Here We Go: The Secretary of the Navy Just “Resigned” Over Trump’s Love of War Criminals

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This is a hell of a non-resignation resignation letter.

So now the Trump-thing is sowing chaos in the military with his fetishistic idolization of war criminals. Trump is doing a great job of demoralizing, deconstructing, and destroying all the branches of government. He’s the Midas of corruption.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 3:59:39pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:00:56pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, this guy’s no hero to me, either.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:01:10pm

He didn’t resign, he was YOU’RE FIRED!!

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:03:18pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Unless every member of the military quits at once - and unless everyone quits, enlisted people can’t - there will have to be people at some level that act as bulwarks against the shit coming from this administration.

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:04:03pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, wasn’t this the actual guy who said that he’d rather be fired than have to put up with Trump’s order?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:04:29pm

Given the intransigent Trumpers, what has to happen to move them even a bit is for Trump to be publicly humiliated.

I’m convinced that Trumpers are such not for any policy reason, not for any historical polity issues.

Instead, Trumpers are full-in on the strong-man persona.

The only way to pry them out of their cult-mentality is to show Trump in public as humiliated, disgraced, and shown to be weak.

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:05:09pm

re: #5 Belafon

Never mind. I thought someone did.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:05:59pm

re: #5 Belafon

Also, wasn’t this the actual guy who said that he’d rather be fired than have to put up with Trump’s order?

he later denied saying that

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:06:11pm
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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:08:49pm

re: #9 Belafon

I don’t agree that this is a reason to raise taxes, in part because I don’t think we need a reason, and in part because wars over aesthetics seem weird to me.

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:11:16pm

I guess it’s back to Goldman Sachs for the poor ex-Navy Sec.

Poor fella.

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Cheechako  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:11:32pm

re: #9 Belafon

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I thought I read somewhere that you only had to make a $30 deposit to have a pre-order.
Am I wrong?

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:12:37pm

re: #9 Belafon

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That’s great, it is hard to see the MAGA hats sometimes to know the people I should avoid. Seeing them in that monstrosity should be very helpful.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:14:10pm

asshole

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:17:50pm

I’m just waiting for Macron to comment on this and say this is evidence that the rest of NATO needs to break away from the US.

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Mattand  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:18:49pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

asshole

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I don’t know who wrote those tweets, but it sure wasn’t Trump.

They’re grammatically correct.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:19:25pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

asshole

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He did not write that Tweet. It’s way too coherent.

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mmmirele  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:20:03pm

I got QL’ed.

I went out and protested at Apologia. It was pretty chill, except for the following:

* One guy saying (except for two points) that God tells us to do all the things that are in the “Behavior Control” portion of Steven Hassan’s BITE Model. (Top left in picture below.) You know, I’d questioned whether I should tape those signs on my car, but WOW that was an amazing reaction. The two points he didn’t agree with were the “deprive sleep” and “exploit you financially.” But the rest of it, “God has told people to do them.”

* This guy also said that we shouldn’t believe people who aren’t saved (like Steven Hassan, I presume).

* A woman gave me her anti-abortion testimony, about how she “killed her baby” and now she goes out to the Tempe Planned Parenthood and harasses women. I asked her why she shouldn’t be executed. Well, because Jesus has forgiven her, that’s why. This church still believes women should be executed for getting abortions, but they have the “Get Out Of The Death Penalty Free With Jesus” card, which I find reprehensible. If you really believe this stuff, you should be willing to deal with the consequences of your belief.

Frankly, I would have rather have spent the time watching Godzilla stomping on Tokyo, but my knee is MUCH BETTER and I was able to stand without pain the whole 45 minutes.

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Mattand  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:23:14pm

re: #18 mmmirele

* A woman gave me her anti-abortion testimony, about how she “killed her baby” and now she goes out to the Tempe Planned Parenthood and harasses women. I asked her why she shouldn’t be executed. Well, because Jesus has forgiven her, that’s why. This church still believes women should be executed for getting abortions, but they have the “Get Out Of The Death Penalty Free With Jesus” card, which I find reprehensible. If you really believe this stuff, you should be willing to deal with the consequences of your belief.]

Wow. That is messed up.

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Skip Intro  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:24:08pm

re: #17 The Pie Overlord!

There is the required attack on Obama but that’s just boilerplate now.

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:27:12pm

re: #18 mmmirele

If she’s going to believe in executions, then she doesn’t get to get out of one. Accepting Jesus doesn’t get you out of murdering someone. (I think the death penalty should be abolished period, but people don’t get to have beliefs that don’t apply to them.)

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Teukka  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:27:17pm

re: #18 mmmirele

As Frank Herbert once wrote (in the Dune universe of books):
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:32:14pm

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:34:18pm

re: #12 Cheechako

I thought I read somewhere that you only had to make a $30 deposit to have a pre-order.
Am I wrong?

$100. And refundable. It’s a big cash grab by Tesla to give them some breathing room, hoping they don’t get many cancellations.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:35:31pm

re: #18 mmmirele

* A woman gave me her anti-abortion testimony, about how she “killed her baby” and now she goes out to the Tempe Planned Parenthood and harasses women. I asked her why she shouldn’t be executed. Well, because Jesus has forgiven her, that’s why. This church still believes women should be executed for getting abortions, but they have the “Get Out Of The Death Penalty Free With Jesus” card, which I find reprehensible. If you really believe this stuff, you should be willing to deal with the consequences of your belief.

My sister did the same thing. She had to have an abortion because the fetus died in the 8th month. Then she got totally brainwashed by the Religious Right and for the rest of her life she was a rabid opponent of abortion picketing clinics and calling for the execution of doctors performing it. She praised Scott Roeder for killing Dr. Tiller and spent e-mails calling for Roeder to be pardoned.

This is why I NEVER want anything to do with Xtians. I truly despise them!

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Dave In Austin  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:36:55pm

re: #9 Belafon

Why ant they just do it in a regular format instead of fucking bat mobile

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makeitstop  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:38:24pm

Thread.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:39:50pm

My thought on the Cybertruck is that it looks like it was designed by someone in the 50s when asked what a vehicle in the 90s would look like.

So I can’t tell if it’s sixty years out of date or just twenty.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:40:49pm

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:41:01pm

OT

But I love this band so much. I hadn’t listened in a few years but just stumbled on again: (Spitz: “Haru no uta”):

スピッツ / 春の歌

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:43:59pm

re: #28 Romantic Heretic

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jaunte  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:45:44pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:46:19pm

re: #9 Belafon

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Dread Pirate  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:50:51pm
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Skip Intro  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:52:01pm

re: #28 Romantic Heretic

My thought on the Cybertruck is that it looks like it was designed by someone in the 50s when asked what a vehicle in the 90s would look like.

So I can’t tell if it’s sixty years out of date or just twenty.

Here you go.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:52:09pm

JFC

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Cheechako  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:53:08pm

re: #34 Dread Pirate

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Great time and location for a cool brewski….

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:53:51pm

re: #26 Dave In Austin

Why ant they just do it in a regular format instead of fucking bat mobile

Probably because pickup truck culture in the US is pretty politically conservative, anti-environmental and thus allergic to electrification.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:54:38pm

re: #36 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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And what pisses me off is that the Silicon Six (THANK YOU SACHA BARON COHEN FOR COINING THAT!) see NOTHING wrong with that!!!!!!!!

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Teukka  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:56:27pm

re: #36 The Pie Overlord!

JFC

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JFC indeed O.O

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:56:29pm

Just a reminder, this circus ain’t leaving town any time soon.
Oh yeah, Convicted murderer Clint Lorance wants to return to active service as a US Army officer now that he is out of Leavenworth

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BigPapa  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:56:59pm

re: #35 Skip Intro

That is precious

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:57:38pm

I’m warming a bit to the Cybertruck. I mean, I still think it’s fucking ridiculous and wouldn’t want to be seen driving one, but if I won the lottery I’d totally buy a few and mount railguns ‘n shit in the bed.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:58:24pm

re: #38 goddamnedfrank

As a PU owner for years I don’t think I believe that’s much of an issue.
Truck buyers have purpose for their purchase for the most part. It will need range, capacity, an power.
Show me! But not that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 4:58:48pm

re: #41 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Just a reminder, this circus ain’t leaving town any time soon.
Oh yeah, Convicted murderer Clint Lorance wants to return to active service as a US Army officer now that he is out of Leavenworth

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Trump will make sure Clint gets everything he needs so he can also go on Fox and blame everything on Obama!

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:01:59pm

re: #44 Dave In Austin

As a PU owner for years I don’t think I believe that’s much of an issue.
Truck buyers have purpose for their purchase for the most part. It will need range, capacity, an power.
Show me! But not that.

It’ll be interesting to see if the Rivian ever becomes anything other than vaporware. If they actually start delivering they’ll still need a charging network, which is Tesla’s biggest advantage.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:02:54pm

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

I’m warming a bit to the Cybertruck. I mean, I still think it’s fucking ridiculous and wouldn’t want to be seen driving one, but if I won the lottery I’d totally buy a few and mount railguns ‘n shit in the bed.

I like the cut of your jib, sir.

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stpaulbear  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:05:51pm

re: #9 Belafon

As far as trucks go, That Tesla fever-dream packs a lot of load-bearing and towing punch for less than the cost of a fitted-out F-150. Of course, it’s going to be a long time until they get their trucks, and it’s going to have things like mirrors and windshield wipers stuck on to it’s austere surfaces.

I was trying to find info on YouTube about it today and SOOOO many of the posts were by “influencers” who want to own the truck just to say they own the truck or have a picture of themselves posing with the truck. That unveiling event looked nauseating.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:10:14pm

I find I am saying JFC a lot. Does that make me a Christian? (((LOL emoji)))

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BeachDem  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:11:04pm

re: #27 makeitstop

Thread.

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Or, as Tom Paxton said back in 19fucking65:

The traditional German cop-out is all too easy to spot. With the soldiers it was obedience to orders; with the civilians it was variations on a theme of ‘I was never a Nazi’ and ‘We had no idea of what was going on.’

In Mississippi we have families who ‘know nothing’ of lynchings, beatings and murders. In any case, there is ‘nothing they can do to stop it.’

Even our establishment press has published pictures of South Vietnamese troops ‘interrogating’ a captured Viet Cong with the help of the water torture, beating them and dispatching them with .45’s.

Tell me you support the government’s policy if you like, but don’t try to tell me you didn’t know what was going on.”

We Didn’t Know

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:11:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:13:11pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:16:46pm

re: #44 Dave In Austin

As a PU owner for years I don’t think I believe that’s much of an issue.
Truck buyers have purpose for their purchase for the most part. It will need range, capacity, an power.
Show me! But not that.

The tri-motor will likely have over 500 miles of range. That’s pretty awesome. The smart air suspension and on-board air compressor would come in pretty handy too.

As far as appearance, they’ll also have a black one too. That may be less shocking. lol

Oh. And the 250kW charging.

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BigPapa  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:17:54pm

re: #43 goddamnedfrank

I’m warming a bit to the Cybertruck. I mean, I still think it’s fucking ridiculous and wouldn’t want to be seen driving one, but if I won the lottery I’d totally buy a few and mount railguns ‘n shit in the bed.

Def at least one mini gun, retractible 48” chain saws, and the Ring of Fire: 300 tubes allong the bottom of the truck that can shoot out a 1800F jet of flames for 6’ in all directions.

And BlueTooth. I want that damn Bluetooth.

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retired cynic  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:18:56pm

re: #55 BigPapa

snork!

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stpaulbear  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:23:28pm

re: #28 Romantic Heretic

My thought on the Cybertruck is that it looks like it was designed by someone in the 50s when asked what a vehicle in the 90s would look like.

So I can’t tell if it’s sixty years out of date or just twenty.

I liked the comment that the truck looks like what you see when you zoom in on cars in SimCity.

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KGxvi  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:24:21pm

re: #54 GlutenFreeJesus

The tri-motor will likely have over 500 miles of range. That’s pretty awesome. The smart air suspension and on-board air compressor would come in pretty handy too.

As far as appearance, they’ll also have a black one too. That may be less shocking. lol

Oh. And the 250kW charging.

I suspect that with the launch of the Mustang Mach E and the Tesla Cybertruck we probably aren’t that far away from a Ford F-series electric (they’ve already got the eco boost). I think I’ll wait for one of those

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:28:29pm

re: #54 GlutenFreeJesus

The tri-motor will likely hae over 500 miles of range. That’s pretty awesome. The smart air suspension and on-board air compressor would come in pretty handy too.

As far as appearance, they’ll also have a black one too. That may be less shocking. lol

Oh. And the 250kW charging.

To streamline inventory I doubt think they’re going to offer any paint options. Especially since those stainless steel flat panels will make after market wraps comparatively easy and cheap. A lot of people will be murdering them out in all flat black vinyl.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:31:20pm
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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:33:02pm

Who wants to share this on Twitter?

TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS APPEAL TO MEN WITH FRAGILE MASCULINITY, RESEARCHERS FIND

NYU Psychology professor Eric Knowles and doctoral student Sarah DiMuccio queried 300 men on Amazon’s crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk to discover whether they had or would search for terms such as “erectile dysfunction,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “testosterone,” and “Viagra,” among others.

They discovered a high level of concern about masculinity “was strongly associated with interest in these search topics.”

newsweek.com

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Charles Johnson  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:34:25pm
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retired cynic  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:34:40pm

re: #61 Rightwingconspirator

Who wants to share this on Twitter?

TRUMP AND REPUBLICANS APPEAL TO MEN WITH FRAGILE MASCULINITY, RESEARCHERS FIND

newsweek.com

I’d take a burner twitter account, if it was me!!

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:35:21pm

OK, this may have gotten some play somewhere downstairs. But, I’ve been intermittent here the last few days

Completion of the thread behind the clicky

Click to Reveal
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:36:16pm
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makeitstop  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:36:42pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

OK, this may have gotten some play somewhere downstairs. But, I’ve been intermittent here the last few days

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littlegreenfootballs.com

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retired cynic  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:37:05pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

This is just getting worse and more and more crazy!

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KGxvi  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:39:30pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

I like how the author pretends that Trump actually works.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:39:49pm

re: #66 makeitstop

littlegreenfootballs.com

Well, like I said

lol

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Charmingly Persistent  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:40:41pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:42:21pm
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KGxvi  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:45:51pm

re: #70 Charmingly Persistent

Does anything since like 2015 make any kind of sense?

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:46:17pm

re: #72 KGxvi

No.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:47:29pm

re: #70 Charmingly Persistent

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Not exactly what Trump wanted. Trump wants to impose his will on the entire Navy chain of command. Spencer wanted to find a way to thread the needle, allowing Gallagher to retire with his trident while also letting the Navy retain some fictional notion of having gone through their own independent review process resulting in a preordained outcome of letting him retain his trident.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:48:09pm

re: #62 Charles Johnson

what Trump “has withstood is unlike what really any other mortal could understand”

OK then, nail him to a cross for 3 hours.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:50:19pm

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

OK then, nail him to a cross for 3 hours.

I was thinking more along the lines of 48 hours in labor

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steve_davis  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:50:38pm

re: #28 Romantic Heretic

My thought on the Cybertruck is that it looks like it was designed by someone in the 50s when asked what a vehicle in the 90s would look like.

So I can’t tell if it’s sixty years out of date or just twenty.

to me, it looks like something homer simpson would design if he were trying to bankrupt his ceo brother.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:51:54pm

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was thinking more along the lines of 48 hours in labor

That would work too.

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piratedan  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:52:32pm

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

naw…. make him file his tax return with Turbo Tax…..

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:53:09pm

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

re: #76 Backwoods_Sleuth

The White Tower. en.wikipedia.org

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:53:13pm

re: #75 The Pie Overlord!

OK then, nail him to a cross for 3 hours.

Something simpler: have him testify under oath in an open hearing before a hostile Congressional committee for 11 hours. Didn’t some weak paltry female manage that a few years ago?

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Charles Johnson  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:56:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 24, 2019 • 5:57:24pm
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:00:35pm
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William Lewis  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:02:55pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

asshole

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So, Trumpkins, do you think that pardoning war criminals will really hide the fact that you’re nothing but a treasonous coward and draft dodger?

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jaunte  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:07:11pm

Thread:

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William Lewis  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:09:28pm

re: #58 KGxvi

I suspect that with the launch of the Mustang Mach E and the Tesla Cybertruck we probably aren’t that far away from a Ford F-series electric (they’ve already got the eco boost). I think I’ll wait for one of those

I want an electric Chevy S-10. I don’t need big but occasionally do need to haul things. An small truck would do well for me.

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jaunte  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:17:12pm
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retired cynic  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:19:23pm

re: #89 jaunte

“his employees”?? “his”???

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jaunte  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:20:14pm

re: #90 retired cynic

There’s that Fuhrerprinzip again.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:26:13pm

My Senator is Woke

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sagehen  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:45:32pm

re: #27 makeitstop

Thread.

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We Didn’t Know

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:52:08pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

…..courtney hagle
@CourtneyHagle
Fox & Friends preview an interview with Rick Perry, where he says that Trump is “the chosen one” and “sent by God to do great things”

Pete Hegseth: “God has used imperfect people forever,” but what Trump “has withstood is unlike what really any other mortal could understand”…

Trump was sent by God — to punish us for our arrogance and belief in our superiority and rectitude. We were given a flawed but great Constitution, a system of government, and leaders who tried to improve the world — and then thought we didn’t need to exert ourselves to maintain them — That magically our heritage would protect us — that our institutions could stand by themselves. And then an ignoble conman with no credentials or ethics managed to get elected President, and our system is rapidly imploding.

The 2000 election was a warning to us all that we did not take to heart: the candidate with fewer votes won and we ignored the implications of that flaw in our Constitution. Of course, it is still appalling that over 62 million Americans voted for him — there is clearly something wrong with us and with our processes.

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sagehen  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:59:32pm

re: #85 The Pie Overlord!

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Is this 12 new ones, or a repost/reminder of the Mueller indictments?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 6:59:46pm

re: #86 William Lewis

So, Trumpkins, do you think that pardoning war criminals will really hide the fact that you’re nothing but a treasonous coward and draft dodger?

It doesn’t matter to the Christian Right who are convinced that God anointed Trump to be our King.

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:01:29pm

re: #96 Joe Bacon 🌹

It doesn’t matter to the Christian Right who are convinced that God anointed Trump to be our King.

They think of it only in terms of whomever wears the Republican crown. If Trump were successfully impeached and removed from office, there would be articles lamenting his fall from spiritual grace and how his sins caught up to him, and now we should all exonerate and worship Mike Pence, the Holy Warrior of Indiana, Anointed One of the Republican Party, who stands against abortion.

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William Lewis  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:03:07pm

re: #94 Hecuba’s daughter

Trump was sent by God — to punish us.

Someone posted from our Trump generator - “Because God Ran Out of Locusts”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:03:21pm

re: #97 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

They think of it only in terms of whomever wears the Republican crown. If Trump were successfully impeached and removed from office, there would be articles lamenting his fall from spiritual grace and how his sins caught up to him, and now we should all exonerate and worship Mike Pence, the Holy Warrior of Indiana, Anointed One of the Republican Party, who stands against abortion.

There will be plenty of Radical Christians who will threaten to fight to the death to put God’s Anointed King back on the throne!

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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:06:57pm

re: #99 Joe Bacon 🌹

There will be plenty of Radical Christians who will threaten to fight to the death to put God’s Anointed King back on the throne!

Believe it or not, I’m going to dispute this one. No doubt there would be some - I’m not naive. However, the general teaching of the religious right has been submission to the governing authority, whomever it may be. They are far more likely to roll with the punches in an attempt to stabilize around the Next Best Thing (tm), and doubly so since Mike Pence is a self-righteous son of a bitch whom they all adore and would welcome in the nation’s highest office, as opposed to Trump, whom they tolerate solely for the sake of their single-minded cause.

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:10:51pm

A uniter, not a divider

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Ace Rothstein  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:12:34pm

I shot a high school football playoff game on Friday night for the local fish wrap, and one of the teams was the Texas School for the Deaf (from Austin). Every player and coach is totally deaf. I’m kneeling down about to shoot the first play and right next to me a BOOM! goes off scaring the shit out of me. Then BOOM! again. So the players know when the snap is, a guy on the sidelines hits a huge bass drum, sending vibrations the players can feel, and it was LOUD, I mean louder than a shotgun. The first hit, the players set, then the next one (or the next) is when they snap the ball. Sometimes the delay will draw the defense offsides. The kids lost the game, but they could really play. And it turns out a short documentary was made about the football team. It’s called “4 Quarters of Silence,” and you can watch it on Amazon.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:14:48pm

Quid Pro Quo Order

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Dread Pirate  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:21:26pm
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BigPapa  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:23:28pm

PCP smoking runaway circus bear is approved for rotation.

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jaunte  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:23:36pm
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Quoth the raven, Covfefe.  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:24:29pm

re: #105 BigPapa

PCP smoking runaway circus bear is approved for rotation.

It’s in the running alongside tangerine wankmaggot for my favorite presidential epithet.

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VegasGolfer  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:31:43pm

re: #102 Ace Rothstein

Watching now. So far very inspirational and amazing what this kids can do.
Thanks

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:35:38pm

The 60 Minutes segment tonight on Valeria and Oscar (famously seen in a viral image drowned together) trying to come to the US makes me terribly sad and all the more angry at a President and party so contemptuous of those that strived far harder than they. Not a dry eye in my 3 lizard house this minute.
cbsnews.com

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BeachDem  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:37:39pm

re: #93 sagehen

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GMTA (and love Tom Paxton!)

littlegreenfootballs.com

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unproven innocence  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:40:54pm

Serious question: WHO —through influence at NBC —has declared war on Rachel Maddow? And on her audience?

Check out this video, at
00:00:10, 00:00:25, 0:00:40, 00:00:55,
00:01:10, 00:01:25, 0:01:40, 00:01:55,
00:02:10, 00:02:25, 0:02:40, 00:02:55,
…
etc, etc, ad nauseum —FOUR FUCKING TIMES PER MINUTE; and this video is 44 minutes and 10 seconds long.

FULL The Rachel Maddow Show 11/24/19 | MSNBC News November 24, 2019

Ok, you don’t really need to watch. The repeating still pic is not a bug. Seems to be a feature.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:46:36pm

THREAD. Horrifying.

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ckkatz  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:46:36pm

re: #111 unproven innocence

The YouTube account that posted this is titled “TRUMP News”. I suspect that they edited the video before posting it. And I suspect that a polite query to Youtube and MSNBC might get the video taken down as it is probably property of MSNBC.

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unproven innocence  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:47:48pm

re: #113 ckkatz

Thanks. Did not notice that. (That info was obscured by a message about Changes to Youtube’s TOS.)

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danarchy  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:48:02pm

re: #111 unproven innocence

Serious question: WHO —through influence at NBC —has declared war on Rachel Maddow? And on her audience?

Check out this video, at
00:00:10, 00:00:25, 0:00:40, 00:00:55,
00:01:10, 00:01:25, 0:01:40, 00:01:55,
00:02:10, 00:02:25, 0:02:40, 00:02:55,
…
etc, etc, ad nauseum —FOUR FUCKING TIMES PER MINUTE; and this video is 44 minutes and 10 seconds long.

[Embedded content]

Video

What does NBC have to do with it? This was posted by a channel called TRUMP News. Unless you are saying NBC should be sending a cease and desist over a video that has 131 views. They may, but they would have to know about it first.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 7:56:18pm

I have a tremendous urge to bake the pumpkin pie in my freezer, and I haven’t smoked any pot in over three and a half decades

lol

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:03:26pm

Sweet Potato Pie has been baked for Friendsgiving and now chills in the fridge for a couple days. Tuesday night I will bake an Edwards Petit Virginia Ham and slice that thin. Wednesday Night I will bake a coconut custard pie. Got the Luxardo REAL Marachino cherries to ring the edge with and Thursday morning will bake fresh biscuits to serve with apple butter.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:07:46pm

WOW! I was 3 years old when this was broadcast and I remember most of it because this was the first time I saw the Macy’s parade on TV and I remember the Ideal and Lionel commercials!

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade NBC TV 1959 SD

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:08:36pm

I’ve recounted an incident in Vietnam in which a sad sack from a unit down-country showed up at our unit with one of these unpleasant collections. Our CO made him dig a 6 foot deep hole and bury them. Another time a whole chopper full of ghouls arrived with a couple of NVA skulls lashed to their skids. One of them had a bullet hole through the forehead. Someone, presumably one of the ghouls, had painted a red star around it. Yet again, the CO ordered a hole dug and the trophies were duly buried.

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Kafitrar  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:17:34pm

Apparently, Andrew Yang is boycotting MSNBC unless the network apologizes to him for their treatment of him during the last debate.
deadline.com

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:19:26pm
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stpaulbear  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:20:20pm

re: #120 Kafitrar

Apparently, Andrew Yang is boycotting MSNBC unless the network apologizes to him for their treatment of him during the last debate.
deadline.com

They should tell him to just go buy 5 million quarts of ice cream, find a quiet room, and eat it with a silver spoon.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:20:47pm
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William Lewis  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:38:41pm

re: #122 stpaulbear

They should tell him to just go buy 5 million quarts of ice cream, find a quiet room, and eat it with a silver spoon.

Him and Bloomberg together.

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mmmirele  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:38:46pm

re: #100 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.

Believe it or not, I’m going to dispute this one. No doubt there would be some - I’m not naive. However, the general teaching of the religious right has been submission to the governing authority, whomever it may be. They are far more likely to roll with the punches in an attempt to stabilize around the Next Best Thing (tm), and doubly so since Mike Pence is a self-righteous son of a bitch whom they all adore and would welcome in the nation’s highest office, as opposed to Trump, whom they tolerate solely for the sake of their single-minded cause.

It’s changed. The language has changed. It’s scary what it’s morphed into. Trump is seen as God’s Anointed One and they are prepping themselves to defend the tangerine tyrant against liberals, Satanists, the godless, etc., etc. I don’t have any of these people on my FB anymore, but I am friends with people who do, and the stuff they share is eyebrow-raising. They really do believe that Donald Trump is God’s Special Anointed Guy.

Of course, from my religious belief (YMMV), I consider that rank idolatry. But hey, if Evangelicals want to burn down their institutions by making Donald Trump into God, so be it.

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:40:17pm

re: #125 William Lewis

But they will get the diabeatus.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:41:25pm

This entire part of the story sucks and has zero redeeming value as far as I can tell. Jesus is just being a dick.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:46:53pm
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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:47:45pm
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mmmirele  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:54:54pm

re: #128 goddamnedfrank

This entire part of the story sucks and has zero redeeming value as far as I can tell. Jesus is just being a dick.

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I don’t think it happened. It was inserted into the text by the anonymous writer of Mark (and then ended up in the other gospels) for some reason, and it may have been to promote a kind of supersessionism, in that the Jews were found wanting because there was no fruit on the fig tree. Obviously, I find that interpretation obnoxious. To be blunt, I find the whole story to be obnoxious, because the fig tree did nothing to Jesus.

The thing you have to keep in mind about the New Testament texts is that these guys were fighting their own little wars in what they wrote down. Mark’s Jesus is very much a human being, but John’s Jesus is divine from the beginning of the universe. The writer of Luke/Acts tries to make the founding of the early church as smooth as glass, but Paul’s letter to the Galatians makes it clear that he wasn’t on the same page as some of the other church leaders. The letter of James complains that Paul writes stuff that is hard to understand. And so on and so forth. If you think of these as blog rants, dashed off to correspondents the writers may or may not have met, and not as documents meant for the ages, you’re probably getting a better sense of what the documents were.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 24, 2019 • 8:58:31pm

re: #129 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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I didn’t realize that Esper had cancelled the review and ordered that Gallagher be allowed to retire with his trident pin. That’s the exact deal that he accused Spencer of improperly orchestrating behind his back.

I retract my comment upthread, this really does stink and it looks like Esper is probably lying and cowardly blaming Spencer for his own orchestration of an outcome that he knows is deeply upsetting and insulting to Navy senior brass.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:00:02pm

re: #131 mmmirele

The thing you have to keep in mind about the New Testament texts is that these guys were fighting their own little wars in what they wrote down.

OG Twitter wars.

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Citizen K  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:00:04pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

I didn’t realize that Esper had cancelled the review and ordered that Gallagher be allowed to retire with his trident pin. That’s the exact deal that he accused Spencer of improperly orchestrating behind his back.

I retract my comment upthread, this really does stink and it looks like Esper is probably lying and cowardly blaming Spencer for his own orchestration of an outcome that he knows is deeply upsetting and insulting to Navy senior brass.

It is, as always, projection it seems.

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:01:25pm

I like this take:

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:01:54pm
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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:05:21pm

re: #131 mmmirele

I don’t think it happened. It was inserted into the text by the anonymous writer of Mark (and then ended up in the other gospels) for some reason, and it may have been to promote a kind of supersessionism, in that the Jews were found wanting because there was no fruit on the fig tree. Obviously, I find that interpretation obnoxious. To be blunt, I find the whole story to be obnoxious, because the fig tree did nothing to Jesus.

The thing you have to keep in mind about the New Testament texts is that these guys were fighting their own little wars in what they wrote down. Mark’s Jesus is very much a human being, but John’s Jesus is divine from the beginning of the universe. The writer of Luke/Acts tries to make the founding of the early church as smooth as glass, but Paul’s letter to the Galatians makes it clear that he wasn’t on the same page as some of the other church leaders. The letter of James complains that Paul writes stuff that is hard to understand. And so on and so forth. If you think of these as blog rants, dashed off to correspondents the writers may or may not have met, and not as documents meant for the ages, you’re probably getting a better sense of what the documents were.

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:06:39pm

Interesting stats about Georgia:

“Georgia’s voting rolls have swollen over the last 10 months. Many of those newly-registered voters are new to the state, and Democrats think they’re going to help flip the state next year … The surge is rooted in a new state law that automatically registered hundreds of thousands of new voters …

The state says more than 310,000 new voters have registered in 2019. Of those, 47 percent of them are people of color. Another 45 percent are under age 30, according to Fair Fight Georgia, the liberal group launched by Democrat Stacey Abrams.”

11alive.com

“In Georgia, new citizens constitute more than 440,000 potential voters, the group estimated. President Donald Trump won the state by roughly 200,000 votes in 2016.”

politico.com

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:07:18pm

re: #137 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Well Jesus and seasons in relation to him were messed up since his birth. That probably made him cranky at times.
//

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:13:12pm

TONES AND I - DANCE MONKEY (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:15:40pm

re: #138 Belafon

Hate to say it, but look for the GOP to crank their voter suppression efforts up to 11 for next year.

Hell, maybe even 12 or 13, depending on their internal polling, let’s say, around June or July of next year - it their internal polling shows they’re heading for a monumental electoral ass-kicking, they’re gonna pull out all the stops to prevent that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:17:42pm

While he was running his WeWork scam what else was this crook doing???

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:18:45pm

haaretz.com

Neumann, according to the Vanity Fair article, believed that WeWork “was even capable of solving the world’s thorniest problems. Last summer, some WeWork executives were shocked to discover Neumann was working on Jared Kushner’s Mideast peace effort. According to two sources, Neumann assigned WeWork’s director of development, Roni Bahar, to hire an advertising firm to produce a slick video for Kushner that would showcase what an economically transformed West Bank and Gaza would look like.”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:19:45pm

And from the same article…

Then, after October 18, 2018, when it came to light that “Saudi agents tortured dissident and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and carved his body with a bone saw, likely on order from the crown prince himself, Neumann told George W. Bush’s former national security adviser Stephen Hadley that everything could be worked out if bin Salman had the right mentor. Confused, Hadley asked who that person might be, according to a source familiar with the meeting. Neumann paused for a moment and said: ‘Me.’”

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Belafon  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:23:13pm

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

Hate to say it, but look for the GOP to crank their voter suppression efforts up to 11 for next year.

Hell, maybe even 12 or 13, depending on their internal polling, let’s say, around June or July of next year - it their internal polling shows they’re heading for a monumental electoral ass-kicking, they’re gonna pull out all the stops to prevent that.

And it still won’t be enough.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:23:54pm
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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:26:04pm

re: #146 Dread Pirate

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Just a reminder why #KremlinKennedy continues to utter the Crowdstrike Bullshit!

He got his marching orders from Master Putin along with these other traitors!
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Dr Lizardo  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:29:08pm

re: #145 Belafon

And it still won’t be enough.

Let’s hope so.

Off to work. Back later.

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mmmirele  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:35:10pm

re: #143 Joe Bacon 🌹

What. A. Kook.

And because he’s getting a ginormous payout to leave WeWork, thousands of people are going to lose their jobs. *scowl*

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William Lewis  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:35:54pm

re: #131 mmmirele

I don’t think it happened. It was inserted into the text by the anonymous writer of Mark (and then ended up in the other gospels) for some reason, and it may have been to promote a kind of supersessionism, in that the Jews were found wanting because there was no fruit on the fig tree. Obviously, I find that interpretation obnoxious. To be blunt, I find the whole story to be obnoxious, because the fig tree did nothing to Jesus.

The thing you have to keep in mind about the New Testament texts is that these guys were fighting their own little wars in what they wrote down. Mark’s Jesus is very much a human being, but John’s Jesus is divine from the beginning of the universe. The writer of Luke/Acts tries to make the founding of the early church as smooth as glass, but Paul’s letter to the Galatians makes it clear that he wasn’t on the same page as some of the other church leaders. The letter of James complains that Paul writes stuff that is hard to understand. And so on and so forth. If you think of these as blog rants, dashed off to correspondents the writers may or may not have met, and not as documents meant for the ages, you’re probably getting a better sense of what the documents were.

Good description. Matthew’s Jesus was a very good Jewish man who didn’t mind the Pharisees, he just didn’t think they were hardcore enough ;) and thought the break with the synagogues could be mended. John was also late enough that the the break was final and that drives the (passive aggressive?) antagonism that would form the core of Christian antisemitism for the next 2000 years.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:42:06pm

re: #149 mmmirele

What. A. Kook.

And because he’s getting a ginormous payout to leave WeWork, thousands of people are going to lose their jobs. *scowl*

Not just that, mm!

WHY THE HELL WAS THAT IGNORANT ASS WITH NO RELATIVE EXPERIENCE EVEN WORKING WITH ASSHOLE KUSHNER ON A PEACE PLAN???????

And..was he in cahoots with Kushner giving the green light to kill Khashoggi???????

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William Lewis  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:43:43pm

re: #151 Joe Bacon 🌹

Not just that, mm!

WHY THE HELL WAS THAT IGNORANT ASS WITH NO RELATIVE EXPERIENCE EVEN WORKING WITH ASSHOLE KUSHNER ON A PEACE PLAN???????

Because it isn’t peace they’re after but Armageddon.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:48:59pm

re: #152 William Lewis

Because it isn’t peace they’re after but Armageddon.

No.

Neumann and Kushner want to expel all the Palestinians to create the Trump Gaza Plaza, Trump West Bank and Trump Golan Heights Casino and Golf Resort.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:49:55pm

re: #152 William Lewis

Because it isn’t peace they’re after but Armageddon.

For the evangelicals, yes. But not for Kushner and Neumann. They are just arrogant idiots, with no morals or ethics, but an inflated sense of their self-worth. They are like Trump, but with a better vocabulary.

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sagehen  Nov 24, 2019 • 9:51:17pm

re: #125 William Lewis

Him and Bloomberg together.

I like the theory that Bloomberg isn’t really running for the nomination (that he knows he’d never get it), but being an “official” candidate means local stations (especially Sinclair) can’t refuse to sell him as much ad time as he wants, at whatever hour of the day he wants.

Maybe he’ll buy up a lot of time on RWNJ AM-radio while he’s at it.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 24, 2019 • 10:09:52pm
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BeachDem  Nov 24, 2019 • 10:59:22pm

re: #154 Hecuba’s daughter

For the evangelicals, yes. But not for Kushner and Neumann. They are just arrogant idiots, with no morals or ethics, but an inflated sense of their self-worth. They are like Trump, but with a better vocabulary.

Well, Neumann certainly has a high opinion of himself

The Wall Street Journal reported that Neumann had aspirations such as living forever, becoming the world’s first trillionaire, expanding WeWork to the planet Mars, becoming Israel’s prime minister, and becoming “president of the world”.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 24, 2019 • 11:34:18pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 2:29:38am

re: #85 The Pie Overlord!

Twelve Russian military officers have been indicted for breaking into the Democratic Party’s computers and stealing and sharing compromising information

They all currently weigh 400 pounds and are sitting on a bed in their parents’ home…

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 2:29:59am

Sleep well

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 2:34:49am

re: #147 Joe Bacon 🌹

Just a reminder why #KremlinKennedy continues to utter the Crowdstrike Bullshit!

I got no problem with the US Ambassador to Russia being there on July 4th, but the rest?

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 2:56:15am

Holy shit!

A German state museum with one of the biggest collection of baroque treasures in Europe has been robbed, police said Monday, with media estimates of losses of up to a billion euros.

The Green Vault at Dresden’s Royal Palace, which is home to around 4,000 precious objects made of ivory, gold, silver and jewels, was broken into early Monday morning.

Police confirmed a “break-in at the Green Vault” and said the thieves were on the run.

Officials did not give an estimate but Bild newspaper reported that “antique jewellery worth around a billion euros has been stolen”.

france24.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:01:19am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

Holy shit!

france24.com

they baroque in?

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:01:45am

Nora Aunor - Moonlight Becomes You (“Tawag ng Tanghalan” winning piece)

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:05:21am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

they baroque in?

Heh.

Incidents like this make me wonder if these kinds of crimes are made to order, with the items swiped basically already sold on the private collectors market.

After all, it’s not like the robbers can take their haul down to the local corner pawn shop.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:10:38am

re: #170 Dr Lizardo

Heh.

Incidents like this make me wonder if these kinds of crimes are made to order, with the items swiped basically already sold on the private collectors market.

After all, it’s not like the robbers can take their haul down to the local corner pawn shop.

Similar story with figures from the Goldaltar in the church in neighboring Oberwsel. Several pieces were recovered, but a couple are still missing. Investigators think they are in the hands of a Russian deal in Switzerland but the police cannot get to him.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:16:33am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Similar story with figures from the Goldaltar in the church in neighboring Oberwsel. Several pieces were recovered, but a couple are still missing. Investigators think they are in the hands of a Russian deal in Switzerland but the police cannot get to him.

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I’d never heard about that. When I read about this morning’s robbery in Dresden, it reminded me of the Gardner Museum heist back in 1990, where thieves made off with $500 million in paintings, none of which have been recovered and no arrests have ever been made.

en.wikipedia.org

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:16:44am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

Holy shit!

france24.com

Has anyone seen Red Reddington?

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:43:04am

I’m slowly working on my knife sharpening skills. I have a double bevel, it is as sharp as, but it’s not quite as smooth an edge as a fresh utility knife blade, but I’m getting close.

I caught the 2nd bevel in this image, it’s the dark edge.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 25, 2019 • 3:57:26am
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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:17:03am

re: #176 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I don’t know why I’m laughing so hard. It must be the cat’s humiliation. It builds character, cat.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:20:06am

It’s after 7:15 AM, why isn’t Trump on the toilet ranting on Twitter?!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:22:52am

re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth

In firing Richard Spencer, Trump recklessly crosses another line washingtonpost.com … Ignatius Post notes the significance: Pentagon as well as State is in the hands of a craven “yes man” who will not protect his mission or people.

He is already demolishing our alliances and re-branding our armed forces as a paid mercenaries

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:24:13am

re: #160 Dread Pirate

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OFFS.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:25:09am

re: #179 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

He is already demolishing our alliances and re-branding our armed forces as a paid mercenaries

Paid mercenaries willing to commit war crimes, to be specific.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:27:20am

re: #181 Dread Pirate

Paid mercenaries willing to commit war crimes, to be specific.

Can’t have morals or principles standing in the way of profits.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:28:32am

There it is. Sam Dewey, who? He’s scraping the barrel for positive quotes, I guess.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:28:55am

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seal Gallagher is a microcosm of what they see in Trump: a “badass” who breaks or ignores the rules to get the job done.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:33:46am

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Trump has done nothing bipartisan in nature.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:35:08am

re: #186 HappyWarrior

Trump has done nothing bipartisan in nature.

Yeah, but he has the Black vote!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:35:36am

re: #184 Dread Pirate

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There it is. Sam Dewey, who? He’s scraping the barrel for positive quotes, I guess.

You know it’s quite pathetic watching Trump live tweet of D grade hacks crying about how he’s been wronged. Trump can’t tweet without jacking himself off or crying.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:36:09am

re: #187 Dread Pirate

Yeah, but he has the Black vote!

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Sure Jan.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:45:41am

In local news a second cannabis shop will open in Central Contra Costa County. Opened by the son of a former congressman.

The Martinez City Council has chosen the operator for its second retail marijuana dispensary - a firm led by the son of retired longtime U.S. Rep. George Miller.

The council voted 4-0 on Wednesday to award a “conditional certificate” allowing Embarc to apply for a commercial cannabis operating permit.

Mayor Rob Schroder, who sells insurance for a living, recused himself from Wednesday’s vote, as a partner in one of the proposed dispensaries (not Embarc) has a business relationship with Schroder.

Embarc was one of four firms selected as finalists to receive this conditional certificate, and the highest-ranked proposal based on a list of criteria set by the city.

The owner and CEO of Embarc is George Miller IV, the son of U.S. Rep. George Miller and himself a onetime state Assembly candidate.

I dunno, they will have to beat the prices and selection of the delivery services currently available.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 4:55:13am

re: #190 Dread Pirate

In local news a second cannabis shop will open in Central Contra Costa County. Opened by the son of a former congressman.

Somebody pointed out the stark contrast between the people we were busting ten years ago for selling cannabis and the people we are granting sales licenses to now…

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jeffreyw  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:14:43am

Sigh. Late for lunch
Good morning!

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:16:53am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Somebody pointed out the stark contrast between the people we were busting ten years ago for selling cannabis and the people we are granting sales licenses to now…

To live in the south-east of the US is to understand the impact of marijuana prohibition. I had the fortunate experience to grow up in California in the 70s. I first smoked pot in 1970. Other than 10 formative years of my kids I smoked pretty much every day. A few of the later years of my daughters youth I said, “Fuck it, there’s no difference between my stoned years and my straight years”, so I started smoking weed again. I just hid it, but around my youngest 17th year I told them. Now we have marijuana delivery and my youngest daughter got me to switch to the service over my black market sources.

Of course the richer connected people are the ones with the power to put together a proper application qualifications for a business over some dumb stoner whose mom died and left him a a small estate of $300k. It’s capitalism. you don’t back losers or the economy suffers.

Was that coherent? I have a hard time explaining my thinking. I think in parallel which makes it hard to create a single thread of my thoughts.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:17:06am

Sam Dewey—isn’t he a partner in Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe?

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:18:35am

re: #184 Dread Pirate

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There it is. Sam Dewey, who? He’s scraping the barrel for positive quotes, I guess.

Isn’t he that guy that beat Truman?

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b.d. (Where is Rudy?)  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:19:32am

re: #194 Barefoot Grin

Sam Dewey—isn’t he a partner in Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe?

or one of Scrooge McDuck’s nephews.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:19:53am

re: #193 Dread Pirate

To live in the south-east of the US is to understand the impact of marijuana prohibition.

I grew up in Gary, Indiana, which was so overrun with heroin and hard drugs that the police hardly paid any attention to marijuana.

I moved to Arizona. Things were also pretty easy there until for a while but I remember the total crackdown that hit in the 80’s and how getting busted with even a personal stash could get you time in jail and the police confiscating your property.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:20:42am

re: #194 Barefoot Grin

Sam Dewey—isn’t he a partner in Dewey, Cheetum, and Howe?

I owe you one free up-ding for anything you submit in the future that I consider just dumb.//

/slash on the suggestion you’d say something dumb, but not my obligation to give you a free up-ding in the future cause that was a 2 up-ding comment.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:23:05am

re: #195 b.d. (Where is Rudy?)

Isn’t he that guy that beat Truman?

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Dewey: “Mrs. Dewey, from now on you’re going to be sleeping with the President of the United States!”

[the next day]

Mrs. Dewey: “Will Harry be coming here or will I be going to Washington?”

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:25:04am

Been hearing more about the actual Trump Cult, the rapidly spreading belief among evangelicals that Trump was literally chosen by God to be some kind of savior.
It occurred to me that veteran Russian operatives, those with Cold War experience, must have been amazed, not to mention delighted, at how easy it was to buy off and otherwise compromise Bible thumpers. Compared to the kind of hard-sell marks they targeted in the Cold War, journalists, academics, labor activists, etc. the thumpers were not just willing whores, they were cheap ones.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:27:45am

re: #200 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The Evangelicals are most concerned with getting a person in power to implement their agenda, and Trump has publicly described abortion providers as people who kill live babies.

He has come out against gay marriage, LGBT rights and the right for religions to discriminate.

They have only praise for him.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:35:14am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Evangelicals are most concerned with getting a person in power to implement their agenda, and Trump has publicly described abortion providers as people who kill live babies.

He has come out against gay marriage, LGBT rights and the right for religions to discriminate.

They have only praise for him.

The Fundies are gonna bitch like hell if/when the next POTUS tells them to sit down and shut the fuck up.

Let ‘em scream.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:39:17am

re: #162 Dread Pirate

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I have NO SYMPATHY for Michael Steele since he unleashed the racist teabaggers on Obama.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:39:22am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Shaggy dog story…

In 1976 we were sitting in Union Square in SF, a good size group of our class at Control Data Institute, smoking weed. Two SFPD motorcycle cops drove into the middle of the square and got off their bikes and came up to our group. I had a roach up to my lips on a 1 meter alligator clip multi-meter cable. I tossed it and tried to cover it with my foot, a large red wire sticking out and a lung full of pot. Cop says, What’s that under your foot?” I said, “Nothing.”. exhaling a big cloud of smoke into his face. He made me show him, asked if we had any more, I said, “No”. Hr said, “get rid of it”, so I shredded the roach.

He said it wasn’t worth the paperwork to arrest us. He asked who we were and we told him we were CDI students. He said, “I hope you never have anything to do with any computers I ever have to deal with.”

I went on to a career in computerized traffic signal control systems.

The new year happened and the law to decriminalized weed went into effect and a woman in the following class got caught and was issued a citation. she was with us the first time, too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:43:11am

re: #202 Dr Lizardo

The Fundies are gonna bitch like hell if/when the next POTUS tells them to sit down and shut the fuck up.

Let ‘em scream.

They thought that Ronald Reagan was their man until Nancy’s White House astrologer advised them that it was time to toss them aside once they had gained power.

They learned their lesson after that, and that is why we see how they have gotten their people into all aspects and levels of public life: education, the military, public administration…right now their point man is one dicky heartbeat away from the Preisency.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:43:52am

re: #204 Dread Pirate

He said it wasn’t worth the paperwork to arrest us. He asked who we were and we told him we were CDI students. He said, “I hope you never have anything to do with any computers I ever have to deal with.”

I went on to a career in computerized traffic signal control systems.

The new year happened and the law to decriminalized weed went into effect and a woman in the following class got caught and was issued a citation. she was with us the first time, too.

I can recall similar incidents in Gary.

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Dread Pirate  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:43:59am

L O L

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:44:27am

I’m of the belief that most Evangelical leaders are cynical sobs who are using Trump just as much as he uses them.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:44:52am

re: #207 Dread Pirate

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L O L

Talk to your pal the self described Reaper.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:47:13am

re: #208 HappyWarrior

I’m of the belief that most Evangelical leaders are cynical sobs who are using Trump just as much as he uses them.

My family is brainwashed by Christians to the point if Pat Robertson told them to take a dump on their lawns for Jesus they would do it.

I am not kidding.

I remember how my brother in law said at a Thanksgiving dinner if Pat Robertson told him to cut his finger off he would do it.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:50:02am

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:56:45am

Trump breaks the rules
Someone else pays
(Again)

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:57:18am

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 5:59:44am

re: #210 Joe Bacon 🌹

My family is brainwashed by Christians to the point if Pat Robertson told them to take a dump on their lawns for Jesus they would do it.

I am not kidding.

I remember how my brother in law said at a Thanksgiving dinner if Pat Robertson told him to cut his finger off he would do it.

Yeah the flock are easily manipulated rube but the leaders are manipulative assholes.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:04:32am

re: #201 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

The Evangelicals are most concerned with getting a person in power to implement their agenda, and Trump has publicly described abortion providers as people who kill live babies.

He has come out against gay marriage, LGBT rights and the right for religions to discriminate.

They have only praise for him.

The Evangelical agenda isn’t their real objective, it is simply a contrived means to an end, the end being power. There is a lot of documentation for how Fundy leaders cooked up their anti-abortion position out of whole cloth after Roe v. Wade. The purpose was to replace racial segregation as a key unifying issue among conservative churches.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:14:34am
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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:16:27am

re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus
Welcome to the Blade Runner dystopia.

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FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:16:34am

re: #192 jeffreyw

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Sigh. Late for lunch
Good morning!

Is that a raccoon spying on a opossum?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:18:52am

re: #216 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

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No idea. I just remember the Marc Rich pardon getting tons of negative criticism of Clinton. Trump pardons convicted war criminals and we’re treated to stories about how his base loves it. Trump doesn’t care about law and order when the perp is someone he likes and the vic is someone he dislikes.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:24:26am

re: #215 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

The Evangelical agenda isn’t their real objective, it is simply a contrived means to an end, the end being power. There is a lot of documentation for how Fundy leaders cooked up their anti-abortion position out of whole cloth after Roe v. Wade. The purpose was to replace racial segregation as a key unifying issue among conservative churches.

I can’t help but wonder if abortion somehow disappeared as a key unifier among the Fundies…what would replace it? Would it be anti-LGBTQ? Anti-Catholic or minority religion bashing? Would they simply revert back to racial segregation or pursue some variant of white ethnocentrism?

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:26:41am

It may be over-reach but I am wondering if the war-criminal pardons are not somehow related to an effort to further legitimize the privatization of our military missions. Mercenary kingpin Erik Prince has proposed an elaborate plan for privatizing operations in Afghanistan, for example. The greatly increased use of contractors, including in combat roles, was a striking feature of DoD policy under Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld and an obvious long term objective of conservative security policy.

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sagehen  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:28:01am

re: #181 Dread Pirate

Paid mercenaries willing to commit war crimes, to be specific.

People who are willing to commit war crimes overseas… are just as willing to commit war crimes in Chicago or Los Angeles.

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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:30:13am
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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:30:56am
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sagehen  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:33:38am

re: #191 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Somebody pointed out the stark contrast between the people we were busting ten years ago for selling cannabis and the people we are granting sales licenses to now…

Of course.

Can’t be giving business licenses to people with criminal records.
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sagehen  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:36:14am

re: #200 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

It occurred to me that veteran Russian operatives, those with Cold War experience, must have been amazed, not to mention delighted, at how easy it was to buy off and otherwise compromise Bible thumpers.

I don’t think they’re surprised at all. I think that was a central part of the strategy.

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Belafon  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:38:05am

re: #217 Scottish Dragon

Welcome to the Blade Runner dystopia.

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All we were missing was the car.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:43:11am
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jeffreyw  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:46:59am

re: #218 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Is that a raccoon spying on a opossum?

You’ve got a correct ID on the critters. Not sure that we’ve nailed the description of their activity but I will note that they do not dispute our characterizations.

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:49:06am

Wow, good question, Rick. Good question.

I hadn’t thought about that. There really is something wrong with him.

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:51:04am

Trump Golf Counter says October 26. Just about a month now…

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:51:50am

re: #231 makeitstop

Trump Golf Counter says October 26. Just about a month now…

That’s a damn long time for Trump to not go golfing.

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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 6:53:47am

re: #230 makeitstop

Trump hasn’t gone to his golf resorts since his “Phase 1 of his physical” at Walter Reed. That would seem to indicate that whatever happened wasn’t just a physical, and that his inability to golf thereafter points to a more serious medical concern than anyone in Trumpworld is ever going to admit.

Or, he’s so paranoid that he can’t leave the East Wing (the residence) of the WH, because he doesn’t even trust his own advisers at this point since everyone is smelling the chum in the water as impeachment closes in and Trump’s key advisers (Perry, Pompeo, Pence, Rudy, Mulvaney, etc.) are all directly implicated along with members of Congress (Nunes moo).

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:03:15am

You Twitter guys should try to get #whynogolf trending…

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:05:16am

re: #218 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀

Is that a raccoon spying on a opossum?

Likely daemons of missing Gyptian children who were captured by Gobblers….

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Jay C  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:05:18am

re: #227 Belafon

All we were missing was the car.

Elon Musk is still working on it…

re: #232 Dr Lizardo

That’s a damn long time for Trump to not go golfing.

Yeah, but I’m sure if anyone raised the question at a press conference (yes, I know..////);
I’m sure the answer would be that POTUS is in splendid health (because, after all, he says so himself!) , and is busy busy busy working to MAGA, and why are you carping about it, since all you’ve done is complain about his playing golf, and what about Hunter Biden? Or crooked FBI agents stealing the DNC server to sell to George Soros?
Or the REALLY important issues…..?????

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:07:19am

re: #236 Jay C

Elon Musk is still working on it…

Yeah, but I’m sure if anyone raised the question at a press conference (yes, I know..////);
I’m sure the answer would be that POTUS is in splendid health (because, after all, he says so himself!) , and is busy busy busy working to MAGA, and why are you carping about it, since all you’ve done is complain about his playing golf, and what about Hunter Biden? Or crooked FBI agents stealing the DNC server to sell to George Soros?
Or the REALLY important issues…..?????

He hasn’t even had a chopper shout since that day he kept screaming ‘I want nothing.’

Hell, he was so out of control that day, he may have blown a gasket on live TV.

Anything on his schedule today?

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Belafon  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:08:56am

Interesting numbers, and an explanation why Biden is drawing so much AA support and not just because of Obama:

Meanwhile, 57 percent of African-American primary voters are in the 50-and-older age group which is 6 points higher than other Democratic primary voters.

Older voters are generally less eager to embrace big changes.

Among African-American primary voters, 61 percent label themselves as moderate or conservative. That’s 16 points higher than the rest of the Democratic primary electorate, whose moderate/conservative figure is 45 percent.

nbcnews.com

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Rightwingconspirator  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:09:34am

God morning. Hearing the news about damning emails implicating Donald Trump made me smile. How sweet would that be?

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Stanley Sea  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:10:59am

re: #230 makeitstop

Wow, good question, Rick. Good question.

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I hadn’t thought about that. There really is something wrong with him.

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jeffreyw  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:11:52am

re: #235 Scottish Dragon

The darkness is not necessarily material to your hypothesis.

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jeffreyw  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:13:53am

re: #239 Rightwingconspirator

God morning. Hearing the news about damning emails implicating Donald Trump made me smile. How sweet would that be?

I wonder if the intel committee is wondering about those emails.

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:17:32am

re: #240 Stanley Sea

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I liked this one.

Yes, I’m going to hell.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:19:07am

re: #230 makeitstop

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:25:18am

LOL

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:31:05am

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:33:33am

re: #223 lawhawk

the personal profit angle is he figured it would cost him votes

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:37:07am
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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:38:57am

re: #210 Joe Bacon 🌹

My family is brainwashed by Christians to the point if Pat Robertson told them to take a dump on their lawns for Jesus they would do it.

I am not kidding.

I remember how my brother in law said at a Thanksgiving dinner if Pat Robertson told him to cut his finger off he would do it.

There are Jewish Trumporrhoids.

My daughter, the Nurse Practitioner, has observed that Trumporrhoids are more likely to be anti-vaxxers since they don’t trust Science or mainstream news sources and get their “information” from shady right-wing, religious and woowoo websites.

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:41:06am

re: #248 Scottish Dragon

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#whynogolf

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:42:06am

re: #248 Scottish Dragon

Of course, another reason he could be hanging out in his private residence is that he wants to avoid “Anonymous” and other tattletales who leak his conversations. If he is plotting with Putin, isn’t his room there much more secure than the Oval Office?

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:43:18am

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sagehen  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:43:27am

re: #247 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

the personal profit angle is he figured it would cost him votes

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It would get him votes (from the Medicare crowd), but cost him donors (the Pharma and Insurance people).

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:43:57am

re: #226 sagehen

I don’t think they’re surprised at all. I think that was a central part of the strategy.

I don’t doubt that Fundy sleaziness and opportunism had been identified by analysts beforehand, but I also think it was pretty far outside the actual operatives’ experience and they would therefore have been surprised that it actually worked, or possibly at the magnitude of how well it worked.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:44:32am

re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course, another reason he could be hanging out in his private residence is that he wants to avoid “Anonymous” and other tattletales who leak his conversations. If he is plotting with Putin, isn’t his room there much more secure than the Oval Office?

He had to take the short rear stairs off of AF1 last week, closely followed by the WH physician, and he has been seen dragging his right foot, along with some balance issues.

Something significant happened 8 days ago and we are being lied to.

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:45:50am

Two days ago, and the foot drag is noticeable.

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:47:06am

re: #253 sagehen

It would get him votes (from the Medicare crowd), but cost him donors (the Pharma and Insurance people).

The Medicare crowd who supported him in 2016 hasn’t lost faith: he still demonizes the people they detest (minorities, etc), appoints RW judges, manages to persuade them that it’s all the “Demoncrats” fault anyway, and looks the role of a proper President by being an old white man who boasts of his non-existent accomplishments.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:59:30am

re: #255 Scottish Dragon

He had to take the short rear stairs off of AF1 last week, closely followed by the WH physician, and he has been seen dragging his right foot, along with some balance issues.

Something significant happened 8 days ago and we are being lied to.

I’m sure the fucking Pulpit Pimps will say that the Holy Spirit descended on Tweetler and the limp is a mark from The Big G!

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 7:59:34am

re: #255 Scottish Dragon

He had to take the short rear stairs off of AF1 last week, closely followed by the WH physician, and he has been seen dragging his right foot, along with some balance issues.

Something significant happened 8 days ago and we are being lied to.

I forgot the exact medical term, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a mini-stroke.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:03:01am

re: #217 Scottish Dragon

Welcome to the Blade Runner dystopia.

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Well…it is November 2019. So, there’s that.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:03:49am

re: #259 Dr Lizardo

I forgot the exact medical term, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a mini-stroke.

I believe it’s called Foot Drop!

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calochortus  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:05:28am

re: #259 Dr Lizardo

I forgot the exact medical term, but I wouldn’t be surprised if he had a mini-stroke.

Transient ischemic attack (TIA) perhaps?

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Hecuba's daughter  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:05:41am

What is it with Matt Gaetz — first he defended Kate Hill and now he does an OK Boomer in response to Kellyanne’s attack on marijuana. Or maybe he is just a Trump acolyte on non-cultural issues?

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:05:52am

re: #262 calochortus

Transient ischemic attack (TIA) perhaps?

That’s it.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:08:42am

re: #263 Hecuba’s daughter

What is it with Matt Gaetz — first he defended Kate Hill and now he does an OK Boomer in response to Kellyanne’s attack on marijuana. Or maybe he is just a Trump acolyte on non-cultural issues?

Even stopped clocks are right twice a day. Lots of paleo cons like Buchanan were correct that Iraq was a mistake but they were still wrong on FP in the broader sense.

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calochortus  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:09:49am

re: #264 Dr Lizardo

That’s it.

Of course, dementia can cause poor motor function too. Fortunately for all of us, I am not a doctor and won’t try to diagnose his problem.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:10:25am

re: #251 Hecuba’s daughter

Of course, another reason he could be hanging out in his private residence is that he wants to avoid “Anonymous” and other tattletales who leak his conversations. If he is plotting with Putin, isn’t his room there much more secure than the Oval Office?

‘his meddling staff’ as was reported yesterday

his staff

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:12:28am

I’ll also note Gaetz mocked KAW but he’s not knocking Trump and Barr who have more involvement with marijuana laws and their enforcement.

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:14:34am

re: #263 Hecuba’s daughter

What is it with Matt Gaetz — first he defended Kate Hill and now he does an OK Boomer in response to Kellyanne’s attack on marijuana. Or maybe he is just a Trump acolyte on non-cultural issues?

Gaetz likes catching a good buzz…

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:15:46am

re: #254 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I don’t doubt that Fundy sleaziness and opportunism had been identified by analysts beforehand, but I also think it was pretty far outside the actual operatives’ experience and they would therefore have been surprised that it actually worked, or possibly at the magnitude of how well it worked.

I would also like to learn more about clandestine Soviet support for the far right well back in the Cold War. The right was fanatically and noisily anti-communist, of course, but their activities would still have served several Soviet objectives. The first would be to encourage extreme isolationism. The John Birch Society was, and still is, notably isolationist. They opposed not just the Vietnam war but the NATO alliance and even NORAD and the Rio Pact. The Republican right had very deep roots in the pro-German isolationist movement of the early 40s and organizations like the Ku Klux Klan have no comprehension of foreign alliances or common interests at all.

Another Soviet objective would have been to discredit anti-communism in general by associating it with racism. In this the Klan, the National Review, and many other right-wing stalwarts were very helpful. Soviet propaganda always put great emphasis on the radically anti-communist Klan in particular.

I think we might find out more if a new Democratic administration, hardened by the Trump disaster, decided to quit giving these traitorous bastards a pass on their constant subversion of American ideals.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:17:40am

some venting after this morning’s (home made) venti

when a more or less objective and even handed site starts talking about something, i give it a bit more weight than just us groupies. (electoral-vote.com)

re: the pardon power and those involved in conspiring with him or lying to protect him

what if the President’s lawyers point out to him that suborning perjury, and then pardoning it, could lay the groundwork for a slam-dunk obstruction of justice charge as soon as he’s out of office?

But if Trump uses the power in a fashion that appears abusive, particularly if he happens to do so right before resigning or being removed from office, it is entirely possible a court could step in and invalidate the pardon.

no of course it’s not solid - this is all speculation on new territory - using the power in a way it’s never been used and likely never even contemplated before.

- but it’s mainstreaming, and sure, others will disagree - ‘the pardon power is absolute’ etc - that’s what it *says* (or something). but 2A anyone?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:18:48am

re: #270 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

I would also like to learn more about clandestine Soviet support for the far right well back in the Cold War. The right was fanatically and noisily anti-communist, of course, but their activities would still have served several Soviet objectives. The first would be to encourage extreme isolationism. The John Birch Society was, and still is, notably isolationist. They opposed not just the Vietnam war but the NATO alliance and even NORAD and the Rio Pact. The Republican right had very deep roots in the pro-German isolationist movement of the early 40s and organizations like the Ku Klux Klan have no comprehension of foreign alliances or common interests at all.

Another Soviet objective would be to discredit anti-communist in general by associating it with racism. In this the Klan, the National Review, and many other right-wing stalwarts were very helpful. Soviet propaganda always put great emphasis on the radically anti-communist Klan in particular.

I think we might find out more if a new Democratic administration, hardened by the Trump disaster, decided to quit giving these traitorous bastards a pass on their constant subversion of American ideals.

Buckley wrote that the South must win in the Integration battle. I’d call WFB a useful idiot for Southern white supremacy much like the far leftists who overlooked communist autocracy.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:19:05am

oh, there’s more - and this bit re what would Roberts do in a senate trial re subpoenas

if asked to back the Democrats’ subpoenas, John Roberts will have to decide what he wants to do. To us, it seems unlikely that he would refuse, because if Trump were then acquitted, half the country would blame Roberts for taking sides. He certainly doesn’t want that. Besides, if the Democrats got really angry, they could impeach him. All it takes, after all, is 218 votes in the House. He absolutely certainly doesn’t want that, even if there is no chance of his being convicted, as that would further politicize a Court whose reputation is already shaky.

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Belafon  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:19:13am

re: #258 Joe Bacon 🌹

I’m sure the fucking Pulpit Pimps will say that the Holy Spirit descended on Tweetler and the limp is a mark from The Big G!

“He struggled with an angel who broke his hip.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:21:38am

re: #221 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

It may be over-reach but I am wondering if the war-criminal pardons are not somehow related to an effort to further legitimize the privatization of our military missions.

It is all about rebranding our armed forces to work for the highest bidder, and people with morals or principles that get in the way of blind obedience are a hindrance to that goal.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:24:12am

next (there was lots of coffee)

yes, some house R’s voting to impeach would be nice
yes, some senate R’s voting to convict would be nice

No. That is not where we are.

Reality is Dems won the house. That’s all we got.

Reality is ensuring that the case is strong, tough and clear.
Reality is that the R votes are seen as clearly craven and to ensure that they own them.

They must be seen as accomplices and co-conspirators, that makes them tainted as jurors. They are also overtly bribed jurors.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:26:06am

As usual, the fence sitters in the public aren’t paying attention. fivethirtyeight.com

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:26:34am

re: #277 NO SMOCKING GUN!

As usual, the fence sitters in the public aren’t paying attention. fivethirtyeight.com

Sigh.

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NO SMOCKING GUN!  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:28:08am

re: #275 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It is all about rebranding our armed forces to work for the highest bidder, and people with morals or principles that get in the way of blind obedience are a hindrance to that goal.

If Trump’s long term goal is to use the military for an ethnic cleansing operation in the US, he’ll need men like Eddie Gallagher.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:29:56am

lastly, (unless something breaks)

on this moronic idea from kennedy: “maybe ukraine did it”

- we should investigate and find out is not ‘proof’.
it’s not even the equivalent of probable cause.
And no; “appearance of impropriety’ is not enough.

multiple investigations all reached the same conclusion. the russians did it* - based on evidence collected and review-able. that’s how this works.

hence it’s your ‘maybe’ vs investigative conclusions.

maybe ukraine did it = maybe martians did it.

you want to investigate? go ahead. oh, you’re not in charge? Elections…

Talk to your buddies in the senate - they know how being in charge works.
Maybe they’ll pick it up. Oh, they did?
Knock yourselves out.

*whether trump et al were complicit was not proven by mueller because the white house didnt cooperate with mueller - they withheld documents and witnesses.

that’s not ‘i didnt do it’. that’s ‘you couldn’t prove it’

(i feel better now)

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:31:24am

This is just amazingly well-done. This one’s for you Lizard history buffs…the sinking of the HMHS Britannic in 1916.

Death of the HMHS Britannic - REAL-TIME FINAL PLUNGE

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Patricia Kayden  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:34:08am
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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:36:18am
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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:36:18am

re: #282 Patricia Kayden

actual
not ‘appearance of’

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makeitstop  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:42:43am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:43:39am

re: #283 Scottish Dragon

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He doesn’t care about war crimes.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:45:11am

re: #286 HappyWarrior

He doesn’t care about war crimes.

He does care about war crimes. He wants MOAR WAR CRIMES!!!!

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:46:00am

re: #285 makeitstop

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Hopefully she can stop Cenk who is taking money from his Republican Sugar Daddy!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:47:22am

re: #287 The Pie Overlord!

He does care about war crimes. He wants MOAR WAR CRIMES!!!!

He’s going to put Americans at risk abroad.

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:47:37am
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Jebediah, RBG  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:50:41am

re: #128 goddamnedfrank

This entire part of the story sucks and has zero redeeming value as far as I can tell. Jesus is just being a dick.

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I don’t know if it counts as controversial, but “Jesus” did not exist. Loki invented the character, played the role for 33 years, and ever since has been laughing his ass off at the persistent turmoil and hate he created. Plus it won a $1 bet for him.

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mmmirele  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:55:48am

I swear, some days I want to kill all the cats I am herding.

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Teukka  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:56:25am

On this side of the pond:

Government investigation into Iraqi defence minister’s Swedish citizenship

The Iraqi Secretary of Defense, Najah al-Shammari, is under investigation in Sweden for benefit and census fraud by having been the Iraqi secretary of defense and been on sick pay and officially lived in Sweden at the same time he lived in Iraq and worked as the Secretary of Defense.

There also are increasing questions about how he gained his Swedish citizenship after only 4 years, and crimes he has been suspected of during his time in Sweden. The discovery was made by a journalist working for Agence France-Presse news agency.

There is also a fresh preliminary investigation for crimes against humanity (SFS 2014:406 prohibits genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes).

Lessons learned are that grifters gonna grift, also WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH and REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:56:27am

re: #282 Patricia Kayden

President Trump refused to divest from his businesses. He’s now racked up nearly 2,700 conflicts of interest.

Obama Netflix!!!

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Shropshire Slasher  Nov 25, 2019 • 8:57:22am

re: #281 Dr Lizardo

Gives me the willies thinking about being onboard watching that movie. Thank goodness no one was on board!
/

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:11:50am

re: #290 The Pie Overlord!

hey kev:

“millions didnt have a voice?” who exactly are these people?
i mean they did get to vote, right? no one deprived them of that.

you mean no voice because the president wasnt an R while the house and senate were?

kev, you have any idea how any of this works? you’re the minority leader after all.
and clearly you have a voice and no one’s stopping you from using it

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:13:06am

re: #291 Jebediah, RBG

I don’t know if it counts as controversial, but “Jesus” did not exist. Loki invented the character, played the role for 33 years, and ever since has been laughing his ass off at the persistent turmoil and hate he created. Plus it won a $1 bet for him.

and of course they had dollars all the way back then because america! //

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:18:59am

re: #296 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

hey kev:

“millions didnt have a voice?” who exactly are these people?
i mean they did get to vote, right? no one deprived them of that.

you mean no voice because the president wasnt an R while the house and senate were?

kev, you have any idea how any of this works? you’re the minority leader after all.
and clearly you have a voice and no one’s stopping you from using it

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So sick of gaslighting bullshit. This motherfucker along with Ryan, Cantor, & others met the day Obama became President and discussed how they would impede him every step of the way. He then admitted that the Benghazi hearings were simply done to discredit HRC. McCarthy and the rest of the GOP leadership are amoral hypocrites who only care about tax cuts for their wealthy buddies, right wing judges, & deregulation of industry,

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:20:30am

Millions more of us voted against Trump. That is never acknowledged by the same people who ignored Obama won both of his elections with over 50% of the vote.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:22:11am

re: #296 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

“millions didnt have a voice?” who exactly are these people?
i mean they did get to vote, right? no one deprived them of that.

This is just the narrative, that Trump speaks the language of the little people, the ones overlooked by the Washington/coastal/liberal “cosmopolitan” elites, etc…

Because they have so much in common…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:22:48am

re: #299 HappyWarrior

Millions more of us voted against Trump. That is never acknowledged by the same people who ignored Obama won both of his elections with over 50% of the vote.

that is because he bought those votes with promises of Free Stuff and Obamaphones…

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FFL (GOP Delenda Est)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:28:41am

re: #301 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

that is because he bought those votes with promises of Free Stuff and Obamaphones…

And Trump bought his votes with promises of white sheets and blank tax and environmental reporting forms.

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jaunte  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:32:04am

Horst Wessel.

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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:35:09am

re: #303 jaunte

How did the GOP come to back Trump’s pardons of multiple war criminals?

That’s the only thing to note here. Trump has now pardoned multiple war criminals, overriding the rulings and findings under the UCMJ. None of these people are innocent - and to receive a pardon they have to allocute to the crime under Burdick.

They broke the law, ignored the chain of command, and then went after the Navy leadership who wanted to preserve morale and lawful orders but Trump undermined all of it by amplifying these extremists views.

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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:37:44am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:39:49am

re: #302 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)

And Trump bought his votes with promises of white sheets and blank tax and environmental reporting forms.

And jobs. It’s bullshit. Trump winning doesn’t mean that we have no right to investigate him and that shithead McCarthy knows it.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:40:13am

re: #305 lawhawk

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Of course. Of fucking course.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:41:21am

re: #303 jaunte

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Horst Wessel.

Because other Presidents don’t pardon war criminals. Rudy and Trump if they had their way would put every single American abroad in danger by co-signing on war crimes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:44:33am

re: #281 Dr Lizardo

This is just amazingly well-done. This one’s for you Lizard history buffs…the sinking of the HMHS Britannic in 1916.

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I have a tremendous interest in military history despite not have spent much time on the sea.Both my grandfathers were in the Navy, I’m sure that has something to do with it.

The Britannic was of course one of sister ships of the Titanic. The other sister ship being the Olympic. The Olympic was the first to launch and also the only one to not sink. It stayed in service until the 1930s before being retired in favor of more modern vessels.

Another interesting fact: One of the Britannic survivors was a nurse named Violet Jessop, who had ALSO survived the sinking of the Titanic. Lucky lady, it seems.

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Dr Lizardo  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:45:47am

re: #303 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Horst Wessel.

Horst Weasel in this case.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:47:44am

I look at pictures of Eddie Gallagher and the dudes face just screams “I’m an arrogant prick”.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:48:07am

NOT GOING TO HIS HOUSE ON THANKSGIVING.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:48:16am

re: #256 Scottish Dragon

Two days ago, and the foot drag is noticeable.

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the bone spurs are back…

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:48:50am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

This is just the narrative, that Trump speaks the language of the little people, the ones overlooked by the Washington/coastal/liberal “cosmopolitan” elites, etc…

Because they have so much in common…

that’s saying the same thing differently. trump as president represents them
while a D president couldnt / didnt.
obama was awfully inclusive. trump is unapologetically not.

so still doesnt work ”didnt have a voice”
didnt they have their R senators and Reps? of course they did.
they keep pointing to those hugely red congressional maps
didnt mcconnell hold up garland?
yeah - they had a hell of a voice.

i know it’s kevin and all….

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:50:15am
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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:50:46am

re: #303 jaunte

here’s how:
‘he killed a young, budding hitler”
(because they all are, arent they?) //

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:52:25am

re: #316 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

Yeah we’re basically at: “Anything the military does is heroic and awesome and we should always support it no matter what.”

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:52:47am

re: #312 I Would Prefer Not To

was that before or after the tongue lashing?

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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:56:44am
320
jaunte  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:57:13am

re: #312 I Would Prefer Not To

Finger sandwiches.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:57:16am

re: #315 Scottish Dragon

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“‘challenge the patriotism of a career military veteran and intelligence officer simply because his testimony did not subscribe to their shallow narrative”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:57:50am

re: #320 jaunte

Finger sandwiches.

spotted dick

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:57:57am

Wiles’s “TruNews” scam is routinely granted press credentials by the White House.

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 9:59:34am

re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

spotted dick

why, yes i did

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jaunte  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:01:37am

re: #324 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

If he comes out of the residence and sees his shadow, do we get six more weeks of corruption?

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Targetpractice  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:01:44am

re: #317 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah we’re basically at: “Anything the military does is heroic and awesome and we should always support it no matter what.”

The people who Faux markets itself to and that Trump relies upon have always felt that way when the victims are foreign civilians. For men like Eddie Gallagher, much like William Calley ages ago, the list of excuses for their war crimes is always long and full of contradictory logic.

327
lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:01:56am

New Republic is reporting that we may already know who the “anonymous” writer from Trumpworld is.

Fuck him. He enabled Trump’s criminal conduct along with everyone else who did nothing while Trump engaged in criminal conduct, ignored the rule of law, and violated all the norms and rules.

Party above nation for all the Trumpworld political figures.

Like Bolton, Mattis, Kelly, and all the rest - they were cowards who refused to stop Trump’s criminal conduct and malfeasance and instead enabled him all along. Coming out and saying that they were really moderating his behavior before he left office is revisionist bulkshit meant to sell books - and history should judge them all accordingly.

They were fine with caging kids and eliminating asylum for nonwhites and undermining US natsec by enabling Russia’s agenda at every opportunity while US allies and partners got screwed at every turn.

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Teukka  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:07:27am

re: #323 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Wiles’s “TruNews” scam is routinely granted press credentials by the White House.

[Embedded content]

Why do I have this sudden urge to holler “All hands, brace for impact!”?

329
Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:08:15am

re: #327 lawhawk

New Republic is reporting that we may already know who the “anonymous” writer from Trumpworld is.

Fuck him. He enabled Trump’s criminal conduct along with everyone else who did nothing while Trump engaged in criminal conduct, ignored the rule of law, and violated all the norms and rules.

Party above nation for all the Trumpworld political figures.

Like Bolton, Mattis, Kelly, and all the rest - they were cowards who refused to stop Trump’s criminal conduct and malfeasance and instead enabled him all along. Coming out and saying that they were really moderating his behavior before he left office is revisionist bulkshit meant to sell books - and history should judge them all accordingly.

They were fine with caging kids and eliminating asylum for nonwhites and undermining US natsec by enabling Russia’s agenda at every opportunity while US allies and partners got screwed at every turn.

i can think of only two reasons to go the anonymous route:
- to protect your job - cowardice as you say
- to protect yourself - maybe anon just ‘knew’ though at the time, the op-ed was before trump’s public reaction to the WB.

- even avarice like ‘i could get a book deal’ is a form of cowardice

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The Pie Overlord!  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:14:07am

re: #296 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

hey kev:

“millions didnt have a voice?” who exactly are these people?

They are Russians.

331
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:17:30am

re: #329 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

Yeah, the Presidents habit of siccing the attack dogs on anyone who attacks him publicly would be enough for me to seriously consider go anonymous on something like that.

332
The Pie Overlord!  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:17:56am

re: #322 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

spotted dick

Head cheese.

333
lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:18:12am
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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:19:50am

re: #327 lawhawk

. I suspect, based on my own close reading of the text, that the author is an apolitical retired Navy commander who became chief speechwriter for former Defense Secretary James Mattis. If so, he behaved ethically when he wrote an unsigned op-ed and contracted to expand it into a book.

If this is true, then he was, in fact, being ethical. He isn’t a political hired gun who came in with the administration and stayed for the grift….again, if true.

335
Charles Johnson  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:19:58am
336
Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:20:19am

re: #330 The Pie Overlord!

They are Russians.

you win
i shoulda realized
it was in all the papers

337
lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:21:35am

re: #334 Scottish Dragon

If he found all this distasteful, he could have resigned and not taken the job and said as much.

By sticking it out, he continued to enable the corruption and criminality he saw all around him.

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:23:04am

re: #323 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Wiles’s “TruNews” scam is routinely granted press credentials by the White House.

[Embedded content]

Rick Wiles can take his fucking Antisemitsm and shove it up his ass!

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lawhawk  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:25:32am

Holy moly… now this is a sweet deal for this lens.

Sigma 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM ‘Contemporary’ Lens for Canon EOS Digital Cameras - $649, normally $1089.

I’m this close to buying it.

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Targetpractice  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:25:33am

re: #333 lawhawk

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GOP: “We must investigate the Bidens because nepotism ultimately leads to corruption!”

Also GOP: “Don Jr should totally get into politics because his dad is so popular with the party!”

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Joe Bacon 🌹  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:26:40am

re: #335 Charles Johnson

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It’s a shame the dog didn’t bite Trump.

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Yeah Sure WhatEVs  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:26:51am

Can I get a “Sure, Jan!”?

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:28:51am

re: #337 lawhawk

If he found all this distasteful, he could have resigned and not taken the job and said as much.

By sticking it out, he continued to enable the corruption and criminality he saw all around him.

I believe he no longer works there at all. If it is Snodgrass, he already wrote one book about some of this experience and is likely getting additional inside info from others as noted in the article. The anonymous tag would be an additional layer of secrecy to protect sources.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:29:41am

re: #342 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Notorious mob-backed Ukrainian oligarch claims he was sucked into Rudes’ vortex of criminality and deceit against his will.

he looks like a man who has never resisted a chance to get sucked…

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Scottish Dragon  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:33:08am

re: #334 Scottish Dragon

If this is true, then he was, in fact, being ethical. He isn’t a political hired gun who came in with the administration and stayed for the grift….again, if true.

Also, basic functionaries still have to make the apparatus of government work. How far down the food chain should people be resigning? The rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff should walk out today IMHO…but should their staff leave? How many officers should resign commissions? Should the WH chef and porters all give notice? A speech writer for Mattis does not have the ethical obligation that a cabinet member has.

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Targetpractice  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:34:26am

re: #342 Yeah Sure WhatEVs

Can I get a “Sure, Jan!”?

[Embedded content]

“He roped me into this!”

“Well, he roped me into this!”

“Yeah, well, that guy roped me into this!”

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BeachDem  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:34:57am

re: #335 Charles Johnson

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Why is he the only one wearing a topcoat? (not sure what Melon’s bathrobe is all about) It’s 57 degrees in DC right now.

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Belafon  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:38:19am

re: #317 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah we’re basically at: “Anything the military does is heroic and awesome and we should always support it no matter what.”

Unless it’s upholding standards of conduct and punishing lawbreakers.

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Targetpractice  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:39:31am

Monkey see, monkey do:

The Louisville Courier-Journal reports that Bevin has issued a full pardon to Paul Donel Hurt, who in 2001 was convicted of three counts of sodomy in the first degree and two counts of sexual abuse in the first degree.

Bevin justified the pardon by saying many observers, including the judge who oversaw Hurt’s sentencing, believe that he was wrongfully convicted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:39:48am

re: #317 Eclectic Cyborg

Yeah we’re basically at: “Anything the military does is heroic and awesome and we should always support it no matter what.”

you will find enough people who insist that we lost Vietnam because we were not brutal enough and that we should simply raise the Black Flag, take no prisoners and show no mercy, and our enemies will bow before us and surrender out of pure Shock and Awe

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:40:18am

re: #340 Targetpractice

GOP: “We must investigate the Bidens because nepotism ultimately leads to corruption!”

Also GOP: “Don Jr should totally get into politics because his dad is so popular with the party!”

Seriously. The Trump nepotism is everywhere. That he wanted to stop corruption is absurd.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:40:57am

re: #349 Targetpractice

Monkey see, monkey do:

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Rule of law.//:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 25, 2019 • 10:48:38am

re: #341 Joe Bacon 🌹

It’s a shame the dog didn’t bite Trump.

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Dave In Austin  Nov 25, 2019 • 11:08:27am

re: #339 lawhawk

Just do it! Do it!
You want it!!
Go be free and photo your brains out.

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Deep State SuperElite Satinist  Nov 25, 2019 • 11:40:06am

re: #297 DangerMan (misuser of the sarc tag)

and of course they had dollars all the way back then because america! //

There Were No Dollars In Them Days

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Dangerman (misuser of the sarc tag)  Nov 25, 2019 • 1:35:26pm

re: #355 Deep State SuperElite Satinist

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excellent movie ref


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