Glenn Beck Comes Up With an Even Worse Insult for Trump Supporters

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Raving freakazoid nut sandwich Glenn Beck has been comparing Donald Trump’s supporters to “brownshirts” lately, but he’s worked himself up into such a fever pitch over Trump’s candidacy that even this Hitlerian comparison isn’t horrible enough. Yes, he’s taking it a step beyond “brownshirts” now, and comparing Trump voters to … OBAMA SUPPORTERS.

Now, that’s bad.

After revealing that he is getting word that “stations want to cancel the show because they believe that Donald Trump is going to be the next president,” Beck vowed that he was not going to stop attacking Trump because the GOP presidential front runner is simply too dangerous, something he learned when he encountered Trump supporters at the Nevada caucuses.

“The Trump supporters, they’re Brownshirts,” Beck said. “I’ve never witnessed anything like I saw today, it was just, it was grotesque and sad that Americans … It’s like these people are treating people like Obama supporters treated us, just the worst of the worst Obama supporters. It was like walking into Ferguson or walking into Baltimore. There’s no reason, there’s no common decency, there’s nothing. It’s just bizarre.”

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434 comments
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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:36:20am

He better be careful or he might get sued for libel

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:36:56am

Brown shorts.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:37:37am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:38:12am

They’re all part of the same machine that you happily created Glennie. How about actually using some of that famous conservative personal responsibility and take some for yourself for once. Obama supporters aren’t why your ideology is hateful. Your ideology was hateful and nasty before Barack Obama was even born. Trump is just bringing the legacy of people like William F. Buckley, Rush Limbaugh, and the otehr wingnut heroes of old to a new generation.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:38:40am

And fuck him for trashing the people of Ferguson and Baltimore too.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:39:50am

My driver got back from some deliveries and said that people were driving and walking around the arena where Trump and Christie were speaking waving around Mexican flags.

Beauty.

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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:40:04am
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calochortus  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:40:41am

I just finished spreading a bunch of compost in the yard. Then I came back to read about Trump, Beck, et. al. Guess which made me feel dirtier?

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:42:23am
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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:43:10am
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:43:45am
Click to Reveal

NSFW…I think.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:44:01am

re: #10 Kragar

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Oh to be a poor oppressed millionaire in Obama’s America where you can get 23 million in tax breaks. So much like Stalin!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:46:18am

re: #12 HappyWarrior

Oh to be a poor oppressed millionaire in Obama’s America where you can get 23 million in tax breaks. So much like Stalin!

We are not doing enough for job creators, probably because of anti-Christian bias.

/

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:47:15am

Sorry for repeating this from downstairs but this really upsets me.

And my response via their website.

Thank you for showing us that you have no desire to support women or women’s equality.

Please permanently remove my name from your mailing list. I will purchase all my business related clothing elsewhere in the future.

Thank you.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:47:41am

To borrow the preferred Beck-ian format of begging the question:

Is Glenn Beck saying the Trump supporters are acting like black people?

I think this may be the case.

But seriously….Glenn Beck is trying to market a wholesome facade for wingnut prejudices. That’s his business plan: hating gays and distrusting brown people in a quiet, soulful manner, while appreciating ugly sweaters and Thomas Kinkaid paintings.

Of course he fucking hates Trump, who’s “let’s wave our nutsacks of hatred in the open air” model of wingnut-ing is selling better.

Also: this particular statement is going to be the norm, not the outlier. No matter how awful Trump is, he will still be judged less awful than any given liberal. The wingnut body politic depends on the shared delusion that they’re fighting orcs…and they’re not going to give that up even temporarily. It’s all they have.

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jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:49:18am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:50:23am

re: #15 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

To borrow the preferred Beck-ian format of begging the question:

Is Glenn Beck saying the Trump supporters are acting like black people?

I think this may be the case.

But seriously….Glenn Beck is trying to market a wholesome facade for wingnut prejudices. That’s his business plan: hating gays and distrusting brown people in a quiet, soulful manner, while appreciating ugly sweaters and Thomas Kinkaid paintings.

Of course he fucking hates Trump, who’s “let’s wave our nutsacks of hatred in the open air” model of wingnut-ing is selling better.

Also: this particular statement is going to be the norm, not the outlier. No matter how awful Trump is, he will still be judged less awful than any given liberal. The wingnut body politic depends on the shared delusion that they’re fighting orcs…and they’re not going to give that up even temporarily. It’s all they have.

That’s exactly what I got out of it too. The mention of Obama supporters and Ferguson/Baltimore. God dude just come out and say it already. I thought they were all about “not being PC.” I guess it’s different when you pretend to venerate MLK like Glenn does.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:52:47am

re: #14 MsJ

Sorry for repeating this from downstairs but this really upsets me.

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And my response via their website.

And silence from the wingnuts who talk about PC and censorship. That’s such crap.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:54:45am

re: #14 MsJ

FWIW, Land’s End is getting lots of pushback on Facebook.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:57:00am

re: #19 freetoken

As if Sears didn’t have enough trouble.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:57:29am

Seems like Putin’s support of the Hungarian conservatives (and fascists) is not paying off:

Speaking on the sidelines of a security conference in Budapest, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said NATO should complete the accession process of Montenegro and keep its door open to Georgia as well as Macedonia, a Balkan state which is also on a fast-track plan for membership.

reuters.com

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:57:52am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:58:22am

re: #21 Nyet

Seems like Putin’s support of the Hungarian conservatives (and fascists) is not paying off:

reuters.com

Good. Snark, did we get WIlkerson’s opinion on this?

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:58:55am

re: #14 MsJ

Oh, fuck them sideways.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:59:13am

Jimmy Kimmel Trump Ad, for the “Porely Edjukaited”
Trump Ad by the Poorly Educated

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 11:59:41am

re: #17 HappyWarrior

That’s exactly what I got out of it too. The mention of Obama supporters and Ferguson/Baltimore. God dude just come out and say it already. I thought they were all about “not being PC.” I guess it’s different when you pretend to venerate MLK like Glenn does.

The fact that Ferguson/Baltomore got elided with “Obama supporter” is kind of a tell.

But Glenn loves the idea that his politics are those of the civilized and the erudite. Fake erudition is his fucking jam, which is why he’s so cozy with David Barton: he wants to construct a culture where his kooky history and substanceless theology/politics are validated by perpetuation through culture. Trump’s blatant anti-intellectualism—which is in many ways nihilistic, simply eschewing consistency of meaning and truth—is at cross purposes with Beck’s more subtle anti-intellectualism, that desires to manipulate meaning and truth.

He’d never admit that the latter has created the disturbed ground in which the former has sprouted like weeds. Basically, Beck & Co. have no real evaluation system for ideas, just appeal to authority: and they’ve taught their followers that this is all that’s required to establish veracity. Trump is doing a better job of understanding and utilizing the cultural precedents that establish “authority” and thus veracity.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:00:15pm

Lots of polls out today.

Trump rulz.

What is noticeable is how some polls differ greatly in the Republican vs. Democrat options. One thing that stands out to me though is the Trump vs. Clinton match-up in Florida.

Even PPP has Trump over Clinton in Florida.

So yes, Trump could win it all.

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KerFuFFler  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:00:20pm

re: #4 HappyWarrior

I remember hearing Glenn Beck on the radio before Obama was elected in ‘08. (Not my usual listening———I was driving and was out of range for all the stations I like….) He was ranting about how scary it was that Obama’s candidacy was causing militia groups to spring up and grow all over the place———but at the same time he was really underhandedly saying that, of course, people were joining these groups; what other options did they have? Beck was actually scaring people into joining militias! They had to join these groups because they worried about their 2nd amendment rights, blah, blah blah. And so Obama should not become President because that would be too destabilizing for the country, or something.

I think Obama is wonderful, but Beck may have hit on something seeing how so many people have lost their shit because he occupies the Oval Office. Maybe his presidency really did push too many people over the brink. How else do we end up with a candidate like Trump?

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thecommodore  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:00:30pm

From downstairs:

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Danack  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:00:40pm

The RedStates are losing the plot in the face of the fact that Trump is likely to be the nominee: Scared Donald Trump to Hide Behind Chris Christie’s Skirt

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:01:33pm
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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:01:37pm

re: #27 freetoken

Lots of polls out today.

Trump rulz.

What is noticeable is how some polls differ greatly in the Republican vs. Democrat options. One thing that stands out to me though is the Trump vs. Clinton match-up in Florida.

Even PPP has Trump over Clinton in Florida.

So yes, Trump could win it all.

There’s a lot of crazy old geezers in Florida. Unfortunately there’s a lot of crazy old geezers everywhere.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:02:48pm

re: #19 freetoken

FWIW, Land’s End is getting lots of pushback on Facebook.

Thank you. I added my two cents there, as well.

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:03:12pm

re: #2 Barefoot Grin

Brown shorts.

Donald Trump is Roderick Spode come to life.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:05:59pm

In Case You Missed It:

Ted Cruz is still finding time to do work in the Senate, even while on the campaign trail.

Ted Cruz Singlehandedly Blocking Aid to Flint, Michigan

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KerFuFFler  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:06:26pm

re: #34 Dr Lizardo

Donald Trump is Roderick Spode come to life.

He better show us his knees!

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:06:57pm

AT&T gave $62K to lawmakers months before vote to limit muni broadband

A Missouri legislative committee last week approved a bill that would limit the spread of municipal broadband networks, helping private Internet service providers such as AT&T avoid competition.

A few months before that vote, AT&T donated a total of $62,500 to political committees in Missouri. This included $20,000 to the House Republican Campaign Committee, $20,000 to the Missouri Democratic State Committee, $7,500 to the Missouri Republican Party, and $15,000 to the Missouri Senate Campaign Committee (apparently a Republican group).

No need to even pretend anymore. Political payoffs are completely legal now.

arstechnica.com

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calochortus  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:08:11pm

re: #35 Bill and Opus for 2016!

In Case You Missed It:

Ted Cruz is still finding time to do work in the Senate, even while on the campaign trail.

Ted Cruz Singlehandedly Blocking Aid to Flint, Michigan

Glad to hear he can do it all.
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:09:40pm

re: #35 Bill and Opus for 2016!

In Case You Missed It:

Ted Cruz is still finding time to do work in the Senate, even while on the campaign trail.

Ted Cruz Singlehandedly Blocking Aid to Flint, Michigan

Gotta love Cruz. Rarely shows up for hte Senate but when he does, it’s to fuck people over needing clean water. You’re a real Christian, Ted, a real genuien asshole.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:09:41pm

Since I missed most of the last posts downstairs… did we all conclude that Christie really is angling to be AG?

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:11:13pm

re: #40 freetoken

Since I missed most of the last posts downstairs… did we all conclude that Christie really is angling to be AG?

I did. That or SCOTUS pick.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:11:15pm

re: #40 freetoken

Since I missed most of the last posts downstairs… did we all conclude that Christie really is angling to be AG?

That was my conclusion. I don’t see VP in his future honestly.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:11:39pm

re: #41 MsJ

I did. That or SCOTUS pick.

Something involving law anyhow.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:12:50pm

re: #26 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

Glenn Beck probably rails against post-modernism while practicing it.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:14:15pm

I suspect Christie will see it that his life’s work is the prosecution persecution of Hillary Clinton.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:15:51pm
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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:15:56pm

re: #40 freetoken

Since I missed most of the last posts downstairs… did we all conclude that Christie really is angling to be AG?

Charles Pierce’s take:

Fame-Seeking Loudmouth Endorses Vulgar Talking Yam

esquire.com

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:17:24pm

re: #47 Skip Intro

Charles Pierce’s take:

Fame-Seeking Loudmouth Endorses Vulgar Talking Yam

esquire.com

Awesome headline.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:18:10pm

re: #9 Kragar

Mediaite ‎@Mediaite

CNN (and Possibly MSNBC) Equipment Tampered With at Donald Trump Rally bit.ly

2:39 PM - 26 Feb 2016

I fully expect it to get worse. And all my early predictions for Chaos in Cleveland™ this summer, I’m holding to them. Chances for a complete mess are increasing daily.

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Lidane  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:19:40pm

Well, that settles it. As much as I like what Bernie has to say on a variety of issues, I have to vote with the general election in mind. Hillary knows Trump and has faced down the GOP barrage for decades. I’m voting for her today.

After watching the insanity of Christie endorsing Trump, then Trump bringing out raving lunatic Robert Jefress to endorse him too, things are way too volatile on the right. I like Bernie, but stopping Trump is far more important in the long run.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:20:24pm
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No Depression  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:23:03pm

re: #35 Bill and Opus for 2016!

In Case You Missed It:

Ted Cruz is still finding time to do work in the Senate, even while on the campaign trail.

Ted Cruz Singlehandedly Blocking Aid to Flint, Michigan

Am I a bad person for hoping some horrible misfortune befalls him? The idea that this asshole will most likely leave the Senate and live comfortably on a cushy political consultant job makes me ill.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:25:43pm

re: #50 Lidane

After watching the insanity of Christie endorsing Trump, then Trump bringing out raving lunatic Robert Jefress to endorse him too, things are way too volatile on the right.

Volatile. Good word.

Yes, very volatile.

Putting Christie and Jeffress in the same bottle is strange. They are almost immiscible.

The trainriders are all lining up behind the Strongman.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:26:09pm

Instagram

73.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:26:18pm

OK, I missed Christie endorsing Trump.
And he was supposedly one of the moderates, the guy allegedly with empathy for Muslims, etc.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:27:03pm

Instagram

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:27:07pm

re: #44 EPR-radar

Glenn Beck probably rails against post-modernism while practicing it.

Yes and no.

Having actually read a bit of post-modernism, it’s not the bogeyman that conservatives have characterized it as. Mostly because it’s not really one thing, and there’s a lot of discussion about how much to apply it.

Beck and Co. basically represent an extreme example of what po-mo was invented to address: people that can’t imagine that other people might not see the world (or the past) in the same way, and that “Truth” is often filtered through culture…and that this is just a normal aspect of the complexity of human perceptions and knowledge-formation. To them, difference of opinion can only be the result of conspiracy to occlude the Truth. This is the basis of their love of stuff like David Barton: his history and religious study bends everything to match a very particular modern culture…that of the US social conservative wingnut…and asserts that any other reading of the past (or the Bible) is the product of active malice to mis-inform people.

It’s almost the consciously-constructed opposite of postmodern.

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MsJ  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:27:42pm

re: #55 Nyet

OK, I missed Christie endorsing Trump.
And he was supposedly one of the moderates, the guy allegedly with empathy for Muslims, etc.

There are no republican moderates. Republicans are incapable of empathy. Ergo….

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:28:50pm

re: #42 HappyWarrior

That was my conclusion. I don’t see VP in his future honestly.

I don’t know. Christie could always take the job and have Trump…uh…blocked or thrown over the George Washington Bridge. He has ‘people’ you know.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:29:17pm

re: #58 MsJ

Yes, I just wanted to write: today there are no Republican politicians who are not extremists.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:29:26pm

All of them fucking scorpions.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:31:03pm

Meanwhile, over at The Regurgitant, Son of Erick whines that billionaires are not true believers:

Conservatives Stuck Up For the Koch Brothers, Who Now Run and Hide

Conservatives have spent seven years defending the Koch Brothers, Koch Industries, and their various related entities. The Kochs have long funded pro-liberty, free market causes.

But now, as conservatives are fighting a protectionist con-artist from New York, the Kochs appear to be walking away from the fight.

That is genuinely disappointing.

[…]

Yesterday I lamented, when writing of Son of Erick, that the title of “DMOTI” is already taken.

Son of Erick is clueless that the Koch’s only play the religious right like a fiddler plays a fiddle.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:31:25pm

re: #55 Nyet

OK, I missed Christie endorsing Trump.
And he was supposedly one of the moderates, the guy allegedly with empathy for Muslims, etc.

Things…changed.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:32:06pm

politico.com

“He shouldn’t be talking like that, I’m surprised that he would be talking like that,” Trump snapped. “I know him and I guess he used to be a friend until this all happened.”
Trump also hit Christie on the scandal involving the George Washington Bridge and his record as governor of New Jersey.
“Chris took himself down when he did the George Washington Bridge, and he took himself down when he’s rated number 50 out of 50 in New Jersey,” Trump said. “I mean, it’s the 50th worst state, meaning it’s last.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:32:57pm

Oh, Rubio’s on stage doing the phone thing with Donald’s tweets. Again.

This guy, man….

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:33:04pm

re: #62 freetoken

SoDMOTI

Son of…

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:34:10pm

re: #65 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, Rubio’s on stage doing the phone thing with Donald’s tweets. Again.

This guy, man….

Somebody find the RESET button.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:34:18pm

re: #61 Nyet

All of them fucking scorpions.

That sentence has excellent double meaning. I applaud.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:34:41pm

The so-called business wiz would add $10 trillion to deficit with his tax scheme. Rubio and Cruz would add $3.6 trillion and $6.6 trillion respectively. Ignore the dynamic scoring nonsense. That’s wishful thinking. Even there, they all would massively increase the national debt (and national deficit).

And why would any of them crater the debt? To redistribute the burdens from the rich on everyone else. And how would any of them purport to close said deficits? By slashing and burning safety net (and milddle class) programs that everyone other than the rich depend on - everything from SS to health care to education to tax breaks for EITC and mortgage interest, etc.

The purpose of this is to fundamentally break government and its ability to provide for the general welfare. That’s the only conclusion one can come to when you see the totality of their schemes combined with their campaign rhetoric.

So why do so many go for this? Because they’re under the belief that they’ll get some tax break at the end of the day, or that they’ll benefit by eliminating programs that assist millions of others.

Kansas should be a cautionary example of what happens when you pursue this - and yet, the GOP continues to pursue this with tremendous zeal. They want to break still more state and federal government programs - from Obamacare on down.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:35:05pm

LOL, mental health break:

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:35:18pm

re: #68 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

Good idea for a new Oglaf, no?

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:37:06pm

re: #71 Nyet

Good idea for a new Oglaf, no?

DO NOT WANT

(Ugh, ugh, ugh)

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:37:27pm
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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:38:24pm

re: #72 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

What if it’s sexy scorpions?

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:38:41pm

Raygun was a con man.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:39:25pm

re: #74 Nyet

What if it’s sexy scorpions?

Still not okay.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:39:45pm

re: #70 CuriousLurker

LOL, mental health break:

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Well, the Canadian wall just got ten feet taller!

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:40:03pm

re: #59 ObserverArt

I don’t know. Christie could always take the job and have Trump…uh…blocked or thrown over the George Washington Bridge. He has ‘people’ you know.

I imagine that the Trump family has been paying New Jersey fees for special disposal services for decades.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:40:44pm

It’s really special to hear Rubio wax eloquently about the “conservative movement” while in the next breath pledging his support for preserving Social Security and Medicare.

Dude, the “conservative movement” opposed both of those programs, actually still hates those programs, and if the “conservative movement” had its way, those programs wouldn’t exist.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:40:56pm

re: #76 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

Still not okay.

I sense a trauma in your past… ///

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:41:03pm

re: #74 Nyet

What if it’s sexy scorpions?

twitter.com ???

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:41:35pm

re: #73 Kragar

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Reagan was a con man too Marco.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:41:48pm

re: #75 Nyet

Raygun was a con man.

Oh damn it Sergey.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:42:19pm

re: #79 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s really special to hear Rubio wax eloquently about the “conservative movement” while in the next breath pledging his support for preserving Social Security and Medicare.

Dude, the “conservative movement” opposed both of those programs, actually still hates those programs, and if the “conservative movement” had its way, those programs wouldn’t exist.

The conservative movement is a sham and always has been.

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Tigger2  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:42:20pm

re: #73 Kragar

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:43:08pm

I’m feeling so so sorry for Glenn Beck I might start to cry.

Hand me that onion…or a little dab of VapoRub™.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:43:40pm

re: #80 Nyet

I sense a trauma in your past… ///

I have a very vivid visual imagination. At this point, an actual drawing is moot. The psychic damage has already been done.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:44:13pm

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Oh damn it Sergey.

High five!

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b_sharp  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:44:14pm

re: #83 HappyWarrior

Oh damn it Sergey.

Sergey’s mind is comma delimited.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:44:15pm

re: #53 freetoken

Volatile. Good word.

Yes, very volatile.

Putting Christie and Jeffress in the same bottle is strange. They are almost immiscible.

The trainriders are all lining up behind the Strongman.

TRUMPS BRINGING PEOPLE TOGETHER!!!!!!1

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:44:58pm

re: #89 b_sharp

Sergey’s mind is comma delimited.

Damn Canadian Computer Geeks!!!

: )

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:45:02pm

re: #87 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

I have a very vivid visual imagination. At this point, an actual drawing is moot. The psychic damage has already been done.

Oh, then don’t click.

Click to Reveal

Pamela and Trump doing it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:45:38pm

I know this sounds hypocritical since I was born at the tail end of his time in office but what does Marco really know about Ronald Reagan that hasn’t been spoonfed to him by his advisers?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:46:20pm

re: #88 Nyet

High five!

Well I am glad we were on the same wavelength heh. Really, Reagan’s nothing to write home about despite what they think.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:46:20pm

re: #46 Kragar

Go figure. In the end he gets his ass beat by a women. :)

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:46:50pm

re: #92 Nyet

Okay, I need to go find drugs.

Strong drugs.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:47:46pm

Trump fellating a water bottle

Video

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:48:22pm

Testing some Unicode with some new stuff.

Дорогие подписчики, вас становится всё больше, чему я несомненно рад. Мне интересно кто мой зритель, посему давайте знакомиться. Начнем с простого: как вас зовут, откуда вы и чем занимаетесь? :) Начну с себя: я фотограф-портретист из Санкт-Петербурга. Так же обучаю на индивидуальной основе фотографии и обработке изображений. Хм, ну, как меня зовут и в профиле видно.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:48:35pm

re: #97 Dr. Matt

Trump fellating a water bottle

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I remember when Lincoln did that with a moonshine jug when he was calling William Seward “William Stupidard.”

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calochortus  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:49:27pm

re: #69 lawhawk

Some years ago a friend of my husband’s said his mother was voting GOP because she thought they would take care of “their own.” The country might be worse off, but they would look after the people who supported them. Need I say that, at least in her case, they didn’t.

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TedStriker  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:49:55pm

re: #74 Nyet

What if it’s sexy scorpions?

Rock you like a hurricane?

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:50:28pm
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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:50:50pm

re: #96 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

Okay, I need to go find drugs.

Strong drugs.

Drugs are your friends.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:50:53pm

re: #99 HappyWarrior

Clearly Trump is such presidential material.

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:51:16pm

Sweet jeebus, just checked my stats here, and I’m approaching 180,000 karma. On 61,000+ comments and 7,100 pages. I do spend quite a lot of time here. Have been since October 2001.

I’m most grateful to my host for giving me an outlet over all these years. Thanks Charles! You’ve made this corner of the Net one of the most sane places to discuss the issues of the day. And that’s saying something given how active comment sections all over the place turn into poo-flinging shit shows - particularly with troll infestations and bigotry, racism, and overt hate towards the minority group of the day.

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:51:45pm

re: #97 Dr. Matt

Trump fellating a water bottle

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He truly is one of the most awkward human beings I’ve ever seen.

Every mannerism is just clumsy as fuck. I’d bet ten bucks he has no rhythm and can’t dance a lick.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:52:04pm

re: #102 Kragar

I can’t wait for him to sue North Korea for bombing Seoul.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:52:43pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Testing some Unicode with some new stuff.

Дорогие подписчики, вас становится всё больше, чему я несомненно рад. Мне интересно кто мой зритель, посему давайте знакомиться. Начнем с простого: как вас зовут, откуда вы и чем занимаетесь? :) Начну с себя: я фотограф-портретист из Санкт-Петербурга. Так же обучаю на индивидуальной основе фотографии и обработке изображений. Хм, ну, как меня зовут и в профиле видно.

It’s Greek to me.

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calochortus  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:52:56pm

re: #105 lawhawk

Sweet jeebus, just checked my stats here, and I’m approaching 180,000 karma. On 61,000+ comments and 7,100 pages. I do spend quite a lot of time here. Have been since October 2001.

I’m most grateful to my host for giving me an outlet over all these years. Thanks Charles! You’ve made this corner of the Net one of the most sane places to discuss the issues of the day. And that’s saying something given how active comment sections all over the place turn into poo-flinging shit shows - particularly with troll infestations and bigotry, racism, and overt hate towards the minority group of the day.

Have another upding.

With that, I’m off to work on a weaving project for a while.
BBL

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:52:58pm

re: #102 Kragar

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Trump is that kid who threatened to sue you when you made a crack at him in school and actually got out the phone book looking for lawyers.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:53:59pm

re: #108 wrenchwench

It’s Greek to me.

Most Cyrillic characters do come from Greek. A couple from Hebrew: ш…

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:54:00pm

re: #105 lawhawk

Sweet jeebus, just checked my stats here, and I’m approaching 180,000 karma. On 61,000+ comments and 7,100 pages. I do spend quite a lot of time here. Have been since October 2001.
.

I’m going to start stealth down-dinging all your older posts.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:54:18pm
It’s like these people are treating people like Obama supporters treated us, just the worst of the worst Obama supporters. It was like walking into Ferguson or walking into Baltimore. There’s no reason, there’s no common decency, there’s nothing. It’s just bizarre.”

LOL, whut?

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:54:44pm

re: #57 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

Yes and no.

Having actually read a bit of post-modernism, it’s not the bogeyman that conservatives have characterized it as. Mostly because it’s not really one thing, and there’s a lot of discussion about how much to apply it.

Beck and Co. basically represent an extreme example of what po-mo was invented to address: people that can’t imagine that other people might not see the world (or the past) in the same way, and that “Truth” is often filtered through culture…and that this is just a normal aspect of the complexity of human perceptions and knowledge-formation. To them, difference of opinion can only be the result of conspiracy to occlude the Truth. This is the basis of their love of stuff like David Barton: his history and religious study bends everything to match a very particular modern culture…that of the US social conservative wingnut…and asserts that any other reading of the past (or the Bible) is the product of active malice to mis-inform people.

It’s almost the consciously-constructed opposite of postmodern.

I see it as being similar to the peculiar embrace of Marxism seen in some RWNJs. They often accept the basic premises of the Marxist critique of capitalism, and invert the conclusion to arrive at “So what exactly is the problem with the rich grinding everyone else into the dust?”.

A shallow reading of post-modernism will let RWNJs latch onto buzz words like “no objective truths” etc., and say “Hey this is really good. If everything is propaganda, then our propaganda is as good as our opponents’ science”.

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TedStriker  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:54:51pm

re: #110 HappyWarrior

Trump is that kid who threatened to sue you when you made a crack at him in school and actually got out the phone book looking for lawyers.

Phone book? Shit, he probably whipped out his Rolodex.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:55:01pm

re: #110 HappyWarrior

Trump is that kid who threatened to sue you when you made a crack at him in school and actually got out the phone book looking for lawyers.

Chuck Johnson?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:55:01pm

re: #113 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

LOL, whut?

As already said, he’s saying Trump’s supporters are like blah people.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:55:06pm
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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:55:40pm
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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:55:42pm

re: #112 Dr. Matt

I’m going to start stealth down-dinging all your older posts.

So, you’re like the guy who whispers in the ear that you’re not worthy and have to earn your karma daily… good.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:55:57pm

re: #116 Kragar

Chuck Johnson?

“Meet your real father, Charles, Donald J. Trump!” But yeah it’s sort of funny since that he’s in the bag for Cruz since I think his shitty personality fits Trump’s shitty personality better than Cruz’s shitty personality.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:57:51pm

re: #111 Nyet

Most Cyrillic characters do come from Greek. A couple from Hebrew: ш…

When I got to Athens, I was shocked how easy it was to read the Pharmacy signs with a tiny bit of the alphabet memorized.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:59:03pm

re: #69 lawhawk

The last time the US had a major political party that sent sociopaths to Washington DC to either control the Federal government or destroy it if control proved to be impossible was in the decades leading up to the civil war.

The underlying cause back then was expansion of slavery.

The underlying cause now is that rich Birchers don’t want to pay their taxes.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:59:27pm

re: #111 Nyet

Oh hey, I’ve been meaning to ask you something. This past week I binge-watched season three of “The Americans” and whenever the Russians (mostly KGB) are having a conversation, at some point one of them will address the other by their full name. This happens even when the conversation is informal and it only happens once in any given conversation.

Is that like some kind of Russian thing, or is it just a quirk of that show? Inquiring minds want to know…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 12:59:37pm

Something weird just happened. All the comments disappeared.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:03:04pm

re: #124 CuriousLurker

Oh hey, I’ve been meaning to ask you something. This past week I binge-watched season three of “The Americans” and whenever the Russians (mostly KGB) are having a conversation, at some point one of them will address the other by their full name. This happens even when the conversation is informal and it only happens once in any given conversation.

Is that like some kind of Russian thing, or is it just a quirk of that show? Inquiring minds want to know…

From what I understand Russian culture is very big on the whole name thing. That is to say, you are called by your given name and your patryonom (your father’s name). For instance, Donald Trump would be Donald Fedorevich(I think Fedor is the Russian) while Hillary would be Hillary Hughova or something like that.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:03:25pm

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Something weird just happened. All the comments disappeared.

Charles is under the hood again. I think he is installing a new turbo charger. We need some moar boost!

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Franklin  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:03:28pm

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Something weird just happened. All the comments disappeared.

Unicode revolting?

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:03:57pm

re: #126 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Russian culture is very big on the whole name thing. That is to say, you are called by your given name and your patryonom (your father’s name). For instance, Donald Trump would be Donald Fedorevich(I think Fedor is the Russian) while Hillary would be Hillary Hughova or something like that.

Interesting. Thanks!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:05:16pm

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

You forgot to remind me to turn off the DEBUG flag.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:05:22pm

re: #124 CuriousLurker

Oh hey, I’ve been meaning to ask you something. This past week I binge-watched season three of “The Americans” and whenever the Russians (mostly KGB) are having a conversation, at some point one of them will address the other by their full name. This happens even when the conversation is informal and it only happens once in any given conversation.

Is that like some kind of Russian thing, or is it just a quirk of that show? Inquiring minds want to know…

What do you mean by full name? If the first name and the patronymic, it’s not the full name (nobody would say the surname in such a context), and while it can sound formal, it can also be used informally, depending on the context, tone, etc.

I would need to see the excerpts to answer it better.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:06:32pm

re: #130 Charles Johnson

You forgot to remind me to turn off the DEBUG flag.

I hate when that happens.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:07:06pm

re: #132 The Vicious Babushka

I hate when that happens.

You’re to blame!!1

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:07:07pm

re: #129 CuriousLurker

Interesting. Thanks!

Yeah naming customs are interesting. In my mom’s mom’s culture (Rusyn), the naming patterns are strange and lead to a lot of people with the same names. It makes research a little more difficult. I got really confused researching the German’s since the Germans used to have a habit of your first name being a saint i.e. John or Anna but the middle name and the name you actually went by in your life being totally different. I was totally confused about why there were so many Johanns and Anna’s.
rusyn.com

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:07:11pm

re: #131 Nyet

What do you mean by full name? If the first name and the patronymic, it’s not the full name (nobody would say the surname in such a context), and while it can sound formal, it can also be used informally, depending on the context, tone, etc.

I would need to see the excerpts to answer it better.

Like what HW said in his #126. I’ll see if I can find an example.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:07:11pm

re: #131 Nyet

As another watcher of “The Americans”…more often than not it’s first name + patronym, no last name.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:07:36pm

And here is a reason to #MakeAmericaGrateAgain

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:07:37pm

re: #20 lawhawk

Sears sold Lands End a few years ago.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:08:02pm

re: #136 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

As another watcher of “The Americans”…more often than not it’s first name + patronym, no last name.

Yeah it’s the culture then. I need to watch the show but having studied Russia a bit, that’s definitely it.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:09:55pm
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IngisKahn  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:09:59pm

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:11:30pm

re: #140 Kragar

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:12:28pm

re: #136 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

As another watcher of “The Americans”…more often than not it’s first name + patronym, no last name.

It depends on the situation, age, class, immediate environment, power differential, etc.

Like, Putin and his friends (like Medvedev) were probably on the first name basis before he became president, at which point I’m pretty sure he became “Vladimir Vladimirovich” to them.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:12:59pm

Okay…for a little break on the crazy, lets just get more crazy.

“JonBenét Ramsey” is singer “Katy Perry” - Parents give up the game. False Witness Death Liars

Who knew?

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:13:15pm

re: #141 IngisKahn

O no, Mongorians!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:14:26pm

We have a new feature with embedded tweets - you can now disable the “show conversation” feature if a tweet is a reply to another one, so that just one tweet shows.

To do this, just add:

?hide_thread=true

to the end of the tweet’s address. If there’s already a query string at the end of the tweet address (starting with ‘?’), use an ampersand instead to append it to the address, like this:

?something=else&hide_thread=true

For example, this is a tweet with the thread not hidden:

And this is with the ‘hide_thread’ option added:

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:14:37pm
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goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:15:16pm
Melissa Harris-Perry said she was refusing to go on the MSNBC show she hosts this Saturday, following several weeks of pre-emptions and what she described as a loss of editorial control.

…

“Here is the reality: Our show was taken — without comment or discussion or notice — in the midst of an election season,” she wrote. “After four years of building an audience, developing a brand and developing trust with our viewers, we were effectively and utterly silenced.”

…

In her email, Ms. Harris-Perry wrote that she was not sure if the NBC News chairman, Andrew Lack, or Phil Griffin, the MSNBC president, were involved in the way her show was handled recently, but she directed blame toward both.

“I will not be used as a tool for their purposes,” she wrote. “I am not a token, mammy, or little brown bobble head. I am not owned by Lack, Griffin or MSNBC. I love our show. I want it back.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:15:25pm

re: #148 Nyet

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I feel so welcome.

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b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:16:43pm

re: #148 Nyet

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Snowden must just love it there.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:16:57pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:17:44pm

The interesting thing about the Trump Phenomenon is just how much it exposes what the Republican Base really cares about. For years, Movement Conservatives have been saying what the Base really wants is a REAL Conservative, but what i hear from them now is that Trump isn’t a REAL Conservative. Turns out all the Base really cared about was the preservation of white privilege. That, and having a Strong Man at the top.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:18:08pm

Instagram

Did you that we have a wide variety of authentic French Posters? #French #frenchposter #poster #art #fineart #gallery #galleries #dallas #dallastx

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:19:24pm
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:19:32pm

re: #148 Nyet

Oh that could be one of a few small, out of the way, off the beaten path, don’t get around much anymore, is she your sister, places here in the good ‘ol USA also….
So..People who ride bikes with rollerblades and smoke and eat and drink and look like Obama can….take their dogs elsewhere?

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:19:38pm

re: #131 Nyet

Found one here, around 0:42.

Behind The Scenes: Oleg

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:19:42pm

re: #145 ObserverArt

Okay…for a little break on the crazy, lets just get more crazy.

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Video

Who knew?

“Too many freaks, not enough circuses.”

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:19:44pm

re: #152 Nyet

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I wonder if anyone has tweeted that to Trump. I can imagine it freaks him out.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:19:53pm

re: #153 Blind Frog Belly White

The interesting thing about the Trump Phenomenon is just how much it exposes what the Republican Base really cares about. For years, Movement Conservatives have been saying what the Base really wants is a REAL Conservative, but what i hear from them now is that Trump isn’t a REAL Conservative. Turns out all the Base really cared about was the preservation of white privilege. That, and having a Strong Man at the top.

That’s all it’s ever been about. You had very true believers in the right wing economic crap. Even HW Bush called it “voodoo economics” as late as 1980 and Nixon was hardly right wing economically. You only saw people turn against the New Deal consensus when LBJ and JFK started supporting policies that allowed racial minorities to enjoy it too and then you started hearing the talk about “small government”.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:20:19pm

re: #155 Nyet

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Is there a word for the Stalin nostalgia?

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:20:41pm

Don’t make me….

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:21:22pm

re: #115 TedStriker

Phone book? Shit, he probably whipped out his daddy’s Rolodex.

fixed.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:22:00pm

Instagram

Salt deposits along the shore of the Dead Sea.
Photo by: @ravivora
#earthfocus to be featured

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:22:01pm

re: #153 Blind Frog Belly White

The interesting thing about the Trump Phenomenon is just how much it exposes what the Republican Base really cares about. For years, Movement Conservatives have been saying what the Base really wants is a REAL Conservative, but what i hear from them now is that Trump isn’t a REAL Conservative. Turns out all the Base really cared about was the preservation of white privilege. That, and having a Strong Man at the top.

Nothing will be the same again. After having had real red meat from Trump, the GOP base will never accept the pink slime offered by the GOP establishment.

Assuming the resulting convulsions don’t tear the country apart, this is a positive development. Let’s have people vote for and against open racism without having the plausible deniability provided by GOP dog-whistling double talk.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:22:21pm

re: #160 HappyWarrior

That’s all it’s ever been about. You had very true believers in the right wing economic crap. Even HW Bush called it “voodoo economics” as late as 1980 and Nixon was hardly right wing economically. You only saw people turn against the New Deal consensus when LBJ and JFK started supporting policies that allowed racial minorities to enjoy it too and then you started hearing the talk about “small government”.

It’s not SMALL Government they want. It’s WHITE government.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:23:17pm

re: #153 Blind Frog Belly White

The interesting thing about the Trump Phenomenon is just how much it exposes what the Republican Base really cares about. For years, Movement Conservatives have been saying what the Base really wants is a REAL Conservative, but what i hear from them now is that Trump isn’t a REAL Conservative. Turns out all the Base really cared about was the preservation of white privilege. That, and having a Strong Man at the top.

And when candidates like Rubio criticize and call out the GOP front-runner they put themselves in the position of criticizing most GOP voters (to date anyway).

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:24:13pm

re: #145 ObserverArt

Okay…for a little break on the crazy, lets just get more crazy.

Who knew?

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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makeitstop  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:24:25pm

re: #128 Franklin

Unicode revolting?

eh, it’s not that bad.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:24:42pm

re: #157 CuriousLurker

Looks like professional context.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:24:56pm

I wouldn’t know, because I can’t stand listening to this “music.”

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:25:00pm

re: #166 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s not SMALL Government they want. It’s WHITE government.

And that’s what this election is about. If they win, we’re back to 1900s style white government.

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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:25:45pm

re: #148 Nyet

О том, что может быть одним из несколько небольших , из пути , в глуши , не обойти гораздо больше , она твоя сестра , места здесь в хорошем оле ” США также … .
So..People , которые ездят на велосипедах с роликовых коньках и дыма и есть и пить и смотреть , как Обама может … .Снять своих собак в другом месте?

Loosely.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:27:54pm

re: #171 Charles Johnson

I’ve probably never heard any of his music. Who is he?

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:27:58pm
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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:28:32pm

re: #171 Charles Johnson

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:29:16pm

re: #170 Nyet

Looks like professional context.

Pretty much all the Russians on the show are employees at a consulate. Basically no familial conversations, and only a few casual ones.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:30:04pm

re: #170 Nyet

Looks like professional context.

Thanks.

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:31:05pm
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Tigger2  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:31:20pm

re: #145 ObserverArt

Okay…for a little break on the crazy, lets just get more crazy.

[Embedded content]

Who knew?

What a fucking loon.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:31:32pm
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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:32:01pm

re: #174 freetoken

I’ve probably never heard any of his music. Who is he?

He’s a white rapper. Won the grammy for best rap a couple of years ago, not that that means much. He actually tends to use his music to take on some social issues that I bet some of his listeners aren’t comfortable with. He took on homophobes in a song a few years ago. It looks like he’s got a song called White Privilege ||.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:32:08pm

re: #176 Kragar

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Years ago, I used to go to the SF Symphony. One night, there as a new composition on the program. The conductor raised his baton…

*bwaaAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa*

*mopadopadopadop*

*ting!*

The lady next to me turned to her husband and said, “Oh, it’s one of THOSE.”

And it was.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:32:36pm
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nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:32:56pm

re: #181 Kragar

Nebraska has an issue. And parts of Arkansee and Vermont..

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:33:12pm

re: #175 Nyet

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wow

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:34:22pm

re: #181 Kragar

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So, only Rhode Island searches for MILFs?

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Maxwell Not So Smart  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:34:26pm

Have we reached peak wingnut yet?
/

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:35:54pm

re: #182 Belafon

He’s best known by the song “Thrift Shop.”

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Dr. Matt  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:36:48pm

re: #184 Kragar

Cruz Campaign Admits ‘It Was A Mistake’ To Attend Radical ‘Kill-The-Gays’ Conferencehttps://t.co pic.twitter.com
— Hatewatch (@Hatewatch) February 26, 2016

RINO!

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:37:06pm

re: #182 Belafon

Thanks.

I guess all artists have their own trials of sorts.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:37:46pm

re: #187 Blind Frog Belly White

So, only Rhode Island searches for MILFs?

It does say “most searched”, so I assume “Lesbian MILF” was a close second.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:38:18pm

re: #186 Stanley Sea

Bernie seems to be under the delusion that people with this worldview (and yes, this comes from above) can be allies.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:39:03pm

re: #189 Belafon

One of his earlier works featured the lyrics “long dong dangle penis”

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Dave In Austin  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:40:42pm

re: #192 Kragar

It does say “most searched”, so I assume “Lesbian MILF” was a close second.

I’ll have my lesbians MILFed please…..

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:40:50pm

re: #184 Kragar

Only because they got caught.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:41:03pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:42:06pm

re: #183 Blind Frog Belly White

Years ago, I used to go to the SF Symphony. One night, there as a new composition on the program. The conductor raised his baton…

*bwaaAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaa*

*mopadopadopadop*

*ting!*

The lady next to me turned to her husband and said, “Oh, it’s one of THOSE.”

And it was.

Many years ago I went to the SF symphony. The second piece that was performed was ‘one of those’. The orchestra literally sounded better when they were tuning up their instruments than when they performed that garbage.

Edited to add: Wouldn’t it be funny if we’re thinking of the exact same performance? As I recall, the unpleasant musical number was the premier performance of that piece, and the composer was in the audience.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:43:00pm

South Carolina just updated its absentee voter numbers. 6,669 more ballots were returned this afternoon, bringing the total to over 51,000 (compared to just over 60,000 Republicans for last week’s primary). 5,775 were from black voters (86.6%), 834 from white voters (12.5%). The total split is 38,961 black voters (75.6%) to 12,064 white voters (23.4%).

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:45:58pm

David Sipress/The New Yorker:

“You’re the one who said, ‘Let them watch the debates, it will be educational.’ ”
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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:47:16pm
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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:47:51pm

Goodhair throwing his hat glasses into the ring if the Republicans need him to save them:

Rick Perry opens door to convention in comeback in GOP presidential race

Rick Perry, who has twice dropped out of races for the Republican presidential nomination, isn’t ruling out another shot at the White House.

The former Texas governor told CNN that he wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a brokered convention for the Republican nomination this year - and hinted if that happened he might be ready to give it another go.

CNN anchor Erin Burnett asked Perry Thursday about a recent tweet from conservative blogger and radio host Erick Erickson, who said he would support a third party run by Perry. He then retweeted calls for Perry to consider jumping back in the race.

[…]

Son of Erick is delirious with Trump-hatred and is looking for anything to save the good ship.

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ipsos  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:48:35pm

Even if I don’t agree with it, I can understand why Comcast management might have wanted to get away from what the network had been - too liberal for corporate America and all that.

But what do they think they’re going to gain by becoming an equally-vapid clone of CNN? That, I do not understand at all.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:50:03pm

re: #203 ipsos

Even if I don’t agree with it, I can understand why Comcast management might have wanted to get away from what the network had been - too liberal for corporate America and all that.

But what do they think they’re going to gain by becoming an equally-vapid clone of CNN? That, I do not understand at all.

More Republicans in Congress?

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Tigger2  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:50:09pm

re: #203 ipsos

Even if I don’t agree with it, I can understand why Comcast management might have wanted to get away from what the network had been - too liberal for corporate America and all that.

But what do they think they’re going to gain by becoming an equally-vapid clone of CNN? That, I do not understand at all.

All they are going to do is lose viewers.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:52:09pm

I mean, how else do you expect a company to grow if Democrats won’t let it merge with another giant media company?

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:52:18pm

Hardly surprising at all…

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:52:28pm

I flubbed up my mission… and missed a Trump rally this morning… but TheHill pulled out this:

Trump wants to ‘open up’ libel laws to sue media outlets

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on Friday vowed to “open up” libel laws in order to sue media outlets that write “purposely negative” and “horrible” articles about him.

“I’m gonna open up our libel laws, so when they write purposely negative and horrible, false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money,” Trump said at a rally in Fort Worth, Texas.

“We’re going to open up those libels laws,” he added. “So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace, or when The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons, writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money.”

[…]

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:52:37pm

re: #102 Kragar

Isn’t that the plot of “The Fountainhead”?

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:53:35pm

re: #202 freetoken

Goodhair throwing his hat glasses into the ring if the Republicans need him to save them:

Rick Perry opens door to convention in comeback in GOP presidential race

Son of Erick is delirious with Trump-hatred and is looking for anything to save the good ship.

The GOP model of many years is dead and gone. Trump will most likely be the nominee this cycle, and the only possible paths to the nomination for Cruz or Rubio are to out-Trump Trump.

This will not be forgotten, and the next Republican primary season will definitely include several loathsome Trumpian mini-me imitators.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:54:57pm
“… thinks your building resembles a Kit Kat bar.”
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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:55:18pm

re: #208 freetoken

I flubbed up my mission… and missed a Trump rally this morning… but TheHill pulled out this:

Trump wants to ‘open up’ libel laws to sue media outlets

Who would give you such a suicide mission (at least for your brain cells)?

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:56:06pm

re: #211 De Kolta Chair

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“…wonders when you’re going to remove the building from its packaging.”

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:57:00pm

re: #212 Brian J.

Who would give you such a suicide mission (at least for your brain cells)?

Well, the IMF of course….

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:57:07pm

re: #211 De Kolta Chair

“…is curious whether there is a prize inside the Cracker Jack box?”

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 1:59:22pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:00:26pm

re: #202 freetoken

Goodhair throwing his hat glasses into the ring if the Republicans need him to save them:

Rick Perry opens door to convention in comeback in GOP presidential race

Son of Erick is delirious with Trump-hatred and is looking for anything to save the good ship.

Only course now for the Republican plague ship is to set it on fire and open the sea cocks, hopefully far enough out to sea that the rats like Erickson can’t escape.

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Maxwell Not So Smart  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:01:28pm
“The Trump supporters, they’re Brownshirts,” Beck said

I’m not sure does this mean Beck will or won’t be endorsing Trump?
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:01:37pm

re: #211 De Kolta Chair

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Rand Paul?

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:02:07pm
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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:02:22pm
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:02:29pm

‘Murica…

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:02:52pm

re: #221 Jenner7

OFFS. Not again. Again.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:03:16pm

re: #215 EPR-radar

“…is curious whether there is a prize inside the Cracker Jack box?”

Patricia Neal wielding a riding crop? (The only thing even remotely interesting about that flick imho.)

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:03:18pm

re: #222 FormerDirtDart

And nothing at all during last night’s debate about gun crimes and mass shootings…

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:03:23pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:04:01pm

re: #202 freetoken

Goodhair throwing his hat glasses into the ring if the Republicans need him to save them:

Rick Perry opens door to convention in comeback in GOP presidential race

Son of Erick is delirious with Trump-hatred and is looking for anything to save the good ship.

Can we get Scotty Walker back in the race? That would be Yuuuugge. I wasn’t done kicking him around.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:04:04pm

re: #222 FormerDirtDart

‘Murica…

And this is why kids should have handguns.
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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:04:10pm

re: #226 Charles Johnson

So few?

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:04:46pm
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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:05:14pm
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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:05:29pm

re: #201 wrenchwench

He’s waiting for a shower of gold.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:05:38pm

re: #202 freetoken

Goodhair throwing his hat glasses into the ring if the Republicans need him to save them:

Rick Perry opens door to convention in comeback in GOP presidential race

Son of Erick is delirious with Trump-hatred and is looking for anything to save the good ship.

The establishment Republicans haven’t gotten the message that they’re no longer the base of the Republican party.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:05:59pm

re: #228 Belafon

And this is why kids should have handguns.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

More than a few NRA members would agree with you about that.

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Teukka  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:06:30pm

re: #232 Nyet

He’s waiting for a shower of gold.

Woah. The dualistic meaning of that one…. O.O

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:07:07pm

re: #228 Belafon

And this is why kids should have handguns.
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

The 2nd Amendment is under seege, seeege I tell you. You better believe it. Believe me.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:08:13pm

re: #235 Teukka

Woah. The dualistic meaning of that one…. O.O

Too much Lindemann. //

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:08:24pm

re: #227 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Can we get Scotty Walker back in the race? That would be Yuuuugge. I wasn’t done kicking him around.

Scott Walker is the kind of turd that polishes up pretty well when getting fluffed by GOP enablers in the main stream media in a general election. In other words, he was dangerous and it’s a good thing he went nowhere in the GOP primary.

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bratwurst  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:08:46pm

The whole brokered convention thing was always a fantasy for political junkies, never more than a slight chance given the huge number of “winner take all” contests ahead. Given Trump’s lead to date and his lead in the vast majority of states next Tuesday, it is not going to happen. If there was a 2% chance before, I would say the current chance is more like .002%.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:09:16pm

re: #238 EPR-radar

Scott Walker is the kind of turd that polishes up pretty well when getting fluffed by GOP enablers in the main stream media in a general election. In other words, he was dangerous and it’s a good thing he went nowhere in the GOP primary.

He was Marco Rubio before Marco Rubio was cool.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:11:37pm

re: #239 bratwurst

The whole brokered convention thing was always a fantasy for political junkies, never more than a slight chance given the huge number of “winner take all” contests ahead. Given Trump’s lead to date and his lead in the vast majority of states next Tuesday, it is not going to happen. If there was a 2% chance before, I would say the current chance is more like .002%.

I suspect there are a number of Republicans, like Perry, that believe that the party can just say “We’re not going with that nutjob” and will make a better decision than the voters at the convention, and the voters will see the error of their ways.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:12:04pm

Well great, we can expect this weekend to be all:
“SEE, GUN LAWS JUST PREVENT GOOD GUYS FROM GETTING GUNS”

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:12:26pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:12:37pm

re: #239 bratwurst

The whole brokered convention thing was always a fantasy for political junkies, never more than a slight chance given the huge number of “winner take all” contests ahead. Given Trump’s lead to date and his lead in the vast majority of states next Tuesday, it is not going to happen. If there was a 2% chance before, I would say the current chance is more like .002%.

Unless, of course, the GOP establishment is stupid enough and desperate enough to change their rules right when their convention starts to deny the nomination to Trump if he would otherwise win on the first ballot from pledged delegates.

There’s no way to predict the chance of something like that happening.

I agree with the assessment in an earlier thread that the Trump candidacy is a black swan event.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:12:54pm

re: #239 bratwurst

The whole brokered convention thing was always a fantasy for political junkies, …

538.

Nate Silver and gang early on had all these scenarios for the nomination and they left a lot of open doors for several of the candidates.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:14:04pm

re: #239 bratwurst

The whole brokered convention thing was always a fantasy for political junkies, never more than a slight chance given the huge number of “winner take all” contests ahead. Given Trump’s lead to date and his lead in the vast majority of states next Tuesday, it is not going to happen. If there was a 2% chance before, I would say the current chance is more like .002%.

There aren’t that many WTA contests on the Republican side (about 10, most in small states), and with three or four viable candidates to split the vote and stay above viability thresholds, it could still happen. It might actually be more likely than if the non-Trump vote was split 8 or 10 ways.

Of course, if Trumpy Dumpy wins Florida and Ohio on 3/15, it really is all over but the shouting.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:15:38pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:17:12pm

re: #241 Belafon

I suspect there are a number of Republicans, like Perry, that believe that the party can just say “We’re not going with that nutjob” and will make a better decision than the voters at the convention, and the voters will see the error of their ways.

GOP primary voters aren’t going to be amused by this.

The fact that GOP primary voters are almost certain to make Trump the GOP nominee seems to finally be sinking in for the GOP establishment.

Time to buy stock in manufacturers of adult diapers. At least this time Republicans will be using the diapers for their intended purpose.

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BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:18:06pm

re: #197 Stanley Sea

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Hey, Squint and the Meatpuppet fellate Trump on a daily basis, Tweetie has Coulter and a semi-regular guest, and Rachel spends most of her show talking about TRUMP (not to mention that Nicolle Wallace is now an MSNBC STAR) so it kind figures. Shit on MHP and hire a liar. It’s obviously a Comcast thing. I really find the whole network shitshow unwatchable now.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:19:48pm

re: #249 BeachDem

Hey, Squint and the Meatpuppet fellate Trump on a daily basis, Tweetie has Coulter and a semi-regular guest, and Rachel spends most of her show talking about TRUMP (not to mention that Nicolle Wallace is now an MSNBC STAR) so it kind figures. Shit on MHP and hire a liar. It’s obviously a Comcast thing. I really find the whole network shitshow unwatchable now.

I’ve never watched TV news. I don’t think I’ve missed much.

In any case, journalism is rapidly becoming extinct. The big stories are getting little or no attention.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:22:28pm

re: #248 EPR-radar

The fact that GOP primary voters are almost certain to make Trump the GOP nominee seems to finally be sinking in for the GOP establishment.

Some of said establishment are whining:

GOP establishment trashes Christie for endorsing Trump

Establishment Republicans reacted with a mix of shock, anger and sadness at Chris Christie’s endorsement of Donald Trump on Friday, a stunning move that undermines the GOP mainstream’s efforts to prop up Marco Rubio’s campaign against Trump.

“It’s pretty disgusting why he did it because he’s opportunistic,” said Tony Fratto of Hamilton Place Strategies, who worked in the George W. Bush White House. “His days of leadership in the Republican Party are done.”

[…]

Endorsing Trump was “probably not his brightest political move. It’s right up there with the bridge,” said Stuart Roy, a Tom Delay alum now with Strategic Action Public Affairs.

“It will definitely be a dark cloud over his seriousness as an elected leader,” added Roy, one of whose clients is the American Future Fund, which just launched a multimillion-dollar ad campaign attacking Trump for allegedly ripping off students who attended Trump University. “He was a serious federal prosecutor, he was a serious governor, he was a serious presidential candidate and now this is an unserious endorsement.”

Ryan Williams, a Romney alum now at FP1 Strategies, said that Christie had gone from presumptive Republican front-runner a few years ago to “kissing Donald Trump’s boots and trying to secure something out of an endorsement.”

[…]

GWB… Tom Delay… Mitt … all the Republicans who really matter.

Or mattered, that is.

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Lidane  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:24:30pm

Went to go vote with my co-workers. I was the only person in the group who voted Democratic. Fun times. And yes, I voted for Hillary.

Rather than have a long, uncomfortable conversation about my politics, I blamed it on Ted Cruz. I said that even though Cruz was the only Republican who could beat Trump here in Texas, I’d rather crawl naked through a field of razor blades and then shower in lemon juice before voting for Havana Ted. They didn’t ask questions after that. Haha.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:24:50pm

re: #251 freetoken

The Raygun Revolution devouring its Children.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:24:51pm

A very interesting article

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bratwurst  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:25:28pm

This is what is going to happen. Some of them will fall into line in 3 weeks, some will wait until summer. By Labor Day they will ALL be supporting Trump. ALL OF THEM.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:26:17pm
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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:26:20pm

Here’s a truly delicious bit of news. dailykos.com

The gist is that Congressional GOPers usually coordinate their message with the GOP presidential nominee in an election year, especially when the GOP controls both houses of Congress.

How is that going to work out for Congressional GOPers when they try to coordinate messaging with Trumpzilla?

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:26:59pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:28:24pm

re: #258 Kragar

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Makes sense. They want to be able to say whatever they want with impunity while limiting what others can say.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:28:34pm

re: #256 Charles Johnson

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BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:29:32pm

re: #199 Brian J.

South Carolina just updated its absentee voter numbers. 6,669 more ballots were returned this afternoon, bringing the total to over 51,000 (compared to just over 60,000 Republicans for last week’s primary). 5,775 were from black voters (86.6%), 834 from white voters (12.5%). The total split is 38,961 black voters (75.6%) to 12,064 white voters (23.4%).

I guess all the GOTV phone banks to encourage early voting have been working. Where are thos numbers from?

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:32:55pm

re: #261 BeachDem

I guess all the GOTV phone banks to encourage early voting have been working. Where are thos numbers from?

They’re from the SC Secretary of State’s office. Here’s the link to their “fact sheets” with Excel documents showing absentee turnout and other statistics:

scvotes.org

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:33:28pm

re: #262 Brian J.

There is no doubt that Hillary will easily win SC, is there?

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:34:09pm

re: #263 freetoken

There is no doubt that Hillary will easily win SC, is there?

Bernie has stopped campaigning there

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:34:18pm

re: #252 Lidane

Good one. Despising Ted Cruz may be the universal cover story.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:34:24pm

Hmmmm

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:38:07pm

Political discourse in America, ladies and gentlemen…

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:39:12pm

re: #264 Kragar

Bernie has stopped campaigning there

Well, I suppose Bernie will soldier on in this or that state.

But the next two to three weeks are heavy with Clinton-dominating states, correct?

Won’t Hillary have the nomination secured by the end of March?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:40:24pm

Time for me to sign off The Internets.

Enjoy this South Park meme:

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BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:41:44pm

re: #262 Brian J.

They’re from the SC Secretary of State’s office. Here’s the link to their “fact sheets” with Excel documents showing absentee turnout and other statistics:

scvotes.org

Thanks—I thought I looked everywhere at scvotes, but apparently I missed that. Gotta go take a closer look—I know, at least on the Hillary side, the big push the past few weeks has been for absentee and early voting in person.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:42:28pm

re: #268 freetoken

Well, I suppose Bernie will soldier on in this or that state.

But the next two to three weeks are heavy with Clinton-dominating states, correct?

Won’t Hillary have the nomination secured by the end of March?

Sanders campaigned in Hibbing, Minnesota today. You can bet your bottom dollar he shouted “There’s a slow train coming!” at least once.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:43:35pm

re: #268 freetoken

I hope so. We sure as hell don’t need to be fighting it out if Trump sails through.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:43:50pm

re: #209 De Kolta Chair

Isn’t that the plot of “The Fountainhead”?

Heh. I was gonna comment that earlier.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:45:48pm

American politics is always full of theatre:

By the convention Farley and Vice President John Nance Garner were declared candidates, and Paul McNutt was a possibility.[3] Roosevelt still did not want to declare openly for re-nomination, so his backers arranged a stunt at the convention. Roosevelt dictated a message on the phone to Kentucky Senator Alben Barkley, which Barkley read out to the convention during the first day’s proceedings. It concluded

The President has never had, and has not today, any desire or purpose to continue in the office of President, to be a candidate for that office, or to be nominated by the convention for that office. He wishes in earnestness and sincerity to make it clear that all of the delegates in this convention are free to vote for any candidate.[3]

One biographer wrote that Barkley’s message “can scarcely be said to have conveyed the whole or literal truth”.[3] When it ended, the convention sat in shocked silence for a moment. The silence was then broken by a voice thundering over the stadium loudspeakers: “We want Roosevelt! We want Roosevelt!” The voice was Thomas D. Garry, Superintendent of Chicago’s Department of Sanitation (the sewers department), a trusted henchman of Chicago Mayor Ed Kelly. Garry was stationed in a basement room with a microphone, waiting for that moment. Kelly had posted hundreds of Chicago city workers and precinct captains around the hall; other Democratic bosses had brought followers from their home territories. All of them joined Garry’s chant. Within a few seconds, hundreds of delegates joined in. Many poured into the aisles, carrying state delegation standards for impromptu demonstrations. Whenever the chant began to die down, state chairmen, who also had microphones connected to the speakers, added their own endorsements: “New Jersey wants Roosevelt! Arizona wants Roosevelt! Iowa wants Roosevelt!”[4]

The effect of the “voice from the sewers” was overwhelming. The next day Roosevelt was nominated by an 86% majority.

And that is how things are done.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:47:11pm

re: #222 FormerDirtDart

‘Murica…

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I guess it’s time for more prayers and thoughts for the families, and why not? It doesn’t cost anything.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:47:34pm
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:48:47pm

re: #231 Kragar

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I emailed the hanger steak recipe to my wife, who’s out of town for a week, and it took 30 seconds tops for her to reply that she can’t wait to come home and find it waiting on the dinner table. Hanger steak is kind of my thang. Thanks! ;-)

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:49:16pm

re: #216 Charles Johnson

He had a good gig-turns out he was a misogynistic asshole and got the boot. Now he’s joining up with a fabulist in trying to create lord knows what kind of ‘marketplace’.

If its anything like Gotnews, it’ll be a source of amusement.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:52:21pm

re: #231 Kragar

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Hanger steak is the best. Not easy to find, though.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:53:58pm

re: #279 Barefoot Grin

Hanger steak is the best. Not easy to find, though.

True, I’m probably going to go with skirt steak instead.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:54:37pm

Any updates/confirmation on the TV cables being cut at the Trump rally?

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:56:52pm

A break from the political clown show:

Facebook Post

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:57:05pm

re: #281 Stanley Sea

Any updates/confirmation on the TV cables being cut at the Trump rally?

WND is spreading some sort of conspiracy along that angle… through their “Western Journalism” brand.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:58:05pm
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 2:59:36pm

re: #216 Charles Johnson

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BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:04:26pm

re: #199 Brian J.

South Carolina just updated its absentee voter numbers. 6,669 more ballots were returned this afternoon, bringing the total to over 51,000 (compared to just over 60,000 Republicans for last week’s primary). 5,775 were from black voters (86.6%), 834 from white voters (12.5%). The total split is 38,961 black voters (75.6%) to 12,064 white voters (23.4%).

Now that I’ve had a chance to look at the spreadsheets (thank you!) I think another amazing set of numbers is the Republican absentee votes—479 black voters to 59,523 white voters. (I’m sure TRUMP claimed “the blacks loved him” anyway.)

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lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:04:53pm

re: #138 Eric The Fruit Bat

Their futures are tied given that Sears stores still have significant space devoted to Lands End, and Lampert still is running the show behind Lands End.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:06:24pm
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:06:26pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:06:39pm

re: #276 Kragar

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“We’re against abortion, but will make exceptions for rape…which we don’t think leads to pregnancy because the woman’s body has a way of preventing pregnancy.”

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:07:25pm

re: #288 Stanley Sea

The Bern has been extinguished?

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:08:01pm

re: #291 freetoken

The Bern has been extinguished?

Word was that the Bernie campaign has pulled out of SC and most Super Tuesday states in the South.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:09:01pm

One thing Trump teaches us is that branding matters in contemporary America.

Trump has been building his brand for over 30 years.

Clinton likewise.

Bernie just started too late to build a national brand.

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:09:54pm

re: #293 freetoken

One thing Trump teaches us is that branding matters in contemporary America.

Trump has been building his brand for over 30 years.

Clinton likewise.

Bernie just started too late to build a national brand.

Which is really interesting when you consider the guy have been in politics at one level or another for same length of time. Yet he’s such an unknown that virtually nobody heard of him before last year.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:12:01pm

re: #291 freetoken

The Bern has been extinguished?

I don’t think it was ever there in South Carolina.

I think Sanders’ biggest difficulty is that his campaign has little patience for the kind of cat-herding that is necessary in the Democratic party, both in primaries and in a general election.

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Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:13:12pm
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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:13:15pm

re: #294 Targetpractice

Which is really interesting when you consider the guy have been in politics at one level or another for same length of time. Yet he’s such an unknown that virtually nobody heard of him before last year.

There are 100 US Senators.

Many have been there for years.

Can you name all the US Senators who are now serving, with more than one term?

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:13:53pm

See, that’s the thing.

2016 is about celebrity.

America is about celebrity.

This is a social commentary.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:14:18pm

re: #295 EPR-radar

I don’t think it was ever there in South Carolina.

I think Sanders’ biggest difficulty is that his campaign has little patience for the kind of cat-herding that is necessary in the Democratic party, both in primaries and in a general election.

The ideology is designed to cause flocks of people because it is so pure. How could they resist the movement?

Rule number one of politics. Be realistic.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:15:32pm

Reading about President Pierce, the fascinating thing is that he was selected explicitly because he was not known by most.

In a locked convention, the power brokers finally settled on a nobody.

And see how that worked.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:15:58pm

Come to think of it, Chris Christie is much worse than Trump.

Trump never *really* pretended to be anything but a reptiloid from Aldebaran.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:16:42pm

re: #299 ObserverArt

The ideology is designed to cause flocks of people because it is so pure. How could they resist the movement?

Rule number one of politics. Be realistic.

And when there is no substance, when there is but an endless stream of purity tests, the campaign alienates its erstwhile supporters. The biggest difference between Trump and Sanders is that Trump doesn’t pretend to be pure. He’s against whatever he believes today’s audience is against.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:16:47pm

re: #291 freetoken

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BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:17:39pm

re: #292 Targetpractice

Word was that the Bernie campaign has pulled out of SC and most Super Tuesday states in the South.

At one point, Bernie’s paid staff in SC outnumbered Hillary’s by about 200 to 12 (those numbers on the Bernie side might be off because they pay “volunteers” who work over 20 (or 30—can’t remember) hours a week, so, depending on which story they’re telling, sometimes they count them as staff and sometimes as volunteers. I know, after Iowa, a bunch of his peeps came to SC to work. Clinton deployed her IA, NH and NV peeps to Super Tuesday states.

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:18:00pm

re: #303 Skip Intro

That’s kind of… cruel.

I appreciate what Sanders has tried to do.

He has tried to move the notorious Overton window away from corporatism.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:18:17pm

re: #256 Charles Johnson

Oh, how language changes.

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:18:32pm

re: #297 freetoken

There are 100 US Senators.

Many have been there for years.

Can you name all the US Senators who are now serving, with more than one term?

Nope, but you tend to remember the ones who are fixtures of the Senate because they’ve made a name for themselves. Bernie’s reputation seems to be as the guy Democrats put up with because they need his vote.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:18:42pm

re: #272 Jenner7

I hope so. We sure as hell don’t need to be fighting it out if Trump sails through.

I didn’t really hurt us in 2008. In some ways, I think it’s better if Sanders not only continues, but actually acts like a regular politician and continues poking at Clinton. It’s far better to expose stuff now than in September. I say this as a Clinton supporter.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:18:55pm

re: #299 ObserverArt

The ideology is designed to cause flocks of people because it is so pure. How could they resist the movement?

Rule number one of politics. Be realistic.

If preaching the economic message doesn’t work for enough people, then hire professional cat-wranglers if that is what is needed to win.

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:19:45pm

re: #304 BeachDem

At one point, Bernie’s paid staff in SC outnumbered Hillary’s by about 200 to 12 (those numbers on the Bernie side might be off because they pay “volunteers” who work over 20 (or 30—can’t remember) hours a week, so, depending on which story they’re telling, sometimes they count them as staff and sometimes as volunteers. I know, after Iowa, a bunch of his peeps came to SC to work. Clinton deployed her IA, NH and NV peeps to Super Tuesday states.

They seemed to have been hoping for a SC upset like Obama managed, but could not find any traction whatsoever outside the lily-white college crowd.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:20:45pm

re: #305 freetoken

That’s kind of… cruel.

I appreciate what Sanders has tried to do.

He has tried to move the notorious Overton window away from corporatism.

But he didn’t have a well-reasoned alternative to “corporatism” or even a logical definition of what “corporatism” is. Unless you want your country to be like North Korea, it’s going to have private corporations, and their well-being is a legitimate government concern.

Occupy Wall Street had the same problem and thus sputtered into nothing. (Black Lives Matter, however, has been more successful because its leaders carefully define a specific societal ill and recruit even imperfect allies who help them fight it.)

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:21:12pm

re: #305 freetoken

That’s kind of… cruel.

I appreciate what Sanders has tried to do.

He has tried to move the notorious Overton window away from corporatism.

Really? What do you think of this one?

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:21:49pm

re: #308 Belafon

I didn’t really hurt us in 2008. In some ways, I think it’s better if Sanders not only continues, but actually acts like a regular politician and continues poking at Clinton. It’s far better to expose stuff now than in September. I say this as a Clinton supporter.

I have no problem with an extended and hard-fought (D) primary as long as it mainly focuses on real issues as opposed to bullshit purity tests that nobody is going to pass.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:22:03pm

re: #287 lawhawk

Fast Eddie’s salad days are long gone-his application of Ayn Rand’s philosophies to Sears Holdings is destroying the company like a slow drip-drip-drip.

He really is a loathsome fellow-his kidnappers released him in two days, after all.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:22:42pm

re: #305 freetoken

That’s kind of… cruel.

I appreciate what Sanders has tried to do.

He has tried to move the notorious Overton window away from corporatism.

Is that illustration purely about the politics of Bernie’s policy or what the creator thinks the ultimate outcome may be?

It is easy to overthink politics too. I try not to get too deep into it all…see my rule number one above in #299. I find keeping it real and treating things just as they appear saves many brains cells and tons of aggravation.

Sometimes a cigar is a cigar and a Trump is not a politician but everyone can think he is. Or, something.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:22:52pm

re: #289 De Kolta Chair

My old school, University of Texas at Dallas, doesn’t have a football team, and they sell shirts at the bookstore that show a football and say “Still Undefeated.”

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:23:37pm

re: #312 Skip Intro

Wtf right-wing shit is this?

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:25:32pm

re: #312 Skip Intro

Really? What do you think of this one?

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It’s just another political cartoon in a two century long tradition of outlandish political cartoons in this country.

The push to put crony corporatism front and center on the political stage is a fight I think that is not only important but timely.

In the big picture, what will be the effect of the Sanders run? Probably, most likely, he got the Clinton message to change a bit, to be more aggressive on a couple of domestic issues that Hillary otherwise would not have spent so much time on.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:25:45pm

re: #315 ObserverArt

I don’t think there’s any question that the cartoonist is implying the result should Sanders get the nomination would be the same as McGovern.

Now if we want to talk cruel, just look at the Hillary cartoon. That’s just vicious.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:26:19pm

re: #317 Nyet

Wtf right-wing shit is this?

My local paper swings both ways.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:26:43pm

re: #312 Skip Intro

That cartoonist managed to get written up in DailyKos in an article entitled “The Sickest Editorial Cartoon in History”. dailykos.com

The topic was a totally vile anti-Obama cartoon.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:27:04pm

re: #297 freetoken

There are 100 US Senators.

Many have been there for years.

Can you name all the US Senators who are now serving, with more than one term?

No, but there are those that seem to want to aspire to more than just state representative, and I know quite a few of them. I had to explain to my family last night who Chuck Grassley was and why there was a picture of him being a baby with respect to the SCOTUS nomination.

Until recently, Sanders hadn’t really gone for more than local representative.

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:27:35pm

I just saw the height of chutzpah earlier. That Bernie Bot I’ve mentioned off and on came in to a thread on another BBS where I was pointing out Bernie’s flaws, and proceeded to…and I’m not making this up…whine that if Hillary supporters don’t stop beating up on Bernie and his supporters, they’re not going to feel like voting for her come November. This is a guy who proudly declared he’d signed the “Bernie or Bust” petition, trying to act as if his vote was ever up for grabs if Bernie didn’t win the nomination.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:28:05pm

re: #319 Skip Intro

I don’t think there’s any question that the cartoonist is implying the result should Sanders get the nomination would be the same as McGovern.

Now if we want to talk cruel, just look at the Hillary cartoon. That’s just vicious.

The cartoonist is a RWNJ. Vicious is what they do.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:29:40pm

re: #324 EPR-radar

The cartoonist is a RWNJ. Vicious is what they do.

Inept, too. None of the bags has any logical relation to what it supposedly represents, and most of them are matters that no one actually cares about and/or exist for all of her rivals.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:29:54pm

re: #312 Skip Intro

Take away “Russian reset” and Vince Foster, and that could have been drawn by a BernieBro tho.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:30:09pm

re: #291 freetoken

The Bern has been extinguished?

In SC.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:30:58pm

re: #326 Nyet

Take away “Russian reset” and Vince Foster, and that could have been drawn by a BernieBro tho.

You know, you’re right.

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:31:27pm

re: #319 Skip Intro

I don’t think there’s any question that the cartoonist is implying the result should Sanders get the nomination would be the same as McGovern.

Now if we want to talk cruel, just look at the Hillary cartoon. That’s just vicious.

Again…I am going to take it for just what it is. A hack job…and conservative humor. They will love it for sure. I especially like the skulls!

But I am surprised…no cigars down there by the golf bag. And the documents say they are classified but are redacted. They should have left off the redactions so that they could be easily read. Points off.

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philosophus invidius  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:31:43pm
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BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:32:47pm

re: #310 Targetpractice

They seemed to have been hoping for a SC upset like Obama managed, but could not find any traction whatsoever outside the lily-white college crowd.

Back when they had the first forum with Rachel Maddow at Winthrop College, the lines waiting to get in had a ton of young Berners. Somebody had gone around the parking lots and planted a ton of Bernie signs, and they were just squeeing—“Ooh, Bernie has so many more signs. That means he’s going to win.” Then there were conversations like, “Yeah, I’m going to give money to Bernie every month—well, except for this month and maybe not next month.”

I’m not cracking on them. It was good to see young folks so excited.
But I’m guessing that when the actual work needed to be done, Hillary’s old ladies who phone banked and canvassed week in and week out, targeting the right voters and making sure they voted or will vote tomorrow were more effective. I even heard that the Bernie phonebankers were broadening out to calling Republicans the last few weeks—seemed like a giant waste of time and effort.

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:33:02pm

All right! A kid makes it out of Juarez!

…and into Arizona. Sorry, kid.

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Belafon  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:33:03pm

re: #330 philosophus invidius

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The way I understood it, Jerseyans were were probably happier when he was away.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:34:03pm

re: #326 Nyet

Take away “Russian reset” and Vince Foster, and that could have been drawn by a BernieBro tho.

Would “Benghazi” also need to be removed to make this work for BernieBros?

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:34:27pm

I’ve been putting off saluting the memory of the writer Sarah Kershaw here this week for lack of information. You might have read about her passing earlier this week. Sarah was a superbly intelligent and very witty person and a damn fine reporter. Just a really really nice human being. She was a great friend of my best friend, and I had the wonderful privilege of hanging with her on many fun occasions. The NY Times, where Sarah worked for several years at the Metro desk, has an informative article about her datelined today:

nytimes.com

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:35:19pm

re: #334 EPR-radar

Would “Benghazi” also need to be removed to make this work for BernieBros?

OK, that too.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:35:30pm

re: #334 EPR-radar

Would “Benghazi” also need to be removed to make this work for BernieBros?

There are BernieBros quite willing to “go there” for all of those things. Mind you, some of them are likely GOP plants…

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:35:56pm

re: #331 BeachDem

Back when they had the first forum with Rachel Maddow at Winthrop College, the lines waiting to get in had a ton of young Berners. Somebody had gone around the parking lots and planted a ton of Bernie signs, and they were just squeeing—“Ooh, Bernie has so many more signs. That means he’s going to win.” Then there were conversations like, “Yeah, I’m going to give money to Bernie every month—well, except for this month and maybe not next month.”

I’m not cracking on them. It was good to see young folks so excited.
But I’m guessing that when the actual work needed to be done, Hillary’s old ladies who phone banked and canvassed week in and week out, targeting the right voters and making sure they voted or will vote tomorrow were more effective. I even heard that the Bernie phonebankers were broadening out to calling Republicans the last few weeks—seemed like a giant waste of time and effort.

Here’s the thing for me: For weeks now, I’ve been getting bombarded with assurances that people were “feeling the Bern” and that millions of Americans were in his camp and ready to support him all the way to the White House. He was touching on the things that people wanted to hear and they loved him for it.

But if all of that were true, then where are his supporters? Where are the lines of progressives of all demographics ready to sweep him to the White House? There’s only really two possible answers: The “revolution” never really existed or the people who support him aren’t bothering to show up. Neither of which is an asset to a party that is fighting hard to keep the White House and retake the Senate.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:36:03pm

re: #332 wrenchwench

All right! A kid makes it out of Juarez!

[Embedded content]

…and into Arizona. Sorry, kid.

Joe Apario is already getting his pink underwear ready.

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Skip Intro  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:37:50pm

re: #338 Targetpractice

The Berniebros are exactly the kind of voters who can never be counted on to show up.

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EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:39:03pm

re: #337 Brian J.

There are BernieBros quite willing to “go there” for all of those things. Mind you, some of them are likely GOP plants…

Benghazi in particular ought to be an efficient way to separate over-enthusiastic Sanders supporters from GOP ratfuckers.

Anyone who thinks Benghazi is a real issue to use vs. Hillary Clinton is GOP to their bones.

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:39:22pm

re: #338 Targetpractice

Here’s the thing for me: For weeks now, I’ve been getting bombarded with assurances that people were “feeling the Bern” and that millions of Americans were in his camp and ready to support him all the way to the White House. He was touching on the things that people wanted to hear and they loved him for it.

But if all of that were true, then where are his supporters? Where are the lines of progressives of all demographics ready to sweep him to the White House? There’s only really two possible answers: The “revolution” never really existed or the people who support him aren’t bothering to show up. Neither of which is an asset to a party that is fighting hard to keep the White House and retake the Senate.

The $100 million+ spent on Bernie’s campaign could have funded five or six Senate campaigns, 40 or 50 House races, or several hundred state legislative candidates. If Democratic Socialists want to become part of the nation’s political conversation, they’d be a lot better off spending their resources there so that a later national candidate has something to build on. It’s the difference between Goldwater and Reagan.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:40:52pm
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TedStriker  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:42:12pm

re: #248 EPR-radar

GOP primary voters aren’t going to be amused by this.

The fact that GOP primary voters are almost certain to make Trump the GOP nominee seems to finally be sinking in for the GOP establishment.

Time to buy stock in manufacturers of adult diapers. At least this time Republicans will be using the diapers for their intended purpose.

Well, except for David Vitter…

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:42:30pm

re: #342 Brian J.

Agreed.

If self avowed “Democratic Socialists” really wanted to change American politics, then there are several states where the legislatures are almost dominated by ALEC owned GOP, with the Democrats barely holding on to prevent a monopoly.

Those are the places to spend money. Those are the places where the Democratic party needs to invest, to keep possible swing states from going completely into GOP control.

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Jenner7  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:46:09pm
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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:49:30pm

When Franklin Pierce died in the fall of 1869, little was written about him.

That is sad.

But I wonder if life would have been different for him (and us) if Pierce had embraced abolitionism and stood for something.

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Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:51:39pm
peaking at a rally for the leftwing Democratic presidential candidate at Morehouse College in Atlanta on Tuesday, Killer Mike argued against Hillary Clinton’s candidacy in part by quoting the activist Jane Elliott as having told him: “Michael, a uterus doesn’t qualify you to be president of the United States.”

Very credible.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:55:42pm

re: #347 freetoken

When Franklin Pierce died in the fall of 1869, little was written about him.

That is sad.

But I wonder if life would have been different for him (and us) if Pierce had embraced abolitionism and stood for something.

And the GOP is still stalling on his replacement. //

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ObserverArt  Feb 26, 2016 • 3:58:06pm

Gah. I am getting ready for the Friday night jams…and munching on a sammich and just turned on MSNBC (I don’t know why…I guess I am still in the withdrawal stage). Anyway, they (Chuckles heads on Bloomberg Politics the most non-serious serious political show ever!) are covering today’s event as if it was a golf match.

(Quite golf color commentator voices)

Mark: Trump hit a really nice 3 wood and got distance and came up in the middle of the debate with a nice lay and is looking at an easy 2 stroke on this hole. No one is stronger off the tee than Trump. He is powerful. That is why America loves him. He has a drive and endurance like no one else.

John: Oh no, Cruz just shanked his second stroke and ended up in the sand trap to the left of Cruz’s second shot just up from Trump’s. But no problem, we’ve seen Cruz work his way out of these jams before. He is a master at getting out of a political sand and probably better than anyone in this tournament.

Mark: This is true John, but Cruz only has a good short game. When it comes time to make those 10-15 footers he tends to miss. He can’t read the lay of the land and always seems to misjudge. And as we’ve seen today he is struggling to get his campaign off the tee and American is noticing.

John: That is where Rubio has it all over Trump and Cruz. If he can get on the greens he can finish with deft putting, just so long as he stays hydrated he is money! His pro backers tend to think he is the best young political golfer in the GOP of Golf today. However, I have to say, he has yet to prove it.

Mark: Oh no. It looks like Cruz just pulled an infraction. The officials just saw him kick Trump’s ball backwards when he thought no one was looking. It was a dirty move and well out of the norm of political golf. But not unexpected.

John: And now we have a big problem. Trump has just been told what Cruz did and is chasing him off the fairway and toward the clubhouse with a wedge. I think he is yelling something about political gold greatness and Cruz is nothing but a cheat. And I see Rubio is laughing and mocking both of them.

Mark: Isn’t this the best sport you have ever seen? I just love this game John.

John: Me too Mark. Me too. There is nothing better than political golf.

(Light golf clap)

Later Lizards…

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Timothy Watson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:00:27pm

re: #350 ObserverArt

Nothing like combining the boredom of golf with the boredom of politics.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:03:01pm
Seymour

Need thoughts for Seymour.

My friend thought he was dead last night. He had one of his rear legs amputated in November due to an infection. He seemed to be doing fine.

She could not get a reaction out of him & she always can. Thought for sure he was dead. Took him to the vet today & they found a pulse. Put him on a ventilator & his breathing is getting better. The entire vet office is very invested in this guy.

He’s been in the family 50 years, not sure how much older than that he is.

:(((

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Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:04:24pm

re: #351 Timothy Watson

Nothing like combining the boredom of golf with the boredom of politics.

I think this would improve that combination immensely:

1994 Miller Lite Full Contact Golf Commercial with Jennifer Lopez & Luke Wilson ?

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:09:05pm

Uhm…ouch:

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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:10:00pm

And another:

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:11:22pm

One of the essays about Pierce on that site shows us that there is nothing new in politics:

During the 1850s, America experienced a great influx of immigrants, mostly from Ireland and Germany. The campaign of 1852 was the first to acknowledge the foreign born as a political force. Winfield Scott boasted to Irish Catholic voters that his daughter had been schooled in a convent. His campaign operatives tried to pin on Pierce an old New Hampshire statute prohibiting Catholics from holding state office. Pierce forces responded by reminding immigrant voters of how Scott had ordered the hanging of more than sixty men, mostly Irish immigrants who had deserted from the American army and fought for Mexico.

In the three decades before Pierce left office, over five million immigrants found American shores. Many settled in the poorest sections of the largest citieséNew York, Boston, and Chicago in particularéwhere they compted, often with blacks, for tedious, backbreaking, menial jobs unwanted by native-born white Americans. Most of these Irish immigrants were Roman Catholic. As has happened during many such surges in immigration, entrenched Protestant Americans were unnerved by what they perceived as a threat to American values. Catholics were viewed as less loyal to their new nation than to their pope in Rome. Democrats were less anti-Catholic, and Pierce courageously named as postmaster general James Campbell of Pennsylvania, who became the first Roman Catholic cabinet officer in American history.

The arrival of large numbers of Irish Catholics affected race relations as well. Skilled trades and construction work that had been open to African-American freedmen in the North were closed to them between the 1840s and 1850s. Similarly, in upper-class households in the North, some African-American household servants were replaced by Irish women, although it is worth remembering that only a quarter million African-Americans lived above the Mason-Dixon line. Despite competition in the labor force, residential patterns were not segregated and large numbers of immigrants lived cheek by jowl with African-Americans in the poorer sections of Eastern cities.

A new party, the Know-Nothings - their official name was the American party - sought to exploit nativist prejudices against these immigrants. They held secret meetings, and when questioned by outsiders, they were instructed to answer, “I don’t know.” Led by former President Millard Fillmore in the presidential election of 1856, the Know-Nothings railed against the Catholic faith and sought to restrict Catholic immigration. Their message resonated with many voters, and in the mid-1850s, the party won several governorships and legislative seats. […]

As the Whig party disintegrated and was replaced by the Republican party, voting constituencies fragmented increasingly along ethnic and religious lines. […].

What is old is new again.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:13:18pm
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Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:17:21pm

Remember how for weeks we were told that Democrats were “abandoning” Hillary and Bernie’s “favorability” was on the rise? Well…

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freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:17:36pm

Trump speaking soon in Oklahoma City:

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Rally in Oklahoma City, OK (2-26-16) Donald Trump Oklahoma City Rally

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wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:18:37pm

That’s the Human Rights Commission, not Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:19:23pm

Here’s some very cool new PHP code I hammered out today. For a long time I’ve been using a routine to “sanitize” user input (e.g. comments and LGF Pages) to ensure no malicious code ever gets posted either on purpose or by accident. But I also allow certain HTML tags, and certain attributes for those tags.

The problem with the function I was using is that it employed regular expressions to parse the HTML, and that’s just a big freaking headache — inflexible and fragile. So today I came up with a vastly improved function that uses PHP’s DOMDocument library to actually build a Document Object Model out of the HTML code, then find the tags and attributes the right way, and remove everything except the tags and attributes I want to leave in place. This works so much better and is much more flexible.

I know this is probably gibberish to a lot of youse guys, but here’s that nifty function. It takes a string of HTML and two arrays as parameters; the arrays are a list of the allowed tags, and a list of the allowed attributes.

<?php
function stripTagsAttributes($html, $allowedTags = array(), $allowedAttributes = array()) {
	if (!empty($html)) {
		$tagsAllowed = '<' . implode('><', $allowedTags) . '>';
		$attrsAllowed = '%' . implode('|', $allowedAttributes) . '%i';
		$dom = @DOMDocument::loadHTML(
			mb_convert_encoding(
				strip_tags(
					$html,
					$tagsAllowed
				),
				'HTML-ENTITIES',
				'UTF-8'
			)
		);
		$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
		$tags = $xpath->query("//*");
		foreach ($tags as $tag) {
			$attrs = array();
			for ($i = 0; $i < $tag->attributes->length; $i++) {
				$attrs[] = $tag->attributes->item($i)->name;
			}
			foreach ($attrs as $attribute) {
				if (!preg_match($attrsAllowed, $attribute)) {
					$tag->removeAttribute($attribute);
				}
			}
		}
		return (
			strip_tags(
				html_entity_decode(
					$dom->saveHTML()
				),
				$tagsAllowed
			)
		);
	}
}
?>
362
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:19:51pm

Maybe a better stream:

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Rally in Oklahoma City, OK (2-26-16) Donald Trump Oklahoma City Rally HD

363
Barefoot Grin  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:20:45pm

re: #362 freetoken

Maybe a better stream:

[Embedded content]

He definitely needs a small mustache.

364
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:20:56pm

re: #361 Charles Johnson

I’ve tried to use the “code” tag (in square brackets) before, for HTML, but have never been able to get it to work.

365
Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:21:10pm

re: #358 Targetpractice

Good.

366
wrenchwench  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:21:13pm

re: #361 Charles Johnson

The Greek was easier.

367
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:25:26pm

Was it only a few days ago that the MSM buzz was Trump might ditch the GOP and run as an independent?

368
Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:26:08pm

Want to sincerely thank the dumbfuck who declared a boycott of Girl Scout cookies. Nothing feels better than striking a blow for women’s self-determination and getting Thin Mints in return.

369
nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:26:48pm

re: #357 Stanley Sea

“Dear New Jersey; If one or more of my seconds is injured, please forward all correspondence to; Crazy F’in Bill the janitor at Malfeasance Industries, building #4, Newark NJ. Thank you and fuck off.”
Frying bigger fish,
Chris Christie

370
Kragar  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:26:49pm
371
Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:27:48pm

re: #364 freetoken

I’ve tried to use the “code” tag (in square brackets) before, for HTML, but have never been able to get it to work.

Just tested and it does work - here’s how you would post some html code (remove the spaces):

[ code html] … HTML code here … [ /code]

372
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:28:00pm

Oh look… it’s Christie…

373
Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:28:19pm
374
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:28:38pm

re: #371 Charles Johnson

thanks… I thought I tried it that way.

I was trying some styling to text, but it didn’t work.

375
Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:28:48pm

CJ Werleman is a whack correct? I cannot remember.

……..

376
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:29:48pm

Christie praising the Strongman for his strength…

377
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:29:58pm

… attacks Rubio…

378
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:30:26pm

“Donald Trump represents strength..”

379
Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:32:50pm

re: #378 freetoken

“Donald Trump represents strength..”

To a guy who, two weeks ago, he was declaring would hand the election to Hillary Clinton if nominated.

380
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:33:03pm

381
Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:33:08pm

re: #375 Stanley Sea

CJ Werleman is a whack correct?

Yes, and a plagiarist without any credibility. So any article by him is a waste of bits - you don’t know whether he tells truth or lies.

382
Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:34:43pm

The GOP leadership must be on suicide watch right now.

383
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:35:18pm

“… [Rubio] defrauded Florida…” - by never showing up to vote.

384
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:36:00pm

That’s how Trump is turning the Trump University thing on its head and now it’s Rubio who is the fraudster…

385
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:36:09pm

Speak American, please

386
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:36:18pm

… brings up the water thing with Rubio from a couple of years ago…

387
Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:37:31pm
388
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:37:36pm

.. rallies crowd against the media…

389
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:37:51pm

” … heard little Marco say…”

390
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:39:10pm

… really grilling Rubio on all sorts of things…

391
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:39:48pm

Cruz ” is smarter than Marco…”

392
Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:39:57pm

re: #382 Targetpractice

The GOP leadership must be on suicide watch right now.

“Who’s the commanding officer here?”
“Ain’t you?”

393
Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:40:05pm

Such a bully.

We suck.

394
Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:41:33pm
395
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:42:13pm

re: #380 De Kolta Chair

[Embedded content]

Embedded Image

He had respect for Christie? That was his first mistake. The second was working for a scummy publication like NRO.

396
BeachDem  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:42:13pm

I think it is appropriate that Young Frankenstein is on TCM tonight (8 est).

397
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:42:54pm

re: #384 freetoken

That’s how Trump is turning the Trump University thing on its head and now it’s Rubio who is the fraudster…

As much as I despise Trump, he’s actually got something of a point there. Rubio never shows up.

398
TedStriker  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:43:22pm

re: #368 Decatur Deb

Want to sincerely thank the dumbfuck who declared a boycott of Girl Scout cookies. Nothing feels better than striking a blow for women’s self-determination and getting Thin Mints in return.

Indeed..women’s self-determination tastes pretty damn good, though the only gripe is that the boxes keep getting smaller for the same money.

399
Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:44:04pm

re: #394 Charles Johnson

One concerned vole.

400
Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:44:47pm

Trump is going to build the border wall, and Mexico’s going to pay for it.

He’s going to build a “safe zone” in Syria, and the Gulf states are going to pay for it.

How can anybody believe this happy horseshit?

401
Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:45:01pm

re: #398 TedStriker

Indeed..women’s self-determination tastes pretty damn good, though the only gripe is that the boxes keep getting smaller for the same money.

Thought I was just eating faster.

402
Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:45:32pm

re: #397 HappyWarrior

Trump does make correct points from time to time, even more so than the other GOP clowns. He compensates for it by being the most head-in-the-arse outrageous prick, too.

403
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:45:41pm

“We’re not going to be what we’ve been..” - if we allow immigrants in.

This is pretty straightforward.

404
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:46:24pm

hehehe…. “KKK Endorses Trump” shirt… get’s booed… and escorted out…

405
Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:46:51pm

Whoa. I thought Donald Trump was actually going to attack that guy this time.

406
Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:47:23pm

re: #403 freetoken

“We’re not going to be what we’ve been..” - if we allow immigrants in.

This is pretty straightforward.

We’re not going to be what we’ve been - if we bump some assholes out.

407
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:47:36pm

re: #405 Charles Johnson

Trump’s complaining about law enforcement not ripping the guy out of the seat…

408
Targetpractice  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:47:51pm
409
Stanley Sea  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:48:18pm
410
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:49:36pm

luving waterboarding…

411
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:49:48pm

… and that’s not hard enough…

412
Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:50:44pm

re: #411 freetoken

… and that’s not hard enough…

I liked these rallies better when they were lit by torchlight.

413
Charles Johnson  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:51:08pm
414
Brian J.  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:51:36pm

re: #412 Decatur Deb

I liked these rallies better when they were lit by torchlight.

“Burn any good books lately?”

415
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:52:08pm

re: #413 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I just want to know the reaction if Obama did this to people but I get it Trump’s white so it’s aight.

416
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:52:28pm

re: #414 Brian J.

“Burn any good books lately?”

The speeches are much better in the original German.

417
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:52:35pm

Eurovision, aka when we get to laugh our asses off at them

418
HappyWarrior  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:52:37pm

re: #402 Nyet

Trump does make correct points from time to time, even more so than the other GOP clowns. He compensates for it by being the most head-in-the-arse outrageous prick, too.

Yep.

419
freetoken  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:52:57pm

”.. wise guy…” - doesn’t name Hugh Hewitt by name.

420
lawhawk  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:53:19pm

re: #400 Charles Johnson

30+ percent of GOP voters can’t be “wrong” - and by wrong, I mean agree with Trump’s baffling BS.

421
Nyet  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:54:39pm

re: #420 lawhawk

30+ percent of GOP voters can’t be “wrong” - and by wrong, I mean agree with Trump’s baffling BS.

Wait till they start jumping off cliffs.

422
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:56:26pm
423
Decatur Deb  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:58:09pm

re: #421 Nyet

Wait till they start jumping off cliffs.

“What is derp compared to the hand that wields it?”

424
GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:58:34pm

re: #413 Charles Johnson

Looks like a kid too? Or maybe the kid with the Trump tshirt to his right is throwing me off….

Believe me, he’s going to come to physical blows with a protester before this is all over. And his supporters will LOVE him for it.

425
nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:59:35pm

Donald Trump represents that good , long, hard piss most of his supporters wish they could unleash on somebody, anybody, but can’t, because, uh….you know… …

426
jaunte  Feb 26, 2016 • 4:59:51pm

Trump’s longing for the days when a lord could send impertinent peasants to the prison hulks.

427
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:02:09pm

re: #425 nines09

Donald Trump represents that good , long, hard piss most of his supporters wish they could unleash on somebody, anybody, but can’t, because, uh….you know… …

Somebody has to stand up for the poor defenseless bullies now that they’re way too old to give swirlies and pink bellies.

428
EPR-radar  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:03:46pm

re: #425 nines09

Donald Trump represents that good , long, hard piss most of his supporters wish they could unleash on somebody, anybody, but can’t, because, uh….you know… …

…their prostates are now so large they affect the tides.

429
nines09  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:03:58pm

re: #427 De Kolta Chair

Somebody has to stand up for the poor defenseless bullies now that they’re way too old to give swirlies and pink bellies.

He’s just every jerkoffs wet dream.

430
De Kolta Chair  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:04:51pm
431
b.d.  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:06:18pm

QUICK! It’s time for another special edition

This one will do it!
432
Lancelot Link  Feb 26, 2016 • 5:11:59pm

re: #422 De Kolta Chair

Эдвард Сноуден is sad because he supported Rand Paul.

433
CleverToad  Feb 26, 2016 • 6:11:36pm

re: #361 Charles Johnson

I know this is probably gibberish to a lot of youse guys, but here’s that nifty function. It takes a string of HTML and two arrays as parameters; the arrays are a list of the allowed tags, and a list of the allowed attributes.

[Embedded content]

Yep, it’s gibberish, but it’s always fun to watch an artist at work. A lot of passion goes into this code.

434
GrantS  Feb 27, 2016 • 2:20:33pm

Fox was smart to dump Beck. He is a nutbag. Unfortunately I hear about him sometimes on sites like these. LGF needs to completely ignore him. Beck is nothing, has no influence and giving any attention is exactly what he is seeking. LGF blew it giving him any attention at all. Best to just let him fade away without notice.


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