anything for more than 5 minutes.

On January the third, the new House comes in. They will have the purse strings. Why would the Dems not let the shutdown go until then? The shutdown sucks for obvious reasons, but Drumpf chose a really shitty time to do it. Which is not surprising, because he’s Dog’s own fool. He really doesn’t understand how any of this works.

Drumpf would lose all leverage and the incoming HoR would have it all. This is just Drumpf at his testosterone fueled worst. Which, for the Dems, is an absolute bonus. They will be the heroes of this standoff. They will quickly pass a budget and send it to Drumpf.

What are his choices then? By January the sixth, when Pelosi will absolutely have a funding bill going to the WH (it’s already in her pocket), the shutdown will really start to bite, and the Dow will be at around 20,000.

I’ve never seen a POTUS this stupid.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 22, 2018 • 10:50:34pm

re: #19 austin_blue

On January the third, the new House comes in. They will have the purse strings. Why would the Dems not let the shutdown go until then? The shutdown sucks for obvious reasons, but Drumpf chose a really shitty time to do it. Which is not surprising, because he’s Dog’s own fool. He really doesn’t understand how any of this works.

Drumpf would lose all leverage and the incoming HoR would have it all. This is just Drumpf at his testosterone fueled worst. Which, for the Dems, is an absolute bonus. They will be the heroes of this standoff. They will quickly pass a budget and send it to Drumpf.

What are his choices then? By January the sixth, when Pelosi will absolutely have a funding bill going to the WH (it’s already in her pocket), the shutdown will really start to bite, and the Dow will be at around 20,000.

I’ve never seen a POTUS this stupid.

The House can pass anything it wants — but the Senate will vote against it. Do you really think McConnell will allow any decent legislation to get through?

Targetpractice Dec 22, 2018 • 10:50:59pm

I should clarify that the moment the DNC starts trying to get something for that $5B, then Trump has effectively won and the DNC are just negotiating the terms of their surrender. The press will eviscerate Nancy and Chuck, demanding to know why they forced a shutdown when they could have made the demand for DACA extension/citizenship when they were at the White House. If we are to get such, it should be on its own or as part of a larger bill, not a two month CR that will just see us back in February, with Donny demanding more money with the understanding that he just has to hold out until the DNC asks for some concession from him.

sagehen Dec 22, 2018 • 10:52:08pm

re: #11 Targetpractice

Look for one or more to even suggest that the Dems are wrong for not trading the wall money for something they want, saying that that’s how you “negotiate.”

The next SCOTUS opening… we want Merrick Garland.

The day after he’s sworn in, we’ll vote to give you your fucking wall.

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 22, 2018 • 10:54:58pm

Remember that coming up right after this shutdown crap is the debt ceiling limit.

That’s the time I believe Trump and the GOP will make their move to gut Social Security and Medicare.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 22, 2018 • 11:00:50pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon 🌹

Remember that coming up right after this shutdown crap is the debt ceiling limit.

That’s the time I believe Trump and the GOP will make their move to gut Social Security and Medicare.

That would have worked if the GOP retained control of the House. No way with Nancy in charge; she is more likely to insist on a repeal of the tax scam.

Actually — maybe that’s what the Dems should demand in exchange for the wall: Repeal the tax scam, stop all attempts to sabotage the ACA and instead correct its flaws, and DACA. That might be a fair exchange (+ Merrick Garland :-) )

Targetpractice Dec 22, 2018 • 11:01:54pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon 🌹

Remember that coming up right after this shutdown crap is the debt ceiling limit.

That’s the time I believe Trump and the GOP will make their move to gut Social Security and Medicare.

Ayeah, I can see that. Threatening a default unless the DNC agree to “entitlement reform” by citing the $1T deficit as so large that it’s hurting the economy…even though it’s the threat of a default that is scaring the everloving fuck out of investors.

austin_blue Dec 22, 2018 • 11:03:50pm

re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter

The House can pass anything it wants — but the Senate will vote against it. Do you really think McConnell will allow any decent legislation to get through?

During a government shutdown instigated by Drumpf over his stupid wall? Yes, I think he will, as will the rest of the Senate. Their funders are losing money hand over fist right now. The POTUS is now not just a liability, but an absolute disaster. He’s wrecking the economy.

I’m off to bed. I’d like to say sweet dreams, but they’re hard to come by. Let’s all do our best.

NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 22, 2018 • 11:22:55pm

re: #23 Joe Bacon 🌹

Remember that coming up right after this shutdown crap is the debt ceiling limit.

That’s the time I believe Trump and the GOP will make their move to gut Social Security and Medicare.

Good; let them keep threatening the well-being of Americans in support of toxically unpopular policies.

Single-handed sailor Dec 22, 2018 • 11:23:32pm

The tsunami from Anak Krakatau caught in video wiping out beach concert.

Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi raji’un.
semoga kita semua selalu dalam lindungan-Nya. Aamiin.🙏🙏#Banten #Anyer #Selatsunda #prayforanyer pic.twitter.com/pj7tP3gdLt

— kth♥ (@HelianaBie) December 23, 2018

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 22, 2018 • 11:30:50pm

Dr Lizardo Dec 22, 2018 • 11:35:18pm

re: #28 Single-handed sailor

The tsunami from Anak Krakatau caught in video wiping out beach concert.

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Those people up front by the stage - and on the stage - damn. That’s like a scene straight out of a disaster movie.

Dr Lizardo Dec 22, 2018 • 11:54:15pm

re: #30 Dr Lizardo

I’ve seen elsewhere on the Internet that the vocalist in that clip survived - sadly, the bassist of that group is confirmed dead and at least one other band member remains missing.

As to the fate of the others in that clip, I haven’t read anything.

Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 12:09:21am

Still worth noting: #Beto voted over & again “to help pass Republican legislation…designed to help corporate interests dismantle Obama Administration programs& regulations” (on taxes, ACA, bank & Wall St. regs, immigration, & fossil fuel). Think about it https://t.co/qqid7CAZyp

— James J. Zogby (@jjz1600) December 21, 2018

Fuck all! Then attack him for that substance! And not this misshaped hype of oil industry money. Just as you can attack HC for substance without trading in weakass, twisted email or Clinton Foundation hype. That is the criticism of Sirota here. His metrics for candidates? Shit.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) December 22, 2018

STEALERS WHEEL* Stuck In the Middle With You* 1972 HQ

goddamnedfrank Dec 23, 2018 • 12:26:19am

It’s what finally taurus apart

— Randal Carlson (@randal_carlson) December 23, 2018

Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:34:38am

re: #32 Single-handed sailor

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The level of fear that the Bros have shown towards a Beto run tells me that they view him as their biggest threat. Not Joe, not Harris, not Gillibrand, not Booker, or any of the others viewed as potential opposition.

goddamnedfrank Dec 23, 2018 • 12:36:43am

LOL.

BREAKING: Over a million tweets have been sent using the #TrumpResign hashtag, over the last day.

— Scott Dworkin (@funder) December 22, 2018

Wow we sure got him now https://t.co/DhRIpxEzU0

— Emily G (@EmilyGorcenski) December 23, 2018

Look, I am sorry Canada but you have to respect our Constitution if there’s one thing about America it’s that we always follow our Constitution to the letter all the time especially when it comes to people in charge.

— Emily G (@EmilyGorcenski) December 23, 2018

Seriously, if there’s one thing I’d like for us to leave behind it’s do nothing but feel good about it hashtag activism.

Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:42:57am

re: #35 goddamnedfrank

LOL.

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Seriously, if there’s one thing I’d like for us to leave behind it’s do nothing but feel good about it hashtag activism.

Meanwhile, I’d be impressed if 70% or better of those who posted to that hashtag voted for Hillary in ‘16. Or will vote for the Dem nominee in ‘20, even if that nominee is a “neoliberal.”

The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Dec 23, 2018 • 12:52:07am

re: #35 goddamnedfrank

LOL.

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Seriously, if there’s one thing I’d like for us to leave behind it’s do nothing but feel good about it hashtag activism.

If tRump can fire everybody via Twitter, why can’t he be fired the same way? Fair’s fair!

wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam Dec 23, 2018 • 12:54:48am

re: #37 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

If tRump can fire everybody via Twitter, why can’t he be fired the same way? Fair’s fair!

Maybe if we all tweeted that Trump had resigned from office, he’d believe us and leave.

wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam Dec 23, 2018 • 1:01:40am

I knew it!

Well I didn’t see that one coming… #GatwickDrones #gatwick #dailyfail pic.twitter.com/3jRstH3tNc

— Mr B Reads (@MrBReading) December 22, 2018

The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Dec 23, 2018 • 1:40:48am

re: #39 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

I knew it!

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I thought The Gatwick Drones was a disappointing sequel to The Midwich Cuckoos….

Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 1:43:20am

Iran’s Rouhani and Turkey’s Erdogan hold a joint news conference in Ankara to discuss unfolding issues in the Middle East. https://t.co/HqOaZCBxZb

— Al Jazeera News (@AJENews) December 20, 2018

Interesting bedfellows.

Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 1:48:21am

n 2018, there are 67 Salafi-jihadist groups spread out around the world, encompassing between 100,000 to 230,000 jihadist fighters across the globe, with high concentrations in Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq.

Read the @CSIS_Threats report: https://t.co/8CwuMsciSC pic.twitter.com/deKofmQslc

— CSIS (@CSIS) December 22, 2018

^Not Iran^

Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 2:01:13am

#Nicaragua: UN Human Rights Chief @mbachelet is extremely alarmed by the Government’s announcement that it has told two key #HumanRights institutions set up by @IACHumanRights to leave the country.

Learn more: https://t.co/FKlhuSrkaZ

— UN Human Rights (@UNHumanRights) December 21, 2018

“Civil society is in danger of being shut out altogether, and international organizations are also struggling to keep operating,” UN Human Rights Chief @mbachelet on recent developments in Nicaragua. https://t.co/6AsPUYGCzg

— United Nations (@UN) December 22, 2018

Things like this is why there are refugees on our border.

Fuck me if I can figure out whether I should use ‘is’ or ‘are’ in that sentence at this time of night.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Dec 23, 2018 • 2:03:50am

re: #42 Single-handed sailor

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^Not Iran^

So. About one in five thousand Muslims is a crazed Salafist jihadi. That’s higher than the proportion of American Christians who are Appalachian snake handlers, but not by much.

Teukka Dec 23, 2018 • 2:08:50am

re: #44 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

So. About one in five thousand Muslims is a crazed Salafist jihadi. That’s higher than the proportion of American Christians who are Appalachian snake handlers, but not by much.

Also, the basic political ideology is the same, right-wing extremism, it’s just that that al Qaeda and them Daeshbags are islamist right-wingers, while y’all Qaeda and the Tealiban are Christian rightwingers. So the potential for violence is comparable, only that the latter do not reside in weak or failed states, and have not (yet) been pushed as hard as the former.

I’m really getting the urge to brush off my knowledge base in discrete video documentation.

Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 2:30:59am

In Paradise they won’t be home for Christmas

When the Camp Fire tore through Paradise on Nov. 8 it not only destroyed nearly all of the homes and sent residents fleeing for their lives, it scattered Tina Torres’ family around the state.

Some of her children and extended family searched as far away as Lake Tahoe and Bakersfield to find housing. Torres lived five weeks in a travel trailer in an orchard outside Chico until she recently got a three-bedroom, two-bath house to rent there.

That’s where the Christmas she had been looking forward to will happen. Torres said Christmas is very important to her.

Our Paradise refugee is still here, working down here to maintain an income. Their house survived the fire through preparation of the property and the retired firefighter-owner fighting it with extinguishers and water. Electricity has been restored but water and gas have not. Life finds a way. My dog has a new best fren, her name is Nova. He still has not figured there is a cat living in my daughter’s room.

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 3:30:49am

I’ve worked out why Trump likes coal so much.

As a kid, Santa gave it to him every Christmas…

— Stu Cameron (@stucam7771) December 23, 2018

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 3:36:48am

Gatwick pair no longer suspects, released without charge - they arrested wrong people. https://t.co/PouvnJyo4r

— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) December 23, 2018

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 3:44:35am

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gatwick pair no longer suspects, released without charge - they arrested wrong people

They were repeatedly connected to an environmentalist group in news speculation…

jeffreyw Dec 23, 2018 • 4:56:21am

Imgur

Good morning!

Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 5:22:26am

re: #49 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

They were repeatedly connected to an environmentalist group in news speculation…

It begs the question who did it then? Someone, possibly even a couple of kids pulling a dumbass prank, shut down one of the busiest airports in the UK.

steve_davis Dec 23, 2018 • 5:22:39am

re: #43 Single-handed sailor

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Things like this is why there are refugees on our border.

Fuck me if I can figure out whether I should use ‘is’ or ‘are’ in that sentence at this time of night.

(smile) things are, not things is.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 5:36:18am

re: #51 Dr Lizardo

It begs the question who did it then? Someone, possibly even a couple of kids pulling a dumbass prank, shut down one of the busiest airports in the UK.

I was annoyed at news reports that repeated the speculation that there was some connection to an environmentalist group even though they repeated said it was unfounded…just kept repeating it.

Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 5:43:18am

Long.

1. A thread on David Stein/Cole’s book “Republican Party Animal”, or rather on the historical appendix to it in which he explains his views on the Holocaust.

Short intro: Cole used to be a hardcore denier in the early 1990s, shot a comical video about Auschwitz which became a

— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) December 23, 2018

50. Like the old joke goes: Cole’s thesis is both true and original.

Unfortunately the parts that are true aren’t original; and the parts that are original aren’t true.

— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) December 23, 2018

Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 5:44:58am

re: #35 goddamnedfrank

LOL.

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Seriously, if there’s one thing I’d like for us to leave behind it’s do nothing but feel good about it hashtag activism.

Dworkin is a hack scam-artist only in it for the money, but the rank-and-file laps it all up.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Dec 23, 2018 • 5:49:38am

SpaceX live:

spacex.com

lawhawk Dec 23, 2018 • 5:50:46am

re: #2 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Trump’s professing he doesn’t know the guy who was running the anti-IS campaign for the US? Then he’s claiming that McGurk is grandstanding by leaving early?

Well.. it makes perfect sense. He never reads the PDBs and doesn’t listen to anyone who tells him things he doesn’t want to hear, so he would never listen to McGurk. McGurk and the intel community has been saying IS isn’t defeated (Trump declared that it was).

The intel community was warning against a hasty retreat from Syria and Afghanistan, and Trump’s doing both - knowing damned well that the consequences will be felt long after Trump is gone because fewer people will trust the US to be on their side.

They’ll instead look to Russia, China, and others. Our stature is on decline because of Trump’s active measures.

Our allies are fucked, whether they admit it or not. Israel was just thrown under the bus and the skidmarks are showing on Bibi’s back as Trump’s actions in Syria are far more consequential than a symbolic move of embassy to Jerusalem (and that too is not having the results Trump thought - go figure).

William Lewis Dec 23, 2018 • 5:55:33am

Charles, thank you for that bit of music. It was a fine fine fine thing to wake up and put on this morning - an exquisite version of one of the great rock songs. And that solo! Just, thanks.

Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 6:04:39am

Shortparis - Страшно

Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 6:10:33am

IC3PEAK - Смерти Больше Нет

Rocky-in-Connecticut Dec 23, 2018 • 6:20:36am

re: #58 William Lewis

Lol I still remember young Andy Timmons way back in the day (late ’80s) when he played in front of a cardboard sign “Stump the Guitarist” at Denton Tx Fry St Fair and accepting $1 bill tips. Nice guy back then. Sort of a big deal locally when he signed on with the hair metal group Danger Danger at the time.

If someone knows Andy reading this please nudge him a little on the Fry St Fair thing. He’ll probably laugh.

lawhawk Dec 23, 2018 • 6:24:42am

I’m coming for the dragging and staying for the ratio.

The GOP controls: House, Senate, and WH. This is unprecedented in our history for shutdown when same party controls all 3. Trump/GOP have now done this 3x.

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 23, 2018

HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 6:38:21am

re: #62 lawhawk

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Exactly. I’m sorry but the media would be blaming the Dems and only the Dems if they controlled both Houses and the WH. This is on them especially Trump who can’t let go of the wall delusions.

Patricia Kayden Dec 23, 2018 • 6:40:19am

re: #17 Targetpractice

Democrats should just wait until January, pass a bill in the House re-opening the federal government without any money for the idiot wall. The Senate will pass a similar bill and Trump will sign it. And this whole unnecessary drama will be over.,

MsJ Dec 23, 2018 • 6:40:22am

The only way to stop drugs, gangs, human trafficking, criminal elements and much else from coming into our Country is with a Wall or Barrier. Drones and all of the rest are wonderful and lots of fun, but it is only a good old fashioned Wall that works!

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

It’s awake. https://t.co/DTMPc9fJDc

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) December 23, 2018

Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 6:49:20am

re: #57 lawhawk

Trump’s professing he doesn’t know the guy who was running the anti-IS campaign for the US? Then he’s claiming that McGurk is grandstanding by leaving early?

Well.. it makes perfect sense. He never reads the PDBs and doesn’t listen to anyone who tells him things he doesn’t want to hear, so he would never listen to McGurk. McGurk and the intel community has been saying IS isn’t defeated (Trump declared that it was).

The intel community was warning against a hasty retreat from Syria and Afghanistan, and Trump’s doing both - knowing damned well that the consequences will be felt long after Trump is gone because fewer people will trust the US to be on their side.

They’ll instead look to Russia, China, and others. Our stature is on decline because of Trump’s active measures.

Our allies are fucked, whether they admit it or not. Israel was just thrown under the bus and the skidmarks are showing on Bibi’s back as Trump’s actions in Syria are far more consequential than a symbolic move of embassy to Jerusalem (and that too is not having the results Trump thought - go figure).

He probably never even heard the name McGurk. Aren’t his intelligence briefings just one page? There isn’t enough room to give both essential information and identify the key people involved in reaching these decisions.

I do not blame Trump for this; it is the entire GOP establishment who is responsible for the harm he is inflicting on this country and the world. He did not disguise his views when running for the Presidency and they did not care. Once he made clear that he intended to implement those policies, they did not rein him in. McConnell is certainly more intelligent and knowledgeable than Trump’s core base — and except for some occasional pretty words, he has stood aside and let the arsonist burn everything down.

Putin is laughing; his economy may be 1/10th our size but he is achieving his goals, as is every two-bit tyrant on this planet, as we shrink in influence on a daily basis.

The most powerful nation on earth self-destructs because the entire GOP leadership consists of cowards. And the GOP donor class cares only about its pocketbook and nothing about this nation. Though I do wonder when Adelson will abandon the GOP.

The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 6:50:00am

It was CL who alerted me to the Twitter feed of Lee Weissman aka @JihadiJew

Amongst the dregs and garbage of Twitter this is a true diamond.

I met Lee IRL at the Tel Aviv airport in 2015 when we were both heading back to the U.S. after spending Passover with our families in Israel.

There is no point in doing “Interfaith” work if you are not prepared to be inspired and changed by what you learn from others. I am a proud Jewish man and I learn deep and important lessons from Islam that do not damage my faith at all but enhance it.

— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) December 23, 2018

Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 6:53:36am

re: #64 Patricia Kayden

Democrats should just wait until January, pass a bill in the House re-opening the federal government without any money for the idiot wall. The Senate will pass a similar bill and Trump will sign it. And this whole unnecessary drama will be over.,

Will Trump sign it? Will the Republican Senate actually pass it or override his veto? I wouldn’t count on that.

Decatur Deb Dec 23, 2018 • 6:56:34am

re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter

Will Trump sign it? Will the Republican Senate actually pass it or override his veto? I wouldn’t count on that.

If Trump is to go in the next 20 months, he will go with substantial GOP cooperation. We are not there, yet, and I’m not sure it’s worth the price.

wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam Dec 23, 2018 • 6:56:35am

Just came back from the movie theater and a bit of totally fun escapism: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. I recommend it, especially if you’re into both comics and animation. The artwork alone is worth the price of admission.

The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 7:05:40am

THIS THREAD
Read it. Bookmark it.

THREAD: I’m in Jerusalem this week for a @YadVashem seminar for journalists about the Holocaust, its legacy, and the challenges of preserving its memory. As we go, I’m going to be sharing what I’ve learned, especially things that surprised or moved me. Feel free to follow along.

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) December 20, 2018

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 7:10:46am

re: #65 MsJ

The only way to stop drugs, gangs, human trafficking, criminal elements and much else from coming into our Country is with a ~~Wall or Barrier~~. comprehensive reform of our immigration and border control policy, including amnesty for those already established here

MsJ Dec 23, 2018 • 7:10:57am

Epstein Allegedly Directed Second Woman to Have Sex with Harvard Prof. Dershowitz, Court Documents State https://t.co/eocr9TwTfD

— The Harvard Crimson (@thecrimson) December 22, 2018

Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 7:16:31am

re: #71 The Vicious Babushka

He sorta shows he is not up to date on the details when he writes:

This is the first blueprint of Auschwitz-Birkenau. You can see the entire chain of signatories, all the way up to Hitler’s deputy Himmler.

At this point it’s not yet an extermination camp even theoretically and the plan doesn’t have any gas chambers or crematoria. So as far as the Holocaust is concerned, this particular document is not that interesting.

ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 7:16:54am

Morning!

Local NBC political program is doing a retrospect of one John Kasich’s time as governor of Ohio.

In other words going over all the reason to hate the S.O.B.

And now we move on to an even worse individual, if you can believe that. One Mike DeWine. The little creep that has held every damn political office you can. Fuckers been feeding off the public piggy bank forever, and yet his funky backers bitch about establishment politicians and takers and not makers.

Sometimes I just do not get it.

Patricia Kayden Dec 23, 2018 • 7:20:02am

re: #20 Hecuba’s daughter

Yes. McConnell is dumb but he knows that House Democrats have zero incentive to find the fantasy wall.

Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 7:20:53am

молчат дома - танцевать [2018 Russia Post Punk/Sovietwave]

HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 7:23:24am

re: #75 ObserverArt

Morning!

Local NBC political program is doing a retrospect of one John Kasich’s time as governor of Ohio.

In other words going over all the reason to hate the S.O.B.

And now we move on to an even worse individual, if you can believe that. One Mike DeWine. The little creep that has held every damn political office you can. Fuckers been feeding off the public piggy bank forever, and yet his funky backers bitch about establishment politicians and takers and not makers.

Sometimes I just do not get it.

Reminds me of Paul Ryan. Still railing against Washington despite Washington being his paycheck.

NO SMOCKING GUN! Dec 23, 2018 • 7:23:42am

re: #76 Patricia Kayden

Yes. McConnell is dumb but he knows that House Democrats have zero incentive to find the fantasy wall.

McConnell is evil, but he’s not dumb. At some point the government will have to be reopened with little or no wall funding, because Trump has no leverage. His wall is unpopular and he will take the blame for the gov’t shutdown.

The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 7:26:26am

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, someone goes and hides the President’s face in a scientific diagram about poop. https://t.co/PuOU5bNHrS pic.twitter.com/DoTbDe3apN

— snopes.com (@snopes) December 23, 2018

I Would Prefer Not To Dec 23, 2018 • 7:27:04am

Obligatory Birthday Pic

I’m so old, my kids are taking me to brunch. (and paying).

wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam Dec 23, 2018 • 7:28:15am

I feel his pain.

90s R&B is under ATTACK!!! pic.twitter.com/JLhw1emRnP

— Kevín (@KevOnStage) December 22, 2018

ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 7:30:52am

re: #79 NO SMOCKING GUN!

McConnell is evil, but he’s not dumb. At some point the government will have to be reopened with little or no wall funding, because Trump has no leverage. His wall is unpopular and he will take the blame for the gov’t shutdown.

My understanding is the wall has about 30% or less support in this country.

Yeah, we know who those people are. The worst this country has to offer and they follow the worst president this country has ever had.

Heh, local political program is over.

Now I await to see if Joe B. is right…will Hugh Hewitt join Meat The Chuck this morning before I turn it off?

Patricia Kayden Dec 23, 2018 • 7:32:35am

re: #82 wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam

Lol!! Actually they sound alright.

ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 7:32:48am

Boom…there is Hugh.

You were right Joe B!

Ugh.

Patricia Kayden Dec 23, 2018 • 7:33:15am

re: #81 I Would Prefer Not To

Happy B’Day!!

Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 7:35:19am

re: #81 I Would Prefer Not To

Happy Birthday!

Teukka Dec 23, 2018 • 7:36:58am

re: #74 Nyet

He sorta shows he is not up to date on the details when he writes:

At this point it’s not yet an extermination camp even theoretically and the plan doesn’t have any gas chambers or crematoria. So as far as the Holocaust is concerned, this particular document is not that interesting.

I think there is a legit blueprint for a KZ for Sjöbo in Skåne, Sweden. Yeah, the same Sjöbo where the Sweden democrats got 27.7 per cent of the votes…

wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam Dec 23, 2018 • 7:38:31am

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

Lol!! Actually they sound alright.

I’m going with nah. Her rhythm is a bit off, both in singing and dancing. I am not impressed, at all.

Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 7:45:18am

re: #81 I Would Prefer Not To

Obligatory Birthday Pic

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I’m so old, my kids are taking me to brunch. (and paying).

Happy Birthday!!

makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 7:50:56am

re: #81 I Would Prefer Not To

Obligatory Birthday Pic

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I’m so old, my kids are taking me to brunch. (and paying).

Happy Birthday! Enjoy brunch.

wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam Dec 23, 2018 • 7:51:20am

Well, tomorrow here will be Christmas Eve, but no rest for this heathen, as I have work to do. So, I’m signing off till later on sometime.

ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 8:03:02am

re: #81 I Would Prefer Not To

Obligatory Birthday Pic

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I’m so old, my kids are taking me to brunch. (and paying).

Happy Happy B-Day!

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 8:04:37am

Tomorrow’s plans: morning swim at the pool in Ingelheim, then back to make Christmas fajitas and open presents at dusk.

makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 8:06:48am

Good ad, using the words of St. Ronnie, and biting back someone’s campaign slogan.

New video from Defending Democracy Together:
We don’t need a wall, we need a functioning government. pic.twitter.com/OeCQwYv9l0

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) December 22, 2018

makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 8:13:22am

Caroline Orr tallies up the list of senior diplomats who have left government due to Trump’s belligerence and incompetence. Thread.

Brett McGurk, the top diplomat leading the anti-ISIS coalition, joins a growing list of senior diplomats who’ve fled their posts due to Trump’s reckless approach to “foreign policy.”

Other notable exits in 2018:
-Top diplomat, NK policy
-DoS top nuclear expert
-US Amb to Estonia

— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) December 23, 2018

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:13:35am

my congresscritter is an idiot.

The amount is not the point.

This pie is $4000 billion per year. $5 billion represents 5/4000 or 1/800th of this pie. pic.twitter.com/FrDO6I7Q41

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) December 23, 2018

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:16:36am

Massie is also a prick

what do i think is a dumpster fire?
congress that can’t keep gov’t running?
a president beholden to foreign powers?
hell naw.
it’s constituents on twitter who use their dogs as avatars! pic.twitter.com/ChlGSBpSxv

— thomas massie, ideologue™ (@NotThomasMassie) December 23, 2018

Patricia Kayden Dec 23, 2018 • 8:17:02am

Due to the lapse in appropriations, this Twitter feed will not be updated regularly. Please visit @StateDept on Twitter for updates.

— U.S. Embassy Jakarta (@usembassyjkt) December 23, 2018

US Embassy in Jakarta cannot give Anak Krakatau volcano/tsunami updates due to Trump’s shutdown. 🤦🏾‍♂️ https://t.co/U4CEqXHGTl

— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) December 23, 2018

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makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 8:19:51am

Interesting…

There are a million reasons why $5B for a wall is a ludicrous demand to shut down the government over.

But here’s maybe the best one: the 2017/2018 budgets gave Trump billions for border upgrades. He’s spent ALMOST NONE of it. 6%.

How about spending the money you have first?

— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:21:14am

Because of the #TrumpShutdown, millions of survivors who rely on programs funded by the Violence Against Women Act will not have the resources they need to stay safe right before the holidays. Shame on this President. https://t.co/Oi1xvt5JYF

— Rep. Barbara Lee (@RepBarbaraLee) December 23, 2018

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 8:21:54am

re: #85 ObserverArt

Boom…there is Hugh.

You were right Joe B!

Ugh.

Hugh is such a dishonest tool. Actually, there isn’t a single supporter of Trump who isn’t a tool, except for the billionaires using him to advance their economic interest.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:22:15am

Get the money from Mexico, ding dong https://t.co/OfBIv7vPll

— Imani Gandy Cane 🎅🏿🎄🕯 (@AngryBlackLady) December 23, 2018

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The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 8:23:49am

That’s a blank sheet of paper, with more blank sheets of paper piled up on the desk.

Some of the many Bills that I am signing in the Oval Office right now. Cancelled my trip on Air Force One to Florida while we wait to see if the Democrats will help us to protect America’s Southern Border! pic.twitter.com/ws6LYhKcKl

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 21, 2018

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 8:24:46am

This clears it up, I guess. pic.twitter.com/KEIXsOqCxl

— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) December 23, 2018

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 8:26:09am

re: #75 ObserverArt

Morning!

Local NBC political program is doing a retrospect of one John Kasich’s time as governor of Ohio.

In other words going over all the reason to hate the S.O.B.

And now we move on to an even worse individual, if you can believe that. One Mike DeWine. The little creep that has held every damn political office you can. Fuckers been feeding off the public piggy bank forever, and yet his funky backers bitch about establishment politicians and takers and not makers.

Sometimes I just do not get it.

Now watch DeWine double down. He already said he would kill the Medicaid expansion in Ohio. He’s also committed to passing a Right To Work For Less law and he’s go further than Kasich on abortion restrictions.

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steve_davis Dec 23, 2018 • 8:26:17am

re: #68 Hecuba’s daughter

Will Trump sign it? Will the Republican Senate actually pass it or override his veto? I wouldn’t count on that.

the republican senate will have to. if the House under Democrats sends a funding bill to them, and they then refuse to pass it, the shutdown will be on them and them alone. same thing if the house and senate pass it and the president vetoes it. it would be on trump alone, and I doubt his juvenile base will sit still long when the lack of government services actually starts to find them in their daily lives.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 8:26:55am

re: #105 Nyet

Who are these people? But then again, what do you expect from a nation that has tens of millions who support Trump?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:27:21am

a thread about grief that may come in handy:

After what has been a surprisingly okayish Christmas, I had a moment today in SuperStore. Saw a lady who reminded me of my 92yo grandma, who even in the early stages of dementia, completely understood that my mom died.
I thought I’d share the Ball in the Box analogy my Dr told me pic.twitter.com/YfFT26ffU8

— Lauren Herschel (@LaurenHerschel) December 29, 2017

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 8:27:24am

re: #108 Hecuba’s daughter

He’s Canadian.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:29:35am

Well, I’ll be dammed.
Credit: Ace Burpee of the @AceBurpeeShow #MeanwhileInCanada #Christmas pic.twitter.com/6gWLkt4DoE

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) December 23, 2018

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 8:29:39am

Not for everyone.

IC3PEAK - СКАЗКА / FAIRYTALE

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The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 8:31:54am

re: #112 Nyet

Not for everyone.

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Mother of Mouth of Sauron.

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 8:32:34am

re: #107 steve_davis

the republican senate will have to. if the House under Democrats sends a funding bill to them, and they then refuse to pass it, the shutdown will be on them and them alone. same thing if the house and senate pass it and the president vetoes it. it would be on trump alone, and I doubt his juvenile base will sit still long when the lack of government services actually starts to find them in their daily lives.

But most of his base won’t see any effects. We are still getting our Social Security and Medicare checks, the post office is still operating, and planes are still flying. They don’t care and they will blame Schumer; they ignore Trump’s own words — they worship him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:36:40am

Steven Mnuchin is Playing Golf on Cabo San Lucas With Full Secret Service Detail During Trump Government Shutdown https://t.co/yGedOmKwlb #Politics #TodaysHeadlines pic.twitter.com/yJg8xzX6l8

— R. Saddler 📎🗽🌊🌊🌊 (@Politics_PR) December 23, 2018

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 8:37:12am

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

a thread about grief that may come in handy:

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The little ball hit a lot on Friday since that was the day my uncle passed away in 1985…

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ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 8:37:49am

re: #100 makeitstop

Interesting…

How about spending the money you have first?

Because he needs cover and something to keep that base base revved up and screaming for Trump.

This is the epitome of political grandstanding.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:37:51am

‘Very possible’ partial government shutdown goes into 2019, Mulvaney says https://t.co/xw92dvIrvo pic.twitter.com/MeaxlrYM3k

— WCPO (@WCPO) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:42:43am

BREAKING: Administration official: Defense chief Jim Mattis to leave as of Jan. 1, Trump to name deputy Patrick Shanahan as acting secretary.

— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) December 23, 2018

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Teukka Dec 23, 2018 • 8:42:53am

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

a thread about grief that may come in handy:

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Unrolled your thread for easy access. Dealing with grief myself, the death of a woman i seriously considered marrying and starting a family with.
A very useful analogy.
Thank you.

— Teo (@Teukka72) December 23, 2018

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 8:45:31am

re: #120 Teukka

When it comes to my son, I have no grief.

But I have a lot of anger especially at fucking Republicans.

And that anger is increasing…

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 8:48:21am

re: #112 Nyet

For everyone.

King Crimson - Starless (OFFICIAL)

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sagehen Dec 23, 2018 • 8:48:34am

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

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Sounds like 1960’s surf music.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 8:50:55am

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!

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

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jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 8:55:15am

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

Acting President names Acting Cabinet.

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makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 8:55:47am

re: #122 Nyet

For everyone.

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I remember being in the pit at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, seeing them play this live. Some members of the audience had apparently taken mind-altering chemicals. Their reaction was quite interesting.

Also interesting that this track didn’t make it on to the ‘Starless & Bible Black’ album, but instead showed up on ‘Red,’ the following album. John Wetton had intended it to be the title track of ‘S&BB,’ but Fripp and Bruford didn’t like it and it underwent extensive lyrical re-writes before landing on ‘Red.’

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 8:56:17am

Thought Mattis was on until February. I bet he’s going to write a book.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 8:57:04am

re: #122 Nyet

Couldn’t help but notice the horns in that song - it reminded me of this:

Ghost Miasma

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Hecuba's daughter Dec 23, 2018 • 8:58:21am

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Why is anyone surprised by this? Once the Mattis letter was released, anyone with a brain would have known that Mattis was not going to last until his planned exit date. I am just surprised that Mattis is lasting till the end of the year.

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jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 8:58:45am

I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!

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

As the first 73 days after the 2016 election proved, the chaos President can’t manage a smooth transition. Who really thought this would be different? Mattis’ letter hurt his feelings, and he thinks he’s hurting Mattis with an abrupt handover. But it’s not Mattis who will suffer. https://t.co/yTQ0FgICzo

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) December 23, 2018

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ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 8:59:49am

re: #122 Nyet

For everyone.

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Video

Nice tune for a Sunday morning Nyet.

And if I may add to that…A Sailor’s Tale: Robert Fripp guitar & Mellotron, Mel Collins saxes, Boz Burrell Bass, Ian Wallace drums. Appears on Islands (1971)

King Crimson - Sailors Tale (OFFICIAL)

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 9:01:36am

re: #54 Nyet

Also, for those keeping an eye on the alt-right:

This Holocaust denier is networking with the other alt-right personalities, saving just for tabs-keeping. pic.twitter.com/BhQQ7LY4Vl

— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) December 22, 2018

1. One guy on this list is Ry Dawson @RyLiberty https://t.co/H3ImddyPfC

— Confronting Denial (@AgainstDenial) December 23, 2018

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 9:10:04am

Here you may as well turn off the sound, but the video is neat in the mindless entertainment sense.

Ленинград — Золото

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ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 9:12:10am

re: #126 makeitstop

I remember being in the pit at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, seeing them play this live. Some members of the audience had apparently taken mind-altering chemicals. Their reaction was quite interesting.

Also interesting that this track didn’t make it on to the ‘Starless & Bible Black’ album, but instead showed up on ‘Red,’ the following album. John Wetton had intended it to be the title track of ‘S&BB,’ but Fripp and Bruford didn’t like it and it underwent extensive lyrical re-writes before landing on ‘Red.’

I saw them in ‘74 on their American leg of Starless & Bible Black tour at Veteran’s Memorial here in Columbus. One of the greatest shows of the many great shows I have seen.

And they made Vet’s sound fantastic…which so many “electric” bands never accomplished. They had very little in equipment on stage…and a smallish PA that resembled 4 big stereo cabinets on each side. They let the buildings acoustics do the job and it was unbelievable how great it sounded.

Damn great band and Bill Buford remains one of my idols as a drummer. So clean and perfect and he had such great time signatures. And, Robert Fripp is a guitar god!!! Of course they were all fantastic musicians.

I think the only thing Fripp said all night was about the middle of the show he stood, went to the mic and asked if we liked it so far? Fuck yeah we did!

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Nyet Dec 23, 2018 • 9:18:03am

re: #133 Nyet

And this is just weirdly funny.

LITTLE BIG & РУКИ ВВЕРХ! - СЛЭМЯТСЯ ПАЦАНЫ

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Mattand Dec 23, 2018 • 9:20:02am

re: #126 makeitstop

I remember being in the pit at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, seeing them play this live. Some members of the audience had apparently taken mind-altering chemicals. Their reaction was quite interesting.

That place was great for sports, but God, it could be a real crap hole for live music, depending on where you were sitting.

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The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 9:20:37am

Sleep well Lizards!

Mattis reportedly told the commander of the Strategic Command to keep him directly informed of any event that might lead to a nuclear alert being sent to the president. He even told the commander “not to put on a pot of coffee without letting him know.” https://t.co/lKfhtoDgUQ

— Dan Zak (@MrDanZak) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 9:22:45am

moron

I just had a long and productive call with President @RT_Erdogan of Turkey. We discussed ISIS, our mutual involvement in Syria, & the slow & highly coordinated pullout of U.S. troops from the area. After many years they are coming home. We also discussed heavily expanded Trade.

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

Unthinkable devastation from the tsunami disaster in Indonesia. More than two hundred dead and nearly a thousand injured or unaccounted for. We are praying for recovery and healing. America is with you!

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

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ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 9:22:48am

re: #137 The Vicious Babushka

Sleep well Lizards!

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Yeesh…our greatest fear.

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makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 9:23:49am

re: #131 ObserverArt

Nice tune for a Sunday morning Nyet.

And if I may add to that…A Sailor’s Tale: Robert Fripp guitar & Mellotron, Mel Collins saxes, Boz Burrell Bass, Ian Wallace drums. Appears on Islands (1971)

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Strange bedfellows department - Boz Burrell went from playing bass in what was probably the preeminent prog outfit to joining Bad Company. Dude had range.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 9:24:22am

Just in time for public testimony before the newly Dem-controlled House Armed Services committee. https://t.co/PStYd4Pfak

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) December 23, 2018

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 9:26:12am

re: #140 makeitstop

Strange bedfellows department - Boz Burrell went from playing bass in what was probably the preeminent prog outfit to joining Bad Company. Dude had range.

From what I understand, he was pretty much just a hired hand after Greg Lake quit KC to start Emerson, Lake and Palmer.

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makeitstop Dec 23, 2018 • 9:26:25am

re: #136 Mattand

That place was great for sports, but God, it could be a real crap hole for live music, depending on where you were sitting.

I saw Grand Funk Railroad there. If ever there was a definition of ‘hot mess,’ it was the mix for that show.

A reviewer for Rolling Stone said their live sound was the equivalent of the world’s loudest transistor radio. He wasn’t wrong.

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plansbandc Dec 23, 2018 • 9:31:13am

re: #81 I Would Prefer Not To

Happy Birthday on Christmas Eve Eve!

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ObserverArt Dec 23, 2018 • 9:32:50am

re: #140 makeitstop

Strange bedfellows department - Boz Burrell went from playing bass in what was probably the preeminent prog outfit to joining Bad Company. Dude had range.

Heh. I was going to note that but decided not to.

Sadly Boz had some issues with heavy substance abuse. It may have led to his early demise.

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Mattand Dec 23, 2018 • 9:34:01am

re: #143 makeitstop

I saw Grand Funk Railroad there. If ever there was a definition of ‘hot mess,’ it was the mix for that show.

A reviewer for Rolling Stone said their live sound was the equivalent of the world’s loudest transistor radio. He wasn’t wrong.

I found that being on the floor yielded good results, but the closer you got to the walls, you could hear a distinct tinny echo.

Along the Grand Funk lines, a buddy of mine saw the Animals and Steppenwolf there in ‘83, I think. He said that Steppenwolf sounded fantastic. Unfortunately, Eric Burdon’s voice was shot for the Animals’ set, so the sound guys compensated by turning everything up to 11. My friend said it was an unholy cacophony.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 9:39:50am

Trump speeds up Mattis’s departure significantly. Aides say he had not realized how critical the defense secretary’s resignation letter was until coverage started playing out on television. https://t.co/PdTaUUaFnj

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) December 23, 2018

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jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 9:40:21am

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

We also discussed heavily expanded Trade.

Because after pissing off Canada and Mexico, what’s a more natural trade partner for the U.S. but Turkey.

149

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 9:42:15am

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Aides say he had not realized how critical the defense secretary’s resignation letter was until coverage started playing out on television.”

Why is this stupid orange fuck still our President?

150

jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 9:43:13am

Now that there’s a Russian navy base in Latakia, why not tie a bunch of trade to Mediterranean shipping routes?

151

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 9:44:44am

This is astounding. A dictator cons the supposed leader of the free world… https://t.co/reQZ6FVwjz

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) December 23, 2018

152

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 9:46:25am

“Slow and highly coordinated” https://t.co/elVtFh2VMH

— Evan Pérez (@evanperez) December 23, 2018

153

jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 9:47:19am

I’ve lost track of how many times we’ve heard Trump thinking he did great until he turned on the TV.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) December 23, 2018

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Belafon Dec 23, 2018 • 9:50:02am

re: #97 Backwoods_Sleuth

my congresscritter is an idiot.

The amount is not the point.

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If the government gives $100M towards setting up a facility for cooking and eating children, would you be ok with it because it’s a small fraction of the US budget?

— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) December 23, 2018

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 9:51:00am

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump speeds up Mattis’s departure significantly. Aides say he had not realized how critical the defense secretary’s resignation letter was until coverage started playing out on television.

In other words, he did not even read it.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 9:52:49am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

In other words, he did not even read it.

I doubt it would’ve made much difference even if Trump had read it. He’s semi-literate and he wouldn’t have understood it anyway.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 9:53:53am

re: #154 Belafon

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Not paying Secret Service agents?

That’s not such a great idea, Massie. Gives them an incentive to slack off on the job…

158

PhillyPretzel Dec 23, 2018 • 9:57:56am

All of this talk of Mattis resigning and there are planes flying overhead in NE Philly. It is very unnerving.

159

The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 10:01:26am

MATH IS HARD!!!

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Belafon Dec 23, 2018 • 10:03:55am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

MATH IS HARD!!!

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Was it deleted? I was hoping to read the comments.

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The Vicious Babushka Dec 23, 2018 • 10:07:02am

re: #160 Belafon

Was it deleted? I was hoping to read the comments.

I don’t know. You will have to search Deplorable’s timeline.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:19:58am

And lo I saw a Dark Rider on a pale horse, and the rider was Death. pic.twitter.com/0gJZ1buV3N

— Welcome To Nature (@welcomet0nature) December 22, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:21:23am

Yeah, most of his 7000 lies and misrepresentations don’t matter. And covering for Putin’s attack on a US election, no biggie, right? https://t.co/39i1vvL327

— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) December 23, 2018

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Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 10:22:57am

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I was right. He picked the idiot.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 10:26:53am

I’m not entirely sure if this is snark or not

Say what you will about Bumblebee director Travis Knight, but he paid his dues. In his humble beginnings 2 yrs ago he directed a movie because his father, the founder of Nike, owned the studio, and now he’s made “the actually good transformers movie” and is the toast of Hollywood

— Mike Pearl (@MikeLeePearl) December 23, 2018

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De Kolta Chair Dec 23, 2018 • 10:27:28am

re: #124 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 10:27:37am

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

Precisely what we expect to hear from a stooge who works for TASS, er, 19th Century Fox who will lie any lie for the Communist, er, Republican Party!

— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) December 23, 2018

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 10:27:48am

Thank you all for the well wishes, I’ll be attending Harvard in the fall with a planned major in Political Science.

— David Hogg (@davidhogg111) December 22, 2018

75% of Harvard students score over a 1470 on their SAT with the bottom 25% averaging just over 1400. You really need over a 1470 to be considered.

David Hogg’s SAT score was 1270.

He was denied to UCLA, UC San Diego, and UC Irvine, where a 1240 places you above average. https://t.co/wfpQkHOCxA

— Caleb Hull 🎅🏼🌲🎁 (@CalebJHull) December 22, 2018

.@Harvard just made a mockery of itself.

Over politics. https://t.co/o59mvQPDRR

— Sebastian Gorka DrG (@SebGorka) December 23, 2018

I was wondering why I didn’t get into @Harvard. At first I thought it was my 1080 SAT score. But maybe it was my essay “Why I joined the @NRA” that sealed the deal. https://t.co/5o8sN0gwZ6

— Grant Stinchfield (@stinchfield1776) December 23, 2018

Looks like it could’ve been your lack of self-awareness https://t.co/TRp0BSRPqQ

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) December 23, 2018

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Colère Tueur de Lapin Dec 23, 2018 • 10:28:50am

re: #164 Single-handed sailor

I was right. He picked the idiot.

Didn’t he pick the corporate stooge?

“Do what I say and Boeing gets all the money and when you go back, you’re rich.”

The freezers are all giggly about Mattis leaving early. They’re also going down the “dumbfuck fired him, but gave him an out ‘cause he’s a respected general.”

170

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 10:31:53am

Bwahahahahaha.

Jesusbot relative sends me e-mail—Mathis was blocking Trump from enabling Armageddon…

Jesusbot has been ODing on the Welch’s Grape Juice at communion…

171

Ace Rothstein Dec 23, 2018 • 10:33:56am

re: #73 MsJ

If they’re under the age of eighteen, it’s not sex it’s rape.

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Patricia Kayden Dec 23, 2018 • 10:35:23am

re: #170 Joe Bacon 🌹

Why does your relative want Armageddon?

173

dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 10:39:27am

Good afternoon Sunday lizards

Today was my last 20 miler for a while
We begin reducing our running as we close in on the Dopey challenge.

After all the training we have done it’s actually looking a lot less dopey. Still a big deal. One that now seems actually doable.

It was 21 degrees at 5am here in NJ. That made for an interesting 3+ hours. 3 shirts, tights and wind pants, balaclava, gloves. eating and drinking require some thought and planning.

4 days and I miss Florida weather already. We’re back tomorrow.

Including today I have run 62 days in a row.
At least 6.2 miles a day
some days like today up to 20.

For lunch there will be beer. Dinner too.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 10:39:31am

re: #172 Patricia Kayden

Why does your relative want Armageddon?

I have a whole bunch of Jesusbot relatives who can’t wait to be raptured. Including a couple relatives who wouldn’t go to college because it was a waste of time since JC is going to turn on the Holy Hoover Vacuum Cleaner any day now…and they’ve been uttering this BS ever since 1980 when Greece joined the Common Market and became…”the tenth toe in the statue” indicating the Rapture was imminent…

175

dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 10:40:15am

re: #156 Dr Lizardo

I doubt it would’ve made much difference even if Trump had read it. He’s semi-literate and he wouldn’t have understood it anyway.

176

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 10:44:41am

So what’s the deal with Hogg anyway?

Harvard accepted him despite low test scores because they are also considering character and experience and all of that?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:47:32am

sad…

Trump has been forced to hire former Bush officials as his staff leave, despite previously mocking them https://t.co/j8Evax9pqT pic.twitter.com/ni9hToOPCm

— Newsweek (@Newsweek) December 23, 2018

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PhillyPretzel Dec 23, 2018 • 10:51:29am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is his problem. DT opened up his mouth too soon.

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 10:52:41am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

sad…

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“Since taking office he has often expressed suspicion towards officials in his administration with ties to past Bush White Houses, questioning their loyalty and dedication to his policies,” wrote Politico.

Kiss the ring, motherfucker! Kiss it!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:53:38am

CBS News’ David Martin: President Trump was apparently angered by Defense Secretary James Mattis rebuking him in resignation letter. Trump’s immediate dismissal of the defense secretary “effectively turns Secretary Mattis’ resignation into a firing” https://t.co/6V5FCWeTvt pic.twitter.com/Vexn6nMFgJ

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 23, 2018

You can’t quit, I’m firing you!
O_o

181

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 10:53:48am

Hitler is melting down in his bunker again.

182

Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 10:54:53am

Laughing at the absurdity of Republican politicians giving off-the-record statements that the departure of Mattis is somehow more serious than the rest of the unrelenting clusterfuck that is the Trump administration. If it’s that bad, go on the record, you cowards.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:55:05am

Mattis given an early boot…and now more evidence of the ongoing chaos at the WH… pic.twitter.com/x5LFshr7Hr

— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) December 23, 2018

cowards

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jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 10:55:11am

re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Yes, why would Harvard let in a Political Science major who made political history while still in high school?

185

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:56:45am

President @realDonaldTrump is calling respected diplomat Brett McGurk a grandstander?

Oh, 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦. https://t.co/x91EUZs9xQ

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 23, 2018

186

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:57:30am

Trump’s presidency is spinning out of control. Yet there’s no glee in that, for we are all in the plane that he can’t pilot. https://t.co/JG8qZxYIWz

— Nicholas Kristof (@NickKristof) December 23, 2018

187

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:58:13am

Some of us were exactly correct re: Assange, Bernie, Greenwald, Snowden at least 5 yrs ago. I and several others were routinely trolled, especially by the left, for our skepticism regarding all four. I don’t expect or demand any apologies and, weirdly, I wish I had been wrong.

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) December 23, 2018

188

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 10:59:31am

Republican Sen. Bob Corker on shutdown: “This is a made-up fight, so the President can look like he’s fighting” https://t.co/APgOdh9hah pic.twitter.com/4CRNwJZ63a

— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 23, 2018

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PhillyPretzel Dec 23, 2018 • 11:00:08am

re: #188 Backwoods_Sleuth

Exactly.

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plansbandc Dec 23, 2018 • 11:00:18am

pic.twitter.com/Nz21cdwswG

— Rach Raker (@rachaelraker) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:01:23am

Nobody does antisemitism in Britain quite like the Daily Mail. https://t.co/gHWX92s18V

— Voyage Around My Dad, Harry Leslie Smith (@Harryslaststand) December 23, 2018

192

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:01:34am

I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!

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

favorability ratings of Trump vs Mattis, among active-duty service-members, in survey conducted by @MilitaryTimes Sep/Oct this year. https://t.co/mWqkCf58I9 pic.twitter.com/lerwr4Y9Dn

— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) December 23, 2018

https://t.co/NXpM3WdWv2

— WB Young 🍕🐀 (@FormerDirtDart) December 23, 2018

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Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 11:02:43am

I hope he is consulting with Special Envoy James Jeffrey who was recently appointed to oversee our support for a political process in Syria. With no more skin or $$ in the game, I fear Amb. Jeffrey could share Brett’s view that he can no longer carry out POTUS policy.

— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) December 23, 2018

It also indicates how many ISIS briefings @potus actually received or paid attn to bc Brett should have been the one giving them. Either POTUS never got them, doesn’t remember them or is just ok messaging that he doesn’t know his own envoy because he’s upset Brett is leaving.

— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) December 23, 2018

👇🏽What it means that Trump “didn’t know” the U.S. envoy to the global coalition against ISIS. But he knows ISIS has been defeated. But Russia is still mad. But…never mind this whole thing is so stupid and scary https://t.co/oFA88bgypE

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) December 23, 2018

Take a minute and read about the range of missions the Global Coalition against ISIS performs - if the coalition crumbles, that could diminish efforts to counter ISIS propaganda and radicalization online https://t.co/cQAkyuTjzz

— Sam Vinograd (@sam_vinograd) December 23, 2018

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mmmirele Dec 23, 2018 • 11:03:33am

re: #176 Eclectic Cyborg

So what’s the deal with Hogg anyway?

Harvard accepted him despite low test scores because they are also considering character and experience and all of that?

I wouldn’t say his test scores were low. I got my government degree from UT Austin even though my high school grades were horrible and my math score on the ACT (which I only took to get placed in junior college) was an abysmal 12 out of 36. This did not stop me from making straight As at the JC and then transferring in to UT Austin. You know, like what “Becky with the bad grades” (Abigail Fisher) was told to do. I then went on to law school and graduated. *rolls eyes*

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:04:19am

jeebus

Damnn, you mean to tell me that not one officer feared for their life🤔 This took place in *Pulaski County, Arkansas* 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾 pic.twitter.com/CzsSUMGzGZ

— Jimmy ✊🏾 #PowerToThePeople (@jwheels74) December 23, 2018

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PhillyPretzel Dec 23, 2018 • 11:05:26am

re: #194 mmmirele

I understand. I had lousy SAT scores. I went to Community College of Philadelphia then transferred to La Salle University where I graduated.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:07:09am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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Sure looks like another case of White Privilege to me…

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Ace Rothstein Dec 23, 2018 • 11:07:09am

The market is going to tank tomorrow. -800, minimum.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:07:32am

A festive fox overjoyed with a dog’s toy..❄ pic.twitter.com/0N8i6BbDvH

— P. A. Pourgourides (@PPourgourides) December 23, 2018

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mmmirele Dec 23, 2018 • 11:07:32am

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus

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Here’s some more on this story. Apparently he also bit one of the deputies. The deputies tried to taser him but weren’t successful.

fox16.com

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:09:37am

re: #198 Ace Rothstein

The market is going to tank tomorrow. -800, minimum.

^VIX currently at 30.11. When it goes past 40 it’s meltdown time. In the 1987 meltdown it went to 125 for an hour.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 11:09:44am

re: #178 PhillyPretzel

That is his problem. DT opened up his mouth ~~too soon~~.

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mmmirele Dec 23, 2018 • 11:10:33am

re: #198 Ace Rothstein

The market is going to tank tomorrow. -800, minimum.

Still won’t be the worst day evah on the NYSE. There are four days above it, all from this year.

en.wikipedia.org

Question: Is that before or after Trump cans Powell?

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PhillyPretzel Dec 23, 2018 • 11:10:41am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

You are right. Thanks for the correction. :)

205

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Dec 23, 2018 • 11:10:44am

re: #182 Charles Johnson

Laughing at the absurdity of Republican politicians giving off-the-record statements that the departure of Mattis is somehow more serious than the rest of the unrelenting clusterfuck that is the Trump administration. If it’s that bad, go on the record, you cowards.

I see it as a sign that they are starting to work up the courage to finally act on their sentiments.

206

dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 11:11:23am

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

“Since taking office he has often expressed suspicion towards officials in his administration with ties to past Bush White Houses, questioning their loyalty and dedication to his policies,” wrote Politico.

Kiss the ring, motherfucker! Kiss it!

Like he feels about Obama’s team

207

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

.@SenJohnMcCain: “Do not do that again Mr. Shanahan or I will not take your name up for a vote before this committee. Am I perfectly clear?” pic.twitter.com/JNpIBkb9yB

— CSPAN (@cspan) June 20, 2017

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:12:11am

re: #205 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I see it as a sign that they are starting to work up the courage to finally act on their sentiments.

No they’re scared #2 less because they know what Kompromat Putin has on them and they’re afraid he’s going to leak those Republican e-mails this time without an assist from ASSange and WikiFINKS!

209

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 11:12:44am

re: #201 Joe Bacon 🌹

^VIX currently at 30.11. When it goes past 40 it’s meltdown time. In the 1987 meltdown it went to 125 for an hour.

I wonder how those wealthy Republican donors will feel with the value of their companies takes a giant shit?

210

ckkatz Dec 23, 2018 • 11:13:07am

re: #59 Nyet

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Video

I know that I would benefit from a little context regarding this video. I do not understand either the spoken or written language. Nor am I familiar with the group, the cultural context, or the story line presented in the video.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 11:13:40am

re: #203 mmmirele

Still won’t be the worst day evah on the NYSE. There are four days above it, all from this year.

en.wikipedia.org

Question: Is that before or after Trump cans Powell?

If that happens, it’s gonna be a straight-up Chernobyl meltdown on the NYSE.

212

Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 11:15:29am

We’re going into recession in the New Year, aren’t we?

213

Ace Rothstein Dec 23, 2018 • 11:18:09am

re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes.

214

Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 11:18:10am

I was viciously and dishonestly smeared by Greenwald himself, to his hundreds of thousands of followers. There will never be apologies from this crowd for anything, because they’re as narcissistic as Donald Trump.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:19:01am

so glad we didn’t elect the emails lady https://t.co/MF0inKELeK

— Susan J. Demas 🏔 (@sjdemas) December 23, 2018

216

Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 11:20:11am

But did it fix the hemorrhoids?

A medical treatment for hemorrhoids in the Middle Ages involved inserting a hot iron poker into the rectum of the patient pic.twitter.com/eonBQIiI3W

— 41 Strange (@41Strange) December 23, 2018

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:20:13am

re: #209 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder how those wealthy Republican donors will feel with the value of their companies takes a giant shit?

Another factor coming into play is what I’ve been predicting all along—foreigners are dumping American stocks. They won’t stop there. They are starting to refuse buying Treasury securities to finance the debt.

Remember that coming down the track is the debt ceiling by Spring. If the Republicans can’t get their #2 together in the Senate and force default you will see a China syndrome in the stock markets.

Imagine all the folks who hold US Savings Bonds and Trump fucks them by redeeming a penny for every thousand dollars…That’s probably what will happen when the GOP defaults on the debt.

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 11:21:30am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He cares only about 2 things
-his self perceived image
-tweeting

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:22:28am

re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg

We’re going into recession in the New Year, aren’t we?

If we’re lucky…

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Eventual Carrion Dec 23, 2018 • 11:23:37am

re: #216 Charles Johnson

But did it fix the hemorrhoids?

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Rectum? Damn near killed him!

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Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 11:23:43am

re: #217 Joe Bacon 🌹

It’ll make the 1929 Wall Street Crash look like a picnic.

222

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:24:35am

lol

Is this the part where I get to explain that while I follow him…he does not follow me and therefore I cannot send him a private message? Anywho, @DirkSchwenk has agreed to accept service on my behalf. #Discovery https://t.co/lu2ROUiZTo

— Claude Taylor (@TrueFactsStated) December 23, 2018

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jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 11:24:58am

I am pleased to announce that our very talented Deputy Secretary of Defense, Patrick Shanahan, will assume the title of Acting Secretary of Defense starting January 1, 2019. Patrick has a long list of accomplishments while serving as Deputy, & previously Boeing. He will be great!

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

I am pleased to announce that our very talented (fill in the blank) will assume the duties of the more talented (fill in the blank) until they are in turned replaced by the still less talented (fill in the blank). He will be great! https://t.co/zRH5fplb1Q

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) December 23, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 11:26:40am

re: #223 jaunte

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Just like Candidate A is great on the borders, veterans, & the second amendment.

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 11:27:05am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

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We have a child as potus.

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Ace Rothstein Dec 23, 2018 • 11:27:55am

re: #225 HappyWarrior

And a criminal.

227

plansbandc Dec 23, 2018 • 11:29:36am

re: #226 Ace Rothstein

And a moron.

And utterly unstable too.

This is not going to end well for any of us.

228

jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 11:29:50am

re: #225 HappyWarrior

Poor Impulse Control should be tattooed on his forehead.

229

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:30:30am

Bette warns us…

Fasten Your Seatbelts… “All About Eve” (1950)

230

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:32:34am

poor MsThang…

Back in smelly NYC again for the pizza and Christmas trees. Maybe if you spent more time cleaning up the streets instead of confiscating guns, they wouldn’t smell like piss. pic.twitter.com/mfcTh0oHK0

— Kaitlin Bennett (@KaitMarieox) December 22, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 11:33:20am

re: #226 Ace Rothstein

And a criminal.

I had to bite my tongue since my Mom’s cousin- a Trumper visited this morning. My Dad tried goading by bringing up the cabinet exodus. He didn’t say anything but my grandmother told him that we all don’t like Trump here.

232

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:34:12am

Surface Tension … really Awesome !! 🏍️👇🏼😎 pic.twitter.com/FqhuJdrjKU

— Stefano S. Magi (@StefanodocSM) December 23, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 11:35:25am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

poor MsThang…

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I can’t even get upset since this is such a pathetic look at me cry. New York was doing fine without you Kaitlin and it’s going to after you leave too. Btw if you want a smelly place, try a gun manufacturering center or where Trump wants coal.

234

Joe Bacon 🌹 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:35:57am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

poor MsThang…

So somebody is into Golden Showers…

235

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:36:27am

We’re going to overcome this border wall & Trump’s immigration policies—with escalators, ladders, or expanded legal services for all migrants so they get the representation needed to navigate our kafkaesque immigration system.

✊✊✊ https://t.co/7qQU0JgDui

— RAICES (@RAICESTEXAS) December 23, 2018

236

Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 11:37:55am

You’re familiar with his background as one of the nastiest far right trolls on Twitter, right? This kind of tinpot authoritarianism is how he got the job.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

237

Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 11:39:20am

.@GillianHTurner says media weren’t initially enamored of Jim Mattis but made him a hero because he’s leaving while protesting President Trump’s policies #Mediabuzz https://t.co/fSQFgLVhIr

— HowardKurtz (@HowardKurtz) December 23, 2018

This is such a stupid take. https://t.co/7KLGuh089t

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 11:40:11am

re: #237 Charles Johnson

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Incredibly. The media has always liked Mattis.

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 11:41:35am

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Surface Tension … really Awesome/blockquote>

Or he knows where all the rocks are

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Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 11:46:08am

Just two days before Trump announced his decision to exit Syria, his special representative for Syria engagement delivered a high-profile speech forecasting a sustained U.S. role in the Arab country https://t.co/lmzxEb0Dqn

— POLITICO (@politico) December 23, 2018

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Teukka Dec 23, 2018 • 11:46:47am

re: #212 Eclectic Cyborg

We’re going into recession in the New Year, aren’t we?

re: #213 Ace Rothstein

Yes.

re: #219 Joe Bacon 🌹

If we’re lucky…

Looking at a chart of income inequality (the 1% vs. the 99%) chart upthread or was it the previous thread or some other tweet I saw, the only other time it was anywhere near as great as now was just prior to the great depression… So, Great Depression II, or the Greater/Greatest Depression would not be totally inconceivable.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:46:51am

“This is a manhood measurement for Trump,” @RepJohnYarmuth tells @AlexWitt about Trump’s border wall demands.

— Jackie Alemany (@JaxAlemany) December 23, 2018

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goddamnedfrank Dec 23, 2018 • 11:48:16am

Ryan could have held a vote on the clean CR the Senate already passed. Instead he chose to cave into Trump’s demands. This was entirely optional on Ryan’s part, if he wanted to go out with some semblance of dignity he would have allowed the CR to pass and forced Trump to veto it.

— Very Legal & Very Cool Frank (@goddamnedfrank) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:50:06am

moron

We signed two pieces of major legislation this week, Criminal Justice Reform and the Farm Bill. These are two Big Deals, but all the Fake News Media wants to talk about is “the mistake” of bringing our young people back home from the Never Ending Wars. It all began 19 years ago!

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

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Teukka Dec 23, 2018 • 11:50:35am

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

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IOW, a penile length contest?

*sighs*

You know how penile length contests 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 end?
With someone totally unexpected coming out of nowhere, whipping his out and making the others cry…

— Teo (@Teukka72) December 23, 2018

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 11:51:41am

“This is a manhood measurement for Trump.”

Says the latest dispatch from the No shit, sherlock department.

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 11:52:05am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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Mattis thinks it was a mistake as do people who actually read rather than idiot like you who doesn’t know Syria from Syrianna starring George Clooney.

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 11:52:35am

All this shit and Trump hasn’t even been President for 2 years yet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:54:56am

Glad everyone is remembering the most important thing @realDonaldTrump said about the wall:
“Mexico will pay for the wall.” https://t.co/FwdydwoRIw

— Lawrence O’Donnell (@Lawrence) December 23, 2018

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 11:57:03am

I believe we have the 2018 “Florida Man” winner
I’m gonna hide it, as it deserves a Grand Reveal

Click to Reveal

Florida Man bites off his brother’s penis after he walks in on his brother having sex with his cousin on his favorite Dragon Ball Z blanket https://t.co/IlPqziUUEm pic.twitter.com/CEFcDMN6ao

— Florida Man (@FloridaMan__) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:57:29am

he’s watching teevee

Senator Bob Corker just stated that, “I’m so priveledged to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our state that’s what I’d do, serve for two terms.” But that is Not True - wanted to run but poll numbers TANKED when I wouldn’t endorse him…..

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

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Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 11:57:39am

Two states? I wonder why nobody thought of that before.

Trump’s “Deal of the Century” peace plan will include a Palestinian state, Israeli minister says https://t.co/Eu1hx0G91I

— Bloomberg (@business) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 11:58:29am

priveledged

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 11:59:29am

re: #250 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I believe we have the 2018 “Florida Man” winner
I’m gonna hide it, as it deserves a Grand Reveal

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There’s uh, a lot going on there.

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Jay C Dec 23, 2018 • 12:00:32pm

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

poor MsThang…

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Geez, GunGirl is an imbecile!

1. If NYC is so “smelly” and dirty, WTH does she keep coming here? Looking for work (good luck with that!) ?

2. Nobody in NY “confiscates guns” any more than they absolutely have to (like when they catch criminals with them)? We do take our permit/legal-possession rules a bit more seriously than say, West Armpit, IN, but if that pisses Kaitlin off, there is plenty of transportation out of town…

3. “Smelly NYC”?? I moved to the Big Apple in 1977 (probably before Kaitlin’s parents were born) - if she thinks the City is grubby now, she should have been here in the Summer of Sam - especially in the Times Square area where she’s posing….

Aren’t her 15 minutes up yet?

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mmmirele Dec 23, 2018 • 12:02:47pm

re: #254 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s uh, a lot going on there.

This isn’t real. I’m a follower of Florida Man stories and I would have remembered this one.

No, this ‘Florida story’ isn’t real. Stop sharing it….you’re better than that.

At first glance, you should honestly realize that ‘CNN Miami’ isn’t a real thing….let alone the fact that it’s not a verified account and only has a few thousand followers and is actually labeled as a ‘parody account’ when you click on the Twitter page.

There’s no link to a real news site with a real write up on the incident, it’s just text with a random picture of a guy that looks kind of crazy.

961kiss.iheart.com

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 12:02:55pm

re: #255 Jay C

They were up awhile ago but she is apparently refusing to accept it.

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Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 12:05:47pm

The real victims of the #TrumpShutdown are whatever couple is getting married at Mar-A-Lago this week and were counting on a Trump drop-in and now are only getting a tipsy Newt Gingrich.

— Jeremy Newberger (@jeremynewberger) December 23, 2018

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Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 12:07:03pm

Senator Bob Corker just stated that, “I’m so priveledged to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our state that’s what I’d do, serve for two terms.” But that is Not True - wanted to run but poll numbers TANKED when I wouldn’t endorse him…..

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

Just another rant from our illiterate Manbaby in Chief.

“Priveledged.” https://t.co/AamcN8V11s

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 12:07:29pm

re: #256 mmmirele

This isn’t real. I’m a follower of Florida Man stories and I would have remembered this one.

961kiss.iheart.com

Oddly, I’m a bit disappointed it isn’t real

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Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 12:12:47pm

Any bets on how long before somebody tells him he made a ridiculously embarrassing mistake? (And is there anybody left who’ll tell him?)

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

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Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea Dec 23, 2018 • 12:13:01pm

re: #250 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I don’t care if its fiction. I can hear the Werner Herzog narration in my head.

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 12:13:09pm

re: #260 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Oddly, I’m a bit disappointed it isn’t real

Same

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:13:55pm

re: #261 Charles Johnson

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is there anyone left who will tell him?

Incoming acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney: “You’re not the chief of the president, you are the chief of staff. You’re not going to change the way the president behaves, the president thinks, the president operates.” https://t.co/3ytunsuT52 pic.twitter.com/2HC3tgmeHw

— ABC News (@ABC) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:15:09pm

We don’t need a government shutdown, we need a Presidential shut up.

— Paul Lander (@paul_lander) December 23, 2018

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 12:18:46pm

re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The first two no…behaves or thinks of course not

The third absoluyly yes. How he operates is your fucking job

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 12:20:36pm

Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited recalls Losartan blood pressure medication after trace amounts of cancer-causing chemical are found https://t.co/Bfhk77mRP8 pic.twitter.com/hOrEUEaxt3

— CBS News (@CBSNews) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:21:54pm

good grief

…..Bob Corker was responsible for giving us the horrible Iran Nuclear Deal, which I ended, yet he badmouths me for wanting to bring our young people safely back home. Bob wanted to run and asked for my endorsement. I said NO and the game was over. #MAGA I LOVE TENNESSEE!

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

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sagehen Dec 23, 2018 • 12:22:37pm

re: #255 Jay C

Geez, GunGirl is an imbecile!

1. If NYC is so “smelly” and dirty, WTH does she keep coming here? Looking for work (good luck with that!) ?

2. Nobody in NY “confiscates guns” any more than they absolutely have to (like when they catch criminals with them)? We do take our permit/legal-possession rules a bit more seriously than say, West Armpit, IN, but if that pisses Kaitlin off, there is plenty of transportation out of town…

3. “Smelly NYC”?? I moved to the Big Apple in 1977 (probably before Kaitlin’s parents were born) - if she thinks the City is grubby now, she should have been here in the Summer of Sam - especially in the Times Square area where she’s posing….

Aren’t her 15 minutes up yet?

So let’s take a rough count of how many licensed, fully-legal firearms there may be in NYC.

NYPD — 35,000 officers. That’s an army.
FBI — a few thousand
consulates all have their own armed security
There’s professional full-time armed security at every office building, bank, department store, jewelry store, hotel.
There’s a licensed weapon under the counter at every bodega and/or liquor store and most of the delis (and probably 1/4 of the food carts).
There’s a licensed weapon in the glove compartment of each of the 20,000 cabs and livery cars (and probably a high percentage of the Uber and Lyft vehicles)
Hundreds of thousands in people’s homes.

Before we got serious about gun control (early 90’s), there used to be more than 2,000 homicides in NYC every year. Now… it’s less than 400.

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Dr Lizardo Dec 23, 2018 • 12:23:12pm

re: #267 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

“Now this here medication will reduce your blood pressure. On the down side, it might give you cancer.”

“Uh…..well, what’s the upside?”

“Well, with cancer, high blood pressure will be the least of your worries!”

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 12:23:36pm

#huricanemichael #HurricaneMichael

WHO MADE THIS..???? pic.twitter.com/xin2vNL3qa

— The Invisible Man (@invisibleman_17) October 10, 2018

Turn your volume up

LOUD https://t.co/wifLrlgujw

— Think Defence (@thinkdefence) December 23, 2018

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 12:25:03pm

re: #269 sagehen

So let’s take a rough count of how many licensed, fully-legal firearms there may be in NYC.

NYPD — 35,000 officers. That’s an army.
FBI — a few thousand
consulates all have their own armed security
There’s professional full-time armed security at every office building, bank, department store, jewelry store, hotel.
There’s a licensed weapon under the counter at every bodega and/or liquor store and most of the delis (and probably 1/4 of the food carts).
There’s a licensed weapon in the glove compartment of each of the 20,000 cabs and livery cars (and probably a high percentage of the Uber and Lyft vehicles)
Hundreds of thousands in people’s homes.

Before we got serious about gun control (early 90’s), there used to be more than 2,000 homicides in NYC every year. Now… it’s less than 400.

That is a very good approach to an estimation

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:25:21pm

“can i interest u in some….. car insurance?” pic.twitter.com/QgBEigr8YY

— Baby Animals (@BBAnimals) December 23, 2018

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 12:26:57pm

Never mind

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Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:28:28pm

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

poor MsThang…

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Don’t worry, Ms. Dana “Moar Gunz” Wannabe, the only way the cops ever would have hauled you in on a “Stop and Frisk” violation as a young white girl is if you’d pissed on a cop’s boot in broad daylight.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:28:56pm

take a seat, Mitch

“One would think that securing our homeland, controlling our borders, and protecting the American people would be bipartisan priorities— uncontroversial, common sense, bipartisan priorities— a core duty of any nation’s government.” -@senatemajldr pic.twitter.com/YRd2qEwE3w

— GOP (@GOP) December 23, 2018

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Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:30:01pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

take a seat, Mitch

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Uh…who wants to tell him that the bill he just allowed to pass with unanimous consent on Wednesday included $1.6B for border security?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:30:45pm

This is not accurate. https://t.co/54bHAiZLNw https://t.co/JAkd0udRVV

— Jason Seher (@jhseher) December 23, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 12:30:48pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

take a seat, Mitch

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Fuck you. No one wants the wall. And Mitch is the last person who should be lecturing anyone about bipartisanship. Delete your party.

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Unshaken Defiance Dec 23, 2018 • 12:32:17pm

re: #216 Charles Johnson

Nobody ever reported a recurrence so…

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 12:32:31pm

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

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You only went to Tennessee because people there are dumb enough to think you’re something other than the lying sack of shit you are. If TN went for HRC, you’d bash it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:33:21pm

ok who hacked rand paul’s account https://t.co/osANdC4E3N

— Imani Gandy Cane 🎅🏿🎄🕯 (@AngryBlackLady) December 23, 2018

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TedStriker Dec 23, 2018 • 12:35:39pm

re: #281 HappyWarrior

You only went to Tennessee because people there are dumb enough to think you’re something other than the lying sack of shit you are. If TN went for HRC, you’d bash it.

Not all, but there were/are enough that vote(d) Trump, Blackburn, and Gen. Eric Republican.

Signed,
A TN member of the Resistance

///

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Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:38:42pm

Mulvaney walks back Trump’s promise Mexico will pay for wall: ‘You and I both know that it can’t work exactly like that’https://t.co/K2sju8oK8k

— Raw Story (@RawStory) December 23, 2018

T: “What are we going to build?!”
W: “A WALL!”
T: “And who’s going to pay for it?!”
W: “MEXICO…after Congress appropriates the savings from a new trade agreement that saves billions for our businesses that were paid into the US Treasury!”

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 12:39:36pm

re: #283 TedStriker

Not all, but there were/are enough that vote(d) Trump, Blackburn, and Gen. Eric Republican.

Signed,
A TN member of the Resistance

///

Sorry man. Low blow on my part.

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 12:40:14pm

re: #284 Targetpractice

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T: “What are we going to build?!”
W: “A WALL!”
T: “And who’s going to pay for it?!”
W: “MEXICO…after Congress appropriates the savings from a new trade agreement that saves billions for our businesses that were paid into the US Treasury!”

It was his entire schtick. Fuck off Mick.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:41:32pm

The president is celebrating the birth of Jesus by madman-tweeting about Bob Corker.
Yeah, this is all normal.

— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) December 23, 2018

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Dec 23, 2018 • 12:41:55pm

“SO THEY CANCELLED CHRISTMAS, HUH?” This is as far as you can get. The pathways around the tree are still blocked off. #GovernmentShutdown #nationaltree pic.twitter.com/VaHq1SP6YW

— Richard Reeve (@abc7Richard) December 23, 2018

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:45:08pm

this is fine

Trump has told advisers for days he doesn’t need Mattis — and that it is nonsense Mattis was constraining him. He wanted him gone after days of isolated TV watching so sped it up. But he’s had even sharper ire, aides say, for Fed chair Jerome Powell. https://t.co/p5gYfcGpZB

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) December 23, 2018

290

Very Cool Very Legal Ghost Flea Dec 23, 2018 • 12:45:14pm

re: #282 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s doing Festivus again, but I suspect he has someone writing, or at least fluffing, his jokes.

291

Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:46:28pm

re: #289 Backwoods_Sleuth

this is fine

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He’s going to fire Powell. And even if he doesn’t, the market is going to open tomorrow with the assumption that a Powell firing is in the cards.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:47:02pm

heh

Yes, just like Mexico is paying for the wall… #AlertTheDaycareStaff https://t.co/4LwrkrSFFr

— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) December 23, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 12:47:42pm

He’s just going to replace Powell with another person he will rage at. He’s not mature enough to be an adult let alone potusZ

294

jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 12:53:37pm

“SO THEY CANCELLED CHRISTMAS, HUH?” This is as far as you can get. The pathways around the tree are still blocked off. #GovernmentShutdown #nationaltree pic.twitter.com/VaHq1SP6YW

— Richard Reeve (@abc7Richard) December 23, 2018

Weird how Trumpers were so militant about thwarting a completely made-up “war on Christmas,” and yet it’s awesome to shut down the National Christmas Tree three days before Christmas because Wall. By the way, Obama never shut down the National Christmas Tree. #MAGA https://t.co/I9l7u08Czy

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) December 23, 2018

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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 23, 2018 • 12:54:16pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

take a seat, Mitch

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They are, you fucking asswipe, but building a useless wall at the border is NOT how you get effective border security.

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Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:55:29pm

re: #294 jaunte

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Do we even have to bring up all the screeching that happened in ‘13 about how Obama didn’t have to close down anything during the shutdown, but was doing it in order to “punish” people for thwarting his rule?

297

Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:55:46pm

There are two Trump Towers in Turkey. During the campaign, Trump called them “a little conflict of interest.” https://t.co/ojCcT1J81B

— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 23, 2018

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jaunte Dec 23, 2018 • 12:57:19pm

“Because Wall” is the peak 2018 phrase.

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 12:58:15pm

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He really needs to go to jail.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 12:58:36pm

👀 Everyone is happier in Colorado 🐾🐶
(Colorado State University Veterinary Teaching Hospital) pic.twitter.com/32lerzFkUs

— Wina (@wawinaApr) December 23, 2018

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Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 12:59:50pm

I’m so old, I remember when Republicans were on the news asserting that there was no reason to close government parks during the shutdown, that there were employees who not only could work but wanted to work while their agencies went unfunded. And that the only way the memorials and parks could be closed was because Obama had personally given the order to do so.

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 1:00:01pm

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

take a seat, Mitch

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“One would think that securing our homeland, controlling our borders, and protecting the American people would be bipartisan priorities— uncontroversial, common sense, bipartisan priorities— a core duty of any nation’s government

Yes all those thing are

A wall is not

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 1:04:02pm

re: #288 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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What is this they?

The Republicans cancelled Christmas

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Single-handed sailor Dec 23, 2018 • 1:06:08pm

We will now have an acting secretary of defense, an acting attorney-general, no UN ambassador, no interior secretary, no deputy at HUD or at DHS, and an acting EPA administrator.

The president’s chief of staff is “acting.”

— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) December 23, 2018

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HappyWarrior Dec 23, 2018 • 1:06:57pm

re: #304 Single-handed sailor

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If I didn’t know better, I’d say Putin is getting exactly what he wants.

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Targetpractice Dec 23, 2018 • 1:07:00pm

So Donny has replaced a respected general with an exec from a company that was just implicated within the last decade of trying to defraud the US gov’t of billions of dollars through bribery of a government official and deliberate fudging of numbers.

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 1:07:30pm

re: #301 Targetpractice

I’m so old, I remember when Republicans were on the news asserting that there was no reason to close government parks during the shutdown, that there were employees who not only could work but wanted to work while their agencies went unfunded. And that the only way the memorials and parks could be closed was because Obama had personally given the order to do so.

Unfortunately you’re too old
That’s too long ago for anyone who matters (ie the base ) to remember

Not that they’d acknowledge the truth of it if they did

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Axolotl Dec 23, 2018 • 1:09:44pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Deleted

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freetoken Dec 23, 2018 • 1:14:04pm

re: #307 dangerman

Unfortunately you’re too old
That’s too long ago for anyone who matters (ie the base ) to remember

Not that they’d acknowledge the truth of it if they did

On my Facebook timeline I still get stupid memes from “the base” popping up.

They are just without self-awareness, or they are just really bad people.

I’m guessing the latter.

But what frustrates me more are those of my Facebook friends who I know do not like Trump, but because they are Republicans don’t publicly criticize him, and then there are the hyper-religious ones who are just hoping Trump will make abortion illegal and don’t care about anything else.

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 1:14:19pm

Steve Benen
@stevebenen
The government is shutdown. The administration’s national security team is unraveling. New scandals are erupting.

It’s against this backdrop that Trump apparently thought, “Now seems like a smart time to renew a pointless fight with a retiring GOP senator

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wrenchwench Dec 23, 2018 • 1:17:01pm

re: #308 Axolotl

Deleted

That tweet? Came up for me, and I retweeted it. It passed that test. Something messed up in your feed?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 23, 2018 • 1:18:09pm

This just in:
A president with crumbling bridges and roads has shut down the US government to force his citizens to pay for a wall that won’t keep out a gopher or a person with a ladder.
…
The world has gone mad.#MerryChristmasEveEve pic.twitter.com/TqUMXfVaVD

— Meanwhile in Canada (@MeanwhileinCana) December 23, 2018

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 1:18:09pm

re: #309 freetoken

On my Facebook timeline I still get stupid memes from “the base” popping up.

They are just without self-awareness, or they are just really bad people.

I’m guessing the latter.

But what frustrates me more are those of my Facebook friends who I know do not like Trump, but because they are Republicans don’t publicly criticize him, and then there are the hyper-religious ones who are just hoping Trump will make abortion illegal and don’t care about anything else.

Some people you can’t reach
Some don’t want to be reached
Some want one thing and still cant clearly explain the rationale behind it

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dangerman Dec 23, 2018 • 1:20:12pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Steven Mnuchin is Playing Golf on Cabo San Lucas With Full Secret Service Detail During Trump Government Shutdown

Paraphrasing from fiddler on the roof:
“If you’re having a bad week, why should i suffer”?

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Charles Johnson Dec 23, 2018 • 1:21:42pm

Senator Bob Corker just stated that, “I’m so priveledged to serve in the Senate for twelve years, and that’s what I told the people of our state that’s what I’d do, serve for two terms.” But that is Not True - wanted to run but poll numbers TANKED when I wouldn’t endorse him…..

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

Yes, just like Mexico is paying for the wall… #AlertTheDaycareStaff https://t.co/4LwrkrSFFr

— Senator Bob Corker (@SenBobCorker) December 23, 2018

Aren’t you the daycare staff? https://t.co/3yiuVaeDwu

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 23, 2018

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Axolotl Dec 23, 2018 • 1:56:14pm

re: #311 wrenchwench

I was just deleting my post. It was a fat finger mistake.

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