Mitch McConnell Doesn’t Seem Too Worried About Our Super Dangerous National Emergency [VIDEO]

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I hope you’ve got stores of canned goods, bottled water, dehydrated meals, and masking tape for your windows, because we’re in a state of emergency now.

[…lights hair on fire, runs in circles screaming…]

Apparently there’s an invasion of crime-committing, raping, murdering monsters happening on the southern border of the US, although nobody but Donald Trump can actually see it.

But it’s comforting to know that not even a SUPER DANGEROUS NATIONAL EMERGENCY can stop the president* from enjoying yet another golf weekend.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:19:59pm
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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:20:57pm

Most boring-est “national emergency” ever.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:23:17pm

re: #1 Patricia Kayden

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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:27:37pm

Current mood:

Nine Inch Nails - Survivalism

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:28:55pm

It isn’t fair to say that the invading horde is only in Trump’s tiny mind.

Hordes of swarthy hottentots and mau-maus swarming across the US southern border has been a staple of Fauxaganda for decades.

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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:31:01pm

Multiple casualties, including among law enforcement.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:32:32pm

re: #6 lawhawk

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Multiple casualties, including among law enforcement.

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thecommodore  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:33:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:33:11pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:36:00pm

re: #8 thecommodore

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TedStriker  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:36:37pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is the filing I’ve been waiting for today. The SCO says evidence in Roger Stone’s case was found in accounts that were searched for the GRU case, in which 11 Russian military officers were charged with a conspiracy to interfere in the election. pic.twitter.com

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) February 15, 2019

Oh, Roger:

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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:40:35pm

re: #9 Backwoods_Sleuth

In other words, Mueller found the links between Stone and the Russians who were out to manipulate the outcome of the election from the evidence gathered in the case that resulted in the indictments against a bunch of GRU agents.

This is the conspiracy against the US that we’ve said was present. This is the collusion Trump and Barr and other GOPers want to ignore or bury (or end Mueller’s investigations).

We’re finding evidence of Russian influence all over Trumpworld.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:41:05pm

Not a hard thing to do.

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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:43:17pm

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality

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Mike Lamb  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:43:31pm

re: #8 thecommodore

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And the families that lose their loved ones to avoidable gun violence? We building walls around Smith and Wesson?

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A Mom Anon  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:45:01pm

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

This is assuming they had principles…..and we laughed and laughed and then threw up.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:45:19pm

re: #15 Mike Lamb

And the families that lose their loved ones to avoidable gun violence? We building walls around Smith and Wesson?

Not walls. Barriers with steel slats.

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Mike Lamb  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:47:06pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

Not walls. Barriers with steel slats.

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Prisons work too.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:49:32pm

re: #6 lawhawk

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Multiple casualties, including among law enforcement.

I wonder why law enforcement goes along with the “guns everywhere “ insanity? I know a few have spoken out but most seem ok with it. In for a penny in for a pound then. If they don’t care……

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TedStriker  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:49:49pm

re: #10 Joe Bacon 🌹

Just a quibble for accuracy, but the Sacklers run Purdue Pharma, not Sandoz; Sandoz is owned by Novartis.

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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:53:07pm

re: #6 lawhawk

Four LEOs injured, no word on civilian casualties.

None of this is good.

I’ll bring up Columbine, Binghamton, and VA Tech among others. Too soon?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:56:03pm

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

Not a hard thing to do.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:56:33pm

Police union blames BLM for police shootings in Houston. Police union is a bunch of liars. Let’s talk NRA assholes

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:57:17pm

re: #19 Old Liberal

I wonder why law enforcement goes along with the “guns everywhere “ insanity? I know a few have spoken out but most seem ok with it. In for a penny in for a pound then. If they don’t care……

If every black man had a gun, every cop would have a good reason to shoot him.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:58:32pm
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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 1:58:41pm
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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:01:08pm

re: #25 Patricia Kayden

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Look, if every one on the left refuses to answer a citizenship question the data is meaningless and unusable. Old fashioned peaceful resistance. Don’t answer the question.

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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:03:18pm

Two weeks ago had to write up a detailed document, 6 pages of data, on a guy who was falsifying data. No one could unravel it all except me. I got it all laid out, HR is doing their paperwork. Guy doesn’t know yet. He’s a gun nut and has been confrontational with other employees, including women. But nothing actionable. Also a MAGAt

He called me on Monday to tell me he’s in love with me. He is obsessed with me. I will be responsible for his firing and he will know it. He has guns. NO.

I told HR and my boss immediately. He has been banned from campus. My boss has insisted I not go to the parking garage without him. I hate guns, I will say it right now, but my boss is former military and an expert marksman and carries legally. I feel a whole lot safer.

I don’t want to hear it about a bullshit crisis on the border. The crisis is right…fucking…here. Men, women, and guns is a crisis.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:04:11pm
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A Cranky One  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:05:46pm

Active shooter in my neighborhood has been neutralized (police report). Reports of one dead (probably the shooter), and several cops and civilians shot.

Damn it.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:07:01pm

re: #28 BlueGrl21

Two weeks ago I was had to write up a detailed document, 6 pages of data, on a guy who was falsifying data. No one could unravel it all except me. I got it all laid out, HR is doing their paperwork. Guy doesn’t know yet. He’s a gun nut and has been confrontational with other employees, including women. But nothing actionable. Also a MAGAt

He called me on Monday to tell me he’s in love with me. He is obsessed with me. I will be responsible for his firing and he will know it. He has guns. NO.

I told HR and my boss immediately. He has been banned from campus. My boss, who I adore, has insisted I not go to the parking garage without him. I hate guns, I will say it right now, but my boss is former military and an expert marksman and carries legally. I feel a whole lot safer.

I don’t want to hear it about a bullshit crisis on the border. The crisis is right…fucking…here. Men, women, and guns is a crisis.

Horrifying. I’m sorry.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:07:23pm
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KerFuFFler  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:10:15pm

re: #19 Old Liberal

I wonder why law enforcement goes along with the “guns everywhere “ insanity? I know a few have spoken out but most seem ok with it. In for a penny in for a pound then. If they don’t care……

I suppose it gives them an excuse to rush in to situations, guns a blazing, because they don’t know just what firepower they may be confronting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:11:38pm

YIKES!

more in the thread

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sagehen  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:12:55pm

re: #6 lawhawk

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Multiple casualties, including among law enforcement.

“Prior to the shooting in Aurora, Illinois, there had been 38 mass shootings so far in 2019, according to the Gun Violence Archive. The organization defines mass shootings as events in which four or more people, excluding the shooter, were shot but not necessarily killed in a similar time and place.”

We’re 46 days into 2019.

So… less than one a day? WINNING!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:14:23pm
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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:14:51pm

re: #31 Old Liberal

Horrifying. I’m sorry.

It’s horrible.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:15:33pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

YIKES!

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“Perfection” now defined as not killing you in your own bed for no reason. Fucking pigs. What is wrong with these people?

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:15:35pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

So BLM is responsible for the cops’ lying too, I guess.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:19:23pm

re: #37 BlueGrl21

It’s horrible.

Can you get someone with experience in this kind of mess? It isn’t right for an employer to put you in danger as a result of that report. That is negligence IMO.

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steve_davis  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:20:04pm

re: #26 lawhawk

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and he won’t do a damned thing to stop it.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:22:25pm

And they are stupid enough to circulate this…

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:22:41pm

re: #40 Old Liberal

Can you get someone with experience in this kind of mess? It isn’t right for an employer to put you in danger as a result of that report. That is negligence IMO.

It doesn’t sound right now if he knows, but he might be able to put two and two together. Some people may be able to figure it out anyway.

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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:23:56pm

re: #40 Old Liberal

Can you get someone with experience in this kind of mess? It isn’t right for an employer to put you in danger as a result of that report. That is negligence IMO.

Someone screwed up. The plan was to fire him and walk him out the door, no discussion. But his boss confronted him with the data in a one on one meeting on Monday morning. He’d know only I could have found that data. So he got out of that call, then called me to tell me he’s in love with me. Every warning bell I possess went off before I even knew about the previous meeting.

My boss is LIVID. White-hot rage livid.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:26:01pm

re: #43 Belafon

It doesn’t sound right now if he knows, but he might be able to put two and two together. Some people may be able to figure it out anyway.

If he can put two and two together, you don’t fire him over that issue and you put that analysis away and find something else. Have done that in my past life.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:28:50pm

re: #44 BlueGrl21

Is your company large enough and responsible enough to move you?

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:29:03pm

re: #44 BlueGrl21

Someone screwed up. The plan was to fire him and walk him out the door, no discussion. But his boss confronted him with the data in a one on one meeting on Monday morning. He’d know only I could have found that data. So he got out of that call, then called me to tell me he’s in love with me. Every warning bell I possess went off before I even knew about the previous meeting.

My boss is LIVID. White-hot rage livid.

Geez that’s incompetence. Other boss should be fired for putting you at risk and salary should pay for protection for you. Fuuuuuuuuck I’m sorry.

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TedStriker  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:31:02pm

re: #26 lawhawk

!! @SenAlexander (R-Tennessee) calls President Trump’s national emergency declaration “unnecessary, unwise and inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution.” pic.twitter.com

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) February 15, 2019

OK, Lamar!, as a Tennessean, I want to know what you fucking plan on doing about it. I know what you will do about it, which is absolutely nothing because GOP Uber Alles, but I want to hear you say it.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:34:19pm

WTF is going on with Cheetolini? It’s like he’s reading a transliteration of a language he doesn’t understand.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:34:45pm
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Chrysicat  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:36:40pm

(Yes, I know the original tweet is somewhere in one of these threads already. But I didn’t go down its rabbit hole until Harry Turtledove’s retweet showed up in my notifications).

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:36:57pm

Yeah, I don’t see Barr ever going against this President.

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Skip Intro  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:37:11pm

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

WTF is going on with Cheetolini? It’s like he’s reading a transliteration of a language he doesn’t understand.

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It wasn’t what he said, but the way he said it. He lapsed into a sing-song cadence that was half-middle-school-taunt and half-serial-killer. No president in my lifetime ever did voice acting, let alone a voice that made you want to make sure he was kept away from the White House cutlery. The man is not all there. Everybody knows it. If your uncle behaved like the president* behaved on Friday, you’d hide his car-keys, lock up the booze, and drive him to the neurologist.

- Charles Pierce

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Mike Lamb  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:37:48pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

YIKES!

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So the deceased started firing because they thought it was a home invasion?

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TedStriker  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:38:17pm

re: #44 BlueGrl21

Someone screwed up. The plan was to fire him and walk him out the door, no discussion. But his boss confronted him with the data in a one on one meeting on Monday morning. He’d know only I could have found that data. So he got out of that call, then called me to tell me he’s in love with me. Every warning bell I possess went off before I even knew about the previous meeting.

My boss is LIVID. White-hot rage livid.

Sounds like MAGAt is trying to set up a “lover’s spat” to discredit your having found him out…and also to become the narrative in the media if he decides to “do something rash”.

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:44:31pm

re: #27 Old Liberal

Look, if every one on the left refuses to answer a citizenship question the data is meaningless and unusable. Old fashioned peaceful resistance. Don’t answer the question.

IMO this is bad advice. Anywhere they have enough power, Republicans will take obviously bad census results at face value to grab more power. E.g., a lefty census boycott could cost CA several House districts in the 2020 reapportionment.

95+% of the US political media would go along with this.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:45:16pm

re: #44 BlueGrl21

Someone screwed up. The plan was to fire him and walk him out the door, no discussion. But his boss confronted him with the data in a one on one meeting on Monday morning. He’d know only I could have found that data. So he got out of that call, then called me to tell me he’s in love with me. Every warning bell I possess went off before I even knew about the previous meeting.

My boss is LIVID. White-hot rage livid.

You might have a cause of action against your employer and while you may not want to let that enter your mind right now it might be the one thing that lets you get on with life, to move or take a year off or whatever. I urge you to find a lawyer with experience in this area to counsel you on your steps going forward. The initial plan of termination of this jerk demonstrates awareness of you being in danger. They fucked up. You need to protect your options.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:47:06pm

re: #56 EPR-radar

IMO this is bad advice. Anywhere they have enough power, Republicans will take obviously bad census results at face value to grab more power. E.g., a lefty census boycott could cost CA several House districts in the 2020 reapportionment.

95+% of the US political media would go along with this.

I didn’t write boycott the census, I wrote don’t answer the one citizenship question. One answer withheld do the rest.

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TedStriker  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:48:17pm

re: #55 TedStriker

Sounds like MAGAt is trying to set up a “lover’s spat” to discredit your having found him out…and also to become the narrative in the media if he decides to “do something rash”.

To that effect, you, your boss, and your HR people need to gather all evidence to possibly take out a restraining order on this dude; from what you’ve said, my Spidey Sense is on fire, as I’m sure it is for you.

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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:48:57pm

re: #55 TedStriker

Sounds like MAGAt is trying to set up a “lover’s spat” to discredit your having found him out…and also to become the narrative in the media if he decides to “do something rash”.

Yeah, won’t work. I’ve been there for 12 years and everyone knows me. I work for a Fortune 500 but I work across it, all different groups. And the data I pulled together is untouchable. There is no argument. I pulled it out of databases that have detailed audit trails. There is no way to say it wasn’t him.

But again, that was to be in the company’s back pocket if there was a dispute. They didn’t have to review any of it with him. But his fucking boss got pissed that he’d been lying to him and confronted him. Guy’s my friend. I sat him down today and walked him through EXACTLY the context of everything this guy has said or done. Showed him his Facebook page of weapons. Said, “Do you see now? Do you see the threat to me as a woman, not just an employee?”

My boss wants his head on a platter.

Lots of very angry people. I’ve been told to stay home next week. They have to figure it out.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:49:44pm

re: #56 EPR-radar

IMO this is bad advice. Anywhere they have enough power, Republicans will take obviously bad census results at face value to grab more power. E.g., a lefty census boycott could cost CA several House districts in the 2020 reapportionment.

95+% of the US political media would go along with this.

What are they gonna do if 30% of population doesn’t say yes or no? Decide they are illegals? Doing this is the equivalent of the question not being there.

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Chrysicat  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:51:01pm
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Chrysicat  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:53:04pm

re: #61 Old Liberal

What are they gonna do if 30% of population doesn’t say yes or no? Decide they are illegals? Doing this is the equivalent of the question not being there.

Decide they really “told the truth” about lacking citizenship, whether they “actually have green cards” or “are illegal” no longer mattering, and thus not consider them as part of the population for apportionment purposes. Magically, Colorado doesn’t get her 8th CD from Minnesota, Cal loses 20 and they mainly go to places like MS, AL and possibly OH.

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ObserverArt  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:54:31pm

re: #13 Patricia Kayden

Not a hard thing to do.

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I’m stunned. I never knew Republicans had principles.

I think they gave them all up back in the 90s when Clinton was elected.

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plansbandc  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:55:08pm

re: #61 Old Liberal

Throw out the form for not being completed? They were going to rig the hell out of the census anyway. Now they are going to have a question of the form that will scare more people away. It’s what they wanted. They don’t give a damn about accuracy.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:55:39pm

re: #63 Chrysicat

Decide they really “told the truth” about lacking citizenship, whether they “actually have green cards” or “are illegal” no longer mattering, and thus not consider them as part of the population for apportionment purposes. Magically, Colorado doesn’t get her 8th CD from Minnesota, Cal loses 20 and they mainly go to places like MS, AL and possibly OH.

A no answer is evidence of nothing.

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Chrysicat  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:57:45pm

re: #66 Old Liberal

A no answer is evidence of nothing.

You’re still thinking like a United States citizen and not a Trumpistani subject.

Civil disobedience at this point gets you Auschwitz, not India ‘47.

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ObserverArt  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:59:33pm

re: #28 BlueGrl21

Two weeks ago had to write up a detailed document, 6 pages of data, on a guy who was falsifying data.

…

I don’t want to hear it about a bullshit crisis on the border. The crisis is right…fucking…here. Men, women, and guns is a crisis.

Please be safe!

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 2:59:46pm

re: #65 plansbandc

Throw out the form for not being completed? They were going to rig the hell out of the census anyway. Now they are going to have a question of the form that will scare more people away. It’s what they wanted. They don’t give a damn about accuracy.

Well if that is the extent of the fuckery, and it is possible, then I can’t see where answering yes to one question is the thing that leaves them powerless. Seems to me nothing matters then.

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piratedan  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:00:02pm

re: #60 BlueGrl21

if you’re staying home, I would also make sure that he doesn’t know where you live and to be sure, if he’s dismissed, the HR department should be sending out a notice to make sure he doesn’t press a co-worker for more personal details about you… sorry, you HAVE to take this seriously, but then again, they opened the damn door here, they should be taking extraordinary steps to ensure not just your safety but that of all of the employees. Your own security staff should know that he’s persona-non-grata as well as the local LEOs.

Make sure that you have protection at home, windows and doors secured, alarms set… you may even look at taking time out of town… it sounds that serious to me…

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ObserverArt  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:01:23pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I see Trump is about to go up the plane steps alone before Melania.

What a guy. So classy.

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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:03:07pm

re: #67 Chrysicat

You’re still thinking like a United States citizen and not a Trumpistani subject.

Civil disobedience at this point gets you Auschwitz, not India ‘47.

If it gets that far and it might answering yes no or nothing are all the same. They won’t need my census form as evidence for deportation I have a lengthy record. And I already self-deported.

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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:06:27pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lee sounds really concerned.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:07:19pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

Is that his birther wife thirty feet behind him?

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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:07:31pm

re: #32 Backwoods_Sleuth

Such emergency very crisis.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:08:47pm

Stone got gagged!

talkingpointsmemo.com

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued a gag order in the Roger Stone case Friday, a move that was anticipated given Stone’s publicity-hungry ways and given that the judge imposed a similar order in the Paul Manafort proceedings.

However her order, as it pertained to Stone, was limited to banning him from commenting about the case in front of the courthouse, where media often gathers before and after proceedings. The ban includes comments “intended to influence any juror, potential juror, judge, witness or court officer or interfere with the administration of justice.”

The lawyers involved in the case, as well as witnesses, are more broadly banned from making public statements that “pose a substantial likelihood” to materially prejudice the case.

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Ace Rothstein  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:09:38pm

re: #42 Joe Bacon 🌹

And they are stupid enough to circulate this…

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Ohhhhhh! It’s Davey Scatino from The Sopranos!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:18:28pm

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Chrysicat  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:19:18pm

Somehow, I missed Fugelsang’s 30 Jan statement about “dear future: we tried, but look what we were up against” until now. I only wish my response were something that would be out of date since it’s two weeks late…

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ObserverArt  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:20:10pm

re: #60 BlueGrl21

Yeah, won’t work. I’ve been there for 12 years and everyone knows me. I work for a Fortune 500 but I work across it, all different groups. And the data I pulled together is untouchable. There is no argument. I pulled it out of databases that have detailed audit trails. There is no way to say it wasn’t him.

But again, that was to be in the company’s back pocket if there was a dispute. They didn’t have to review any of it with him. But his fucking boss got pissed that he’d been lying to him and confronted him. Guy’s my friend. I sat him down today and walked him through EXACTLY the context of everything this guy has said or done. Showed him his Facebook page of weapons. Said, “Do you see now? Do you see the threat to me as a woman, not just an employee?”

My boss wants his head on a platter.

Lots of very angry people. I’ve been told to stay home next week. They have to figure it out.

I hope he has no idea where you live and can’t find out.

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Chrysicat  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:22:07pm

re: #78 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Would have been nice to link to or credit the original; that looks like This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow, but I can’t be sure?

And on the subject of strip-form political cartooning: is there any way to save Wiley Miller from having to find a non-creative job at this point since the wingnuts want him deplatformed for his editor missing Sunday’s FU to Trump?

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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:25:49pm

re: #70 piratedan

if you’re staying home, I would also make sure that he doesn’t know where you live and to be sure, if he’s dismissed, the HR department should be sending out a notice to make sure he doesn’t press a co-worker for more personal details about you… sorry, you HAVE to take this seriously, but then again, they opened the damn door here, they should be taking extraordinary steps to ensure not just your safety but that of all of the employees. Your own security staff should know that he’s persona-non-grata as well as the local LEOs.

Make sure that you have protection at home, windows and doors secured, alarms set… you may even look at taking time out of town… it sounds that serious to me…

I am taking it very seriously. I leave Monday to be out of the country for 2 weeks. No one at my company knows my address except for my boss. For better or worse, this is the second time I have been through this and I knew from the day I was hired to hide personal information. In 12 years, no one has been to my house. I am that paranoid about workplace stalking and/or violence.

So the framework is there to keep me safe but I still have to be extremely careful.

I have read Gavin DeBecker’s, “The Gift of Fear,” several times. May sound dumb but I pay attention to that book, and my own life experience. I am extremely careful. This whole thing pisses me off and I am pissed I have been so careful since this happened 15 years ago. And here we are again.

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Dragonomics  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:27:56pm

Fuck Trump and his bullshit emergency

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:32:11pm

edition.cnn.com

Moscow (CNN)Michael Calvey, a US citizen and one of Russia’s most prominent foreign investors, has been detained in Moscow in connection with a large-scale fraud investigation, a spokeswoman for a Moscow court told CNN on Friday.

Calvey is the founder of Baring Vostok Capital Partners, an investment company established in 1994 that has raised at least $3.7 billion in capital, according to its website.
A Russian court ordered Friday that Calvey’s detention be extended for 72 hours, Moscow’s Basmanny court spokeswoman Yunona Tsaryova told CNN.
When asked about the charges against Calvey, Tsaryova declined to comment but said that a session would take place Saturday to impose pretrial restrictions.
Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported Calvey was detained along with five others, including three Baring Vostok employees; Alexey Kordichev, chairman of the board of directors of Vyatka Bank; and Maxim Vladimirov, general director of Perviy Collector Bureau, a debt collection company.
Earlier, Tsaryova refused to confirm to CNN how many people were detained or their identities, saying, “It is subject to investigation.”

Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russian Direct Investment Fund and a close adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, vouched for Calvey when learning about his detention.
“I know Michael Calvey and his team at Baring Vostok as highly professional investors committed to the highest ethical standards,” Dmitriev said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference.
“I am ready to personally vouch for Michael Calvey and believe that he has done a lot for attracting foreign investors to Russia and helped many Russian companies grow and mature.
Baring Vostok said in a statement that “the detention of its employees and the charges that have been brought are a result of a conflict with shareholders of Vostochniy Bank.”
“We have full confidence in the legality of our employees’ actions and will vigorously defend their rights. Baring Vostok’s activities in the Russian Federation are fully compliant with all applicable laws,” the statement said.
According to RIA Novosti, Calvey owns a controlling stake in Vostochniy Bank.
Baring Vostok’s investor base is predominantly drawn from pension funds, university endowments and sovereign wealth funds, according to its website. Since the fund’s inception, it has invested more than $2.8 billion in 80 companies across Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and other parts of the former Soviet Union, the site says.
In addition to being Baring Vostok’s founder, Calvey is listed on his company profile as a senior partner. He has lived in the UK and United States and worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Salomon Brothers.

Correction: This story has been updated to correct the number of Baring Vostok employees detained.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:32:49pm
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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:41:30pm

re: #81 Chrysicat

It’s Brian McFadden:
brianmcfadden.org

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 3:49:40pm
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freetoken  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:11:07pm

re: #87 wrenchwench

We’ve turned predators into tribbles.

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retired cynic  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:11:36pm

I have some photos of snow geese to show here, and I’ve managed to get the comment box here all confused. So if things get really weird, please excuse me! I’ll delete and try another day!

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austin_blue  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:11:59pm

Welp, it’s February 15th, and we hit 91º today.

This is, as you might imagine, a record high for the day.

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retired cynic  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:13:14pm

Today was a snow geese day. We seem to get more of them every year, and today was the first time they settle close enough for me to get photos.

I have made these smaller so they will upload here. This is across the road from me, to the north.

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retired cynic  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:15:02pm

And this is on my side of the road, facing south. Our old horse farm is behind the trees. Both bunches were being constantly added to by more and more flying in. Thousands!

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retired cynic  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:17:41pm

OMG, it looks like five victims were killed in that Aurora IL shooting!

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:19:54pm

If people have easy legal access to guns I want easy legal access to controlled substances.////kind of.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:25:10pm

Evening Lizards, hope all are safe during this time of emergency:

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:31:27pm

re: #95 bd(Enquiring minds want to know!)

Evening Lizards, hope all are safe during this time of emergency:

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For me the amazing thing is that many people don’t realize that when “omg, I agree with Ann Coulter” that means that they agree with a zero-tolerance policy on asylum seekers, Dreamers, and a drastic reduction in legal immigration.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:31:29pm

re: #87 wrenchwench

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MrBWS just called that a squeegasm

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Skip Intro  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:33:19pm

re: #96 Barefoot Grin

For me the amazing thing is that many people don’t realize that when “omg, I agree with Ann Coulter” that means that they agree with a zero-tolerance policy on asylum seekers, Dreamers, and a drastic reduction in legal immigration.

Coulter is just mad because the land mines and poison gas weren’t included in the bill and Trump didn’t fight for them.

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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:33:55pm

re: #95 bd(Enquiring minds want to know!)

Evening Lizards, hope all are safe during this time of emergency:

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I really, really hate it when I am forced to cheer on Ann Coulter.

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:36:09pm

re: #99 BlueGrl21

She’s just mad he’s not a more effective tyrant.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:36:25pm

re: #99 BlueGrl21

I really, really hate it when I am forced to cheer on Ann Coulter.

It’s what I call the Red Sox-Yankees situation where you hope both fail miserably

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Jay C  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:36:34pm

re: #99 BlueGrl21

I really, really hate it when I am forced to cheer on Ann Coulter.

Well, we don’t have to cheer her on: I mean, “The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot” is, IMO, merely a factual statement. Regardless of the source. And sort of on the “water is wet” level….

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:36:43pm

re: #96 Barefoot Grin

For me the amazing thing is that many people don’t realize that when “omg, I agree with Ann Coulter” that means that they agree with a zero-tolerance policy on asylum seekers, Dreamers, and a drastic reduction in legal immigration.

Yep, Ann is pissed that Trump isn’t enough of a monster.

Oh well, I’m just glad that she is miserable even though she is somewhat responsible for this guy.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:38:22pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

It’s what I call the Red Sox-Yankees situation where you hope both fail miserably

It’s like having Bannon and Miller have a chain saw fight, except I wish both of them the best.

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William Lewis  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:43:37pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

It’s what I call the Red Sox-Yankees situation where you hope both fail miserably

Cowboys vs New England - can I haz two losers?

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dell*nix  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:45:35pm

re: #37 BlueGrl21

Charge whoever lied on the warrant with murder.

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:49:29pm

He’s doing it the Beto way.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:51:22pm

re: #105 William Lewis

Cowboys vs New England - can I haz two losers?

Yes!

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:52:04pm

re: #107 wrenchwench

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He’s doing it the Beto way.

I’m in.

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TedStriker  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:52:33pm

re: #105 William Lewis

Cowboys vs New England - can I haz two losers?

re: #108 HappyWarrior

Yes!

The Sum of All Fears Bowl…

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:54:05pm

It was littler and more adorable on my twit page.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:57:37pm

re: #105 William Lewis

Cowboys vs New England - can I haz two losers?

I don’t understand your analogy? The Cowboys are America’s Team, the best ever and are awesome and the Patriots suck all kinds of ass.

//

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 4:57:43pm

Someone posted this on my Facebook page and I deleted it…

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:00:57pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:02:48pm

re: #110 TedStriker

The Sum of All Fears Bowl…

I had one when Baltimore played SF a few years back. Blah!

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lawhawk  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:07:25pm
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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:08:33pm

re: #116 lawhawk

He’s not Ted Bundy.

That we know of.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:09:22pm

re: #116 lawhawk

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Throwing the country under the bus is pretty damn serious. Maybe Manafort shouldn’t have lied to investigators.

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:09:42pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:09:59pm

re: #117 jaunte

That we know of.

Ted Bundy also got the DP so this is a pretty absurd analogy.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:10:42pm

re: #107 wrenchwench

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He’s doing it the Beto way.

I don’t see how he can lose to tell the truth

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fern01  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:10:43pm

As with every other political norm trump has turned National Emergencies into a political scam.

So much for clearing the swamp - he has filled it with bile.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:11:20pm

re: #120 HappyWarrior

Ted Bundy also got the DP so this is a pretty absurd analogy.

Anything more than 10 years is pretty close to a life sentence. F him. He sold out his country.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:11:21pm

re: #116 lawhawk

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Can we use that Manafort fine money to build a wall around Ted Cruz?

Lock Him Up!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:12:59pm

re: #123 I Would Prefer Not To

Anything more than 10 years is pretty close to a life sentence. F him. He sold out his country.

My sympathy for Manafort is slim and nil.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:15:05pm

re: #125 HappyWarrior

My sympathy for Manafort is slim and nil.

I have the same sympathy for Manafort that he would have for any of the countrymen he betrayed.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:15:28pm

re: #60 BlueGrl21

If you stay home make sure you have a police guard. This asshole is going to be on the front page and you don’t want to be there with him.

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:15:48pm

re: #121 Dave In Austin

I don’t see how he can lose to tell the truth

It’s Arizona. Texas was tough. This will be almost as tough as Beto’s campaign, or a little tougher. It’s a pseudo-incumbent. Should be easier to beat than Cruz.

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SteelPH  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:18:03pm

re: #123 I Would Prefer Not To

Anything more than 10 years is pretty close to a life sentence. F him. He sold out his country.

Word of advice for Manafort: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, asshole.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:20:33pm

re: #129 SteelPH

Word of advice for Manafort: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time, asshole.

He’s gonna keep looking out the window for a pardon that will never come.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:25:28pm

jeebus

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Sionainn, Warrior Mother  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:25:49pm

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:27:36pm

tiny violins…

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:27:58pm

re: #125 HappyWarrior

My sympathy for Manafort is slim and nil.

Likewise. And the Feds nailing Manafort hard like this will send a useful message to the rest of the Trump Crime Syndicate that being the fall guy for crimes by the boss will be very unpleasant.

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:29:51pm
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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:29:57pm

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

tiny violins…

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OFFS.

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fern01  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:30:14pm

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

WTF is going on with Cheetolini? It’s like he’s reading a transliteration of a language he doesn’t understand.

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He always sounds like that - he is attempting to read english that someone else wrote and he literally cannot read.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:33:31pm

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

WTF is going on with Cheetolini? It’s like he’s reading a transliteration of a language he doesn’t understand.

[Embedded content]

He didn’t have a teleprompter today

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:33:48pm

Regular Nostradumbasses, the both of them:

Keep rocking their world RBG.

and screw this douche:

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:35:32pm

re: #139 bd (Emergency!)

Regular Nostradumbasses, the both of them:

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re: #139 bd (Emergency!)

Regular Nostradumbasses, the both of them:

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www-m.cnn.com

Wohl and Gorka are so pathetic.

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:35:46pm

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

tiny violins…

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What color is he?

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:36:11pm

re: #139 bd (Emergency!)

I just noticed that this douchebag’s Twitter handle looks an awful lot like ‘JacobAhole’.

How appropriate.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:36:40pm

re: #139 bd (Emergency!)

Regular Nostradumbasses, the both of them:

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:37:48pm

re: #140 HappyWarrior

Ruth Bader Ginsburg looks pretty good.

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:37:54pm

re: #139 bd (Emergency!)

Of course, if RBG’s clerks were to find a way to have her appear to be serving on the court years after her death or disability, one would have to count that as a service to the nation.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:38:27pm

re: #142 EPR-radar

I just noticed that this douchebag’s Twitter handle looks an awful lot like ‘JacobAhole’.

How appropriate.

If Wohl thinks he is just going to skate by trying to frame Mueller then I think he is in for one nasty surprise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:38:58pm

re: #141 Belafon

What color is he?

one guess…

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:40:42pm
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PhillyPretzel  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:41:26pm

re: #148 wrenchwench

Way to go El Paso. Sue DT.
The county should not have to sue to keep DT and his steel slats out of their city but it is the only thing he understands.

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:42:58pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:43:25pm

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

one guess…

The confirmation of the obvious is right in the original Tweet, if I’m reading it correctly.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:43:57pm

Aurora mass shooting updates: 6 dead, including gunman, and 5 officers wounded in attack at Illinois manufacturing firm

Six people, including a gunman, died in a mass shooting at a manufacturing firm Friday afternoon, and five officers were struck by gunfire, officials said.

Authorities confirmed the shooter, Gary Martin, 45, was killed in a shootout with police. Police believe he was an employee at Henry Pratt Co. in the industrial park in the Chicago suburb, and said they did not know the motive.

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:45:39pm

re: #152 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

More blessings of the second amendment upon America, where an activist judiciary have ensured that every moment of rage in the country has a constitutional right to be a heavily armed moment of rage.

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:47:50pm

re: #147 Backwoods_Sleuth

one guess…

I can see the picture. He must be colorblind to white.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:49:14pm

re: #152 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Aurora mass shooting updates: 6 dead, including gunman, and 5 officers wounded in attack at Illinois manufacturing firm

We have reached the point in this country’s history that when you talk about the Aurora mass shooting that you have to specify which state you are talking about.

F*ck, talk about your national emergency.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:50:40pm

re: #107 wrenchwench

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He’s doing it the Beto way.

This is one good thing to come from advances in tech and communications

People from all over can hear about a candidate from far away and contribute.
That means participate and influence other than their own district and state

Sure some big money has been doing this
Now everybody can. Easily. And look how fast!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:52:10pm

re: #145 EPR-radar

Of course, if RBG’s clerks were to find a way to have her appear to be serving on the court years after her death or disability, one would have to count that as a service to the nation.

Holograms have come a long way these days…

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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:52:12pm

re: #116 lawhawk

Buck sounds upset that someone from Team Lock Her Up! is getting locked up.

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teleskiguy  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:52:45pm
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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:52:54pm

re: #111 wrenchwench

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It was littler and more adorable on my twit page.

CDB?

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:53:10pm
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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:53:21pm

re: #157 Eclectic Cyborg

Holograms have come a long way these days…

I saw video of RBG having lunch with Tupac, everything is legit.

//

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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:53:33pm

re: #116 lawhawk

Yeah and it’s not like he did something really heinous like have a private email server.

//

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:53:40pm

re: #148 wrenchwench

From Bob Moore’s twitter feed:

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:54:09pm

re: #155 bd (Emergency!)

Yep, when I was searching for stories earlier I got results about the Colorado shooting.

Amazing how shootings with fewer than 10 deaths barely register anymore.

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:55:38pm
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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:56:52pm
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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:59:24pm

re: #167 Single-handed sailor

Its true. Obamacare wasn’t debated in Congress or passed through legislation. It was all Executive Order, National Emergency, FEMA death camps.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:59:31pm

re: #167 Single-handed sailor

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Stupid groveling to keep his pardon chances alive Donald Trump Jr. is the most pathetic version of Donald Trump Jr.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 5:59:34pm

these people…

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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:00:36pm

re: #167 Single-handed sailor

Also, too: Traitor Tot.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:01:11pm

Lre: #167 Single-handed sailor

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Uh Congress voted on ACA. Enjoy your iced tea and learn basic civics you ignorant fuck nugget.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:01:41pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

these people…

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oh no

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:03:22pm

re: #169 bd (Emergency!)

Stupid groveling to keep his pardon chances alive Donald Trump Jr. is the most pathetic version of Donald Trump Jr.

He’s so pathetic.

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:03:46pm

re: #159 teleskiguy

[murder chirps]

I’ve heard those.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:04:03pm

re: #173 bd (Emergency!)

oh no

I don’t know about other people, but when I’m driving in near whiteout conditions on the interstate, I have a tendency to slow down to a crawl, if not get off the road entirely.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:04:25pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:05:28pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

these people…

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If the road is slick enough it doesn’t matter how hard you hit the brakes.

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PhillyPretzel  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:06:02pm

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

Same here. As a matter of fact I will not drive in that type of weather unless I absolutely have to.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:06:28pm

re: #167 Single-handed sailor

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The horrors of Obama declaring an emergency and taking all our guns, imposing mandatory minimal health care coverage, letting Ebola patients having free reign and touch our food, declaring Sharia Law, giving everyone a free phone and making us all eat dog almost ruined this country.

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EPR-radar  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:06:40pm

re: #166 Single-handed sailor

Anyone who has been triaged in a hospital emergency room knows damn well what an emergency is, and that likely includes a significant fraction of the members of Congress.

The issue of immigration to the US, both legal and illegal, has festered for decades. It is the exact opposite of an emergency.

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:07:08pm

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yep, those bottom two certainly describe me.

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dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:09:12pm

re: #111 wrenchwench

Good luck tomorrow!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:11:00pm
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plansbandc  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:14:32pm

re: #117 jaunte

He has more blood on his hands than Bundy, by far.

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Jay C  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:14:43pm

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

If the road is slick enough it doesn’t matter how hard you hit the brakes.

Yeah, but these folks just seemed to be barreling along trying to get through the gap between the trucks. Not smart driving.

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:14:47pm

re: #183 dangerman-call me sandy, not a drink named Steve

Good luck tomorrow!

Thanks! It’s supposed to be about 37 f and overcast at race fun run time, I figure I’ll be the only one to show up. I’ll win all the categories. I hope they have hot chocolate at the hydration stations.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:15:44pm
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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:16:20pm

Doom Patrol (DC Universe) Extended Trailer HD - Superhero series

All these myriad special web series having their own pay channels makes it really unlikely I’ll ever watch them. If only they were on Netflix.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:17:02pm
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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:19:32pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh who cares about environmental groups and *checks notes* Texas landowners?

/

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:19:32pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Those Texas landowners need to make life hell for Texas Republicans.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:20:12pm
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Teukka  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:20:15pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

these people…

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Hence why bluelight services here in town (and other big Swedish towns) use TMA trucks…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:22:01pm
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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:22:32pm

re: #191 Sir John Barron

Oh who cares about environmental groups and *checks notes* Texas landowners?

/

Texans don’t really have an opinion at all on eminent domain.

//

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Charles Johnson  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:22:36pm
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BlueGrl21  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:22:42pm

re: #127 Romantic Heretic

If you stay home make sure you have a police guard. This asshole is going to be on the front page and you don’t want to be there with him.

I alluded to it before but I had this happen to me 15 years ago. I ended up having to leave the job for my own safety, file a restraining order, delete all of my social media, basically lock down. Had to vary my routine because he would pop up on “accident.” He knew where I lived. He was known to be violent and beat his ex wife. I had a 1 year-old son at the time.

He fixated back on his ex-wife, violating HER restraining order. Then, boom, he disappeared. Gone. Went to L.A. and started his life over. I keep tabs on him through people in contact with him. They tell me and his ex where he is….she and I are good friends now. Still in L.A. He came back for a funeral a couple of years ago and they warned me. I did not leave the house.

So I already have one of these assholes to monitor. Do not need another.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:22:54pm

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:32:42pm

moron

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:34:15pm

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

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Well, Jar Jar Binks IS a secret Sith Lord.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:34:30pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:35:48pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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He’s such a patronizing douchebag.

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gocart mozart  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:39:44pm
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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:41:23pm

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I suspect they are trying, but it sure seems the NRA’s thoughts-and-prayers campaign isn’t as loud as it used to be.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:43:24pm
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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:45:11pm

re: #204 gocart mozart

Alas, I have only one upding to give, of this I have much regret.

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Sir John Barron  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:46:22pm

re: #200 Backwoods_Sleuth

there are no border facts, only Zeul.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:47:45pm
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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:47:56pm

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

The adoring crowd shots seem to be getting narrower.

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austin_blue  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:48:09pm

re: #191 Sir John Barron

Oh who cares about environmental groups and *checks notes* Texas landowners?

/

Pretty much every TX-R statewide politician has been a staunch defender of land owner rights for the last 20 years.

This puts them in somewhat of a quandry.

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mmmirele  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:49:15pm

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

YIKES!

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more in the thread

Policing has been a cluster in Houston since I was a teenager in the 1970s. In this case, I’d say it was the desire to score a drug bust that motivated these cops, not the racism of previous decades.

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:50:24pm
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Old Liberal  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:55:25pm

re: #213 jaunte

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Well as the COP said nobody’s perfect. Fucking assholes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 15, 2019 • 6:59:34pm

niterz, lizardz…

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DodgerFan1988  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:05:11pm
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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:05:14pm

IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH

**Glances over at Pence**

Nah dude, we’re cool

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HappyWarrior  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:07:42pm

re: #216 DodgerFan1988

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Yeah but Putin is so manly.//

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:12:58pm

re: #189 Single-handed sailor

Some interesting names in that:
Brendan Fraser
Alan Tudyk (this one I saw on IMDB)
Timothy Dalton

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KGxvi  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:13:31pm

re: #217 bd (Emergency!)

IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH

**Glances over at Pence**

Nah dude, we’re cool

If we actually got to the point where there were 20+ Republican Senators willing to convict Trump in an impeachment trial, Pence would likely be so neutered that he’d be little more than a footnote as president. That, of course, assumes he didn’t actually know what was going on with respect to Russia.

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:13:58pm
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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:14:23pm

re: #217 bd (Emergency!)

IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH

**Glances over at Pence**

Nah dude, we’re cool We’ll deal with you afterwards.

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unproven innocence  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:14:54pm

re: #82 BlueGrl21

A former LGF member recommended Gavin DeBecker’s “The Gift of Fear” for my daughters —teens at the time. I’ve read it myself. Stay safe.

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austin_blue  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:17:13pm

re: #212 mmmirele

Policing has been a cluster in Houston since I was a teenager in the 1970s. In this case, I’d say it was the desire to score a drug bust that motivated these cops, not the racism of previous decades.

Acevedo was Chief in El Paso, where he instituted a very successful Community Policing regime that resulted in bringing ElPaso’s crime rate down BEFORE the wall was built. I met him there, and then he came to Austin to be chief here. I know Art. He bought my wife’s cousin’s house. We were on speaking terms. He pissed off the Old Boy Network in Austin and made reforms. Mixed results.

Then he went to Houston. It hurts me to see him twirling in the wind like this. He’s a good guy.

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KGxvi  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:21:32pm

re: #211 austin_blue

Pretty much every TX-R statewide politician has been a staunch defender of land owner rights for the last 20 years.

This puts them in somewhat of a quandry.

Eminent domain has been a hobby horse of the conservative movement for a long while. That was one of those issues that united the conservative and libertarian elements of the Federalist Society back in the day. Kelo v New London was a big deal when I was in law school because it basically made almost anything a “public use”.

Maybe a lot of them will say that the wall is a legitimate public purpose and so this particular case of eminent domain is acceptable. But regardless of what logic they use to justify it (assuming they do), it’ll just be another example of how cheap they were willing to sell their political souls.

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teleskiguy  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:22:08pm

“so deep that plows can no longer plow”

Yikes.

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:24:37pm

This title made me laugh:

Guess Who Was Interviewed by Mueller’s Team? HINT: Her Initials are Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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KGxvi  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:26:57pm

re: #227 Belafon

This title made me laugh:

Guess Who Was Interviewed by Mueller’s Team? HINT: Her Initials are Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Given her, um, tenuous relationship with the truth, I’m surprised she wasn’t arrested for making false statements and obstruction of justice in the middle of the interview.

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teleskiguy  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:28:07pm

re: #228 KGxvi

Given her, um, tenuous relationship with the truth, I’m surprised she wasn’t arrested for making false statements and obstruction of justice in the middle of the interview.

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:29:16pm

re: #226 teleskiguy

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“so deep that plows can no longer plow”

Yikes.

I’ve been up there in those conditions before. Driving behind the blower trying to get out on a closed road after returning to the car from ski camping.

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KGxvi  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:30:43pm

re: #229 teleskiguy

a reminder that just as there’s a Trump tweet for every occasion, there’s a Simpsons’ clip/gif for every occasion.

And now, I’m off to try and do some writing, enjoy the rest of the evening lizarderati

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I Would Prefer Not To  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:33:31pm

Yes, Hello Dali

Hello Dali
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teleskiguy  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:36:24pm

Some music.

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wrenchwench  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:36:37pm

re: #217 bd (Emergency!)

IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH, IMPEACH

**Glances over at Pence**

Nah dude, we’re cool

QBILGOMS

(Quoted Because It Looks Good On Master Spy.)

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:45:57pm

re: #234 wrenchwench

QBILGOMS

(Quoted Because It Looks Good On Master Spy.)

Gotta say it looks good seeing IMPEACH splayed across the LGF page.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:54:41pm
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Unshaken Defiance  Feb 15, 2019 • 7:58:01pm

re: #223 unproven innocence

A former LGF member recommended Gavin DeBecker’s “The Gift of Fear” for my daughters —teens at the time. I’ve read it myself. Stay safe.

One of my favorite non-fiction books.

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:18:40pm

Thread: another Putin-controlled media outlet to watch:

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austin_blue  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:27:48pm

re: #238 jaunte

Thread: another Putin-controlled media outlet to watch:

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I’m so old I remember when people like this were referred to as “Fifth Columnists”.

They were the original purveyors of “fake news”.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:34:22pm

re: #239 austin_blue

I’m so old I remember when people like this were referred to as “Fifth Columnists”.

The very Republicans who used to call liberal Democrats “fifth columnists” have now actually become the traitors whose loyalty is to Putin.

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bd (Emergency!)  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:41:36pm

re: #238 jaunte

Thread: another Putin-controlled media outlet to watch:

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Damn, so the Greenwald model is going franchised?

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Belafon  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:47:42pm

The temperature dropped from 77 to 37 in five hours here in Rockwall.

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jaunte  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:50:22pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:52:51pm

re: #243 jaunte

Is that Manafort among the people in the photo?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:53:20pm

“The American People will take Socialism, but they won’t take the label. I certainly proved it in the case of EPIC. Running on the Socialist ticket I got 60,000 votes, and running on the slogan to ‘End Poverty in California’ I got 879,000. I think we simply have to recognize the fact that our enemies have succeeded in spreading the Big Lie. There is no use attacking it by a front attack, it is much better to out-flank them.” ~~Upton Sinclair in 1951 letter to Norman M. Thomas

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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:54:16pm

re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg

Is that Manafort among the people in the photo?

It is indeed.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 15, 2019 • 8:56:22pm

One cannot have only one….

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Single-handed sailor  Feb 15, 2019 • 9:03:20pm

Well, except for when we reach our Debt Ceiling on March 1, 2019.

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Hecuba's daughter  Feb 15, 2019 • 9:07:39pm

re: #248 Single-handed sailor

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Well, except for when we reach our Debt Ceiling on March 1, 2019.

But what would that fight be over? SCOTUS won’t be ruling on the wall by then. Is there another controversial issue that would lead to a government shutdown?

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sagehen  Feb 15, 2019 • 9:20:03pm

re: #214 Old Liberal

Well as the COP said nobody’s perfect. Fucking assholes.

Everybody in Los Angeles knows about the Rampart Division (The Shield was based on them). Everybody in New York who’s old enough remembers the Dirty Thirty. And of course, Serpico and The French Connection were true stories.

This is why they kneel.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2019 • 8:40:14am

a good point about the presser yesterday:

He keeps trying to come up with ways to win. He keeps failing to understand why half of the country won’t just line up behind him.

I thought I was on the current thread.


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