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roger
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 11:44 am
@blatham,
blatham wrote:

Yeah, that made me laugh out loud. Actual laugh out loud. Not least because, quite unlike Woodward, the clown has never written any books. He's had others do that.


Book? Whatchu mean, book? You're trying to say tweets don't count.
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ehBeth
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 11:48 am
@blatham,
https://www.msnbc.com/stephanie-ruhle/watch/sanders-apologizes-after-falsely-claiming-trump-created-more-jobs-for-african-americans-than-obama-1299518531604?v=raila&cid=sm_npd_ms_fb_ma (the video)

https://external-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/safe_image.php?d=AQCEsmq40gbtxuyY&w=540&h=282&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia1.s-nbcnews.com%2Fj%2FMSNBC%2FComponents%2FVideo%2F201808%2Fn_ruhle_brk_sandersclaim_180815_1920x1080.1200%3B630%3B7%3B70%3B5.jpg&cfs=1&upscale=1&fallback=news_d_placeholder_publisher&sx=0&sy=1&sw=1200&sh=627&_nc_hash=AQDAqU2Ezhmjz6So
coldjoint
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 11:51 am
@revelette1,
Quote:
Disgustingly typical for this day and age. Sad times.

Yes, your replies and so many others are. So many perfect people, how did we get this lucky?
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ehBeth
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 11:52 am
Quote:
The comments underscore the highly unusual situation Sessions has found himself in on Capitol Hill. Democrats, who detest his staunchly conservative views particularly on immigration policy, are eager to keep him in the post, while Trump and his GOP allies are actively trying to undercut him.


Trump has consistently attacked and belittled his attorney general over Sessions' decision to recuse himself because the Russia investigation involves the Trump campaign, of which Sessions was a top surrogate. Trump has bluntly said that he chose Sessions for the job because he thought he would be loyal and has strongly suggested he may fire the attorney general after the midterm elections.


poor Beauregard
needs the Democrats to keep his job

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/politics/jeff-sessions-george-papadopoulos-democrats/index.html

it's a weird weird world

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ehBeth
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 12:21 pm
@blatham,
blatham wrote:
When I saw the headline that Kennedy was resigning and knowingly putting another Federalist Society pick into the court, I yelled, "You F*cking C*nt!"



https://scontent-yyz1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/41461354_1872822656131270_6833795766872440832_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&oh=f0ce7e3d0ce2f7670e92e7f1016eaad9&oe=5C38AA7F
camlok
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 12:26 pm
@blatham,
Quote:
I often get angry reading the news but it's seldom that I explode


You are highly selective about the things you get angry about, Bernie. You don't seem to give a rat's ass about all the USA caused carnage, the war crimes, the falsehoods put out about Muslims, Iraq, Afghanistan, the babies murdered.
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ehBeth
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 12:30 pm
@blatham,
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectualist/atheism-secularism/in-return-for-temporal-power-evangelicals-took-the-deal-jesus-rejected-uCHFg0Kg9UWDfRj8ik9Y6A/

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Earlier this year, numerous Christian leaders came together to denounce the type of Christianity espoused by predominantly white evangelicals that allows for this cult following of the president, setting up a website called ReclaimingJesus.org.

Since almost no black evangelicals support Trump, “you can’t call them evangelicals,” [JimWallis, founder of Sojourners magazine] said in an interview last week. “I keep telling the press, call them old white evangelicals, nearly all men, rich, the ones benefiting from the tax cuts.

“Or Trump evangelicals,” he said, “part of a fake church, to use (the president’s) language.”

“Reclaiming Jesus” is less about condemning romps with porn stars and more about condemning tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to health care and food benefits for the poor, and the shunning of refugees and immigrants. It rejects Trump’s “America First” slogan as “theological heresy,” along with misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and presidential lying.

But these are some of the very notions underlying this particular brand of American Christianity — one that is bathed in American exceptionalism, stained by racism, and born not of love but of fear and hate.


fear for sure

that aging-out demographic has got a lot of fear
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blatham
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:04 pm
@Walter Hinteler,
Missed this earlier.
Bolton is, predictably, voicing a notion of foreign affairs that has emerged from the extremist ends of the neoconservative crowd. The Project for a New American Century explicitly wrote that America ought to maintain hegemony over the rest of the world and thus it must refuse to engage in any commitments which might limit the US's ability to act as it wishes. Further, this crowd also held (holds) that the US must suppress any emerging power (national or international) which might rise to challenge the desired hegemonic status of America.
ehBeth
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:05 pm
@blatham,
PNAC the gift that keeps on giving
blatham
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:10 pm
@revelette1,
Ain't it ever. I would not be able to count up the number of times I have fantasized about ending Murdoch's wretched and evil life. And I'm definitely not alone. The great British screenplay writer, Dennis Potter's final work (written as he was dying with pancreatic cancer) had this fantasy as a central theme.
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blatham
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:13 pm
@roger,
Quote:
Book? Whatchu mean, book? You're trying to say tweets don't count.
The Trump tweet oeuvre might end up as a book but if so, it will be in the form of a study of psychopathy. If so, I really hope he is invited to write the forward.
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blatham
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:26 pm
@ehBeth,
Anyone want to make a wager on whether or not Sanders will, up the road a bit, claim that she was part of the heroic "resistance".
revelette1
 
  4  
Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:29 pm
@blatham,
I don't see it after listening to the latest Omarosa tape, but stranger things have happened. (i.e. Trump getting elected)
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revelette1
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:30 pm
Why Mike Pence’s ‘disappointment’ with Obama doesn’t make sense (Rachel Maddow blog)
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blatham
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:31 pm
@ehBeth,
Quote:
it's a weird weird world

If America survives as a functioning society three years from now, there will be enough "insider" books written on this administration and period to fill an oil tanker like Chevron's Condoleeza Rice.
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blatham
 
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Mon 10 Sep, 2018 01:32 pm
@ehBeth,
The artist misses The Federalist Society there but he sure gets the dynamic right.
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