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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

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Ronald Klain
@RonaldKlain
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Every time Trump (or his minions) brag that he acted quickly on travel restrictions against China, I wish someone in that briefing room would ask him:

"Didn't Italy put restrictions on China travel BEFORE you did?"

(Answer: Yes, as did 44 other countries).

Which 44 and what were the dates?

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@layman,

layman wrote:

Ya know, I've never been a member of Twitter, and never will be.

Well, apart from the fact that Blather turns this thread into a virtual tweet-o-rama joint, I mean.

He scours that joint constantly, looking for any opinion or factual claim, however spurious, which opposes Trump, then "retweets" them here.

Like many of his ilk, he is heavily influenced by twitter.

The chump.

I'm pretty sure there is a central repository that people like Blatham and now Brand X go to to be spoon fed tweets. I doubt there is a lot of scouring.

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@Region Philbis,

Region Philbis wrote:

^ cheese eater ^

"American" cheese though.

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Reinhold Niebuhr.

Love?
Hate?
Respect?

I’d like to see what you think.

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@Setanta,

Setanta wrote:

It's the phony Stepin Fetchit routine which disgusts me the most. It's really a racist pose, very insulting.

If you can't match the argument, insult the poster, right blatham?

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@McGentrix,

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Which 44 and what were the dates?

Do you know who Klain is?

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@McGentrix,

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Setanta wrote:

It's the phony Stepin Fetchit routine which disgusts me the most. It's really a racist pose, very insulting.

If you can't match the argument, insult the poster, right blatham?

Setanta has this right. The dipshit in question has often posted using a mock version of informal african american speech. It's a trolling device meant to offend in a racial context. The guy is an asshole for doing it. It's a key reason I put him on ignore after the first four or five exchanges with him.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

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Setanta wrote:

It's the phony Stepin Fetchit routine which disgusts me the most. It's really a racist pose, very insulting.

If you can't match the argument, insult the poster, right blatham?

Setanta has this right. The dipshit in question has often posted using a mock version of informal african american speech. It's a trolling device meant to offend in a racial context. The guy is an asshole for doing it. It's a key reason I put him on ignore after the first four or five exchanges with him.

Doesn't change what he's saying though or the point he is making. I think the real issue is that you don't like the fact that someone has the time to keep up with, and refute the daily spewage you and several others here make every day. Page after page of the same ****.

How many times have you commented on the models joke? More than once and your no longer making a statement. You're just scoring points with your audience of sycophants.

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

Setanta has this right. The dipshit in question has often posted using a mock version of informal african american speech. It's a trolling device meant to offend in a racial context.

Even assuming you're right (which ya aint, but) what offends you about "informal african american speach?" You like "formality," that it? Or do you just dislike black foke?

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@layman,

It seems kinda racist to assume that "informal" speech which falls short of "the queen's english" could only be spoken by blacks, eh? Like only blacks could possibly be that ignorant, that the idea?

Who do you think most blacks in this country learned the language from? Southern white boys, that's who.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Reinhold Niebuhr.

Love?
Hate?
Respect?

I’d like to see what you think.

I would tell ya, Darlin, but I aint really got no opinion of that boy. Aint knowwin enough.

Some kinda existential theologian, aint he?

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@blatham,

blatham wrote:

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Which 44 and what were the dates?

Do you know who Klain is?

Just answer the damn question, eh?

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On this day 52 years ago when I was 6 years old, a radical Democratic Socialist named Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered while he was meeting with striking sanitation workers, planning steps to force the city / state government to treat them fairly.

Let’s don’t forget that.

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

On this day 52 years ago when I was 6 years old, a radical Democratic Socialist named Martin Luther King, Jr was murdered while he was meeting with striking sanitation workers, planning steps to force the city / state government to treat them fairly.

Yeah, but that's not why he was shot.

He was shot primarily because he was a damn nigga, eh?

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

Reinhold Niebuhr.

Love?
Hate?
Respect?

I’d like to see what you think.

So, I'm findin out a little about this boy, just for you, Darlin.

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A former pacifist, he persuaded Christians to support the war against Hitler

Ok, that's cool.

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Reinhold Niebuhr was an American Protestant theologian whose exposure to the problems of industrialism while working as a pastor in Detroit led him to join the Socialist Party for a time.

https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/interview-reinhold-niebuhr

That aint.

Come to find out, he's the one who said this:

Niebuhr wrote:

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

He must be some kinda alky, I figure. That alone makes him OK in my book, eh?

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@McGentrix,

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I think the real issue is that you don't like the fact that someone has the time to keep up with, and refute the daily spewage you and several others here make every day.

Um, you'd be wrong. We just don't care for the shtick, which manages to come across, in its cloying vulgarity and sheer volume, as a perfect example of some of the daily spewage we have to read here every day.

I think the real issue is that right-wingers, generally an ill-tuned chorus of perpetual crybabies and sore-asses anyway, have nothing better to do online than engage with people they don't respect and endlessly repeat the same stupid arguments with people they dislike or hate, day in day out, year after year.

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Page after page of the same ****.

Unbidden, you keep returning to the sickening trough, though. "Page after page?" — why eat any of it?

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@hightor,

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...vulgarity...as a perfect example of some of the daily spewage we have to read here every day.

From the Dik:

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vulgar, adjective: characteristic of or belonging to the masses.

So you hate common foke, too, eh? Another limousine liberal elitist, I see.

Any comments on Noam Chompsky, Marx, Michael Moore, Hitchens, China, the WHO, the IPCC, or any other of your heroes in response to my "spewage," I wonder?

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Bernie Sanders has proven to me over 30 years that he is willing to oppose the ultra-wealthy, corrupt republicans and democrats, billionaire puppet masters, and dirty CEOs of oil and pharmaceutical companies. I trust him like I’ve never trusted any politician before. There’s not a lot I wouldn’t do for Bernie.

But, if he has the audacity to ask me to vote for ******* Joe Child-Feeling, Woman-Sniffing, Raping Racist Biden, I’ll have to say...

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@Lash,

Lash wrote:

But, if he has the audacity to ask me to vote for ******* Joe Child-Feeling, Woman-Sniffing, Raping Racist Biden, I’ll have to say...

Heh, makes me think of a good ole Bobby Dylan tune, kinda:

Ya say you're lookin for someone....

Who is never weak, but always strong...

To protect you and defend you.....

Whether you are right or wrong....

A lover of your life, and nothing more...

Well, it aint me, Babe....

Naw, naw, naw, it aint me, Babe....

It aint me you're lookin for.

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