Some More News: Think Maybe We Should Be Concerned About Qanon?

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In today’s episode, oh dear God we have to revisit Qanon? Can’t the sun explode instead?

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:34:33am

We should be less concerned about the site and the outrageous content than about the culture of people who take that content seriously as if it represented real news.

And the culture of those who know better but still use the site as a platform to manipulate others, troll or simply gain attention.

Because we have seen that no claims, however idiotic, contradictory or unfounded, will be rejected if they constitute a criticism of the powers-that-be.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:37:24am

The Atlantic basin has been exceptionally quiet this year as far as Hurricane season goes. Be interesting to see how the next month or so shakes out.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:37:41am

We should be concerned about the Qultists (or Q-cumbers if you like) because there’s a potential for some of that particular audience to commit acts of domestic terrorism.

They’re a powder keg in search of a spark.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:41:29am

re: #3 Dr Lizardo

We should be concerned about the Qultists (or Q-cumbers if you like) because there’s a potential for some of that particular audience to commit acts of domestic terrorism.

They’re a powder keg in search of a spark.

I wonder how they’ll react if/when Trump loses the election next year?

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:45:39am
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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:46:31am

He is talking about me but I don’t know how to respond to this lunatic

I don’t plan on reading “The Progressive Virus: Why You Can’t Permit it to Go Forward” by Anthony Napoleon amazon.com

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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:47:14am

re: #5 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Does President Putin give performance bonuses?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:47:30am

I remember back in the late 50s/early 60s when the Birchers would use mimeograph machines to pass their insanity around. Back then it was just limited to posts on telephone poles or distributed by the Young Americans for FreeDUMB chapter in my high school. They would talk about “Operation 60” where Ike was going to surrender to the USSR. Then it became “Operation 66”, “Operation 76”, etc.

They said that the real government of the US was the Council of Foreign Relations, but then they got a new bogeyman when David Rockefeller set up the Trilateral Commission. Carter was painted by them as a Rockefeller Puppet and even Penthouse Magazine fell for that scam.

Now with the Internet these kooks have a megaphone that Joseph Welch and Old Man Koch (founders of the JBS) could never conceive. Any kook can say whatever they want and thousands will amplify their insane ramblings!

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William Lewis  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:49:14am

re: #6 gocart mozart

He is talking about me but I don’t know how to respond to this lunatic

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I don’t plan on reading “The Progressive Virus: Why You Can’t Permit it to Go Forward” by Anthony Napoleon amazon.com

Ask him if he read it in Russian or Chinese… ;)

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:52:32am

re: #7 William Lewis

Does President Putin give performance bonuses?

I was thinking more along the lines of various Kushner/Trump corporate entities

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:55:26am

re: #6 gocart mozart

He is talking about me but I don’t know how to respond to this lunatic

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I don’t plan on reading “The Progressive Virus: Why You Can’t Permit it to Go Forward” by Anthony Napoleon amazon.com

he is completely unfamiliar with the concept of over-the-top sarcasm

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:55:37am

re: #4 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder how they’ll react if/when Trump loses the election next year?

That’s a very good question.

And that could well be the spark they’re seeking.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:56:08am

WHEW, for all you Christian heterosexual mommies and daddies out there, you need to just breathe a sigh of relief and say a “thank you” prayer to your lucky Ted Nugent Jesus painting, because Phil Vischer, the co-creator of “Veggie Tales,” has confirmed in an interview with the Christian Post that the official Vegetables of Christ will not be doing gay butt stuff like all the other kiddie TV shows are also not doing.

However, he warns that the Jesus shows for kids are gonna have to start telling kids gays are gross at some point, because all the godless kiddie shows are saying gays are awesome. You know, like that program from the devil’s workshop “Arthur”:

wonkette.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:58:21am

There are to many to keep goin

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 10:59:38am

re: #14 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

There are to many to keep goin

OK, one more

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:02:18am

Wonkette vs. Diamond and Silk.

It’s not a fair fight…

wonkette.com

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Jay C  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:04:52am

re: #3 Dr Lizardo

Updinged for “Q-cumbers”…

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:10:17am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:10:43am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:16:45am

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m telling you, Brexit would make a wild backdrop for the next Bond movie.

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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:23:46am

re: #11 Backwoods_Sleuth

he is completely unfamiliar with the concept of over-the-top sarcasm

Yes

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:25:07am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:30:16am

re: #22 Charles Johnson

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Evil shits.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:30:48am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:31:22am

re: #22 Charles Johnson

Once again, the cruelty is the FUCKING POINT.

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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:33:44am

Decided to respond

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:34:04am

desperate times calls for retweeting four-day-old bullshit:

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Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:34:22am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

As it says in the replies, “Not every Trump supporter is a racist. But every racist is a Trump supporter.”

The most urgent question over the next year is: “How much more explicitly racist is Trump gonna get as he feels increasingly cornered and angry, and just wants his supporters to cheer wildly for him?”

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:34:36am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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Yet another person who thinks they need to commit mass murder for Trump.

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plansbandc  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:35:38am

re: #28 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

He will drop the N bomb.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:37:04am
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:37:32am

re: #30 plansbandc

He will drop the N bomb.

I’ve been saying it’s only a matter of time before Trump drops the “N” word at a rally and the crowd will go wild!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:39:53am

Chuck continues his dumbassery!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:46:30am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:46:34am

Enough of us here were informed yesterday that we are Complicit In Evil, so we can form a band and that’s our band name.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:48:42am

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

Enough of us here were informed yesterday that we are Complicit In Evil, so we can form a band and that’s our band name.

Hahaha. It would make a good band name.

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plansbandc  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:50:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:56:00am
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:57:15am

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Good.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:57:42am

re: #39 HappyWarrior

Good.

Yes, but it is still early. Things can change.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:00:27pm

re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, but it is still early. Things can change.

They will change back and forth several times, but the fact that it’s in play is a big win for Democrats.

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Patricia Kayden  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:01:03pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:03:00pm

re: #40 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, but it is still early. Things can change.

True. But I think Arizona is going blue.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:03:29pm

re: #41 I Would Prefer Not To

They will change back and forth several times, but the fact that it’s in play is a big win for Democrats.

Correct. This is a state going blue imo.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:04:32pm

OT do any of you listen to Behind the Bastards? Listening to the episode on Alex Jones now and man it’s amazing how much these right wingers have incited violence.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:08:06pm

SILVER SPRING, Md. (ABC7) - Just one day before Journey was supposed to be euthanized, she was saved.

Now, she will live the rest of her days at Sunrise Chevy Chase in Silver Spring, Maryland.

Knine Rescue says “it’s like she was meant to be here her whole life.”

From looking at her, you would never know that Journey spent her entire life locked inside of a cage. Amy Creel, Board Member at Knine Rescue explained “She never really got out. It’s a very sad existence.”

Shortly after her owner died, she was sent to an overcrowded shelter in Virginia and because of her age - scheduled to be euthanized.

Knine Rescue was on their regular mission to save and rescue. That day they were rescuing 19 dogs.

“Literally, when the transport pulled up, the transport that we had arranged to pick up this other dog,” said Creel. “I get a call and they said is there anyway you can take a second dog? I thought, we have no where to put her.”

Knine rescue made room for Journey, not knowing exactly where she would fit in.

“It’s just amazing that this dog that no one had ever cared for was now going to be cared for by a whole community” said Creel.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:09:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:10:08pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:12:29pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

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He’s a Putin asset. I’m convinced.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:13:21pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:14:57pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:15:47pm

moron

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:18:55pm

re: #51 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Good.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:19:55pm
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Jay C  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:21:17pm

re: #41 I Would Prefer Not To

They will change back and forth several times, but the fact that it [AZ] in play is a big win for Democrats.

Also, McSally is, we recall, only in the Senate due to appointee-politics after John McCain died: Kirsten Sinema beat her in the 2018 general (for Flake’s seat), and Martha got the other AZ seat as a consolation prize.

Not sure how attractive a candidate Mark Kelly will ultimately turn out to be: - and of course, the bigoted geezer retiree vote is big in Arizona; but yeah: this is a positive.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:23:39pm

jeebus

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austin_blue  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:25:12pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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I am all in favor of indexing Capital Gains, as long as it is taxed as income, not at 10%, but like every other stream of income. It’d be a boon for small investors/middle class folks and a huge increase in tax revenue from the very wealthy when they cash out.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:27:40pm

Wow.

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wrenchwench  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:28:22pm

re: #55 Jay C

Also, McSally is, we recall, only in the Senate due to appointee-politics after John McCain died: Kirsten Sinema beat her in the 2018 general (for Flake’s seat), and Martha got the other AZ seat as a consolation prize.

Not sure how attractive a candidate Mark Kelly will ultimately turn out to be: - and of course, the bigoted geezer retiree vote is big in Arizona; but yeah: this is a positive.

Being an astronaut was enough for Harrison Schmitt in the state next door, and Mark Kelly is a hell of a lot smarter.

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austin_blue  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:28:51pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

Wow.

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Indeed!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:30:44pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

Wow.

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You’re fucking supported by David Duke and repeatedly push Antisemitic tropes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:31:46pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:33:15pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He has done very well with self loathing people, true.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:37:05pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:37:47pm
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:40:37pm

re: #65 gocart mozart

Former PM Renzi is trying to arrange a coalition with the 5-Star Movement. If he can pull that off, it would prevent a general election in Italy - an election that Salvini’s Lega would likely win in a landslide.

I hope Renzi can pull it off; it would block Salvini from becoming PM.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:42:39pm
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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:43:45pm
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KGxvi  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:43:50pm

re: #55 Jay C

Also, McSally is, we recall, only in the Senate due to appointee-politics after John McCain died: Kirsten Sinema beat her in the 2018 general (for Flake’s seat), and Martha got the other AZ seat as a consolation prize.

Not sure how attractive a candidate Mark Kelly will ultimately turn out to be: - and of course, the bigoted geezer retiree vote is big in Arizona; but yeah: this is a positive.

McSally only got it because Kyl didn’t want to serve the whole term (which makes his appointment really stupid).

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KGxvi  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:46:33pm

re: #64 Backwoods_Sleuth

Some… what’s the opposite of fanfiction?

“a lot of the things we talk about have to do with Russia,” he said, remembering how much he dislikes relaying all the bad stuff to Putin. It would be so much easier if Vlad and his spies were there to hear the security stuff for themselves, he thought, but before he could say it, Attorney General Barr flashed something bright and shiny at him and he lost his train of thought.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:46:41pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m loving how the El Paso community has rallied.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:47:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:48:28pm

and the band should be “Complicit In Evil”.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:48:37pm
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austin_blue  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:50:12pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

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(waves hand, frantically)

Ooh, ooh, I know this one!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:50:41pm

re: #74 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Worse. Loyalty to Bibi.

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austin_blue  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:51:38pm

re: #76 HappyWarrior

Worse. Loyalty to Bibi.

My guess, also.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:52:15pm

re: #77 austin_blue

My guess, also.

Trump continues to show why he’s uniquely fucked up.

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austin_blue  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:54:15pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Trump continues to show why he’s uniquely fucked up.

And completely tone deaf. It’s mental diarrhea.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:54:35pm

re: #76 HappyWarrior

Worse. Loyalty to Bibi.

re: #77 austin_blue

My guess, also.

But, he doesn’t grasp they are not the same thing, Jews/Israel/Bibi
They are a singular entity

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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:55:21pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

In 1993 he was elected in the City Council of Milan, a post that he would hold until 2012.[27] While in 1997 he participated in the Padanian elections and was elected within the list Comunisti Padani (Padanian Communists), which gained 5 seats out of 210. In the following year, he was elected provincial secretary of the League for Milan.

en.wikipedia.org
Never trust a guy who easily moves from far left to far right, tankie to fashy. They change the worker/populist facade but it’s always the authoritarianism that is their core.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:57:29pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 12:58:40pm
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BigPapa  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:04:01pm

I still don’t know what Where We Go 1 We Go All means. Just sorta “hey we’re all together in this batshit insanity” I guess.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:06:12pm

Jewish Republicans are… well I don’t want to use the “K” word… but if the shoe fits

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piratedan  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:06:19pm

re: #55 Jay C

he’s also married to Gabby Giffords, who has something of her own legacy in the state as being somewhat moderate and in favor of making hard call on the ACA vote and in gun control advocacy after surviving a mass shooting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:07:17pm

re: #84 BigPapa

I still don’t know what Where We Go 1 We Go All means. Just sorta “hey we’re all together in this batshit insanity” I guess.

Off the cliff…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:09:19pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:09:56pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:11:31pm
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Dread Pirate  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:12:47pm

He’s losing the conservatives with functioning brains.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:13:11pm

This fuckin guy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:14:26pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

very viscous mood…

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:15:16pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:15:28pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:17:10pm
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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:17:31pm
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DangerMan  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:19:46pm

re: #97 gocart mozart

disloyalty to who?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:20:23pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

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For someone who claims he dislikes Trump, Ben sure does have similar rhetoric.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:21:34pm

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

What is this PP tweet in relation to?

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:21:41pm

re: #81 gocart mozart

en.wikipedia.org
Never trust a guy who easily moves from far left to far right, tankie to fashy. They change the worker/populist facade but it’s always the authoritarianism that is their core.

Horst Mahler is a classic example of that shit.

en.wikipedia.org

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I Would Prefer Not To  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:22:09pm

re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg

What is this PP tweet in relation to?

They are giving up funding rather than comply with the gag rule.

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DangerMan  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:22:25pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

@realDonaldTrump
Nobody ever heard of this dope until he met me. He only lasted 11 days!

don, honey,

you made him what he is today

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:23:19pm

re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg

What is this PP tweet in relation to?

PP withdrew from TitleX funding yesterday because of trump administration’s restrictions

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DangerMan  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:24:02pm

re: #98 DangerMan

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disloyalty to who?

oh, i see now, all i had to do was scroll up and you all have covered it already ;-)

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gocart mozart  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:24:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:24:55pm

re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg

What is this PP tweet in relation to?

NPR article about it.
npr.org

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:25:26pm

re: #106 gocart mozart

I really hope Omar and Tlaib have 24/7 security.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:26:50pm

re: #108 Eclectic Cyborg

I really hope Omar and Tlaib have 24/7 security.

I do too. He’s really doing all he can to incite violence against them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:27:48pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

NPR article about it.
npr.org

Thanks for that.

The war on women continues, I see.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:30:18pm
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Alephnaught  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:33:01pm

re: #6 gocart mozart

He is talking about me but I don’t know how to respond to this lunatic

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I don’t plan on reading “The Progressive Virus: Why You Can’t Permit it to Go Forward” by Anthony Napoleon amazon.com

“Evel”? As in Knievel?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:37:41pm

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

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tweet they are responding to:

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:39:05pm

re: #49 HappyWarrior

He’s a Putin asset. I’m convinced.

He’s certainly making war on our nation the way Putin would, by maximizing confusion, uncertainty, and distrust.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:41:26pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Fuck You, Ben Shapiro!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:43:21pm

re: #114 jaunte

He’s certainly making war on our nation the way Putin would, by maximizing confusion, uncertainty, and distrust.

I really hope he gets brought down.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:43:33pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:43:41pm

re: #116 HappyWarrior

I really hope he gets brought down.

Preferably by a woman.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:46:48pm

I’ve had all I can stand from Booger Boy Ben!

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:48:54pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:48:58pm

re: #118 Eclectic Cyborg

Preferably by a woman.


Warren or Harris ftw.

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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:50:14pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:57:02pm

Holy shitfuck, Batman: Defendant charged in Bloomington mosque bombing challenges hate-crime law as unconstitutional

A federal magistrate judge managing the prosecution of a man suspected of firebombing a Bloomington mosque in 2017 is weighing a constitutional challenge to the laws under which the suspect was charged.

Reynaldo Aligada Jr. and Shannon Elkins initiated the challenge in pretrial filings last month when they argued that four of the five federal charges against their client, Michael Hari, should be dismissed.

The crux of their argument was that Congress exceeded its authority under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution when it passed and modified laws that make it a federal crime to damage real property because of the religious nature of that property, or to forcibly obstruct the free exercise of religion.

Two other charges — conspiracy to commit federal felonies with fire or explosives, and carrying or using a destructive device related to crimes of violence — also should be dropped, Hari’s attorneys argue, because those alleged crimes are predicated on the statutes that they contend are unconstitutional.

Federal attorneys replied early this month that laws under which Hari was charged are without merit and have successfully withstood challenges in other jurisdictions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2019 • 1:59:01pm

re: #120 jaunte

“I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat — I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.”

Loyalty to the Israeli government = loyalty to the religion of Judaism

Criticism of the Israeli government = anti-Semitism

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:00:25pm

re: #123 Eric The Fruit Bat

We’ve already legalized discrimination in a lot of cases, why not make hate crimes legal too?

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Sufficient unto the day...  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:01:24pm

re: #123 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:05:42pm

re: #123 Eric The Fruit Bat

Holy shitfuck, Batman: Defendant charged in Bloomington mosque bombing challenges hate-crime law as unconstitutional

Destroying property is illegal as hell, adding extra time for do it to intimidate or interfere with free exercise of speech or religion is icing on the cake, but they seem to want to drop all charges.

That is some over-the-top reasoning

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:14:52pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:16:59pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

He said “Jewish people” but he meant to say “Juden.”

This would ruin the career of any politician who did not have the media fawning over him and carrying his water…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:17:51pm

worth the click

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:18:38pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:20:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:21:32pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

worth the click

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Sigh it’s crap like that fuels the stupid right wing memes about vegans. You can enjoy vegan and vegetarian food without being one. This isn’t hard.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:21:58pm

re: #132 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Guess their check cleared.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:22:01pm

re: #131 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:23:04pm
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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:24:12pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

Converts make the best fanatics.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:24:14pm

re: #132 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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Precisely what I expected.

Nothing will be done.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:24:49pm

re: #130 Backwoods_Sleuth

A vegan accused a meat-eater of appropriating veganism by enjoying tofu and got entirely the responses you’d expec

I really do not understand the over-reaction people have to vegans and veganism. Food choices are food choices. I met my first vegans back in the 90’s and was a bit nonplussed at first, but if you don’t want to eat animals or force them to produce food for you, then what is the big deal?

I think this goes back to a basic stage of arrested development in which we are still much too fixated on orifices, what goes in them and what comes out of them.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:26:00pm

re: #123 Eric The Fruit Bat

Holy shitfuck, Batman: Defendant charged in Bloomington mosque bombing challenges hate-crime law as unconstitutional

I worked with a person who was would agree with this challenge. His form of Rand-worship make Rand sound like a piker. He’s the type of person who wrapped his federal PIV ID card in aluminum foil because it contains an RFID chip and he didn’t want people being able to scan his data on the Metro. It wasn’t a spoof or mockery of idjits, either. He believes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:28:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:28:16pm

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I really do not understand the over-reaction people have to vegans and veganism. Food choices are food choices. I met my first vegans back in the 90’s and was a bit nonplussed at first, but if you don’t want to eat animals or force them to produce food for you, then what is the big deal?

I think this goes back to a basic stage of arrested development in which we are still much too fixated on orifices, what goes in them and what comes out of them.

I agree but that’s not the story here.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:28:18pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:29:50pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:30:17pm

OMG The Ratio!

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:31:38pm

re: #137 jaunte

Converts make the best fanatics.

Many former smokers and recovering alcoholics are other prime examples.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:32:42pm

re: #142 HappyWarrior

I agree but that’s not the story here.

I generally ignore exchanges like that to a great extent for the reasons I mentioned

and remember, an Internet presence does not necessarily correspond to a real person or their real views

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:32:47pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:34:20pm

re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The President supported by David Duke but they don’t gaf.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:35:02pm

re: #147 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I ignore exchanges like that to a great extent for the reasons I mentioned

I do too. It’s not representative of the vegetarians and vegans I know.

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Chrysicat  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:35:11pm

In breaking news, Sony Pictures (probably re-branded back to Columbia by the time it happens) just guaranteed that they’ll have to be sold to Disney by 2024:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:35:23pm
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Dread Pirate  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:36:20pm
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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:37:34pm

Leopard Will Probably Eat My Face Last Cabin Republicans.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:38:29pm

re: #154 Dread Pirate

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Yet you supported Mitt Romney and others who didn’t think you should have children period. I mean good for you Jennifer but the truth about Trump and your party has always been there, you just cared more about tax cuts.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:38:59pm

re: #155 jaunte

Leopard Will Probably Eat My Face Last Cabin Republicans.

Sure the leopards ate my face but I got a tax cut!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:39:21pm

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He’s always been an odious grifter.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:41:21pm

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not a clear as mud statement. But some awfully murky waters there

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:41:58pm

The Gorkas are beginning to scamper off the ship.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:44:04pm

re: #160 jaunte

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The Gorkas are beginning to scamper off the ship.

when actual Nazis start to leave, well….

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:45:33pm

re: #160 jaunte

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The Gorkas are beginning to scamper off the ship.

Please… “to spend more time with family” clearly means she was shown the door

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Chrysicat  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:47:54pm

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Please… “to spend more time with family” clearly means she was shown the door

Insuffieciently given over to the “Führerprinzip” portion of Naziism?

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:47:55pm

re: #162 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

One day I hope someone will use “our paths diverged in a wood.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:49:38pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:51:22pm

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Smart girl.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:53:24pm

re: #164 jaunte

One day I hope someone will use “our paths diverged in a wood.”

Classier: “In the middle of the journey of our life, I came to myself, in a dark wood, where the direct way was lost. “

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:53:54pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Kikes” is more up the alley of he and his father’s generation’s views about Jewish people. It is this epithet that is probably always on the tip of his tongue longing to be let out of its cage.

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jaunte  Aug 20, 2019 • 2:56:49pm

Commenter cellodad:

Wow, she only lasted about 5.45 Scaramuccis.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:00:03pm

or Kentucky…

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:01:37pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

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or Kentucky…

Yep plenty of red America looks bad too. But I thought we were elitists.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:05:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:06:16pm
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Hecuba's daughter  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:11:24pm

re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The 2011 payroll tax cut applied only to the employees, and unlike other tax cuts, it’s not regressive. However it does contribute to the budget deficit and affects the long term health of Social Security, unless there is a counterbalancing tax increase in the future. OTOH, if the reduction in longevity is a trend that continues, the Social Security fund may have sufficient money for its beneficiaries. :-(

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Citizen K  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:11:46pm

So the new CNN poll for the Dem Primary basically has minimal movement for everyone except Kamala Harris, who crashed by -12% apparently.

In other words, the “KAMALA IS A COP!” bullshit and Tulsi truly fucking did their job and utterly buried her in bullshit she may never recover from. This maybe wouldn’t piss me off and depress me so much if I didn’t know this is the exact fucking playbook that they’ll destroy any Dem nominee, especially the Bern or Busters if their sainted god doesn’t get installed.

And I fully expect them to do the same thing to bury Warren at this point and it’ll probably fucking work too, because everything fucking sucks.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:18:11pm
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Mike Lamb  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:20:30pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

moron

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The idea that Barr’s own prior opinion would stop him from supporting Trump if he tried to index capital gains via EO is laughable.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:22:57pm

I wonder if conservatives are starting to feel that they have gone as far as they can get with Trump?

Like they are starting to realize his narcissism and incompetence are becoming damaging even to their own stated goals.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:23:41pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:23:56pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:25:16pm

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

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the rest of the press secretary statement:

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KGxvi  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:27:19pm

Funny thing about that Trump painting…

In a way, it’s the perfect metaphor on Trump

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:29:22pm

re: #180 The Pie Overlord!

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I don’t think I ever told you this story VB but my 2nd grade teacher was Jewish. In anticipation for winter break that year, she made us latkes. Had no idea that my maternal grandmother’s culture (Carpatho Rusyns) enjoys a similar treat. I like mine with apple sauce but ketchup and sour cream and plain are good too. I just wish this would stop happening.

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KGxvi  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:29:28pm

re: #178 Eclectic Cyborg

I wonder if conservatives are starting to feel that they have gone as far as they can get with Trump?

Like they are starting to realize his narcissism and incompetence are becoming damaging even to their own stated goals.

Depends on what you mean by “conservatives.” It’s been a while since I ran in those circles, but the feeling I get is that anybody who is left at this point is going down with the ship. The folks who realized what he is, they’ve all pretty much already left the party.

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mmmirele  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:30:08pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

This explains why McSally is doing a telephone town hall at my evil too big to fail employer next Wednesday. I sent a short response back asking if Mark Kelly is being invited to a similar Tele Town Hall.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:30:18pm

re: #182 KGxvi

Funny thing about that Trump painting…

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In a way, it’s the perfect metaphor on Trump

Just think, some dumbass is gonna buy that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:31:28pm

re: #182 KGxvi

Funny thing about that Trump painting…

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In a way, it’s the perfect metaphor on Trump

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KGxvi  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:31:52pm

re: #186 HappyWarrior

Just think, some dumbass is gonna buy that.

Several dumbasses are going to buy prints.

On some level, I kind of wish I had a scruples deficiency… the wingularity grift is just so fucking dense and ever lasting.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:32:07pm

re: #187 Joe Bacon 🌹

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Tony’s better.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:32:38pm

re: #188 KGxvi

Several dumbasses are going to buy prints.

On some level, I kind of wish I had a scruples deficiency… the wingularity grift is just so fucking dense and ever lasting.

I’m amazed how much his “art” is Soviet like.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:34:20pm

re: #188 KGxvi

Several dumbasses are going to buy prints.

Family members have bought several pieces of McNaughton’s ssshhhaaavvviiinnnggg cream!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:34:47pm

Challenge to photoshop experts. Put Stalin in McNaughtons art.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:36:46pm

re: #185 mmmirele

This explains why McSally is doing a telephone town hall at my evil too big to fail employer next Wednesday. I sent a short response back asking if Mark Kelly is being invited to a similar Tele Town Hall.

McSally strikes me as someone your state GOP is eager for your state to like.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:37:10pm
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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:40:31pm

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’ve seen some people try to claim Trump is “our first Jewish President.” Metaphors aside, a Jewish president is never gonna be loved by David Duke.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:41:17pm

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Use that it in an ad, please especially if he tries to claim that Dems want a recession.

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Belafon  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:43:27pm

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

tweet they are responding to:

I’m pretty sure it was Welcom to Night Vale.

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mmmirele  Aug 20, 2019 • 3:43:50pm

re: #127 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Destroying property is illegal as hell, adding extra time for do it to intimidate or interfere with free exercise of speech or religion is icing on the cake, but they seem to want to drop all charges.

That is some over-the-top reasoning

This is what lawyers are paid to do. And you might even find a judge who goes along with it, like judge James Dennis did last year in striking down the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. The 5th Circuit did not agree with that judge and said last week the law was constitutional.

texastribune.org

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uriel  Aug 20, 2019 • 11:01:37pm

re: #139 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

I really do not understand the over-reaction people have to vegans and veganism.

Think that’s bad- just even THINK about pineapple pizza while you have a browser tab open and see what happens!


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