GDSmithTX
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PT Barnum: Watch out for shameless hucksterism!
Dr. Jack Kevorkian: Beware of evil carbon monoxide!
Ted Kaczynski: Be on the lookout for insidious mail bombs!
OMG Politics, I'm over it already Mk III, The Search for Spock
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PT Barnum: Watch out for shameless hucksterism!
Dr. Jack Kevorkian: Beware of evil carbon monoxide!
Ted Kaczynski: Be on the lookout for insidious mail bombs!
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Doubleplusgood
I wish I had known paid protestor and child crisis actor would become such growth industries before I incurred all that student loan debt.
GDSmithTX
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The "Tea Party" was a fake grassroots organization (astroturf) created by the Koch brothers, other conservative million-/billionaires and big business as a fig leaf for Republican dicks to hide behind after the brand "Republican" and "GOP" was so tarnished by the administration of Bush the Lesser. You didn't even have to scratch a Tea Partier to find the Republican underneath; anything stronger than a glance would do it.
The groundwork had been laid, and was finally deployed after the Bush economy started to melt down.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-zuesse/final-proof-the-tea-party_b_4136722.html
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/brendan-demelle/study-confirms-tea-party-_b_2663125.html
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/oct/25/tea-party-koch-brothers
The Tea Party was no genuine third party; it was a cynical, yet gossamer thin disguise for Republicans.
GDSmithTX
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Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
Good lord.
That's just America. Always has been.
micwalt
Too Controversial To Have An Athleisure Line
This.
Doesn't make it any less horrifying, though.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I agree. I also believe there are a great number of people better than all of this. Not perfect, certainly, but better than this. The question is can those people somehow change the course of this wayward freighter of a country. Bottom of the ninth, score is not in our favor. At least one out. Mebbe a man on base. Coupla balls and a strike. Time to step up and meet the pitch.
Not all is lost. But we can't stay in the dugout and expect it to get any better.
mongooz
Sic Semper Tyrannis
yea.
Good lord.
this one is........"smash his little fingers with a bat so he won't hold the cage".
jeebuz, i wanna take an axe to his face.
mongooz
Sic Semper Tyrannis
Trump ramps up rhetoric: Dems want 'illegal immigrants' to 'infest our country'
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/trump-illegal-immigrants-infest/index.html
"Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing Democrats of wanting "illegal immigrants ... to pour into and infest our country," language evoking images of pests, not human beings."
"Democrats are the problem. They don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can't win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!" he wrote."
and ya wonder where the "smash his little fingers with a bat" bullshit comes from.
right from the top.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/19/politics/trump-illegal-immigrants-infest/index.html
"Donald Trump amplified his heated immigration rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing Democrats of wanting "illegal immigrants ... to pour into and infest our country," language evoking images of pests, not human beings."
"Democrats are the problem. They don't care about crime and want illegal immigrants, no matter how bad they may be, to pour into and infest our Country, like MS-13. They can't win on their terrible policies, so they view them as potential voters!" he wrote."
and ya wonder where the "smash his little fingers with a bat" bullshit comes from.
right from the top.
GDSmithTX
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/caputo-admits-he-did-contact-russian-during-campaign
Caputo Pulls 180, Admits That He Did Contact A Russian During Campaign
In an abrupt reversal of previous statements, including under sworn testimony, former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo is now admitting that he did knowingly have contact with a Russian offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
In a Tuesday morning interview with CNN’s John Berman, Caputo said that he previously “did not recall” his interactions with the Russian Henry Greenberg—despite a follow-up text conversation with Trump confidant Roger Stone about the meeting—and tried to shift the conversation by alleging that Greenberg was an undercover FBI agent.
At the time, Caputo had set up the meeting between Stone and Greenberg in May 2016. [snip]
Records of the Caputo and Stone conversation after the Greenberg meeting have been released. Caputo started it, asking, “how crazy is the Russian?”
Stone replied: “He wants big $ for the info waste of time.”
Caputo responded: “The Russian way. Anything at all interesting?” Stone said “no.”
Caputo told Berman that he had forgotten that interaction as well.
He also acknowledged that President Donald Trump made a false statement when he said “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does” in February 2017.
According to the Washington Post, these comments from Caputo are in stark contradiction to previous statements he made on his Russian contacts.
“I spent my time in front of the [House Intelligence] Committee detailing the fact that I had no contact with Russians, that I never heard of anyone with the Trump campaign talking with Russians, that I was never asked questions about my time in Russia, that I never even spoke to anyone about Russia, that I never heard the word ‘Russia,’ and we did not use Russian dressing,” he said in July 2017.
Stone also claims temporary amnesia during the meeting, saying that 2016 was “a pretty busy year.”[snip]
Caputo Pulls 180, Admits That He Did Contact A Russian During Campaign
In an abrupt reversal of previous statements, including under sworn testimony, former Trump campaign aide Michael Caputo is now admitting that he did knowingly have contact with a Russian offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign.
In a Tuesday morning interview with CNN’s John Berman, Caputo said that he previously “did not recall” his interactions with the Russian Henry Greenberg—despite a follow-up text conversation with Trump confidant Roger Stone about the meeting—and tried to shift the conversation by alleging that Greenberg was an undercover FBI agent.
At the time, Caputo had set up the meeting between Stone and Greenberg in May 2016. [snip]
Records of the Caputo and Stone conversation after the Greenberg meeting have been released. Caputo started it, asking, “how crazy is the Russian?”
Stone replied: “He wants big $ for the info waste of time.”
Caputo responded: “The Russian way. Anything at all interesting?” Stone said “no.”
Caputo told Berman that he had forgotten that interaction as well.
He also acknowledged that President Donald Trump made a false statement when he said “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does” in February 2017.
According to the Washington Post, these comments from Caputo are in stark contradiction to previous statements he made on his Russian contacts.
“I spent my time in front of the [House Intelligence] Committee detailing the fact that I had no contact with Russians, that I never heard of anyone with the Trump campaign talking with Russians, that I was never asked questions about my time in Russia, that I never even spoke to anyone about Russia, that I never heard the word ‘Russia,’ and we did not use Russian dressing,” he said in July 2017.
Stone also claims temporary amnesia during the meeting, saying that 2016 was “a pretty busy year.”[snip]
mongooz
Sic Semper Tyrannis
can't wait to see the tweet storm over that one. i wonder how many times he'll say "no collusion", "no obstruction"?
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
No, they can't. Because the other half of the country doesn't want to change and are more satisfied now with Trump than before. I do hope they try, but I'm not optimistic.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Might have to change "they" to "we". All of us.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
Unfortunately, my birth religion is a huge hurdle to overcome in America w/r/t people taking my opinion seriously. It is what it is. I'm doing what I can to advocate for my program candidates.
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sunvalleylaw
Yep.
I hate that that is a thing but I get it. Of course I don't feel that way at all and fail to understand people who feel that way. But it is what it is. So, absolutely. Each of us can and should participate in accordance with what we can do given our situations. Even if it is just finding a way to get out and vote.
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Maybe it's because I'm an atheist but I often forget that people even observe religions.
Help!I'maRock!
Mediocringly Derivative
It's not about me. It's about preconceived notions. Course, my preconceived notion is that all humans are trash.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Course, my preconceived notion is that all humans are trash.
Well, factoring in your birth religion you would certainly give you plenty of examples to back that up.
rickenvox
Animal Psychic
it's not even close to half.
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