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Is it starting to sink in yet...? - RL - 7/14/2018 12:17:20 AM
- Mueller probe indicts 12 Russians with hacking of Democrats in 2016 - RL - 7/14/2018 12:21:07 AM
  - And who is the mystery Congress candidate? - RL - 7/14/2018 12:24:36 AM
    - Since he wasn't named.... - ER - 7/14/2018 3:55:29 PM
      - Much closer to home - Robert - 7/14/2018 8:22:01 PM
        
        Did the candidate win? - RL - 7/14/2018 10:04:57 PM
        
        I've got my fingers crossed. - ER - 7/14/2018 9:48:02 PM

So what will Donald and Vlad talk about? - ER - 7/14/2018 1:03:14 AM
- Nothing that will be to America's benefit... - RL - 7/14/2018 2:51:58 AM
  - Maybe he will get his Hero medal. - ER - 7/14/2018 2:56:40 AM

Trump savages UK Prime Minister in Sun interview, then says its 'fake news' and he has 'tapes' to prove it, so the Sun releases the tapes showing him to be a liar... - RL - 7/14/2018 1:45:28 AM
- Can you imagine... - ER - 7/14/2018 2:45:07 AM

Today did not go as the republicans had hoped... - RL - 7/13/2018 1:20:19 AM
- Is it just me...? - ER - 7/13/2018 2:19:41 AM
  - We are WAY past the crisis point... - RL - 7/13/2018 2:36:07 AM
    - The Republicans do not care about the verdict of history... - ER - 7/13/2018 1:46:08 PM
      - Ah, but that would require a liberal arts education.... - RL - 7/13/2018 11:03:18 PM

I'm not the puppet! YOU are the puppet! Germany is the puppet... - RL - 7/12/2018 3:44:21 AM
- And Trump is going to Meet his Maker... - RL - 7/12/2018 3:47:05 AM
  - I don't know if I actually believe all that. - ER - 7/12/2018 2:25:04 PM
  - Russians know that Trump is doing their bidding... - RL - 7/12/2018 4:02:09 AM

Selling them the rope - ER - 7/11/2018 3:07:08 PM
- Has the Fuhrer seen this map? - mcfly - 7/12/2018 12:26:21 AM
  - Tough guys don't need no stinkin' maps. - ER - 7/12/2018 3:03:32 AM

Trump admin destroyed records linking children with their parents- now resorting to DNA tests to match children with parents... - RL - 7/8/2018 12:45:31 AM
- 1-year old children being dragged into kangaroo court - RL - 7/9/2018 12:41:38 AM
- A combination of cruelty and incompetence. - ER - 7/8/2018 4:45:16 PM

In violation of the law, Trump chats to world leaders on his personal cellphone... - RL - 7/8/2018 1:48:13 AM
- "the deep state, in Putin’s words — is conspiring against them ... fighting against our friendship.” - mcfly - 7/8/2018 5:09:36 PM
  - Except your 14 year old daughter in your analogy is intellectually and emotionally immature for her age and has access to a nuclear arsenal... - RL - 7/8/2018 5:50:25 PM
- I wouldn't worry too much about this. - ER - 7/8/2018 1:20:14 PM
- In addition to being a violation of law and demonstrating poor judgement... - RL - 7/8/2018 1:49:53 AM

Trump attacks the Special "Councel"... He has the best words... - RL - 7/7/2018 8:46:33 PM
- And he deleted it, Historians will have to find it in the deleted tweet archive... - RL - 7/7/2018 10:47:02 PM

The war on women - RL - 7/6/2018 3:31:37 AM
- On par with your Christmas post. Well done. n/t - RobVG - 7/7/2018 4:03:47 PM
  - You take issue with that assessment? - RL - 7/7/2018 4:55:27 PM
- Conservatives aren't any more misogynist than Liberals. - ER - 7/6/2018 12:41:57 PM
  - No... Perhaps the top 'conservatives' pulling the strings of the mob are just coldly exploiting misogynists and racists... - RL - 7/6/2018 3:54:10 PM
    - Just my point, RL - ER - 7/6/2018 6:29:42 PM
      - It was the false equivalency of your post title I take issue with... - RL - 7/6/2018 11:10:35 PM
        
        The only point I was trying to make... - ER - 7/6/2018 11:43:41 PM
- Newton's 3rd Law - RL - 7/6/2018 3:41:24 AM

Immigrants that joined the military with the promise of citizenship being discharged without cause... - RL - 7/7/2018 1:08:56 AM
- And now they're all on record as "illegals". - ER - 7/7/2018 3:18:55 AM

And now, this important announcement from our president: "Elton has an organ" - RL - 7/6/2018 5:17:13 PM

Pruitt blew it... - RL - 7/5/2018 7:45:07 PM
- Yeah, but his replacement will pursue the same disastrous policies. - ER - 7/6/2018 12:40:07 AM
  - Yup: Pruitt's EPA replacement, Andrew Wheeler, is a former coal lobbyist who promoted an Infowars video defending Milo Yiannopoulos - RL - 7/6/2018 3:04:19 AM

Principiis obsta et Finem respice— - RL - 7/3/2018 5:16:07 PM
- I got the book from Audible - RL - 7/4/2018 9:22:37 PM
- "The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way." - ER - 7/3/2018 6:45:25 PM
  - The story about the judge at the end was chilling... - RL - 7/3/2018 10:43:24 PM
    - In Shirer's "Rise and Fall"... - ER - 7/4/2018 1:57:42 PM
    - singing the anthem, saluting the flag, pledging allegiance, flag lapel pins... - ER - 7/4/2018 1:32:39 PM

Companies buying back their stocks only thing keeping market afloat... - RL - 7/4/2018 5:32:39 AM

Happy Independence day - RL - 7/4/2018 1:16:56 AM
- 242 years... we were so close to making it to our Semiquincentennial - RL - 7/4/2018 1:39:01 AM

Remember how parents of Korean War dead asked Trump to get their remains back? Yeah, that was a lie... - RL - 7/3/2018 4:21:43 AM
- Remember how he got the remains of 200 returned? Yeah, that was a lie too... - RL - 7/3/2018 4:23:23 AM
  - Its a conditioned reflex, like in Pavlov's dogs. - ER - 7/3/2018 1:55:56 PM
  - Well, at least North Korea is no longer a nuclear threat, right? - RL - 7/3/2018 4:25:41 AM

RBG is 85. - ER - 6/27/2018 8:56:33 PM
- In times such as these, we are all Hapless Toads - mcfly - 6/29/2018 2:12:11 PM
  - conservative vs trump court? He probably doesn't know the difference. - ER - 6/29/2018 2:52:59 PM

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79 - Robert - 2/13/2016 10:29:28 PM
- So, now we know that subverting democracy can work out for Republicans... - RL - 6/27/2018 8:01:16 PM
  - Its really been a treat reading these old conspiracy comments on the Scalia "murder". - ER - 6/28/2018 12:56:38 AM
- pssst! The comment that resurrected the thread is "BEYOND the end of time..." about 20 lines down. - Robert - 10/27/2016 1:02:24 AM
  - Actually, I hope they try it. I even hope they succeed--at least, for a while. - ER - 10/27/2016 3:01:53 AM
    - Politics makes strange bedfellows - Robert - 10/27/2016 4:51:28 AM
      - Its not the Trumpians who are at fault. - ER - 10/27/2016 1:35:40 PM
  - Why ruin everyone's fun? - RL - 10/27/2016 1:04:28 AM
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg: "we were best buddies" - Robert - 2/14/2016 8:40:14 PM
  - A bit like saying that Hitler was charming. - bowser - 2/15/2016 5:51:01 AM
    - It's about RBG - Robert - 2/15/2016 5:42:32 PM
- If SCOTUS deadlocks, lower court rulings stand. Obama has stacked the lower circuit courts with blue judges - BuckGalaxy - 2/14/2016 7:09:44 PM
  - Just to clarify - BuckGalaxy - 2/15/2016 12:12:27 AM
- Obama should immediately nominate Eric Holder to replace him. - ER - 2/14/2016 1:22:12 AM
  - the POTUS should nominate: - podrock - 2/14/2016 1:51:36 AM
    - Based on what the First Lady recently said... - mcfly - 2/14/2016 5:10:50 AM
      - It smells a lot better now. - ER - 2/14/2016 5:34:03 AM
        
        LOL - mcfly - 2/14/2016 5:35:12 AM
    - Let Hillary nominate him. - ER - 2/14/2016 4:19:00 AM
      - Or, just for fun, - podrock - 2/14/2016 4:26:56 AM
        
        Elizabeth Warren would be even better... - ER - 2/14/2016 4:34:25 AM
    - So the consensus is a deadlocked Supreme Court until the end of time? - Robert - 2/14/2016 3:12:44 AM
      - BEYOND the end of time... - RL - 10/27/2016 12:51:07 AM
      - Maybe the hearings can be scheduled to coincide with the GOP Convention. - ER - 2/14/2016 4:28:13 AM
      - yup - podrock - 2/14/2016 4:23:09 AM
    - That's not a bad idea. - bowser - 2/14/2016 2:37:02 AM
  - PS:: We can't afford to have a deadlocked court when Trump's Ted Cruz birther lawsuit comes up. - ER - 2/14/2016 1:33:02 AM
- I'll just let you guys revel in it. N/T - RobVG - 2/13/2016 10:39:57 PM
  - We need to join with Clarence Thomas in praying for his soul. - bowser - 2/14/2016 2:39:31 AM
  - Revel...? - RL - 2/13/2016 11:44:05 PM
    - And it begins... - RL - 2/14/2016 12:07:37 AM
      - Conspiracy theories starting in... - RL - 2/14/2016 12:11:16 AM
        
        ...0 - RL - 2/14/2016 9:16:08 PM
        
        Much to do about nothing - RobVG - 2/24/2016 2:49:40 AM
        
        The only people reading this crap is you liberals. - RobVG - 2/15/2016 12:16:25 AM
        
        A fat 79 y/o WMA (White Male American) with heart problems died in his sleep. - bowser - 2/17/2016 6:38:49 AM
        
        Wake up bowser... - RL - 2/17/2016 6:51:53 AM
        
        Maybe the bullet hole in the back of his skull MIGHT have a bearing. - bowser - 2/18/2016 3:12:06 AM
        
        Right, Alex Jones is writing for a liberal audience... - RL - 2/15/2016 1:16:24 AM
        
        We'll see what happens - RobVG - 2/15/2016 5:05:41 PM
        
        No need to wait - RL - 2/17/2016 1:51:55 AM
        
        Waiting - RobVG - 2/17/2016 7:28:43 PM
        
        Somebody's lying. - ER - 2/18/2016 4:16:56 AM
        
        Turns out, the pillow was against the headboard. N/T - RobVG - 2/18/2016 6:24:21 AM
        
        -1 - podrock - 2/14/2016 10:47:23 PM
        
        You have to admit... - mcfly - 2/14/2016 11:14:13 PM
        
        Yeah, but his gut is still full of s*** - podrock - 2/14/2016 11:18:01 PM
        
        +1 - Robert - 2/14/2016 11:24:44 PM
        
        =0 (n/t) - podrock - 2/15/2016 1:30:04 AM
        
        +3 - ER - 2/15/2016 1:41:29 AM
        
        Yep - RL - 2/16/2016 2:22:17 AM
        
        I'm waiting for... - podrock - 2/17/2016 12:20:57 AM
        
        The most creative one by far...Spock did it - RL - 2/17/2016 1:25:30 AM
        
        Now it was a 'Pagan Sacrifice' - RL - 2/20/2016 6:25:23 PM
        
        Pagan fascism? - ER - 2/20/2016 11:29:17 PM
        
        logical - podrock - 2/17/2016 3:17:46 AM

George Will urges nation to vote Democrat in November - ER - 6/24/2018 9:46:20 PM
- You can be sure... - RL - 6/24/2018 11:52:47 PM

And on to the next atrocity: Trump administration to seek merger of Education, Labor departments - RL - 6/21/2018 2:23:12 AM
- The new Agency will be the Department of Child Labor. - hank - 6/24/2018 12:32:51 AM
- That's not surprising. - ER - 6/21/2018 3:36:11 AM

Trump mouthpiece Huckabee denied service in restaurant... - RL - 6/23/2018 11:33:43 PM
- Payback for the wedding cake incident. - ER - 6/23/2018 11:48:21 PM

Internment camps- an evil being resurrected - RL - 6/22/2018 10:32:22 PM
- Is this any way to run a gulag? - ER - 6/23/2018 1:29:18 AM
  - Inept evil - RL - 6/23/2018 2:17:18 AM
    - "The banality of evil." -- Hannah Arendt - ER - 6/23/2018 3:29:17 AM

Infants torn from their mothers sent to "Tender-age shelters" - RL - 6/20/2018 2:06:00 AM
- Harlow's Monkey Experiment - RL - 6/20/2018 2:25:52 AM
- This must be what has SDAI so giddy on 'Community'... - RL - 6/20/2018 2:21:17 AM
  - It's good to see you still support child trafficking. - SDAI-Tech - 6/20/2018 7:15:35 AM
    - THIS is the child trafficking our tax dollars are paying for.... - RL - 6/22/2018 12:27:36 AM
      - Children Separated From Their Parents at the Border Show Signs of Trauma - RL - 6/22/2018 1:30:37 AM
    - Aaaand... you fail at propaganda- Trump caved and left you holding the bag... - RL - 6/20/2018 9:51:28 PM
      - The Trump administration changed its story on family separation no fewer than 14 times before ending the policy - RL - 6/20/2018 10:47:26 PM
        
        Trump and Kirstjen Nielsen’s embarrassing surrender on separating families at the border - RL - 6/20/2018 10:51:40 PM
        
        ACLU statement - RL - 6/20/2018 11:07:26 PM

Trump gets on the cover of Time magazine - RL - 6/21/2018 9:51:53 PM

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