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Definitely worth watching.

What is the solution to that?? Do we split the country up or try to re-educate those stupid fuckers or what exactly?

I mean, if we really split the country up, it will have to be along county and not state lines. The fuckers don't OWN all of Maryland, all of NY, all of Ca., all of Vt. ......... In the case of Maryland for instance, it's just the two or three goofball counties, Baltimore, Prince Georges, and Montgomery counties, the rest of the state is normal/decent.

Keep electing people that support Trump's agenda and let them keep venting their hate. Not forgetting to remind them how stupid and intolerant they are every chance we get.

Thinking things over this evening, it occurred to me that Wayne LaPierre might not be feeling well right now. I'm a liberal. I'm empathetic. I sense other peoples suffering. So to cheer him up a bit, I just ordered up a DVD to have shipped to him at NRA headquarters. I wasn't sure what his taste in films might be so I just took a stab at it. I picked Red Sparrow. Hope he likes it.

He absolutely cannot resist a Russian gal with guns.

Don't know if LaPierre would enjoy this film, I do believe though that Donny and Vladdy would be mesmerized by it.

I noticed Charlotte Rampling is in it....now I'll have nightmares remembering her and Sean Connery in Zardoz. You're a cruel cruel man Blatham!

Fresh and exciting new justification from the religious right concerning Trump and serial adultery and strippers and paying hush money to shut up the toygirls.
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Power is everything. Particularly, with people like Jeffress, the power to mandate moral ideas and codes for every citizen.

And how many sermons would you imagine this dipshit hypocrite has given on liberals and their ungodly moral relativism.

Gulag him up! Gulag him up!

Zardoz. Sheesh. I just went through a list of the 100 best movies and that masterwork wasn't on it. Talk about oversight.

Rampling's role was relatively minor in Red Sparrow, but she's a pro. The film is a piece of crap, I think. Bridge of Spies, on the other hand, is a spy film definitely worth watching. Mark Rylance is riveting, as he was in Wolf Hall.

Lubyanka is nice

...and now a musical interlude from Dave VanRonk...

Lovely building. The acoustics are, I understand, absolutely first rate. There's really nothing like marble floors to spotlight the sound of truncheons impacting flesh and bone and the piercing screams. Not that I wish any of that stuff would happen to President Trump.

Not all criminals get busted, but various investigations are still ongoing and it's too early to tell what will come out of them.

Good we got that settled.

Now, what would constitute (in your view) strong-enough evidence that "the Trump team conspired with a bunch of Russians connected to Putin"? What type of fact(s) -- if they were discovered / established -- would convince you of that?

^^^

Because he can't do otherwise, trapped as he is in the little box Putin built for him.

Bernie Sanders: Trump 'so tough' on child separations but not on Putin
BY JOHN BOWDEN, The Hill, July 20, 2018 - 08:53 PM EDT

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Friday chided President Trump over his handling of Russian President Vladimir Putin during a summit in Helsinki earlier in the week.

Speaking at a rally for local Democratic congressional candidates in Wichita, Kan., Sanders also knocked Trump for "tearing children from their families" as part of the administration's "zero tolerance" border policy.

"We say to Trump, instead of showing us your strength by tearing children from their families, where was your strength in standing up to Putin and Russia for undermining American democracy?" Sanders said to cheers.

"How courageous he is to tear children from their families, how cowardly he is to stand up to people who are trying to undermine not only American democracy but other aspects of our lives," he added.

Sanders made similar remarks at a rally in Kansas City on Friday night, where he and fellow self-described democratic socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rallied in support of Democrat Brent Welder in his bid to take on Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder.

"We have a president that's so tough when he's terrorizing little children. When he was up against Vladimir Putin, he wasn't so tough," Sanders told those gathered.

Yoder is running for his fifth term in Kansas' 3rd district, where Hillary Clintonnarrowly defeated Trump in 2016.

Trump faced criticism from both sides of the aisle this week after a joint press conference with Putin on Monday during which Trump appeared to side with Putin's denials over the U.S. intelligence community's assessment that Russian interfered in the 2016 election.

The president walked back his remarks Tuesday, telling reporters that he meant to say he saw no reason why Russia "wouldn't" have been behind the efforts to undermine U.S. democracy in 2016, while leaving the door open to the possibility that other countries had been involved.

"I accept our intelligence community's conclusion that Russia's meddling in the 2016 election took place," Trump said Tuesday, reading from a prepared statement at the White House, adding: "Could be other people also. A lot of people out there...."

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/398157-sanders-slams-trump-for-standing-up-to-migrant-children-but-not-putin?amp

The Hidden History of Trump’s First Trip to Moscow

In 1987, a young real estate developer traveled to the Soviet Union. The KGB almost certainly made the trip happen.

By LUKE HARDING, POLITICO, November 19, 2017

[...] Suvorov explained: “It’s at this point you say: ‘Knock, knock! Do you remember the marvelous time in Moscow? It was a wonderful evening. You were so drunk. You don’t remember? We just show you something for your good memory.’” [...]

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842