In Which Donald Trump Attacks Rep. Ilhan Omar Again by Pushing a False Smear That She “Danced on 9/11”

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As Trump’s inner circle shrinks and there are fewer and fewer people around him to advise against his vile impulses, his racism and bigotry are getting more and more overt. Today he retweeted a far right “comedian” who falsely described a video of Rep. Ilhan Omar as “partying on 9/11.”

President Donald Trump on Wednesday used his Twitter account to boost a baseless smear claiming that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) danced at an event last week on the anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, a claim that’s based on footage that wasn’t actually taken from that day.

Trump’s tweet circulated a video from conservative personality Terrence Williams, in which Williams declared that Omar “partied on the anniversary of 9/11.” In his video, Williams comments on footage of the Muslim congresswoman dancing and fumes that she’s disrespecting the memory of the Sept. 11 attacks.

But the footage of Omar dancing actually came from a Sept. 13 event hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus and wasn’t taken on the 11th, as Williams and Trump wrongly claimed. 

The video is now deleted, but Twitter told the Daily Beast’s Will Sommer that they did not delete it.

Deleted or not, it did its intended job — to get the smear out there, where it will now be repeated endlessly by right wingers all over the internet. And the president* of the United States helped it happen.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:04:30pm
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Florida Panhandler  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:06:56pm

…and all these recent Trump series of lies, firings, mismanagement, obfuscations, juvenile insults and gross overall incompetence in every single aspect of government leadership is all worthwhile to about 35% of America ….because it all helps to destroy the world as they see it evolving.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:11:08pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

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This also could get her hurt or even killed. Trump is trying to incite violence against Omar.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:11:57pm

re: #2 Florida Panhandler

…and all these recent Trump series of lies, firings, mismanagement, obfuscations, juvenile insults and gross overall incompetence in every single aspect of government leadership is all worthwhile to about 35% of America ….because it all helps to destroy the world as they see it evolving.

TBH that’s why I’m not optimistic even if we beat Trump. 35% of this country is deranged af

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:14:22pm
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Dread Pirate  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:18:55pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:19:28pm
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calochortus  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:20:47pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Because language never changes. I’m sure Ben asks “Bob, is you going to the store?” because Bob is singular. No, wait. Ben asks “Bob, is thee (or is it thou?) going to the store?” Because grammar never changes.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:23:20pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It must be nice to get milllions to whine about pronouns.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:27:11pm
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jaunte  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:27:53pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

Inventor of clumsy “wokescolds” portmanteau worried about changing language.

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Skip Intro  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:28:09pm

re: #10 Dave In Austin

When only the worst will do.

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lawhawk  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:29:16pm

re: #11 jaunte

Inventor of clumsy “wokescolds” portmanteau worried about changing language.

Dumbass. Fucking dumbass who spews bulkshit because there’s no other way to quantify the amount of BS he spews regularly (or irregularly).

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Anymouse 🌹🎃  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:30:28pm

re: #11 jaunte

Inventor of clumsy “wokescolds” portmanteau worried about changing language.

Because XXI century “wokescolds” have Obama’s Magic Negro Time Machine and went all the way back to 1375 to insert “they” into the language as a singular pronoun.

public.oed.com (Oxford English Dictionary on the history of “they” used singularly)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:31:08pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:32:31pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:33:20pm

re: #14 Anymouse 🌹🎃

Because XXI century “wokescolds” have Obama’s Magic Negro Time Machine and went all the way back to 1375 to insert “they” into the language as a singular pronoun.

public.oed.com (Oxford English Dictionary on the history of “they” used singularly)

To be fair, Ben Shapiro turned 15 in 1375.///

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Dread Pirate  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:35:48pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:36:26pm
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TedStriker  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:37:25pm

re: #8 calochortus

Because language never changes. I’m sure Ben asks “Bob, is you going to the store?” because Bob is singular. No, wait. Ben asks “Bob, is thee (or is it thou?) going to the store?” Because grammar never changes.

///

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:37:54pm

That Cesar Sayoc was incompetent does not change what he planned, so we’ve already crossed the “Trump makes lists, people try to cross off list with bombs” threshold…

…but I think that’s missing the point.

This rhetoric has gotten people killed, just not hardened targets like politicians.

Trump uses Ilhan Omar as a synecdoche for every Muslim-as-dangerous-other trope, but the general message of Muslims-as-dangerous-other is also conveyed. Or rather, is repeated, since the current Trump Right is building new lies from the available tropes of older lies that have gotten people killed for eighteen years.

Trump’s lie works because there’s an audience accepting the lie. They’re willing to believe that anybody not like them—and there are many versions of “not like them” and no fixed pattern—is utterly depraved and Not Really American. Not thinking and being cruel are net gains for them: why trade self-affirming certitude for pleasure-less nuance? Anger at the amorphous idea of “radical Muslims” has killed Sikhs and Hindus as well as Muslims. It’s the basis of allowing the military to kill hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and feeling no responsibility when the destabilization kills a million. This is not about reality, it’s about the incontinent emotional want of people raised to believe that what they feel as true, even as they throw contempt at the notion that the feelings and bodies of others matter.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:38:39pm
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Belafon  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:39:10pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

People: The black plague’s been released back into the world!
Doctors: Come get your antibiotics.

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Scottish Dragon  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:40:10pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:41:53pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

This was the plot of an X-files episode. The worms were parasites that would infect people and make them go mad and kill each other. The episode was an homage to “The Thing”.

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:45:36pm

re: #10 Dave In Austin

Josh Marshall
✔
@joshtpm
Why has no one mentioned this? New Nat Sec Advisor is BFFs and Biz partner of HUGH HEWITT! talkingpointsmemo.com … via @TPM

A legitimate president would want an NSA who challenges them or at least one with a serious knowledge of history and the world; Trump only wants yes-men and toadies who will confirm as true every lie and deception and ignorance he spouts. We are being transformed into a banana republic with no chance of recovery if Trump is re-elected or the Senate remains in GOP hands

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:47:03pm

re: #24 Scottish Dragon

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:47:50pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Full Zandar Report
@ZandarVTS
Aaaaaaaaaand we all die.

…

Come on — let’s be positive here. This will teach us how to put explorers or settlers into deep sleep to colonize other solar systems.

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jaunte  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:48:47pm

County officials in Texas county named to honor a Confederate traitor busy wasting the public’s time and money.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:49:49pm

Looks like Netanyahu has cancelled an upcoming trip he’d planned:

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday canceled a visit to the United Nations General Assembly in New York next week amid political uncertainty in Israel, where he appeared to fall short of a government majority in national elections.

With more than 90 percent of the votes counted, Netanyahu’s decade-long grip on power appeared to be slipping. His center-right Likud party was expected to win 31 seats, while its main rival, the centrist Blue and White party, was pulling ahead with 32 seats, according to the Central Election Committee.

That could give his rival, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz, the first chance to form a new government, if he can put together a coalition with other parties. But it’s not clear whether Gantz will join with the Likud party if Netanyahu continues to be its leader.

nbcnews.com

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:51:00pm

re: #29 jaunte

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County officials in Texas county named to honor a Confederate traitor busy wasting the public’s time and money.

Snowflakes

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jaunte  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:52:59pm

re: #31 HappyWarrior

Safespace County

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:55:31pm

re: #29 jaunte

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County officials in Texas county named to honor a Confederate traitor busy wasting the public’s time and money.

good, put them all in the same place and don’t let them out

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:56:54pm
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:58:49pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

Trump just now: I haven’t spoken with Netanyahu, but “our relations are with Israel, so we’ll see what happens.” Pretty much the worst thing he could say for Bibi’s prospects right now back home.

Heh - Trump’s warming up to throw Bibi under the bus.

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lawhawk  Sep 18, 2019 • 12:59:23pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

5 stages of working with Trump.

Bibi’s at the stabbed in the back/forgotten by Trump stage.

Same as every other relationship Trump has - if you can’t do anything for Trump, he doesn’t care about you. He’s only in it for himself and his personal enrichment/power.

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Scottish Dragon  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:02:58pm

Uh….this is a real device? That you, like, strap on and makes you look like you are wearing an expensive medical prosthetic to help you defecate in public?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:04:20pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:06:03pm

It’ll Never Work!!! Why you ask??
Because it simply cannot……..
As you wish….

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calochortus  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:06:32pm

re: #37 Scottish Dragon

Uh….this is a real device? That you, like, strap on and makes you look like you are wearing an expensive medical prosthetic to help you defecate in public?

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It doesn’t look stable, so you can’t relax while sitting, and oh yeah, having it strapped to your posterior prevents you from sitting on actual furniture. I’m sure everyone will be wanting one.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:07:29pm
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Belafon  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:07:30pm

re: #40 calochortus

It doesn’t look stable, so you can’t relax while sitting, and oh yeah, having it strapped to your posterior prevents you from sitting on actual furniture. I’m sure everyone will be wanting one.

Maybe there’s a marked for accomodating furniture.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:08:27pm
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Dave In Austin  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:12:18pm
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calochortus  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:13:08pm

re: #42 Belafon

Maybe there’s a marked for accomodating furniture.

For when we’re all wearing them. Except I almost always wear a skirt, so it doesn’t look practical for me. Or anyone, for that matter. One accidental push from the front and that guy is going to fall backward.

Also despite my advanced age of 66 I rarely tire while walking around out in public, and at home I have this thing for my desk called “a chair.” Said chair has wheels and swivels in case I need to move it.

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The Pie Overlord!  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:13:09pm

I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:14:14pm
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Dr Lizardo  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:15:23pm

Time to call it a day. Have fun, Lizards.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:15:53pm

re: #46 The Pie Overlord!

I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER!!

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we’re making a lasagna tonight using BeyondBurger

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Belafon  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:16:09pm

re: #46 The Pie Overlord!

I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER!!

I’ve had some of the impossible meat on a Q’doba burrito. It was pretty hard to tell it wasn’t ground beef. The people who made it have got something that could really be a hit. I’m curious what it’s made of.

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danarchy  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:16:23pm

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The red room has been there forever, Melania didn’t design it. It looks largely unchanged since the earliest pictures of it. I wish people would stop insulting america in their haste to insult the Trumps.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:17:13pm

re: #51 danarchy

The red room has been their forever, Melania didn’t design it. It looks largely unchanged since the earliest pictures of it. I wish people would stop insulting america in their haste to insult the Trumps.

LOL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:18:04pm

Haste to insult the Trumps is now a national past time.

We can not be stopped.

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danarchy  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:18:13pm

re: #50 Belafon

I’ve had some of the impossible meat on a Q’doba burrito. It was pretty hard to tell it wasn’t ground beef. The people who made it have got something that could really be a hit. I’m curious what it’s made of.

Highly processed soy proteins. It is fine if your concern is not killing animals, but there is evidence that it is actually less healthy than just eating beef.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:19:05pm

re: #54 danarchy

Highly processed soy proteins. It is fine if your concern is not killing animals, but there is evidence that it is actually less healthy than just eating beef.

who knew soy beans were loaded with cholesterol?

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Belafon  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:19:50pm

re: #54 danarchy

Highly processed soy proteins. It is fine if your concern is not killing animals, but there is evidence that it is actually less healthy than just eating beef.

Which was definitely my concern on the giant burrito with rice, sour cream, and cheese.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:20:24pm

re: #54 danarchy

Well thank dog there was no ranch dressing in it.

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danarchy  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:20:27pm

re: #56 Belafon

Which was definitely my concern on the giant burrito with rice, sour cream, and cheese.

haha, touche :)

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gocart mozart  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:20:27pm
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lawhawk  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:20:44pm

re: #51 danarchy

The red room has been their forever, Melania didn’t design it. It looks largely unchanged since the earliest pictures of it. I wish people would stop insulting america in their haste to insult the Trumps.

In fact, the picture taken shows the room pretty much as it has been for years. They might have moved some of the furniture around, and a picture may have been shifted.

Update:
The WH museum site even shows the same essential angle, with Obama lounging on an empire couch in the foreground.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:20:51pm

re: #22 Backwoods_Sleuth

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danarchy  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:22:28pm

re: #60 lawhawk

In fact, the picture taken shows the room pretty much as it has been for years. They might have moved some of the furniture around, and a picture may have been shifted.

According to the article the west wall was faded to almost pink after years of direct sunlight, so they replaced the wall coverings to make it match the rest of the room.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:22:38pm

re: #61 NO SMOCKING GUN!

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makeitstop  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:23:49pm

re: #60 lawhawk

In fact, the picture taken shows the room pretty much as it has been for years. They might have moved some of the furniture around, and a picture may have been shifted.

So the ‘makeover’ is just as authentic as everything else she does as first lady, then.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:24:43pm
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KGxvi  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:25:50pm

re: #60 lawhawk

Interesting little history fact from wikipedia:

President Ulysses S. Grant, fearing disruption of the transition of power to Rutherford B. Hayes (because of the latter’s contested Election of 1876) had the new president-elect secretly sworn into office in the Red Room the evening before the inauguration. The Grants used the Red Room as a family living room.

I feel like in January 2021 there’s going to be an edit for the Supreme Court building “due to fears that President Trump would fuck shit up, Chief Justice John Roberts invited [insert president-elect name] to the Supreme Court to be secretly sworn in the night before the inauguration.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:26:22pm

re: #64 makeitstop

So the ‘makeover’ is just as authentic as everything else she does as first lady, then.

Australia will be so impressed!

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:26:45pm

re: #50 Belafon

I’ve had some of the impossible meat on a Q’doba burrito. It was pretty hard to tell it wasn’t ground beef. The people who made it have got something that could really be a hit. I’m curious what it’s made of.

Soylent Green!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:26:50pm

Melania is lame but not for her decor choices.

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Ace Rothstein  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:29:30pm

re: #69 HappyWarrior

Being a birther for starters.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:29:55pm

re: #70 Ace Rothstein

Being a birther for starters.

And married to a racist pig.

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lawhawk  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:30:08pm

re: #65 Eclectic Cyborg

Have fun storming that castle.

Think they’ll make it? Not a chance (see also Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Red Dawn, and every other 80s movie that they’ve tried and failed to reboot).

I don’t have high hopes for Top Gun (not a reboot, but a sequel), and limited hopes for the Dune reboot (I have seen the kwisatz haderach, and it is Denis Villeneuve who will try to capture the coherence, scope and grandeur, and vision that was lacking in the original by Lynch).

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Hecuba's daughter  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:30:29pm

re: #46 The Pie Overlord!

I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER!!

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I don’t care if it’s kosher because I have no interest in eating anything that tastes like red meat and haven’t for 25 years. My preference is a portobello sandwich.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:38:15pm

re: #72 lawhawk

Have fun storming that castle.

Think they’ll make it? Not a chance (see also Dirty Dancing, Footloose, Red Dawn, and every other 80s movie that they’ve tried and failed to reboot).

I don’t have high hopes for Top Gun (not a reboot, but a sequel), and limited hopes for the Dune reboot (I have seen the kwisatz haderach, and it is Denis Villeneuve who will try to capture the coherence, scope and grandeur, and vision that was lacking in the original by Lynch).

I get that remakes are nothing new but it really seems lazy to do all these remakes.

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TedStriker  Sep 18, 2019 • 1:39:27pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

Trump just now: I haven’t spoken with Netanyahu, but “our relations are with Israel, so we’ll see what happens.” Pretty much the worst thing he could say for Bibi’s prospects right now back home.

— (((Yair Rosenberg))) (@Yair_Rosenberg) September 18, 2019

re: #36 lawhawk

5 stages of working with Trump.

Bibi’s at the stabbed in the back/forgotten by Trump stage.

Same as every other relationship Trump has - if you can’t do anything for Trump, he doesn’t care about you. He’s only in it for himself and his personal enrichment/power.

Trump: “Netanya-who?”

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sagehen  Sep 18, 2019 • 2:02:24pm

re: #50 Belafon

I’ve had some of the impossible meat on a Q’doba burrito. It was pretty hard to tell it wasn’t ground beef. The people who made it have got something that could really be a hit. I’m curious what it’s made of.

(soylent green)

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Sep 18, 2019 • 2:06:24pm

re: #72 lawhawk

Have fun storming that castle.

I …have … limited hopes for the Dune reboot (I have seen the kwisatz haderach, and it is Denis Villeneuve who will try to capture the coherence, scope and grandeur, and vision that was lacking in the original by Lynch).

There was a TV series that did a better job than the David lynch botch job, but the point is that they missed the key elements of the book, namely a future in which any technology that replaces humans (namely computers and genetic engineering) is forbidden, thus forcing people to rely on developing their own mental powers or using spice and sappho juice to expand them artificially.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 18, 2019 • 2:07:50pm

re: #51 danarchy

The red room has been their forever, Melania didn’t design it. It looks largely unchanged since the earliest pictures of it. I wish people would stop insulting america in their haste to insult the Trumps.

Also, White House is claiming the Red Room is all Melania’ doing.

I’m satisfied to let her have ALL THE FREAKING CREDIT and all of the fallout.

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plansbandc  Sep 18, 2019 • 2:56:02pm

re: #73 Hecuba’s daughterre: #73 Hecuba’s daughter

Portobello sandwich NOM!

I’m not a beef eater either.


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