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Folks, I know nothing about Ukrainians or Ukraine. Nothing about it! Putin’s Mole Manafort run the show. Believe me! pic.twitter.com/oyHJSmSI1w
— DonaId J. Trump (@realDenaldTrump) August 1, 2016
cnn headline
Did Trump go too far?
geez how many times has that question been asked in the past year?
dont get my hopes up
#IfDoctorsWereLikeWebMD you would have to go thru 18 pop-up adds for Erectile Dysfunction pills before getting an answer to a flu question
— Peter L Brown (@PLBthetoonist) August 1, 2016
@SpeakerRyan @washingtonpost As long as you are supporting a talking Yam for President, you might consider suspending your account later.
— DaveT62 (@DaveoutofAustin) August 1, 2016
Maybe some rich benefactor will bankroll the Khans so they can sue these pigs
Here is the final paragraph of this deranged article. https://t.co/R1zXXl1OuZ pic.twitter.com/LuVgMag1CF
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) August 1, 2016
But he’s just like the common man……..
Just saying, “Yes, seriously, I want you to take this photo,” is evidence of impaired judgement, all by itself. pic.twitter.com/OaaYAxAWKY
— David Waldman (@KagroX) July 31, 2016
So today I got to watch “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” for the first time. We had held off waiting for an opportunity when me, my ex and our son could all watch it together which given his institutional placement was difficult.
Not bad, better than the prequels, though less than the original 3 movies.
Really though, I was much more enthusiastic about last weeks viewing of “Star Trek Beyond” which is easily the best Star Trek movie since “First Contact”. The character interaction was great, even the cliche tropes (Space Vampires!) were handled reasonably well but in Star Wars, it was simply a rehash of A New Hope without the benefit of being a reboot. Some well done sequences and reasonable motivations (I liked Finn’s turn from a running coward to wanting to save Rey) but it still just wasn’t anything new.
Neither was Star Trek Beyond and yet… Kirk was a _Captain_ unlike the first two movies. McCoy showed an understanding of human and alien psychology. Scotty & Jaylah working to make her “house” fly again. Just enough was so much more right.
I hate to suggest it but I really am beginning to wonder if JJ isn’t as over rated as Tarantino. The first new Trek he only produced is the first that feels _right_. And the first Star Wars he directed feels only a slight step up from George “The Hack” Lukas.
I don’t know. I really don’t. But in the end?
Star Trek Beyond: 8.5 of 10
Star Wars: The Force Awakened: 6 of 10
re: #8 Dave In Austin
But he’s just like the common man……..
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I’m saddened reading the article by the five Trump book authors, in which it’s related that Trump originally had ideas of moving west to become a movie producer. How much better off we’d all be if he did that. He should have become a Hollywood bigmouth, maybe making ridiculously bad movies, but at least he wouldn’t be leading this undignified train wreck and taking us all with him.
I also have to say… He gets knocked for his decor, but if I had the money I would probably make a gaudy, opulent room somewhere in my Rich Guy Home, just for fun. The difference is, I would pay for nice hand-worked stuff.
And I would need a tiny giraffe.
Opulence. I has it.
At this point, a vote against Trump isn’t just a vote against Trump by himself. It’s a vote against all the filthy, fascist, racist, vulgar, obnoxious shit-monkeys he’s brought with him. Lewandowski, Stone, Pence, all the pundits and “journalists” and twitter slime that have felt enabled and vindicated by this asshole, all need to be flushed.
re: #9 William Lewis
For us original watchers of TOS when it first aired, I wonder if the new CBS Star Trek series might be more appealing than the JJ Abrams’ movies?
re: #11 Pawn of the Oppressor
This is part of why I like talking about Star Trek Beyond these days.
It has something very critically important about Roddenberry’s vision right.
Hope.
Optimism.
Faith.
It has all these things that made Star Trek unique, especially in the 60’s but even now as well, about how the world can be better if we work our fucking asses off. It’s knowing, when we face it, the one thing we can do: in this case, vote.
#10: Why am I reminded of AH being a failure as an artist? Had Trump gone to Hollywood, we would have simply ended up with an even less talented Michael Bey (and given Hollywood’s history, that wouldn’t have mattered) who would have made the same number of movies. We would be in a place where we were facing Spinrad’s “The Iron Dream” instead of Dick’s “The Man in the High Castle”
We have a critical weapon that can still work wonders - our vote.
Use it.
re: #12 freetoken
For us original watchers of TOS when it first aired, I wonder if the new CBS Star Trek series might be more appealing than the JJ Abrams’ movies?
I hope so, but so far the tiny bit shown tells us nothing but the name of the ship and a bit of eye candy. One of the things Beyond did right was honoring the series “Enterprise” and not letting it fall as forgotten canon. I hope “Discovery” can do at least as well.
re: #9 William Lewis
I have yet to see Star Trek Beyond. However, SW:TFA was OK. Not great. It felt to me as if the original SW (Episode 4 - A New Hope) was basically remade. I understand that it’s simply the first installment in a new trilogy so where it’ll go from here remains to be seen.
This week, I’m going to see Suicide Squad and that looks pretty good. Reviews from professional film critics are being embargoed until tomorrow (August 2nd) but some early fan reviews have been glowing (but then again, I’d expect that).
re: #15 Dr Lizardo
I have yet to see Star Trek Beyond. However, SW:TFA was OK. Not great. It felt to me as if the original SW (Episode 4 - A New Hope) was basically remade. I understand that it’s simply the first installment in a new trilogy so where it’ll go from here remains to be seen.
This week, I’m going to see Suicide Squad and that looks pretty good. Reviews from professional film critics are being embargoed until tomorrow (August 2nd) but some early fan reviews have been glowing (but then again, I’d expect that).
I intend to see Suicide Squad if for no other reason than Margot Robbie as Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn :) Swing that baseball bat :LOL:
That said, the _only_ DC movie I’m excited about on even close to the same level as “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” is Wonder Woman. That WWI origin story breaks tropes like shattering spaghetti over the knee before putting it in the boiling water. Nothing even close to the rest. The current dull Superman and horrid Batman are irrelevant to this story where SHE drives the tale.
A detailed comparison of Clinton’s vs. Trump’s foreign policy: https://t.co/UYbSfRjLbE pic.twitter.com/M7xrKvprNM
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) August 1, 2016
re: #16 William Lewis
I’m definitely looking forward to Wonder Woman. Looks like DC may have finally gotten things right.
re: #19 Kragar
Well, the finally made the movie I’ve been waiting to see, the Desmond Doss bio-pic
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Wingnuts will be deeply conflicted. A conscientious objector who won the Medal of Honor? And a Seventh-Day Adventist to boot? And directed by Mel Gibson?
Looks like a good film, though; definitely one to check out this autumn.
re: #20 Dr Lizardo
Doss’s Medal of Honor citation:
He was a company aid man when the 1st Battalion assaulted a jagged escarpment 400 feet high. As our troops gained the summit, a heavy concentration of artillery, mortar and machinegun fire crashed into them, inflicting approximately 75 casualties and driving the others back. Pfc. Doss refused to seek cover and remained in the fire-swept area with the many stricken, carrying all 75 casualties one-by-one to the edge of the escarpment and there lowering them on a rope-supported litter down the face of a cliff to friendly hands. On May 2, he exposed himself to heavy rifle and mortar fire in rescuing a wounded man 200 yards forward of the lines on the same escarpment; and 2 days later he treated 4 men who had been cut down while assaulting a strongly defended cave, advancing through a shower of grenades to within eight yards of enemy forces in a cave’s mouth, where he dressed his comrades’ wounds before making 4 separate trips under fire to evacuate them to safety. On May 5, he unhesitatingly braved enemy shelling and small arms fire to assist an artillery officer. He applied bandages, moved his patient to a spot that offered protection from small arms fire and, while artillery and mortar shells fell close by, painstakingly administered plasma. Later that day, when an American was severely wounded by fire from a cave, Pfc. Doss crawled to him where he had fallen 25 feet from the enemy position, rendered aid, and carried him 100 yards to safety while continually exposed to enemy fire. On May 21, in a night attack on high ground near Shuri, he remained in exposed territory while the rest of his company took cover, fearlessly risking the chance that he would be mistaken for an infiltrating Japanese and giving aid to the injured until he was himself seriously wounded in the legs by the explosion of a grenade. Rather than call another aid man from cover, he cared for his own injuries and waited 5 hours before litter bearers reached him and started carrying him to cover. The trio was caught in an enemy tank attack and Pfc. Doss, seeing a more critically wounded man nearby, crawled off the litter; and directed the bearers to give their first attention to the other man. Awaiting the litter bearers’ return, he was again struck, by a sniper bullet while being carried off the field by a comrade, this time suffering a compound fracture of 1 arm. With magnificent fortitude he bound a rifle stock to his shattered arm as a splint and then crawled 300 yards over rough terrain to the aid station. Through his outstanding bravery and unflinching determination in the face of desperately dangerous conditions Pfc. Doss saved the lives of many soldiers. His name became a symbol throughout the 77th Infantry Division for outstanding gallantry far above and beyond the call of duty.
re: #21 Kragar
I remember hearing about that a long time ago; it was on that old Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! television show, the one with Jack Palance, back in the 1980’s.
re: #1 Ace-o-aces
Folks, I know nothing about Ukrainians or Ukraine. Nothing about it! Putin’s Mole Manafort run the show. Believe me!
…and that’s is why I vote for Trump. He speaks for me because neither of us know what we are talking about!!!
It’s breakfast time and I love the smell of brogressive psychopathy for breakfast.
This thread has it all. Hillary means the destruction of the world. Therefore vote for Trump. And the GMOs are evil.
And Hillary is pro-Israel so vote for Trump.
Oh hell, It’s late enough…
KGB Approves This Tweet:
Vladimir Putin is linked to 23-year-old ‘Miss April’https://t.co/iOOdd7UkWm pic.twitter.com/jBAoc8pX0a— KGB Agent Краска (@HouseCracka) August 1, 2016
re: #24 Nyet
It’s breakfast time and I love the smell of brogressive psychopathy for breakfast.
This thread has it all. Hillary means the destruction of the world. Therefore vote for Trump. And the GMOs are evil.
And Hillary is pro-Israel so vote for Trump.
I saw this in an old college buddy friend: he always believed that society and the economy were on the verge of collapsing, so a vote for Trump will just speed up the process and let us hit bottom so we can start over.
But that has been replaced by him convincing himself that DT does have coherent, viable policies.
I do not engage Trump supporters anymore. If their minds are capable of bending themselves around such an abomination, I will not try to argue with them.
re: #25 Dave In Austin
Daily Fail in its usual style.
re: #21 Kragar
Is that when they started “feminizing” the MoH, according to Bryan Fischer?
You pissed off John Oliver. pic.twitter.com/PgIbiZvu9W
— Jason Berger (@jayberger) August 1, 2016
Time to head home. Gonna go catch the train outta here. Later.
re: #31 Kragar
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He’s going to threaten to arrest Khizr Khan as soon as he’s sworn in—now that he’s been exposed as a Muslim Brotherhood plant. Let’s see how that goes over.
re: #30 Ia! Ia! Trump Ftaghn! (née Sophist)
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This is where I hiked last week. Present but not pictured: every mosquito in the state.
I’m pretty sure the Silver Lake area on California highway 88 has that distinction. When you have to poop in the woods you have under 30 seconds to cover your freshly exposed skin with DEET before you get swarmed by mosquitoes.
re: #36 Single-handed sailor
As a Manitoba born man I know mosquitoes. This is the only place in California that can come even close to that.
re: #36 Single-handed sailor
I’m pretty sure the Silver Lake area on California highway 88 has that distinction. When you have to poop in the woods you have under 30 seconds to cover your freshly exposed skin with DEET before you get swarmed by mosquitoes.
I learned about the midgie flies while camping in Scotland: Never leave your tent door open…to get in or out, zip, dive through the opening and immediately re-zip the flap. That way you only get dozens instead of hundreds…
Something that Obama will be leaving to his successor:
In April of this year, the Defense Department inspector general’s office substantiated a whistleblower reprisal claim by retired Lt. Col. Teresa James, a decorated Iraq war veteran.
That, in itself, was a milestone: It was the first time the IG had ever done so in a sexual assault case.
But ten years after James was first assaulted and four years after she reported the crime, the alleged perpetrator has never been charged and the Army has yet to issue any punishments to the general officer who, according to the IG, derailed her career for her dogged pursuit of a criminal investigation. Nor has it done anything to remedy the years of reprisals the IG found she suffered starting in 2012.
re: #39 Timothy Watson
Something that Obama will be leaving to his successor:
I recall years ago under Clinton when the then-Secretary of Defense promised a “zero tolerance” policy for sexual harassment in the military.
I knew what was coming: they would “send a message” in the form of a show trial.
Somebody not too high up in the hierarchy (cannot look like this is established among commanding officers) but not too low down either.
So they accused the Master Sergeant of the Army (the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer) of sexual harassment. In the end, he was cleared of charges of sexual harassment but convicted on charges of perjury (IOW, he lied about what he ostensibly had not done), was expelled from the army but allowed to keep his pension and benefits.
That sure sent a message.
Just spit-balling here, but… when Capt Khan died, what size unit was he out patrolling with? How many of them are still alive, and what’s the odds on any of them coming forward to speak about him or about the day?
Morning!
Since I signed up to go to the Clinton-Kaine Bus Tour event here yesterday I figured I would be getting some emails. This morning found my first one from the campaign.
I have to give them props…I like their approach. The email had a simple “Hi” as the title and the message was small but to the point and realistic:
I’m so grateful that you’re on this team,
This election is going to be tough, and having folks like you on board will make us stronger as we head towards November.
Here’s why: We know Donald Trump will use every opportunity he gets to say the most outrageous, attention-seeking thing he can. And every time he does, it will dominate the attention of the media — and his message will get broadcast nationwide.
So, we’re going to win in November by talking with voters one-on-one, having an honest conversation about the issues, and discussing real solutions. That’s how we won the primary, and that how we’re going to stop Donald Trump.
We’re fighting for the future of our country — we have to fight for love and kindness, and the belief that we’re stronger together than we are when we peddle fear and hate.
If you’re ready to win together, chip in now and we’ll send you a sticker to say thanks:
And since Hillary was in Columbus yesterday, does it not figure the Trump Thin Skins Are Us Campaign™ would follow with a response?
Trump will be holding a townhall meeting at the Columbus Convention Center today at 3:00 pm.
Ugh. I am busy today, but if I have the time, I might just sneak down to the center and see how the crowd is and how many are attending.
Then again I may just skip it due to a high chance of mind pollution and Trump dementia.
re: #19 Kragar
Normally not into war movies, but that actually looks interesting.
re: #41 sagehen
They weren’t on patrol, rather they were guarding. A checkpoint when a vehicle came in with a suicide bomber inside.
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall years ago under Clinton when the then-Secretary of Defense promised a “zero tolerance” policy for sexual harassment in the military.
I knew what was coming: they would “send a message” in the form of a show trial Somebody not too high up in the hierarchy (cannot look like this is established among commanding officers) but not too low down either.
So they accused the Master Sergeant of the Army (the highest-ranking non-commissioned officer) of sexual harassment. In the end, he was cleared of charges of sexual harassment but convicted on charges of perjury (IOW, he lied about what he ostensibly had not done), was expelled from the army but allowed to keep his pension and benefits.
That sure sent a message.
And you also get into issues of command influence of whether the Commander in Chief can make comments about the problem without influencing courts martial, etc. I think it’s going to take Congress to fix the issue.
Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill to leave the decision on whether to prosecute to military prosecutors, and not the accused’s commanding officer, got filibustered. Hopefully she brings it back up in the next Congress.
militarytimes.com
re: #45 Timothy Watson
And you also get into issues of command influence of whether the Commander in Chief can make comments about the problem without influencing courts martial, etc. I think it’s going to take Congress to fix the issue.
Kirsten Gillibrand’s bill to leave the decision on whether to prosecute to military prosecutors, and not the accused’s commanding officer, got filibustered. Hopefully she brings it back up in the next Congress.
militarytimes.com
It was clear that the whole thing was planned in advance. The only reason the armed forces even acted was because enrollments were down considerably among women and they had to do something to help ease the shortfall.
Holocaust research project looks at what Americans knew about the Nazis and how they respondedOn May 21, 1933, a story appeared on Page 20 of the Richmond Times-Dispatch warning readers not to fall for “propaganda” coming out of the Nazi-led German government.
The story by Virginius Dabney quoted at great length from letters and previously published news reports describing how Adolf Hitler had restored order through discipline, how “political murders … have ceased entirely because Fascism has been triumphant,” and how war is “absolutely the last thing Hitler wants.”
Within six years, Hitler’s armies had reoccupied the German Rhineland, annexed Austria and invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. By the time World War II ended in 1945, the Nazis had killed about 6 million Jews.
The story by Dabney, who later would become editor of The Times-Dispatch, and countless other stories in newspapers across the country informed millions of readers in the 1930s and 1940s about what was happening in Germany after the Nazis rose to power.
Those reports reflect how Americans viewed Hitler’s regime. But historians wonder just how full a picture Americans had of the Nazis’ reign and the Holocaust.
In an effort to learn just what Americans knew and how they responded to the Nazis’ treatment of Jews, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington has created a project called “History Unfolded: U.S. Newspapers and the Holocaust.”
The project is part of an initiative that focuses on Americans and the Holocaust that will lead to an exhibition scheduled to open in April 2018.
Museum officials say that over the years, scholars have studied how the nation’s biggest newspapers covered the Holocaust, but no major study has been done of local news coverage.
The idea behind History Unfolded is to get students, teachers and citizen historians to research how the Holocaust was portrayed in their local newspapers.
re: #47 Timothy Watson
The idea behind History Unfolded is to get students, teachers and citizen historians to research how the Holocaust was portrayed in their local newspapers.
And with any luck… maybe help students, teachers and citizen historians learn a thing or two about pattern recognition?
re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I saw this in an old college buddy friend: he always believed that society and the economy were on the verge of collapsing, so a vote for Trump will just speed up the process and let us hit bottom so we can start over.
But that has been replaced by him convincing himself that DT does have coherent, viable policies.
I do not engage Trump supporters anymore. If their minds are capable of bending themselves around such an abomination, I will not try to argue with them.
I saw some comments just like that the other day. The guy was hoping Trump was elected so it gets so bad it ruins the Republicans for a generation. I guess some of these Bernie Bros types care not at all about their parents and older generations and the damage that will occur with things like the ACA, Social Security, etc.
What a kind and considerate country we live in.
re: #49 ObserverArt
I saw some comments just like that the other day. The guy was hoping Trump was elected so it gets so bad it ruins the Republicans for a generation. I guess some of these Bernie Bros types care not at all about their parents and older generations and the damage that will occur with things like the ACA, Social Security, etc.
What a kind and considerate country we live in.
Politics, business and social interaction are all about pursuing one’s own personal interests over others. Cannot expect people to behave in any other way than what they have learned.
Guess which photo causes conservatives to lose their minds?
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re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Politics, business and social interaction are all about pursuing one’s own personal interests over others. Cannot expect people to behave in any other way than what they have learned.
Agreed. But it sure does seem to ding the definition of “social” but then I may be thinking in terms of group, community, public, collective that all mean more then one.
re: #52 ObserverArt
Agreed. But it sure does seem to ding the definition of “social” but then I may be thinking in terms of group, community, public, collective that all mean more then one.
There are way too many people who affiliate with a group only to promote their personal interests.
re: #51 Dr. Matt
I don’t think I would be posting that, it is insulting to the First Lady.
Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
This story is not about Mr. Khan, who is all over the place doing interviews, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the U.S. Get smart!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
I gotta say, I’m conflicted over the whole ‘nude pics of Melania’ thing. It is just downright weird to contemplate there being naked pictures of the First Lady, but more than that, I can only imagine if there were, for example, a clothed-but-sexy ‘boudoir’ shot of Michelle that got leaked somehow. The Right would be talking endlessly about how she’d degraded the dignity of the WH, even in a private photo not meant for the public.
But this gets to everything I don’t understand about this year. Not only is Trump a vulgarian, he’s also transparently a con man who will say anything to seal the deal, but then has a long history of not delivering on promises, and screwing partners, investors, creditors, contractors, employees, etc - and then BRAGGING about how he took away millions, from projects that left everyone else broke or in debt.
And yet, he’s the one that a significant percentage of Americans want. hell, not just want, the think we NEED him!
So, again trying to measure this year by any standard metric is a waste of time.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
<blockquote>Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!
This story is not about Mr. Khan, who is all over the place doing interviews, but rather RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISM and the U.S. Get smart!
They have found his Kryptonite. He cannot just let this go and move onto the next topic until he has had his final words on it…
…and now even his own party is turning on him in disgust. Jeb Bush, Kasich and McConnell have all come out on the topic.
re: #57 Dr. Matt
Someone is in his campaign or in the GOP leadership should be advising Trump to stop before the hole gets too deep. I’m just amazed that no one the GOP has directly denounced Trump and his statements. Their party is off the rails….completely.
No one can stop the Trump.
This is the “only I can do it” guy remember. And he lives up to it.
re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White
I gotta say, I’m conflicted over the whole ‘nude pics of Melania’ thing. It is just downright weird to contemplate there being naked pictures of the First Lady, but more than that, I can only imagine if there were, for example, a clothed-but-sexy ‘boudoir’ shot of Michelle that got leaked somehow. The Right would be talking endlessly about how she’d degraded the dignity of the WH, even in a private photo not meant for the public.
Conservatives lost their minds because the FLOTUS bared her arms. The hypocrisy is numbing.
abcnews.go.com
trueactivist.com
sfgate.com
re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White
I gotta say, I’m conflicted over the whole ‘nude pics of Melania’ thing. It is just downright weird to contemplate there being naked pictures of the First Lady, but more than that, I can only imagine if, there were, for example, a clothed-but-sexy ‘boudoir’ shot of Michelle that got leaked somehow. The Right would be talking endlessly about how she’d degraded the dignity of the WH, even in a private photo not meant for the public.
But this gets to everything I don’t understand about this year. Not only is Trump a vulgarian, he’s also transparently a con man who will say anything to seal the deal, but then has a long history of not delivering on promises, and screwing partners, investors, creditors, contractors, employees, etc - and then BRAGGING about how he took away millions, from projects that left everyone else broke or in debt.
And yet, he’s the one that a significant percentage of Americans want. hell, not just want, the think we NEED him!
So, again trying to measure this year by any standard metric is a waste of time.
Is there a single RWNJ out there who isn’t a vulgarian? The pseudo-intellectual conservative crowd has always been the establishment who the base never really liked, and most of the establishment is openly hostile to or opposing Trump.
The RWNJs have been attacking Michelle Obama for the same reason they’ve been attacking Barack Obama: they’re black and Democrats. And they will use any bullshit meme or reason to do that, it doesn’t matter if they’ve changed their minds 10 minutes before or will change their minds 10 minutes later. This is a party that feeds on cognitive dissonance and hate.
re: #63 Timothy Watson
Is there a single RWNJ out there who isn’t a vulgarian? The pseudo-intellectual conservative crowd has always been the establishment who the base never really liked, and most of the establishment is openly hostile or opposing Trump.
Yes there are fundamentalist Christians who see this man as America’s Savior and God’s Chosen One
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re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White
I gotta say, I’m conflicted over the whole ‘nude pics of Melania’ thing. It is just downright weird to contemplate there being naked pictures of the First Lady, but more than that, I can only imagine if there were, for example, a clothed-but-sexy ‘boudoir’ shot of Michelle that got leaked somehow. The Right would be talking endlessly about how she’d degraded the dignity of the WH, even in a private photo not meant for the public.
I can only imagine how the Right would react if Obama’s children were from three different mothers. If one of those children’s “touching personal story” about what a great dad he is was… when someone close to her died, he called to ask if she’s okay.
re: #57 Dr. Matt
Someone is in his campaign or in the GOP leadership should be advising Trump to stop before the hole gets too deep. I’m just amazed that no one the GOP has directly denounced Trump and his statements. Their party is off the rails….completely.
graham has been the most direct (Still all relative)
mccain weaseled a bit
re: #60 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
<blockquote>They have found his Kryptonite. He cannot just let this go and move onto the next topic until he has had his final words on it…
If Trump had said nothing, the speech would probably not be a front page story. certainly not for days on end.
fighting with individuals - esp citizens, is a losing strategy
one on one moderated level playing field - he knows he’s toast
An interesting (blog) juxtaposition:
ISIS Joins Donald Trump in Dishonoring Humayun Khan’s Sacrifice
(DBeast noted in Memeorandum)
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes there are fundamentalist Christians who see this man as America’s Savior and God’s Chosen One
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When you live in a world of delusion…
re: #68 dangerman
If Trump had said nothing, the speech would probably not be a front page story. certainly not for days on end.
fighting with individuals - esp citizens, is a losing strategy
one on one moderated level playing field - he knows he’s toast
and going after the mother…fer chrissakes.
this is where he is starting to fail.
this worked fine on the GOP base, but not for the general voting public.
They are generally conservative, but not soulless.
New John McCain stmt. on the Khans: “I cannot emphasize enough how deeply I disagree with Mr. Trump’s statement.” pic.twitter.com/t9wiehkYqI
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) August 1, 2016
re: #69 Decatur Deb
An interesting (blog) juxtaposition:
ISIS Joins Donald Trump in Dishonoring Humayun Khan’s Sacrifice
(DBeast noted in Memeorandum)
Where are the Moderate Muslims to oppose Radical Islamic Terrorism?!??!?!??!?!?!
Moderate Muslim sacrifices himself on behalf of American war effort.
Muslim Brotherhood plant!!!111
I am starting to see a lot of similarities between the current GOP leadership and the Confederate Generals leading Pickett’s Charge.
re: #5 Dave In Austin
~@SpeakerRyan @washingtonpost How small your balls must be for Trump to hold them in one of his tiny little hands.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 1, 2016
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and going after the mother…fer chrissakes.
And the mother owes nothing to anyone. Certainly not Trump.
re: #68 dangerman
I said this over the weekend. The man knows how to dig.
re: #71 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
and going after the mother…fer chrissakes.
this is where he is starting to fail.
this worked fine on the GOP base, but not for the general voting public.
They are generally conservative, but not soulless.
that was dumber on top of already dumb. he started on her after their tv interview in which they said they kind of wrote the speech together. how much warning do you need? she was distraught at the convention. and she’s literate. she just told you (and the world) no way she wouldnt respond and eviscerate him.
re: #55 Charles Johnson
Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same - Nice!
— Donald J. Trump
Pretty rich from the guy who allowed the Benghazi mother to attack Hillary at the RNC.
re: #72 Dr. Matt
still supporting the candidate though?
If Trump doesn’t back off the Khans McCain might only campaign with him in Arizona.
John McCain just offered perhaps his sternest rebuke of Donald Trump yet https://t.co/02oRj1dYT8 via @louisjnelson
— POLITICO (@politico) August 1, 2016
Nice assist from our wingnut media types to give an assist to ISIS. ISIS doesn’t even need bombs, guns or anything they turn into a terrorist attack for this one.
re: #72 Dr. Matt
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Would really like to regain some respect for John McCain. Someday.
re: #80 dangerman
still supporting the candidate though?
Most certainly. McCain could save his legacy by openly supporting HRC while completely denouncing Trump. But, we know this won’t happen.
re: #75 darthstar
Paul Ryan - “Here’s my op-ed in @WashingtonPost: Hillary Clinton is unfit to handle classified information. wapo.st”
here’s my unpublished opinion, Paul: your oh so carefully crafted statements demonstrate a job before party before country before principles coward
you’re not in great shape. unfit indeed
OT - Here I am at the Family Home, having just arrived from a couple days in Pittsburgh, at a family reunion. Our trip to Pittsburgh was … eventful.
We had connecting flights through DFW, with an hour and a half layover. When we got to the airport, the first leg was listed as leaving 40 minutes late, so I started sweating the connecting time - would we have time to get from Terminal A to Terminal C, find our gate, etc. before the doors closed?
And the flight took even longer to get off the ground than expected. We got into DFW, I turned on my phone, and Orbitz told me the flight to Pittsburgh - originally 6:30 - was delayed till 7:00. That went on for hours - every half hour, they’d bump the time another half hour. And no plane at the gate. Finally at 10:30, we boarded. 20 minutes after we’d boarded, the pilot announces that the Flight Attendants had been waiting so long that they’d exceeded their maximum hours, and we’d need new ones. Off the plane again - and when we came out, at 11:15, there were a couple stacks of COTS! Not a good sign! Luckily we reboarded and were off to Pittsburgh almost 6 hours late. Get to Pittsburgh, no way to pick up our rental car - everyone was closed. Took a taxi.
Sunday, we went to pick up a rental car to drive to Dad’s house. I’d specified something Camry-sized. The guy says, “Oh, we don’t have any Standard-sized cars, so we’ll give you a free upgrade. We’ve got (looks out window) a Kia Sorrento, or a Dodge Charger”
“I’ll take the Charger!”
And here it is. I guess the Travel Gods finally decided to smile on me.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Would really like to regain some respect for John McCain. Someday.
One of the key moments in the Decline and Fall of the GOP was when McCain tried to defend Obama in front of a Tea Party rally as a man of honor, one whose politics they simply disagree with.
He was booed off the stage.
And left the stage free for a candidate like Trump to step up and take their applause…
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Would really like to regain some respect for John McCain. Someday.
ship has sailed
not returning
re: #81 darthstar
If Trump doesn’t back off the Khans McCain might only campaign with him in Arizona.
That would be a pretty drastic step.
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re: #90 jeffreyw
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Greets and saluts from the humid and overcast NYC metro area. Some parts of the area got more than 6 inches of rain causing significant flooding over the weekend, but luckily the bulk of NYC missed the heaviest of the rain. We might have more flood watches/warnings today as the rain continues to stick around, which is a good metaphor for the Trump campaign.
It’s like a storm front that simply wont go away. It’ll dump it’s spewage and not care what damage is done.
Who knew that the Khan DNC statement would still be getting under Trump’s skin 5 days later. Heck, I suspect it’ll be talked about all the way into November. That’s how badly Trump’s handling it.
It shows his complete and utter lack of empathy. That’s a basic skill taken for granted with Presidents, given that they are called upon to be Comforter in Chief following national disasters, crises, mass shootings, or when law enforcement or service members are killed in the line of duty.
After the past week, it’s impossible for anyone to see Trump as someone who’d comfort anyone about anything. He simply doesn’t have this basic feeling and character within him.
But Trump goes beyond not having empathy. He’s actively attacking Mr. Khan and his wife, because Trump’s character and judgment were questioned?
What do you think happens if you’re president? You get questioned all the time. By everyone. Even from within your own party. Just ask President Obama. Or GWB. Or GHWB. Or Bill Clinton. They’ve all been there. They know criticism comes with the territory, and all have much thicker skin and resolve than you do.
That a speech at the DNC is enough to send you cartwheeling into attacks on Gold Star families shows your ultimate lack of character and judgment, but you simply don’t stop there.
Nope. With Trump, every attack is a doubling down.
This isn’t just like some architectural critic complaining about the derivative and gaudy tendencies of your glass curtain wall skyscrapers in NYC. The critics ultimately know that your buildings will be overshadowed by far better ones. No, you’re trying to become President of the US, and that’s a job requiring a very particular set of skills.
And you lack all of them.
When a Tweet is enough to send you careening off into a twitter rampage of revenge, it shows just how incapable you are of restraint. It’s entirely likely you’d be the first president to launch a war because someone criticized you on Twitter.
None of this is fantasy either. We’re all watching you and your responses to external stimulation, and the results aren’t just ugly. They’re downright horrifying.
re: #92 darthstar
I must say that if I saw that in my supermarket I would run and never — ever — return.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of the key moments in the Decline and Fall of the GOP was when McCain tried to defend Obama in front of a Tea Party rally as a man of honor, one whose politics they simply disagree with.
He was booed off the stage.
And left the stage free for a candidate like Trump to step up and take their applause…
That was the GOP base, briefly showing itself. Now it’s running the GOP.
re: #92 darthstar
A buddy of mine saw Trump at a grocery store. I didn’t know he did his own shopping.
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Looks like a ladies man to me, or the guy in the windowless van.
Lewandowski claims Captain Khan would still be alive if Trump had been president https://t.co/kZpqBjH0PC pic.twitter.com/axHjPaKoSV
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) August 1, 2016
“We’ve had 7,000 soldiers who have died, $6 trillion wasted overseas that if Donald Trump was president, we would never have had, and Captain Khan would be alive today,” Lewandowski, who is now a paid CNN contributor, said.
And…wait for it…
“If Donald Trump was the president, Captain Khan would be alive today, because he would’ve never engaged in a war that didn’t directly benefit this country,” Lewandowski said. “Captain Khan would be alive today, as would 7,000 other U.S. soldiers.”
I swear, CNN should have their license pulled if they don’t fire this shill
re: #95 Sir John Barron
That was the GOP base, briefly showing itself. Now it’s running the GOP.
Exactly. The party was afraid to call these people out or at least distance themselves, and they came to take over the nominating process.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
“If Donald Trump was the president, Captain Khan would be alive today, because he would’ve never engaged in a war that didn’t directly benefit this country,” Lewandowski said. “Captain Khan would be alive today, as would 7,000 other U.S. soldiers.”ill
And is totally irrelevant to the fact that DT really owes these people some sort of apology.
re: #93 lawhawk
fittingly, the campaign in one line:
” A person void of empathy for the people he wishes to lead cannot be trusted with that leadership.”
- Khizr Khan
re: #99 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“If Donald Trump was the president, Captain Khan would be alive today, because he would’ve never engaged in a war that didn’t directly benefit this country,” Lewandowski said. “Captain Khan would be alive today, as would 7,000 other U.S. soldiers.”ill
But your candidate is promising to destroy ISIS. With what troops are we supposed to accomplish that? Will there be no American deaths in such an effort?
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Exactly. The party was afraid to call these people out or at least distance themselves, and they came to take over the nominating process.
and now they cant because they’d (gasp) lose
kllllll.L <<—just typed by my kitten walking across my keyboard. She’s trying to spell ‘kill’. What a good kitty.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 1, 2016
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Would really like to regain some respect for John McCain. Someday.
Same here, but given the ages of Captain McCain and myself, I fear we’re running out of time.
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Holy shit, Maryland…what the fuck?
#Maryland, USA: Cars being swept away in roads that look like rivers in #ellicottcity. Jo pic.twitter.com/U2HHxdeVh2
— BBC Weather (@bbcweather) August 1, 2016
re: #101 Sir John Barron
It’s all vaporware. There’s no plan to do anything. He just says trust me.
He’s Joe Izuzu, and his supporters don’t care about the details.
The rest of the GOP establishment might care, but wont say anything bad about Trump, because their own political futures rely on Trump’s voters (the core GOP voter).
re: #101 Sir John Barron
But your candidate is promising to destroy ISIS. With what troops are we supposed to accomplish that? Will there be no American deaths in such an effort?
the whole thing is an all other things being equal except one -asinine comment
i keep wanting to use the word “moronic”. i’m avoiding it
i will not apologize to asses, either singly or in nonets
Meghan found a nice word about her daddy and retweeted it.
@danmericaCNN Followed by “Please vote Trump in November.” @MeghanMcCain
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 1, 2016
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
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And…wait for it…
I swear, CNN should have their license pulled if they don’t fire this shill
And Trump still whines that “media is conspiring against him”
re: #102 dangerman
and now they cant because they’d (gasp) lose
they were afraid of alienating their base. now their base has alienated them
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
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And…wait for it…
I swear, CNN should have their license pulled if they don’t fire this shill
Wow…he sounds objective.
re: #105 darthstar
Yeah, the flooding down in Maryland was pretty insane. We had some flooding up here, but nothing as extreme.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
So what he’s saying is that it’s George W Bush and Dick Cheney’s fault then. Seeing as how this young man was killed while they held office. Good to know.
These fucking people. And Roger Stone? OMG. Saying Muslims join the US military to kill their fellow soldiers? I would love to put this fucking douchebag into a room full of those who served and let him run his yap for awhile. See what condition he leaves in. This shit should not be allowed to stand. It just can’t.
re: #104 lizardofid
Same here, but given the ages of Captain McCain and myself, I fear we’re running out of time.
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i was glib upthread
i respect his military service
i respect some of his political service
politics changed him
i dont see him changing back
Baby Whiplash has teh sads because DePaul won’t give him a “Free Speech” safe space==>
So, I’ve been banned from DePaul. Because they’re cowards. https://t.co/hBg1yzLz46
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 1, 2016
@realDonaldTrump You sound like a kid whose parents just caught him in a lie.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) August 1, 2016
re: #105 darthstar
what is that guy at the end trying to do?
water alone is relentless. corralling a car against the tide?
coat stuck in the door?
re: #117 dangerman
what is that guy at the end trying to do?
water alone is relentless. corralling a car against the tide?
coat stuck in the door?
That’s what I thought. Is that guy stuck to the car or something? Let it go.
re: #114 dangerman
i was glib upthread
i respect his military service
i respect some of his political service
politics changed him
i dont see him changing back
Your point is well taken. Hence the the lost respect, which I would hope to regain, is indeed for Capt. McCain. Sen. McCain, not so much.
; )
Off topic, but everyone’s heart here skipped a beat earlier this evening:
Erroneous alert of massive Tokyo quake causes brief panic
re: #64 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Yes there are fundamentalist Christians who see this man as America’s Savior and God’s Chosen One
.
I understand that today the NY Post has published some of Mrs. Trump’s lesbian photos.
The silence of the guardians of morality will be golden.
re: #117 dangerman
what is that guy at the end trying to do?
water alone is relentless. corralling a car against the tide?
coat stuck in the door?
Hopefully he’s just trying to retrieve his phone and then giving up because he’s about to get crushed between two cars. (I did watch it again to make sure there were no people inside he was trying to reach…don’t appear to be. That would be tragic.)
re: #121 Skip Intro
Yes, the Post indeed published those salacious photos. One has to wonder whether Trump himself released them so as to divert attention away from his batcrap insane handling of Mr. Khan and Gold Star Parents.
Addressing one crisis he’s incapable of fixing by creating another equally perplexing one. This is his entire MO. The more you point out his inadequacies to be President, the more he proves you right.
Meanwhile, Florida Man is already in need of starting an entirely new category:
GOP extremist Mike Huckabee is contemplating run for ~Florida~ governorship. Carpetbagger. https://t.co/l1NViAibG6
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 1, 2016
re: #115 The Vicious Babushka
So, I’ve been banned from DePaul. Because they’re cowards. dailywire.com
— Ben Shapiro
Consider it a suggestion to find gainful employment.
i dont take credit for this:
trump is the monster that Mitch McConnell is holding the supreme court pick for
This strains credulity. You also confirmed you would look into recognizing Crimea as a Russian Fed territory. https://t.co/93xQSH9Njg
— Noah Rothman (@NoahCRothman) August 1, 2016
When I said in an interview that Putin is “not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down,” I am saying if I am President. Already in Crimea!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 1, 2016
@NoahCRothman @KeithOlbermann Yes, the Republican platform to restrict the sale of lethal arms to Ukraine will be such a deterrent to Russia
— FormerDirtDart (@FormerDirtDart) August 1, 2016
re: #118 Eventual Carrion
That’s what I thought. Is that guy stuck to the car or something? Let it go.
The only thing I could think of would be maybe someone was in the car? Kid in the back seat or something? Didn’t see anyone in the front.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
Would really like to regain some respect for John McCain. Someday.
Tbh it’s hard for me to find anything in his bio to respect him for. Subjective, of course.
re: #127 FormerDirtDart
When I said in an interview that Putin is “not going into Ukraine, you can mark it down,” I am saying if I am President. Already in Crimea!
— Donald J. Trump
This doesn’t even make sense.
Giants beat the Nationals yesterday. And check out this sequence:
Starting pitcher throws four hitless innings (but walks 5 so is not doing great)
Giants have another pitcher pinch hit for him in the 5th - and he gets a lead off double.
That pitcher is pinch-run for by yet another pitcher(the previous day’s starter), who winds up scoring.
There’s a reason I like the National league. Our pitchers can pitch, but they can also hit…and run.
Okay…time to walk the dog and get ready for work. Later everyone. I like this ad-free look, Charles. Why didn’t you tell me to subscribe years ago?
re: #123 lawhawk
Yes, the Post indeed published those salacious photos. One has to wonder whether Trump himself released them so as to divert attention away from his batcrap insane handling of Mr. Khan and Gold Star Parents.
Addressing one crisis he’s incapable of fixing by creating another equally perplexing one. This is his entire MO. The more you point out his inadequacies to be President, the more he proves you right.
Calling in fire on his own position? That only makes sense if he stops making stupid statements about the Khans. They haven’t stopped.
re: #129 Nyet
Tbh it’s hard for me to find anything in his bio to respect him for. Subjective, of course.
In all credible reports he handled himself very well as a POW. No small thing, even if a long time ago.
OK, I’ve been up 25(+) hours, after only sleeping around four hrs Sunday morning.
Time top wedge my way onto the couch with the rest of the pack
re: #133 Decatur Deb
John Oliver touched on this in show over the weekend. Trump’s statements are like nails. Step on one, and it hurts like hell. Step on a bed of nails and it’s mildly discomforting. Sure, a few might stick up and give you tetanus, but you get overwhelmed by the sheer madness of it all.
Okay, I paraphrased that a bit.
Just watch the whole bit:
re: #135 FormerDirtDart
OK, I’ve been up 25(+) hours, after only sleeping around four hrs Sunday morning.
Time top wedge my way onto the couch with the rest of the pack
Tuck yourself in with your Donald doll. Sweet dreams.
re: #105 darthstar
Holy shit, Maryland…what the fuck?
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re: #6 FormerDirtDart
Maybe some rich benefactor will bankroll the Khans so they can sue these pigs
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Go to hell, Roger Stone! Go To Hell!
So, here’s some photos I took while I was out and about in Rýmařov.
re: #57 Dr. Matt
Someone is in his campaign or in the GOP leadership should be advising Trump to stop before the hole gets too deep. I’m just amazed that no one the GOP has directly denounced Trump and his statements. Their party is off the rails….completely.
The sad truth is that the overwhelming number of Republicans actually believe what Trump Says.
re: #141 Joe Bacon
The sad truth is that the overwhelming number of Republicans actually believe what Trump Says.
And the ultimate consideration for any action for them is what it takes to remain in power.
re: #130 Sir John Barron
This doesn’t even make sense.
Already! Mark it! I didn’t say ‘no’ yesterday when I meant ‘yes’ today!
Maybe going online and checking the news isn’t such a good thing every morning. I can feel the screws tighten. I really cannot remember any candidate for any office getting a free ride on so many issues. Trump is not presidential or any elected position material. Now personally, he’s a snake. With apologies to snakes. He could murder someone on 5th Avenue and walk. Thank the press for that. And thank the GOP for showing you time after time that they love party over nation. Paycheck over principles. And their seat over conscience. They have hit rock bottom. Only physical murder is left. And something tells me that would come with an explanation that would then be let to drift off, just like all the other horrible, stupid, mean, vile shit. The GOP is dead. A ghost ship. With one of the worst possible examples of humanity at the helm. And only silence from the GOP. It’s natural progression of a party that seeks only power and would do anything to maintain it. Is this how fascism rises? Sure looks like it to me. You built that. You built it and refuse to take responsibility for it. Trump needs to be totally and utterly defeated along with every other GOP candidate that stood with him or stood in silence.
Very long article. I read the whole thing. Rather wishing I hadn’t because now I am thoroughly depressed.
tl:dr —> Facts are irrelevant — an appeal to reason is ineffective against a sales pitch aimed at a subconscious level. Arguing against Trump reinforces his narrative even in the people who strongly disagree with him. We’re up against the insidious power of a repeated lie, and a master carnival barker taking advantage of 30+ years of propaganda.
It’s gonna be a long slog till November, and it doesn’t end there.
:P
re: #144 nines09
I think there are still a few clear-head thinkers in the GOP who know that a Trump presidency would damage them for generations, and will quietly vote against him when the time comes, despite any lip service they are paying now.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think there are still a few clear-head thinkers in the GOP who know that a Trump presidency would damage them for generations, and will quietly vote against him when the time comes, despite any lip service they are paying now.
I hope so. What I have seen is a lot of attempts at false equivalency. People who admit Trump is bad but attempt to say Clinton is equally bad.
re: #145 CleverToad
a master carnival barker
He might be in a small tent with a captive audience where he’s the only one allowed to speak, but he’s a failure on the national stage when someone can challenge him.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think there are still a few clear-head thinkers in the GOP who know that a Trump presidency would damage them for generations, and will quietly vote against him when the time comes, despite any lip service they are paying now.
You would hope. But the lip service shows me who they truly are. I’m waiting for the lawn signs to come out. I know far too many people who hate Hillary, and they can’t even explain why. That is what Trump has. Unlimited lies. The GOP are experts at throwing up so much shit, you can’t shoot down all of it. Then they repeat it on all their shows and links and talking heads, and the idiots sit there and say, “Yeah. I heard that too.”
re: #149 nines09
You would hope. But the lip service shows me who they truly are. I’m waiting for the lawn signs to come out. I know far too many people who hate Hillary, and they can’t even explain why. That is what Trump has. Unlimited lies. The GOP are experts at throwing up so much shit, you can’t shoot down all of it. Then they repeat it on all their shows and links and talking heads, and the idiots sit there and say, “Yeah. I heard that too.”
It was said that if Thomas Jefferson became president that men’s daughters would be raped in the streets. Jefferson was elected anyway.
re: #92 darthstar
A buddy of mine saw Trump at a grocery store. I didn’t know he did his own shopping.
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re: #2 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
cnn headline
Did Trump go too far?
geez how many times has that question been asked in the past year?
dont get my hopes up
Peak Trump is a lie.
re: #150 Belafon
It was said that if Thomas Jefferson became president that men’s daughters would be raped in the streets. Jefferson was elected anyway.
I think he was more discrete in his raping.
re: #150 Belafon
It was said that if Thomas Jefferson became president that men’s daughters would be raped in the streets. Jefferson was elected anyway.
That came before what Trump has. A media giving him a free pass. 24/7 coverage. A corrupt political party behind him. And fear. The news and GOP has done a marvelous job at selling fear. Non stop. Fox News non stop Doomsday reporting. Entire nation blanketed with AM hate radio. You know the names.
re: #149 nines09
You would hope. But the lip service shows me who they truly are. I’m waiting for the lawn signs to come out. I know far too many people who hate Hillary, and they can’t even explain why. That is what Trump has. Unlimited lies. The GOP are experts at throwing up so much shit, you can’t shoot down all of it. Then they repeat it on all their shows and links and talking heads, and the idiots sit there and say, “Yeah. I heard that too.”
Went to Mt.Vernon this weekend, saw a child wearing a Hillary for Prison t-shirt. Had to restrain myself from making an unkind remark to the child’s ignorant parents.
re: #139 Joe Bacon
Go to hell, Roger Stone! Go To Hell!
Roger Stone believes LBJ had JFK killed. Wrote a book about it.
re: #155 Sir John Barron
Proudly teaching ignorance.
re: #147 HappyWarrior
I hope so. What I have seen is a lot of attempts at false equivalency. People who admit Trump is bad but attempt to say Clinton is equally bad.
That is what they have to say. They will continue to diss Clinton out of loyalty to the GOP, but in the end, they will either vote HRC or simply decline to vote for DT.
I clerked for Justice Clarence Thomas. I’ve taught constitutional law since 1995. If you’re voting Trump to “save SCOTUS,” delete your soul.
— chenx064 (@chenx064) July 31, 2016
This isn’t just about Supreme Court nominations. Or even judicial nominations as a group. Trump’s signaling the entire destruction of the notion of judicial independence in favor of a fealty to his chosen view (which is essentially the Heritage position). This has disastrous consequences, even if you actually support the Heritage position, because it eliminates one of the key separations of power that was baked into the Constitution.
re: #155 Sir John Barron
Went to Mt.Vernon this weekend, saw a child wearing a Hillary for Prison t-shirt. Had to restrain myself from making an unkind remark to the child’s ignorant parents.
I imagine these shirts will become more popular as their candidate has nothing of virtue to offer of himself.
re: #160 Sir John Barron
I imagine these shirts will become more popular as their candidate has nothing of virtue to offer of himself.
that is all they have
But like Groundhog day crossing streams with Godfather, they keep waking up next to a horse’s ass. @MoRocca @JoeMyGod
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 1, 2016
re: #57 Dr. Matt
Someone is in his campaign or in the GOP leadership should be advising Trump to stop before the hole gets too deep. I’m just amazed that no one the GOP has directly denounced Trump and his statements. Their party is off the rails….completely.
To be fair, McCain and Graham have.
cnn.com
re: #160 Sir John Barron
I imagine these shirts will become more popular as their candidate has nothing of virtue to offer of himself.
You just hit the nail on the head.
re: #155 Sir John Barron
Went to Mt.Vernon this weekend, saw a child wearing a Hillary for Prison t-shirt. Had to restrain myself from making an unkind remark to the child’s ignorant parents.
Oh Bless their Hearts.
re: #156 Sir John Barron
Roger Stone believes LBJ had JFK killed. Wrote a book about it.
A shitload of the 60’s version of BernieBros thought the same. They produced an off-Broadway play about it.
Islamic State calls slain Muslim American soldier an ‘apostate’ https://t.co/ir6dviluqT pic.twitter.com/jnUqfdxEo1
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 31, 2016
re: #160 Sir John Barron
I imagine these shirts will become more popular as their candidate has nothing of virtue to offer of himself.
Making a bet I really really don’t want to have to win, I’ll wager that Trump (should he eventually make it to one or more of the Presidential debates) will actually make “Lock Her Up” a “debating” point - right to Hillary’s face. And probably get riotous applause for it from the online Right…
re: #170 Decatur Deb
Blendtec: Will it blend?! Yes, It CAN! /
re: #169 Jay C
If Trump debated Hillary face to face, he would lose what little manhood he has left along with his ride. He would be torn to shreds. The other GOP candidates never had to verbally talk shit. Hillary can. Trump will do everything he can to dodge it.
re: #169 Jay C
Making a bet I really really don’t want to have to win, I’ll wager that Trump (should he eventually make it to one or more of the Presidential debates) will actually make “Lock Her Up” a “debating” point - right to Hillary’s face. And probably get riotous applause for it from the online Right…
Still makes me angry. If you feel strongly that Hillary belongs in prison for some reason, wear the damn t-shirt yourself. Don’t put it on the kid. Coward.
re: #172 nines09
If Trump debated Hillary face to face, he would lose what little manhood he has left along with his ride. He would be torn to shreds. The other GOP candidates never had to verbally talk shit. Hillary can. Trump will do everything he can to dodge it.
That’s why he wants Jill Stein and Gary Johnson in the debates in the hope that they will gang up on Hillary.
re: #171 lawhawk
Blendtec: Will it blend?! Yes, It CAN! /
Had to look that up. $1200 to make a freaking slurppy.
re: #173 Sir John Barron
You can imagine that little girl will hear a lot of “You can’t. You’re a girl” in the coming years.
.@lbblackford writes about the Lexington People of Walmart: https://t.co/hVrVNNRhWB pic.twitter.com/BW2S3lDgOA
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) August 1, 2016
this is nutz
re: #176 nines09
You can imagine that little girl will hear a lot of “You can’t. You’re a girl” in the coming years.
It was a boy. But yes, way to raise your kid, numbskull.
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Lexington is the sanest place we ever lived in Kentucky.
re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
Three Ammosexuals and a Baby.
re: #178 Sir John Barron
It was a boy. But yes, way to raise your kid, numbskull.
Rearing another generation of Rush Dimbo listeners.
re: #178 Sir John Barron
For some reason I envisioned a girl. So they are ignorant, but not totally ignorant.
re: #168 nines09
Islamic State calls slain Muslim American soldier an ‘apostate’
Isn’t the whole War on Islam all about apostates’ rights?
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re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Uh, what? In most places it’s automatic felony to have both illegal drugs and a firearm.
Mitch McConnell: “If you think America can do better by taking a different path, Trump is the only alternative.” https://t.co/yX9hX3jxFJ ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) August 1, 2016
McConnell acknowledged that many people in the room may not be happy with Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but the biggest thing they must determine is what direction do they want to see the country go.
“I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton if you believe this is as good as America can be,” McConnell said. “But, if you think that America can do better by taking a different path, Trump is the only alternative.”
McConnell admitted that he did not watch any of the recently completed Democratic National Convention saying that he knew what the Democrats arguments would be and “he has heard them all before.”
gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
re: #184 Timothy Watson
If they walked……Bet they were….not black.
re: #184 Timothy Watson
Uh, what? In most places it’s automatic felony to have both illegal drugs and a firearm.
welcome to Kentucky.
sigh…
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— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) August 1, 2016
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
“I’ll take “Cowardice” for the win, Alex.”
re: #184 Timothy Watson
Uh, what? In most places it’s automatic felony to have both illegal drugs and a firearm.
and a child in one’s care
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Then you deserve to go down with him, Mitch as does anyone in your party who contines to support him.
Meanwhile, if you can stomach real vileness, try to read this anti-minority voting f0ckery in GA.
But the deputy had not come to arrest Mr. Flournoy. Rather, he had come to challenge Mr. Flournoy’s right to vote.
The majority-white Hancock County Board of Elections and Registration was systematically questioning the registrations of more than 180 black Sparta citizens — a fifth of the city’s registered voters — by dispatching deputies with summonses commanding them to appear in person to prove their residence or lose their voting rights. “When I read that letter, I was kind of nervous,” Mr. Flournoy said in an interview. “I didn’t know what to do.”
Hi, we see that you have registered to vote. We are declaring your voter registration void unless you accompany this fine law enforcement officer to our offices to be interrogated.
re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I think there are still a few clear-head thinkers in the GOP who know that a Trump presidency would damage them for generations, and will quietly vote against him when the time comes, despite any lip service they are paying now.
McConnell acknowledged that many people in the room may not be happy with Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but the biggest thing they must determine is what direction do they want to see the country go.
“I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton if you believe this is as good as America can be,” McConnell said. “But, if you think that America can do better by taking a different path, Trump is the only alternative.”
McConnell admitted that he did not watch any of the recently completed Democratic National Convention saying that he knew what the Democrats arguments would be and “he has heard them all before.”
I think we have our answer.
So this pants-on-head crazy person shows up in my mentions==>
@viciousbabushka @YouTube Duke was in the KKK 40 yrs ago but isn’t it true the KKK is now supporting Clinton? https://t.co/k1fI6vH6RF
— Bunny Hopper (@ConservIGirl) August 1, 2016
re: #193 nines09
“I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton if you believe this is as good as America can be,” McConnell said. “But, if you think that America can do better by taking a different path, Trump is the only alternative.”
OFFS
Clinton running mate Tim Kaine has made himself unofficial DJ on the campaign tour bus. https://t.co/h3I0PrF6qJ pic.twitter.com/Vg5nM73GAr
— ABC News (@ABC) August 1, 2016
video at the link.
re: #194 The Vicious Babushka
@viciousbabushka @YouTube Duke was in the KKK 40 yrs ago but isn’t it true the KKK is now supporting Clinton? m.washingtontimes.com
— Bunny Hopper
Hateful and delusional is no way to go through life.
re: #188 lawhawk
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re: #195 Sir John Barron
OFFS
Well it’s as good as it can be with assholes like McConnell and Rand in power. And that other path goes off the road into a bridge abutment at 120 mph.
re: #172 nines09
If Trump debated Hillary face to face, he would lose what little manhood he has left along with his ride. He would be torn to shreds. The other GOP candidates never had to verbally talk shit. Hillary can. Trump will do everything he can to dodge it.
Oh, I quite agree: but I’m guessing, as per my #169, that even though that “riotous applause on the online Right” would pale against the “retching sounds of disgust” from the rest of the country, it won’t make the least bit of difference to the GOP “base” - and the media will most likely simply tsk-tsk at the “rough language”, and go on to “score” the debate along more important lines: like whether or not Hillary Clinton’s outfit made her look fat, or was too “shrill”….
Donald Trump may be a noxious, festering boil on the American body politic (in desperate need of being lanced) - but that boil is only a symptom of a deeper disease: in some countries (in Europe, say), it’s usually defined as “neo-fascist ultranationalism” (here it can be shorthanded as “the Republican Party”) - and it’s a particularly tenacious pathology with no easy cure…
re: #175 Decatur Deb
My simple ass husband bought the 400 dollar version. To make “weight loss smoothies”, that he found the recipes for on the internet from some stupid orthorexic girl in yoga pants. By day three his blood sugar shot up to 500 and he damned near ended up in the hospital. He has Type II Diabetes and I told him it was a bad idea. But noooo. He’s never used it since.
I’ll sell it for 300. Still have the box and all the packaging. He’s lucky I didn’t beat him with the freaking thing.
re: #201 Jay C
The Europeans are quite familiar with what Trump is. Our press just cannot seem to get their pointy little heads around it.
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
One of the key moments in the Decline and Fall of the GOP was when McCain tried to defend Obama in front of a Tea Party rally as a man of honor, one whose politics they simply disagree with.
He was booed off the stage.
And left the stage free for a candidate like Trump to step up and take their applause…
I still think McCain gets too much credit for that exchange. The woman says he’s an Arab and McCain says no, he’s a decent family man (paraphrased) as if the two were mutually exclusive.
Better than Palin’s shrieking crap, but hardly a profile in courage imo.
re: #204 BeachDem
I still think McCain gets too much credit for that exchange. The woman says he’s an Arab and McCain says no, he’s a decent family man (paraphrased) as if the two were mutually exclusive.
Better than Palin’s shrieking crap, but hardly a profile in courage imo.
That woman was one in a crowd at McCain’s rally. Trump’s rallies are now full of that woman.
re: #204 BeachDem
The GOP built that stage Trump now stands on. He is the natural progression of their policy. When you act as the GOP has, Trump is what you get.
jeebus…these people:
Fox responds to Khizr Khan by lying about coverage of speech by mother of Benghazi victim: https://t.co/CYg2kmFUIV pic.twitter.com/VdHvgp29Ne
— Media Matters (@mmfa) August 1, 2016
re: #206 nines09
Exactly. If the freaking Tea Party people screaming at constituent meetings had been neutralized a few years back, I think we’d still be seeing an odious mess in the GOP, but not to this degree. Trump is their monster, they built him and actions have consequences. Sadly, it doesn’t just effect them.
re: #114 dangerman
i was glib upthread
i respect his military service
i respect some of his political service
politics changed him
i dont see him changing back
I will be glib downthread
I respect his military serve
I respect almost none of his political service
Politics didn’t change him—he was always an asshole
He will continue to be the self-serving guy he has always been.
JMO
re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth
Seriously? I saw it live. Does Kilmeade have two brain cells that touch?
re: #210 A Mom Anon
Seriously? I saw it live. Does Kilmeade have two brain cells that touch?
There was one station that did not cover her speech: Fox.
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Then you deserve to go down with him, Mitch as does anyone in your party who contines to support him.
He has no choice…and he is trying to make it sound only as convincing as minimally necessary.
re: #193 nines09
McConnell acknowledged that many people in the room may not be happy with Republican nominee Donald Trump or Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, but the biggest thing they must determine is what direction do they want to see the country go.
“I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton if you believe this is as good as America can be,” McConnell said. “But, if you think that America can do better by taking a different path, Trump is the only alternative.”
McConnell admitted that he did not watch any of the recently completed Democratic National Convention saying that he knew what the Democrats arguments would be and “he has heard them all before.”
I think we have our answer.
Listen closely to how he worded it. He is offering only very conditional support to the GOP candidate and hedging it very closely. And there is a telling lack of enthusiasm in his words.
Sad wingnut is sad that facts has Librul Bias
The chart proves more about Politifact … when HRC and Obama have low pants-on-fire ratings, something’s wrong. https://t.co/MQ8SJ4yknh
— American AF (@afa1776) August 1, 2016
Trump is going to be the hugest of friends to Israel and the Jews.
That’s why his top adviser spent years as a lobbyist flack for Saudi Arabia, including on undermining Israel’s right to claim Jerusalem as its capital.
Manafort was also a registered foreign agent for the Saudis. https://t.co/2pSQpK9DoG pic.twitter.com/lzzIL7ETLk
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) August 1, 2016
So Trump literally spits on John McCain and every other serviceperson, and Ambien Johnny takes it. Says Trump should apologise to the other Vets. Trump basically spits in Johnnys’ face. Again. Now Ambien Johnny must feel as if he should say something…..To defend integrity and honor and sacrifice…..from a grifting two bit…wait…..Oh. Fuck it….Ambien Johnny is still supporting Trump. Nevermind.
Obligated to point out - even w/ McCain’s lengthy denunciation of Trump’s comments - still supporting him for POTUS. pic.twitter.com/5o5cVzAn9c
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 1, 2016
re: #215 The Vicious Babushka
Sad wingnut is sad that facts has Librul Bias
It’s their inability to change their mind with respect to facts that is most dangerous. They have been allowed to believe that something is true only if they accept it for far too long. At some point it needs to cost them for being this wrong. The problem is that they won’t get that unless a whole lot of other people get hurt as well.
re: #215 The Vicious Babushka
Sad wingnut is sad that facts has Librul Bias
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There we go again with:
Feelings > Facts
I feel that Clinton and Obama lie alot. And Politico says that they have a low “pants on fire” rating. So Politico must be a librul shill.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Sure. Read between the lines. Like Theology. You get your version, I get mine….
re: #211 Belafon
Propaganda arm of the Republican party.
Fox dummies not acknowledging that the reason Khan spoke was because TRUMP HAS CAMPAIGNED EXPLICITLY ON BANNING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION.
re: #222 Sir John Barron
Fox dummies not acknowledging that the reason Khan spoke was because TRUMP HAS CAMPAIGNED EXPLICITLY ON BANNING MUSLIM IMMIGRATION.
And also that like, you know, Hillary didn’t attack Ms Smith after speaking at the RNC.
re: #192 Sir John Barron
Yeah, but we have no racism problem. Nope. Nothing to see here. Fucking Georgia.
re: #220 Jenner7
Hubby gets stung three times by bee’s while mowing the lawn. Turns out we have a nest in some railroad ties against our shed. Called my spray guy and he tells me they are africanized bees. Oh goody. It’s a small nest, but glad we caught it when we did.
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re: #223 Sir John Barron
And also that like, you know, Hillary didn’t attack Ms Smith after speaking at the RNC.
Nor did the Khans explicitly blame Donald Trump for their son’s death like Mrs. Smith did to Hillary, but “both sides….” etc.
re: #196 Backwoods_Sleuth
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he’s jimmy stewart
you cant vote against jimmy stewart
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re: #209 BeachDem
I will be glib downthread
I respect his military serve
I respect almost none of his political service
Politics didn’t change him—he was always an asshole
He will continue to be the self-serving guy he has always been.
JMO
i defer to your expertise in the matter
re: #221 nines09
Sure. Read between the lines. Like Theology. You get your version, I get mine….
He is doing it most intentionally that way in the hope that some people will take it that way. He needs to cover his ass and sound like he is supporting the GOP candidate, but he is not about to just jump up and down with enthusiasm, either, and I find that telling.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Listen closely to how he worded it. He is offering only very conditional support to the GOP candidate and hedging it very closely. And there is a telling lack of enthusiasm in his words.
sorry -if you’re not unequivocally, waffle-less (as it were) against him, you’re with him
re: #219 Franklin
There we go again with:
Feelings > Facts
I feel that Clinton and Obama lie alot. And Politico says that they have a low “pants on fire” rating. So Politico must be a librul shill.
its like no proof being conspiracy theory confirmation
re: #221 nines09
Sure. Read between the lines. Like Theology. You get your version, I get mine….
Read it literally: “I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton…”
re: #232 dangerman
sorry -if you’re not unequivocally, waffle-less (as it were) against him, you’re with him
That certainly applies to voters, I am looking at the specific case of a GOP member and leader being INCREDIBLY equivocal. That, to me, speaks volumes.
re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Read it literally: “I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton…”
what a great ad - :
Mitch Mcconnell says “I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton”
Fox’s Lou Dobbs joins Roger Stone in smearing Khizr Khan https://t.co/rKBOB0akic pic.twitter.com/KjnROBFryb
— Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) August 1, 2016
re: #236 dangerman
what a great ad - :
Mitch Mcconnell says “I think you ought to vote for Hillary Clinton”
And watch the GOP freak out and complain about a lack of nuance and context…
Someone who has quaffed deeply of Trump Kool-Aid projects like an IMAX in Outer Space
“Dems lap up Hillary Kool Aid at their own risk” https://t.co/HsmOKDX71o pic.twitter.com/mM8y0IEzuz
— The Hill (@thehill) August 1, 2016
Trump Surrogate on CNN: ‘Russia Did Not Seize Crimea’ https://t.co/U7Re8ah9qP pic.twitter.com/KxZfHKEtuT
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) August 1, 2016
re: #241 Lidane
The Japanese did not bomb Pearl Harbor.
re: #243 Sir John Barron
The Japanese did not bomb Pearl Harbor.
Well only a few, in proportion to their population.
re: #240 The Vicious Babushka
Someone who has quaffed deeply of Trump Kool-Aid projects like an IMAX in Outer Space
Stephanie: Just because you can say “drinking the Kool-Aid” doesn’t mean you’re applying it properly. And it’s pretty obvious that you’re not qualified considering you start your article with “Democrat party”.
re: #205 Sir John Barron
That woman was one in a crowd at McCain’s rally. Trump’s rallies are now full of that woman.
A link of the exchange.
I don’t fault McCain for not saying ‘he’s a Christian’. He looks flustered and panicked as shit. As in, ‘shit this is a live grenade’.
I hate McCain’s politics, but I genuinely think that he’s one of the few good ones on the other side of the aisle.
re: #245 Belafon
Stephanie: Just because you can say “drinking the Kool-Aid” doesn’t mean you’re applying it properly. And it’s pretty obvious that you’re not qualified considering you start your article with “Democrat party”.
That article is a flaming dumpster fire of Trump slogans. And of course it is utter bullshit that this person claims to have been a “lifelong Democrat”
re: #244 Decatur Deb
Well only a few, in proportion to their population.
REALLY, JUST A TINY HANDFUL!!
re: #247 The Vicious Babushka
That article is a flaming dumpster fire of Trump slogans. And of course it is utter bullshit that this person claims to have been a “lifelong Democrat”
Who is this Troubled Heart?
re: #249 Sir John Barron
Who is this Troubled Heart?
Google of Stephanie M. Jason turns up a bunch of anti-Hillary diatribes. I guess she is the resident anti-Hillary screamer at The Hill.
BREAKING: Governor: Florida Zika cases likely caused by mosquitoes rise to 14; asks for federal emergency response team.
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 1, 2016
how unfortunate that there is no funding for that.
re: #72 Dr. Matt
But McCain is still endorsing Donald.
re: #242 nines09
Yeah. They’re there on Vacation. Armed, but on vacation.
You need to go back nearly a year to find a month as deadly as July has been in the Donbas. https://t.co/J6jhwzXJsV pic.twitter.com/KRnce7Fu8I
— RFE/RL (@RFERL) August 1, 2016
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
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how unfortunate that there is no funding for that.
its been on again / off again
its on again
specifically mentioning florida
Via @BuzzFeedAndrew: “Trump Defends Making His Products Overseas: “I’m Doing The Market”https://t.co/P0rDcQqJOJ pic.twitter.com/l8OKuR6A3t
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 1, 2016
Just say words and they’ll believe me….
VFW on Trump v Khans: “the VFW will not tolerate anyone berating a Gold Star family member” pic.twitter.com/kLJgb0fRnn
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) August 1, 2016
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re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
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how unfortunate that there is no funding for that.
Just a couple of days ago he was telling the Feds to keep out of it.
re: #210 A Mom Anon
Seriously? I saw it live. Does Kilmeade have two brain cells that touch?
Nope, just a head full of cells playing Marco Polo.
re: #250 The Vicious Babushka
Google of Stephanie M. Jason turns up a bunch of anti-Hillary diatribes. I guess she is the resident anti-Hillary screamer at The Hill.
Oh well, never heard of her.
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
how unfortunate that there is no funding for that.
There would be if Democrats agreed to kill Obamacare and Planned Parenthood and their right to field a 2016 presidential candidate and allow a flat tax and….
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re: #258 Barefoot Grin
Just a couple of days ago he was telling the Feds to keep out of it.
Because ZIka prevention also involves contraception for women at risk, and a lot of states would rather see people get Zika than use contraception…
this is gonna get real ugly real fast
re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth
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how unfortunate that there is no funding for that.
Another stage the GOP built.
What’s all the buzz about over this #Kentucky #DUI crash?
Find out: https://t.co/pqYNLyJ4fb (WKYT/CNN) pic.twitter.com/VnEXhn8oRY— Local 12/WKRC-TV (@Local12) August 1, 2016
Spoiler: they crashed into a beehive.
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
“And the guy came out, screaming and squalling, and running around about like a chicken with its head cut off,” Anderson recalled.
Looks like he found that ONE telephone pole to slam into.
re: #220 Jenner7
Hubby gets stung three times by bee’s while mowing the lawn. Turns out we have a nest in some railroad ties against our shed. Called my spray guy and he tells me they are africanized bees. Oh goody. It’s a small nest, but glad we caught it when we did.
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Kenyan no doubt.
*shakes fist at sky* OBAMA
Fox Host Dobbs Also Promotes Claims That Khizr Khan Is Tied To Muslim Brotherhood
No self-respecting human could possibly vote for this party. Disgusting.
re: #255 Jenner7
Just say words and they’ll believe me….
Isn’t this the guy who’s threatening to hurt businesses that ship jobs overseas? Aren’t these businesses just “playing the market?”
Moonie Times columnist Charles Hurt:
“Khizr Khan was tricked into smearing Donald Trump” https://t.co/7jZR6XVmEw pic.twitter.com/OP5pbeibp1
— The Hill (@thehill) August 1, 2016
re: #268 Sir John Barron
Isn’t this the guy who’s threatening to hurt businesses that ship jobs overseas? Aren’t these businesses just “playing the market?”
Maybe he’s only talking about successful businesses.
re: #270 Belafon
Maybe he’s only talking about successful businesses.
As long as Donald “wets his beak”, alles gute.
re: #264 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Spoiler: they crashed into a beehive.
So they drove buzzed and got an unexpected buzz?
*ducks*
Trump Veterans Adviser Attacks Khizr Khan As A ‘Muslim Brotherhood Agent’ https://t.co/dZdCJyoCY3
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 1, 2016
The same one who thinks Hillary should be shot for treason.
re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth
“But be sure to support our GOP candidates”
I’m wondering if the VFW and Gold Star Families are going to end up letting him get away with this.
And if the public in general is going to stand for smearing a fallen vet and his family.
re: #277 makeitstop
I’m wondering if the VFW and Gold Star Families are going to end up letting him get away with this.
And if the public in general is going to stand for smearing a fallen vet and his family.
VFW Supports Gold Star Families https://t.co/bp1CmrMlMr
— VFW National HQ (@VFWHQ) August 1, 2016
“We appreciate Mr. Baldasaro’s support, but we don’t agree with what he says….AGAIN. But we’ll continue to keep him as an adviser.”
re: #277 makeitstop
I’m wondering if the VFW and Gold Star Families are going to end up letting him get away with this.
And if the public in general is going to stand for smearing a fallen vet and his family.
Trump already spit in their faces. See his remarks on John McCain.
the Khan affair might just crash the Take Economy. pic.twitter.com/j2DosGwhlb
— George Zornick (@gzornick) August 1, 2016
re: #278 Dr. Matt
That’s one reason why I get sick of the breathless national poll watching. What matters are electoral votes and state-by-state polls.
re: #277 makeitstop
I’m wondering if the VFW and Gold Star Families are going to end up letting him get away with this.
And if the public in general is going to stand for smearing a fallen vet and his family.
Both the Gold Star Families group and the VFW condemned Trump for this.
Considering the fact that her work was blatantly ignored by the GOP, I don’t blame her:
Wow — Longtime Jeb Bush adviser @sallybradshaw, co-author of RNC’s 2013 autopsy, is leaving the Republican Party, per CNN.
— Philip Rucker (@PhilipRucker) August 1, 2016
re: #282 jaunte
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re: #284 A Mom Anon
What the fuck does that mean?
anything to trash his reputation and distract attention from the totally vile things Trump said in “retaliation”
re: #284 A Mom Anon
Somebody claiming Khan was “tricked” into smearing Trump:
thehill.com
re: #220 Jenner7
Hubby gets stung three times by bee’s while mowing the lawn. Turns out we have a nest in some railroad ties against our shed. Called my spray guy and he tells me they are africanized bees. Oh goody. It’s a small nest, but glad we caught it when we did.
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We had a swarm of them in a tree on my block. The Los Angeles Fire Department used fire extinguishers on them. Even then those brave folks got a couple stings!
re: #287 HappyWarrior
Trump is the face of everything wrong with American politics now. You can be breathtakingly ignorant and get away with it because people see you as someone “who tells it as is” even though you contradict yourself even in your own speech.
they want someone as clueless, confused and conflicted as themselves
The 2016 GOP convention was the first ever recorded by Gallup to *hurt* a party. https://t.co/tWbS9HlU28 pic.twitter.com/6U5xhRaZW7
— Alex Seitz-Wald (@aseitzwald) August 1, 2016
re: #289 jaunte
Somebody claiming Khan was “tricked” into smearing Trump:
thehill.com
Implying the man is too stupid to think for himself. Nice. They’re hoping anything stays except the fact that they’ve nominated and continue to support a bigoted jackass for President.
Would someone please fix that damn clock already?
Corey Lewandowski, on @CNN: “If Donald Trump were the president, Capt. Khan would’ve still been alive right now…”
— Phil Mattingly (@Phil_Mattingly) August 1, 2016
It’s hard to capture how inappropriate and disgusting this comment is. https://t.co/U31kyPo88y
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 1, 2016
re: #292 Lidane
Maybe that explains his final night ratings. More people in the party are concerned that this isn’t just a normal election cycle. ?? Just a guess.
Trump was not “tricked “into smearing Mrs. Khan by implying she’s an abused wife, it was his natural response, but The Hill won’t be talking about that.
re: #289 jaunte
Somebody claiming Khan was “tricked” into smearing Trump:
thehill.com
The writer completely misunderstands the purpose of Khan’s speech. They were up there, not to attack Trump for any slight he might have made against their son, but to point out to Trump that most Muslims are very patriotic, even willing to give up their lives for the country. But the bigotry of Trump and his supporters prevents them from understanding that.
re: #292 Lidane
Sadly, hurt is insufficient for the GOP at this time. They need to be euthanized for supporting a crazy craven bully whose lack of empathy means he continues to attack the Khan family and Gold Star Parents, including through surrogates who are even more insane than he is.
This is a party that thinks that Trump will calm down at some point and behave in a presidential manner?
Seriously?
Assumes facts not in evidence.
There’s no reason to think that Trump can do anything other than identify with the bigot brigade that brought him this far. He continues espousing the same beliefs and crazy incoherent thought patterns.
Doesn’t matter that Pence is his VP choice either since Trump doesn’t listen to anyone but the voices in his head.
re: #297 Belafon
The writer completely misunderstands the purpose of Khan’s speech. They were up there, not to attack Trump for any slight he might have made against their son, but to point out to Trump that most Muslims are very patriotic, even willing to give up their lives for the country. But the bigotry of Trump and his supporters prevents them from understanding that.
Exactly, it wasn’t anti Iraq War even. Trump and his surrogates have been attacking the patriotism of Muslims throughout their campaign and Captain Khan and others like him fly in the fact of his attacks on the patriotism of Muslim-Americans.
re: #294 Lidane
Would someone please fix that damn clock already?
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I suggested before that Kristol was a pro-Trump PsyOp to dishearten Hillary supporters. If we’re agreeing with Kristol and given his almost certainty of being wrong, it’s pretty troubling my mind.
re: #299 lawhawk
Sadly, hurt is insufficient for the GOP at this time. They need to be euthanized for supporting a crazy craven bully whose lack of empathy means he continues to attack the Khan family and Gold Star Parents, including through surrogates who are even more insane than he is.
This is a party that thinks that Trump will calm down at some point and behave in a presidential manner?
Seriously?
Assumes facts not in evidence.
There’s no reason to think that Trump can do anything other than identify with the bigot brigade that brought him this far. He continues espousing the same beliefs and crazy incoherent thought patterns.
Doesn’t matter that Pence is his VP choice either since Trump doesn’t listen to anyone but the voices in his head.
They think they can control. Reminds me of another group of snobbish assholes who thought they could control an egomaniac.
re: #300 HappyWarrior
Exactly, it wasn’t anti Iraq War even. Trump and his surrogates have been attacking the patriotism of Muslims throughout their campaign and Captain Khan and others like him fly in the fact of his attacks on the patriotism of Muslim-Americans.
And not to mention that Trump did initially support the Iraq War.
Heard an author on the subject of the Ego, and how it was a problem, today on NPR. He didn’t bring up Trump, but a caller did, and he said ‘Malignant. Toxic.’
Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: wbur.org
A caller reported a bumper sticker he had seen: Don’t Believe Everything You Think.
UPDATE: Trump campaign adviser Al Baldasaro is promoting claim that Humayun Khan was a terrorist, Khazir Khan a spy https://t.co/MzOFL4FMZZ
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) August 1, 2016
re: #297 Belafon
I also love how it’s worded, “her vote” sent him to his death. Like Hillary did it.
You know, you’d think these idiots would have learned their lesson from the first President Clinton’s approval ratings on leaving office. The more they tried to mess with him, the higher the ratings went. Of course there wasn’t social media and the internet then, but still, there comes a point where people are going to have had enough and just either tune it out or turn on the party entirely.
re: #303 Timothy Watson
And not to mention that Trump did initially support the Iraq War.
As did and still probably does Pence.
re: #306 Lidane
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Wow it’s really come to this shit. Fuck anyone who supports this monster.
re: #307 A Mom Anon
I also love how it’s worded, “her vote” sent him to his death. Like Hillary did it.
You know, you’d think these idiots would have learned their lesson from the first President Clinton’s approval ratings on leaving office. The more they tried to mess with him, the higher the ratings went. Of course there wasn’t social media and the internet then, but still, there comes a point where people are going to have had enough and just either tune it out or turn on the party entirely.
It’s the same thing that Pence voted for but Trump won’t tell you that because he’s a lying piece of shit.
More ⭐️ families of the fallen have stepped forward, adding to the list calling for a @realDonaldTrump apology. https://t.co/BLNlZgNam3
— VoteVets (@votevets) August 1, 2016
re: #306 Lidane
“We were always at war with Eastasia.”
clinton campaigns today with warren buffet. the third *real* billionaire joining her in opposing alleged unproven “billionaire” trump
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 1, 2016
re: #302 HappyWarrior
They think they can control. Reminds me of another group of snobbish assholes who thought they could control an egomaniac.
Yeah, this triumvirate of dolts:
Kurt von Schleicher
re: #306 Lidane
I knew it was coming the second the thin skinned yam started his twitter tantrum. Yep, he only served his country to kill Americans and spy and inform ISIS what was happening. Or something.
How long before the Kahns start recieving death threats or someone attempts to harm them? I hope they have proper security in place. This is the kind of shit encouraged by this hateful lying. If anything happens to the Kahns, all of these assholes are responsible. All. Of. Them.
re: #311 Lidane
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Good. Keep on hitting the bastard but also the cowards who support him.
re: #286 Lidane
Considering the fact that her work was blatantly ignored by the GOP, I don’t blame her:
Wow — Longtime Jeb Bush adviser @sallybradshaw, co-author of RNC’s 2013 autopsy, is leaving the Republican Party, per CNN.
The 2017 after-action report will be done by archaeologists.
re: #285 Belafon
Both the Gold Star Families group and the VFW condemned Trump for this.
I really hope they continue to press the point.
This could be the issue that really does serious damage to Trump. I want them to push it, hard.
re: #315 A Mom Anon
I knew it was coming the second the thin skinned yam started his twitter tantrum. Yep, he only served his country to kill Americans and spy and inform ISIS what was happening. Or something.
How long before the Kahns start recieving death threats or someone attempts to harm them? I hope they have proper security in place. This is the kind of shit encouraged by this hateful lying. If anything happens to the Kahns, all of these assholes are responsible. All. Of. Them.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t already due to the hateful shit that con artist Shoebat started.
re: #301 Timothy Watson
I suggested before that Kristol was a pro-Trump PsyOp to dishearten Hillary supporters. If we’re agreeing with Kristol and given his almost certainty of being wrong, it’s pretty troubling my mind.
As troubling as I find them more of the time, we should be doing more to laud Erickson, Kristol, McCain and the Bushes and the other GOP members who have put their party and their country ahead of simply winning the presidency. Sure, they could all do more, but they’re already taking a lot of heat for the baby steps that they have taken.
This morning my mentions are full of dumbasses insisting that Politifact can’t be trusted.
We Should Probably Do Something About This Russian Anthrax Outbreak
The Great Climate Change Hoax strikes again.
Temperatures have soared in western Russia’s Yamal tundra this summer. Across Siberia, some provinces warmed an additional 10 degrees Fahrenheit beyond normal. In the fields, large bubbles of vegetation appeared above the melting permafrost—strange pockets of methane or, more likely, water. Record fires blazed through dry Russian grassland. In one of the more unusual symptoms of unseasonable warmth, long-dormant bacteria appear to be active. For the first time since 1941, anthrax struck western Siberia. Thirteen Yamal nomads were hospitalized, including four children, the Siberian Times reported. The bacteria took an even worse toll on wildlife, claiming some 1,500 reindeer since Sunday. According to NBC News, the outbreak is thought to stem from a reindeer carcass that died in the plague 75 years ago. As the old flesh thawed, the bacteria once again became active. The disease tore through the reindeer herds, prompting the relocation of dozens of the indigenous Nenet community. Herders face a quarantine that may last until September.
In other words, an anthrax strain that has spent 75 years resting, sleeping a lot, going a few times a week to the Bacteria Gym, and generally muscling up, gets another chance at sickening reindeer and people because the Great Climate Change Hoax has thawed the permafrost, so it gets its shot at the reindeer and people that didn’t die in the record wildfires. I would point out that one of our two major political parties doesn’t believe that any of this is happening, and that the party’s candidate for president thinks it all might be a hoax thought up by the Chinese.
re: #320 Ubiq
Screw McCain and the Bushes until they come out and say they will never vote for Trump.
re: #321 The Vicious Babushka
This morning my mentions are full of dumbasses insisting that Politifact can’t be trusted.
I wonder which talk radio person or wingnut think tank is spitting out those talking points.
re: #323 Skip Intro
Screw McCain and the Bushes until they come out and say they will never vote for Trump.
I believe the Bushes in fairness have said that. The same can’t be said for Mr. “I’ll support the nominee.”
re: #324 Sir John Barron
I wonder which talk radio person or wingnut think tank is spitting out those talking points.
That sounds like Heritage’s fat footprint.
re: #311 Lidane
At this point, do they not know that an “apology” by Trump would mean nothing? He already doubled down on it. It’s who he is, and what he is. If they want to send a message they should not vote for him or any of the others who soft shoed mealy mouthed words without denouncing Trump. So if Trump “apologizes” is all well? The man who spoke that filth is redeemed? The party who got out lied still backs him. Apologize and on to the next insult. It’s Monday.
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re: #163 lawhawk
“Then put your little hand in mine…”
re: #283 Timothy Watson
That’s one reason why I get sick of the breathless national poll watching. What matters are electoral votes and state-by-state polls.
Eric Boehert was saying this morning that Hillary essentially starts with 200 electoral votes on November 4th. However, according to the WSJ, it may actually be even more advantageous for the Dems:
Democrats hold an advantage: A solid base of 18 states plus the District of Columbia have backed the party in every election since 2000. They add up to 242 electoral votes, just 28 short of a majority. Republicans have won 22 states every time since 2000.* They add up to 180 electoral votes, 90 shy of a majority.
Holy shit. A PAID CNN analyst went on TV this morning and said black people are “prone to criminality.” Holy shit. pic.twitter.com/3qFQUecnM5
— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) July 11, 2016
I can’t help but contrast Chris Kyle who the right holds up as a war hero vs. Humayun Khan who actually sacrificed his life to save others.
re: #329 Dr. Matt
Democrats hold an advantage: A solid base of 18 states plus the District of Columbia have backed the party in every election since 2000. They add up to 242 electoral votes, just 28 short of a majority. Republicans have won 22 states every time since 2000.* They add up to 180 electoral votes, 90 shy of a majority.
That’s a massive advantage, one the GOP is simply not going to be able to overcome, and especially with Trump as their candidate.
This chyron offered without comment pic.twitter.com/Av4XciPFK1
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) August 1, 2016
See I think folks in the GOP tell Trump he shouldn’t be saying that stuff, he just doesn’t care.
re: #329 Dr. Matt
Eric Boehert was saying this morning that Hillary essentially starts with 200 electoral votes on November 4th. However, according to the WSJ, it may actually be even more advantageous for the Dems:
That’s what I’ve been arguing when I say there’s so little margin for error for Trump. Even with Bush who was a much less toxic candidate, he still was only winning by one state. I just don’t see Trump taking any strong Democratic states. In fact, I think it’s far more likely he can and will lose some that both McCain and Romney won.
I wonder how many of his followers will become disillusioned with Trump when he dodges the debates. For many of them, the chance to see Trump bullying Hillary is one of their big dreams. Most of them will buy into the chaff about ‘rigged debate dates’, but I’m sure some will wonder just how strong their strong man is.
re: #334 Eclectic Cyborg
See I think folks in the GOP tell Trump he shouldn’t be saying that stuff, he just doesn’t care.
Yeah too late to reign him in.
re: #336 Blind Frog Belly White
If he dodges the debates, he buries his campaign. Maybe he’ll use that as a final escape hatch before the big day in November.
re: #327 nines09
At this point, do they not know that an “apology” by Trump would mean nothing? He already doubled down on it. It’s who he is, and what he is. If they want to send a message they should not vote for him or any of the others who soft shoed mealy mouthed words without denouncing Trump. So if Trump “apologizes” is all well? The man who spoke that filth is redeemed? The party who got out lied still backs him. Apologize and on to the next insult. It’s Monday.
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Trump will never apologize for anything. The most he’ll ever do is let an anonymous staffer take the blame, but that can’t happen this time because Trump said it, repeated it, doubled down on it, and sent his campaign hacks out to their paid positions as tv “analysts” to spin it.
re: #339 Skip Intro
Trump will never apologize for anything. The most he’ll ever do is let an anonymous staffer take the blame, but that can’t happen this time because Trump said it, repeated it, doubled down on it, and sent his campaign hacks out to their paid positions as tv “analysts” to spin it.
The only thing Trump can do is either just shut up or change the subject. But, the first is impossible, and he won’t be able to let it go if people keep prodding him about it.
re: #341 Blind Frog Belly White
I believe over the weekend, it stayed mainly in the Maryland.
If you need an advisor to tell you not to attack a gold star family, maybe you don’t need to be President.
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) August 1, 2016
The conversational, superfluous “maybe”
re: #336 Blind Frog Belly White
I wonder how many of his followers will become disillusioned with Trump when he dodges the debates. For many of them, the chance to see Trump bullying Hillary is one of their big dreams. Most of them will buy into the chaff about ‘rigged debate dates’, but I’m sure some will wonder just how strong their strong man is.
Yeah I think the debates will be when many them realize he’s not Mr. Tough Guy. He’s actually a shrieking chihuahua.
re: #343 jaunte
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That goes without saying for so much of his campaign.
Trump supporter being classy:
Hate to spit in the politically correct punchbowl but getting shot or blown up in the line of duty makes you a soldier, not a hero.
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) August 1, 2016
re: #338 Eclectic Cyborg
Trump is a sick puppy. And it’s a pathological sickness. He’s not going anywhere. He drinks this attention up. He throws out insult and vileness one after another and believes he is winning. The damn GOP can’t even denounce him, because he is THEM. They are HIM. Donald would no more walk away from this then walk away from an easy mark. He is the personification of all the GOP stands for. A huge billboard of vile. They built him. They cannot bring themselves to admit truth. They are the “party of responsibility” remember. They are as responsible as Trump is presidential. Peas in a pod. Twins. They are uncomfortable with his words, NOT his intent. They are with him on that. 100%. Same cloth.
Trump bail. Right. Yeah. Sure.
And if your advisors tell you not to attack a gold star family, and you do so anyway, maybe you’re not ready for the human race.
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) August 1, 2016
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump supporter being classy:
Yes, but he put himself in danger to allow his troops to escape.
Edit: I can’t tweet from work, or I would reply with that.
STOP WHATEVER YOU ARE DOING AND WATCH THIS RIGHT NOW
WATCH: John Oliver calls Trump a “f-cking a—hole” over Khan comments https://t.co/HtwIfqg4Rm pic.twitter.com/prX3M0bQg4
— The Hill (@thehill) August 1, 2016
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump supporter being classy:
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Somehow doesn’t understand going beyond the call of duty which is what Captain Khan did. He saved peoples lives with his actions. More than shit “politically incorrect” coward ever has.
re: #352 HappyWarrior
Somehow doesn’t understand going beyond the call of duty which is what Captain Khan did. He saved peoples lives with his actions. More than shit “politically incorrect” coward ever has.
Only Chris Kyle who killed people can be a hero.
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re: #354 Sir John Barron
Only Chris Kyle who killed people can be a hero.
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I still remember Bryan Fischer belittling a CMOH winner who won it for saving peoples lives. That was mine and I imagine many people’s introduction to him.
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
Trump supporter being classy:
Hurr Hurr I’m not politically correct you politically correct loser dummies!!!!111
Today’s cartoon. Please share. #trumpsacrifice #KhanFamily #TrumpKhan @GottaLaff @reddroostermann @laloalcaraz pic.twitter.com/bHxIlqobhQ
— Ed Hall (@halltoons) August 1, 2016
re: #324 Sir John Barron
I wonder which talk radio person or wingnut think tank is spitting out those talking points.
all of them katie
Especially someone who claims to have the “World’s Best All-Time Memory”
Serious question: Wouldn’t you remember meeting the Vladimir Putin if you had?
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) August 1, 2016
re: #356 HappyWarrior
I still remember Bryan Fischer belittling a CMOH winner who won it for saving peoples lives. That was mine and I imagine many people’s introduction to him.
And Glenn Beck whining about Obama giving out too many Purple Hearts and Medals of Honor.
You can read that all you want. You can method act the heck out of the quote. Doesn’t make a ~fake~ quote any more true. @RealJamesWoods
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 1, 2016
re: #361 The Vicious Babushka
Serious question: Wouldn’t you remember meeting the Vladimir Putin if you had?
Or would you be so self-absorbed that you could never be sure who you had met?
re: #346 Backwoods_Sleuth
Hate to spit in the politically correct punchbowl but getting shot or blown up in the line of duty makes you a soldier, not a hero.
But every cop is a “hero”.
re: #362 Dr. Matt
And Glenn Beck whining about Obama giving out too many Purple Hearts and Medals of Honor.
How come Obama never talks to soldiers or honors our military!??!?!
Obama awards Purple Hearts and Medals of Honor to military personnel.
How come Obama gives too much Purple Hearts and Medals of Honor these aren’t all heroes like Chris Kyle!!!!11
*spit*
#tcot @realDonaldTrump Khan accuses Trump of abusing women while his silent slave quietly listens to her master. pic.twitter.com/sGtUEd72vp
— Federalist Jim (@Tacitus2013) August 1, 2016
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
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She hasn’t been silent you fucking bigoted asshole. These people make me ill. They can’t even comprehend that she may have been quiet because it was hard for her to speak about her dead son. Fucking right wing ghouls.
re: #344 HappyWarrior
Yeah I think the debates will be when many them realize he’s not Mr. Tough Guy. He’s actually a shrieking chihuahua.
nope sorry to disagree
there will be rationalizaitons galore (maybe already written) why a guy who “speaks the plain truth” either wouldnt do well in a debate format or actually ‘won the day / didnt you see?!!?”
re: #370 dangerman
nope sorry to disagree
there will be rationalizaitons galore (maybe already written) why a guy who “speaks the plain truth” either wouldnt do well in a debate format or actually ‘won the day / didnt you see?!!?”
Yeah you may be right.
re: #364 jaunte
Serious question: Wouldn’t you remember meeting the Vladimir Putin if you had?
Or would you be so self-absorbed that you could never be sure who you had met?
Oh, someone who claims a perfect memory would certainly remember meeting Putin. Or never meeting him (but claiming you did). Or not meeting him but meeting him and his staffers. Or never not meeting him.
Trump’s GIGO takes garbage to a new level. He can’t keep track of his own bullshit, which makes me wonder how he functions on a daily basis.
Getting shot or blown up while ~saving lives of other soldiers~, yeah, that’s definition of a hero. @mitchellvii
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) August 1, 2016
CDC: Pregnant women should avoid travel to Zika-stricken part of Miami-Dade County, Fla. - AP https://t.co/01ngdKR4rc
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) August 1, 2016
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
*spit*
I thought Khan’s speech might drive wingnuts batty, just didn’t know what forms or depths it would take.
re: #368 HappyWarrior
She hasn’t been silent you fucking bigoted asshole. These people make me ill. They can’t even comprehend that she may have been quiet because it was hard for her to speak about her dead son. Fucking right wing ghouls.
She doesn’t need to speak. She doesn’t owe anybody, especially Trump and his zombie followers any explanation of any kind.
Repubs tweeting oppo research about Khan family. Let that sink in: doing oppo research on a gold star family to make Trump look less vile.
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) August 1, 2016
More minions eager to shed what little ethical restraints they might have had.
re: #378 jaunte
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More minions eager to shed what little ethical restraints they might have had.
Evil party. Fuck them. I hope they never win another election anywhere ever again.
re: #378 jaunte
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More minions eager to shed what little ethical restraints they might have had.
“Vote your conscience”.
Best joke all year.
IIre: #351 The Vicious Babushka
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OKAY
Jennie and Edgar Krueger’s cat Tramp plots revenge. (Circa 1905, via @WisHistory) #MewseumMonday pic.twitter.com/SlFWQgARsg
— Undine (@HorribleSanity) August 1, 2016
re: #358 darthstar
Need to buy a Chromebook for my MIL
Done…thanks. Got a new one for her - in Aqua blue.
So we went to Fry’s yesterday to buy her a laptop. I have a “want to love”/hate relationship with Fry’s. Their customer service is shitty, their sales people are treated like dog meat and know nothing about what they’re selling. Checkout is like going to the cage at a low-end casino, and they’re almost always out of stock of the item I want to buy…but they have floor models of everything.
We walk over to laptops and the sales guy says, “Who needs a computer?” I point to my MIL and he says, “Okay, so just for the internet but no need for gaming or programming” - I think, okay…maybe this guy isn’t so bad - and I say, “I want SSD, long battery life, etc.” We start with the LG - $1500 - she loves the weight, the sales guy is excited. We look at a few other models under $1000 - nothing appeals so it looks like it’s the LG. Then my wife sees this blue and white Chromebook with a 14” screen and says, “What about that pretty thing?” I walk over, look at it - $249 - and say, “We’ll take it.” The guy looked depressed. Then he says they’re out of stock but he has the LGs. I said, “That’s okay. I’ll just order one of these on Amazon - she’s on Gmail, doesn’t need to do anything except look at catalogs online and learn to use facebook, and a Chromebook is really the right thing.”
So there you have it. Honestly, I”m thinking about getting one for myself and throwing Linux on it. Since I store most of my stuff on Google now too (and have some AWS VMs for grins and giggles), I don’t really need much horsepower either…Just Putty and VNC client.
re: #303 Timothy Watson
And not to mention that Trump did initially support the Iraq War.
But he didn’t VOTE for it…in fact, there is not a single bit of bad legislation that he ever voted for!!!
re: #378 jaunte
What oppo research? That they’re Muslim immigrants who lost a son who gave his life fighting for his country? Is Michelle Malkin peeking in their windows to report on what kind of countertops they have?
I guess there is just no place too low for them to sink. And can you even imagine living with any of these people?
re: #384 dangerman
profiles in cowardice
Shall not speak the name lest it reflect badly on you. Yes they are. If you didn’t get Trump is the GOP and the GOP Trump…….Does this show you? Senator McCain should just go lie down before he loses all of his dignity. Whoops. Too late. Blown away like sand across a trail…..gone…
re: #385 darthstar
Done…thanks. Got a new one for her - in Aqua blue.
So we went to Fry’s yesterday to buy her a laptop. I have a “want to love”/hate relationship with Fry’s. Their customer service is shitty, their sales people are treated like dog meat and know nothing about what they’re selling. Checkout is like going to the cage at a low-end casino, and they’re almost always out of stock of the item I want to buy…but they have floor models of everything.
We walk over to laptops and the sales guy says, “Who needs a computer?” I point to my MIL and he says, “Okay, so just for the internet but no need for gaming or programming” - I think, okay…maybe this guy isn’t so bad - and I say, “I want SSD, long battery life, etc.” We start with the LG - $1500 - she loves the weight, the sales guy is excited. We look at a few other models under $1000 - nothing appeals so it looks like it’s the LG. Then my wife sees this blue and white Chromebook with a 14” screen and says, “What about that pretty thing?” I walk over, look at it - $249 - and say, “We’ll take it.” The guy looked depressed. Then he says they’re out of stock but he has the LGs. I said, “That’s okay. I’ll just order one of these on Amazon - she’s on Gmail, doesn’t need to do anything except look at catalogs online and learn to use facebook, and a Chromebook is really the right thing.”
So there you have it. Honestly, I”m thinking about getting one for myself and throwing Linux on it. Since I store most of my stuff on Google now too (and have some AWS VMs for grins and giggles), I don’t really need much horsepower either…Just Putty and VNC client.
I have a chrome book. I like it.
In bar in Shelby listening to a couple planning how much work they can do in Aug and still draw unemployment … and bashing @HillaryClinton
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) August 1, 2016
re: #387 A Mom Anon
What oppo research? That they’re Muslim immigrants who lost a son who gave his life fighting for his country? Is Michelle Malkin peeking in their windows to report on what kind of countertops they have?
I guess there is just no place too low for them to sink. And can you even imagine living with any of these people?
He’s an immigration lawyer and therefore has strong links to all sorts of fraudulent programs, or some such.
re: #358 darthstar
Need to buy a Chromebook for my MIL
I always check Woot first. They have great bargains. eBay also.
$299 for a Chromebook is pretty high. I got one for my brother on eBay for $219.
VILE: Hillary Clinton’s Benghazi family smears even more odious if you remember THIS https://t.co/7Nwaw6J3ZX
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 1, 2016
It’s Twitchy, so of course it’s fact free.
Never mind that the Clinton campaign has never done anything of the sort that Trump alleges, or have never attacked the families of those who died.
Moreover, Ambassador Stevens’ family has categorically stated that they do not hold Clinton responsible, and that the GOP should stop politicizing the Ambassador’s death.
re: #391 calochortus
So they’re going to try to ruin his career and reputation too. Nice. I hope he can sue the fuck out of these assholes.
re: #387 A Mom Anon
What oppo research? That they’re Muslim immigrants who lost a son who gave his life fighting for his country? Is Michelle Malkin peeking in their windows to report on what kind of countertops they have?
I guess there is just no place too low for them to sink. And can you even imagine living with any of these people?
I have no idea. This is just vomit inducing material. I can’t see it doing anything but backfiring on them.
re: #393 lawhawk
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It’s Twitchy, so of course it’s fact free.
Never mind that the Clinton campaign has never done anything of the sort that Trump alleges, or have never attacked the families of those who died.
Moreover, Ambassador Stevens’ family has categorically stated that they do not hold Clinton responsible, and that the GOP should stop politicizing the Ambassador’s death.
She never smeared the family of the Benghazi dead. And as you said,. Stevens family strongly rejects his name being used to attack Clinton. Nice try Michelle but you done failed again. Maybe look in the mirror for once and realize what oyu’re supporting.
re: #393 lawhawk
It’s Twitchy, so of course it’s fact free.
Never mind that the Clinton campaign has never done anything of the sort that Trump alleges, or have never attacked the families of those who died.
Moreover, Ambassador Stevens’ family has categorically stated that they do not hold Clinton responsible, and that the GOP should stop politicizing the Ambassador’s death.
What a vile, vile person Malkin is.
re: #394 A Mom Anon
So they’re going to try to ruin his career and reputation too. Nice. I hope he can sue the fuck out of these assholes.
He is a lawyer thankfully. Immigration but as a lawyer, he’d have some familiarity with slander and libel law.
“As Commander-in-Chief, I’m pretty tired of some folks trash talking America’s military and troops.” —@POTUS at @DAVHQ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 1, 2016
re: #396 HappyWarrior
She never smeared the family of the Benghazi dead. And as you said,. Stevens family strongly rejects his name being used to attack Clinton. Nice try Michelle but you done failed again. Maybe look in the mirror for once and realize what oyu’re supporting.
Oh who cares about Stevens family Hillary shrill losers what about real Benghazi victims??!?!?!?!?!??!
re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth
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A typical conservative hypocrite. But don’t let his taxdollars go to other people. Fucking hypocrites.
re: #393 lawhawk
What are we supposed to be remembering (not going to click on link at work)?
You know what got the loudest reaction from the crowd at the Columbus Clinton-Kaine Bus Tour rally yesterday?
When anyone (Hillary, Tim K and an 70 year old Ohio Vietnam vet) mentioned Trumps comments about Mr. and Mrs. Khan. The crowd had some pretty lusty boos for all that.
So, it may be a party us and them thing, but no one in that crowd seemed willing to let any of that go.
re: #387 A Mom Anon
What oppo research? That they’re Muslim immigrants who lost a son who gave his life fighting for his country? Is Michelle Malkin peeking in their windows to report on what kind of countertops they have?
I guess there is just no place too low for them to sink. And can you even imagine living with any of these people?
This is an actual exchange I just had with a Trump supporter here in Ohio about Khizr Khan. On camera. pic.twitter.com/KWnahBCHmv
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 1, 2016
re: #405 jaunte
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Wow, that really speaks to a conversation I was having with my Dad about how the internet has led to the mass spread of misinformation.
“No one—no one—has given more for our freedom and security than our Gold Star families.” —@POTUS at @DAVHQ https://t.co/4xONzNk04z
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 1, 2016
This idiot blames Hillary for Capt. Khan’s death:
“Khizr Khan was tricked into smearing Donald Trump” https://t.co/1p6NR6xSjd pic.twitter.com/STadMFhPBe
— The Hill (@thehill) August 1, 2016
Perhaps a better testimony from Khizr Khan would have been for him to talk about how Hillary Clinton was in the U.S. Senate when she voted to invade Iraq. Years later, after that position became politically unpopular, she changed her mind and joined new political forces to vacate all the land across Iraq that so many great American patriots like Capt. Humayun Khan had died for.
It was her vote that sent Capt. Khan to his death. And then it was her decisions later to render that sacrifice worthless.
re: #404 ObserverArt
You know what got the loudest reaction from the crowd at the Columbus Clinton-Kaine Bus Tour rally yesterday?
When anyone (Hillary, Tim K and an 70 year old Ohio Vietnam vet) mentioned Trumps comments about Mr. and Mrs. Khan. The crowd had some pretty lusty boos for all that.
So, it may be a party us and them thing, but no one in that crowd seemed willing to let any of that go.
We shouldn’t let it go.
re: #406 HappyWarrior
Wow, that really speaks to a conversation I was having with my Dad about how the internet has led to the mass spread of misinformation.
“It’s written down! I saw it!”
Jeb Bush’s top adviser, Sally Bradshaw, has left the Republican Party to become an independent
Bradshaw said she hasn’t yet decided who she’ll vote for — though “it obviously won’t be Trump. I haven’t made a decision yet between Clinton, Gary Johnson or writing in a candidate.”
so she’s half way there
re: #408 The Vicious Babushka
This idiot blames Hillary for Capt. Khan’s death:
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You mean the same legislation Mike Pence voted for and never expressed any regrets about voting for? The same war that Donald Trump supported? Khan’s upset because Trump questions the very idea that someone like Mr. Khan’s son has patriotism and love for this country and that’s something that goes beyond your feelings about the war. I was staunchly opposed to the war in Iraq but Captain Khan still acted heroically in my eyes. It’s not that complicated you right wing pieces of shit.
Ukrainian Officials to Donald Trump: Please Stop Talking About Our Countryhttps://t.co/Erz2WcNgGb pic.twitter.com/1miCkAhfNY
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) August 1, 2016
re: #394 A Mom Anon
So they’re going to try to ruin his career and reputation too. Nice. I hope he can sue the fuck out of these assholes.
I don’t suppose he can unless someone does more than accuse him on the internet, but I also don’t think anyone who believes this garbage would have been his client anyway.
re: #413 Backwoods_Sleuth
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When does Trump repeat the Putin line that they’re just Nazis.
Good piece on the Khans at The New Yorker:
“…It is Trump, though, who has not been smart, not about what the Constitution says (he should, indeed, read it) and not about the power of the Khans’ message. He had decided to take on the Khans and he was losing to them, not just because they were sympathetic figures but because they stood up to him and pushed back. Both have been clear that their message is not only an expression of grief but one of political warning. Khizr said, on MSNBC, that he was speaking in Philadelphia to two specific people: Senator Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, whom he referred to as otherwise decent men who had failed a crucial test. “Isn’t it time to repudiate Trump?” he said. “I appeal to both of these leaders: this is the time—there comes a time in the history of a nation where an emphatical moral stand has to be taken, regardless of the political cost.”
newyorker.com
re: #406 HappyWarrior
Wow, that really speaks to a conversation I was having with my Dad about how the internet has led to the mass spread of misinformation.
(no it hasnt)
re: #404 ObserverArt
You know what got the loudest reaction from the crowd at the Columbus Clinton-Kaine Bus Tour rally yesterday?
When anyone (Hillary, Tim K and an 70 year old Ohio Vietnam vet) mentioned Trumps comments about Mr. and Mrs. Khan. The crowd had some pretty lusty boos for all that.
So, it may be a party us and them thing, but no one in that crowd seemed willing to let any of that go.
I keep thinking about what Anymouse said some weeks ago about NE being in play if Hils (whom I’ve taken to calling Notorious-HRC) stresses trump’s treatment of the military. This was over smaller stuff, attacking McCain, etc., nothing as severe as what’s happening now.
Today, N-HRC is campaigning in NE.
Please let this baffoon lose 45 states.
re: #378 jaunte
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More minions eager to shed what little ethical restraints they might have had.
Reminds me of a line from “Only Fools and Horses”:
RODNEY: Del, do you not know what “ethics” are?
DELBOY: Yeah, they make model aircraft, don’t they?
re: #419 MsJ
I keep thinking about what Anymouse said some weeks ago about NE being in play if Hils (whom I’ve taken to calling Notorious-HRC) stresses trump’s treatment of the military. This was over smaller stuff, attacking McCain, etc., nothing as severe as what’s happening now.
Today, N-HRC is campaigning in NE.
Please let this baffoon lose 45 states.
I think AM was talking about her having the potential to win the one district (NE is one of only two states that divides their EVs). Obama won one district in 2008 but lost it in 2012. Man though I would love it if Trump lost 45 states. It would be a sound rejection of him.
re: #419 MsJ
I keep thinking about what Anymouse said some weeks ago about NE being in play if Hils (whom I’ve taken to calling Notorious-HRC) stresses trump’s treatment of the military. This was over smaller stuff, attacking McCain, etc., nothing as severe as what’s happening now.
Today, N-HRC is campaigning in NE.
Please let this baffoon lose 45 states.
I want Trump to win the same states George Wallace did. No more, no less.
re: #378 jaunte
dating myself here but … Today’s GOP, the party of Douglas Niedermayer
re: #421 nines09
NOT THE ONION
Expert to Rio Olympic athletes: “Don’t put your head under water” https://t.co/WUHiOjwi3I pic.twitter.com/pVVlXgoO3f
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) August 1, 2016
re: #416 sagehen
Joanie Caucus is un-retiring!
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Next up: Frederick Barbarossa and King Arthur.
Guessing that the woman read it on the internet…
They were complaining how wimpy R’s like their senator @JeffFlake are afraid of PC race-card liberals, when a crazy lady interrupted. 2
— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) August 1, 2016
Needless to say, @JeffFlake has not said Trump delegates should be exterminated. 4
— Michael Grunwald (@MikeGrunwald) August 1, 2016
re: #424 piratedan
dating myself here but … Today’s GOP, the party of Douglas Niedermayer
i dated myself once
never showed up
never found out if i had a good time or not
re: #424 piratedan
dating myself here but … Today’s GOP, the party of Douglas Niedermayer
Well, Greg Marmalard was their candidate in 2012, so….
But Niedermayer actually WENT to Vietnam. Still, there’s time for Trump to get figuratively fragged by his own troops, esp. if he keeps attacking the Khans.
re: #313 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I thought it was pretty funny when I heard on the radio during lunch that Hillary was campaigning with billionaires to shore up her support with working people.
So now the right-wing freak show is claiming Captain Khan is not a hero for dying in the line of duty. Imagine the utter shitshow if someone said the 4 men that died in Benghazi were not heroes.
re: #429 dangerman
i dated myself once
never showed up
never found out if i had a good time or not
I dated myself a lot in my 20s. I was always there for me, and never asked for much. And I never forgot my birthday!
re: #430 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, Greg Marmalard was their candidate in 2012, so….
But Niedermayer actually WENT to Vietnam. Still, there’s time for Trump to get figuratively fragged by his own troops, esp. if he keeps attacking the Khans.
Nope, the GOP leadership has all but deferred their service or otherwise MIA.
re: #314 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, this triumvirate of dolts:
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Based on the criteria of making a decision which based on available evidence could clearly lead to bad outcomes, I believe the decision to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1932 was the worst decision ever made in human history.
re: #434 lawhawk
Nope, the GOP leadership has all but deferred their service or otherwise MIA.
They hired substitutes.
re: #428 Backwoods_Sleuth
Guessing that the woman read it on the internet…
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Wingnut confirmation bias at its craziest. Of course, when prsented with actual crazy shit Trump has said, they cry about PC run amok.
re: #429 dangerman
i dated myself once
never showed up
never found out if i had a good time or not
You did better than me. When I dated myself, I excused myself to go to the bathroom and never came back. Probably climbed out the window. I had to take a cab home.
This is an actual exchange I just had with a Trump supporter here in Ohio about Khizr Khan. On camera. pic.twitter.com/KWnahBCHmv
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 1, 2016
re: #411 dangerman
Jeb Bush’s top adviser, Sally Bradshaw, has left the Republican Party to become an independent
Bradshaw said she hasn’t yet decided who she’ll vote for — though “it obviously won’t be Trump. I haven’t made a decision yet between Clinton, Gary Johnson or writing in a candidate.”
so she’s half way there
She said she’d vote Clinton if FL is close.
Think about that.
Now, because of her close relationship with the Bushes, CNN was wondering if they’d make statements. The Bushes are none too pleased with trump to start with. This will be interesting.
re: #440 MsJ
She said she’d vote Clinton if FL is close.
Think about that.
Now, because of her close relationship with the Bushes, CNN was wondering if they’d make statements. The Bushes are none too pleased with trump to start with. This will be interesting.
I think I heard Marvin said he was voting for Johnson but it will be very interesting to see what Jeb and the Georges say since they’re the ones who have been in public life. I can’t think of any time a former President has actually endorsed the presidential candidate of his opposing party in recent history or at all.
“Here’s one thing we will not do—we cannot outsource and privatize health care for America’s veterans.” —@POTUS at @DAVHQ
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 1, 2016
re: #437 HappyWarrior
Wingnut confirmation bias at its craziest.
Helpfully collected at Wonkette:
“….Still, Trump has his defenders: Noted Raving Anti-Muslim Screamers Theodore Shoebat and his dad Walid floated a bizarre conspiracy theory that Khizr Khan is actually an agent of the Muslim Brotherhood who is attempting to bring Sharia Law to the United States, which is why he was waving that Constitution around so much last week. We are not going to summarize their “argument” because it is transparent bullshit that boils down to “Khan wrote a law review article in the 1980s about Islamic law in Saudi Arabian, therefore he is a Sharia advocate who wants to behead everyone.” Longtime Trump ratfucker Roger Stone dutifully tweeted the news that Khizr Khan is no patriot, but in fact pretty much a terrorist himself, just like Hillary Clinton’s wife Huma Abedin!
re: #409 HappyWarrior
We shouldn’t let it go.
Happy…I heard Tim Kaine say he was a “happy warrior” once yesterday when he was addressing the Columbus crowd. I thought of you.
re: #435 Big Beautiful Door
Based on the criteria of making a decision which based on available evidence could clearly lead to bad outcomes, I believe the decision to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1932 was the worst decision ever made in human history.
Well, there’s also Lenin’s appointment of Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Talk about a monumental blunder - and a serious lack of judgement. Lenin at least realized what a grotesque error he had made - but by then, it was far too late to do anything about it as Stalin had basically consolidated his position and Lenin was, quite bluntly, on his deathbed.
re: #443 jaunte
Helpfully collected at Wonkette:
Read more at wonkette.com
Well by Teddy and Walid’s crazy standards, I must be a supporter of pogroms because I wrote my term paper on them. What an inchoerent pile of bs.
re: #444 ObserverArt
Happy…I heard Tim Kaine say he was a “happy warrior” once yesterday when he was addressing the Columbus crowd. I thought of you.
He does fit the mold of guys like Al Smith and Hubert Humphrey who genuinely seem to enjoy politics.
re: #336 Blind Frog Belly White
I wonder how many of his followers will become disillusioned with Trump when he dodges the debates. For many of them, the chance to see Trump bullying Hillary is one of their big dreams. Most of them will buy into the chaff about ‘rigged debate dates’, but I’m sure some will wonder just how strong their strong man is.
I still don’t think Trump will dodge the debates, because the bar will be set so low for him by the media he almost can’t lose.
re: #443 jaunte
Walid Shoebat? LOLOL the man is a demonstrable fraud. That anyone takes him seriously beggars belief.
Obama at vets event: “Gold Star families have made a sacrifice that most of us cannot even begin to imagine.” https://t.co/TkqIFx5kDK
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) August 1, 2016
re: #341 Blind Frog Belly White
OT - something strange happening here in Pennsylvania. I know this happens sometimes in California, but not much recently. I can’t seem to remember the word, but WATER falls from the SKY!!!
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Its been a very rainy Summer in Kentucky. Steamy.
re: #375 The Vicious Babushka
CDC: Pregnant women should avoid travel to Zika-stricken part of Miami-Dade County, Fla. - AP
and women who might get pregnant should avoid having sex there
Meanwhile my wingnut friend is whining via Steve Crowder because some obscure columnist doesn’t like God Bless America being sung during the seventh inning stretch. HOnestly, it wasn’t sung before 9/11. I can understand why the guy may be tired of it. It’s not like it’s the National Anthem.
re: #411 dangerman
Jeb Bush’s top adviser, Sally Bradshaw, has left the Republican Party to become an independent
Bradshaw said she hasn’t yet decided who she’ll vote for — though “it obviously won’t be Trump. I haven’t made a decision yet between Clinton, Gary Johnson or writing in a candidate.”
so she’s half way there
She’s not just a Bush adviser. Sally Bradshaw was one of the authors of the 2012 RNC autopsy that told Republicans to be more inclusive or risk dying. The GOP responded by nominating Trump. It’s no surprise she’s leaving the party.
re: #422 HappyWarrior
I think AM was talking about her having the potential to win the one district (NE is one of only two states that divides their EVs). Obama won one district in 2008 but lost it in 2012. Man though I would love it if Trump lost 45 states. It would be a sound rejection of him.
Obama got one, AM was talking about HRC getting two. I’m going for all.
A state that honestly values its military participants will not accept this crap from trump.
(Isn’t AM a guy?)
The United States launched multiple airstrikes against Islamic State militants in Libya on Monday, opening a new, more persistent front against the group at the request of the United Nations-backed government, Libyan and U.S. officials said.Fayez Serraj, the head of Libya’s U.N.-brokered presidency council, said in a televised statement that American warplanes attacked the IS bastion of Sirte on the Mediterranean in northern Libya. No U.S. ground forces will be deployed, he said.
The precision strikes, which targeted an Islamic State tank and vehicles, come amid growing concerns about the group’s increased threat to Europe and its ability to inspire attacks across the region, even though its numbers have been shrinking because of attacks from local forces and allied international troops.
WHY WON’T OBAMA DOING SOMETHING ABOUT ISIS?!!?!
CLINTON WILL CONTINUE OBAMA’S WAR CRIMES!1!!
re: #423 sagehen
I want Trump to win the same states George Wallace did. No more, no less.
I’m good with less. I very good with less.
re: #455 MsJ
Obama got one, AM was talking about HRC getting two. I’m going for all.
A state that honestly values its military participants will not accept this crap from trump.
(Isn’t AM a guy?)
The her is Clinton. AM is a dude, yes.
re: #453 HappyWarrior
Meanwhile my wingnut friend is whining via Steve Crowder because some obscure columnist doesn’t like God Bless America being sung during the seventh inning stretch. HOnestly, it wasn’t sung before 9/11. I can understand why the guy may be tired of it. It’s not like it’s the National Anthem.
“in god we trust” has ALWAYS been on our money
“one nation, under god” has ALWAYS been in the pledge
founding fathers did it
I’m waiting for Trump to announce that he only likes heroes who don’t get blown up.
re: #429 dangerman
i dated myself once
never showed up
never found out if i had a good time or not
But would you have put out?
re: #460 Skip Intro
I’m waiting for Trump to announce that he only likes heroes who don’t get blown up.
Heh. But knowing Trump, I wouldn’t be surprised.
Trump on talking to Putin, on a Fox video (at about 5:00)
“When I went to Russia with the Miss Universe Pageant, he contacted me.. and was sooo nice…”
In his infamous press conference last week, Donald Trump was asked about his associations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “I never met Putin,” Trump replied. “I don’t know who Putin is.”
msnbc.com
re: #447 HappyWarrior
He does fit the mold of guys like Al Smith and Hubert Humphrey who genuinely seem to enjoy politics.
I was impressed. A very down to earth guy…just a white shirt, dress pants a bit of a pot belly. Definitely an Uncle Joe Biden type. Looks like he would be fun to hang with and talk about the world over a beer or three.
He got a great response when he said “I understand Columbus is a college town” and I think he realized it wasn’t just Ohio State. I don’t know if they drove by the two colleges just a few blocks from Fort Hayes where the rally was, but a good chance they did. My art college alma mater Columbus College of Art & Design and Columbus State (Community College) are right next to each other and take up several blocks of downtown. We have Franklin, Capital and Ohio Dominican Universities and of course Ohio State. He did his homework.
And I noticed Hillary really seems to like him. She sat on a chair while he talked and she had a little smile on her face the whole time like…this IS my Biden.
When Hillary was talking I watched him and his wife and they seemed to be looking around at the crowd and pointing out different people and signs etc. having some fun.
As I said yesterday, they all (yes Hillary included) all seemed like real people no visible stuck-up better than you stuff.
re: #451 Big Beautiful Door
Its been a very rainy Summer in Kentucky. Steamy.
Thunder is booming here, storm should be here pretty soon.
And NWS-Wilmington tweeted this morning:
Muggy July? You bet…Cincinnati just had the 2nd muggiest July since 1938. Avg dewpoint was 69F — normal is 65F. No big relief in sight.
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) August 1, 2016
re: #445 Dr Lizardo
Well, there’s also Lenin’s appointment of Stalin as General Secretary of the Communist Party. Talk about a monumental blunder - and a serious lack of judgement. Lenin at least realized what a grotesque error he had made - but by then, it was far too late to do anything about it as Stalin had basically consolidated his position and Lenin was, quite bluntly, on his deathbed.
However, was there readily available evidence as to how big a monster Stalin would become? If the men who elevated Hitler to Chancellor had read Mein Kampf they should’ve known Hitler was a dangerous lunatic.
re: #327 nines09
Trump is not going to apologize. Believe me. That will never happen. Christie has a bridge to sell anyone believing otherwise.
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