For New Year’s Day, Trump Tweets a Vicious Attack on Stanley MacChrystal and a Disturbingly Deranged All Caps Rant

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Some people are now saying we shouldn’t quote Donald Trump’s tweets, because it helps him spread poison and encourages him to do it more. But I’m not convinced. At this point, nobody who supports Trump needs any more poison in their veins; they’re already in a state of continuous overdose. And as for encouraging Trump to keep doing it, well, I don’t think what’s happening with him now has anything to do with seeking anyone’s approval or attention. But I do think it’s important to document and record his increasingly demented tweets.

Because I think he’s losing it. As in, really losing it. He’s already tweeted 12 times on New Year’s Day, but I’ll just cherry pick two of them to illustrate that.

First, his inevitable attempt to degrade and insult retired General Stanley MacChrystal, retaliating for MacChrystal’s highly critical comments about Trump’s unfitness for the office. Tweets like this are exactly why MacChrystal criticized Trump.

I didn’t realize dogs could be fired; do they get unemployment? But more importantly, why does Donald Trump hate dogs so much? Is it because they hate him instinctively, sensing his malevolent nature?

We report, you decide.

But the other tweet I’m featuring here is where he veers into outright shouting-at-clouds lunacy. He set his caps lock key on STUN and let it rip…

Some of what Trump does is so bizarre it seems almost comical, but this kind of stuff isn’t funny any more.

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:21:06pm

Does this mean we will be spared from a Year in Review article?

The colors are nice.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:22:04pm
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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:23:51pm

From the previous thread:

re: #456 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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can't think of a decent username  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:25:26pm

When things go south, I’m assuming Trump will order the nuking of at least one state.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:26:03pm

re: #2 The Vicious Babushka

Is it Wednesday again?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:29:41pm
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nines09  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:31:52pm

Happy New Year youse, ya’ll yins and yas.

Nancy should just phone Donald up, wish him a Happy New Year and say “See you soon!”
click

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:33:26pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:34:01pm

re: #7 nines09

Happy New Year youse, ya’ll yins and yas.

Nancy should just phone Donald up, wish him a Happy New Year and say “See you soon!”
click

i think she and chuck did that with the statement yesterday or the day before

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:36:08pm
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Dave In Austin  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:36:56pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:37:32pm

continued from downstairs:

why 3 dimensional / (the sphere) political compasses are having more and more meaning: what of ‘moderate’?

Moderate says nothing about abandoning principles. It’s figuring out how to get as much as you can from the political process. Not stamping your foot and demanding that all things must go your way or you’ll throw a tantrum.

Moderate does not mean fence sitting or wishy-washy. It means not being pigeonholed left/right rep/dem, conservate/liberal. It means not holding extreme or radical positions, generally black and white ones. It means not living on any two dimensional line of positions.

It means not being required to hold similarly polarized positions on unrelated issues - ie say on abortion, gun control and lgbtq rights

It does not mean not holding strong or convicted opinions. It also generally means each issue on its merits and sometimes cherry picking the good points of some - guns in general vs ‘automatic’ weapons.

It means that whether originalist, strict constructionist, or activist, it is not the only interpretation of the constitution possible. And while yours, whatever it is, may be passionate, reasonable, etc it is not necessarily the only “right” one. We are guessing to an extent - assuming, inferring.

it means not having patience for polarizing, partisan, pigeon holing, myopic, tunnel vision, dogmatism.

Nor toeing a party line and platform on all things - considering there are only two to choose from and if you don’t fit one or the other entirely 100% then you must be a ‘moderate’. There is no other choice left to you.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:40:26pm

re: #2 The Vicious Babushka

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that the only way to lower the record-high federal deficit would be to cut entitlement programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.

the ‘only’ way? really?
you couldn’t possibly think of any other way?

i thought of a bunch in the time it took to type this comment

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:47:38pm

re: #13 dangerman

“We’re out of cranberry sauce.”

Mitch McConnell: “We should cut Social Security.”

“A giant lobster is attacking Kennebunkport!”

Mitch McConnell: “We should appease it be cutting Social Security.”

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:48:17pm
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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:48:35pm
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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:49:11pm

re: #15 Barefoot Grin

That dog really wants to be a dentist.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:49:17pm

lol, rooting for injuries

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:50:46pm

re: #15 Barefoot Grin

I need to get ‘fired like a dog’

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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:52:26pm

re: #16 MsJ

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Imagine a DA thinking they should go after criminals. What’s the world coming to, NYT? //

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 1:57:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:05:11pm

heh

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:07:17pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

Peterson vs Goldy.

Hmmm.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:10:35pm
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b_sharp  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:12:05pm

re: #23 MsJ

Peterson vs Goldy.

Hmmm.

A babbling Christian Deepak Chopra against a bigoted moron.

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Chrysicat  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:13:20pm

re: #4 can’t think of a decent username

When things go south, I’m assuming Trump will order the nuking of at least one state.

Yep. The only question is “US state or UN state”. Of course, if the former, my mother’s sure he’s more likely to wind up with a mutiny than a successful firing, but if the latter, what would he be willing to nuke in order to try to bring the fire down upon all our heads?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:14:06pm

re: #23 MsJ

Peterson vs Goldy.

Hmmm.

I don’t have a dog in that fight. Maybe they’ll be like the calico cat and the gingham dog

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:14:13pm

re: #25 b_sharp

A babbling Christian Deepak Chopra against a bigoted moron.

Not sure which is which.

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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:19:45pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

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She’s going to need all of us backing her.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:20:13pm

A New Year message to Trump from my beloved Teddy:

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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:22:16pm
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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:24:46pm

re: #21 gocart mozart

In the vast stretches of the economic Serengeti, herds of rubes travel from water hole to water hole, transforming the landscape with their hoofbeats and their copious, widely dispersed excrement. The great rube has many natural predators that could bring it down, but once the beast is felled the same set piece…greater and lesser capitalist beasts maneuvering for as much of the carcass’s capital as they can get, whether with tooth and claw or with opportunistic speed and timing. Most people focus on the grandest of these contests—a direct selling scheme setting a pack of prosperity ministries scurrying—but the stakes…lifegiving disposable income…are just as great for the scavengers.

Which is how we find ourselves, rapt, watching various hucksters fight over the monetary bone marrow and scraps of intestine…

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:25:29pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:25:32pm

re: #31 Belafon

I cannot find anything on Wiki about him.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:26:39pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:28:10pm

re: #35 gocart mozart

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Jesus!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:29:03pm

re: #35 gocart mozart

I’m dying laughing. That was awesome.

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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:29:28pm

re: #34 PhillyPretzel

I cannot find anything on Wiki about him.

I would not be surprised if that changed. Here’s his Georgetown bio:

Mr. Letter served as the Director of the Civil Division Appellate Staff at the U.S. Department of Justice between 2012 and 2018, and he recently retired from that office after 40 years there. As Director, he supervised approximately 60 attorneys representing the interests of the United States in the U.S. Supreme Court, federal courts of appeals around the country, and various state Supreme Courts. Mr. Letter is now a Senior Litigator at the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he is also a Visitor Professor.

..

In 1994-95, Mr. Letter served in the White House as an Associate Counsel to President Clinton. In 1999, he served as a Deputy Associate Attorney General under Attorney General Janet Reno. And, from 2012-13, Mr. Letter was Attorney General Eric Holder’s Senior Counselor.

And the things I’ve read imply his departure was due to not wanting to serve in Trump’s Civil Rights division.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:30:49pm

re: #38 Belafon

And now he can work for Speaker Pelosi. Good. :)

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nines09  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:33:45pm

re: #9 dangerman

i think she and chuck did that with the statement yesterday or the day before

Phone call is much better. More personal. Voice. Intent. Cheerfulness.

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ObserverArt  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:34:29pm

re: #39 PhillyPretzel

And now he can work for Speaker Pelosi. Good. :)

And the good thing is Mr. Letter knows how the White House and government is supposed to work and what is illegal and what is not. He’ll be able to cut through all the Trump bullshit.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:37:56pm

Interesting read.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:40:32pm

re: #2 The Vicious Babushka

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I’ve gone to thinking Mitch McConnell is actually malevolent.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:42:49pm

I have to say, I’m shocked that Trump didn’t defiantly haul ass to Mar a Emoluments for his party. Who got through to him that this would be a bad idea? Were drugs involved? Did they promise him three scoops plus unlimited TV time? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:51:03pm

Scott Walker dropped out of college to run for office at age 22 and has never actually had a real job in the private sector.

Ever.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:51:16pm

re: #43 Scottish Dragon

I’ve gone to thinking Mitch McConnell is actually malevolent.

He always has been.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:51:54pm

Still worried the Dems might cave to Trump on the shutdown.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:52:27pm

re: #47 Eclectic Cyborg

Still worried the Dems might cave to Trump on the shutdown.

No. Not on this one.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:54:06pm

re: #45 Scottish Dragon

Scott Walker dropped out of college to run for office at age 22 and has never actually had a real job in the private sector.

Ever.

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Reminds me of the line from Ghostbusters, “You’ve never worked in the private sector. They expect results.”

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jeffreyw  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:54:34pm

Dammit! If you don’t want the government to shut down don’t elect people that will do it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:56:03pm

re: #43 Scottish Dragon

I’ve gone to thinking Mitch McConnell is actually malevolent.

Welcome to the party, pal.

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If someone with no shame and no soul will do anything to achieve bad ends, I’d say, yeah, he’s malevolent.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:57:23pm

re: #45 Scottish Dragon

Scott Walker dropped out of college to run for office at age 22 and has never actually had a real job in the private sector.

Ever.

That’s not fair.

Whatever financial arrangement he has with the Kochs is definitely private sector.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:58:07pm

re: #49 Blind Frog Belly White

Reminds me of the line from Ghostbusters, “You’ve never worked in the private sector. They expect results.”

It also flies in the face of what the Founders expected of public service. It was never supposed to be a life long hustle like what Scott Walker was pulling. It was to be a gift back to your community after you had already become successful in your private life, and you then put your business aside to avoid impropriety (they were real, real specific about that) and then served the people.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 2:59:51pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

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////If someone with no shame and no soul will do anything to achieve bad ends, I’d say, yeah, he’s malevolent.

I try to avoid character judgement on that level, honestly. Tom Cotton was one of the few, along with Jeff Sessions that I willing to make that assertion on. Mitch is a genuinely really horrible person…so he made the cut.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:01:09pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:01:13pm

re: #47 Eclectic Cyborg

Still worried the Dems might cave to Trump on the shutdown.

I don’t see it happening, at least not without some major change in the political calculus. The polls show the public views this as a Trump/GOP shutdown, the wall is unpopular, Trump is unpopular, and the GOP seem to think that ending the shutdown is reason enough to give them a “win” by agreeing to some wall funding.

Unless something seriously changes in the near future, the Dems are not likely to fold. If anything, they’re only going to further steel their resolve when Pelosi takes over as Speaker in less than 48 hours.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:01:36pm

re: #42 MsJ

Interesting read.

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Very interesting indeed, especially this:

Mueller will shock everyone with what he has discovered, and the result will be much worse for Trump than anyone has anticipated;

Yes, Trump indeed knew about the now-infamous June 9, 2016, Trump Tower meeting — and he lied to the American people repeatedly about it;

Trump lied on Air Force One when he concocted a phony statement about “adoptions,” because he knew the truth about the meeting;

The Mueller investigation will unveil evidence of Trump putting himself out to the highest bidder in return for campaign help and financing: Russians, Saudis, Emiratis, Qataris — there will be evidence that millions of foreign dollars illegally flowed into the Trump campaign coffers in 2016;

In other words, Trump basically said, “I’m for sale”;

I’ve suspected for quite a while that there were players other than Russia in the influence/meddling game. Trump obviously took the Russian bid, but these other bidders would not have gone away empty-handed. Top politicos and media shills may well be working for these others, possibly quite a few different ones. Buying off a top politician is beyond the means of all but a few individuals, but it is relative pocket change for a nation-state, even a fairly poor one let alone someone like the Saudis. I really think the Mueller report and various spin-off investigations are going to be a breaking point in American history.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:08:00pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:09:30pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:10:24pm

So when you post a Tweet there’s no way to determine how much extraneous crap you drag along with it—is that correct?

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:10:53pm

re: #57 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Mueller will shock everyone with what he has discovered, and the result will be much worse for Trump than anyone has anticipated

That’s a tall order. And it’s growing.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:14:18pm

re: #58 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

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I think that is what kills her right off the starting mark, though, and Trump absolutely wants her as a foil. The GOP and the MSM are going to keep up with the “Pocahontas” stories and “her employment at Harvard raises questions” and you know Chris Fucking Cillizza is going to be just beside himself with this shit as he says her genetics test kills her candidacy.

I want a woman to win POTUS. I do not believe she will be the one.

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Interesting Times  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:15:25pm

re: #60 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So when you post a Tweet there’s no way to determine how much extraneous crap you drag along with it—is that correct?

Append ?noquote to end of the tweet’s URL. So instead of:

https :// twitter .com/AOC/status/1079855554477072384

Do:

https ://twitter .com/AOC/status/1079855554477072384 ?noquote

…without spaces, of course, which will give you:

As opposed to this:

Click to Reveal
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:15:35pm

re: #61 wrenchwench

Mueller will shock everyone with what he has discovered, and the result will be much worse for Trump than anyone has anticipated.

That’s a tall order. And it’s growing.

Yeah, I don’t buy that last part since I am expecting Trumpageddon. I think it applies for the general run of political pundits though. More alarmingly, it applies to the Trump/conspiracist base, and is likely to be a literal call to arms for them.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:16:27pm

re: #64 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Yeah, I don’t buy that last part since I am expecting Trumpageddon. I think it applies for the general run of political pundits though. More alarmingly, it applies to the Trump/conspiracist base, and is likely to be a literal call to arms for them.

I’m afraid the risk of actual political violence is very real.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:17:08pm

re: #63 Interesting Times

Append ?noquote to end of the tweet’s URL. So instead of:

https :// twitter .com/AOC/status/1079855554477072384

Do:

https ://twitter .com/AOC/status/1079855554477072384 ?noquote

…without spaces, of course, which will give you:

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that’s for quoted tweets.
the other is ?hide for tweets that are replies

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:21:04pm
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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:21:38pm

The MSM likes simple, symbolic narratives and the “unlikable wonk/phony minority claim” narrative for Senator Warren is already being written right now.

It’s all shorthand for real, complicated issues and it’s all bullshit, but it is also deadly effective.

Th NYT and CNN are two of the worst offenders on this.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:22:58pm

re: #50 jeffreyw

Dammit! If you don’t want the government to shut down don’t elect people that will do it.

representative government in one sentence

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:24:09pm

re: #55 gocart mozart

The reason Trump gets along so well with Christian Right leaders is that he is a con man and they are also con men.

someone here said that earlier this AM
scoop!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:24:44pm

re: #63 Interesting Times

Append ?noquote to end of the tweet’s URL. So instead of:

https :// twitter .com/AOC/status/1079855554477072384

Do:

https ://twitter .com/AOC/status/1079855554477072384 ?noquote

…without spaces, of course, which will give you:

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Ah! Thanks! I got a real string the other day.

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Scottish Dragon  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:25:21pm

re: #50 jeffreyw

Dammit! If you don’t want the government to shut down don’t elect people that will do it.

Too busy electing people who want to stick it to the homos, the ni*clang!*s and the ‘Mesikins’.

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sagehen  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:29:01pm

re: #53 Scottish Dragon

It also flies in the face of what the Founders expected of public service. It was never supposed to be a life long hustle like what Scott Walker was pulling. It was to be a gift back to your community after you had already become successful in your private life, and you then put your business aside to avoid impropriety (they were real, real specific about that) and then served the people.

Obama was so caesar’s-wife about avoiding conflicts of interest that as soon as he was elected he sold all his stocks and put the money into index funds and T-bills. No policy he proposed could EVER provide him anything beyond what the economy at large was doing for the entire country collectively.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:34:17pm

moron is back at it

(LOL)

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:34:23pm

There may be so many traitors, shills and un-registered agents exposed that we will not be able to effectively prosecute all of them. In that case, we might need something like the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The ones who operated at the national level and were actually culpable in swinging the election; the Trumps, NRA execs, and various media shills for instance; will have to do hard time. For the others; like state level GOPers and Libertarian county chairmen and yokel media stringers; it may be sufficient to offer them amnesty IF they will publicly confess their involvement and their information holds up to investigation.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:37:59pm

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron is back at it

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:42:28pm

re: #76 The Vicious Babushka

205? Same as the number of names on one version of McCarthy’s alleged list.

“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:49:33pm

re: #76 The Vicious Babushka

Trump’s team gives the Washington Examiner an “exclusive” list of 205 supposed “historic” accomplishments he will campaign on

Well, if Eugene Debs could campaign from a jail cell, I suppose tRump can too…. Hope they get the same percentage of the vote.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:54:32pm

Time for some BB

B B King Don’t You Lie To Me

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 3:56:11pm

re: #77 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

205? Same as the number of names on one version of McCarthy’s alleged list.

“The State Department is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department.”

I have here a list of the names of 207 persons who are known by the Secretary of Defense as being members of the Communist Party… I demand an answer, Mr. Secretary. There will be no covering up, sir, no covering up. You are not going to get your hands on this list. And I deeply regret having to say…
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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:00:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:03:55pm

good fucking grief, he is stupid

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:06:15pm

re: #62 Scottish Dragon

I think that is what kills her right off the starting mark, though, and Trump absolutely wants her as a foil. The GOP and the MSM are going to keep up with the “Pocahontas” stories and “her employment at Harvard raises questions” and you know Chris Fucking Cillizza is going to be just beside himself with this shit as he says her genetics test kills her candidacy.

I want a woman to win POTUS. I do not believe she will be the one.

I don’t think a woman will win POTUS in my lifetime.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:10:40pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

good fucking grief, he is stupid

The only control the President has over gas prices is what we saw during the George W. Bush era, whenever he started another stupid war and the prices shot up $1/gallon only to come back down (very slowly) months later.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:10:47pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:11:03pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:11:46pm
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Jack Burton  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:13:03pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

When Obama was president in his 2nd term, gas was a dollar a gallon less here than it is now, and earlier this year it was almost $4/gallon.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:21:01pm

Facebook Video

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:21:07pm
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bd(Redacted)  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:24:51pm

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

good fucking grief, he is stupid

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The price of soybeans are pretty cheap too Donnie.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:25:00pm

re: #89 Dave In Austin

Kitteh looks scared.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:25:50pm

Is this an unusual strain of antisemitism? Hitler’s Jewish soldiers ??!!!

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:27:50pm

re: #89 Dave In Austin

Kitten is not dancing for me. Video will not load. :(

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:28:58pm

re: #93 gocart mozart

Send it Sergey. He knows how to handle these people.

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KGxvi  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:29:49pm

re: #83 MsJ

I don’t think a woman will win POTUS in my lifetime.

A whole lot of people were saying there wouldn’t be a black president in their lifetimes until about April 2008. To quote a great philosopher: life comes at you fast

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:31:29pm

re: #93 gocart mozart

Is this an unusual strain of antisemitism? Hitler’s Jewish soldiers ??!!!

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Supposedly there were about 20 or so Mischlinge (people with some Jewish ancestry) in the Wehrmacht, so they must have committed the entire Holocaust all by themselves. You know, like there were about a dozen Black slave owners in the South (who purchased their own families).

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:31:39pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:40:59pm

Arizona man like Florida man? Waymo violence. gizmodo.com

The New York Times reported Monday that more than 20 incidents of vandalism on the vehicles have occurred since 2017, when Waymo arrived in Chandler, Arizona. The attacks on Waymo vans, first reported on by the Arizona Republic last month, have involved everything from slashed tires to a pointed gun and reckless driving aimed at running the vans off the road. Citing police reports, the Times reported that some individuals have also thrown rocks at the vans.

And it’s not just the cars that are facing violence, but also the riders inside of them. According to both the Arizona Republic and Times, backup drivers have reportedly been yelled at and faced threats to their safety on multiple occasions. In one particularly terrifying incident reported by the Times, a man allegedly “threatened the employee riding inside [a Waymo vehicle] with a piece of PVC pipe.”

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:42:03pm

re: #43 Scottish Dragon

I’ve gone to thinking Mitch McConnell is actually malevolent.

His sole interest is money, and making sure the GOP donor class has as much of it as possible.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:43:13pm
How does Warren avoid a Clinton redux — written off as too unlikable before her campaign gets off the ground? Politico

JFC, these folks haven’t changed thier tune in over a century.

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b_sharp  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:43:26pm

re: #92 The Vicious Babushka

Kitteh was playing tough for the dog. I don’t think it was afraid. I think it wanted to play. I’ve seen cats do that with other cats to entice them to wrestle.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:45:08pm

From the last thread:

re: #345 Romantic Heretic

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Sorry I didn’t respond right away, I’ve been out all day doing water sampling in homes. (Turns out New Year’s Day is a pretty good day to catch people at home.)

Several of the houses on the list are no more, though, due to the two tornadoes last year. I have to call the state in the morning and fill them in on that.

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William Lewis  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:45:10pm

re: #90 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

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That subtle reminder of Pastor Bonnhoeffer, reminds me of my biggest failing as a Christian: I am not a pacifist.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:46:55pm

re: #104 William Lewis

That subtle reminder of Pastor Bonnhoeffer, reminds me of my biggest failing as a Christian: I am not a pacifist.

It’s a difficult question, that one. The teachings of Christ clearly indicate that pacifism is the favored path, but even Jesus threw a holy temper tantrum and inflicted violence on those who were deserving. So the topic deserves some discussion.

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:48:24pm

re: #103 Anymouse 🌹

[…]

Several of the houses on the list are no more, though, due to the two tornadoes last year. I have to call the state in the morning and fill them in on that.

You have to fill in where there used to be houses?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:49:05pm

re: #102 b_sharp

Kitteh was playing tough for the dog. I don’t think it was afraid. I think it wanted to play. I’ve seen cats do that with other cats to entice them to wrestle.

Kitteh was showing off its yuge and ferocious profile

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KGxvi  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:57:43pm

re: #105 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

It’s a difficult question, that one. The teachings of Christ clearly indicate that pacifism is the favored path, but even Jesus threw a holy temper tantrum and inflicted violence on those who were deserving. So the topic deserves some discussion.

Pacifism is nice in theory. But one who is unwilling to defend themself is bound to be a slave. And one who is unwilling to defend others is bound to be complicit in violence. Pacifism is most likely to lead to oppression, not peace

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nines09  Jan 1, 2019 • 4:58:59pm

2 years of the entire Republican Party revealing themselves after 3 decades of code…. .
JFC, if the Democrats can’t get this rolled up into a fist to break faces….
Buckets of rocks.
HUGE glass houses to target.
Fuck Bernie.
Fuck Jill.
Fuck I cudda shudda wudda bullshit purity ponies.
You have the gavel.
Use it.
Over and over and over and over.
JFC. The Dems blow this one…..
Countdown.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:01:52pm

re: #108 KGxvi

“Those without swords can still die upon them.”

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:02:22pm

re: #101 Teddy’s Person

JFC, these folks haven’t changed thier tune in over a century.

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No one ever asked that about Trump and Trump is more unlikable than both.

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:02:25pm

re: #108 KGxvi

Pacifism is nice in theory. But one who is unwilling to defend themself is bound to be a slave. And one who is unwilling to defend others is bound to be complicit in violence. Pacifism is most likely to lead to oppression, not peace

Nonviolent activism works best when there’s a violent reaction, and that violence is generally seen as unacceptable. These conditions existed in the past, and pretty much exist today, but seem to be endangered.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:04:20pm
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Interesting Times  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:05:59pm

re: #113 Patricia Kayden

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:07:17pm

Winning ! ! !

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KGxvi  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:07:43pm

re: #114 Interesting Times

Why? We treat most of the men running for president as if they’re running for homecoming king

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rhuarc  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:08:27pm

re: #86 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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What!? Pointy ears aren’t scary! Do these 4 look scary? :)

4 malinois
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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:08:46pm

So Trump was praising Kim Jong Un yet again.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:10:36pm

re: #113 Patricia Kayden

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People insist HRC is likable yet she only recently had her streak as most admired woman in the country broken by Michelle Obama. She was a more popular Secretary of State than not just Pompeo and Tillerson but also Kerry. She was well liked by colleagues. I personally would probably prefer someone else to Warren but it’s not because she’s a woman and the sexist shit really needs to stop.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:10:44pm

re: #117 rhuarc

What!? Pointy ears aren’t scary! Do these 4 look scary? :)

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I generally don’t have a problem with any dog unless it decides it’s going to growl at me. I can handle charging, jumping, barking, just fine, but if a dog growls at me, I give it a wide berth no matter what it looks like.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:11:05pm

re: #111 HappyWarrior

No one ever asked that about Trump and Trump is more unlikable than both.

We’d be here all night listing extremely unlikeable (white) male politicians who are somehow not judged by this criteria. What chaps my ass even more with Trump is that, in addition to being so unlikeable, he’s highly unqualified to hold public office. Both Warren and H. Clinton are highly qualified women, and too many people dismiss their qualifications out of hand because - lady parts.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:12:10pm

I’m starting to think more severe scrubs are needed.

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Interesting Times  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:12:10pm

re: #120 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

I generally don’t have a problem with any dog unless it decides it’s going to growl at me. I can handle charging, jumping, barking, just fine, but if a dog growls at me, I give it a wide berth no matter what it looks like.

Evil Chihuahua Growling

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:12:59pm

re: #123 Interesting Times

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And I would NOPE out of that house so fast, they wouldn’t even catch my vapor trail.

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:13:35pm

re: #116 KGxvi

Why? We treat most of the men running for president as if they’re running for homecoming king

That’s Supreme Court.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:14:00pm

re: #121 Teddy’s Person

We’d be here all night listing extremely unlikeable (white) male politicians who are somehow not judged by this criteria. What chaps my ass even more with Trump is that, in addition to being so unlikeable, he’s highly unqualified to hold public office. Both Warren and H. Clinton are highly qualified women, and too many people dismiss their qualifications out of hand because - lady parts.

If a woman had Trump’s lack of qualifications and ran for office and had his character, she wouldn’t have gotten out of Iowa. Or if he were a person of color too especially a woman.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:15:02pm

Obviously not everyone likes HRC or Warren but there are a lot of people that do like and admire her. Just because “you” dislike her doesn’t mean everyone does.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:16:20pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:19:56pm

Sugar Bowl
Texas Longhorns vs. Georgia Bulldogs

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Unshaken Defiance  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:22:20pm

re: #108 KGxvi

Pacifism is nice in theory. But one who is unwilling to defend themself is bound to be a slave. And one who is unwilling to defend others is bound to be complicit in violence. Pacifism is most likely to lead to oppression, not peace

I would disagree. Who is gathering slaves these days? In my world, giving up the cash might be wise instead of fighting the guy with a weapon. I’m not a pacifist. But I get it by way of non violence, the person left unwilling to kill or main in the face of violence. The conscientious objector.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:23:40pm

re: #126 HappyWarrior

If a woman had Trump’s lack of qualifications and ran for office and had his character, she wouldn’t have gotten out of Iowa. Or if he were a person of color too especially a woman.

she would have made it as far as certain school boards, but that’s about it

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:24:03pm

re: #126 HappyWarrior

If a woman had Trump’s lack of qualifications and ran for office and had his character, she wouldn’t have gotten out of Iowa. Or if he were a person of color too especially a woman.

A woman or person of color would not have even made it into Iowa because the expectations for both groups are much, much higher than white men.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:24:34pm

re: #128 MsJ

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This made my heart happy today.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:24:53pm

re: #126 HappyWarrior

If a woman had Trump’s lack of qualifications and ran for office and had his character, she wouldn’t have gotten out of Iowa. Or if he were a person of color too especially a woman.

She could have become Governor of Alaska.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:26:35pm
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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:26:46pm

re: #134 The Vicious Babushka

She could have become Governor of Alaska.

I only regret that I have but one upding to give for that comment.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:27:47pm

re: #134 The Vicious Babushka

She could have become Governor of Alaska.

In fairness to Palin, at least she actually got herself elected. She was and is profoundly unintelligent but her career arc is a bit different than Trump’s.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:28:22pm

re: #135 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I really wish someone would kick Falwell Jr’s ass. Stop calling yourself a Christian. You’re not.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:29:10pm

re: #132 Teddy’s Person

A woman or person of color would not have even made it into Iowa because the expectations for both groups are much, much higher than white men.

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You’re right. I remember that sexual harassment claims derailed Herman Cain before he got to Iowa and Michelle Bachmann was a non-factor.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:29:39pm

Can’t come soon enough.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:29:53pm

re: #128 MsJ

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and she named it George…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:30:28pm
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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:30:34pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

In fairness to Palin, at least she actually got herself elected. She was and is profoundly unintelligent but her career arc is a bit different than Trump’s.

Never would have happened if she were the same age and weight as Trump.

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b_sharp  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:31:24pm

re: #128 MsJ

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The opposite happened at my mom’s. Before she started raising shelties she had a number of toy poodles. She also allowed my sister to bring in a runt piglet. The 2 older poodles who had had several litters a piece decided the cat with the kittens under the bed and the piglet needed mothering. The piglet actually suckled on the one poodle and the other poodle kept dragging kittens under the couch to take care of them.

My mother’s place was a zoo.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:32:08pm

re: #142 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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That’s nice Mitt. How much of his agenda are you going to support? And frankly Mitt, you’re part of why we got Trump in the first place since you used the same ugly nativism to get yourself nominated six years ago and your sons and Donald’s sons are a lot alike too. We haven’t forgotten Josh wanting to beat up President Obama.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:33:01pm

re: #143 wrenchwench

Never would have happened if she were the same age and weight as Trump.

No doubt at all. I’m just saying there is no lady Trump because that person would have been wiped out of any serious consideration for the job before any primary or even a debate.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:37:40pm

Exactly and it’s infuriating and needs to stop.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:37:46pm

re: #146 HappyWarrior

No doubt at all. I’m just saying there is no lady Trump because that person would have been wiped out of any serious consideration for the job before any primary or even a debate.

I’d say Cindy Hyde-Smith is the closest to a lady Trump out there. She doesn’t have Trump’s heft, but she’s not quite a Foxbot either. Not sure about her presidental ambitions.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:38:02pm

I’m just imagining a black candidate or a woman candidate with 5 children by 3 different partners and seeing how that would go over. Yeah. I can see the fake morality assholes like Falwell having a field day acting like that was the worst thing in the world. I don’t care that Trump has five children by three wives at all but you can’t tell me earnestly that the religious right wouldn’t lose their shit if it were a woman with five kids by three husbands or the Rush types if it was a black guy with five kids by three wives.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:38:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:38:37pm

re: #148 Teddy’s Person

I’d say Cindy Hyde-Smith is the closest to a lady Trump out there. She doesn’t have Trump’s heft, but she’s not quite a Foxbot either. Not sure about her presidental ambitions.

Maybe Joni Ernst could work too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:38:58pm

re: #135 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

a poor person never gave anybody charity, not of any real value

The widow’s mite

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Belafon  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:39:03pm

re: #142 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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The voting is the thing, and Romney will more than likely fall in line, but I don’t mind him causing some consternation.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:39:36pm

re: #149 HappyWarrior

I’m just imagining a black candidate or a woman candidate with 5 children by 3 different partners and seeing how that would go over. Yeah. I can see the fake morality assholes like Falwell having a field day acting like that was the worst thing in the world. I don’t care that Trump has five children by three wives at all but you can’t tell me earnestly that the religious right wouldn’t lose their shit if it were a woman with five kids by three husbands or the Rush types if it was a black guy with five kids by three wives.

You just know that Republicans dropped a ton of cash looking for this type of history with Obama.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:39:36pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

In fairness to Palin, at least she actually got herself elected. She was and is profoundly unintelligent but her career arc is a bit different than Trump’s.

she got herself elected courtesy of Seven Mountains

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:40:59pm

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

she got herself elected courtesy of Seven Mountains

I’m not disputing that or that she’s a kook just that she actually had been elected before she got put on the national political spotlight. That said, she was a horrid choice for VP. She was an as bad pick for VP as Biden was good.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:41:52pm

re: #154 Teddy’s Person

You just know that Republicans dropped a ton of cash looking for this type of history with Obama.

Oh I’m certain of that. They definitely were hoping they’d find woman drama with Obama but they instead found a loving couple who still loves each other the same over 20 years later which is probably why they engaged in trashing Michelle too.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:42:07pm

re: #153 Belafon

The voting is the thing, and Romney will more than likely fall in line, but I don’t mind him causing some consternation.

If we’re going to get 20 GOP Senate votes to remove Trump this year, Mitt is probably going to have to be the leader of that faction. And it will require overwhelming evidence that Trump was selling out his country to the Russians.

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:44:05pm

re: #63 Interesting Times

I was wondering how to do this! Thanks!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:44:52pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:46:37pm

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

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To be brutally honest, not only doesn’t he act like a President, he doesn’t act like a grown ass man. He is who he is. A petty douchebag who really was famous for being famous.

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:47:32pm

I have a day off from the ski area on Friday! I have so much adulting to do but all I want to do is do nothing.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:47:45pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:49:20pm

The last time Romney penned an op-ed was in 2008 when he said that the auto bailout was a bad idea. Fuck Romney.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:53:07pm

re: #164 Ace Rothstein

The last time Romney penned an op-ed was in 2008 when he said that the auto bailout was a bad idea. Fuck Romney.

Now that they’ve all decided to sell nothing but trucks I don’t think anything can save them in the next economic crash.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:56:51pm

Holy fuck what is this

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:57:32pm

I read the all caps Fuckface Von Clownstick New Year’s greeting to some co-workers today in my Trump voice. All agreed I do a very good Trump voice. I learned from the masters, Stephen Colbert and Seth Meyers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 1, 2019 • 5:59:53pm

If Elizabeth Warren wants to be President she’ll have to fight the media the entire way.

Sadly, I think Trump would have a good shot at beating her.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:01:03pm

re: #166 The Vicious Babushka

Holy fuck what is this

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2019 getting the crazy shit started early I see.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:02:05pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:02:24pm
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:02:42pm

re: #2 The Vicious Babushka

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Democrats should be saying a huge “hell no” to that.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:03:34pm
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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:04:14pm

re: #171 teleskiguy

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Shorter Mitt: Why, oh why does Trump have to say the quiet parts out loud?

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:04:49pm

re: #171 teleskiguy

And like Corker, Sasse and Flake, Romney will vote in favor of everything Trump wants 100% of the time. Empty platitudes. Empty gestures.

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:04:55pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:05:23pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

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We’re all Seamus now….

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Teddy's Person  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:10:58pm

re: #177 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

We’re all Seamus now….

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Charles Johnson  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:11:06pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:11:40pm

re: #172 Patricia Kayden

Democrats should be saying a huge “hell no” to that.

KEEP TEH GOVMINTS’ HANDS OFF MY SOCAIL SECURETY AND MEDECARE!!!!

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:13:31pm

yep

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retired cynic  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:16:35pm

re: #171 teleskiguy

He’s running! /

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:19:49pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:20:40pm

Merrick Garland

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:23:58pm

re: #122 MsJ

Republicans aren’t even hiding their treasonous disdain for our country. Democrats in the House should challenge this invitation which violates our sanctions on a foreign enemy.

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lawhawk  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:24:19pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Charles Johnson  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:24:47pm

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:25:19pm

OOGA BOOGA!!!

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:27:45pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:33:58pm

I was on the telephone with my mother, so I’m catching up

re: #149 HappyWarrior

I’m just imagining a black candidate or a woman candidate with 5 children by 3 different partners and seeing how that would go over. Yeah. I can see the fake morality assholes like Falwell having a field day acting like that was the worst thing in the world. I don’t care that Trump has five children by three wives at all but you can’t tell me earnestly that the religious right wouldn’t lose their shit if it were a woman with five kids by three husbands or the Rush types if it was a black guy with five kids by three wives.

It isn’t just pulpit pimps like Falwell, though. A whole bunch of so-called mainstream Christians would feel exactly the same way.

re: #122 MsJ

I’m starting to think more severe scrubs are needed.

If it’s after Pelosi and the Democrats take the House, they can have his butt on Capitol Hill explaining defying the will of Congress.

re: #106 wrenchwench

You have to fill in where there used to be houses?

LOL.

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:34:25pm

Yeah, Mitt is a sleaze.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:34:34pm

re: #144 b_sharp

The opposite happened at my mom’s. Before she started raising shelties she had a number of toy poodles. She also allowed my sister to bring in a runt piglet. The 2 older poodles who had had several litters a piece decided the cat with the kittens under the bed and the piglet needed mothering. The piglet actually suckled on the one poodle and the other poodle kept dragging kittens under the couch to take care of them.

My mother’s place was a zoo.

I’m kinda in love with your mom!

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Single-handed sailor  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:35:36pm

re: #188 teleskiguy

OOGA BOOGA!!!

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so rare they happen every couple years.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:35:39pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:36:00pm

re: #191 teleskiguy

Yeah, Mitt is a sleaze.

Either that, or he thinks he might be slid in as the replacement VP if Pence becomes President.

I’m not sure how Evangelical/Mormon would play out though. Worse would be Pence nominating McConnell.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:36:58pm

Texas is dominating the Suger Bowl.

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garzooma  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:37:45pm

re: #194 Patricia Kayden

Actually, Republicans in the House have been attacking the FBI.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:38:16pm

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:39:50pm

re: #196 Dave In Austin

Texas is dominating the Suger Bowl.

SPORTSBALL!

American football really needs to be renamed. To

SPORTSBALL!

You know, because of all the sports. So much sports being sportsed, bigly sports.

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fern01  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:42:33pm

The ahole also attacked President Obama with this tweet.

1. The latter would NEVER speak of anyone in this fashion
2. McChrystal apologized and resigned - he wasn’t sacked (although he may have been if he hadn’t resigned). As with all of President Obama’s people, it was discussed face to face - not via a tweet.

“General” McChrystal got fired like a dog by Obama.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:43:28pm

Ya think?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:43:42pm

re: #200 fern01

The ahole also attacked President Obama with this tweet.

1. The latter would NEVER speak of anyone in this fashion
2. McChrystal apologized and resigned - he wasn’t sacked (although he may have been if he hadn’t resigned). As with all of President Obama’s people, it was discussed face to face - not via a tweet.

Remember, conservatives love the troops.

I WON THE LOTTO TODAY!! ($3)

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 6:57:01pm

How do George and Kellyanne stay married?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:00:03pm

re: #203 MsJ

How do George and Kellyanne stay married?

Compartmentalisation. While George bashes on Trump, he benefits from Kellyanne having a job with him. It’s kayfabe for him.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:01:40pm
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bd(Redacted)  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:02:28pm
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bd(Redacted)  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:04:16pm

re: #203 MsJ

How do George and Kellyanne stay married?

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it’s a con by both of them

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calochortus  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:10:48pm

Mr. C. and I spent some time with a group of friends at Año Nuevo beach, because New Year and all that. They have a bunch of northern elephant seals on the northern part of the beach, but you need reservations for a docent led walk and we just wanted to hang out and see what there was to see (gulls, pelicans, poison oak, fossiliferous limestone rocks on the beach, etc.) We did see this one poor young male on our part of the beach. No one wants/needs an adolescent male. :( He was just lying there occasionally flipping some damp sand on himself to stay cool.
He was really a lot bigger than he appears in the photo, but aside from the fact it is illegal to get too close, I wasn’t going to go up and put something in the photo for scale. They can move surprisingly fast, and did I mention they’re big? And have teeth?

It was a fun day, though.

Lonely elephant seal
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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:11:20pm

re: #188 teleskiguy

Rare.

Nope. They happen on a regular schedule, like eclipses. It’s just that a single person may only see one in a lifetime.

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:17:46pm

Youtube Video

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:24:43pm

re: #126 HappyWarrior

If a woman had Trump’s lack of qualifications and ran for office and had his character, she wouldn’t have gotten out of Iowa. Or if he were a person of color too especially a woman.

Just remember how quick Crooked Carly Fiorina sank in 2016.

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dell*nix  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:26:56pm

Happy New Year to those who look for sanity in the new year. May we all find it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:27:02pm

re: #205 gocart mozart

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:27:24pm

re: #138 HappyWarrior

I really wish someone would kick Falwell Jr’s ass. Stop calling yourself a Christian. You’re not.

I’m sure his million dollar pool boy has done that multiple times with Jerry Jr.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:28:31pm

re: #203 MsJ

How do George and Kellyanne stay married?

[Embedded content]

Why would be a better question.

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dell*nix  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:29:47pm

It resembled a WW I artillery barrage here in north Houston last night. Hard to tell what was fog and what was powder smoke.

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calochortus  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:33:59pm

re: #216 dell*nix

It resembled a WW I artillery barrage here in north Houston last night. Hard to tell what was fog and what was powder smoke.

It was pretty quiet here. Of course, we and some neighbors drank to the New Year when it was midnight on the east coast and 9:00 pm here so we were long asleep at midnight. It enabled us to wake up in a halfway decent mood at 6:00 am to the sounds of a great horned owl duet. Right outside the bedroom so it was pretty loud. I guess they were toasting the new year too, maybe by downing a couple voles or mice?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:35:52pm

good night good people.

\

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:36:06pm

And amen to all of that!!

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:37:08pm
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calochortus  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:37:31pm

re: #219 Patricia Kayden

And amen to all of that!!

[Embedded content]

Yeah, I’m fine with all of that too.

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Jay C  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:37:52pm

re: #213 Backwoods_Sleuth

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OK, I ID’d four of the five folks in the LH pic (5/6 if you count William McKinley), but I don’t recognize the guy standing on the far right. .?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:39:28pm

re: #211 Joe Bacon 🌹

Just remember how quick Crooked Carly Fiorina sank in 2016.

I tbh forgot all about her.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:39:44pm

Trump’s messaging was the problem but do carry on.

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calochortus  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:40:00pm

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I tbh forgot all about her.

And aren’t you happier for having done so?

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:40:19pm

re: #211 Joe Bacon 🌹

Just remember how quick Crooked Carly Fiorina sank in 2016.

She became Ted Cruz’s running mate!

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:41:06pm

re: #225 calochortus

And aren’t you happier for having done so?

Incredibly so.

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Jay C  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:41:31pm

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I tbh forgot all about her.

Obviously a spell cast by the demon sheep.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:41:41pm

re: #226 bd(Redacted)

She became Ted Cruz’s running mate!

Yep I remember that now.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:50:45pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:53:12pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:53:17pm

re: #211 Joe Bacon 🌹

Just remember how quick Crooked Carly Fiorina sank in 2016.

That wasn’t because she was a woman though. She had quite the message with the “Planned Parenthood is selling baby parts” which sparked the shooting in Colorado Springs. The GOP is still using that messaging today.

What sank her was what sank every not-Trump in the 2016 GOP clown car. Trump identified the weakest person (and Carly Fiorina had little name recognition) and attacked relentlessly. The others would join in hoping to pick up the supporters.

Trump then turned on the next, then the next. All of the candidates could have beat him, none of them could work together to do it (because conservatism is about gaining and maintaining power).

By the time it was down to just Alberta Ted, it was too late. Trump had swept up all the supporters of the other candidates.

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retired cynic  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:55:20pm

re: #232 Anymouse 🌹

Yes. It was so stupid to watch them all piling on, like kids on a playground.

Although, really, kids are nicer.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:58:06pm

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I tbh forgot all about her.

You never forget a crooked CEO who stole your cousin’s pension and health care when she fleeced the folks at Lucent!

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gocart mozart  Jan 1, 2019 • 7:59:53pm
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Ace Rothstein  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:13:45pm

re: #203 MsJ

How do George and Kellyanne stay married?

[Embedded content]

Lots of angry sex.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:14:30pm

re: #233 retired cynic

Yes. It was so stupid to watch them all piling on, like kids on a playground.

Although, really, kids are nicer.

The candidates really were all just awful.

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calochortus  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:15:10pm

re: #236 Ace Rothstein

Lots of angry sex.

Ewww.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:15:15pm

re: #236 Ace Rothstein

Lots of angry sex.

Gross. She looks like a corpse.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:15:41pm

re: #237 HappyWarrior

The candidates really were all just awful.

Of course they were. They are all Republicans.

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Ace Rothstein  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:16:15pm

Sorry for #236, lol.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:18:07pm

re: #240 MsJ

Of course they were. They are all Republicans.

Even for Republicans. Just an awful bunch of assholes.

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:19:11pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:19:51pm

re: #239 MsJ

Gross. She looks like a corpse.

Did someone say corpse?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:19:54pm

re: #243 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

I voted for Trump.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:20:33pm

re: #243 teleskiguy

LOL. My wife told that to me when she was getting directions from my step-father to go around Chicago, and I butted in to be helpful.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:20:57pm

re: #242 HappyWarrior

Even for Republicans. Just an awful bunch of assholes.

Redundant. 😉

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:23:14pm

re: #244 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Did someone say corpse?

[Embedded content]

Except she’s already there. She’s like the daughter of kryptkeeper krauthammer.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:23:52pm

Wow, this McDonalds employee (a woman) beat the crap out of a much bigger white guy after he attacked her over the counter (with short video):

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:24:22pm

re: #247 MsJ

Redundant. 😉

This warrants a citation from The Department of Redundancy Department.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:29:58pm

re: #249 Anymouse 🌹

Wow, this McDonalds employee (a woman) beat the crap out of a much bigger white guy after he attacked her over the counter (with short video):

[Embedded content]

It just pisses me off to no end that Trump has made it acceptable for white thugs to attack people of color.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:36:01pm

re: #251 Joe Bacon 🌹

It just pisses me off to no end that Trump has made it acceptable for white thugs to attack people of color.

And it’s so satisfying when those thugs get the crap beaten out of them.

This guy is now Internet famous. I imagine by tomorrow if he has a job, he won’t any more, and humiliating video of him getting the crap beat out of him will be thrown in his face every time he posts something on the Internet.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:45:44pm

Mexican mayor shot and killed after being sworn in (The Hill)

The new mayor of a city in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca was killed shortly after being sworn in Tuesday, the state’s governor confirmed.

Alejandro Aparicio Santiago, the new mayor of the small city Tlaxiaco, had just been sworn in and was on his way to a meeting at city hall when gunmen opened fire, fatally injuring him and wounding four others, the Associated Press reported.

Santiago died after being taken to a hospital,

Oaxaca Gov. Alejandro Murat condemned the killing in a tweet, and said a suspect was already in custody.

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sagehen  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:46:45pm

re: #203 MsJ

How do George and Kellyanne stay married?

[Embedded content]

Hypothesis:

Marital privilege… neither can be forced to testify against the other. And they both have reasons they want to retain that.

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ckkatz  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:49:32pm

Happy New Year!

Just got back in town.

First order of business, here is the January 2019 free Washington Post month long pass. First person gets it:

wapo.st

Now to try and catch up with the multiple threads I missed. (Ha!)

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wrenchwench  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:54:30pm

re: #253 Anymouse 🌹

Mexican mayor shot and killed after being sworn in (The Hill)

I know a guy here who has become a US citizen who lived in that state when he was a boy, until shortly after he saw his father shot and killed. That was about 50 years ago.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 8:56:15pm

re: #256 wrenchwench

I know a guy here who has become a US citizen who lived in that state when he was a boy, until shortly after he saw his father shot and killed. That was about 50 years ago.

This appears to be drug cartel violence. Apparently four others were shot as well.

You don’t want to read the comments at The Hill though. They are a wingnut tire fire.

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MsJ  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:02:18pm

Kinda depressing thread. Republicans don’t know right from wrong and will do anything to retain power.

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ObserverArt  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:02:30pm

re: #222 Jay C

OK, I ID’d four of the five folks in the LH pic (5/6 if you count William McKinley), but I don’t recognize the guy standing on the far right. .?

I don’t think anyone answered you.

I believe that is Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass, who will be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

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TedStriker  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:05:13pm

re: #239 MsJ

Gross. She looks like a corpse.

Hey, some people are into that stuff…you just tend to see them around morgues, hospitals, and funeral homes.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:05:19pm

re: #258 MsJ

Kinda depressing thread. Republicans don’t know right from wrong and will do anything to retain power.

Gee, Joe, thanks for giving him all that time on your show.

Meanwhile, in the realm of the pathetic, when conservatives can’t steal actual military valour, they make it up to steal. This thread is bonkers.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:10:33pm

re: #258 MsJ

Can’t help but note Brooks will not actually say “Republicans in Congress” and has to go for the general “congressional leaders” and throw in a bit of general blame by claiming that the “anti-establishment” language of (insert gloss for “both sides” here) is to blame.

Also, can we talk about how much money this man makes writing pieces that use the same structure as a mediocre college midterm? That “My Antonia” reference drop is just…nothing triggers my Madame Lafarge reflex like the thought that this passes for intelligent commentary among moneyed, “educated” people.

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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:15:29pm

re: #262 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery

David Brooks. Jonah Goldberg. William Kristol. These moneyed assholes are the same as Fuckface Von Clownstick in that they think they are absolutely correct 100% of the time. Malignant Narcissism is a terrible mental illness.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:18:28pm

re: #263 teleskiguy

David Brooks. Jonah Goldberg. William Kristol. These moneyed assholes are the same as Fuckface Von Clownstick in that they think they are absolutely correct 100% of the time. Malignant Narcissism is a terrible mental illness.

And of people like Bill Kristol, Bari Weiss, Jennifer Rubin, Steve Schmidt, &c. who complain about Trump, none of them will admit their parts in bringing him to the fore.

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Single-handed sailor  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:19:21pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:22:05pm
It’s a brand new year. And hey, look! You’re exactly the same but now you have mild alcohol poisoning and your friend got hit by that drunk driver and died killed himself with a pistol, but yo #fam, it’s 2019, where nothing changes and nothing matters. Especially not you.

Eat Arby’s

True story. We’re spreading his ashes this summer up at Triangle Park.

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Jay C  Jan 1, 2019 • 9:30:08pm

re: #259 ObserverArt

I don’t think anyone answered you.

I believe that is Rep. Richard Neal, D-Mass, who will be chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee.

Nope. Just you. Thanks.

And yep, that’s Neal.

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 1, 2019 • 10:20:23pm

re: #266 teleskiguy

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Hecuba's daughter  Jan 1, 2019 • 10:35:48pm

re: #264 Anymouse 🌹

And of people like Bill Kristol, Bari Weiss, Jennifer Rubin, Steve Schmidt, &c. who complain about Trump, none of them will admit their parts in bringing him to the fore.

At least Jennifer Rubin and Steve Schmidt seem to have changed their views about issues, though Jennifer remains too fond of Mitt and does not recognize that he is part of the problem. Too many “good” Republicans detest Trump for style and not policy. Yes, civility is important — but so are policies. And Trump domestic policies are standard Republican fare. OTOH, most Republicans would differ radically from Trump in interactions with other nations; they would be following traditional foreign and trade policies and they would not be exhibiting this level of antipathy to immigrants from south of the border.

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b_sharp  Jan 2, 2019 • 10:53:51am

re: #192 MsJ

I’m kinda in love with your mom!

She gave me my love of animals. Unfortunately she died of cancer in 1994 so I have to carry on the doggo and fuzzball love.


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