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Trump flips on climate change...sort of... - ER - 10/15/2018 11:59:42 PM
- And he is running cover for the Saudi government in their murder of a journalist - RL - 10/16/2018 12:14:16 AM
  - Trump Jr is helping too... - RL - 10/16/2018 12:22:09 AM
    - There may be geopolitical reasons for this. - ER - 10/16/2018 2:27:20 PM

When Republicans work to suppress the vote in state after state- do they ever stop and think that they really are traitors to our nation's ideals? - RL - 10/13/2018 1:33:51 AM
- When you characterize the electoral majority as "The Mob", - ER - 10/13/2018 12:17:48 PM
  - Besides, REAL mobs wear khaki pants and carry Tiki torches. - ER - 10/13/2018 8:55:19 PM
    - You can't spell 'HATRED' without 'RED HAT' - RL - 10/14/2018 1:40:27 PM
      - Trump's "fine people" - RL - 10/15/2018 4:06:19 AM
        
        There was street fighting in Portland, OR, yesterday, too. - ER - 10/15/2018 2:17:33 PM

Administration trying to prevent protests at the capitol... - RL - 10/15/2018 2:48:30 AM
- Tomorrow is the last day to comment... - RL - 10/15/2018 2:49:12 AM

Senate confirms climate skeptic to head DOJ environment office - RL - 10/13/2018 3:56:11 AM
- They have convinced themselves concern for the environment is a Communist plot. - ER - 10/13/2018 11:39:18 AM

Saudi Arabia kills reporter working for Washington Post - RL - 10/12/2018 2:06:34 AM
- Those Saudis certainly know how to deal with fake news. - ER - 10/12/2018 2:08:58 AM

Dow down nearly 1600 in 3 days, Hurricane devastation, President under investigation.... but look! Here is Kanye!!! - RL - 10/11/2018 10:13:16 PM

MacGuffin strikes back... - RL - 10/10/2018 1:31:56 AM
- When the history of the collapse of American civilization is written... - ER - 10/10/2018 1:58:07 AM

Nikki don't lose that number - ER - 10/9/2018 7:36:43 PM

There would have been a thorough investigation if the dems didn't wait until a few days before the vote (n/t) - RobVG - 10/9/2018 3:17:30 AM
- Oh, so its the Dem's fault there was no decent investigation? - ER - 10/9/2018 3:45:45 AM
  - So no investigation could have been done before the leak? - RobVG - 10/9/2018 4:45:57 AM
    - No investigation would have been done. - ER - 10/9/2018 12:32:00 PM
      - Something seems fishy. Why bring accusations if you don't want BK confronted. - RobVG - 10/9/2018 2:32:19 PM
        
        Its not that complicated Rob. - ER - 10/9/2018 2:40:39 PM
- Re: There would have been a thorough investigation if the dems didn't wait until a few days before the vote - RobVG - 10/9/2018 3:17:44 AM

Trump winning the trade war - RobVG - 10/9/2018 2:50:27 AM
- You won't get me into an argument on international trade, because that's a subject I know nothing about. - ER - 10/9/2018 3:14:19 AM

"I was really being tough and so was he," he said. "And we would go back and forth. And then we fell in love. No really. He wrote me beautiful letters." - RL - 9/30/2018 1:23:07 PM
- Ah... love is grand! - RL - 10/2/2018 1:56:55 PM
- Sounds really bad, when you take it out of context. - RobVG - 9/30/2018 3:52:49 PM
  - video - Robert - 9/30/2018 4:40:57 PM
    - Seems like the context makes it worse... - RL - 9/30/2018 7:00:59 PM
  - Was he quoting Jane Austen? - RL - 9/30/2018 4:34:52 PM
  - It sounds really bad, IN context. - ER - 9/30/2018 4:02:14 PM
    - C'mon - RobVG - 9/30/2018 4:40:37 PM
      - This isn't about "gayness". - ER - 9/30/2018 5:00:18 PM
        
        Who got better results with Kim. Who got ANY results? - RobVG - 10/1/2018 12:12:30 AM
        
        Results? - ER - 10/1/2018 12:34:55 AM
        
        I think the remains thing is more than you allow ER - FrankC - 10/2/2018 1:28:40 AM
        
        Un has had the bodies of our people for 70 years. - ER - 10/2/2018 2:05:30 AM
        
        Well, the parents of the fallen asked Trump for their return, remember? - RL - 10/2/2018 2:15:42 AM
        
        Trump has accomplished nothing in N Korea. - ER - 10/2/2018 2:38:01 AM
        
        North Korea to allow international inspectoions - RobVG - 10/8/2018 3:26:04 PM
        
        Well, that didn't last long - RobVG - 10/8/2018 10:48:32 PM
        
        Did you expect it to? - RL - 10/8/2018 11:20:35 PM
        
        No, it wouldn't chap my hide. - ER - 10/8/2018 4:38:02 PM
        
        From my memoirs... - ER - 10/2/2018 2:48:14 AM
        
        Not true ER.... - RL - 10/2/2018 2:40:49 AM
        
        Ah, the blast from the past, as foretold... - RL - 10/2/2018 2:02:02 AM
        
        This place has dragged you down. n/t - RobVG - 10/1/2018 1:01:33 AM
        
        ER's correct - mcfly - 10/1/2018 1:10:32 PM
        
        I always thought you were bigger than that. - RobVG - 10/1/2018 12:57:05 AM
        
        Actually, you lost me with Birtherism, Death Panels and Joe Walsh's "LIAR", - ER - 10/1/2018 1:11:15 AM
        
        Jesus Christ... - RobVG - 10/1/2018 1:14:25 AM
        
        "Forgive them, they know not what they do." - ER - 10/1/2018 1:58:09 AM
        
        "God bless us, every one" - RobVG - 10/1/2018 2:14:07 AM
        
        "Am I gonna get any royalties from this New Testament thing?" - mcfly - 10/1/2018 9:01:42 AM
      - He appealed to the fascist Trump.... - RL - 9/30/2018 4:47:44 PM
        
        I think Trump knows how to play Kim - RobVG - 9/30/2018 4:54:33 PM
        
        Seriously? Do you REALLY believe that? - RL - 9/30/2018 5:23:20 PM
        
        Yes. - RobVG - 9/30/2018 5:40:46 PM
        
        No, I don't believe you do... - RL - 9/30/2018 6:19:19 PM
        
        Trump barely knows how to play with himself. - ER - 9/30/2018 5:02:26 PM

To attack Dems, Trump blasts immigration bill that doesn’t exist - RL - 10/8/2018 4:52:34 PM
- Its a variant of the New Jersey Arabs celebrating 9/11 meme. - ER - 10/8/2018 6:58:25 PM
- Meanwhile, in our name... - RL - 10/8/2018 5:03:50 PM

Today "Advise and Consent" became "Add vice and non-consent" - RL - 10/6/2018 10:17:29 PM

Joe Manchin and Susan Collins contact info - RL - 10/5/2018 4:56:46 PM
- URL for the anti-Collins contingency fund - Robert - 10/6/2018 3:47:34 PM
- What just happened here? - ER - 10/5/2018 8:29:40 PM
  - In Manchin's case it was simply cowardice... - RL - 10/6/2018 1:37:16 AM
  - What happened here? - FrankC - 10/5/2018 11:41:37 PM
    - Re: What happened here? - ER - 10/6/2018 12:58:30 AM
      - Oh please ER - FrankC - 10/6/2018 2:42:42 AM
        
        Oh, we realize it, all right. - ER - 10/6/2018 1:05:47 PM
        
        LOL... I have seen your bubble, Frank- and its a nasty little one... - RL - 10/6/2018 3:01:04 AM
        
        Bye the Bye - FrankC - 10/6/2018 2:59:00 AM
    - For those curious about where FrankC gets his world-view - RL - 10/6/2018 12:50:39 AM
    - That picture was taken a week ago... - RL - 10/5/2018 11:52:44 PM
      - Re: That picture was taken a week ago... - FrankC - 10/6/2018 12:08:06 AM
        
        You don't have one... - RL - 10/6/2018 12:10:47 AM
        
        Damn RL I see you are still steamed about me being smarter than you - FrankC - 10/6/2018 12:58:08 AM
        
        :) Oh yes, you have the best brain, the biggest brain.... - RL - 10/6/2018 1:03:19 AM
  - The right needed to have SOMETHING to show for selling out the nation - RL - 10/5/2018 8:35:03 PM
    - SCOTUS justices can be impeached... - RL - 10/5/2018 8:52:11 PM
- Dear Senator Collins... - Robert - 10/5/2018 5:54:20 PM
  - My email to Manchin this morning was shorter... - RL - 10/6/2018 6:33:01 PM
  - Flake is setting himself up as the post-Trump rational Conservative. - ER - 10/5/2018 7:35:06 PM
    - Collins is still yapping - RL - 10/5/2018 7:38:05 PM
      - Now she's channeling Lindsay Graham - Robert - 10/5/2018 7:49:28 PM
        
        And that's a wrap. - Robert - 10/5/2018 7:52:06 PM
        
        Aaaand just minutes later the coward Manchin suddenly says he's a yes... - RL - 10/5/2018 7:57:28 PM
        
        She sure milked that... - RL - 10/5/2018 7:52:04 PM
  - Doesn't sound like she listened... - RL - 10/5/2018 7:10:27 PM
    - Awww jeez, now she's deriding Ford's testimony. Sounds like Trump. - Robert - 10/5/2018 7:38:44 PM
      - There will be hell to pay - RL - 10/5/2018 7:41:11 PM
    - Sounds like she's doubling down in defiance - Robert - 10/5/2018 7:37:36 PM

Kavenaugh will make a fine SCOTUS judge. - ER - 10/5/2018 2:28:53 AM
- Women are really and truly pissed off - Robert - 10/5/2018 6:13:25 AM
  - This won't Help... - RL - 10/6/2018 3:38:52 AM
  - Knockout blow - ER - 10/5/2018 11:28:44 AM
- The filth that is the Republican party has now corrupted every branch of government... - RL - 10/5/2018 2:44:58 AM
  - We all have filthy minds, - ER - 10/5/2018 3:07:52 AM

SECOND Kavanaugh accuser comes forward... - RL - 9/24/2018 12:34:10 AM
- A FOURTH accuser... - RL - 9/26/2018 11:02:29 PM
- And another... - mcfly - 9/26/2018 5:25:31 PM
- Looks like far worse claims will be coming out before Thursday... - RL - 9/25/2018 1:31:55 AM
- Conservatives will keep pushing him through... - RL - 9/24/2018 12:39:51 AM
  - And possibly a THIRD... - RL - 9/24/2018 12:55:20 AM
    - Stranger than naked. - ER - 9/24/2018 2:21:27 AM
      - "Naked Came the Stranger" - ER - 9/24/2018 2:32:14 AM
        
        Now we know why the GOP was rushing this through, and refusing to have the FBI investigate... THEY KNEW This accusation was coming.... - RL - 9/24/2018 3:44:01 AM
        
        Oh, that is rich. Really, really rich. - ER - 9/24/2018 4:16:47 AM
        
        We wouldn't be going through this shit if Feinstein had acted back in July. - RobVG - 9/24/2018 2:52:24 PM
        
        Wrong again, Rob. - ER - 9/24/2018 3:49:36 PM
        
        I don't think you needed the scare quotes - mcfly - 9/24/2018 3:46:54 PM
        
        The scare quotes are a contraction for "Its the sort of thing I did, so it can't be rape" - RL - 9/24/2018 5:43:23 PM
        
        You are simply a troll, chained to a comfortable spot. - RobVG - 9/25/2018 4:02:40 AM
        
        As opposed to the troll you elected? - RL - 9/25/2018 4:05:39 AM
        
        I never got invited to any of their parties, either - mcfly - 9/24/2018 9:33:30 PM
        
        I knew ONE frat-boy physics major... - RL - 9/24/2018 11:37:38 PM
        
        We wouldn't be going through this shit if a minority of morons hadn't voted for a reality TV star... - RL - 9/24/2018 3:15:04 PM
        
        OH, I see... blame the woman... - RL - 9/24/2018 3:01:00 PM
        
        Hmmm. Great minds think alike. - ER - 9/24/2018 3:57:28 PM
        
        Its my Tachyon router - RL - 9/24/2018 11:14:56 PM
        
        I knew you were going to say that. - ER - 9/24/2018 11:36:30 PM
        
        Then you also know how crazy things get here by the end of next week... - RL - 9/24/2018 11:44:29 PM
        
        Well, THAT was a wild ride! Next week will be a little quieter... - RL - 10/6/2018 3:33:03 AM
        
        SCROTUS - RL - 9/24/2018 2:19:14 PM
        
        It looks like they're going to have two on the Court, now. - ER - 9/24/2018 3:55:50 PM

A second opinion - ER - 10/5/2018 11:11:22 AM

Toddler in Chief now mailing tweets to every member of congress - RL - 10/5/2018 3:06:00 AM

Coming today to a phone near you- and no, you can't opt out... - RL - 10/3/2018 2:53:39 PM
- 'Bout jumped out of my skin - Robert - 10/3/2018 6:21:16 PM
  - I was in traffic at a stoplight.... - RL - 10/4/2018 1:50:59 AM
    - he he - Robert - 10/5/2018 12:47:54 AM
- So Trump will be able to force you to read his tweets... - RL - 10/3/2018 2:54:29 PM
  - Will your phone have to be turned on to receive this message? - ER - 10/3/2018 3:44:59 PM
    - Mobile Maintenance Protocols - Robert - 10/3/2018 6:32:11 PM
      - I just upgraded to a new phone... - RL - 10/4/2018 1:00:25 AM
        
        Pretty awesome - Robert - 10/5/2018 12:37:53 AM
      - I don't think its necessary to ground a Faraday cage. - ER - 10/3/2018 7:18:58 PM
        
        I once had to look into shielding equipment against RF... - RL - 10/4/2018 12:15:02 AM

Trump ridicules Dr. Christine Blasey Ford at rally - RL - 10/3/2018 3:39:50 AM
- To call Trump's supporters 'deplorable' is an insult to deplorable people everywhere... - RL - 10/3/2018 3:48:13 AM
  - Crass will out. - ER - 10/3/2018 11:57:39 AM

So- lets recap: The poor receiving assistance to survive are lazy 'Takers', but our cowardly conservative traitors will be fine with Trump committing fraud to avoid hundreds of millions in taxes... - RL - 10/3/2018 3:10:51 AM
- For Conservatives, cheating on your taxes is not a crime. - ER - 10/3/2018 3:27:16 AM

NY Times: "Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemes as He Reaped Riches From His Father" - Robert - 10/2/2018 10:55:42 PM
- :Yeah, he'll run the country like a business." - ER - 10/2/2018 10:58:09 PM
  - Gosh, could it be he totally conned his dumbass supporters? - RL - 10/2/2018 11:49:30 PM
    - So his "Daddy gave me only a million dollars and I had to pay it back" story is a (oh what a surprise) LIE - RL - 10/3/2018 1:51:40 AM
      - As RobVG assured us... - RL - 10/3/2018 2:19:17 AM
    - Hey Frank, as a really really smart finance guy maybe you can tell us... Is tax fraud against the law? - RL - 10/2/2018 11:56:16 PM
  - A real estate business, no less - Robert - 10/2/2018 11:47:45 PM

Another reason for the rush to confirm Kavanaugh - RL - 9/27/2018 4:01:58 AM
- With the Tax fraud this becomes all the more important... - RL - 10/2/2018 11:59:09 PM
  - Uhhhyeeaaaahhhhmayyybeeee...except for the statue of limitations - Robert - 10/3/2018 12:26:25 AM
    - True, but once a tax cheat, always a tax cheat... - RL - 10/3/2018 12:32:21 AM
      - New York state seems to be trying to get the jump on it - Robert - 10/3/2018 1:57:29 AM
    - "statue of limitations"...someday I'll add subject line editing - Robert - 10/3/2018 12:28:29 AM
      - This statue of limitations? - RL - 10/3/2018 12:34:30 AM

Perjury - RL - 10/2/2018 3:07:48 AM
- Remember, the perjury never happened if Republicans refuse to investigate. - Robert - 10/2/2018 6:15:15 AM
  - Nothing is coming from this investigation. - ER - 10/2/2018 1:07:44 PM

Trump courts the female vote: "You're not thinking, you never do" - RL - 10/1/2018 11:46:46 PM
- Trump is such a condescending jerk - mcfly - 10/2/2018 12:48:16 AM

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