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"17 years since September 11th!" - RL - 9/11/2018 1:41:00 PM

Because this has worked out SO well before: "Trump Administration Discussed Coup Plans With Rebel Venezuelan Officers" - RL - 9/9/2018 8:45:24 PM
- Republicans can't resist replacing Marxist dictators with fascist ones. - ER - 9/10/2018 2:38:25 AM

They take a knee for a REASON... - RL - 9/9/2018 8:52:13 PM
- Let me speculate... - ER - 9/10/2018 1:01:37 AM

PROFESSOR WHO BROKERED RUSSIA PAPADOPOULOS MEETINGS MAY BE DEAD - RL - 9/9/2018 8:40:45 PM
- It sounds like someone is cleaning up some loose ends. - ER - 9/10/2018 12:22:56 AM

Trump warns he could cause the ‘ruination’ of Canada - RL - 9/8/2018 11:45:40 PM
- Business negotiations can be cutthroat. - ER - 9/9/2018 1:19:35 AM

Immigrant teens were strapped to chairs and had bags put over their heads. - RL - 9/9/2018 12:22:09 AM

Obama, Hillary, or Pence? - ER - 9/8/2018 4:09:04 PM

The Kavanaugh hearings demonstrate just how low the GOP will go... - RL - 9/8/2018 2:06:54 AM

More mutiny musings and resistance ramblings - ER - 9/8/2018 1:06:05 AM
- But Trump hires the best people! - RL - 9/8/2018 1:12:05 AM
  - Remember... - ER - 9/8/2018 1:30:56 AM

Operation Loadstar - ER - 9/7/2018 5:40:28 PM
- I'd almost be impressed if Pence had the fortitude. Almost. - mcfly - 9/7/2018 7:26:30 PM
  - "Is he that good an actor?" - ER - 9/7/2018 8:41:04 PM

They all know the president is insane - RL - 9/7/2018 4:48:13 AM
- Not only do they all know it, they've known it all along. - ER - 9/7/2018 3:46:42 PM

It really is long past time to panic... - RL - 9/4/2018 11:50:21 PM
- So, we have a mad President, - ER - 9/5/2018 2:20:04 AM
- The weird call Trump made to Woodward - RL - 9/5/2018 12:12:01 AM
  - He sounds like a broken man. - ER - 9/5/2018 2:31:14 AM

Remember kids- Trump voters aren't racist! - RL - 9/1/2018 12:34:19 AM
- From just the past few weeks - RL - 9/1/2018 12:45:33 AM
  - And the deplorables sink further into the muck... - RL - 9/3/2018 3:22:56 AM
    - GOP official resigns after calling kneeling NFL players ‘baboons’ - RL - 9/3/2018 7:38:24 PM
      - I am a former resident of Pittsburgh, - ER - 9/4/2018 7:21:58 PM
      - "Trump's knuckle-dragging followers" - Robert - 9/4/2018 12:35:41 AM
      - Yep. They're scared witless. - ER - 9/3/2018 11:36:06 PM
        
        They were always scared and witless... - RL - 9/4/2018 3:17:10 AM
    - There's only one kind of person worse than people who will believe that. - ER - 9/3/2018 1:41:41 PM

The first two sitting congressmen to support Trump's campaign for president have been criminally charged - Trump's response: - RL - 9/3/2018 6:51:41 PM
- "Two long running, Obama era, investigations..."- the investigations were actually initiated under the Trump administration... - RL - 9/4/2018 3:07:46 AM
  - Once the Justice dept. is emasculated... - ER - 9/4/2018 4:57:27 PM

You look too brown to be a citizen... - RL - 8/30/2018 12:05:12 AM
- I had a friend who lost several fingers in a childhood accident. - ER - 8/30/2018 3:16:51 AM
- I just had my passport renewed. - ER - 8/30/2018 1:25:19 AM
  - INCIDENTALLY>>> - ER - 9/3/2018 1:40:16 AM

A new tactic. - ER - 9/2/2018 4:30:03 PM

Senator John McCain has died - Robert - 8/26/2018 12:26:45 AM
- The extreme pettiness of this president speaks volumes... - RL - 8/28/2018 12:21:21 AM
  - Its worth studying. - ER - 8/28/2018 3:25:36 AM
    - I would bet money that Trump will do SOMETHING to steal the spotlight from McCain's funeral... - RL - 8/30/2018 11:51:09 PM
      - I wish I'd taken you up on that - Robert - 8/31/2018 11:35:52 PM
        
        If Trump behaves himself tomorrow, then it is because his staff has stolen his phone... - RL - 9/1/2018 5:51:35 AM
        
        Two birds with one stone. - ER - 9/1/2018 9:31:57 PM
      - Funny, my wife had the exact same thought. - ER - 8/31/2018 4:12:11 PM
- McCain's farewell address - Robert - 8/27/2018 7:31:50 PM
- He represented the other side of the Republican Party - ER - 8/26/2018 1:08:41 PM
  - Think about what it means that his correcting the lunatic seems surprising and especially admirable... - RL - 8/27/2018 12:16:20 AM
    - It is the bare minimum you should expect from a bum on the street. - ER - 8/27/2018 12:54:34 AM
- Its a shame his party spit in his face and ridiculed his sacrifice... - RL - 8/26/2018 3:23:02 AM

Trump: "They (democrats) want to raid Medicare to pay for socialism." - RL - 9/1/2018 6:09:56 AM
- This one 's personal. - ER - 9/1/2018 3:00:28 PM

Domestic Threats - RL - 8/30/2018 12:26:50 AM
- Rush Limbaugh claims Jacksonville shooter was part of the 'resistance' to Trump... - RL - 8/30/2018 11:39:25 PM
  - After thinking more about this... - ER - 8/31/2018 12:53:33 PM
  - Out of the mouths of babes, Dept. - ER - 8/31/2018 3:52:56 AM

Report just out: “China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.” - Trump - RL - 8/30/2018 12:16:35 AM
- Its a slow motion coup. - ER - 8/30/2018 1:30:25 AM
  - McGahn was surprised to learn he was 'voluntarily stepping down'... - RL - 8/30/2018 2:06:06 AM
- "Over 90% approval rating for your all time favorite (I hope) President within the Republican Party and 52% overall. "- Trump - RL - 8/30/2018 12:44:41 AM

Trump: "The Google is rigged!" - RL - 8/28/2018 11:43:27 PM
- We're starting to see a pattern. - ER - 8/29/2018 2:17:38 AM

Another child murdered - RL - 8/27/2018 11:51:42 PM

Only in America... (n/t) - RL - 10/2/2017 9:59:38 PM
- We won't be hearing too much about this one. - ER - 8/27/2018 2:06:58 PM
- And again... - RL - 8/26/2018 6:59:55 PM
- And again.... - RL - 5/18/2018 10:07:56 PM
  - Again, thank our lucky stars he's not Mexican or Muslim. - ER - 5/19/2018 3:01:02 AM
    - His parents are Trump voting gun nuts... - RL - 5/19/2018 12:10:50 PM
- Its too soon to talk about it. - hank - 2/15/2018 2:54:28 AM
  - Funny how that works... - RL - 2/15/2018 4:58:41 AM
- Only in America... yet again - RL - 11/6/2017 12:40:48 AM
  - Yet again... - RL - 11/15/2017 2:35:54 AM
    - And yet again ... - RL - 2/15/2018 1:47:43 AM
      - Republican policies are leading us directly into economic crisis and civil unrest. - hank - 2/15/2018 2:59:40 AM
      - We are averaging one school shooting every 60 hours so far in 2018 - RL - 2/15/2018 2:25:52 AM
  - Its a good thing he wasn't Ay-rab, or Eye-ranian or Mexican, or black. - hank - 11/6/2017 2:08:53 AM
    - A bunch of innocent people got murdered. What should we do? - BuckGalaxy - 11/16/2017 1:13:29 AM
      - Charged with atttempted murder - RobVG - 2/19/2018 3:30:11 PM
      - A teacher's perspective - RobVG - 2/16/2018 2:23:28 AM
        
        What to do? - RobVG - 2/19/2018 2:53:16 AM
        
        Make it easier for people like that to get and afford treatment, and make it far more difficult for them to get guns... - RL - 2/19/2018 4:04:24 AM
        
        Nikolas Cruz’s Lifetime of Trouble: Family Loss, Flashes of Rage - RobVG - 2/16/2018 4:24:03 PM
        
        And other warning signs.... - RL - 2/18/2018 12:43:34 AM
        
        And now let's hear from a teacher that actually knows what she is talking about on this subject... - RL - 2/16/2018 7:34:43 AM
        
        Or this mom... - RL - 2/16/2018 7:48:04 AM
        
        Or this student... - RL - 2/16/2018 7:53:53 AM
        
        But no, let's listen to your dumb-ass friend that wants to pack a gun in a classroom of kindergarteners - RL - 2/16/2018 7:57:38 AM
      - Depression - RobVG - 2/15/2018 3:52:07 PM
        
        Yeah, THAT must be what makes america the only country experiencing this slaughter... - RL - 2/16/2018 6:56:47 AM
    - I am sure Rob is 3.25 times as outraged about this shooting as he was about the NYC killings... - RL - 11/6/2017 11:13:01 PM
      - Do we know LV shooter's motivation - RobVG - 11/7/2017 3:28:22 PM
        
        How is that relevant? - RL - 11/8/2017 12:57:33 AM
        
        Where do you place your outrage - RobVG - 11/12/2017 6:48:02 PM
        
        On the perpetrators and their accomplices - RL - 11/15/2017 2:49:44 AM
- This is, apparently, the country that Americans want - mcfly - 10/3/2017 9:59:05 AM
  - Well, THESE Americans are the ones that make this possible... - RL - 10/3/2017 3:29:47 PM
    - The legacy of social media - Robert - 10/3/2017 4:48:55 PM
      - Technological innovation tends to lead to unanticipated consequences. - hank - 10/3/2017 5:22:15 PM
      - The article those nuts were responding to - RL - 10/3/2017 5:05:58 PM
    - No, THOSE Americans are the ones that make this inevitable. - hank - 10/3/2017 4:18:24 PM
  - I'm afraid you might be right. - hank - 10/3/2017 2:40:50 PM
- Congress considering bill to allow silencers and armorr-piercing ammunition. - hank - 10/2/2017 10:24:24 PM

Trump's Pecker just keeps getting him in trouble... - RL - 8/25/2018 4:39:12 PM
- Once again, I am astonished. - ER - 8/25/2018 8:17:21 PM
  - Trump will soon fire Sessions in order to further compromise the Justice department, you can be sure the 'Law and Order' republicans will go along with it ... - RL - 8/25/2018 11:48:33 PM
    - Even former Trump GOP critics - ER - 8/26/2018 1:32:13 AM

Is it insanity or dementia? - RL - 8/25/2018 11:40:40 PM

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