The Bob Cesca Show: We Have Collusion

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Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob Cesca Show:

We Have Collusion: NSFW; Happy Easter; Jody Hamilton from the Stephanie Miller Show is here; Trump doesn’t understand the mail; Michael Cohen’s lawyer dig’s Cohen’s legal grave; Trump doesn’t need advisers; Laura Ingraham is an asshole; John Bolton linked to the Mercers who are linked to Cambridge Analytica; Sweaty Ronny Jackson upped to Veterans Affairs; Manafort and Gates knew they were dealing with Russia intelligence officers; Pigman John Dowd discussed pardons; Julian Assange is screwed; and much more.

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Kragar Mar 30, 2018 • 11:09:13am

How DARE a bunch of HS kids and untrained civilians not respond to an ambush like fully trained and armed commandos on patrol?

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) March 30, 2018

KGxvi Mar 30, 2018 • 11:10:53am

re: #1 Kragar

You know, I’m beginning to think these guys are not on the up and up

Charles Johnson Mar 30, 2018 • 11:11:07am

Bleh. I see Andrew Sullivan is bringing up his racial pseudoscience obsession again, like a cat hacking up a nasty fur ball. This, right here, is why I can’t stand this guy.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 30, 2018

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 11:11:10am

and again, there is this notion that just carrying a gun in public will allow you to respond to an active shooter situation as if you have years of training and experience

jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 11:12:59am

Someone should challenge Andrew Sullivan to scientifically define “black people” or for that matter “race” and see how far he gets.

— David Klion (@DavidKlion) March 30, 2018

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 11:14:53am

re: #1 Kragar

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You can be former military and still be a world class scumbag. This guy is Exhibit A. Tough guy going after a kid who was unarmed.

jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 11:17:36am

re: #6 HappyWarrior

Unarmed in one sense, but somehow wielding power despite that.

Sponsors that dropped Laura Ingraham’s Fox News show *so far*…

Hulu
Johnson & Johnson
Nestle
TripAdviser
Wayfair
Expedia
Joseph A. Banks
Nutrish

Still think these teens can’t get it done? Think again.

— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 29, 2018

bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 11:18:02am

re: #1 Kragar

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Disgusting…I’m sure he will give his grandma the same advice when the nursing home is attacked.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 11:18:47am

re: #7 jaunte

Unarmed in one sense, but somehow wielding power despite that.

I am going to take time to mail these companies as letter of support and approval

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 11:20:43am

re: #7 jaunte

Unarmed in one sense, but somehow wielding power despite that.

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Yep Laura really stepped in it.

bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 11:21:42am

re: #7 jaunte

Unarmed in one sense, but somehow wielding power despite that.

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After f*cking with LeBron James and coming away unscathed I guess Laura thought she could get away with anything.

MsJ Mar 30, 2018 • 11:22:21am

From downstairs:

re: #375 JordanRules

I have and I’m cackling so loud!
She hates that man, that’s why she did it. H tryas to be! But whyyy?

They’re ex lovers, she was spurned and is out for revenge. She would have poisoned him but she feared prison.

I totally made that up but…

🤣😂🤣😂

…………..

There’s a new tweet. I’m f’in’ dying.

plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 11:24:12am

Panasonic created a fridge that drives to you when called pic.twitter.com/0xtYYvJZMf

— Tech Insider (@techinsider) March 30, 2018

Now if they created a drive to you toilet, there will never be a reason to get off the couch.

KGxvi Mar 30, 2018 • 11:25:41am

re: #13 plansbandc

It’s basically Milton from Archer, but without the toast

JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 11:26:02am

re: #12 MsJ

Your theory sounds accurate. Burying it in the trash was the tell; that requires extra effort. LOL

He had to interject this wildcard into the story. We needed it and who can’t use a surprise fried rice lunch!

wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 11:26:40am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

[Andrew Sullivan]

I’m so old, I remember when he steered traffic your way. Two, at least, became lizards. Me and one who flounced, back when that was a fashion.

Charles Johnson Mar 30, 2018 • 11:27:52am

i’ve had these harmonizing samoyeds stuck in my head all day pic.twitter.com/e86XmgRc0b

— nevona (@nevona) March 30, 2018

Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 30, 2018 • 11:28:21am

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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I will never forgive Sullivan for leading the charge agonist Hillary’s health care proposal. Thanks to him, Kristolmeth and the other assorted RepubliKKKlan assholes my parents lost their house because of medical bills.

makeitstop Mar 30, 2018 • 11:28:28am

Pretty good tone for a tennis racket.

Foxy lady - Porcapizza loop performance

wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 11:31:56am

re: #19 makeitstop

Pretty good tone for a tennis racket.

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Harmonizing dogs, pringles percussion, and a tennis racket. The world is made of music.

Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Mar 30, 2018 • 11:32:26am

re: #13 plansbandc

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Now if they created a drive to you toilet, there will never be a reason to get off the couch.

This is what happens when designers are really, really, baked.
Next step: Cheetos that jump into your mouth.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 11:33:56am

re: #21 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

This is what happens when designers are really, really, baked.
Next step: Cheetos that jump into your mouth.

bongs that fill and light themselves…

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Mar 30, 2018 • 11:37:07am

re: #7 jaunte

#BREAKING: Office Depot “will no longer advertise” on Laura Ingraham’s show https://t.co/vzvwpizqs1 pic.twitter.com/YFQ5JEzmCh

— The Hill (@thehill) March 30, 2018

geosherman Mar 30, 2018 • 11:37:57am

re: #16 wrenchwench

I am one of those Lizards [Rank: Regular Lurker] that came over and forgot to go back to Andrew Sullivan’s site. Love this site and am delighted to have been directed here.

makeitstop Mar 30, 2018 • 11:38:48am

re: #20 wrenchwench

Harmonizing dogs, pringles percussion, and a tennis racket. The world is made of music.

I keep going back to the dogs. Dog #4 is late to the session and wonders why everyone else stops when he joins in.

Kragar Mar 30, 2018 • 11:39:39am

I personally know and greatly respect Ronny Jackson….as a terrific doctor and Navy officer. However, he has neither the experience nor the credentials to run the very large and complex VA. This is a terribly misguided nomination that will hurt both a good man and our veterans

— John O. Brennan (@JohnBrennan) March 29, 2018

Just because Ronny Jackson has little relevant experience doesn’t mean he can’t be a great @realDonaldTrump Cabinet Secretary, like Ben Carson and Betsy DeVos. Oh sorry, bad examples.

I meant Rex Tillerson. Oh wait, another bad example.

Good luck Ronny. https://t.co/bkdt6tMMaM

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 30, 2018

Belafon Mar 30, 2018 • 11:42:19am

re: #26 Kragar

Until Ted Lieu, the Parkland Kids, and the women marchers give up, I’m not quitting.

nines09 Mar 30, 2018 • 11:43:04am

I don’t know if anyone else posted this. I just stumbled across it. Read the thread.
Ever.

Co-worker got his lunch stolen and they’ve agreed to let him watch the security camera tape. This is the most excited I’ve ever been at any job ever. Ever.

— Zak Toscani (@zaktoscani) March 29, 2018

wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 11:45:07am

Now that I’ve admitted I used to read A.S., I can admit everything.

Re: Thread title:

‘We have collusion.’

‘Engage tractor beam!’

calochortus Mar 30, 2018 • 11:50:04am

re: #26 Kragar

I wonder if Dr. Jackson will be smart enough to decline the nomination?

FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 Mar 30, 2018 • 11:50:37am

The new TIME cover just reminded me that all his movies are now available ON BLU-RAY! pic.twitter.com/ZFFMsJYY5M

— Conan O’Brien (@ConanOBrien) March 30, 2018

MsJ Mar 30, 2018 • 11:55:10am

re: #28 nines09

I don’t know if anyone else posted this. I just stumbled across it. Read the thread.
Ever.

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That’s what Jordan and I have been discussing. See re: #12 MsJ

And re: #15 JordanRules

It’s hysterical.

Jack Burton Mar 30, 2018 • 11:55:56am

re: #29 wrenchwench

Usul we have collusion the likes of which even God has never seen.

gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 11:56:28am

Hoping for this after my two friends and leaders meet next month.#Peace #Love #NotWar #Diplomacy pic.twitter.com/NEZijYzoLi

— Dennis Rodman (@dennisrodman) March 30, 2018

pic.twitter.com/cogmCng0WY

— JJ (@MemphisJDJ) March 30, 2018

nines09 Mar 30, 2018 • 11:57:15am

re: #32 MsJ

Thanks. Yes, it’s a scream.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 12:03:04pm

Trump is going to get some mileage out the the acquittal of the Pulse shooter’s wife:

Pulse Shooter’s Wife Acquitted After Trial Involving Multiple Embarrassing Revelations About FBI

Belafon Mar 30, 2018 • 12:05:37pm

re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Trump is going to get some mileage out the the acquittal of the Pulse shooter’s wife:

Pulse Shooter’s Wife Acquitted After Trial Involving Multiple Embarrassing Revelations About FBI

Someone should say to Trump “See, you shouldn’t have any problems with Mueller’s investigation.”

ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 12:12:16pm

re: #19 makeitstop

Pretty good tone for a tennis racket.

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Video

How about Seasick Dave with a washboard, one string and a banjo neck(?).

This guy amazes me every time. He does bass, lead licks and percussives on ll his funky made up “hardware.”

Seasick Steve - Roy’s Gang en Session Très Très Privée RTL2

I Would Prefer Not To Mar 30, 2018 • 12:13:29pm

To everyone that observes. Happy Passover.

makeitstop Mar 30, 2018 • 12:14:45pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

How about Seasick Dave with a washboard, one string and a banjo neck(?).

This guy amazes me every time. He does bass, lead licks and percussives on ll his funky made up “hardware.”

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He’s great.

goddamnedfrank Mar 30, 2018 • 12:15:52pm

LOL.

Diversity of Opinion is part of Diversity.

— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) March 30, 2018

Then why did you delete so many of your tweets expressing your opinions? https://t.co/G9METrydOI

— Chelsea Peretti (@chelseaperetti) March 30, 2018

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:17:19pm

re: #41 goddamnedfrank

LOL.

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Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Mar 30, 2018 • 12:18:08pm

re: #41 goddamnedfrank

LOL.

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It is, but we reject Nazi “opinions”, just like we wouldn’t want the diversity of having child-molesters work at day-care centers. Some people are just totally socially unacceptable.

— Jeff “We call BS” Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) March 30, 2018

plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 12:19:11pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

I love him! Would love to see him live.

jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 12:20:39pm

Diversity of Opinion is part of Diversity.

The universe of aphorisms also contains stupid and pointless aphorisms.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:23:52pm

re: #43 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis

Speaking of Nazi ‘opinions’, apparently the Charles Murray/Sam Harris/Ezra Klein thing has reignited the whole ‘Bell Curve’ thing of (pseudo)Scientific Racism.

Imagine being a person of color and having to watch a bunch of self-declared “intellectuals” debating whether you’re intellectually inferior due to your genetics. Also, you’re not invited to this debate.

— Murtaza Mohammad Hussain (@MazMHussain) March 30, 2018

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:25:27pm

Dafuq?

Is there a level above nuclear takes? pic.twitter.com/crIaYlKMFS

— 1984 reader (@NormsRespecter) March 30, 2018

I keep saying this but people don’t want to believe it: emerging meme on the right is Nikolas Cruz is victim & martyr who only became shooter because he was bullied by vile anti-gun students. https://t.co/eecEHrLAcO

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) March 30, 2018

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:25:33pm

re: #46 Blind Frog Belly White

Speaking of Nazi ‘opinions’, apparently the Charles Murray/Sam Harris/Ezra Klein thing has reignited the whole ‘Bell Curve’ thing of (pseudo)Scientific Racism.

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Damn good point.

electrotek Mar 30, 2018 • 12:26:14pm

re: #46 Blind Frog Belly White

Speaking of Nazi ‘opinions’, apparently the Charles Murray/Sam Harris/Ezra Klein thing has reignited the whole ‘Bell Curve’ thing of (pseudo)Scientific Racism.

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What’s up with that dude??

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:27:08pm

re: #49 electrotek

What’s up with that dude??

Which one?

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:27:12pm

re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White

Dafuq?

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From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

Skip Intro Mar 30, 2018 • 12:27:29pm

Houston megachurch pastor, accomplice bilked investors out of more than $1M: Feds

Of course. That’s what they do. All tax free, too, thanks to the US taxpayer.

SHREVEPORT, La. — A federal grand jury has indicted a Houston Texas pastor and a Louisiana financial planner with bilking investors out of more than $1 million.

U.S. Attorney Alexander C. Van Hook said in a news release Thursday that a 13-count indictment was handed up against 64-year-old Kirbyjon Caldwell, of Houston, and 55-year-old Gregory Alan Smith, of Shreveport. They’re accused of wire fraud, money laundering conspiracy to commit those two offenses.

According to the indictment, Caldwell used his influence as pastor of Windsor Village United Methodist Church, a prominent Houston church, and Smith used his influence as operator and manager of Smith Financial Group LLC, in Shreveport, to lure investors to pay more than $1 million for Historical Chinese bonds that aren’t recognized by China’s current government and have no investment value.

Praise Jebus!

cbsnews.com

electrotek Mar 30, 2018 • 12:27:47pm

re: #50 Blind Frog Belly White

Which one?

Murtaza.

Belafon Mar 30, 2018 • 12:28:21pm

re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White

Dafuq?

One of the girls at the school already addressed that in an editorial that I believed was published in the Washington Post. She tried to be friends with him, but he was a bully.

Belafon Mar 30, 2018 • 12:28:33pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

They’re losing.

Scout Mar 30, 2018 • 12:28:53pm

re: #28 nines09

I don’t know if anyone else posted this. I just stumbled across it. Read the thread.
Ever.

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I agree this is funny, but in the tweet thread he says the HR department let the “victim” watch the security video.

That strikes me as the worst possible decision they could make in such a scenario.

Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis Mar 30, 2018 • 12:29:13pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

They’re morons, who need to think of the people they hate as bad-guys in a black & white world. That can wind up pretty twisted.

plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 12:29:49pm

re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White

Snopes is on it. Rating: False

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:30:10pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

They’re defending the indefensible, as they have for a long time, but they’re finding the usual tactics (thoughts and prayers, blaming mental health, gun jargon OCD) aren’t working for them, so they’re panicking.

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 12:30:18pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

because white shooters somehow seem more sympathetic to them than their victims

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:30:36pm

re: #55 Belafon

They’re losing.

They sure are. I’m old enough to remember when rwnjs defended bullying.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:30:55pm

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because white shooters somehow seem more sympathetic to them than their victims

Apparently it works for bombers, too.

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:31:02pm

re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

because white shooters somehow seem more sympathetic to them than their victims

Both Cruz and Emma are Hispanic.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:32:01pm

re: #58 plansbandc

Snopes is on it. Rating: False

SNOPES IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS!!! in 3…2…1…

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:32:42pm

re: #64 Blind Frog Belly White

SNOPES IS FUNDED BY GEORGE SOROS!!! in 3…2…1…

Pretty much.

Skip Intro Mar 30, 2018 • 12:34:35pm

nines09 Mar 30, 2018 • 12:36:22pm

re: #56 Scout

Actually it shows her she hasn’t a leg to stand on. The guy could have pressed charges. He didn’t. I dealt with dicks worse than that at work when I was employed. MHO is that shuts her up. No she said/he said.
I would anonymously get a Chinese shrimp plate delivered to her paid in full every other month.

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 12:36:35pm

re: #66 Skip Intro

It’s delicious because everything they’ve tried fails. You can smell the desperation. And about fucking time, too!

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:36:46pm

They don’t know what they’re talking about. // And RWNJs do?

Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 12:37:34pm

Reminder: It’s never, ever been about actual concern for fraud.

It’s always been about ensuring disenfranchisement.

In NC, a woman pretended to be her dead mother so she could vote for trump twice. The DA didn’t even charge her, citing “compassion.” Meanwhile, this black woman is going to prison for 5 years for a mistake. It’s never been about voter fraud. https://t.co/V2D851YDFB

— josie duffy rice (@jduffyrice) March 30, 2018

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:37:49pm

re: #54 Belafon

One of the girls at the school already addressed that in an editorial that I believed was published in the Washington Post. She tried to be friends with him, but he was a bully.

He threw apples at her iirc. And he was a bigot too but we know the real villains now.//

Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 12:38:41pm

re: #68 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s delicious because everything they’ve tried fails. You can smell the desperation. And about fucking time, too!

I was saying that we needed real heroes that people can identify with. And the Parkland school kids have put a sympathetic human face on the issue of gun control and caused their attackers to show their worst possible side for all to see shame.

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:44:06pm

re: #70 Citizen K

Reminder: It’s never, ever been about actual concern for fraud.

It’s always been about ensuring disenfranchisement.

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It always will be.

ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 12:45:35pm

re: #38 ObserverArt

How about Seasick Dave with a washboard, one string and a banjo neck(?).

This guy amazes me every time. He does bass, lead licks and percussives on ll his funky made up “hardware.”

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Damnit! Typing too fast…again. How could I make it Seasick Dave. I know the guys name!

Grrrr.

Skip Intro Mar 30, 2018 • 12:46:38pm

re: #74 ObserverArt

Seasick Dave is a great name IMO.

makeitstop Mar 30, 2018 • 12:47:08pm

re: #75 Skip Intro

Seasick Dave is a great name IMO.

Seasick Steve’s brother.

Eventual Carrion Mar 30, 2018 • 12:50:15pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

I’m sure what ever it is is medically/psychologically difficult to pronounce.

Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 12:52:17pm

So, I’m told Pruitt’s spokesperson Jahan Wilcox was the one who “provided” @FreeBeacon the “internal EPA documents” showing Obama’s EPA heads spent more than Pruitt on international travel (which is disingenuous, as I explain here: https://t.co/XgT33xuRGe) pic.twitter.com/cZleo2A4R0

— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) March 29, 2018

EPA’s Wilcox shopped these documents around to multiple reporters. @FreeBeacon were the only ones to take the bait. They published uncritically with a quote Wilcox provided along with the documents. pic.twitter.com/4kigEIr5ZC

— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) March 29, 2018

The next day, a conservative news outlet with a much wider reach—@FoxNews News—aggregated the story EPA’s political operative gave to @FreeBeacon, also without a critical eye. https://t.co/HxaSpyQ40m

— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) March 29, 2018

Then, Scott Pruitt went on multiple conservative radio stations, and used the story he created to defend himself against questions about his travel expenses. https://t.co/XgT33xuRGe

— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) March 29, 2018

To recap:

Pruitt concocted a false story that Obama’s EPA heads spent more than him on travel.

His team shopped the false story to journalists.

Journalists republished the false story.

Pruitt used the false story to defend himself.

https://t.co/XgT33xuRGe

— Emily Atkin (@emorwee) March 29, 2018

I want to be shocked but…this is almost how it goes in political media as standard operating practice: GOPer/conservative makes claim, gets taken at face value with no verification and gets repeated verbatim even after he’s been debunked.

Liberal makes verifiable claim, gets treated like a liar from the start and has to give proof in triplicate just to upgrade his claim to ‘both sides same thing’ in the media.

Dr Lizardo Mar 30, 2018 • 12:54:17pm

So…….just got back from seeing Ready Player One.

A good sci-fi flick. I’m not going to say it’s the greatest Spielberg film ever, but it’s a solid and entertaining entry in his repertoire.

And I’d imagine that a big part of the film’s $175,000,000 budget, aside from CGI, was spent on lawyer’s fees getting the rights to intellectual properties such as Freddy Krueger, Chucky, the Iron Giant, Gundam, Kaneda’s motorcycle from Akira, etc.

bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 12:55:39pm

re: #79 Dr Lizardo

So…….just got back from seeing Ready Player One.

A good sci-fi flick. I’m not going to say it’s the greatest Spielberg film ever, but it’s a solid and entertaining entry in his repertoire.

And I’d imagine that a big part of the film’s $175,000,000 budget, aside from CGI, was spent on lawyer’s fees getting the rights to intellectual properties such as Freddy Krueger, Chucky, the Iron Giant, Gundam, Kaneda’s motorcycle from Akira, etc.

That book was so good, when I finished it I thought, we’ll they’ll never make a movie out of this….

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 12:56:08pm

re: #78 Citizen K

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I want to be shocked but…this is almost how it goes in political media as standard operating practice: GOPer/conservative makes claim, gets taken at face value with no verification and gets repeated verbatim even after he’s been debunked.

Liberal makes verifiable claim, gets treated like a liar from the start and has to give proof in triplicate just to upgrade his claim to ‘both sides same thing’ in the media.

Christ.

jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 12:57:49pm

thought experiment for some enterprising news outlet: for one week, only report on politics based on the thoughts and observations of nonwhite people. see what its like. its an incomplete picture of america, but you guys do the reverse almost every day.

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) March 30, 2018

JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 12:59:04pm

re: #67 nines09

Actually it shows her she hasn’t a leg to stand on. The guy could have pressed charges. He didn’t. I dealt with dicks worse than that at work when I was employed. MHO is that shuts her up. No she said/he said.
I would anonymously get a Chinese shrimp plate delivered to her paid in full every other month.

It worked here cause it’s a 5 buck lunch but in just about any other scenario HR should be the one to look at any tapes, not the person making the accusation.
Still hilarious thread where this doesn’t seem to be an issue.
Also it teaches her nothing because nobody has told her yet that they looked at the tape.

Dr Lizardo Mar 30, 2018 • 12:59:38pm

re: #80 bill d. (b.d.)

That book was so good, when I finished it I thought, we’ll they’ll never make a movie out of this….

Spielberg pulled it off.

There’s a sequence in the film that’s a brilliant homage to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining - it’s probably the best bit in the whole film, and I was both awed at how well it was done and laughing most of the way through that bit because they also threw in elements of satirical humor/parody. Hell, they even used the original theme music by Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind…..a nice little touch.

jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 1:14:16pm

I’m old enough to remember #CutAndRun.https://t.co/QmxTfkPuRs

— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) March 30, 2018

#WhatWouldPutinWant

bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 1:14:16pm

An absolutely beautiful @WSJ correction today. Happy Passover! pic.twitter.com/U8W2sO6Dus

— Amy Spiro (@AmySpiro) March 28, 2018

Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 1:15:20pm

FUN FACT! Re the pro-gun argument that Hitler confiscated guns, so any gun regulation makes us Nazi Germany.

NEVER HAPPENED.

Waffengesetz, started in 1938, required police permission for ownership of a handgun. All other firearms were left unregulated

Get your facts straight

— Dana Gould (@danagould) March 30, 2018

JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 1:16:36pm

1.) Spreading conspiracy theories about lizard people, pizza-shop-sex-dungeons, and lying about the survivor of a mass shooting are not opinions. They’re lies.

2.) Why do totally bonkers people (Trump, Roseanne, like 90% of the trolls in my mentions) randomly capitalize words? pic.twitter.com/ArvImPyqUf

— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) March 30, 2018

Jack Burton Mar 30, 2018 • 1:23:10pm

re: #88 JordanRules

Why do totally bonkers people (Trump, Roseanne, like 90% of the trolls in my mentions) randomly capitalize words?

German as a first language? They are Nazis after all.

/ish

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 1:25:28pm

“Diversity of opinion is part of diversity”

That’s why we tolerate people who call Chicago Tomato Casserole ‘Pizza’. But, you know, the whole CT thing isn’t diversity of opinion. It’s divergence from reality.

Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Mar 30, 2018 • 1:26:48pm

First drone delivery, now faster transit:

Jack Burton Mar 30, 2018 • 1:27:00pm

re: #90 Blind Frog Belly White

“Diversity of opinion is part of diversity”

That’s why we tolerate people who call Chicago Tomato Casserole ‘Pizza’. But, you know, the whole CT thing isn’t diversity of opinion. It’s divergence from reality.

I barely tolerate people who think pineapple goes on pizza. Barely.

ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 1:27:11pm

re: #88 JordanRules

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I hear the frustrated cry of Roseanne Barr.

“Why can’t I be who I am without questions or repercussions…that is diversity?”

Touch me not!

Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 1:27:47pm

re: #92 Jack Burton

I barely tolerate people who think pineapple goes on pizza. Barely.

The line must be drawn somewhere.

BlueGrl21 Mar 30, 2018 • 1:28:15pm

re: #24 geosherman

I am one of those Lizards [Rank: Regular Lurker] that came over and forgot to go back to Andrew Sullivan’s site. Love this site and am delighted to have been directed here.

I ended up here from another site. Couldn’t stand all the bickering and people trying to say the most cleverly sarcastic thing on threads. And the trolls, dear God, the trolls. I know not to feed them but I’d rather not have to constantly be looking at them.

I love the people here.

JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 1:29:53pm

re: #95 BlueGrl21

I ended up here from another site. Couldn’t stand all the bickering and people trying to say the most cleverly sarcastic thing on threads. And the trolls, dear God, the trolls. I know not to feed them but I’d rather not have to constantly be looking at them.

I love the people here.

Ha! That’s exactly my LGF origin story too!

Love, love, love this site.

PhillyPretzel Mar 30, 2018 • 1:31:14pm

re: #24 geosherman

re: #95 BlueGrl21

re: #96 JordanRules

Put me in that category too. That is why I pay for ad free access to this site.

HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 1:32:20pm

Diversity of opinion? Sure you have that right to your opinion without government punishment but you’re open for public scrutiny too and that includes you, Ms. I dressed up as Hitler and pushed lies at children.

Dr Lizardo Mar 30, 2018 • 1:44:11pm

Have a good one, Lizards.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 1:48:24pm

re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White

Dafuq?

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The wingnuts are so desperate that they’re looking for any angle they can to portray the victims as responsible for the shooting, even to making up this bullshit narrative about Cruz being the victim of bullying when all reports are that hew as a violent little shit who lashed out at anyone, even those who were trying to be nice to him.

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Romantic Heretic Mar 30, 2018 • 1:51:04pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

From what I understand Cruz was quite the bully. I’m seeing this bs emerge too. JFC what the hell is wrong with people?

They know that they are good people and therefore if they do anything wrong it’s because they are the victims.

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 1:56:35pm

Oh hey…what do you know, the shit about immigrants bringing in crime and violence is bullshit. What a surprise…

The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

The Trump administration’s first year of immigration policy has relied on claims that immigrants bring crime into America. President Trump’s latest target is sanctuary cities.

“Every day, sanctuary cities release illegal immigrants, drug dealers, traffickers, gang members back into our communities,” he said last week. “They’re safe havens for just some terrible people.”

As of 2017, according to Gallup polls, almost half of Americans agreed that immigrants make crime worse. But is it true that immigration drives crime? Many studies have shown that it does not.

[…]

According to data from the study, a large majority of the areas have many more immigrants today than they did in 1980 and fewer violent crimes. The Marshall Project extended the study’s data up to 2016, showing that crime fell more often than it rose even as immigrant populations grew almost across the board.

In 136 metro areas, almost 70 percent of those studied, the immigrant population increased between 1980 and 2016 while crime stayed stable or fell. The number of areas where crime and immigration both increased was much lower — 54 areas, slightly more than a quarter of the total. The 10 places with the largest increases in immigrants all had lower levels of crime in 2016 than in 1980.

And yet the argument that immigrants bring crime into America has driven many of the policies enacted or proposed by the administration so far: restrictions to entry, travel and visas; heightened border enforcement; plans for a wall along the border with Mexico. This month, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against California in response to the state’s restrictions on local police to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in detaining and deporting undocumented immigrants charged with crimes. On Tuesday, California’s Orange County signed on in support of that suit. But while the immigrant population in the county has more than doubled since 1980, overall violent crime has decreased by more than 50 percent.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 1:56:56pm

Tom Fucking Nichols is whinging on about Hillary Clinton ‘refusing to yield the stage’, and I gotta wonder - how much farther from the stage can she get?

She wrote a book, which was well received, and did a book tour which all authors do. Prior to that, she was largely absent from public notice.

She’s given a few paid speeches, sent a few tweets. She’s hasn’t gone on TV, and certainly doesn’t have a permanent chair on the Sunday Shows, like one former POW turned GOP Senator and failed Presidential candidate. Hell’s bells - even Rick Santorum, who LOST HIS RACE FOR REELECTION TO THE SENATE, and lost two successive GOP Presidential Primaries, keeps going on TV.

For shit’s sake, Nichols has a more prominent profile these days, and he’s just a pompous windbag.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 1:57:22pm

re: #80 bill d. (b.d.)

That book was so good, when I finished it I thought, we’ll they’ll never make a movie out of this….

It’s a good film and I think a good adaptation of the book. But I couldn’t help but feel, after leaving the theater, that Spielberg had kept to his style of changing the base material to give the audience a happy ending.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 1:57:50pm

re: #102 Citizen K

Oh hey…what do you know, the shit about immigrants bringing in crime and violence is bullshit. What a surprise…

But of course the Trumpkins won’t accept it because it goes against their ‘common sense’.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light)) Mar 30, 2018 • 1:58:13pm

re: #79 Dr Lizardo

So…….just got back from seeing Ready Player One.

A good sci-fi flick. I’m not going to say it’s the greatest Spielberg film ever, but it’s a solid and entertaining entry in his repertoire.

And I’d imagine that a big part of the film’s $175,000,000 budget, aside from CGI, was spent on lawyer’s fees getting the rights to intellectual properties such as Freddy Krueger, Chucky, the Iron Giant, Gundam, Kaneda’s motorcycle from Akira, etc.

I started to read the book and realized that I had no interest in the lost pop culture of the 80’s…

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I Would Prefer Not To Mar 30, 2018 • 1:59:12pm

re: #103 Blind Frog Belly White

Tom Fucking Nichols is whinging on about Hillary Clinton ‘refusing to yield the stage’, and I gotta wonder - how much farther from the stage can she get?

She wrote a book, which was well received, and did a book tour which all authors do. Prior to that, she was largely absent from public notice.

She’s given a few paid speeches, sent a few tweets. She’s hasn’t gone on TV, and certainly doesn’t have a permanent chair on the Sunday Shows, like one former POW turned GOP Senator and failed Presidential candidate. Hell’s bells - even Rick Santorum, who LOST HIS RACE FOR REELECTION TO THE SENATE, and lost two successive GOP Presidential Primaries, keeps going on TV.

For shit’s sake, Nichols has a more prominent profile these days, and he’s just a pompous windbag.

It never ends. If Hillary dies tomorrow, they’ll complain about her funeral.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 1:59:29pm

Door…ass…way out.

Stacey Dash Is Withdrawing From the California Congressional Race https://t.co/oFpNP9trTj

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 30, 2018

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:01:11pm

re: #107 I Would Prefer Not To

It never ends. If Hillary dies tomorrow, they’ll complain about her funeral.

He reminds me why the GOP - even the NeverTrump GOP - needs to not be allowed near the levers of power for a long, long time.

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:01:13pm

re: #103 Blind Frog Belly White

Tom Fucking Nichols is whinging on about Hillary Clinton ‘refusing to yield the stage’, and I gotta wonder - how much farther from the stage can she get?

She wrote a book, which was well received, and did a book tour which all authors do. Prior to that, she was largely absent from public notice.

She’s given a few paid speeches, sent a few tweets. She’s hasn’t gone on TV, and certainly doesn’t have a permanent chair on the Sunday Shows, like one former POW turned GOP Senator and failed Presidential candidate. Hell’s bells - even Rick Santorum, who LOST HIS RACE FOR REELECTION TO THE SENATE, and lost two successive GOP Presidential Primaries, keeps going on TV.

For shit’s sake, Nichols has a more prominent profile these days, and he’s just a pompous windbag.

I’ll keep my opinion of Tom Nichols simple.

He’s a clueless conservative with his head up his ass.

He seems to want someone to always hold his hand and understand why he is an asshole.

But he never wants to understand the left side of things…because he could never consider them as legitimate.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:02:29pm

re: #103 Blind Frog Belly White

Tom Fucking Nichols is whinging on about Hillary Clinton ‘refusing to yield the stage’, and I gotta wonder - how much farther from the stage can she get?

She wrote a book, which was well received, and did a book tour which all authors do. Prior to that, she was largely absent from public notice.

She’s given a few paid speeches, sent a few tweets. She’s hasn’t gone on TV, and certainly doesn’t have a permanent chair on the Sunday Shows, like one former POW turned GOP Senator and failed Presidential candidate. Hell’s bells - even Rick Santorum, who LOST HIS RACE FOR REELECTION TO THE SENATE, and lost two successive GOP Presidential Primaries, keeps going on TV.

For shit’s sake, Nichols has a more prominent profile these days, and he’s just a pompous windbag.

It’s a simple solution: If these jackholes don’t want her on the stage, then they need to stop dragging her up there so they can continuing flogging her. But they won’t do that because it’s just easier for them to blame her than to address issues like the party’s mistake of allowing a non-party member to bullshit his way into the primaries.

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 2:04:54pm

re: #103 Blind Frog Belly White

Tom Fucking Nichols is whinging on about Hillary Clinton ‘refusing to yield the stage’, and I gotta wonder - how much farther from the stage can she get?

She wrote a book, which was well received, and did a book tour which all authors do. Prior to that, she was largely absent from public notice.

She’s given a few paid speeches, sent a few tweets. She’s hasn’t gone on TV, and certainly doesn’t have a permanent chair on the Sunday Shows, like one former POW turned GOP Senator and failed Presidential candidate. Hell’s bells - even Rick Santorum, who LOST HIS RACE FOR REELECTION TO THE SENATE, and lost two successive GOP Presidential Primaries, keeps going on TV.

For shit’s sake, Nichols has a more prominent profile these days, and he’s just a pompous windbag.

The only other candidate I can even think of within the last 30 years or so who had obsolescence and obscurity demanded of them in any capacity is Gore, and nowhere to this level .They just made him a punch line and then dismissed his activism almost solely out of animosity for Bill Clinton.

They simply want Hillary Clinton to literally not exist. They act like her very breathing is somehow an affront to political decorum.

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:08:57pm

re: #112 Citizen K

The only other candidate I can even think of within the last 30 years or so who had obsolescence and obscurity demanded of them in any capacity is Gore, and nowhere to this level .They just made him a punch line and then dismissed his activism almost solely out of animosity for Bill Clinton.

They simply want Hillary Clinton to literally not exist. They act like her very breathing is somehow an affront to political decorum.

I disagree with them wanting her to not exist.

What else would they write, comment and complain about? They need her even for something as simple to bitch about her still on the scene.

And as pathetic as that is…some on the left need her for much the same reasons too.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:11:48pm

The right need Hillary because without her they’ve no excuse for why they voted for Trump, and the far-left needs her because they need a scapegoat for their actions in helping Trump win.

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Belafon Mar 30, 2018 • 2:11:56pm

re: #113 ObserverArt

I disagree with them wanting her to not exist.

What else would they write, comment and complain about? They need her even for something as simple to bitch about her still on the scene.

And as pathetic as that is…some on the left need her for much the same reasons too.

Is this an effort to change the subject from the kids?

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gwangung Mar 30, 2018 • 2:13:31pm

re: #102 Citizen K

Oh hey…what do you know, the shit about immigrants bringing in crime and violence is bullshit. What a surprise…

The Myth of the Criminal Immigrant

They said that about the Chinese. They said that about the Japanese. They said that about every group of non-white people who’ve immigrated to this country.

AND IT’S ALL BULLSHIT

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 2:14:40pm

re: #115 Belafon

Is this an effort to change the subject from the kids?

Hardly, they’ve been on this hobby horse since the election, from both ends of the spectrum. They simultaneously want her to take blame for everything that’s happened and everything that Trump does and to shut up and never speak again because she’s somehow lost any privilege to speak of politics ever.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:17:04pm

The funny thing is, looking at Nichols from the outside, the man is so bereft of self awareness it’s a wonder he doesn’t walk into the furniture.

He talks about how Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, and Elizabeth Warren are the GOP’s secret weapon, and of course he hates them, too, but god forbid you call him sexist! I mean, it would be different if he said something like ‘The reason these women are a problem for Democrats is because the WWC folks they need to win are by and large sexist and hate powerful, opinionated women who are not deferential to men’, but no. He goes right along with it, apparently blissfully unaware.

And he still believes the GOP is the party of who he wants to believe Reagan was, not the party that elected Reagan because he appealed to the same white resentment as Trump, but in dog whistles instead of foghorns.

And while railing against everyone thinking of themselves as expert in every field, he acts as if his opinions on topics outside his relatively narrow professional focus are not just some clown’s opinion, of no special merit.

I guess he bothers me because he comes part of the way - he has been consistently anti-Trump and deplores his party’s complicity in the corruption and incompetence. But then he stops. And remains mired in the worst parts of upper crust Conservatism.

It’s frustrating, because watching it is like arguing with otherwise intelligent Creationists, where the other person sees, understands, and accepts part of your argument, but as soon as you try to build on that, they slide back into their dogma.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 2:17:10pm

re: #63 HappyWarrior

Both Cruz and Emma are Hispanic.

There are White Latinos. Cruz was a member of a White Supremacist group so I assume he identified as White.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:18:36pm

re: #112 Citizen K

The only other candidate I can even think of within the last 30 years or so who had obsolescence and obscurity demanded of them in any capacity is Gore, and nowhere to this level .They just made him a punch line and then dismissed his activism almost solely out of animosity for Bill Clinton.

They simply want Hillary Clinton to literally not exist. They act like her very breathing is somehow an affront to political decorum.

The odd thing is, both Gore and Clinton won the popular vote while losing the EC, which makes me wonder if the need to have them disappear is related.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:20:39pm

re: #116 gwangung

They said that about the Chinese. They said that about the Japanese. They said that about every group of non-white people who’ve immigrated to this country.

AND IT’S ALL BULLSHIT

To be fair, they said it about several groups of white immigrants, too. But they were able to become ‘fully white’ after a few decades.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:22:36pm

re: #117 Citizen K

Hardly, they’ve been on this hobby horse since the election, from both ends of the spectrum. They simultaneously want her to take blame for everything that’s happened and everything that Trump does and to shut up and never speak again because she’s somehow lost any privilege to speak of politics ever.

The only thing they really want to hear from her is taking total blame for losing to Trump. They want her to absolve them of all their sins so they can go forward believing that nothing they did led to Trump’s election. It’s why the far-left are so adamantly against the Russia investigation, because if it turns out that Trump won through outside influence, then their entire argument that she lost due to being such a terrible candidate goes up in smoke.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 2:24:26pm

re: #102 Citizen K

And we have a President who started his campaign by claiming that Mexican migrants were mostly criminals. Huge sigh.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 30, 2018 • 2:25:41pm

The secret to @therealroseanne massive ratings is that it celebrates people with huge political differences who are able to laugh and love together as they passionately disagree.

— Rob Lowe (@RobLowe) March 30, 2018

Because they’re insulated from real harm & aren’t existentially threatened. So no matter how “huge” their disagreement over politics they know that the real world damage will fall on others, on vulnerable minorities. This allows them to view everything from a comfortable distance https://t.co/wTF8zU2Zwt

— MC 555 nanometer Jesus (@goddamnedfrank) March 30, 2018

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:26:31pm

re: #121 Blind Frog Belly White

One of my favorite things about immigration is something Benjamin Franklin wrote in 1750 about all the German immigrants in Pennsylvania.

Few of their children in the Country learn English; they import many Books from Germany; and of the six printing houses in the Province, two are entirely German, two half German half English, and but two entirely English; They have one German News-paper, and one half German. Advertisements intended to be general are now printed in Dutch and English; the Signs in our Streets have inscriptions in both languages, and in some places only German: They begin of late to make all their Bonds and other legal Writings in their own Language, which (though I think it ought not to be) are allowed good in our Courts, where the German Business so encreases that there is continual need of Interpreters; and I suppose in a few years they will be also necessary in the Assembly, to tell one half of our Legislators what the other half say;

Before there was even an America, there was ‘Othering’ of immigrants.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 2:26:52pm

There is not a 1st Amen right to advertising.

As usual, Ingraham used her platform to denigrate. But thats free speech.

The kids used THEIR free speech to respond.

The advertisers left. Behavior has consequences. “The party of personal responsibility” needs to stop whining.

— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) March 30, 2018

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:27:56pm

re: #124 goddamnedfrank

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It allows the viewers to imagine that things are the same as they used to be, but updated with modern pop references.

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:28:57pm

Anyone familiar with Noah Rothman from Commentary Magazine?

He’s on with Katy Tur and seems to be just a wee bit full of it and of himself. Another young Republican talking head too. They must have a factory for these guys.

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Stanley Sea Mar 30, 2018 • 2:29:55pm

Liberty Mutual is dropping Laura Ingraham. https://t.co/IdqoMxZCOb

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 30, 2018

That’s my robe

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danarchy Mar 30, 2018 • 2:30:05pm

re: #119 Patricia Kayden

There are White Latinos. Cruz was a member of a White Supremacist group so I assume he identified as White.

While Cruz is clearly a racist douchebag from a lot of his online posts, the organizations who reported the connection to a White Supremacist group have all retracted. They were played by internet trolls.

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 2:31:55pm

re: #118 Blind Frog Belly White

I guess he bothers me because he comes part of the way - he has been consistently anti-Trump and deplores his party’s complicity in the corruption and incompetence. But then he stops. And remains mired in the worst parts of upper crust Conservatism.

That’s the frustrating thing: outside of a handful, most of those Never Trumpers, and a non-insignificant part of the lefter-than-thou folk too, are theoretically anti-Trump, but treat the Democrats and especially Hillary as the ‘real’ and far more pressing threat to them. They want to tear down the Dem party before even daring to try and hold Trump accountable.

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goddamnedfrank Mar 30, 2018 • 2:32:04pm

re: #127 Targetpractice

It allows the viewers to imagine that things are the same as they used to be, but updated with modern pop references.

Toxic nostalgia.They’re on a mission to show white America that it doesn’t have any reason to feel ashamed of itself.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:32:06pm

re: #126 Patricia Kayden

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She issued a “I’m sorry you were offended” non-apology that made sure to mention the Holy Week as the motivation for issuing it, which can only lead one to assume that if there were no boycott, she would not have “apologized” and would have just continued dumping on Hogg.

So get out of here with this “She apologized” horseshit, you reject from Children of the Corn.

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:33:05pm

re: #115 Belafon

Is this an effort to change the subject from the kids?

You never know…but Clinton is a convenient all purpose tool and can be used to make any point about the left.

She is allspice.

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:34:55pm

re: #117 Citizen K

Hardly, they’ve been on this hobby horse since the election, from both ends of the spectrum. They simultaneously want her to take blame for everything that’s happened and everything that Trump does and to shut up and never speak again because she’s somehow lost any privilege to speak of politics ever.

Do you mean the 1992 election? Because that is how long this has been going on.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:35:42pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

Toxic nostalgia.They’re on a mission to show white America that it doesn’t have any reason to feel ashamed of itself.

Of course. It’s for the same reason that Mad Men appealed to the same crowd, because it allowed them the fantasy that life was simpler “back then” and we’ve somehow moved away from that.

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I Would Prefer Not To Mar 30, 2018 • 2:35:53pm

re: #126 Patricia Kayden

“The party of personal responsibility” needs to stop whining.

this times a billion

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Interesting Times Mar 30, 2018 • 2:35:54pm

How’s the wall coming along?@IKEA has creative finance plans available, and @IKEAUSA should be able to work through a @USGSA Supplier. pic.twitter.com/fMwrHih15s

— Lloyd Spencer (@lloyd_t_spencer) March 30, 2018

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 2:37:24pm

re: #135 ObserverArt

Do you mean the 1992 election? Because that is how long this has been going on.

The GOP has been since ‘92, yeah, but it really didn’t seem to gain purchase on the left-wing side of things like it has until well after the slime machine went out for blood for good, and seemed to especially come to a head at the election.

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 2:39:04pm

On a Good Friday theme, my favorite Jesus song.

Jesus Christ - Woody Guthrie

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 2:40:05pm

re: #130 danarchy

While Cruz is clearly a racist douchebag from a lot of his online posts, the organizations who reported the connection to a White Supremacist group have all retracted. They were played by internet trolls.

Thanks for the info. Didn’t know this.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:41:19pm

Ben’s white-knighting of Laura sounds more like one bully backing up another, insisting that because she said she’s “sorry,” the victim of the bullying should just let it go and let her find another victim for awhile. One thing that always gets bullies angry is when there are consequences to their actions that they can’t just make go away with a few empty words.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:42:27pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

Toxic nostalgia.They’re on a mission to show white America that it doesn’t have any reason to feel ashamed of itself.

I saw a video on FB the other day, a woman talking about why some white men are so angry. As she starts out by saying “You may have noticed that some white men are really angry these days…”

Three young, white guys with glasses and beards lean into frame and say, “Not all white men!”

To which she responds, “That’s why I said, “SOME white men”.

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 2:44:11pm

re: #142 Targetpractice

Ben’s white-knighting of Laura sounds more like one bully backing up another, insisting that because she said she’s “sorry,” the victim of the bullying should just let it go and let her find another victim for awhile. One thing that always gets bullies angry is when there are consequences to their actions that they can’t just make go away with a few empty words.

And that’s where the DARVO comes in. You see it with folks trying to cast the Parkland kids as the REAL perpetrators and bullies, beating up on the poor innocent pundits and causing Cruz to lash out.

The combination victim blame and persecution complex, the hallmark of bullies who get vengeful against victims that won’t actually take shit lying down.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 2:44:25pm

re: #134 ObserverArt

You never know…but Clinton is a convenient all purpose tool and can be used to make any point about the left.

She is allspice.

You mean, you put a pinch of her in pumpkin pie, but a lot in jerk chicken?
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retired cynic Mar 30, 2018 • 2:45:29pm

re: #116 gwangung

They said that about the Chinese. They said that about the Japanese. They said that about every group of non-white people who’ve immigrated to this country.

AND IT’S ALL BULLSHIT

Not just non-white. They said it about the Irish, and the Germans and the Italians and … and …

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 30, 2018 • 2:47:08pm

re: #108 Blind Frog Belly White

Door…ass…way out.

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Aw, I wanted her to get slaughtered at the ballot box the same way Larry Elder and Star Parker did!

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:47:50pm

re: #139 Citizen K

The GOP has been since ‘92, yeah, but it really didn’t seem to gain purchase on the left-wing side of things like it has until well after the slime machine went out for blood for good, and seemed to especially come to a head at the election.

I would suggest that what you are talking about was born out of ‘92. Sure the bitching started on the right with Limbaugh and Fox and others like them. But the left learned from it and use it now because it is convenient and effective. They can get plenty of agreement from the wingnuts to convince them they all understand how bad she is.

I bet you are very familiar with a Bernie supporter or a less than enthused Hillary voter saying something about “all that Clinton baggage” prior to the 2016 election. That is what I am talking about. Some on the left bought in to all of it. They apparently don’t need facts to support it. Must be one of those “gut feelings” like the same feeling that brought us Trump.

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Citizen K Mar 30, 2018 • 2:51:52pm

re: #148 ObserverArt

I would suggest that what you are talking about was born out of ‘92. Sure the bitching started on the right with Limbaugh and Fox and others like them. But the left learned from it and use it now because it is convenient and effective. They can get plenty of agreement from the wingnuts to convince them they all understand how bad she is.

I bet you are very familiar with a Bernie supporter or a less than enthused Hillary voter saying something about “all that Clinton baggage” prior to the 2016 election. That is what I am talking about. Some on the left bought in to all of it. They apparently don’t need facts to support it. Must be one of those “gut feelings” like the same feeling that brought us Trump.

Sigh…yeah, fair enough. I’m just kind of sick of the entire goddamn thing. It has me fully expecting ratfucking come November that’ll put the nail in the coffin on everything, all because they can’t get over someone who won’t even be on the fucking ballot now.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 2:52:20pm

It’s actions like these which make me worried about how quickly the next Democratic administration can repair the damage being done by Trump’s administration. He is destroying this country in so many ways.

“This is certainly a big deal. The result will be more gas-guzzling vehicles on the road, greater total gasoline consumption, and a significant increase in carbon dioxide emissions.”https://t.co/EFVCQMwMjE

— NYT Climate (@nytclimate) March 29, 2018

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 2:55:57pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

Jesus Christ

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:56:37pm

re: #148 ObserverArt

I would suggest that what you are talking about was born out of ‘92. Sure the bitching started on the right with Limbaugh and Fox and others like them. But the left learned from it and use it now because it is convenient and effective. They can get plenty of agreement from the wingnuts to convince them they all understand how bad she is.

I bet you are very familiar with a Bernie supporter or a less than enthused Hillary voter saying something about “all that Clinton baggage” prior to the 2016 election. That is what I am talking about. Some on the left bought in to all of it. They apparently don’t need facts to support it. Must be one of those “gut feelings” like the same feeling that brought us Trump.

The far-left’s been nursing a grudge since Bill’s win in ‘92 because they blamed him (and still blame him today) for the party backing away from the “progressive” views that defined it through the 70s and 80s.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 2:57:33pm

re: #150 Patricia Kayden

It’s actions like these which make me worried about how quickly the next Democratic administration can repair the damage being done by Trump’s administration. He is destroying this country in so many ways.

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It’s like Trump is working to make Robocop a reality.

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The Vicious Babushka Mar 30, 2018 • 2:57:43pm

re: #114 Targetpractice

The right need Hillary because without her they’ve no excuse for why they voted for Trump, and the far-left needs her because they need a scapegoat for their actions in helping Trump win.

FOX NEWS, again:

OPINION: Don’t blame @HillaryClinton — ‘Dear Madam President’ makes more excuses for her election defeat https://t.co/2tNItksryJ

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 30, 2018

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 2:58:13pm

re: #150 Patricia Kayden

It’s actions like these which make me worried about how quickly the next Democratic administration can repair the damage being done by Trump’s administration. He is destroying this country in so many ways.

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I am a certified car fanatic. One thing I would hope is the car manufacturers ignoring it for both environmental and business reasons.

America is not the only country that has clean car emission standards. The EU does too. So hopefully the cars will be built to make the tougher standards and America gets them because almost all cars are world cars now and it is cheaper to build them all the same.

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 2:58:22pm

re: #151 gocart mozart

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Rockin’ Woody!

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 2:59:57pm

Roger Stone: Sam Nunberg Is a ‘Lying Asshole’ and ‘Psycho’ https://t.co/TKhkDORP7n via @thedailybeast

— Investigate Russia (@InvestigateRU) March 30, 2018

“When Traitors Devour One Another” - Tonight on the Discovery Channel.https://t.co/OEFuoSHHzZ

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) March 30, 2018

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 3:02:21pm

re: #152 Targetpractice

The far-left’s been nursing a grudge since Bill’s win in ‘92 because they blamed him (and still blame him today) for the party backing away from the “progressive” views that defined it through the 70s and 80s.

That is for sure. I heard those kind of comments in 2016 too. But since we were talking about Hillary I concentrated on her. They both get to share in each others political mud thrown at them. And they both get to deal with it.

I’d love to be able to talk to them to get a feel for how they think about all that baggage. I bet they have some wickedly funny stories and comments on it all.

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ObserverArt Mar 30, 2018 • 3:11:39pm

re: #157 Patricia Kayden

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Ari Melber is messing with that whole group and leading them right into hating each other. And he may even be helping the Mueller investigation.

Check these videos out from last evening. It’s great political TV. And all the “Stoners” are the same. Nuts.

Time to get ready for the Friday night jam. Later. Enjoy.

Iframe

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William Lewis Mar 30, 2018 • 3:11:59pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

On a Good Friday theme, my favorite Jesus song.

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Thanks. It is so true.

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The Vicious Babushka Mar 30, 2018 • 3:16:37pm

What is the @WashTimes doing publishing a column that is literally calling teenager David Hogg a Nazi? Is this what you call journalism? Is this a legitimate oped that falls within the bounds of civil discourse? When did you decide it was okay to call children Nazis?

— Mark Pitcavage (@egavactip) March 30, 2018

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 3:17:28pm

re: #160 William Lewis

Thanks. It is so true.

Woody was good at ‘true’.

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 3:28:28pm

A guy just came in wearing a t-shirt that said, ‘I love waking up in the morning knowing Trump is still president.’ I behaved myself, except for turning up the Woody Guthrie.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 3:33:43pm

re: #160 William Lewis

Psst. I booked a good video job for next week. As a result I have a rented 135mm tilt shift lens. It’s a trip to push the focal plane around like that. Stills are pretty cool, video is not really your thing but using the shift to keep the focus on an object moving in the frame is quite a striking look.

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Skip Intro Mar 30, 2018 • 3:34:51pm

re: #142 Targetpractice

Ben’s white-knighting of Laura sounds more like one bully backing up another, insisting that because she said she’s “sorry,” the victim of the bullying should just let it go and let her find another victim for awhile. One thing that always gets bullies angry is when there are consequences to their actions that they can’t just make go away with a few empty words.

Ben just got a radio show on WABC.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 3:37:21pm

re: #131 Citizen K

That’s the frustrating thing: outside of a handful, most of those Never Trumpers, and a non-insignificant part of the lefter-than-thou folk too, are theoretically anti-Trump, but treat the Democrats and especially Hillary as the ‘real’ and far more pressing threat to them. They want to tear down the Dem party before even daring to try and hold Trump accountable.

Yep. In that way, I find the “Never Trumpers” more frustrating than the the Trumpers because the Never Trumpers are in denial about how Trump was someone palatable to their ideology and movement. Shapiro is someone especially guilty of that as is Tom Nichols and others.

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freetoken Mar 30, 2018 • 3:37:49pm

Watch live, people in northern MO waiting for the Southwest Chief to take them somewhere:

La Plata, Missouri USA - Virtual Railfan LIVE

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 3:39:09pm

re: #152 Targetpractice

The far-left’s been nursing a grudge since Bill’s win in ‘92 because they blamed him (and still blame him today) for the party backing away from the “progressive” views that defined it through the 70s and 80s.

I’ll concede that I’m not a great fan of the “Third Way” but the more progressive than thou can go fuck themselves.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 3:40:17pm

re: #163 wrenchwench

A guy just came in wearing a t-shirt that said, ‘I love waking up in the morning knowing Trump is still president.’ I behaved myself, except for turning up the Woody Guthrie.

I’d have put up some McMurtry. But then I do stay away from retail…

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 3:40:57pm

re: #161 The Vicious Babushka

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What really pisses me off about this shit is these are the same people who patronized kids who walked out of school by saying “Walk up not walk out.”

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meteor Mar 30, 2018 • 3:41:27pm

kapow kapow! wheoooo cha!

— Korben the Budgie (@korbenisabird) March 30, 2018

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BeachDem Mar 30, 2018 • 3:44:17pm

OT—I am making myself nauseous.

D1GosoPqXgOjeerTxo5ze2TLsbqlwwkBYxs+WhDXMYG9H8LZv44hopgkFW79nonZaQ5LHnUmf8rdhiSTD6XbX83Yccq1Xp6gWcYTlhqjumy4IkhLh/q7qmOLY7Of6DP/s3wGuY573FCSuwCWiaG0epFMgnctJn3+v1guogM205OqQyGHXWtLI2TPkFLVDHaLg88wYqwFuEulWJ2LWqFjh7cXYi6TN5vwn908AwCPxx4NF4IIxN2k/hJ9ybInA89xnDr9fwkbHK+nN8JNkYJkemu31eUH/4TY4QKfxGCDF9rklDJdK7MnScowfBu73kfWPvyO+eqq+KiVcRHLuhIEMgCTCEuUs22oYHvPniZDTYIM9aMxBKChqMvSUsuNSlT6YRrQLZGfJnroiUz3fqv8Lpa1W8Uc7vCX3g9R8GH91KbPx5Qvvk9kwE6OeTl18fAbB4/DR0XgFhegeut+i/4EcQ==

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 3:44:29pm

I just flat out give up with a good percentage of this country I’m sad to say.

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Patricia Kayden Mar 30, 2018 • 3:46:46pm

https://t.co/XDrLGeClAR

— grannynanny (@grannynannynews) March 30, 2018

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 3:47:10pm

re: #169 Unshaken Defiance

I’d have put up some McMurtry. But then I do stay away from retail…

A partially-groomed customer who lacks a regular place to sleep came in to borrow my pump at just the right moment.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 3:47:13pm

So these assholes are actually trying to pretzel the bully vs victim logic so far as to blame the victims of a shooting for being too anti gun and causing said shooting. Pretzel meet Mobius strip.

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William Lewis Mar 30, 2018 • 3:47:22pm

re: #169 Unshaken Defiance

I’d have put up some McMurtry. But then I do stay away from retail…

Holiday in Cambodia. Nice and loud.

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plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 3:47:48pm

re: #116 gwangung

Always has been bullshit and the panic spread over it has worked for politicians of every era.

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electrotek Mar 30, 2018 • 3:49:27pm

Sometimes I hate fellow Muslims for their self-absorbed hypocrisy. This being one of them:

It upsets me that ONLY now some Muslims are talking about Stephon Clark because they found out he was not only black, but he was also Muslim.

Some Muslims need to realize that he was shot because he was black.

Show solidarity always, not only when a victim shares the same faith

— عائشة (@aishathepoet) March 29, 2018

She is spot on.

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plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 3:51:22pm

re: #140 wrenchwench

My favorite Jesus song:

King Missile- Jesus was way cool.

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freetoken Mar 30, 2018 • 3:53:52pm

It’s a bit past sunrise in Tokyo, and Higashi Shinbashi station is busy with trains coming and going:

Tokyo Live Camera ch1 東京汐留鉄道ライブカメラ

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 3:54:55pm

Honestly, I think the kids are doing a great job. They’re not getting riled by the attacks on them. What has always frustrated me from gun advocates in the wake of these shootings is quite honestly how they want to blame anything but guns. I’ll see them blaming video games, music, movies, the lack of prayer, single mothers but nope can’t talk about easy access to weapons or how the weapon used can kill lots of people in a short amount of time. I don’t think I’ve seen much sympathy at all from the NRA directed at the Parkland Kids. Indeed, I’ve seen the total opposite. Make no mistake about it, the NRA is a shitty organization run by even more shitty people.

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electrotek Mar 30, 2018 • 3:55:52pm

And this here? I have no words to speak of this:

Black Women here is what #StephonClark thought about you. Stop marching/protesting for this fool that did not care about you. He would NOT have done the same for you. #BlackWomenMatter pic.twitter.com/pDNLrGVTlO

— Hello (@Eatmorefruitz) March 30, 2018

The man was brutally murdered by a police officer for no reason, and yet these idiots keep bringing up his flaws to demonize him and cause more harm to his family.

It’s even worse coming from his kin here.

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 3:57:52pm

re: #180 plansbandc

My favorite Jesus song:

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Video

I’ve heard that before. I have another song by King Missile on a cassette tape. I no longer have a cassette player. It’s OK though, YouTube has almost everything.

King Missile - Detachable Penis

Maybe that should be under a tag…

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 4:00:29pm

re: #183 electrotek

And this here? I have no words to speak of this:

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The man was brutally murdered by a police officer for no reason, and yet these idiots keep bringing up his flaws to demonize him and cause more harm to his family.

It’s even worse coming from his kin here.

People suck sometimes. Yeah that’s a pretty immature tweet but at the same time, goddamn it, he still had the right to live without fear of being shot by the police while unarmed.

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plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 4:01:01pm

re: #184 wrenchwench

I know this one too. :D I’m pretty sure the first time I heard the band was on Dr. Demento.

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 4:03:41pm

re: #186 plansbandc

I know this one too. :D I’m pretty sure the first time I heard the band was on Dr. Demento.

Been there, heard that. Before it was syndicated.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 4:06:33pm

So, pretty much everything Trump says about Amazon is bullshit. Imagine my surprise.

Trump, who boasted that avoiding taxes made him smart, attacks Amazon for paying “little or no taxes to state & local governments.” In fact, Amazon paid $957 million in state income taxes last year & collects sales tax in every state with one. @michaelgold https://t.co/kMACNvc9Ro

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 30, 2018

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Skip Intro Mar 30, 2018 • 4:10:58pm

re: #188 Blind Frog Belly White

So, pretty much everything Trump says about Amazon is bullshit. Imagine my surprise.

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So how much did Trump pay in taxes last year? I can’t seem to find any info about that.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 4:11:54pm

Wow. I’d wager this is the least diverse class of WH interns since the 1960s.

yup that looks about right pic.twitter.com/f95qt5RjhO

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) March 30, 2018

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 4:13:57pm

I’m giving this EPA press release a rating of Total Baloney. You cannot get a whole place to yourself in that prime location for $1,500 a month, nor will you find anyone willing to hold the place open for you all month and charge you only for the nights you use it. pic.twitter.com/Qr5VPfMaHq

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 30, 2018

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 4:14:25pm

re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White

Wow. I’d wager this is the least diverse class of WH interns since the 1960s.

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The cabinet is as well.

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Targetpractice Mar 30, 2018 • 4:15:00pm

re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White

Wow. I’d wager this is the least diverse class of WH interns since the 1960s.

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Let’s play “Spot the Minority.”

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 4:15:45pm

Pruitt’s situation is unraveling. The Washington Post reports that the lobbyist now says they are only “casual” friends and haven’t spoken lately, so there is no way Pruitt can rely on the personal relationship exception to the gift rule. /1 https://t.co/MYY32Mbstt pic.twitter.com/nutRgM7ArD

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 30, 2018

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 4:16:40pm

re: #193 Targetpractice

Let’s play “Spot the Minority.”

Found 3.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 30, 2018 • 4:19:17pm

re: #157 Patricia Kayden

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Never forget: he has a Nixon tattoo.

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Weaselone Mar 30, 2018 • 4:19:37pm

re: #191 jaunte

Oh yeah, it’s bologna.

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 4:21:03pm

re: #195 HappyWarrior

Found 3.

4, if you count Asian. It almost looks like they have 1 black, 1 Latino, 1 Asian, and one South Asian.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 4:23:52pm

re: #198 Blind Frog Belly White

4, if you count Asian. It almost looks like they have 1 black, 1 Latino, 1 Asian, and one South Asian.

Yeah sounds right.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 30, 2018 • 4:23:58pm

re: #190 Blind Frog Belly White

Wow. I’d wager this is the least diverse class of WH interns since the 1960s.

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Cross your legs, ladies!

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William Lewis Mar 30, 2018 • 4:25:33pm

re: #180 plansbandc

My favorite Jesus song:

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I’m at work but were I attaching videos, the two best hymns for me ;) are the Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead and Imagine.

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Charles Johnson Mar 30, 2018 • 4:27:43pm

How felines took over the Internet, our homes, and our lives. pic.twitter.com/eILzBx9e2v

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) March 30, 2018

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Mar 30, 2018 • 4:32:25pm

re: #191 jaunte

I’m giving this EPA press release a rating of Total Baloney. You cannot get a whole place to yourself in that prime location for $1,500 a month, nor will you find anyone willing to hold the place open for you all month and charge you only for the nights you use it. pic.twitter.com/Qr5VPfMaHq

— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) March 30, 2018

Yep, rancid green Arpaio jail type baloney.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 30, 2018 • 4:32:42pm

Mark my words, Ingraham will pull out the whole victim shit by Monday since Holy Week will be over and she can go back to her asshole self.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 30, 2018 • 4:33:38pm

re: #196 Barefoot Grin

Never forget: he has a Nixon tattoo.

On his back.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 4:34:41pm

re: #204 Ace Rothstein

Mark my words, Ingraham will pull out the whole victim shit by Monday since Holy Week will be over and she can go back to her asshole self.

1:1 odds.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 30, 2018 • 4:36:39pm

Wherein he gets excommunicated: I don’t like cats at all.

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wrenchwench Mar 30, 2018 • 4:38:08pm

re: #207 Barefoot Grin

Wherein he gets excommunicated: I don’t like cats at all.

That’s it. I’m going home. Where I have 2 waiting for me.

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Barefoot Grin Mar 30, 2018 • 4:40:14pm

re: #208 wrenchwench

That’s it. I’m going home. Where I have 2 waiting for me.

Take your allergy pills just to be safe!

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Barefoot Grin Mar 30, 2018 • 4:41:28pm

Cool! (I think)

The Los Angeles Rams have announced two men will join their cheerleading squad, a first in NFL history. https://t.co/w9PyHdSzmI

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) March 30, 2018

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plansbandc Mar 30, 2018 • 4:46:21pm

Power Salad - “My Cat Is Afraid of the Vacuum Cleaner”

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JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 4:52:23pm

My heart!! My heart explodes!!!

When your 93 year old Grannie is very excited about her birthday present. (She wants him to see this) cc @PeteSouza @codykeenan @jonfavs @BarackObama pic.twitter.com/xncAd2kQlE

— Paul Barker (@paulebarker) March 30, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:08:02pm

re: #203 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Yep, rancid green Arpaio jail type baloney.

DRAIN TEH SWAMP!!!!

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electrotek Mar 30, 2018 • 5:08:10pm

With all due respect to my dear Muslim brothers and sisters: If you didn’t care about #StephonClark until you found out he was Muslim, you’re part of the problem.

— Omar Suleiman (@omarsuleiman504) March 30, 2018

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 5:09:46pm

Isn’t that what the ‘B’ in ‘ICBM’ means?

DEAR EVERYONE IN THE MEDIA:
Yes, the new #Russia #nuclear missile will travel at “hypersonic!” speed.

BECAUSE ALL ICBMS DO THAT AND ALWAYS HAVE.
This is not new or unique.

Thank you.

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 30, 2018

You mean, like all ours, theirs, and everyone else’s have since the 1940s? https://t.co/ceeR9g0qAh

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 30, 2018

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 5:11:02pm

Don’t worry, the US would win a nuclear war with Russia https://t.co/YF7ZtOJ139 by @TomRtweets pic.twitter.com/HTsJsGOGhE

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 30, 2018

This word “win”…I don’t think it means what you think it means. https://t.co/8bdQQxiuJe

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 30, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:11:59pm

re: #204 Ace Rothstein

Mark my words, Ingraham will pull out the whole victim shit by Monday since Holy Week will be over and she can go back to her asshole self.

No doubt, Hogg will be portrayed as worse than High School Hitler, screw FoxNews.

Hogg and all are tired of being shot at while at school and living in fear.

Laura has no idea of the world those kids grew up in, they had active shooting drills in their schools before their lives had entered the double digits.

Laura and all of the other wingnuts attacking them are very damn close to saying “let them eat cake” and we all know ow that ended.

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Mike Lamb Mar 30, 2018 • 5:12:34pm

It’s interesting to me that you almost never, if ever, see columns from liberal pundits writing articles whining about boycotts against other liberal pundits or causes (and this is despite conservatives launching boycotts at the drop of a hat). I think it’s for a few reasons: 1) liberal pundits aren’t, generally speaking, objectively awful and/or stupid people and 2) conservatives boycott issues based on views from the ‘50’s (doesn’t matter the century)…like General Mills showing an interracial couple in a cheerios commercial or Disney having transgender bathrooms.

They have to resort to whining because our boycotts are actually effective and theirs amount to old people yelling at clouds.

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 5:13:39pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, they’re not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed. 10-20 million tops, depending on the breaks.

— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) March 31, 2018

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:13:45pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

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JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 5:13:59pm

re: #214 electrotek

Raise your hand if you stayed silent on a Black victim of gun violence until you heard they took shahada and immediately inserted yourself.

— Shamira Ibrahim (@_ShamGod) March 30, 2018

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 5:14:58pm

I found the black guy in 3.7 seconds. What was your score? pic.twitter.com/ffHbffBZmq

— TBogg - Totally King of New New California (@tbogg) March 30, 2018

White is the blending of all colors and is a color. The sum of all the colors of light add up to white. Therefore, this intern photo contains more people of color and colors of people than any intern photo in generations.

— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) March 30, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:16:40pm

re: #218 Mike Lamb

It’s interesting to me that you almost never, if ever, see columns from liberal pundits writing articles whining about boycotts against other liberal pundits or causes (and this is despite conservatives launching boycotts at the drop of a hat). I think it’s for a few reasons: 1) liberal pundits aren’t, generally speaking, objectively awful and/or stupid people and 2) conservatives boycott issues based on views from the ‘50’s (doesn’t matter the century)…like General Mills showing an interracial couple in a cheerios commercial or Disney having transgender bathrooms.

They have to resort to whining because our boycotts are actually effective and theirs amount to old people yelling at clouds.

3.) Liberal pundits are generally wusses with their own focused causes and will go out of their way to make sure that they don’t stomp on their own cause by sticking up for another righteous cause.

That is why conservatives have always won, they focus, destroy and move on to the next faux outrage.

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Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel Mar 30, 2018 • 5:16:57pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

Don’t worry, the US would win a nuclear war with Russia https://t.co/YF7ZtOJ139 by @TomRtweets pic.twitter.com/HTsJsGOGhE

— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) March 30, 2018

That’s very…….reassuring.

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 5:17:03pm

When Captain America admonishes you

David Hogg Rejected By Four Colleges To Which He Applied and whines about it. (Dinged by UCLA with a 4.1 GPA…totally predictable given acceptance rates.) https://t.co/wflA4hWHXY

— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) March 28, 2018

What is the purpose of this tweet? What is wrong with you? Are you actually proud of this? Regardless of your political beliefs and motivations, THIS is how you choose to present yourself? You must be so sad, angry and scared. https://t.co/pvuSyx4OMd

— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) March 29, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:19:24pm

re: #224 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

That’s very…….reassuring.

I am so happy that the cockroaches will be able to tell their children that the USA won WW3.

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 5:20:03pm

Seems like he would have killed his tormentors and not some other kids but w/e I’m sure it’s fine

— Allen Ventano (@AllenVentano) March 30, 2018

Girls especially love bullying older boys

— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) March 30, 2018

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Blind Frog Belly White Mar 30, 2018 • 5:22:10pm

re: #226 bill d. (b.d.)

I am so happy that the cockroaches will be able to tell their children that the USA won WW3.

But hey, at the end of the column, he says, “But war’s bad, mmkay?”

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:23:24pm

Good evening Lizards,

I am so happy that I am a 6 minute bike ride from my work, I am even happier that I have 3 minute ride to the brewpub on my way back home!

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Archangelus Mar 30, 2018 • 5:27:57pm

Feel-good tweet of the day…

Our CEO just announced that Liberty Mutual will not have any future advertising on Laura Ingraham’s show, since her recent comments are not consistent with our corporate values to treat everyone with dignity and respect. I’m proud to work there! https://t.co/R0HwRKuXsT

— edith ackerman (@eeackerman) March 30, 2018

Laura Ingraham has just lost the title sponsor of her show.👇🏻 https://t.co/SH0a7H1nKP

— Rob Bennett (@rob_bennett) March 30, 2018

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JordanRules Mar 30, 2018 • 5:28:52pm

Some of you were curious about the restored antique Greek sculpture at the Louvre, so I though I’d let you know I have a tag on tumblr called Ancient Art Week where you can see lots of Greek, Roman, Etruscan and Egyptian artworks!
Here: https://t.co/YarH45oKsE pic.twitter.com/xqiTEFeUCI

— medievalpoc (@medievalpoc) March 30, 2018

I went back to ancient art/history, I went forward to the 1800s and even contemporary art, to show an unbroken line of diversity. All different kinds of people where the dominant narrative would like to convince you they “can’t” be. Defiantly, always, people of color exist.

— medievalpoc (@medievalpoc) March 30, 2018

All things are possible in history. And that makes me feel possible, today. It gives me hope to imagine a future, and that’s what keeps me going.

— medievalpoc (@medievalpoc) March 30, 2018

This Twittah account, the art it highlights and resources it links to are fascinating.

They have a new website too! It’s all so cool and necessary.

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:29:04pm

Foreign policy experts weigh in on what is the most significant issue for John Bolton in his new role as national security adviser https://t.co/WBcGst6o6J

— Salon (@Salon) March 30, 2018

Scared yet? Support HR 669 / S 200 by Sen @EdMarkey and me. Our bipartisan legislation prevents @POTUS from launching a nuclear 1st strike without Congressional authorization. https://t.co/wuNtKV0eQH

— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) March 31, 2018

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stpaulbear Mar 30, 2018 • 5:33:41pm

This looks interesting. Could be a lot of fun. A play acted out in a record store.

Minneapolis Musical Theatre’s High Fidelity May 4-6, 11-13 and 18-20, 2018

We are excited to host the Minneapolis Musical Theatre’s unique production of High Fidelity in the store over three weekends in May. This immersive theater experience, where audience members will be inside a real record store with the production surrounding them, is a first for both Minneapolis Musical Theatre and the Electric Fetus.

The production is designed as a fun and interactive experience, where audience members will be patrons in the record store, moving throughout the venue and on their feet during the entire performance.

There is no traditional theatre seating available. Please note: we do anticipate having limited seating available only for patrons with special accessibility needs. Any patrons with special needs may contact MMT at info@aboutmmt.org.

CLICK HERE for more information on the performance and tickets. (Tickets are not available in the store).

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:34:43pm

re: #230 Archangelus

Feel-good tweet of the day…

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What now? Limbaugh has run for years on bankrupt clear channel without advertisers but how will FoxNews treat this? Is this only on her radio show or does it reflect TV?

You can’t have a prime-time show that advertisers refuse to fund?

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:37:17pm

This is nuts. Applicants to get visas in the US will have to give their social media user names. Even on places like Reddit. https://t.co/OO8hwP2BWg

— Nicholas Thompson (@nxthompson) March 30, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:37:36pm

Are the wingnuts tired of winning yet or do they need to beat up a few more teenagers?

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:37:47pm

It’s unlikely that the goal of the visa policy is security. It’s more likely, given admin ties with organizations like Cambridge Analytica as well as their refusal to follow nat sec protocols, that they are gathering information for surveillance and sale.

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) March 30, 2018

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:40:03pm

Is Trump trying to completely shut down the U.S. tourism industry/his hotel competitors?

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:41:38pm

re: #238 jaunte

Is Trump trying to completely shut down the U.S. tourism industry/his hotel competitors?

All the folks filling Trump hotels will have diplomatic passports, screw the rest.

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teleskiguy Mar 30, 2018 • 5:45:28pm

This curious cheetah hopped into a car on a safari trip. Thankfully, everyone remained calm, and no one was hurt https://t.co/pY8kPn1HLq pic.twitter.com/eKKnQZ3x3y

— CNN (@CNN) March 29, 2018

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 5:48:31pm

This is sci-fi-future-dystopia-level creepy https://t.co/VIUtTaO7SV

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) March 30, 2018

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MsJ Mar 30, 2018 • 5:48:57pm

To those who like the new Rosanne, it’s already been renewed for another season.

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PhillyPretzel Mar 30, 2018 • 5:49:42pm

re: #242 MsJ

Thanks for the heads up. I will give more to PBS.

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Ace Rothstein Mar 30, 2018 • 5:53:12pm

re: #241 gocart mozart

Jesus.

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:54:39pm

re: #241 gocart mozart

“Trust your local news friends. They’re not like those mainstream media people.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 30, 2018 • 5:54:40pm

JFC…where are the lightning bolts to smite this jackass?

pic.twitter.com/UM3YJ6lUiD

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 30, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 5:54:58pm

re: #241 gocart mozart

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f*ck, i try and support local news just because I think they are more independent.

how low on the local level do we have to fight this stuff?

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Ace Rothstein Mar 30, 2018 • 5:58:38pm

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

God is all about timing, my friend.

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Interesting Times Mar 30, 2018 • 5:59:28pm

Those of you who were here earlier for the infamous office fridge incident thread will get it:

this is just to say

I have thrown out
the fried rice
that was in
the office fridge

and which
you were probably
saving
for lunch

forgive me
it was probably
apocryphal
but…memes

— Ariel Edwards-Levy (@aedwardslevy) March 30, 2018

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 5:59:37pm

Local TV news chain Sinclair literally hired someone from the Russian propaganda outlet RT to produce a story on “the Deep State.” It ran on Seattle TVs during the KOMO 6 o’clock news. (Sinclair owns KOMO).

Again, Sinclair owns local TV stations in 40% of U.S. cities pic.twitter.com/D0LCQ6r64i

— Mike Rosenberg (@ByRosenberg) March 30, 2018

As a long time resident of the great Pacific Northwest and a researcher of disinformation, this is horrifying. A right wing media company gobbles up a local station with a trusted brand and forces them to air stories reflecting Russian disinfo tactics and narratives. https://t.co/C5G3k74Z4Z

— Kate Starbird (@katestarbird) March 30, 2018

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 6:01:19pm

re: #248 Ace Rothstein

God is all about timing, my friend.

The one thing I learned from the bible is that God is a thin skinned asshole, Trump is being setting up for a downfall of biblical proportions.

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scottslemmons Mar 30, 2018 • 6:01:24pm

re: #247 bill d. (b.d.)

f*ck, i try and support local news just because I think they are more independent.

how low on the local level do we have to fight this stuff?

Smart stations and networks should be putting together reports on Sinclair’s creepy statements, preferably with calls to anchors on Sinclair stations asking them to comment.

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MsJ Mar 30, 2018 • 6:05:35pm

re: #243 PhillyPretzel

Thanks for the heads up. I will give more to PBS.

Apparently 18 million people watched the premiere of the relaunch.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:06:11pm

JFC it’s becominh an article of faith that Emma bullied Cruz. I give up guys sigh.

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jaunte Mar 30, 2018 • 6:06:53pm

re: #242 MsJ

To those who like the new Rosanne, it’s already been renewed for another season.

I never saw it the first time around.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 30, 2018 • 6:07:13pm

re: #232 jaunte

I’ll tell you what scares me to death!

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PhillyPretzel Mar 30, 2018 • 6:07:51pm

re: #253 MsJ

Gee. 18 mil? Hmm. If I recall correctly the Christmas episodes of Downton Abbey did better.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 6:08:04pm

re: #254 HappyWarrior

JFC it’s becominh an article of faith that Emma bullied Cruz. I give up guys sigh.

Among whom?

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bill d. (b.d.) Mar 30, 2018 • 6:09:06pm

How freaking bad is it going to be when Roseanne goes into her utterly predictibale flame out into Alex Jones land?

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:09:56pm

re: #258 Unshaken Defiance

Among whom?

Facebook wingnuts.

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Interesting Times Mar 30, 2018 • 6:11:08pm

re: #260 HappyWarrior

Facebook wingnuts.

Your critical-thinking-challenged friend? Just unfollow him already. Sounds like he *never* posts anything worth seeing.

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PhillyPretzel Mar 30, 2018 • 6:11:08pm

re: #259 bill d. (b.d.)

That is one of many reasons why I will give more money to PBS. At least when Suze Orman is talking solid financial advice comes out of her mouth.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:11:43pm

re: #261 Interesting Times

Your critical-thinking-challenged friend? Just unfollow him already. Sounds like he *never* posts anything worth seeing.

Yep. Going to unfollow.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 30, 2018 • 6:11:47pm

re: #258 Unshaken Defiance

Among whom?

The RepubliKKKlan Bullshit Machine has been cranked up to 11 repeating that Emma bullied Cruz and Very Naughty words come out of David’s mouth.

Oh and now they are passing around possibly faked Tweets and Facebook entries slandering Stephon Clark which denigrate women.

No doubt your Friendly Neighborhood SincLIAR station will pass these lies along!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 30, 2018 • 6:12:17pm

Trump declares April sexual assault prevention month https://t.co/fKglKqhbrM pic.twitter.com/IRnEOpd0HI

— The Hill (@thehill) March 31, 2018

Does this mean Trump is going to lock himself up in the East Room? https://t.co/6jkwpx761q

— LaneBrooks (@lanebrooks) March 31, 2018

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:12:35pm

re: #264 Joe Bacon 🌹

The RepubliKKKlan Bullshit Machine has been cranked up to 11 repeating that Emma bullied Cruz and Very Naughty words come out of David’s mouth.

Oh and now they are passing around possibly faked Tweets and Facebook entries slandering Stephon Clark which denigrate women.

No doubt you Friendly Neighborhood SincLIAR station will pass these lies along!

It’s from an out of context quote- “You didn’t know this kid.”

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Interesting Times Mar 30, 2018 • 6:12:59pm

re: #253 MsJ

Apparently 18 million people watched the premiere of the relaunch.

Roseanne scored 18.2 million viewers last night.

I wonder when was the last time something had higher ratings…

Oh, I remember!

72 hours earlier the 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels was viewed by 22 million ppl.

— Philippe Reines (@PhilippeReines) March 29, 2018

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:13:30pm

Sorry guys. I know my friend drama is tiresome. Just sick seeing my friend show himself to be this kind of person.

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Joe Bacon 🌹 Mar 30, 2018 • 6:15:25pm

re: #268 HappyWarrior

Sorry guys. I know my friend drama is tiresome. Just sick seeing my friend show himself to be this kind of person.

Happy you’re not alone. I got a whole bunch of family members who worship Trump as the Messiah.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:16:50pm

re: #269 Joe Bacon 🌹

Happy you’re not alone. I got a whole bunch of family members who worship Trump as the Messiah.

I’m just going to unfollow him and try not to shout at him next time we talk lol.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 6:17:04pm

re: #260 HappyWarrior

Facebook wingnuts.

If ever there was a time to consider the source and just dismiss that garbage out of hand, this is it. Don’t let it get ya down.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:17:44pm

re: #271 Unshaken Defiance

If ever there was a time to consider the source and just dismiss that garbage out of hand, this is it. Don’t let it get ya down.

It’s from a friend.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 6:19:39pm

re: #272 HappyWarrior

It’s from a friend.

Well that just sucks. I got family like that *sigh*

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:21:01pm

re: #273 Unshaken Defiance

Well that just sucks. I got family like that *sigh*

Like I’ve got other friends and even some family I disagree with on the guns but they’re not resorting to lies at least.

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Interesting Times Mar 30, 2018 • 6:21:49pm

re: #270 HappyWarrior

I’m just going to unfollow him and try not to shout at him next time we talk lol.

Well, next time you see him in person, you could leave a print-out of this article in a place where he can’t help but see it…or if you’re feeling especially brave, read it aloud and watch his reaction (I suspect it’s much easier to ignore/dismiss something you see online as opposed to quite literally in your face)

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:23:17pm

re: #275 Interesting Times

Well, next time you see him in person, you could leave a print-out of this article in a place where he can’t help but see it…or if you’re feeling especially brave, read it aloud and watch his reaction (I suspect it’s much easier to ignore/dismiss something you see online as opposed to quite literally in your face)

Yep I read that. Great idea and it was a good read. It sucks man because he’s growing more pathetically wingnutty.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:23:43pm

Any other person? I’d cut off months ago.

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Unshaken Defiance Mar 30, 2018 • 6:24:08pm

Beauty Break

I caught this testing a lens tonight. I like how creamy the soft bg is against the extra sharp petals. It’s subtle but the lens is shifted to make the focus extremely specific.

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teleskiguy Mar 30, 2018 • 6:24:36pm

re: #275 Interesting Times

That’s a great idea. Hey HappyWarrior, print this shit out and give it to your “friend” next time you see him in meatspace.

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HappyWarrior Mar 30, 2018 • 6:26:03pm

re: #279 teleskiguy

That’s a great idea. Hey HappyWarrior, print this shit out and give it to your “friend” next time you see him in meatspace.

Thanks man.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Mar 30, 2018 • 6:26:47pm

re: #85 jaunte

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#WhatWouldPutinWant

Senior admin official says aides to Trump are puzzled by his comments yesterday that US will be pulling out of Syria “very soon.” “We are still trying to figure out what he meant about Syria yesterday,” the official said.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 30, 2018

State Department sed it knows of no policy shift that calls for w/drawal of US troops from Syria. So was this Trump just selling hot air to his base? https://t.co/lED1E8FVvc

— Jonathan Landay (@JonathanLanday) March 30, 2018

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teleskiguy Mar 30, 2018 • 6:28:50pm

re: #280 HappyWarrior

Better yet, like publicityStunted suggested, read it aloud to him.

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Interesting Times Mar 30, 2018 • 6:33:37pm

re: #280 HappyWarrior

Thanks man.

Oh, that reminds me - this too, from Brevik’s massacre (especially if your friend is batshit crazy enough to support him, now).

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 6:41:39pm

pic.twitter.com/fOD1KbgLh6

— Mac McKinsey (@psgent92264) March 31, 2018

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CleverToad Mar 30, 2018 • 6:47:31pm

re: #212 JordanRules

My heart!! My heart explodes!!!

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I’m laughing now because my 93-year-old mother bought that book the minute it came out! Little old (white) lady who loves the Obamas, and knows from good photography.

Go, grannies!

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gocart mozart Mar 30, 2018 • 6:47:58pm

Because of course she is.

Roseanne Roseanne Keeps Promoting QAnon, the Pro-Trump Conspiracy Theory That Makes Pizzagate Look Tame https://t.co/PhHrtoXUzi via @thedailybeast

— Ed Mix (@the_edwin_mix) March 31, 2018

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Teukka Mar 30, 2018 • 8:12:35pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

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“Strange game. Only winning move is not to play”

Spy Auto

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