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Lord knows Trump isn't perfect, and his contributions to the unfounded and dangerous paranoia about vaccines is based on ignorance and is a disservice to the country, but you guys made us choose between him and the utterly corrupt Hillary Clinton...

Hey, we were counting on you guys to impeach her and then we could have all moved on...sheesh!

You probably should have been clearer on that.

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Between this and her expectation that God will tell her to run for president if he so desires it of her...

I thought that reference was a joke, not a real "expectation", and it was mocking Pence's claim that he converses with Jesus.

I suppose it's possible since I admit I haven't spoken with Oprah about it or read everything written on it, but I believe you are dead wrong here. Oprah, to her credit, is not known for mockery

Who cares about what a porn star does,

I do have some sympathy for the poorly educated, confused people whose world view is overturned by mere science. But the true scum bags are the phony preachers and the greedy corporate types who forward the narrative solely for personal gain.

Fox's Jesse Watters: Trump can't be racist because he dated a black model for two years

Jason Storms, an extremist anti-choice activist who says that a woman who has an abortion is “guilty as a murderer in the eyes of the law,” has gotten a job as a substitute teacher in the Milwaukee Public Schools and is boasting of his success in preaching to students on the state’s dime, according to the Freedom From Religion Foundation.

FFRF called attention last week to a Facebook post in which Storms said that his first day in the classroom “reaffirmed” his “disgust with the public education system” but that he also “got to share [his] testimony and preach boldly to hundreds of students for hours, while the state paid me.”

Eric Boehlert
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still waiting for that mountain of Beltway columns demanding to know how First Lady stays while she gets publicly humiliated by husband.

Hillary was buried by them during the '90s

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Darwin is evil.

I recall reading an article a couple months ago about a recent study that gave Darwinism a major kick in the teeth.
I was going to go post it in one of the threads fighting over Darwinism, but I'm so busy that I never got around to it.

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It’s a bullshit diversion from guns, but I do look forward to how the whiny little Gamergate trolls react to their beloved would-be fascist leader picking on their favorite pastime.

According to Revere, North Koreans are asking for the same measures they've demanded since the 1990s in return for their nuclear descalation. They want "military threats resolved" and for the North Korean regime to be "secure."

"The phrase that the North Koreans use at the negotiating table with us — and I continue to hear today in my meetings with them… is that 'North Korea seeks the denuclearization of the whole Korean peninsula.' And when you ask the North Koreans: 'What does that mean?' They respond very forthrightly. It means the removal of 'the threat' — their word — the 'threat.'"

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According to Revere, this so-called security "threat" consists of three components, which together make for an unreasonable ask on the part of the North Koreans.

It entails 1) the existence of the U.S.-South Korea alliance, 2) the presence of U.S. troops on the Korean peninsula, and 3) the nuclear umbrella provided by the United States to guarantee the security of our South Korean and Japanese allies.

"And as the gentleman who is now the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea] foreign minister told us at a meeting in New York City a few years ago, 'If you remove those three things we will then feel secure and then at some point — he suggested 10 or 20 years down the line — we could then consider denuclearization.'"

But Revere says this idea of a meeting between senior representatives of the United States and the DBRK to explore what North Korea means specifically by "denuclearization", "the threat" and "security" in this particular instance is still valuable.

"I have a suspicion I know what the answers will be — but let's give it a shot."

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Fox's Jesse Watters: Trump can't be racist because he dated a black model for two years

Erik Prince Might Want To Shift Investments To Private Prison Industry

Looks like Pence and Hope Hicks both had private email accounts to conduct public business and both were hacked. I expect we'll hear more on this over the next while unless we can't hear anything for the din of "Lock Them Up" chants.