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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:31:50am
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:32:03am
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:36:40am

Reminder:

Things on the House Democrats to do list:

1) reopen govt and pass a clean CR
2) pass a new/improved VRA
3) pass a permanent VAWA
4) strengthen protection for independent counsel’s office.
5) climate change

Impeachment is a distinct possibility too. Nancy getting under Trump’s skin from before day 1 is totally worth it.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:38:12am

Donnie’s glitch is continuing into the new year: -521.51 (-2.23%) As of 2:37PM EST.

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:39:48am
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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:40:02am

re: #3 lawhawk

Nancy getting under Trump’s skin from before day 1 is totally worth it.

The literally thought of getting under his disgusting disfigured orange skin is a horrifying vision.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:40:23am

re: #4 Dr. Matt

Donnie’s glitch is continuing into the new year: -521.51 (-2.23%) As of 2:37PM EST.

So much winning.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:40:58am
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:42:52am

re: #5 gocart mozart

Full video

Phoenix - Lisztomania - Boston University Brat Pack Mashup

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:42:54am

God has spoken….

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:43:33am

What a lovely woman. No wonder the RWNJs hate her so much.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:46:13am

re: #5 gocart mozart

AOC really drives the Q’s crazy.

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Teukka  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:47:20am

re: #12 Sir John Barron

AOC really drives the Q’s crazyier.

FTFY.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:47:40am

re: #11 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

What a lovely woman. No wonder the RWNJs hate her so much.

They literally are triggered by her. Wow. Congrats to AOC.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:47:43am

Answering a comment from last thread from dangerman regarding my post about Liz Warren suggesting the Democrats running for president in 2020 form a central theme on important issues they can all agree to.

re: #168 dangerman

Dangerman said Bernie would mess things up and would not agree to the common themes.

First off, if Bernie runs it is my understanding that he has to run as a Democrat and serve as a Democrat. New rules!

Second, Bernie is going to have a tough go this time. Familiar knowledge of him now and his campaign having the abuse issues with Bernie claiming he didn’t know about any of it is going to be damaging.

The shine is off Bernie now. He doesn’t look the same to a lot of people. And he will be up against a pretty good line-up.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:48:04am
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Alephnaught  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:50:38am

More about Piers Morgan having a “It’s political correctness gone maaad!!!!!1!!!ELEVENTY!!11!” Twitter meltdown about Greggs the bakers doing a vegan sausage roll.

(Piers Morgan was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror for okaying a fake news story.)

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Michele: Out of the closet and into the fire  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:52:59am

Including ALL the children present was a class act that the rethuglicans will be screaming about.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:53:16am
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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:56:50am

re: #16 Dr. Matt

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I thought we shouldn’t judge people for what they were in high school or is that only if they’re Federalist Society paid shills.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:57:25am
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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:57:42am

re: #17 Alephnaught

More about Piers Morgan having a “It’s political correctness gone maaad!!!!!1!!!ELEVENTY!!11!” Twitter meltdown about Greggs the bakers doing a vegan sausage roll.

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(Piers Morgan was sacked as editor of the Daily Mirror for okaying a fake news story.)

Don’t you have anything to do better than whine about vegan sausage you insufferable wanker?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:59:25am

What is it about people freaking out about food orders?

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 11:59:37am

re: #20 HappyWarrior

I thought we shouldn’t judge people for what they were in high school or is that only if they’re Federalist Society paid shills.

A video is released of Donnie admitted to sexually assaulting women and the Nazis are: meh.

A video is released showing a politician having fun as a high schooler and the Nazis are: triggered level 12.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:01:11pm

re: #24 Dr. Matt

A video is released of Donnie admitted to sexually assaulting women and the Nazis are: meh.

A video is released showing a politician having fun as a high schooler and the Nazis are: triggered level 12.

Seriously. She lives rent free in their head. Im enjoying it because AOC is smart and going places.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:01:36pm

More companies are warning on profits as Trump’s idiotic trade war is having an effect.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:03:03pm

re: #26 lawhawk

More companies are warning on profits as Trump’s idiotic trade war is having an effect.

“Why are these companies selling to China? They should only be selling in the United States.” - Trump, soon

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Alephnaught  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:04:10pm

BTW The photo here is of Billy Connolly in the Glasgow Necropolis, which is near where I live.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:04:11pm

...

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:04:14pm

CL’d once again….

re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why Democrats need illegals:

For every 770,000 illegals who filled out the 2010 census in a leftist state, the Democrats got another vote in the electoral college

Foreign nationals should NOT be counted in the census. It rewards law breaking and gives Democrats a upper hand!

cmon, chuck. think.

- many foreign nationals are residents and pay taxes

- also i dont think this is what you meant.
- people move from state to state - if 770k people move from a red state to a blue…
but that’s different
- there are 538 elector slots. new ones arent created out of whole cloth if 770k people move into a particular state.
unless you’re suggesting that the nefarious dems are packing the country every 1 year out of every 10 years to rig the census by letting so many millions of people in (and telling them where to settle) that they can skew the representation

ps - trump estimated the other day something like 30-35m illegals in the country
yeah we know it’s high. still 35m/770k = say 45 electors
1 - how’d that work out for the dems in 2016?
2- when were those 45 electors reapportioned between 2012 and 2016?

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:04:28pm

re: #20 HappyWarrior

I thought we shouldn’t judge people for what they were in high school or is that only if they’re Federalist Society paid shills.

This is different because

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:06:12pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Full video

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Now some enterprising reporter has to track down the other people in that video for a “Where Are They Now?” story.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:06:15pm

re: #31 Sir John Barron

This is different because

Yeah i know. It’s amazing how much AOC triggers them. I’m not sure what they hate most: that she’s a woman, Latina, & doesn’t give lip service to capitalism.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:06:22pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:06:57pm

re: #8 lawhawk

The witless wonder ignores that the so-called wall around the Vatican has multiple entry points, & you can easily walk in/out. We’ve been down this argument rabbit hole before; it was bogus then. It’s more so now. It’s proof Trump never learns & his know nothing base doesn’t care

and dont they let pretty much anyone pass through any of those multiple entry points?

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:07:52pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

OK, I give up. What’s the scandal or outrage here?

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:08:25pm

re: #15 ObserverArt

Answering a comment from last thread from dangerman regarding my post about Liz Warren suggesting the Democrats running for president in 2020 form a central theme on important issues they can all agree to.

Dangerman said Bernie would mess things up and would not agree to the common themes.

First off, if Bernie runs it is my understanding that he has to run as a Democrat and serve as a Democrat. New rules!

Second, Bernie is going to have a tough go this time. Familiar knowledge of him now and his campaign having the abuse issues with Bernie claiming he didn’t know about any of it is going to be damaging.

The shine is off Bernie now. He doesn’t look the same to a lot of people. And he will be up against a pretty good line-up.

fair enough
(and i was half snarking)

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:08:42pm

re: #36 Sir John Barron

OK, I give up. What’s the scandal or outrage here?

AOC was 17 once! It’s just awful!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:08:42pm

re: #36 Sir John Barron

OK, I give up. What’s the scandal or outrage here?

A young colored person was having fun and that simply can’t be allowed

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:09:44pm

re: #32 sagehen

Now some enterprising reporter has to track down the other people in that video for a “Where Are They Now?” story.

NYT Headlines Tomorrow: AOC seen trespassing in high school video

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:10:25pm
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makeitstop  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:10:26pm

re: #36 Sir John Barron

OK, I give up. What’s the scandal or outrage here?

They have no one anywhere near as charismatic?

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:10:44pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

And why exactly would AOC supporters care about what she did in High School unless it was criminal in nature? Weren’t these same people up in arms that Democrats highlighted Kavanaugh’s attempted rapes while he was in High School?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:10:59pm

I’m just sick of all the crap she gets. And I didn’t like McCaskill calling her a shiny object either.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:11:26pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

So someone with a Twitter handle named AnonymousQ is upset that AOC went by the name Sandy once?

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:11:59pm

re: #24 Dr. Matt

A video is released of Donnie admitted to sexually assaulting women and the Nazis are: meh.

A video is released showing a politician high schooler having fun as a high schooler and the Nazis are: triggered level 12.

(future politican, im assuming)

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:12:14pm

re: #41 bd(Redacted)

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The people too stupid to realize this are dudebro assholes who can’t accept that impeaching Bush was going to be a longshot and that Pelosi isn’t going to disparage capitalism.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:12:53pm

re: #36 Sir John Barron

OK, I give up. What’s the scandal or outrage here?

Congressperson demonstrates blood flow to the brain and extremities.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:12:55pm

re: #46 dangerman

(future politican, im assuming)

AOC

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:13:37pm
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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:14:16pm

Youtube Video

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:15:13pm

re: #50 gocart mozart

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Yeah I’m sorry but I can’t look at Bernie and see THE FUTURE!

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:16:54pm

re: #50 gocart mozart

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Sunshine Boys… I’m willing to admit I wouldn’t mind see them both shuffle off to retirement in the Sunshine State, maybe a couple of condos in Palm Beach?

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:18:30pm
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calochortus  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:19:24pm

re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

What is it about people freaking out about food orders?

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Apparently a lot of people out there are unhappy and feel powerless. This is how they express it.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:21:42pm

zinke may be zunk

Justice Dept. investigating whether Zinke lied to inspector general

… a potential criminal violation that would exacerbate Zinke’s legal woes.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:23:11pm

From the previous thread:

re: #358 dangerman

(rest cut)

ps - trump estimated the other day something like 30-35m illegals in the country
yeah we know it’s high. still 35m/770k = say 45 electors

That has been a white supremacist/conservative talking point for decades. “See all these ill eagles taking your jerbs!”

That number is the total number of people who have Mexican ancestry, are immigrants or green card holders, or undocumneted.

35 million is more than 10% of the population. The white supremacist/conservative talking point for decades has been to deport all those, including citizens.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:26:09pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:28:46pm

re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Did the text-setter suffer a stroke?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:29:13pm

re: #59 Targetpractice

Did the text-setter suffer a stroke?

cut and paste edit mishap

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:29:14pm

re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth

Let me guess: Cat ran across the Chyron keyboard.

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Danack  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:30:14pm

re: #5 gocart mozart

check mate libtards!!1!

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:30:52pm

Trump is doing it again.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:31:01pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹

From the previous thread:

(rest cut)

That has been a white supremacist/conservative talking point for decades. “See all these ill eagles taking your jerbs!”

That number is the total number of people who have Mexican ancestry, are immigrants or green card holders, or undocumneted.

35 million is more than 10% of the population. The white supremacist/conservative talking point for decades has been to deport all those, including citizens.

oh i get it
i figured the higher the number the more absurd the claim becomes

here’s a map

look which states predominantly gained electors after the 2010 census
hint: not blue ones. biggest winners, texas and florida.

and the total swing was 12 electors reallocated

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:31:44pm

re: #36 Sir John Barron

OK, I give up. What’s the scandal or outrage here?

She’s having fun.

Kinda like Footloose. Fun is immoral to conservatives.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:32:02pm

re: #57 Anymouse 🌹

From the previous thread:

(rest cut)

That has been a white supremacist/conservative talking point for decades. “See all these ill eagles taking your jerbs!”

That number is the total number of people who have Mexican ancestry, are immigrants or green card holders, or undocumneted.

35 million is more than 10% of the population. The white supremacist/conservative talking point for decades has been to deport all those, including citizens.

It’s actually pretty close to the total number of foreign-born people in the US

The number of foreign-born people in the United States grew last year to its highest share in over a century, according to Census Bureau data published on Thursday.

The increase took the number of foreign-born residents to 44.5 million in 2017, up 1.8 percent from a year earlier.

(snip)

Foreign-born residents made up 13.7 percent of the U.S. population in 2017, up from 13.5 percent in 2016, according to the Census Bureau’s estimates. That put the proportion of immigrants in the United States last year at the highest since 1910, when they made up 14.7 percent of the population.

The racism is going to get worse as the country gets less white. For comparison’s sake, the 2000 census showed the population as 75% white, in 2010 the census showed the country as only 63.7% white; but a big part of that is because in 2000 they didn’t count Hispanic/Latino as a separate racial category.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:32:05pm

re: #62 Danack

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I can’t imagine Ben Shapiro actually being happy. His whole Twitter persona. He’s the oldest 35 year old ever. AOC otoh would be fun to go to a show, bar, game, etc with.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:32:08pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Trump is doing it again.

he’s desperate

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:32:33pm

re: #63 Charles Johnson

Trump is doing it again.

Rage tweeting?

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:32:41pm

re: #54 Charles Johnson

Or they’re just pissed that AOC is such a young, energetic Democratic rock star. They’re trying to bring her down a notch. Won’t work with those of us who see through their foolishness and watch as they support the dangerous, bullying, unqualified, bigoted fool in the White House.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:33:43pm

re: #66 KGxvi

**raises hand**

I’m one of those foreign-born Americans and proudly so. Republicans can suck it. We’re here. We vote. We’re not leaving. Deal.

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:33:49pm

re: #41 bd(Redacted)

Nancy Pelosi with JFK:

I wonder if she had sex with him. She’s that age…

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:34:20pm

didnt take very long

Democrats are on the verge of chaos, and 2020 hasn’t even started

(it is the washington examiner, after all)

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:35:00pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:35:11pm

re: #71 Patricia Kayden

**raises hand**

I’m one of those foreign-born Americans and proudly so. Republicans can suck it. We’re here. We vote. We’re not leaving. Deal.

deal and deal

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:35:15pm

re: #71 Patricia Kayden

**raises hand**

I’m one of those foreign-born Americans and proudly so. Republicans can suck it. We’re here. We vote. We’re not leaving. Deal.

A good chunk of my family is foreign born, though they’re getting older. But Republicans probably don’t mind most of them because we’re Cuban and thus, at least temporarily, the “good kind.”

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:35:38pm

re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’m sure this guy would never shoot anyone.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:35:38pm

re: #69 HappyWarrior

Rage tweeting?

handy crisis at the border video to scare Pelosi into giving him the money

good luck with that

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:36:12pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

handy crisis at the border video to scare Pelosi into giving him the money

good luck with that

Ah ha

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:37:12pm

re: #8 lawhawk

lawhawk
@lawhawk
The witless wonder ignores that the so-called wall around the Vatican has multiple entry points, & you can easily walk in/out. We’ve been down this argument rabbit hole before; it was bogus then. It’s more so now. It’s proof Trump never learns & his know nothing base doesn’t care

2:39 PM - Jan 3, 2019

It is more than not being able to learn. He can’t remember what he said or thought two seconds ago.

Even the rabbit holes are unfamiliar.

The dude’s brain is fried. He may be in worse shape that Ronnie Reagan was at the end of his second term. At least Reagan could read the words and follow them to fake it.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:37:37pm

re: #71 Patricia Kayden

**raises hand**

I’m one of those foreign-born Americans and proudly so. Republicans can suck it. We’re here. We vote. We’re not leaving. Deal.

So is Donny Two Scoops wife.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:38:12pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

handy crisis at the border video to scare Pelosi into giving him the money

good luck with that

The “crisis” so dire that we need a wall 10 years from now to stop it.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:38:15pm

re: #76 KGxvi

I have a good friend who is Cuban (grew up in Miami). When I first met her, she was Republican (although she was deeply ashamed of Palin). Now, she is a staunch Democrat. A couple of government shutdowns hastened her departure from the Republican Party. The one going on now is probably going to strengthen her resolve about Republicans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:38:24pm

re: #80 ObserverArt

It is more than not being able to learn. He can’t remember what he said or thought two seconds ago.

Even the rabbit holes are unfamiliar.

The dude’s brain is fried. He may be in worse shape that Ronnie Reagan was at the end of his second term. At least Reagan could read the words and follow them to fake it.

he can’t even remember how his sentences begin, much less end them coherently

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:39:43pm
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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:40:25pm

re: #62 Danack

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check mate libtards!!1!

That thread. Some of the responses are too funny.

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Jay C  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:40:37pm

re: #72 sagehen

I wonder if she had sex with him. She’s that age…

Jeez, man! Is that the first thing you thought of?

TBH, I would have thought the same, except to see the look on young Miss D’Alesandro’s face: to be charitable, I’d classify it as “confused”…

Also brings me back to the discussion we had here the other day about living memories and history: Nancy Pelosi (b. 3/26/1940) would have been in her early 20’s when that pic was taken (which she might remember): she’s still around and making news in 2019: John Kennedy’s Admin. has long been history…

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:40:41pm

Mongers gotta Monger

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:41:50pm

re: #83 Patricia Kayden

I have a good friend who is Cuban (grew up in Miami). When I first met her, she was Republican (although she was deeply ashamed of Palin). Now, she is a staunch Democrat. A couple of government shutdowns hastened her departure from the Republican Party. The one going on now is probably going to strengthen her resolve about Republicans.

Sadly, my mom is all aboard the Trump Train. My aunt has been opposed to Trump pretty much from the get go. Not sure about my uncle, mostly because I’ve never really talked politics with him. And I’ve no real idea where any of the extended family is at now, politically.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:41:51pm

re: #85 Dave In Austin

I presume Cindy McCain is not talking about Republicans here.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:41:56pm

re: #30 dangerman

At most there’s 11 million here illegally. Nearly half are on visa overstays, not illegal border crossings.

All end up paying taxes - sales, fuel, alcohol/cigarette, etc.. so to say that they’re a massive drain is an absolute lie.

770,000 isn’t even remotely close to what shifts a seat in Congress from one state to another. He thinks all these illegals are in Blue states, as opposed to Texas and red states picking up counts based on those working in agriculture (like AZ, NE, etc.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:42:15pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:42:46pm

re: #88 Dave In Austin

Mongers gotta Monger

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The harder he tries to push back, the more humiliating his defeat is going to end up being.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:43:32pm

re: #89 KGxvi

Sadly, my mom is all aboard the Trump Train. My aunt has been opposed to Trump pretty much from the get go. Not sure about my uncle, mostly because I’ve never really talked politics with him. And I’ve no real idea where any of the extended family is at now, politically.

My mother never voted (feeling military veterans should not vote) until the Tammy Duckworth/Mark Kirk campaign where Kirk claimed stolen valour. With the 2016 primary she went in for Sanders, and in the general election she went all in for Clinton.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:43:44pm

re: #77 plansbandc

I’m sure this guy would never shoot anyone.

One of his previous arrests was for firearms possesion

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:43:54pm
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:44:18pm
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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:44:54pm

re: #85 Dave In Austin

WHY DOES CINDY MACCAIN HATE DJT AND MAGA WHO DOES SHE THINK SHE IS LIAR!

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:45:20pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

With the goings on in the House today, Someones feeling left out and had to reach into the Miller bag-o-tricks for some bigot porn.

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Citizen K  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:45:51pm

re: #85 Dave In Austin

“To all who took the oath of office today: please take that oath with dignity and honor. Please serve with humility . Be worthy of serving a cause greater than yourself.”

“Because a lot of the people you replaced certainly didn’t serve with any of that, and it’s gotta start somewhere.”

I’d like to believe she was talking to most of the GOP Congressmen, but then again, I’m not naive enough to think she’d go that route.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:46:19pm

re: #19 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson ✔
@Green_Footballs
Replying to @Green_Footballs
It’s nice not to feel angry and embarrassed about something happening in Washington for a change.

2:52 PM - Jan 3, 2019

What a great image. She is there, as are all the Democrats, to represent the future unlike the old Republican farts that are there representing themselves and others like them to protect and keep their damn money.

Change we can believe in.

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:47:31pm

re: #66 KGxvi

The racism is going to get worse as the country gets less white. For comparison’s sake, the 2000 census showed the population as 75% white, in 2010 the census showed the country as only 63.7% white; but a big part of that is because in 2000 they didn’t count Hispanic/Latino as a separate racial category.

As soon as the white percentage seems close to dropping below 50%… Hispanic/Latino will be broken into hispanic white, hispanic black, and mestizo or indigenous. The white hispanics will suddenly become just white, and there they are back in the majority again.

It’s how the Irish became white. It’s how Italians became white. Jury’s still out on whether Ashkenazi are white.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:47:51pm

re: #88 Dave In Austin

Mongers gotta Monger

What’s the pic of?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:48:37pm

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:49:56pm

Media for the next 24 hours: NANCY PELOSI MAKES OVERLY POLITICAL SPEECH!!!

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:50:31pm

re: #97 lawhawk

Today is turning out rather well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:50:48pm

re: #104 Anymouse 🌹

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nitpicking: today is the 100th anniversary of white women getting the vote. The rest had to wait a few more decades.

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Citizen K  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:51:06pm

re: #102 sagehen

As soon as the white percentage seems close to dropping below 50%… Hispanic/Latino will be broken into hispanic white, hispanic black, and mestizo or indigenous. The white hispanics will suddenly become just white, and there they are back in the majority again.

It’s how the Irish became white. It’s how Italians became white. Jury’s still out on whether Ashkenazi are white.

They’re provisionally white when convenient for the majority, and only then. We’ve seen how much ‘whiteness’ has spared them from the anti-semitism surge since 2016, after all.

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calochortus  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:51:15pm

re: #103 Sir John Barron

What’s the pic of?

It’s a video of random shots of migrants milling around, throwing things, looking scary, and then Trump saying we have to build the wall. Followed by Schumer saying illegal immigration is wrong and people chanting “Build the wall.”

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:51:31pm

re: #28 Alephnaught

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BTW The photo here is of Billy Connolly in the Glasgow Necropolis, which is near where I live.

If that photo is recent, then Billy looks to be in far better shape than my brother in Arizona that is also not doing well from Parkinson’s.

Not to down play his situation. Parkinson’s sucks.

My brother can hardly swallow his muscle control is that weakened. Which means at some point he may not be able to breathe. He can’t even hold his head up and has been regulated to a wheelchair for over two years now.

Yeah, Parkinson’s sucks.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:53:12pm

re: #110 ObserverArt

I’m so very sorry.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:53:31pm

re: #37 dangerman

fair enough
(and i was half snarking)

Oh, I was contending your point. I was just adding to it. Bernie is damaged goods. I’m sick of his act.

Bye bye Bernie!

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:53:54pm

re: #109 calochortus

It’s a video of random shots of migrants milling around, throwing things, looking scary, and then Trump saying we have to build the wall. Followed by Schumer saying illegal immigration is wrong and people chanting “Build the wall.”

PRESIDENT MAGA BRINGING EVERYONE TOGETHER!!!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:54:48pm

re: #102 sagehen

As soon as the white percentage seems close to dropping below 50%… Hispanic/Latino will be broken into hispanic white, hispanic black, and mestizo or indigenous. The white hispanics will suddenly become just white, and there they are back in the majority again.

It’s how the Irish became white. It’s how Italians became white. Jury’s still out on whether Ashkenazi are white.

So Sephardim are not white, right? That would make Abraham Cardozo the first nonwhite SC Justice instead of Thurgood Marshall…

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:55:04pm

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

A young colored person was having fun and that simply can’t be allowed

Looks like that was all shot at Boston U. where she went to college. I’m guessing she is about 19 or 20 in the video.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:56:31pm

re: #110 ObserverArt

If that photo is recent, then Billy looks to be in far better shape than my brother in Arizona that is also not doing well from Parkinson’s.

Not to down play his situation. Parkinson’s sucks.

My brother can hardly swallow his muscle control is that weakened. Which means at some point he may not be able to breathe. He can’t even hold his head up and has been regulated to a wheelchair for over two years now.

Yeah, Parkinson’s sucks.

That’s what killed my Dad—eventually you’re asleep and just forget to breathe. Hoping the best for your brother—sometimes the progression stops and starts.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:56:39pm

Meanwhile, the mirror universe, newly-elected speaker Kevin McCarthy gracefully takes the gavel while avoiding politics in his acceptance speech…nah, I’m just joshing, he’s bashing Democrats and Hillary hard while promising voters he’s about to kill any sort of legislative agenda she had for the next two years.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:56:49pm

Trump’s Sexist Playbook Won’t Work Against All These Powerful Women (Huffington Post, caution for auto-play video)

Starting Thursday, the president will be forced to contend with Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and an onslaught of female politicians. He’s not equipped for it.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:57:16pm

re: #100 Citizen K

“Because a lot of the people you replaced certainly didn’t serve with any of that, and it’s gotta start somewhere.”

I’d like to believe she was talking to most of the GOP Congressmen, but then again, I’m not naive enough to think she’d go that route.

She’s asking the Democrats to be the “grown up party” but, as with most Republicans, she really just means “you should concede to Republicans because that’s what compromise means.”

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:58:40pm

My parents as were my grandparents are and we’re pretty reliably Democratic. Same thing with my aunts and uncles and cousins mostly I think. Got some more wingnutty on my parents cousins tho. I also have a professional biography of my grandfather’s father describing him as a Republican but it’s from the 20’s so I don’t know what his ideology was especially given his son was a huge liberal. My mom’s grandfather’s immigrant miners were Dems. Big FDR and John Lewis fans. My Nana’s father apparently hated Truman but Dad’s cousin didn’t know whether it was for lefty or right reasons. He was an elevator operator and a Catholic and Truman wasn’t too popular at all in that era.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:58:44pm

re: #72 sagehen

I wonder if she had sex with him. She’s that age…

Uncomfortable!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:59:09pm

DJI -666.20 (-2.85%)

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:59:31pm

Just imagine how the old boys of the GOP talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in private.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:59:36pm

re: #122 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

DJI -666.20 (-2.85%)

I’ve gotten tired of all this winning.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 12:59:38pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Trump’s Sexist Playbook Won’t Work Against All These Powerful Women (Huffington Post, caution for auto-play video)

Starting Thursday, the president will be forced to contend with Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and an onslaught of female politicians. He’s not equipped for it.

He’s absolutely unable to control what comes out of his mouth. It’s not going to win any friends or influence any people the next two years.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:00:01pm

re: #102 sagehen

As soon as the white percentage seems close to dropping below 50%… Hispanic/Latino will be broken into hispanic white, hispanic black, and mestizo or indigenous. The white hispanics will suddenly become just white, and there they are back in the majority again.

It’s how the Irish became white. It’s how Italians became white. Jury’s still out on whether Ashkenazi are white.

The only flaw in that particular plan is that white Latinos are already voting like the rest of the white population. There’s no one to really add.

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Citizen K  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:00:08pm

re: #119 Belafon

She’s asking the Democrats to be the “grown up party” but, as with most Republicans, she really just means “you should concede to Republicans because that’s what compromise means.”

Yep, because that’s what bipartisanship is in Washington these days: Dems making constant concessions and the GOP complaining that they haven’t been catered to enough no matter how much they’re kowtowed to.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:00:39pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Just imagine how the old boys of the GOP talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in private.

Remember Trump calling Alicia Machado “Ms. Housekeeping.” Same thing with the other women of color sworn in today.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:01:08pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Just imagine how the old boys of the GOP talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in private.

I imagine today was a horror show for them, between all the women & minorities (or both) taking the oath of office and Pelosi getting back the gavel. 2 years ago, they thought they were ascendant, on the cusp of a new GOP golden age. And today, they’re back to grousing from the back bench.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:02:06pm

Drink up, gang!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:02:15pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Just imagine how the old boys of the GOP talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in private.

I got $10 that says Trump will attack her in a tweet by the middle of next week.

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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:02:53pm

re: #103 Sir John Barron

Trump propaganda short

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:02:58pm

re: #124 Targetpractice

I’ve gotten tired of all this winning.

MARK OF THE BEAST!

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:03:01pm

re: #127 Citizen K

Yep, because that’s what bipartisanship is in Washington these days: Dems making constant concessions and the GOP complaining that they haven’t been catered to enough no matter how much they’re kowtowed to.

And the media saying that the Dems are wrong for not “meeting in the middle” with Repubs because “compromise” is giving the GOP 99% of their demands with the understanding that they’ll get that 1% later.

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Mike Lamb  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:04:05pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Just imagine how the old boys of the GOP talk about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in private.

I imagine a horrifically less funny version of the scenes from Anchorman.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:04:09pm

re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg

I got $10 that says Trump will attack her in a tweet by the middle of next week.

He can’t spell “counsel” or “border”. Gotta wonder how he’ll spell her name….

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:04:15pm

re: #102 sagehen

As soon as the white percentage seems close to dropping below 50%… Hispanic/Latino will be broken into hispanic white, hispanic black, and mestizo or indigenous. The white hispanics will suddenly become just white, and there they are back in the majority again.

It’s how the Irish became white. It’s how Italians became white. Jury’s still out on whether Ashkenazi are white.

They’re already doing that, if you look at the way demographics are being calculated recently. A lot of “white Latino/Hispanic” and “white non-Hispanic” categories. I suspect though that there will be more fighting about it this time around.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:04:21pm

re: #116 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

That’s what killed my Dad—eventually you’re asleep and just forget to breathe. Hoping the best for your brother—sometimes the progression stops and starts.

I wish that were so. His just seems to be regression.

Forget to add: Thanks for the sentiment.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:05:26pm

re: #100 Citizen K

“Because a lot of the people you replaced certainly didn’t serve with any of that, and it’s gotta start somewhere.”

I’d like to believe she was talking to most of the GOP Congressmen, but then again, I’m not naive enough to think she’d go that route.

She may have been talking to them, the question is whether they’d bother listening?

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:05:36pm

re: #132 Dave In Austin

Trump propaganda short

ILLEGALS MIGRANTS STORM BORDER AS NANCY TAKES OVER HOUSE SCARY SCARY

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:06:00pm

re: #136 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

He can’t spell “counsel” or “border”. Gotta wonder how he’ll spell her name….

He’ll shorten it to something like “Alex” so he can come up with one of “pithy” nicknames that give Chris Cillizza tingles in his nethers.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:07:21pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, the mirror universe, newly-elected speaker Kevin McCarthy gracefully takes the gavel while avoiding politics in his acceptance speech…nah, I’m just joshing, he’s bashing Democrats and Hillary hard while promising voters he’s about to kill any sort of legislative agenda she had for the next two years.

McCarthy is a lightweight. Pelosi is going to handle him effectively.

At some point McCarthy’s mouth is going to get him in big trouble.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:08:06pm

re: #129 Targetpractice

I imagine today was a horror show for them, between all the women & minorities (or both) taking the oath of office and Pelosi getting back the gavel. 2 years ago, they thought they were ascendant, on the cusp of a new GOP golden age. And today, they’re back to grousing from the back bench.

If they really thought that, damn, they are dumber than I could have given them credit for.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:08:43pm
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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:09:42pm
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:10:27pm
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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:10:57pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, the mirror universe, newly-elected speaker Kevin McCarthy gracefully takes the gavel while avoiding politics in his acceptance speech…nah, I’m just joshing, he’s bashing Democrats and Hillary hard while promising voters he’s about to kill any sort of legislative agenda she had for the next two years.

Hillary? According to the majority of the free world, the calendar says 2019. FFS.

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:11:01pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:11:12pm

re: #143 KGxvi

If they really thought that, damn, they are dumber than I could have given them credit for.

Well remember, they thought Trump beating the odds meant that the public was largely on the same page as them. That it had rejected Hillary’s “socialism” and so embraced the fruits of conservatism.

2 years later, they’re sitting around, whining that the voters are idiots for not realizing just how awesome starving kids in cages looks to the rest of the world.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:11:52pm

re: #128 HappyWarrior

Remember Trump calling Alicia Machado “Ms. Housekeeping.” Same thing with the other women of color sworn in today.

I’m thinking Charles’ comment might have had a little bit of a different take. An old boy’s take as it were.

As Shiplord Kirel said…she is an attractive young woman.

Dirty ol’ boy’s club. Things they would say in the back room.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:11:55pm

re: #145 gocart mozart

That video will cost him the presidency some day. Sad.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:13:02pm

re: #146 lawhawk

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A “briefing,” by which they mean the manbaby in the Oval Office demands attention, so they’re having Huckaboo jump in front of the cameras to shit talk Pelosi and repeat the ransom demands for the nth time.

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wrenchwench  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:13:34pm

re: #144 Charles Johnson

[This is racist, of course, but even more than that, it’s just plain stupid.]

The two are inseparable.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:13:44pm

Donnie’s glitch at close: 22,686.22; -660.02 (-2.83%).

We are back at Nov 2017 levels.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:14:01pm

re: #118 Anymouse 🌹

Trump’s Sexist Playbook Won’t Work Against All These Powerful Women (Huffington Post, caution for auto-play video)

Starting Thursday, the president will be forced to contend with Nancy Pelosi, Maxine Waters, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and an onslaught of female politicians. He’s not equipped for it.

he never was
take it how you like

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Danack  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:14:21pm

The level of sexism is getting too high for even otherwise oblivious people to not notice.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:14:28pm

re: #154 Dr. Matt

Donnie’s glitch at close: 22,686.22; -660.02 (-2.83%).

We are back at Nov 2017 levels.

I was hoping for 666.00.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:14:29pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:14:48pm

re: #154 Dr. Matt

Donnie’s glitch at close: 22,686.22; -660.02 (-2.83%).

We are back at Nov 2017 levels.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:15:18pm

re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So Sephardim are not white, right? That would make Abraham Cardozo the first nonwhite SC Justice instead of Thurgood Marshall…

You mean Benjamin Cardozo, right? Abraham Cardozo was a cantor. A really good one, but still.

As for Benjamin…

He sure looks like a white guy. But he died in 1938, none of the Jews were white yet.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:15:24pm

About 8 minutes ago

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:15:42pm

re: #158 Patricia Kayden

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“He works for free,” because he’s using the presidency to enrich his businesses.

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Citizen K  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:16:27pm

re: #158 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

Here’s the thing: He probably doesn’t actually need the money. But like any rich leech, he wants more than he has, just by sheer compulsion. It’s not about ‘need’ with folks like Trump, but ‘want’. That’s why the goofy ass ‘The Rich are the most trustworthy with public money, why would they need to steal?!’ bullshit is so infuriating.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:16:34pm

re: #162 Targetpractice

Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding. Ding.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:18:09pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:18:26pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:19:35pm

re: #163 Citizen K

Here’s the thing: He probably doesn’t actually need the money. But like any rich leech, he wants more than he has, just by sheer compulsion. It’s not about ‘need’ with folks like Trump, but ‘want’. That’s why the goofy ass ‘The Rich are the most trustworthy with public money, why would they need to steal?!’ bullshit is so infuriating.

Oh, I imagine he needs the money, if only to pay off his creditors. But it’s also about a compulsion the rich have to attain greater wealth, because they view it in a sick way as a method of score-keeping. It’s why he lives in an apartment covered in so much gold that it makes Versailles look like a dump. He desperately needs to believe he’s rich, even if the reality is he’s in to Russian banks up to his eyeballs.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:20:48pm

Been chatter Trump considering Jim Webb for SecDef
So, maybe that’s the sudden briefing thing

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:20:57pm

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Strangely, they want it for everyone else as well.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:21:09pm

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

When did Obama, AOC, Bernie, and Warren claim they were oppressed?

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:22:23pm

re: #168 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Been chatter Trump considering Jim Webb for SecDef
So, maybe that’s the sudden briefing thing

Yeah, but hasn’t Webb worked under a semi-competent administration? How will he fit?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:22:59pm
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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:23:54pm

Jim Webb, a man so wooden you could drill a hole in him to drain the sap.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:23:55pm

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read. AOC could have been oppressed and non-privileged and still have enjoyed moments of dancing and being carefree. She seems like a joyous young woman who wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth but still made it. Why is this so shocking to conservatives?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:24:45pm

They’ve officially given the ‘5 minute warning’ 15 minutes ago

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:26:02pm

Article at Wonkette:

Who’s Doing Good New Laws? Is It Dems? Is It DEMS? Yes It IS!

It’s about state legislatures movement forward on stalled issues where the GOP had control before. Of note, the governor-elect of Wisconsin Tony Evers says he does not intend to sue the GOP there over their power-stripping laws. He intends to govern exactly as the state constitution allows and if the GOP doesn’t like it they can sue. Conservative groups are already gearing up for those suits.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:26:23pm

re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

They’ve officially given the ‘5 minute warning’ 15 minutes ago

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Makes sense, this was like all Trump tantrums: impulsive, short-sighted, and with the sole intent of putting the attention back on him.

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:28:53pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:29:02pm
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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:29:31pm

Heh.

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gwangung  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:29:40pm

re: #174 Patricia Kayden

This is the most ridiculous thing I’ve read. AOC could have been oppressed and non-privileged and still have enjoyed moments of dancing and being carefree. She seems like a joyous young woman who wasn’t born with a silver spoon in her mouth but still made it. Why is this so shocking to conservatives?

Hm. Actually, I think this is a promo video. AOC might have even gotten paid for it. You sorta get what you pay for….

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:30:54pm
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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:31:09pm

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Whoops, they got us here. Totally owned us.

///

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:32:01pm

re: #142 ObserverArt

McCarthy is a lightweight. Pelosi is going to handle him effectively.

At some point McCarthy’s mouth is going to get him in big trouble.

Again.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:32:30pm

re: #160 sagehen

You mean Benjamin Cardozo, right? Abraham Cardozo was a cantor. A really good one, but still.

As for Benjamin…

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Embedded Image

He sure looks like a white guy. But he died in 1938, none of the Jews were white yet.

Sorry, senior moment…Benjamin. He looks white to me, too, but you gotta look past the surface for the “color” within.//

Meanwhile, Kamala Harris is “black”. That one-drop rule is a helluva thing.

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:32:38pm

[trump] PELOSI CAN’T HAVE THE HEADLINES BE GOOD AND ABOUT HER TODAY! SCHEDULE A PRESS CONFERENCE RIGHT NOW!!! [/trump]

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:33:19pm

re: #172 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

If this is in fact The News, let me just say right here and now, that there is no way this ends well, at least not for Webb. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

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Varek Raith  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:33:44pm

Kids having fun?!
OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE OF OUTRAGES!

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:34:16pm

re: #187 Sir John Barron

If this is in fact The News, let me just say right here and now, that there is no way this ends well, at least not for Webb. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

He’ll likely be confirmed, but only after having been run through the shredder in the process.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:34:25pm

re: #186 bd(Redacted)

[trump] PELOSI CAN’T HAVE THE HEADLINES BE GOOD AND ABOUT HER TODAY! SCHEDULE A PRESS CONFERENCE RIGHT NOW!!! [/trump]

Aide: What are we going to announce or talk about, Sir?

“Who cares, just put a pile of paper out there and make it look like something.”

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:34:29pm

re: #187 Sir John Barron

If this is in fact The News, let me just say right here and now, that there is no way this ends well, at least not for Webb. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

//

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:35:25pm

re: #190 Sir John Barron

Aide: What are we going to announce or talk about, Sir?

“Who cares, just put a pile of paper out there and make it look like something.”

Bingo

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:35:35pm

re: #163 Citizen K

Here’s the thing: He probably doesn’t actually need the money. But like any rich leech, he wants more than he has, just by sheer compulsion. It’s not about ‘need’ with folks like Trump, but ‘want’. That’s why the goofy ass ‘The Rich are the most trustworthy with public money, why would they need to steal?!’ bullshit is so infuriating.

It’s not the money, is the emoluments.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:37:29pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:38:02pm

re: #194 Charles Johnson

DT looks like he is about to cry.

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Varek Raith  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:38:49pm

re: #194 Charles Johnson

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The tantrum face of a 2 year old.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:38:58pm

re: #187 Sir John Barron

If this is in fact The News, let me just say right here and now, that there is no way this ends well, at least not for Webb. Everything Trump Touches Dies.

Cool by me.

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:39:16pm

re: #194 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

[trump] NONE OF YOU CAN HAVE BETTER HAIR THAN ME….SHAVE IT OFF!![/trump]

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:39:24pm
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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:39:58pm

Agent Orange is scared to give Nancy a nickname. Coward. Sad.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:40:05pm

Pallone is a NJ guy - from the district adjacent to mine.

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Citizen K  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:40:59pm

For fuck’s sake…

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:42:07pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:42:14pm

re: #158 Patricia Kayden

[Embedded content]

prove trump ‘works for free’
we dont know what happened to his paychecks after the first three or so

oh, and he’s grifting the system just fine in any case

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:42:27pm

So to Jim Webb’s disappointment and shame, the first presser that Donny attends of 2019 is for him to just babble about his walls before skulking back off to the Oval Office to catch The Five on Faux.

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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:45:27pm

re: #205 Targetpractice

So to Jim Webb’s disappointment and shame, the first presser that Donny attends of 2019 is for him to just babble about his walls before skulking back off to the Oval Office to catch The Five on Faux.

I AM IMPORTANT LISTEN TO ME

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:46:30pm

re: #206 Sir John Barron

I AM IMPORTANT LISTEN TO ME

No, Putin made you IMPOTENT years ago!

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:46:50pm
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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:48:18pm

re: #201 lawhawk

Pallone is a NJ guy - from the district adjacent to mine.

New scary chair of Congress issues very political agenda.

/

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:48:21pm

re: #208 MsJ

Why are migrants working for businesses while they are in prison? Why are they in prison in the first place? This is really outrageous. I hope Democrats look into this. I’m going to send this story to Rep Hoyer.

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b_sharp  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:49:03pm

re: #9 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Full video

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Video

Wait. What?
You mean the right is misrepresenting something? Tell me it ain’t so.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:51:24pm

Imagine being a journalist, spending your day on Capital Hill to cover the historic events of the day. Then getting a call to haul ass to the White House as Sanders has announced an impending press conference. So you run over to the Press Room, expecting some sort of major news that it’s getting such a short notice announcement. You get there, all ready to cover some breaking news…and then Donny walks out to give his tired speech about walls before stomping out of the room.

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Varek Raith  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:53:44pm

re: #211 b_sharp

Wait. What?
You mean the right is misrepresenting something? Tell me it ain’t so.

It ain’t so, Joe.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:54:57pm

re: #199 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Skip Intro  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:54:58pm

re: #194 Charles Johnson

Donald Trump and his Bald Bastards.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:55:54pm

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Called it.

It’s the same with abuse survivors. If you’ve ever smiled or washed the ashes off of your sackcloth, you’re not really hurt and are probably making it up.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:56:03pm

re: #215 Skip Intro

Donald Trump and his Bald Bastards.

Dr. Evil and a few Mini-Me’s

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ckkatz  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:56:22pm

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Excellent, Pelosi is publicly reaching out to the Republicans to seek shared values. And they reject even their base values in order to oppose the Democrats. She is showing, to the American public, their true values. And to painting them into a corner.

A good first step towards defining her speakership. Obama was also excellent in this way.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 1:59:07pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:00:29pm

Derp

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ozharas  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:01:14pm

re: #211 b_sharp

…..part of a pretty storied, if now mostly forgotten, remix culture phenomenon.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:01:42pm

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹

Derp

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Laura who?

*whisperwhisper*

Oh, right, the crazy bitch who handcuffed herself to one side of a double door and then lost the key on a cold day.

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Jay C  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:02:19pm

re: #220 Anymouse 🌹

Derp

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Loomer’s “light” isn’t being repressed: she’s just a dim bulb to begin with.

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ckkatz  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:03:12pm

re: #218 ckkatz

Excellent, Pelosi is publicly reaching out to the Republicans to seek shared values. And they reject even their base values in order to oppose the Democrats. She is showing, to the American public, their true values. And to painting them into a corner.

A good first step towards defining her speakership. Obama was also excellent in this way.

(Continuing my thought)

My guess is that the likely next step in the values discussion will be the criminal indictments and investigations.

The Republicans will counter with the claim that they are being criminalized for being Republican.

I suspect that this will consume US political debate for the next two years. Unless Trump triggers an existential crisis.

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:05:49pm
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b_sharp  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:08:20pm

re: #165 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Another wingnut with no idea about what is described by the term.

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Skip Intro  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:08:29pm

re: #217 MsJ

Dr. Evil and a few Mini-Me’s

Is he showing off his fine head of hair here? WTF?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:10:12pm

The current conservative outrage over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clip of her dancing is only a tiny part of a video.

The whole video is here. It was a thing when she appeared in that, a thing across the country.

(4:20)

Phoenix - Lisztomania - Boston University Brat Pack Mashup


Julian Jensen
Published on Sep 30, 2010
Presented by the Howard Thurman Center: bu.edu
Inspired by the original bit.ly and the brooklyn mashup bit.ly

Check out “The HTC Experience” Youtube Video…

The Other Mashups
San Francisco - Vimeo
Philippines - Youtube Video…
Winnipeg - Youtube Video…
Amsterdam - Youtube Video…
Paris - Youtube Video…
Rio De Janeiro - Youtube Video…
Long Island, NY - Youtube Video…
London - Youtube Video…
Curitiba/Brazil - Youtube Video…
Sao Paulo - Youtube Video…
University of Waterloo - Youtube Video…

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:11:11pm

re: #227 Skip Intro

Is he showing off his fine head of hair here? WTF?

Honestly, it’s out there like some kind of Rod Serling thing. It’s weird AF.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:11:28pm

one less brick in the wall

Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO), “who faces a potentially tough re-election in 2020, says Congress should re-open the federal government, even without a deal on funding President Trump’s border wall,” The Hill reports.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:11:44pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:12:19pm

re: #228 Anymouse 🌹

The current conservative outrage over Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clip of her dancing is only a tiny part of a video.

The whole video is here. It was a thing when she appeared in that, a thing across the country.

(4:20)

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…

Why does this need explaining? Kids have fun.

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Jay C  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:13:26pm

re: #229 MsJ

Honestly, it’s out there like some kind of Rod Serling thing. It’s weird AF.

BTW, who were those four bald guys backing up The Don at that presser?
Security?

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plansbandc  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:08pm

Kathy Griffin’s mom, Maggie, has dementia. :(

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:14pm

compare and contrast

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ckkatz  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:17pm

re: #233 Jay C

BTW, who were those four bald guys backing up The Don at that presser?
Security?

Conservative eye candy, apparently.

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b_sharp  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:33pm

re: #233 Jay C

BTW, who were those four bald guys backing up The Don at that presser?
Security?

At least they didn’t have ugly comb overs.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:51pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:52pm

re: #235 dangerman

compare and contrast

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damn i am so not fast enough
re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:14:59pm

re: #233 Jay C

BTW, who were those four bald guys backing up The Don at that presser?
Security?

Various ICE/Border Patrol clones.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:15:55pm

Donnie and the Eggs. Definitely not my favorite A cappella group.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:15:55pm

re: #230 dangerman

one less brick in the wall

Pelosi’s strategy to split DHS off from the rest of the gov’t for the purpose of hashing out the wall funding (or lack thereof) seems to be working.

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b_sharp  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:16:18pm

re: #240 Decatur Deb

Various ICE/Border Patrol clones.

They’re giving bald heads a bad reputation.

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carey94tt  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:16:39pm

re: #44 HappyWarrior

I’m just sick of all the crap she gets. And I didn’t like McCaskill calling her a shiny object either.

WTF McCaskill? Just WTF???? I’m at a loss of words for my ex-rep.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:17:25pm

re: #243 b_sharp

They’re giving bald heads a bad reputation.

Sinead O’Connor Fan Club.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:17:35pm

He so picked bald people so nobody could have better hair than him.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:18:03pm

re: #244 carey94tt

WTF McCaskill? Just WTF???? I’m at a loss of words for my ex-rep.

Yeah she called AOC a shiny object. I mean come on, she should know that she too was once a newcomer.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:18:05pm

how about this instead?

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:18:29pm

re: #246 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery

He so picked bald people so nobody could have better hair than him.

winner winner

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:18:56pm

re: #245 Decatur Deb

Sinead O’Connor Fan Club.

Nothing Compares To U, Donnie.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:19:20pm
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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:20:18pm

re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

What is it about people freaking out about food orders?

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trump syndrome

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:20:29pm

re: #235 dangerman

compare and contrast

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How many bald white guys can they fit on a stage? Nice optics.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:21:39pm

re: #235 dangerman

compare and contrast

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Trump: Let me introduce my hair donors.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:22:03pm

re: #233 Jay C

BTW, who were those four bald guys backing up The Don at that presser?
Security?

They want to get down with Falwell’s pool boy.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:22:08pm

re: #246 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery

He so picked bald people so nobody could have better hair than him.

And the guy on the left in the picture looks like he was forced to shave.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:22:55pm
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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:23:24pm

re: #233 Jay C

BTW, who were those four bald guys backing up The Don at that presser?
Security?

Some fascist blockheads from border control.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:23:50pm

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I’m a plankowner of that carrier.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:24:58pm

re: #231 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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we dont assume all those kids were kids of dems right?
i mean, some r’s had to bring their kids?
it’s a common thing?

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:25:18pm

re: #259 Belafon

I’m a plankowner of that carrier.

Did you kowtow to Neptune when you crossed The Line?

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:26:17pm

re: #260 dangerman

we dont assume all those kids were kids of dems right?
i mean, some r’s had to bring their kids?
it’s a common thing?

The kids in 3-piece suits were GOP.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:26:57pm

re: #23 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

What is it about people freaking out about food orders?

It’s a weaker point of fracture.

It’s not just food orders, but fast food/convenience food orders. So it’s a situation in which people have to wait in line, are hungry/stressed/maybe are watching the clock. But (I think, more important) it’s also a situation where people have been taught that fast food workers are stupid, unskilled, and less-than other workers. There’s a sense of license that you can get extremely angry and behave badly towards them because they have no power and no status.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:28:12pm

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

One wingnut in that thread is asking why the Stennis’s chaplain allowed that. (Answer: I Amendment freedom of religion. Navy chaplains are aware of that, wingnuts aren’t.)

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:29:08pm

re: #263 The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery

It’s a weaker point of fracture.

It’s not just food orders, but fast food/convenience food orders. So it’s a situation in which people have to wait in line, are hungry/stressed/maybe are watching the clock. But (I think, more important) it’s also a situation where people have been taught that fast food workers are stupid, unskilled, and less-than other workers. There’s a sense of license that you can get extremely angry and behave badly towards them because they have no power and no status.

watch it come down the road
“fast food workers should be armed so they can protect themselves”

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:29:11pm

re: #259 Belafon

I’m a plankowner of that carrier.

I’m a plankowner (for decommissioning) of the USS Saratoga. Thanks for making me feel old. /s

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:30:52pm

re: #264 Anymouse 🌹

One wingnut in that thread is asking why the Stennis’s chaplain allowed that. (Answer: I Amendment freedom of religion. Navy chaplains are aware of that, wingnuts aren’t.)

A Catholic Army chaplain’s manual has the outline of a Wiccan ceremony, in case he chooses to use it to comfort a dying soldier. (He can’t be required to cross that line, IIRC.)

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:30:57pm

re: #261 Decatur Deb

Did you kowtow to Neptune when you crossed he line?

I got a nice certificate that says plankowner for being part of the crew when it was commissioned. It was my reward for standing on the deck during the commissioning cerimony when it was 20 degrees outside with 15 mph winds.

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ckkatz  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:31:09pm

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Interesting!

My ladyfriend does work as a chaplain. I have learned a lot from her.

Some of her colleagues are ordained in the Wiccan Religion. There are various formal groups that are categorized as part of the Modern Pagan movement, including “Heathenry” which is based upon various Germanic pagan traditions.

I wonder if it will reopen religious debates from a millenia ago:

Gjallarhorn - I Riden Så (Ye Ride So Carefully)

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:34:40pm

Borrowing from formerdirtdart:

This is important. None of these people were elites or well off. What this points to is how big a difference going to good schools can be. Going to Harvard made no difference for Jarad Kushner. He was going to be the same well-connected putz with wealth at his disposal regardless. He should have gone to a decent state school. But it does make a difference for kids whose families don’t have these advantages to go to these institutions. She has it exactly backwards.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:35:23pm
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Barefoot Grin  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:37:02pm

Hahahahaha

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:39:14pm

re: #270 Barefoot Grin

Borrowing from formerdirtdart:

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This is important. None of these people were elites or well off. What this points to is how big a difference going to good schools can be. Going to Harvard made no difference for Jarad Kushner. He was going to be the same well-connected putz with wealth at his disposal regardless. He should have gone to a decent state school. But it does make a difference for kids whose families don’t have these advantages to go to these institutions. She has it exactly backwards.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:39:22pm

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:40:14pm
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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:40:34pm
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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:41:44pm

That pic of trump and the bald dudes is pretty bad optics IMHO. He’s usually better at that. Stupidly so but better. He must be really rattled.

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:43:44pm

re: #277 MsJ

He can’t stand for the news to be focused on someone else for a whole day, to the extent that he’ll settle for a lame photobomb of the news cycle to get his face on tv.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:44:04pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:44:34pm

re: #277 MsJ

That pic of trump and the bald dudes is pretty bad optics IMHO. He’s usually better at that. Stupidly so but better. He must be really rattled.

He has lost Hope (Hicks).

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:44:54pm

re: #88 Dave In Austin

Mongers gotta Monger

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Folks is sick of fear - has no value when it’s thrown at you night and day - especially in comparison to those countries who really do live in war zones and have done so for years.

I am so thankful that I do live in a relatively safe place & throw sh!t at those that would use the horrors faced by refugees to pretend otherwise.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:46:54pm

re: #279 MsJ

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Gowdy Doody has a sad…

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:48:45pm

My fellow countrymen are dumber than fucking rocks.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:49:10pm

re: #273 MsJ

Part of what makes the elite schools “elite” is that most of the “elite” that have those contacts go there. Those on the outside trying to get in want to make those contacts. If a significant number of folks like Kushner is going to UMass instead of Harvard, then the value for non-elites to go to Harvard drops because those potential connections are no longer there.

The truth is, most students are going to get as good an education at UMass (or any other public school) as they are at Harvard. But having Harvard (or Yale or any other Ivy or top tier elite school) on your resume is a key that opens multiple doors. The alumni network, those connections, move your resume to the top of the pile.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:50:03pm
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Dave In Austin  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:50:27pm
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Sir John Barron  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:50:32pm

re: #275 Anymouse 🌹

Don’t remember ANY Lying Lib News outlet writing sob stories about Paul Manafort being held in solitary confinement 24-7 as a form of torture to squeeze him into making something up about @realDonaldTrump. Where was the concern for HIS mental well-being?
— David A. Clarke, Jr.

OK, sir, but I’m just here to ask if you are interested in having a free windows estimate.

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:52:02pm

re: #270 Barefoot Grin

She intentionally has it backwards.

These are people who like the idea of station in the British sense, even if they’d never use that language.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:53:32pm
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gwangung  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:54:28pm

re: #284 KGxvi

Part of what makes the elite schools “elite” is that most of the “elite” that have those contacts go there. Those on the outside trying to get in want to make those contacts. If a significant number of folks like Kushner is going to UMass instead of Harvard, then the value for non-elites to go to Harvard drops because those potential connections are no longer there.

The truth is, most students are going to get as good an education at UMass (or any other public school) as they are at Harvard. But having Harvard (or Yale or any other Ivy or top tier elite school) on your resume is a key that opens multiple doors. The alumni network, those connections, move your resume to the top of the pile.

Pretty much this. The networking is the most valuable part (and only if you realize that it’s the START of the necessary networking you need in order to make it big). There are other attractions and plusses, of course, but the peers you make are a big part of the advantages you get from the elite schools.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:55:06pm

re: #284 KGxvi

Part of what makes the elite schools “elite” is that most of the “elite” that have those contacts go there. Those on the outside trying to get in want to make those contacts. If a significant number of folks like Kushner is going to UMass instead of Harvard, then the value for non-elites to go to Harvard drops because those potential connections are no longer there.

The truth is, most students are going to get as good an education at UMass (or any other public school) as they are at Harvard. But having Harvard (or Yale or any other Ivy or top tier elite school) on your resume is a key that opens multiple doors. The alumni network, those connections, move your resume to the top of the pile.

AOC’s problem is that she’s Illegally Brunette.

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Targetpractice  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:56:26pm

re: #279 MsJ

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Few things as depressing as a sad clown.

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makeitstop  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:56:30pm

re: #281 fern01

Folks is sick of fear - has no value when it’s thrown at you night and day - especially in comparison to those countries who really do live in war zones and have done so for years.

I was saying that this morning - I think they’ve gone to the Fear Well a couple too many times. People just aren’t buying it like they used to.

And now with a majority in the House, Democrats are much better positioned to point out when the Bullshitter In Chief is bullshitting.

These dopes believed they’d wear down resistance to their corruption. Instead, they’ve blunted maybe the only effective weapon they ever had.

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:56:52pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

nitpicking: today is the 100th anniversary of white women getting the vote. The rest had to wait a few more decades.

more nitpicking: First country to give women the vote was New Zealand in 1893. Australia did same with Federation of the states in 1901.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 2:57:45pm

re: #284 KGxvi

For a little more context, of the last 19 Supreme Court appointments (which takes us back to Thurgood Marshall in 1967) only 4 have not come from an Ivy League Law School (and only 1, I believe, was not from Harvard or Yale). Those four are O’Connor, Stevens, Burger, and Marshall. The non-Harvard/Yale Ivy Leaguer is RBG (who graduated from Columbia Law but started off at Harvard Law; and who went to Cornell for undergrad)

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:01:45pm

re: #136 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

He can’t spell “counsel” or “border”. Gotta wonder how he’ll spell her name….

He’ll call her Sandy.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:02:20pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:02:39pm

I was homeless for nine years. Good enough?

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TedStriker  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:05:32pm

re: #286 Dave In Austin

Anybody else think that Paul Whelan was a complete set up with Whelan, Putin and trump to get Spy Gun Whore Maria Butina back !

— Mayday Mindy 🌊 (@maydaymindy9) January 3, 2019

It’s really hard not to be conspiratorial these days with Trump in the White House, but everything that’s come out with Whelan the past couple of days, from his drumming out and BCD from the Marines for using his commander’s online login to nominate himself for awards he wasn’t entitled to to his MAGA shit on his FB timeline makes his “capture” by the Russians stink to high heaven.

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:07:33pm

re: #175 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

They’ve officially given the ‘5 minute warning’ 15 minutes ago

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Do I misremember - President Obama’s press secretary had regular press briefings - most days - answered questions - gave notice if the President was attending - unless a critical situation arose - and usually they were covered by a separate speech from the President.

trump was upset because the light is shining on Congress and Nancy Pelosi today - when it should always be there for him.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:09:16pm

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

So you have to be oppressed to talk about privilege and oppression? Democrats have sympathy for those who are less fortunate and hence they talk about privilege and oppression. That’s a good thing and something Republicans should consider. But we already know they only care about the rich donor class.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:09:18pm
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PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:10:07pm

re: #302 Anymouse 🌹

Go Nancy Go. :)

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:10:34pm

re: #182 lawhawk

Token female among all the white guys - must have needed to add some hair to the picture. How can any woman allow herself to be used in this fashion - that IS sad.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:12:05pm

re: #272 Barefoot Grin

Hahahahaha

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I can’t stop staring at how Corsi parts his hair IN THE BACK OF HIS HEAD

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sagehen  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:14:39pm

re: #294 fern01

more nitpicking: First country to give women the vote was New Zealand in 1893. Australia did same with Federation of the states in 1901.

Before the 19th Amendment, some states and territories gave women the vote

Wyoming (1869)
Utah (1896)
Colorado (1893)
Idaho (1896)
Washington (1910)
California (1911)
Oregon (1912)
Arizona (1912)

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:18:38pm

CNN: On the first day of divided government during his administration, Trump cited infrastructure as one area where the White House could work with the Democratic-controlled House.

Infrastructure week. We’re doomed.

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:19:00pm

re: #244 carey94tt

WTF McCaskill? Just WTF???? I’m at a loss of words for my ex-rep.

Maybe didn’t like losing while a young excited lass won

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:19:00pm

re: #306 sagehen

Before the 19th Amendment, some states and territories gave women the vote

Wyoming (1869)
Utah (1896)
Colorado (1893)
Idaho (1896)
Washington (1910)
California (1911)
Oregon (1912)
Arizona (1912)

New Jersey apparently did in some elections in the early 19th century too for a little while.

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gwangung  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:19:45pm

re: #307 Anymouse 🌹

CNN: On the first day of divided government during his administration, Trump cited infrastructure as one area where the White House could work with the Democratic-controlled House.

Naw. Infrastructure means spending money. Which will help numerous people.

Right wingers can’t be havin’ that…..

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:21:05pm
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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:23:51pm

What’s all the complaining about PayGo from alleged leftists? Isn’t raising taxes on corporations and the extremely wealthy a way to solve the issue of insufficient money for government programmes?

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:24:02pm

re: #306 sagehen

Before the 19th Amendment, some states and territories gave women the vote

Wyoming (1869)
Utah (1896)
Colorado (1893)
Idaho (1896)
Washington (1910)
California (1911)
Oregon (1912)
Arizona (1912)

New Jersey, immediately after the Revolution (more or less by oversight).

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:26:04pm

re: #312 Anymouse 🌹

What’s all the complaining about PayGo from alleged leftists? Isn’t raising taxes on corporations and the extremely wealthy a way to solve the issue of insufficient money for government programmes?

I see both sides. PayGo limits spending meaning it limits what you can do. If you can’t raise funding or say how you’ll pay for it, the legislation likely won’t pass especially with the REPUBLICANS doing everything they can to stop it. It’s not like they’ll rush anything through like the tax scam.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:26:37pm

re: #311 Anymouse 🌹

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Looked her up. After her family got refuge status, they lived in Arlington, Va, a town I know very well before moving to the Twin Cities. Lots of men and women like her who are proof of why our country is great being sworn in today.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:29:40pm

Wonkette has a ‘splainer about the Paygo fuss: wonkette.com

TL,DR It’s stupidity from “progressives”. You know, like Cenk Uygur.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:29:52pm
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Mike Lamb  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:30:42pm

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

I was homeless for nine years. Good enough?

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What the fuck is this person yammering about?

Person A: my parents moved 3 times to keep me within the boundaries of good schools districts. They worked 2 jobs to allow me to go to a good college.

This asshole: You can’t fight for income equality, living wage, etc. unless you were/are wearing plastic bags for shoes.

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Mike Lamb  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:32:19pm

re: #317 Patricia Kayden

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Is that Erick Son of Erick?

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:34:11pm

re: #279 MsJ

And I know I shouldn’t - but he has such a flat face, I always wonder was he run over by a lawn roller.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:34:40pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:35:08pm

re: #316 BlueSpotinAL

Wonkette has a ‘splainer about the Paygo fuss: wonkette.com

TL,DR It’s stupidity from “progressives”.

Cenk really shouldn’t be making any sort of litmus tests for anyone nor should antbe letting him. FFS it’s the first day with a House majority in 8 years and the puregressive wing is already throwing a fit.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:35:29pm

re: #319 Mike Lamb

Is that Erick Son of Erick?

It does look like him.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:35:47pm
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gwangung  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:36:43pm

re: #324 MsJ

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Hm. Actually, only the first is something that’ll require any effort….

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:36:47pm

re: #314 MsJ

I see both sides. PayGo limits spending meaning it limits what you can do. If you can’t raise funding or say how you’ll pay for it, the legislation likely won’t pass especially with the REPUBLICANS doing everything they can to stop it. It’s not like they’ll rush anything through like the tax scam.

I think the obvious answer is “PayGo is stupid AF and needs to be repealed” (also: how did it survive constitutional muster?), but since it’s an actual law, we should probably follow it, including the part where a simple majority waives the requirement - that should be used, er, liberally.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:37:31pm

re: #319 Mike Lamb

Is that Erick Son of Erick?

That’s what I thought.

Just another fat, white, southern racist. They are interchangable apparently.

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darthstar  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:37:38pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:38:33pm

re: #314 MsJ

I see both sides. PayGo limits spending meaning it limits what you can do. If you can’t raise funding or say how you’ll pay for it, the legislation likely won’t pass especially with the REPUBLICANS doing everything they can to stop it. It’s not like they’ll rush anything through like the tax scam.

if you cant point to how something will be paid for, you probably dont know.
you’re hoping no one will ask,
or notice

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:38:45pm

re: #328 darthstar

I read that caption as “abortionists have cloned…” and was getting ready for some awesome wingnuttery. I am slightly disappointed.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:38:58pm

re: #273 MsJ

She does not look like she’s oppressed.

“When you were slaves, you sang like birds!”

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:39:16pm

re: #330 KGxvi

I read that caption as “abortionists have cloned…” and was getting ready for some awesome wingnuttery. I am slightly disappointed.

I did, too.

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Varek Raith  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:40:46pm

re: #274 Eclectic Cyborg

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Down ding for dissing the Empire.
:P

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fern01  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:41:48pm

re: #312 Anymouse 🌹

What’s all the complaining about PayGo from alleged leftists? Isn’t raising taxes on corporations and the extremely wealthy a way to solve the issue of insufficient money for government programmes?

This is not how the GOP will ever use it - they want it to remove medicare etc

It is bad economics, governments need the power to spend during a recession. They should NOT be overspending during growth times - and therein is the problem. Growth period, GOP reduces taxes, GOP spends - problem.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:41:56pm

re: #329 dangerman

if you cant point to how something will be paid for, you probably dont know.
you’re hoping no one will ask,
or notice

Another solid answer to but how will we ever pay for it???//? is “the full faith and credit of the United States of America.”

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Nyet  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:42:28pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:43:03pm

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

I was homeless for nine years. Good enough?

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That tweet really needs the GIF of the roman soldier laughing and pointing.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:43:23pm

re: #329 dangerman

if you cant point to how something will be paid for, you probably dont know.
you’re hoping no one will ask,
or notice

It’s not just that. I said it badly.

It’s like a balanced budget. You have to take something else away (Social Security) to spend anything else (DOD). That’s where the funding is supposed to come from.

Sorry. It’s hard to understand.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:43:40pm
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Jay C  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:43:42pm

re: #324 MsJ

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It’s actually a fairly sound strategy - the main problem, I think, is getting the media (in the Era Of Trump) to see it as a “strategy”, and not merely fall into the usual “MSM” cesspool of casting each and every Democratic initiative or policy push as some “radical” or “leftist” aberration. No matter how (actually) mainstream or popular said polices might be. And of course, if they aren’t popular with the overalled-farmer demographic in Indiana diners, they might as well be Communism…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:43:45pm
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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:43:52pm

re: #332 Colère Tueur de Lapin

I did, too.

Ditto.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:44:21pm

re: #326 KGxvi

I think the obvious answer is “PayGo is stupid AF and needs to be repealed” (also: how did it survive constitutional muster?), but since it’s an actual law, we should probably follow it, including the part where a simple majority waives the requirement - that should be used, er, liberally.

As such I really don’t have a problem with it, if for no other reason than laying out how we intend to pay for shit should be a basic fucking aspiration. I’m tired of ponycorn economics, and along that same vein am glad to see Democrats ending the Republican magical thinking system of dynamic scoring.

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Varek Raith  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:44:38pm

re: #339 Anymouse 🌹

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I find this rather adorable.
xD

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:45:28pm

re: #334 fern01

This is not how the GOP will ever use it - they want it to remove medicare etc

It is bad economics, governments need the power to spend during a recession. They should NOT be overspending during growth times - and therein is the problem. Growth period, GOP reduces taxes, GOP spends - problem.

One party believes in tax and spend, the other believes in borrow and spend. If we’re going to spend, tax and spend generally makes more sense especially since inflation isn’t really a thing anymore. (Yes, I know there’s still inflation but it’s still at historically low levels, making borrowing less feasible)

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:45:30pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:46:18pm

I’ll admit I don’t understand this Paygo but purity pissing contests are stupid and it really shows you that Cenk and his allies don’t care about ensuring a long lasting Dem congressional majority but being purist douches.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:47:31pm

re: #345 KGxvi

One party believes in tax and spend, the other believes in borrow and spend. If we’re going to spend, tax and spend generally makes more sense especially since inflation isn’t really a thing anymore. (Yes, I know there’s still inflation but it’s still at historically low levels, making borrowing less feasible)

You’re libertarian roots are showing.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:47:42pm

re: #317 Patricia Kayden

Georgia superintendent fired for screaming racial slurs threatened to kill employees ‘in a heartbeat’: reporthttps://rawstory.com

Time was, a Georgia overseer could kill an employee and no one batted a lash.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:48:22pm

What’s neat is seeing all these new freshmen. Some are immigrants or first generation Americans. Congress should look like our country and with people like AOC, Kim, Omar, Davids, & others it does look more like it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:49:21pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:49:34pm

re: #347 HappyWarrior

I’ll admit I don’t understand this Paygo but purity pissing contests are stupid and it really shows you that Cenk and his allies don’t care about ensuring a long lasting Dem congressional majority but being purist douches.

Oh BLEEP Cenk and his Republican Sugar Daddy Buddy Roemer!

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Jay C  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:51:31pm

re: #328 darthstar

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That is way cool - though I wonder if that tree whose stump let 57 people pose on it without undue crowding might have been better left alive.
But are the cloned saplings (however old the “parent” tree) going to be much/any different from current redwoods? I know giant redwoods’ lifespan can be measured in millenia, but are the new clones all that much different?

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:52:09pm

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

I was homeless for nine years. Good enough?

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Also, she has no idea of the importance of allies and advocacy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 3:55:49pm

re: #353 Jay C

That is way cool - though I wonder if that tree whose stump let 57 people pose on it without undue crowding might have been better left alive.
But are the cloned saplings (however old the “parent” tree) going to be much/any different from current redwoods? I know giant redwoods’ lifespan can be measured in millenia, but are the new clones all that much different?

We’ll know in a couple thousand years.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:00:42pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:04:10pm

re: #356 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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How is it possible for “lobbying” to be legal at all? How does it differ from electioneering?

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:04:58pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:06:12pm

re: #345 KGxvi

One party believes in tax and spend, the other believes in borrow and spend. If we’re going to spend, tax and spend generally makes more sense especially since inflation isn’t really a thing anymore. (Yes, I know there’s still inflation but it’s still at historically low levels, making borrowing less feasible)

Yes there’s a fundamental difference in attitude towards taxation but equally important is the difference in what Democrats and Republicans want to spend money on. Dems want to spend money on things that increase quality of life, especially at the margins, a social safety net. That spending feeds back into the economy directly because poor people spend the aid they receive immediately. Republicans have a fundamental hostility towards the poor while simultaneously fetishizing military defense spending and constantly casting America as woefully insecure and beset by foreign threats. And while the defense industrial complex is to a degree necessary and employs a lot of people, that spending is far less efficient at boosting the wider consumer economy.

The basic difference in priorities and motivations is that between idealistic aspiration and incessant fear.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:06:16pm

re: #346 MsJ

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As far as I am concerned, there should be no R or D sides in that damn room. Make them all sit together.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:06:59pm

OK, this shit is getting weird

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:07:30pm

Sometimes, I feel like the generational divide is as important as the partisan divide. I don’t begrudge Senator Feinstein’s support for Joe Biden, though I believe it misguided, especially if it’s based on “experience” and not “policy”. But then there’s shit like this:

When asked whether she would support Harris, Feinstein said: “I’m a big fan of Sen. Harris, and I work with her. But she’s brand-new here, so it takes a little bit of time to get to know somebody.”

Harris was elected to the Senate in 2016. Her office declined to comment Thursday.

I’m sure the fact that she had worked with Biden for decades plays a role in her current semi-endorsement. But I can’t help but feel that this is two steps away from McCaskill’s line about AOC being a shiny object.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:08:38pm

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Good. 1st Amendment in action.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:08:41pm

Ha.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:08:50pm

Yeah no, asshole. In the Navy I made an affirmation without any holy book. As a politician, I swore in on a copy of the Constitution.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:09:35pm

re: #360 GlutenFreeJesus

As far as I am concerned, there should be no R or D sides in that damn room. Make them all sit together.

Social Security Number order. /s

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:10:37pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

Yeah no, asshole. In the Navy I made an affirmation without any holy book. As a politician, I swore in on a copy of the Constitution.

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If you want to be sworn in on a Bible, fine but if you want some other than it, also fine.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:10:50pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

That dude doesn’t seem to know what’s actually in the constitution. So we should definitely listen to him on this

/// (infinity)

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:11:18pm

re: #362 KGxvi

Sometimes, I feel like the generational divide is as important as the partisan divide. I don’t begrudge Senator Feinstein’s support for Joe Biden, though I believe it misguided, especially if it’s based on “experience” and not “policy”. But then there’s shit like this:

I’m sure the fact that she had worked with Biden for decades plays a role in her current semi-endorsement. But I can’t help but feel that this is two steps away from McCaskill’s line about AOC being a shiny object.

I think Biden while he would be a good President isn’t the answer.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:12:07pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

Yeah no, asshole. In the Navy I made an affirmation without any holy book. As a politician, I swore in on a copy of the Constitution.

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I think “FedUp American” should be spelled “F’ed Up American”

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:12:35pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

There are sometimes I would like to reply to idiots like Fed Up American. In this case I would say “I would prefer a Torah Scroll.” That would probably give him hives.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:13:41pm

re: #367 HappyWarrior

If you want to be sworn in on a Bible, fine but if you want some other than it, also fine.

Plus, you know, being sworn in on the holy book of a religion you don’t subscribe to seems pretty pointless and stupid.

I suppose they think nonbelievers’ skin will blister if we touch their Holey Bibble.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:14:33pm

re: #371 PhillyPretzel

There are sometimes I would like to reply to idiots like Fed Up American. In this case I would say “I would prefer a Torah Scroll.” That would probably give him hives.

That would also blow away that “Judeo-Christian” nonsense as well.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:15:38pm

re: #373 Anymouse 🌹

Looks like she’s using a case book. Good for her.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:16:14pm

re: #372 Blind Frog Belly White

Plus, you know, being sworn in on the holy book of a religion you don’t subscribe to seems pretty pointless and stupid.

I suppose they think nonbelievers’ skin will blister if we touch their Holey Bibble.

When I was first elected, I contacted the county prosecutor before the next village board meeting noting state law requires using the Bible.

He called the state attorney general and got a “special dispensation” for me.

Since that time, the state oath has been updated to include using any holy book, or none.

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steve_davis  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:17:05pm

re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg

Let me guess: Cat ran across the Chyron keyboard.

that’s a damned lie. the cat is the copy editor for the Washington Post. Admittedly, it does a pretty shit job there as well.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:17:15pm

kellyanne conway’s official title in the trump administration is Auxiliary Ten Year Old

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:17:16pm

re: #374 KGxvi

Looks like she’s using a case book. Good for her.

She’s also openly non religious too. Mother’s husband probably had a fit inside.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:18:20pm

re: #378 HappyWarrior

She’s also openly non religious too. Mother’s husband probably had a fit inside.

Mother’s husband probably felt a stirring in his loins.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:18:56pm

re: #375 Anymouse 🌹

When I was first elected, I contacted the county prosecutor before the next village board meeting noting state law requires using the Bible.

He called the state attorney general and got a “special dispensation” for me.

Since that time, the state oath has been updated to include using any holy book, or none.

The old law, if challenged, would likely have been held unconstitutional, and the AG likely knew that. Good to know that they changed the law.

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William Lewis  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:19:16pm

re: #264 Anymouse 🌹

One wingnut in that thread is asking why the Stennis’s chaplain allowed that. (Answer: I Amendment freedom of religion. Navy chaplains are aware of that, wingnuts aren’t.)

Yep. During my active duty days, I was something of a religious searcher and had not gone back to any form of Christianity. I was however, very into Buddhism (which fits well with the liberal Christianity I eventually found) and a Southern Baptist Chaplain was very supportive of my rights in the face of official disapproval. While I have heard of other chaplains, especially in the USAF, that are not so good about it, every Chaplain I have personally known highly values religious freedom for everyone. Yeah, even for atheists

.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:19:58pm

re: #373 Anymouse 🌹

That would also blow away that “Judeo-Christian” nonsense as well.

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The other thought I had about this was, “What are you talking about? There’s no swearing in Christian Cinema!”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:20:40pm

Would be cool to see a member of Congress lay their hand on an iPad when they’re sworn in.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:20:52pm

re: #381 William Lewis

Yep. During my active duty days, I was something of a religious searcher and had not gone back to any form of Christianity. I was however, very into Buddhism (which fits well with the liberal Christianity I eventually found) and a Southern Baptist Chaplain was very supportive of my rights in the face of official disapproval. While I have heard of other chaplains, especially in the USAF, that are not so good about it, every Chaplain I have personally known highly values religious freedom for everyone. Yeah, even for atheists

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My first thought was “Atomic St. Louis”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:21:15pm

re: #362 KGxvi

Sometimes, I feel like the generational divide is as important as the partisan divide. I don’t begrudge Senator Feinstein’s support for Joe Biden, though I believe it misguided, especially if it’s based on “experience” and not “policy”. But then there’s shit like this:

I’m sure the fact that she had worked with Biden for decades plays a role in her current semi-endorsement. But I can’t help but feel that this is two steps away from McCaskill’s line about AOC being a shiny object.

yeah, it’s not like they come from different states and Feinstein has no real knowledge of what Harris did before she became a senator.

oh…wait…

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:23:35pm

re: #378 HappyWarrior

She’s also openly non religious too. Mother’s husband probably had a fit inside.

Good. That actually gives me warm and fuzziest just thinking about.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:23:55pm

re: #379 Blind Frog Belly White

Mother’s husband probably felt a stirring in his loins.

She’s kind of a knock out.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:24:28pm

re: #387 MsJ

She’s kind of a knock out.

Those shoulders…..

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:25:22pm

re: #388 Blind Frog Belly White

Those shoulders…..

I’m jealous, honestly.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:26:12pm

re: #388 Blind Frog Belly White

Those shoulders…..

you could land a jumbo jet on them!

In all seriousness though, she apparently does triathlons (including Ironman) and ultramarathons.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:27:12pm

re: #390 KGxvi

you could land a jumbo jet on them!

In all seriousness though, she apparently does triathlons (including Ironman) and ultramarathons.

So she could snap him like a twig?

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Mattand  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:27:38pm

re: #381 William Lewis

While I have heard of other chaplains, especially in the USAF, that are not so good about it, every Chaplain I have personally known highly values religious freedom for everyone. Yeah, even for atheists

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I know you mean well, but I’m so sick of people saying atheism is a religion. It ain’t. I hate to trot this out, but “Having no religion is just another form of religion” is the same as “You don’t collect stamps, therefore you are a stamp collector.”

Shit don’t track.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:28:10pm

re: #391 Blind Frog Belly White

So she could snap him like a twig?

she looks like she does some weight training too, based on the above mentioned shoulders. so probably?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:29:42pm

re: #393 KGxvi

she looks like she does some weight training too, based on the above mentioned shoulders. so probably?

Triathlons means swimming. Swimming means arm strength. Not to mention what cycling and running do for legs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:32:12pm

BTW, speaking of attractive legislators, I’m with those who think that one big reason for the Right’s obsession with AOC is that they can’t stand how attracted they are to her, and how thoroughly she refuses to be bullied, shamed, or silenced by their impotent attacks.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:32:16pm

Fuck man. Fox news. LOL.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:33:21pm

Derp.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:33:32pm

re: #396 MsJ

Fuck man. Fox news. LOL.

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Um…..

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:34:22pm

That gal from Detroit who was sworn in on the Koran? That was Thomas Jefferson’s Koran and loaned from the library of Congress.

I’m dying. Could you imagine? Wow.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:34:53pm

re: #380 KGxvi

The old law, if challenged, would likely have been held unconstitutional, and the AG likely knew that. Good to know that they changed the law.

I was prepared to challenge it. I was actually surprised that wasn’t necessary. I guess they didn’t want to make a fight out of it.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:35:26pm

re: #397 Anymouse 🌹

Derp.

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That’s actually pretty funny.

Funnier than Dennis Miller or CK.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:35:58pm
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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:36:32pm

re: #400 Anymouse 🌹

I was prepared to challenge it. I was actually surprised that wasn’t necessary. I guess they didn’t want to make a fight out of it.

Like I said, they probably knew they’d lose. Easier to grant a waiver and send a note to whatever legislative committee is responsible for that section of the code to slip in a rider to fix it.

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Mattand  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:36:34pm

re: #396 MsJ

Fuck man. Fox news. LOL.

who wants to tell them?

Fox News just posted breaking footage of a jazz cigarette orgy:

Reefer Madness - The famous piano-scene.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:37:22pm

re: #401 MsJ

That’s actually pretty funny.

Funnier than Dennis Miller or CK.

Low bar.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:37:33pm

re: #402 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Too bad it didn’t end with “in writing”

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:37:56pm

Sheer class, as always.

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:38:28pm

re: #397 Anymouse 🌹

Derp.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:38:50pm
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:38:53pm

The GOP and Trump are down with keeping E-Verify offline.

What’s E-Verify?

It’s the system that businesses are required to check with to make sure that they aren’t hiring undocumented persons.

That’s right. Trump’s shutdown prevents businesses from knowing whether they’re hiring undocumented persons at a time when Trump’s demanding a wall be built to keep undocumented persons from entering the country.

This fucknut doesn’t get it.

Will McConnell? I doubt it. Party above nation.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:40:19pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:40:41pm
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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:40:58pm

re: #410 lawhawk

The GOP and Trump are down with keeping E-Verify offline.

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What’s E-Verify?

It’s the system that businesses are required to check with to make sure that they aren’t hiring undocumented persons.

That’s right. Trump’s shutdown prevents businesses from knowing whether they’re hiring undocumented persons at a time when Trump’s demanding a wall be built to keep undocumented persons from entering the country.

This fucknut doesn’t get it.

Will McConnell? I doubt it. Party above nation.

McConnell gets it, he just don’t care.

Big Lebowski - Nihilists

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:41:21pm
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:41:36pm

re: #409 MsJ

1st Amendment. How does that work?

Article VI of the US Constitution. How does that work?

These fapping fucknuts always claim that they’re originalists and strict constructionists adhering to the US Constitution. The very document that bans religious tests for office.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:41:43pm

The hoods behind Donald Trump today have been identified.

ALL OF TRUMP’S BORDER PATROL BUDDIES ARE FREQUENT FOX GUESTS (Goes to No More Mister Nice Blog, more at the link):

After greeting the press, Trump quickly turned the podium over to Brandon Judd, who is reportedly the president of the National Border Patrol Council. He defended Trump’s requirement that any deal to end the government shutdown must include border wall funding.

Two more agents, Art Del Cueto and Hector Garza, followed.

Why these agents? Well, Fox News frequently hosts Judd, Del Cueto, and Garza — go to the links to read Fox stories and see Fox clips.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:42:49pm

re: #415 lawhawk

1st Amendment. How does that work?

Article VI of the US Constitution. How does that work?

These fapping fucknuts always claim that they’re originalists and strict constructionists adhering to the US Constitution. The very document that bans religious tests for office.

One big thing… Most of them can’t read.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:44:10pm

re: #402 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Speaker Pelosi already on the job, the same day she’s sworn in.

I presume the laziness of the conservative-run House and its three-day work weeks under Paul Ryan is about to come to an end.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:44:35pm

re: #417 MsJ

Maybe we should have a stained glass panel made up for it. That is what they did in the Middle Ages when most of the population could not read.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:44:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:46:35pm

This is such a great film. So many little things to discover, I’ve watched it five times now finding new stuff every time.

Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Saloon scene

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:46:49pm

re: #411 MsJ

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Add in the stupidity, and I think you’re looking at 1 or 2.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:47:10pm

re: #420 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Yeah good luck with that one guys. You’re going to be kicking people off their land. No one wants the wall except idiots who don’t know shit about the reality of the border.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:47:46pm
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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:48:12pm

re: #421 Charles Johnson

This is such a great film. So many little things to discover, I’ve watched it five times now finding new stuff every time.

[Embedded content]

I still need to see all of it. I really liked the Buster Scuggs story though. Tim Blake Nelson was so hilarious. I saw that the movie set the babies over at NRO off which granted isn’t hard to do but I thought it was another great work from Joel and Ethan Coen.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:48:13pm

re: #412 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

When the Right says “It’s everybody’s fault”, what they mean is “It’s our fault”.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:48:22pm

“You’ll be wantin’ the senorita pistols as well?”

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Mattand  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:48:35pm

re: #414 jaunte

Trump got his start ranting about Obama’s birth certificate—obvious racist garbage. But the media aired it and shamefully asked “well why won’t Obama just give him what he wants and show it?”

If you’re asking “well why don’t Democrats just fund the wall?” you’re doing it again.

Someone may want to pass this on to Talking Points Memo, as they seem to be getting weak in the knees now.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:49:06pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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God you two are idiots. Delete your account. She’s doing her fucking job by investigating this. But I get it, you think Trump can do no wrong because he actually takes you seriously when no one else does nor should.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:49:17pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

[Embedded content]

Pretty sure the AG of the State of New York is not any kind of Federal employee.

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KGxvi  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:49:45pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

conducting criminal investigations into blatantly suspect activity is not targeting someone due to political bias… it’s literally the fucking job of the attorney general.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:51:04pm

re: #428 Mattand

Someone may want to pass this on to Talking Points Memo, as they seem to be getting weak in the knees now.

The Hatch Act of 1939, officially An Act to Prevent Pernicious Political Activities, is a United States federal law whose main provision prohibits employees in the executive branch of the federal government, except the president, vice-president, and certain designated high-level officials,[1] from engaging in some forms of political activity. It went into law on August 2, 1939. The law was named for Senator Carl Hatch of New Mexico. It was most recently amended in 2012.
And this is why D&S shouldn’t be taken seriously as talking heads on anything. She’s a state elected official who is allowed to investigate in her state. It just so happens that a lot of Trump’s crimes definitely took place under her jurisdiction. Those two are idiots. No wonder why they’ve become maystays at FNC.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:51:04pm

Can you believe this shit?

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Mattand  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:51:21pm

re: #430 Blind Frog Belly White

Pretty sure the AG of the State of New York is not any kind of Federal employee.

re: #431 KGxvi

conducting criminal investigations into blatantly suspect activity is not targeting someone due to political bias… it’s literally the fucking job of the attorney general.

Never thought I’d live to see the day that it turns out Diamond and Silk have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:51:40pm

re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Can you believe this shit?

[Embedded content]

I forget Lamar what were you doing when Obama was trying to get health care reform? Piss off, wanker.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:52:08pm

re: #365 Anymouse 🌹

Yeah no, asshole. In the Navy I made an affirmation without any holy book. As a politician, I swore in on a copy of the Constitution.

[Embedded content]

Apparently, the First Amendment is hard. //

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:53:18pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Dumber than a bag of hammers.
Elevator doesn’t go to the top floor.
A few quarts low.

That doesn’t even scratch the surface of that nonsensical raving.

The rule of law requires the top law enforcement official of NY to investigate Trump’s criminal misconduct, which includes financial fraud and chicanery requiring court oversight of the termination of his “foundation”. His businesses engaged in money laundering and it appears that SDNY and Mueller have found plenty to support those charges. There’s state equivalent charges.

Enforcing state law isn’t a violation of the Hatch Act.

Claiming that it does shows how politicized the right wing is to say and do anything to protect this corrupt admin.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:53:19pm

re: #421 Charles Johnson

This is such a great film. So many little things to discover, I’ve watched it five times now finding new stuff every time.

My wife and I could have been contenders for an extra part (sigh)

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:53:35pm

re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

I hope he is getting dragged right now in response to that stupid tweet. Look at how Republicans treated President Obama, who was elected twice and both times won the popular vote. Shut up, Lamar.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:53:35pm

re: #431 KGxvi

conducting criminal investigations into blatantly suspect activity is not targeting someone due to political bias… it’s literally the fucking job of the attorney general.

Yeah but you can’t expect D&S to know that though since they know nothing except kissing Trump’s ass and whining about how they’re persecuted.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:54:24pm

re: #436 Teddy’s Person

Apparently, the First Amendment is hard. //

But didn’t you know? When the Framers wrote about freedom of religion, they only meant Christianity, because there weren’t any other religions then.

Or something.

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Alephnaught  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:54:25pm

re: #110 ObserverArt

If that photo is recent, then Billy looks to be in far better shape than my brother in Arizona that is also not doing well from Parkinson’s.

Not to down play his situation. Parkinson’s sucks.

My brother can hardly swallow his muscle control is that weakened. Which means at some point he may not be able to breathe. He can’t even hold his head up and has been regulated to a wheelchair for over two years now.

Yeah, Parkinson’s sucks.

The photo is not recent. He’s been doing the rounds recently. The past couple of years have seemed like a final victory lap. There’s a few more monuments to him in Glasgow now. In his last comedy tours, he’s been very static, and he’s prefaced this by being open about his status. It’s usually along the lines of “I have Parkinson’s Disease… I wish tae fuck he’d take it back.”

BTW My thoughts are with your brother.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:55:59pm

re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:57:19pm

re: #399 MsJ

That gal from Detroit who was sworn in on the Koran? That was Thomas Jefferson’s Koran and loaned from the library of Congress.

I’m dying. Could you imagine? Wow.

I’d get sworn in on the Jefferson Bible. The one where he literally cut and pasted bibles to make it more of a secular philosophy or book on ethics than religion (he cut out all the miracles).

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 4:57:37pm

re: #424 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

The derp in that thread is fucking depressing.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:00:09pm
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Mattand  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:00:23pm

re: #443 lawhawk

Still can’t decide that when GOPers say shit like this, they are either being genuinely stupid or are some of the most cynical/dishonest motherfuckers on the planet.

I’m guessing in Alexander’s case, it’s the latter.

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Mattand  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:01:32pm

re: #447 Charles Johnson

No question about my preferred swearing-in book: Amazing Fantasy #15.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:01:36pm

re: #440 HappyWarrior

Yeah but you can’t expect D&S to know that though since they know nothing except kissing Trump’s ass and whining about how they’re persecuted.

They’re paid to kiss his ass.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:01:41pm

re: #448 Mattand

Both? They’re cynical and stupid?
Or…. and much more likely:
They’re cynical that their supporters are that stupid?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:02:04pm

re: #446 MsJ

The derp in that thread is fucking depressing.

The Constitution means what I want it to mean, whatever that may be at any given moment!

But, you know, not a living document. Definitley not that.

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teleskiguy  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:03:30pm
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:03:55pm

While media spent inordinate amount of time talking about Hillary’s email as though that was criminal acts (it wasn’t), turns out that Trump was illegally hiring undocumented persons… and we’ve got still more evidence that Trump was profiting from it.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:05:15pm

re: #453 teleskiguy

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Then pull out a big one and say “gives me a chubby.”

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:07:23pm
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Brian J.  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:07:37pm

And the mighty Just Us Democrat revolt on PayGo and the other rules of the House falls juuuuuuuust a bit short, with the three Bernie Mice (Gabbard, Khanna, and Ocasio) voting with the Republicans while three Republicans join with Pelosi.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:08:34pm

re: #444 Charles Johnson

Is that Stephen Root? Now I gotta see it!

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Brian J.  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:08:48pm

re: #456 lawhawk

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Voted with the Republicans on her first day on the job. Get the hook!

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The Ghost of Kung Fu Treachery  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:10:08pm

re: #447 Charles Johnson

New Gods #1

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:11:19pm

Some celebs are cool.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:11:24pm

re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Can you believe this shit?

[Embedded content]

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:11:27pm

re: #459 Brian J.

Voted with the Republicans on her first day on the job. Get the hook!

Yeah, with people like her on the ballot we’ll never take the House back!

Oh, wait……………………………

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:13:54pm

re: #461 MsJ

Some celebs are cool.

[Embedded content]

Nate Ford would have a plan - hell, a number of plans! - to get McConnell to put the House bill(s) up for a vote and think it was his own idea.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:15:36pm

re: #429 HappyWarrior

God you two are idiots. Delete your account. She’s doing her fucking job by investigating this. But I get it, you think Trump can do no wrong because he actually takes you seriously when no one else does nor should.

AG investigates when there’s cause
regardless of who you are (or arent)
that”s why we say “justice, for all”
if it aint for all it aint justice

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:16:02pm

The Trey Gowdy thread on twitter is absolutely karma-licious for that almond-shaped head fucktard twitter.com

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:16:30pm

Chyron on FOX:

More lunacy from the left. Democrats take control of the House.

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Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:16:36pm

re: #309 HappyWarrior

New Jersey apparently did in some elections in the early 19th century too for a little while.

The state constitution written after the Revolution was not specific about voter = male. It was a bit of a to-do to then disenfranchise NJ women. There was a specific election (can’t remember exact year) where the Federalist and the Democratic-Republicans disagreed on whether women should keep the vote. The Federalist’s power was in decline, and they thought that more women would vote for them. So, the Federalists lobbied for women to keep the suffrage. In the end, Democratic-Republican efforts to disenfranchised NJ women were successful.

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:17:25pm

re: #461 MsJ

Some celebs are cool.

Mitch McConnell blew up the blue slip hold for judge nominations. I’m not sure where Democrats can hold those up.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:17:46pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:18:05pm

re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Can you believe this shit?

Democrats should recognize that when an elected president, whatever you may think of him, has a legitimate objective, you should bend over backwards to try to meet that objective if you want a result

“want a result”?
you mean the legitimate object that the president wants?
what if the ‘result’ we want isn’t the ‘objective’ the president wants
we good then too?

cf: merrick garland

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:20:55pm

re: #440 HappyWarrior

Yeah but you can’t expect D&S to know that though since they know nothing except kissing Trump’s ass and whining about how they’re persecuted.

they had help writing that
probalby never heard of the hatch act

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:22:12pm
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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:22:40pm

re: #472 dangerman

they had help writing that
probalby never heard of the hatch act

I’m sure they get talking points.

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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:23:59pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:24:06pm

re: #472 dangerman

they had help writing that
probalby never heard of the hatch act

Shecky Hatch—had a great piece of business with a cockatoo and a couple strippers at the old Kasino in Pittsburgh.

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:25:04pm
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Teddy's Person  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:25:34pm

re: #475 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

My caption contribution: womp, womp

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:25:37pm

re: #476 Decatur Deb

Shecky Hatch—had a great piece of business with a cockatoo and a couple strippers at the old Kasino in Pittsburgh.

+1

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jaunte  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:25:52pm
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teleskiguy  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:25:59pm
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lawhawk  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:27:16pm
483
PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:27:21pm

re: #481 teleskiguy

And Pence would believe something like that.

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teleskiguy  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:33:03pm

Fuckin’ dude is toxic.

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bd(Redacted)  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:33:11pm

So lifelike & realistic……..nice to see that they’ve gotten over hillary too.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:35:33pm

So, is the anti-globalism ideal that we just make and consume what we need for ourselves? A Juche philosophy, if you will?

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:35:43pm

re: #485 bd(Redacted)

I fight dirty. Hit him below the belt.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:36:55pm

re: #485 bd(Redacted)

Pretty sure Garrison uses his drawings of Trump as whacking material.

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teleskiguy  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:38:02pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:38:09pm

re: #485 bd(Redacted)

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So lifelike & realistic……..nice to see that they’ve gotten over hillary too.

He’s got the shape of Trump’s torso upside down.

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MsJ  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:38:23pm

re: #488 Blind Frog Belly White

Pretty sure Garrison uses his drawings of Trump as whacking material.

[Embedded content]

Considering trump is closer to jabba the hut than Arnold the Governator.

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:38:44pm

re: #251 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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After reading more of the article, I am now concerned that this group, associating with Norse mythology, is really a group of white supremacists.

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gocart mozart  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:40:00pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:41:05pm

re: #479 dangerman

+1

pghcitypaper.com

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:41:56pm

Good luck with that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:42:54pm

re: #485 bd(Redacted)

[Embedded content]

So lifelike & realistic……..nice to see that they’ve gotten over hillary too.

is that a mushroom in his shorts or is he just glad to see mitt?

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b_sharp  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:44:27pm

re: #447 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Not the “Descent of Man?”

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Belafon  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:47:55pm

re: #298 Anymouse 🌹

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TedStriker  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:55:27pm

re: #433 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Can you believe this shit?

Democrats should recognize that when an elected president, whatever you may think of him, has a legitimate objective, you should bend over backwards to try to meet that objective if you want a result. alexander.senate.gov

— Sen. Lamar Alexander (@SenAlexander) January 3, 2019

From a fellow Tennessean (and one of your constituents), fuck that noise and fuck you for carrying water for Trump so you keep your seat, because absolutely none of Trump’s “objectives” are legitimate or good. If you truly gave a shit what happens to those of us who are your constituents and to the country at large, you wouldn’t be saying this sniveling, ass-kissing vomitus.

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ObserverArt  Jan 3, 2019 • 5:58:13pm

re: #388 Blind Frog Belly White

Those shoulders…..

She could knock you out!

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Anymouse 🌹  Jan 3, 2019 • 6:17:26pm

Fox and Friends guest: struggling Americans “are not working…they’re watching porn” (Boing Boing)

No, that would be conservatives. Liberals can concentrate on more task than one at a time, and we also read porn.

The Internet Is For Porn - HQ - Avenue Q - Original Broadway Cast

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Jay C  Jan 3, 2019 • 6:18:24pm

re: #500 ObserverArt

She could knock you out!

Kinda looks like what happened to The Veep….

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TedStriker  Jan 3, 2019 • 6:30:43pm

re: #448 Mattand

Still can’t decide that when GOPers say shit like this, they are either being genuinely stupid or are some of the most cynical/dishonest motherfuckers on the planet.

I’m guessing in Alexander’s case, it’s the latter.

Once upon a time, in a more rational age, Lamar! was pretty much Gen. Eric Republican, more or less a moderate straight down the line. He really made his bones as the governor that had to clean and straighten up Tennessee state government after the widespread corruption of Ray Blanton’s administration (to get a little taste of that, watch Marie with Sissy Spacek) and by becoming the “Education Governor”; after two terms, Lamar! was UT-Knoxville’s president for a few years, then served as Secretary of Education for the last two years of GHWB’s term.

However, Lamar! has tacked steadily ever rightward ever since winning the Senate seat that Fred Thompson retired from in 2002, because the state has done the same over pretty much the same period; since the 2010 elections, the GOP has held not only both Senate seats, but a supermajority of TN’s House seats (7 of 9; Nashville and Memphis have the only two Dems); he just keeps pandering to the faithful in the suburbs, the exurb, and all of the BFEs to keep himself in the Senate.

For me, it’s frustrating, because he actually use to govern well.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Jan 3, 2019 • 7:00:18pm

I know we are a little skittish here about references to the First Lady’s former career as a model, but if the GOPers had even an ounce of decency, they would note that AOC is at least wearing clothes in the high school video. Their lack of self-awareness is mind-boggling.

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retired cynic  Jan 3, 2019 • 8:47:17pm

re: #429 HappyWarrior

God you two are idiots. Delete your account. She’s doing her fucking job by investigating this. But I get it, you think Trump can do no wrong because he actually takes you seriously when no one else does nor should.

No, he doesn’t. He just uses them for political purposes when no one else does, or should.


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