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In praise of GHWB, 41. - ER - 12/2/2018 3:53:26 PM
- Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, Willie Horton... - RL - 12/2/2018 10:16:08 PM
  - Oh yeah, he did some bad things. - ER - 12/2/2018 10:29:39 PM
    - According to Trump supporters now, Bush (both of them) were part of the problem... - RL - 12/2/2018 10:41:36 PM
      - Like all tyrants... - ER - 12/3/2018 1:03:49 AM
        
        Yup. - podrock - 12/3/2018 1:49:03 AM
        
        The Tea party purported to be about defense of the constitution... - RL - 12/3/2018 1:20:49 AM
        
        While you were typing, so was I... - ER - 12/3/2018 1:25:18 AM

The rats start to flee the ship... forgetting that they long ago chained themselves to the anchor... - RL - 12/1/2018 4:32:41 AM
- Even the complete nut-jobs are starting to lose the faith: Q-ANON conspiracy theorists starting to lose the faith... - RL - 12/2/2018 5:28:26 AM
  - It sounds like Q's predictions were a prep for a right-wing coup... - ER - 12/2/2018 5:05:54 PM
    - For giggles I visited 4-chan and Voat... that is a filthy rabbit hole of crazy to go down... - RL - 12/3/2018 1:33:37 AM

Mueller report on Manafort Lies: Next week | Cohen sentencing Dec. 12 | Flynn Sentencing: Dec. 18 | Roger Stone Likely to be charged in the next 2 weeks | Same for Corsi | Maria Butina reportedly clo… - RL - 12/1/2018 10:23:33 PM
- Brody and money laundery: - podrock - 12/1/2018 11:03:03 PM
  - Can you imagine if Obama had this many felons working with him? - RL - 12/1/2018 11:11:52 PM
    - The parade is just starting. - podrock - 12/1/2018 11:24:47 PM
      - If impeachment looks likely, you can be sure that Trump will make not-so-veiled calls for supporters to take up arms... - RL - 12/1/2018 11:30:21 PM
        
        Sundowning - podrock - 12/2/2018 12:01:32 AM
        
        Trump overheard saying 'get me out of here' as he suddenly walks off stage at G20 summit - RL - 12/2/2018 9:13:26 PM
        
        Trump must have spotted the dessert tray - mcfly - 12/2/2018 4:35:51 AM
        
        I love how they had to send the 'Trump Wrangler' after him - RL - 12/2/2018 12:45:45 AM

How Donald Trump appeals to men secretly insecure about their manhood - RL - 12/1/2018 5:45:12 PM

Whats the title of the next act, Pod? - RL - 11/29/2018 2:02:03 AM
- Let's not forget the optional sudden plot twist - podrock - 12/1/2018 1:47:38 AM
  - something like this...? - RL - 12/1/2018 2:21:04 AM
    - Credico Coda? - podrock - 12/1/2018 3:08:28 AM
      - I am sure there is no there there... - RL - 12/1/2018 3:13:27 AM
        
        And we were hoping for a PG rating on this movie. - podrock - 12/1/2018 3:19:22 AM
        
        This is the man our conservative cowards believed best represented what they stood for... - RL - 12/1/2018 3:26:48 AM
        
        memories - podrock - 12/1/2018 3:44:42 AM
        
        A certain conservative loon here hawked that theory far and wide on the internet... - RL - 12/1/2018 3:48:18 AM
        
        LINKS ADDED - RL - 12/1/2018 3:59:12 AM
        
        or Gault's Gulch - podrock - 12/1/2018 3:58:02 AM
- How about "Pardon me, Prez." - ER - 11/29/2018 5:29:54 AM
  - With apologies to Glenn Miller - RL - 11/30/2018 7:33:10 PM
    - Glad someone is working on the music score! Thanks. - podrock - 12/1/2018 1:48:23 AM
    - Shameless. - ER - 11/30/2018 9:50:12 PM
- Working titles: - podrock - 11/29/2018 2:30:11 AM
  - Recomended by the internet: "Individual 1" - podrock - 12/1/2018 1:49:53 AM
    - He apparently has a thing for number 1 - RL - 12/1/2018 4:02:33 AM

Suffer the little children - RL - 11/27/2018 11:19:57 PM
- Trump is still their hero - mcfly - 11/28/2018 8:15:50 PM
  - Their reasoning is: "If teargassing children outrages liberals, then it is something we must take extreme delight in" - RL - 11/28/2018 10:29:27 PM
    - Sickening - mcfly - 12/1/2018 12:13:26 AM

So- as many of us pointed out at the time- when Trump repeatedly swore he had no business deals with Russia, he was lying... - RL - 11/29/2018 11:20:49 PM
- Critical Mass - ER - 11/30/2018 6:45:02 PM
- The Trump Organization Planned To Give Vladimir Putin The $50 Million Penthouse In Trump Tower Moscow - RL - 11/30/2018 2:22:50 AM
  - On a related note: The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act - RL - 11/30/2018 2:26:48 AM

Draft Dodger Trump - RL - 11/28/2018 12:50:31 AM
- Fun fact: - podrock - 11/29/2018 1:44:18 AM
  - Instead of MAGA lets try DATA - RL - 11/29/2018 1:59:44 AM

Trump on Climate Change: "One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers. You look at our air and our water,… - RL - 11/28/2018 11:01:00 PM
- "I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me." - RL - 11/28/2018 11:04:48 PM
  - And he tweeted this... - RL - 11/29/2018 12:17:18 AM

Radical Right-wing terrorism... - RL - 11/29/2018 12:03:14 AM

Transgender immigrant who died in ICE custody was beaten and deprived of medical attention, family says - RL - 11/28/2018 1:01:12 AM

Your Tax Dollars At Work: ICE Detention Center Says It’s Not Responsible for Staff's Sexual Abuse of Detainees - RL - 11/25/2018 8:03:11 PM

Truly Inspiring... - RL - 11/23/2018 6:51:19 AM

Conservative nonprofit with obscure roots and undisclosed funders paid Matthew Whitaker $1.2 million - RL - 11/22/2018 5:54:20 PM
- The All-American bullet-headed Saxon mother's son. - ER - 11/22/2018 8:26:23 PM

What America now stands for... - RL - 11/20/2018 11:07:49 PM

Media mentions of the Caravan - RL - 11/20/2018 1:44:26 AM

LOCK HER UP! LOCK HER UP! - RL - 11/20/2018 1:09:46 AM
- Russia, if you are listening.... - podrock - 11/20/2018 1:32:11 AM
  - Here's the contact info for Judicial Watch- They take this sort of thing VERY seriously... - RL - 11/20/2018 1:39:29 AM

Attempted rake... - RL - 11/19/2018 2:02:17 AM
- "a fashionable or wealthy man of dissolute or promiscuous habits." - podrock - 11/20/2018 12:55:28 AM
  - But is it 'legitimate rake'? - RL - 11/20/2018 1:10:26 AM
    - The Vicious Rake - podrock - 11/20/2018 1:23:07 AM

How presidential... - RL - 11/18/2018 11:59:03 PM
- Architect of bin Laden raid: Trump 'threatens the Constitution' - RL - 11/19/2018 12:02:49 AM

Part 1, Act V - podrock - 11/16/2018 5:20:02 AM
- We have quite a few actual bodies from the previous acts... - RL - 11/16/2018 6:50:47 AM
  - Cliff notes - a timeline - podrock - 11/17/2018 8:06:09 PM
    - Looks like a nice site - Robert - 11/18/2018 2:54:02 AM

Marches nationwide tomorrow- - RL - 11/8/2018 2:40:04 AM
- Sacramento - Robert - 11/9/2018 11:35:26 PM
  - Sigh.... - RL - 11/10/2018 3:09:33 AM
- Sacramento at the state capitol - Robert - 11/8/2018 3:33:04 AM
  - I may go to the one in DC - RL - 11/8/2018 3:45:12 AM

The battle for our nation begins in earnest... - RL - 11/7/2018 4:58:08 AM
- Putin lost control of the house - RL - 11/7/2018 5:35:26 PM

The false calm before the storm - Robert - 11/6/2018 1:48:58 AM
- VOTE ! - podrock - 11/6/2018 3:04:14 AM
  - VOTE-d, last week - Robert - 11/6/2018 3:39:36 AM
    - Miss the polling place as well - podrock - 11/6/2018 5:01:41 AM
- No matter what happens tomorrow... - RL - 11/6/2018 2:14:42 AM

The quintessential Trump supporter: Alleged mail bomber lost home to bank once owned by Secretary Mnuchin - RL - 11/4/2018 10:31:07 PM

And the assault on the constitution begins in earnest - RL - 10/30/2018 10:25:10 PM
- WWKD: What Would Kavanaugh Do? - mcfly - 10/31/2018 4:11:04 AM

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