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This report from Congress came out last week... podrock November 1, 2026 11:22 pm (Current Events)
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‘Make America Great Again’ - RL - 1/20/2019 5:29:14 AM
- This incident has shaken the Right. - ER - 1/22/2019 4:27:44 PM
  - The Chris Plante show referred to the Native-American veteran as a "Crazy homeless drunk" - RL - 1/22/2019 5:21:37 PM
    - What I find interesting... - ER - 1/22/2019 6:13:31 PM
- What do these people fear or hate about Indians protesting about Indian issues? - ER - 1/20/2019 5:19:23 PM
- Kavanaughs-in-training - ER - 1/20/2019 3:55:50 PM
- Makes me sick to my stomach to be white - mcfly - 1/20/2019 8:01:43 AM
  - Trump supporters voted for this... - RL - 1/20/2019 10:55:52 PM
  - Hitler Jugend -- white supremacist preppies - ER - 1/20/2019 5:54:41 PM
  - Five million dead - Robert - 1/20/2019 5:12:21 PM
    - Pathetic: Nick Sandmann claims he was trying to 'defuse' the situation - RL - 1/21/2019 6:32:01 AM
      - The MAGA hats say it all - Robert - 1/21/2019 5:24:35 PM
        
        The red hats are nothing more than the newest iteration of the white hood... - RL - 1/23/2019 12:39:07 AM
        
        I dunno, I think the brown shirt is a closer fashion statement - Robert - 1/23/2019 3:06:42 AM
        
        They have hired a PR firm and Trump is trying to turn them into martyrs for his cause... - RL - 1/22/2019 3:42:55 PM
        
        Agreed - mcfly - 1/21/2019 6:42:09 PM
        
        Wawp-Waaaaa - ER - 1/21/2019 5:41:12 PM
  - Trash like these racists/trump supporters... - RL - 1/20/2019 8:14:34 AM
- Trump mentions San Antonio in comments about success of walls - there is no wall around San Antonio - RL - 1/20/2019 5:44:21 AM
  - There USED to be a wall in San Antonio - ER - 1/20/2019 3:59:08 PM

Giuliani: "I am afraid it will be on my gravestone. “Rudy Giuliani: He lied for Trump.” - RL - 1/22/2019 2:51:39 PM

Return of the Klown Kar - ER - 1/22/2019 1:47:23 AM
- Yeah... I am going to have an ulcer issue develop by 2020 - RL - 1/22/2019 3:37:37 AM

It is established fact that Trump lied about his Russian connections in order to get elected. - RL - 1/21/2019 6:51:20 AM
- There's no need to establish that he lies. - ER - 1/21/2019 1:08:36 PM
  - President Trump made 8,158 false or misleading claims in his first two years - RL - 1/21/2019 4:41:42 PM

Maybe SNL is still relevant after all. - ER - 1/20/2019 8:32:14 PM
- Here's a direct link to that Millennials vs Boomers video on Youtube... - ER - 1/21/2019 3:39:31 AM

President Trump Directed His Attorney To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project - RL - 1/18/2019 3:43:37 AM
- I don't believe this for a minute. - podrock - 1/18/2019 8:10:29 PM
  - The criminality is the LEAST of the issues here... - RL - 1/18/2019 8:49:08 PM
    - They are interwoven, a timeline: - podrock - 1/18/2019 9:52:29 PM
      - Oh yeah, well what about Hillary's emails? - ER - 1/18/2019 11:06:38 PM
        
        Well, Mueller is pushing back on unspecified details of the story - RL - 1/19/2019 1:04:35 AM
- This could mean the shutdown goes much longer... - RL - 1/18/2019 4:26:02 PM
  - "not allowing a vote on any funding bill Trump will reject," - ER - 1/18/2019 5:38:48 PM
- Businessmen can't be trusted with political office. - ER - 1/18/2019 2:33:03 PM

Lowering the Barr - RL - 1/18/2019 4:33:16 PM
- We may have crossed the Rubicon on that - ER - 1/18/2019 5:58:53 PM

Giuliani: "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign" and Russia - RL - 1/17/2019 4:58:48 AM
- It must be the water. - ER - 1/18/2019 12:27:53 AM
- Its a religious cult. - ER - 1/17/2019 1:48:35 PM
  - If only they had the decency to follow the example of Jonestown... - RL - 1/17/2019 1:52:54 PM
    - Its still too early to tell yet... - ER - 1/17/2019 4:22:17 PM

Trump shares article blasting federal workers, calling for long shutdown - RL - 1/16/2019 5:27:34 AM
- It is part of the Conservative doctrine... - ER - 1/16/2019 3:05:24 PM

So why are congressional Republicans once critical of Trump now whoring for the president? - RL - 1/15/2019 5:04:00 PM
- Maybe they realize they just have nowhere else to go. - ER - 1/16/2019 12:15:11 AM

Trump has discussed USA leaving NATO - RL - 1/15/2019 8:15:49 PM
- Trump and Brexit - ER - 1/15/2019 8:28:08 PM
  - Putin must be really pleased with himself... - RL - 1/15/2019 11:42:37 PM
    - I hate to say it,,,, - ER - 1/16/2019 12:05:05 AM

Meanwhile, at the White House... - RL - 1/15/2019 7:12:29 AM

Pirro: Are you now, or have you ever worked for Russia Mr President? - RL - 1/14/2019 7:03:23 AM
- He won't say no, but he can sure try and change the subject. - ER - 1/14/2019 1:45:24 PM

MUELLER DRAFT REPORT SAYS TRUMP 'HELPED PUTIN DESTABILIZE THE UNITED STATES', WATERGATE JOURNALIST SAYS - RL - 1/13/2019 11:40:26 PM
- Imagine you are an FBI agent: a timeline: - podrock - 1/14/2019 3:55:39 AM
  - Well, sure- when you put it THAT way, it looks bad... - RL - 1/14/2019 5:36:40 AM
- Well, we all know he did that. - ER - 1/14/2019 1:29:22 AM

And remember boys and girls- Trumpers are TOTALLY not Racists... - RL - 1/14/2019 4:54:56 AM

Just a reminder that Trump supporters will not be able to claim 'We didn't know!' - RL - 1/13/2019 5:39:47 PM
- "Selling 'em the rope..." - ER - 1/13/2019 7:22:31 PM
  - Hopefully they will do the honorable thing with all the rope they bought... - RL - 1/13/2019 8:12:54 PM

Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration - RL - 1/13/2019 3:20:33 AM
- I fear we will never fully learn the extent or depth of the crimes of this regime. - ER - 1/13/2019 1:19:20 PM
  - That is what happened to Nixon and Agnew - RL - 1/13/2019 3:12:25 PM
    - And don't forget Iran-Contra. - ER - 1/13/2019 3:31:36 PM

“They can name it whatever they, they can name it ‘peaches’ — I don’t care what they name it but we need money for that barrier.” - RL - 1/12/2019 5:07:14 PM

Trump supporters find life is harder under Trump, and reveal their real motivations for supporting him: “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.” - RL - 1/10/2019 6:02:00 AM
- Rush Limbaugh calls Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez "some young uppity" - RL - 1/11/2019 9:59:16 PM
  - The Right is terrified of this girl. - ER - 1/11/2019 10:14:13 PM
    - Conservative Men Are Obsessed With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Science Tells Us Why. - RL - 1/11/2019 11:43:02 PM
      - She's an attractive young woman. - ER - 1/12/2019 2:56:44 PM
- The second diaspora - ER - 1/10/2019 2:25:06 PM

F.B.I. Opened Inquiry Into Whether Trump Was Secretly Working on Behalf of Russia - RL - 1/12/2019 1:43:39 AM
- short answer: - podrock - 1/12/2019 3:55:39 AM
  - 2019 will be one HELL of a ride... - RL - 1/12/2019 4:16:19 AM
    - Sorry, due to shutdown, we are unable to move this to flame: non-moderation - podrock - 1/12/2019 5:30:01 AM
      - That was hardly a flame, Pod... - RL - 1/12/2019 5:58:38 AM
        
        Sorry, due to shut down, we are unable to explain moderating - podrock - 1/12/2019 6:01:44 AM

Trump: "Never, ever give up. Don’t give up. Don’t allow it to happen. If there’s a concrete wall in front of you, go through it. Go over it. Go around it. But get to the other side of that wall." - RL - 1/10/2019 6:29:26 AM
- did you see this making the rounds today? - Tony - 1/10/2019 7:11:29 PM
  - Full Episode: - podrock - 1/10/2019 11:22:59 PM
    - background - podrock - 1/11/2019 8:00:56 PM
  - We are living in a Twilight Zone episode... - RL - 1/10/2019 7:26:09 PM
    - More like a Saturday Night Live skit. - ER - 1/10/2019 8:51:22 PM
      - Yeah- but its not humorous at all - RL - 1/10/2019 9:02:13 PM
- Trump was speaking to white kids. Not the untermensch he sees coming over the border. - ER - 1/10/2019 3:51:04 PM

Is a puzzlement. - ER - 1/11/2019 2:19:59 AM
- It isn't that Democrats or Republicans own businesses that profit from undocumented immigrants... - RL - 1/11/2019 5:32:20 AM
  - Point taken - ER - 1/11/2019 12:44:23 PM

GOP-The party of white supremacists - RL - 1/10/2019 10:55:57 PM
- Those people have always been there, RL. - ER - 1/11/2019 12:04:55 AM

No more FEMA aid for Californians... - RL - 1/9/2019 3:48:40 PM
- California is a donor state - BuckGalaxy - 1/10/2019 12:35:57 AM
  - Not to mention the eighth--no wait, the fifth--largest economy in the world - Robert - 1/10/2019 3:07:40 AM
    - And liberal New York City is projecting a budget surplus... and announcing health care for all... - RL - 1/10/2019 6:49:55 AM
- Conservatives have been criticizing forest management practices for decades. - ER - 1/9/2019 4:23:33 PM

Trump's team had over 100 contacts with Russian-linked officials, report shows - RL - 1/10/2019 5:44:43 AM

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