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The emails "What does it matter?" - RobVG - 8/23/2016 8:07:54 PM
- You really need to look at your sources... - RL - 8/23/2016 9:32:37 PM
  - Washington Post Swings Both Ways - RobVG - 8/23/2016 10:24:40 PM
    - No there there - BuckGalaxy - 8/24/2016 5:28:15 PM
    - What is really getting lost here - BuckGalaxy - 8/24/2016 5:27:58 AM
  - For some reason I couldn't find anything on "Mediaite" - RobVG - 8/23/2016 9:59:55 PM
    - You are delusional... - RL - 8/23/2016 10:23:19 PM
      - Your arguments are weak, not worth responding too. - RobVG - 8/23/2016 10:27:02 PM
        
        Just for the record... - mcfly - 8/23/2016 10:55:51 PM
        
        Oh well, you certainly rebutted me with the facts! - RL - 8/23/2016 10:44:24 PM
        
        Facts mean nothing to you. You're a fabricator. - RobVG - 8/23/2016 11:12:14 PM
        
        So a complete shut-down of Muslim immigration isn't anti-immigration? - mcfly - 8/23/2016 11:36:52 PM
        
        Not when it's temporary. - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:18:22 AM
        
        It changes daily and depends on his audience - mcfly - 8/24/2016 12:48:57 AM
        
        "Germany: Authorities investigating 60 refugees for terror links" - RobVG - 8/24/2016 1:46:01 AM
        
        Ah yes, and Hilary is 'America's Merkel', right? - RL - 8/25/2016 12:06:29 AM
        
        How many crazed, white, christian militiamen do you suppose are in the US right now? - mcfly - 8/24/2016 6:24:13 PM
        
        Excellent sidestep. I'm sure you make the others proud. n/t - RobVG - 8/24/2016 10:14:54 PM
        
        It's entirely relevant - mcfly - 8/24/2016 11:53:09 PM
        
        The difference is OUR terrorists are white... - RL - 8/25/2016 12:10:16 AM
        
        Let's find out! - Robert - 8/24/2016 7:17:02 PM
        
        Re: Facts mean nothing to you. You're a fabricator. - RL - 8/23/2016 11:28:52 PM
        
        Ah, the "Mexican rapists" again. I'd love to see the folders on your desktop. - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:21:52 AM
        
        "Neo-Nazis" Haven't heard that for awhile.... - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:19:44 AM
        
        Do you deny the neo-nazis are rallying behind him? - RL - 8/24/2016 12:41:50 AM
        
        Who else are they going to "rally around"? Hillary? Bernie? - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:49:52 AM
        
        That is kinda the point- - RL - 8/24/2016 12:55:02 AM
        
        No retort? - RobVG - 8/24/2016 10:16:43 PM
        
        That's just weird... - mcfly - 8/25/2016 12:16:20 AM
        
        Believe it or not... - RL - 8/24/2016 11:22:49 PM
        
        "I am mystified as to why you think we will believe it." - RobVG - 8/25/2016 4:01:34 PM
        
        Your response makes absolutely no sense... - RL - 8/25/2016 9:57:46 PM
        
        Embracing them? - RobVG - 8/24/2016 1:25:37 AM
        
        I fabricated nothing... - RL - 8/23/2016 11:17:56 PM
        
        I have never said I like Trump - RobVG - 8/23/2016 11:22:39 PM
        
        yet you defend him.... twisting reason beyond all recognition to do so... - RL - 8/23/2016 11:32:38 PM
        
        Defend? - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:06:46 AM
        
        RL presents facts and reasoned argument - mcfly - 8/24/2016 12:24:48 AM
        
        His facts are twisted. I've shown that. And you know it. - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:32:33 AM
        
        You've shown nothing of the sort - mcfly - 8/24/2016 1:00:16 AM
        
        No... you have simply stated that the facts are wrong, despite being facts. - RL - 8/24/2016 12:40:00 AM

The Trump Camp: plumbing all new lows for American politics - mcfly - 8/24/2016 6:13:42 PM
- See? Nothing racist about that- right? - RL - 8/24/2016 11:40:28 PM
- birth certificates, Benghazi, email servers, the Clinton Foundation... - ER - 8/24/2016 9:31:14 PM

More Hypocrisy - RobVG - 8/23/2016 11:28:04 PM
- That settles it. I'm voting for The Donald. - ER - 8/23/2016 11:56:35 PM
  - LOL - RL - 8/23/2016 11:59:39 PM
    - That reply was so predictable. Grow up - RobVG - 8/24/2016 12:05:17 AM

Trumped up charges... - RL - 8/23/2016 9:43:24 PM

You don't need learnin' if you got a VCR.... - RL - 8/20/2016 4:26:32 AM
- The danger isn't the use of video - Robert - 8/23/2016 4:59:23 AM
  - Report from the front... - ER - 8/23/2016 3:26:32 PM
- They are scared of us. - ER - 8/20/2016 1:22:18 PM
- Not sure why this landed in community.... - RL - 8/20/2016 4:39:58 AM
  - Looks like it took a bounce - Robert - 8/23/2016 4:40:52 AM

Trump: "I'll always tell you the truth." - mcfly - 8/19/2016 2:52:39 AM
- Someone should ask him that Area 51 question. - ER - 8/19/2016 3:14:08 AM
  - I think Carter tire that. - RobVG - 8/19/2016 2:27:55 PM
    - Carter was a reasonable man. - ER - 8/19/2016 3:16:55 PM
      - After reading his account I think he was at looking at Capella. - RobVG - 8/20/2016 1:23:08 AM
        
        I forgot all about Carter's infamous UFO sighting. - ER - 8/20/2016 2:16:25 AM
        
        Here's what they said - RobVG - 8/20/2016 3:17:46 AM
        
        Thanks for the reference. - ER - 8/20/2016 1:42:59 PM
        
        PS - ER - 8/20/2016 2:00:26 PM

Anyone else find it deliciously ironic... - RL - 8/20/2016 6:01:06 AM
- The Ukrainian Candidate - ER - 8/20/2016 12:55:45 PM

Private Prisons - ER - 8/19/2016 1:39:55 PM

I will never forgive Obama for starting the war in Afghanistan... - RL - 8/14/2016 1:09:38 AM
- "The GOP isn’t just ‘another point of view’, it is full blown delusional insanity" - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2016 10:24:13 AM
  - You'll get no argument from this corner of the peanut gallery - mcfly - 8/15/2016 6:08:57 AM
    - There were no islamic terrorist attacks in America in the 8 years before Obama, says the guy who was mayor of NYC during 9/11... - RL - 8/16/2016 12:50:49 AM
      - You would think the former mayor of New York, NY might remember 9/11 - SDG - 8/16/2016 10:08:42 PM
      - Mind. Blown. - mcfly - 8/16/2016 4:32:59 AM
      - Remember when we used to admire Rudy, even if we didn't agree with him? - ER - 8/16/2016 1:14:07 AM
- Kat's an avatar - Robert - 8/14/2016 5:54:00 AM
  - Unfortunately, 14% is wishful thinking. There was no Fox News back in 1968. - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2016 10:10:39 AM
    - Let's quibble over the definition of "floor" - Robert - 8/15/2016 6:09:19 PM
      - 14% seems a bit low to me - BuckGalaxy - 8/18/2016 5:06:41 AM
- It's only a matter of time before she brings up Obama's biggest blunder... - mcfly - 8/14/2016 3:11:37 AM
- Hurricane Katrina - ER - 8/14/2016 1:32:53 AM

Hillary up 56 -20 with voters under 35 - BuckGalaxy - 8/16/2016 8:48:35 PM
- They are dying out... - RL - 8/16/2016 11:48:08 PM

"You're Putin's Bitch!" - BuckGalaxy - 8/16/2016 5:58:21 AM
- A funny thing happened on the way to the GOP convention... - BuckGalaxy - 8/16/2016 6:04:16 AM
  - Selling repeating rifles to the Sioux, and mouldy oats to the cavalry. - ER - 8/16/2016 2:01:42 PM

Setting the stage for violence...If he can't win the election he will try to wreck it... - RL - 8/13/2016 2:20:08 PM
- Wrecking our political system - BuckGalaxy - 8/14/2016 8:58:47 PM
  - My feeling exactly... - mcfly - 8/14/2016 9:52:38 PM
    - There's much to be said in support of that POV. - ER - 8/15/2016 3:41:35 AM
      - I hear you - mcfly - 8/15/2016 6:04:31 AM
        
        Actually, we are ALL the 'rabble'. - ER - 8/15/2016 3:55:53 PM
  - Trump is not the cause. He's the symptom. - ER - 8/14/2016 9:51:47 PM
    - We'd see our jobs come back if there was a global minimum wage n/t - RobVG - 8/15/2016 12:17:19 AM
      - Thinking globally? - Robert - 8/15/2016 6:22:51 PM
      - We can't all be entrepreneurs. - ER - 8/15/2016 3:23:10 AM
- The War of Northern Aggression began when rebel forces fired on Fort Sumter. - ER - 8/13/2016 3:33:31 PM

What's your take on the cash sent to Iran? - RobVG - 8/3/2016 3:57:24 PM
- the payment represented continued adherence to a masterful feat of American diplomacy and to the peaceful resolution of disputes under international law - BuckGalaxy - 8/13/2016 7:47:49 AM
  - Bad example, Buck... Reagan was, without a doubt, the FOUNDER of ISIS... - RL - 8/13/2016 2:03:51 PM
- Obama got a nuclear deal, and made the Iranians pay for it! - SDG - 8/4/2016 9:51:02 PM
- Is this the best way to deal with them? - RL - 8/3/2016 10:26:31 PM
  - Every voter needs to read this analysis.... - RL - 8/3/2016 11:03:30 PM
- The Ayatollah-Class Frigates (AKA the "Dead Admiral Class") - ER - 8/3/2016 9:35:24 PM
  - So it's money we owed them from 1979? - Tony - 8/3/2016 9:49:31 PM
    - Money "we owed"? - RobVG - 8/9/2016 4:51:36 PM
      - I suggest you expand your news search - Tony - 8/9/2016 5:10:17 PM
        
        By the way, it was settled out of court. n/t - RobVG - 8/9/2016 6:48:43 PM
        
        Yes, and at terms much less than Iran was entitled to - Tony - 8/9/2016 9:42:08 PM
        
        "Entitled to". Actually pretty disgusting. n/t - RobVG - 8/9/2016 11:02:01 PM
        
        "Entitled to"? Who made you arbitrator. - RobVG - 8/9/2016 10:51:58 PM
        
        The courts were the abitrator - Tony - 8/10/2016 3:37:19 PM
        
        I think it's disgusting that anyone thinks we owe them anything during their actions in 1979. n/t - RobVG - 8/10/2016 11:51:34 PM
        
        Yeah, it's not like we ever did anything to them, right? - RL - 8/11/2016 2:17:42 AM
        
        Rob, Try to imagine how YOU would feel... - RL - 8/11/2016 3:36:11 AM
        
        It was the British and the Russians that invaded them in WWII - RobVG - 8/11/2016 4:00:51 AM
        
        "...we put our own dictator in place..." - mcfly - 8/11/2016 4:43:35 AM
        
        Are we supposed to be shocked? - RobVG - 8/11/2016 4:02:39 PM
        
        "that’s what the horrible Mr. Trump says!" - RL - 8/11/2016 10:14:44 PM
        
        Then I guess you can quit asking yourself why the world hates us - mcfly - 8/11/2016 6:47:32 PM
        
        Try factoring in events prior to '79 - mcfly - 8/11/2016 2:08:27 AM
        
        Agreed to after 37 years. Why now. - RobVG - 8/9/2016 5:40:57 PM
    - About that Axis of Evil... - ER - 8/3/2016 10:15:40 PM
- I assume that this concerns you because... - RL - 8/3/2016 7:35:32 PM
  - Yet another wrenching sacrifice! - mcfly - 8/3/2016 9:20:12 PM
- if it was a ransom it was terrible - Tony - 8/3/2016 5:51:27 PM
  - A quick research tells me - Tony - 8/3/2016 6:05:56 PM
- Wasn't that Irans's money in the first place? - ER - 8/3/2016 5:50:51 PM
- Resembles Reagan's selling drugs to buy weapons for Iran and contras. - bowser - 8/3/2016 4:50:41 PM
  - And remember, - ER - 8/3/2016 5:58:28 PM

US military trying to reduce reliance on electronics - mcfly - 8/11/2016 9:37:12 PM
- Battlestar Galactica survived the Cylon sneak attack virus because its computers were not networked. - ER - 8/11/2016 10:26:14 PM

Trump: 'If you can't beat them.... SHOOT THEM!' - RL - 8/9/2016 9:43:43 PM
- "Second amendment remedies" - RL - 8/9/2016 9:46:06 PM
  - Bungalow Bills - ER - 8/9/2016 11:34:55 PM

After moron maligns mourning mother... - RL - 8/2/2016 9:11:37 PM
- In the interest of acurracy - RobVG - 8/7/2016 4:22:41 AM
  - If accuracy interested you... - RL - 8/7/2016 5:58:06 PM
    - You'll see and believe what you want. Just like everyone else. n/t - RobVG - 8/8/2016 2:45:38 AM
      - I see it but I don't believe it - mcfly - 8/9/2016 1:55:36 PM
- Potential Presidential prick purloins purple-heart - RL - 8/2/2016 9:13:08 PM
  - Draft dodging Donny defends dubious deferments... - RL - 8/2/2016 9:17:29 PM
    - Vile vociferous vulgarian's virtual V.D. Vietnam - RL - 8/2/2016 9:24:32 PM
      - Alliteration about arrogant assholes always amuses - RL - 8/2/2016 9:28:53 PM
        
        Big Baby Bumbles, Blusters, Bitterly Blasts Bawling Baby - Tony - 8/3/2016 5:31:12 PM
        
        Trump Taunters Tragically, Triumphantly Trash the Toupee. - ER - 8/3/2016 6:02:07 PM
        
        Katrina Creates Clinton's Collusion Concerning Captain Khan - Tony - 8/3/2016 6:13:07 PM
        
        Bugger. - Tony - 8/3/2016 6:00:55 PM
        
        cracked computers create chaos, couriors to communicate confidentials, - SDG - 8/4/2016 3:41:19 PM
        
        Breitbart Bolsters Bragging Blowhard by Basket Ball Bullshitting... - RL - 8/4/2016 10:52:25 PM
        
        Campaign contradicts crooked candidate's counterfeit 'classified' claim... - RL - 8/4/2016 10:59:56 PM
        
        miniature mitts make millionaire mad - SDG - 8/5/2016 10:22:44 PM

American Nazi Chair: Trump Win Would Be “A Real Opportunity” For White Nationalists - RL - 8/7/2016 4:48:51 AM
- There's a contradiction here... - ER - 8/7/2016 5:00:57 AM
  - Gaping hubris - Robert - 8/7/2016 6:21:59 AM
    - People have a feeling the world is mostly made up of people just like them; - ER - 8/7/2016 1:32:29 PM

Trump campaign: it's like watching a fat kid play dodgeball - mcfly - 8/3/2016 11:34:35 AM
- Another example of Obama time travel. - ER - 8/4/2016 3:36:05 AM
  - Thankfully Anderson Cooper was all over that - mcfly - 8/4/2016 7:06:33 PM
    - And here's what an "apology" from the Trump camp looks like... - mcfly - 8/4/2016 8:56:59 PM
      - In an interview I saw yesterday... - ER - 8/5/2016 1:24:51 AM
    - premature epredication - ER - 8/4/2016 7:25:00 PM
- They learn fast. - ER - 8/3/2016 12:33:42 PM
  - Is democracy as slippery as any given slope? - mcfly - 8/3/2016 9:01:52 PM
    - I don't agree. - ER - 8/4/2016 2:29:05 AM

Which do like better...? - RL - 7/31/2016 8:06:55 PM
- How about both? - ER - 7/31/2016 8:50:36 PM
  - There is a limit to what the software I have will do... - RL - 7/31/2016 9:08:16 PM
    - The morph is astonishing, - ER - 8/1/2016 4:43:40 AM
      - I used a software package called Fantamorph - RL - 8/1/2016 9:54:32 PM
        
        Another morph - RL - 8/1/2016 11:00:09 PM
        
        You've morphed Michelle Bachmann to...Florida Governor Rick Scott! - ER - 8/1/2016 11:46:21 PM
        
        Ha! You are right! - RL - 8/2/2016 4:00:15 AM

Trump attempting to get out of the debates... - RL - 7/31/2016 2:28:59 AM
- Trump has a point. - ER - 8/1/2016 1:34:44 PM

Chuck Todd gets ass handed to him - RobVG - 7/31/2016 10:00:54 PM
- Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear and little lambs eat ivy... - ER - 8/1/2016 1:43:05 AM
  - There is nothing to "root" about. Especially this topic. n/t - RobVG - 8/1/2016 2:37:00 AM
    - The fact remains... - ER - 8/1/2016 3:29:26 AM
- Your link is as faulty as your analysis... - RL - 7/31/2016 11:19:40 PM
  - "I'm going to take a look at that" - mcfly - 8/1/2016 1:42:10 AM
  - And in case you missed it... - RL - 7/31/2016 11:34:20 PM
- Clinton said in an interview on "Fox News Sunday." "I think laying out the facts raises issues about Russian interference in our elections, in our democracy," - RobVG - 7/31/2016 10:23:53 PM
  - Selling them the rope. - ER - 8/1/2016 12:53:41 AM
    - What does that have to do with the DNC plowing Sanders under? N/t - RobVG - 8/1/2016 1:36:55 AM
      - Absolutely nothing. - ER - 8/1/2016 1:46:47 AM
        
        "What difference does it make". Funny, that sounds familiar. - RobVG - 8/1/2016 1:50:19 AM
        
        It certainly was. - ER - 8/1/2016 1:58:36 AM
        
        Well thanks for that. We are now sufficiently off topic.... - RobVG - 8/1/2016 2:12:33 AM

I think in ways I had an unusual childhood. - bowser - 7/30/2016 8:53:49 AM
- Coming in from the cold - ER - 7/30/2016 2:08:50 PM
  - Contrast what you and I did with now. Specifically "play dates". - bowser - 7/30/2016 9:04:47 PM
  - Well done. And I didn't explainl my point well. The day of the white man's supremacy is over. - bowser - 7/30/2016 3:25:57 PM
    - You explained your point very well. - ER - 7/30/2016 4:20:37 PM
      - The cruel revenge of the redskin! - bowser - 7/30/2016 9:01:47 PM

Where's a Hobbit when you need one...? - RL - 7/30/2016 3:30:35 AM

Trump Treason - ER - 7/28/2016 4:08:03 PM
- Trump the child - SDG - 7/29/2016 3:53:43 PM
  - For a good chuckle... - RL - 7/30/2016 2:49:58 AM
- Trump needs to get slapped down early, hard and often! - bowser - 7/29/2016 5:44:06 AM
  - I think you're missing the point, Bowser. - ER - 7/29/2016 1:43:07 PM
    - Oh, and one more thing. - ER - 7/29/2016 2:09:07 PM
- Were it not for the context I might agree with you... - RL - 7/28/2016 10:56:03 PM
  - And this is pretty good too... - RL - 7/28/2016 11:00:16 PM
- Trump the orangutan - SDG - 7/28/2016 9:41:02 PM

So...ummm...THIS happened... - RL - 1/16/2016 2:16:41 AM
- And part 2 of the sordid tale.... - RL - 7/27/2016 11:49:48 PM
- Time to put the hair on the mannequin and stuff him back in the closet. Any closet. Gone far enough. - bowser - 1/18/2016 11:45:58 PM
- Reminds one of something that might be seen at a rally for the Supreme Leader - mcfly - 1/17/2016 4:38:45 PM
  - Awwww. They're so cuuuuuute! - ER - 1/17/2016 5:23:55 PM
- From the film "Cabaret" - ER - 1/16/2016 3:58:26 AM
  - Great: Little Children Human Exterminators - SteveS - 1/16/2016 6:34:57 PM
    - Trump isn't the first politician to exploit kids - ER - 1/17/2016 5:32:34 AM
      - Deflecting again - SteveS - 1/17/2016 2:04:51 PM
        
        These kids are a little singing group that's been around a while. - TB - 1/17/2016 11:49:30 PM
        
        I know both sides have - SteveS - 1/19/2016 1:51:05 PM
        
        It's all good. Trump, if elected will not be the next Hitler. - Jody - 1/19/2016 10:28:08 PM
        
        He was supposed to be a lot of things - SteveS - 1/20/2016 11:21:02 PM
        
        FYI - TB - 1/19/2016 6:47:31 PM
        
        They have to switch it up - SteveS - 1/20/2016 2:31:10 PM
        
        Fascism is about unrestrained state power. - TB - 1/20/2016 5:08:47 PM
        
        Oh I agree - SteveS - 1/20/2016 7:20:29 PM
        
        It's really cute when they sang about striking down the enemy - mcfly - 1/18/2016 4:32:49 AM
        
        What, this? - TB - 1/18/2016 5:05:56 AM
        
        You're being deliberately dense - mcfly - 1/18/2016 6:49:16 AM
        
        No, you made something up. - TB - 1/18/2016 6:51:19 PM
        
        Could you expand upon "what real fascism actually was and is" - Robert - 1/18/2016 8:25:22 PM
        
        I have. Several times. - TB - 1/18/2016 8:42:06 PM
        
        You quoted the lyrics I was referring to - mcfly - 1/18/2016 8:16:03 PM
        
        You may have a different definition of "quote" than I do. - TB - 1/18/2016 8:33:35 PM
        
        TB, please try to get a grip - mcfly - 1/18/2016 9:17:48 PM
        
        And... - mcfly - 1/18/2016 9:48:12 PM
        
        Fine. - TB - 1/18/2016 9:39:18 PM
        
        Fierce Fascism Fighter - ER - 1/18/2016 8:06:16 PM
        
        Yeah. Like that. - TB - 1/18/2016 8:17:47 PM
        
        The ancient Egyptian god of frustration. - ER - 1/18/2016 8:55:14 PM
        
        That's kind of harsh... - mcfly - 1/18/2016 10:06:21 PM
        
        "...please try to get a grip..." - ER - 1/18/2016 10:24:53 PM
        
        No, I associated Fascists with the political exploitation of children. - ER - 1/17/2016 2:19:58 PM

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