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Trump Voters- Don't miss the latest episode of the Reality show you voted for! 7PM Eastern on CBS - RL - 3/25/2018 8:28:04 PM
- From the 60 minutes transcript - RL - 3/25/2018 11:11:50 PM
  - Even those that voted for him can't argue - with a straight face- that he is more credible than a porn star... - RL - 3/26/2018 12:29:40 AM
  - Never forget, the evangelicals worshiped this creature... - RL - 3/25/2018 11:45:45 PM

Can we all admit we have gone past the point of insanity? - RL - 3/24/2018 3:42:11 AM
- Just got back from the DC Rally... - RL - 3/24/2018 10:30:52 PM
  - scenes from DC - RL - 3/25/2018 12:24:18 AM
    - Better view of the crowd - RL - 3/25/2018 12:48:19 AM
  - NRA host taunts Parkland teens: ‘No one would know your names’ if classmates were still alive - RL - 3/24/2018 11:06:28 PM
    - I guess the Dark Side has spoken. - hank - 3/25/2018 1:09:35 AM
      - Fox News:“Spare me if I don't want to hear the sanctimoniousness of a 17-year-old” - RL - 3/25/2018 7:50:42 PM
      - Santorum: “How about kids, instead of looking to someone else to solve their problem, do something about maybe taking CPR classes” - RL - 3/25/2018 4:51:40 PM
        
        Yeah. the victims aren't "taking personal responsibility". - hank - 3/25/2018 5:43:48 PM
        
        Fox Business guest criticizes Parkland students for acting “like they’re bulletproof” - RL - 3/25/2018 5:22:07 PM
        
        That sure sounds like a threat to me. - hank - 3/25/2018 5:44:42 PM
- Well, most of those kids are probably stoners already. - hank - 3/24/2018 12:53:50 PM
  - Redefines "dumber than a bucket of rocks" - Robert - 3/24/2018 7:44:04 PM
    - I live a few minutes drive from Parkland, - hank - 3/24/2018 8:31:58 PM

March near you... - RL - 3/24/2018 3:12:17 AM
- I attended in Sacramento today - Robert - 3/24/2018 7:49:56 PM

McMaster out , being replaced by lunatic hawk Bolton - RL - 3/22/2018 10:46:37 PM
- Maybe electing someone that needs 'handlers' is a bad idea... - RL - 3/23/2018 11:30:15 AM
- This was done merely to distract us from the real scandal: the Karen McDougal CNN interview. - hank - 3/23/2018 3:39:20 AM
  - So what atrocity will he commit this weekend to distract from the 60 minutes interview? - RL - 3/24/2018 4:06:37 AM
- John Bolton Recorded Video For Russian Gun Group Linked To NRA - RL - 3/22/2018 10:50:05 PM
  - Advocated use of nukes on Iran in 2009 - RL - 3/22/2018 10:55:28 PM
    - He also helped precipitate the Bush II's Iraq invasion. You know, the WMD scam. - hank - 3/23/2018 1:43:06 PM
      - Hey, didn't Trump say that war was a disaster that he didn't support? - RL - 3/23/2018 4:21:05 PM
        
        Bolton's a fanatic. Trump is an opportunist. - hank - 3/23/2018 5:55:27 PM
        
        Or someone could conjure up Newt from the Nether Regions. - hank - 3/23/2018 8:57:10 PM

Fox news analyst calls out the real enemy- Fox News - RL - 3/22/2018 2:23:27 AM
- How is FOX covering this? - hank - 3/22/2018 3:50:19 AM
  - LOL, that's a good one hank! - RL - 3/22/2018 4:26:02 AM

First David Duke, and now this. - hank - 3/21/2018 10:35:02 PM
- Jake and Elwood knew how to handle Illinois Nazis - RL - 3/21/2018 11:33:32 PM

Isn't it great how Trump has restored the dignity of the office? - RL - 3/21/2018 3:12:18 PM
- Class will out. - hank - 3/21/2018 7:34:06 PM

Trump congratulates fellow despot... - RL - 3/21/2018 12:18:05 AM
- Trump wanted to congratulate Putin for his election victory getting Trump elected. - BuckGalaxy - 3/21/2018 6:26:07 AM
  - Putin won an American AND a Russian election... - RL - 3/21/2018 5:56:15 PM

Hey, is this one 'A pantload' too? - RL - 3/20/2018 10:53:14 PM

Cambridge Analytica CEO appears to talk about using bribes and sex workers to sway elections on secretly recorded news video - RL - 3/19/2018 10:19:38 PM
- Makes one wonder - podrock - 3/20/2018 2:55:05 PM
  - Everything's fair in love, war and marketing. - hank - 3/20/2018 5:58:49 PM
- Its amazing how much mischief these guys pulled off in so little time. - hank - 3/20/2018 1:02:24 AM
  - It wouldn't have worked unless there were cowardly fools to fall for it... - RL - 3/20/2018 12:38:57 PM
- Hard to get much more Orwellian than that... "It doesn't have to be true," Nix said. "It just has to be believed." - RL - 3/19/2018 11:34:49 PM
  - So true - Robert - 3/20/2018 10:03:33 PM

A resolution denouncing neo-Nazis dies in 36 seconds - RL - 3/16/2018 10:08:16 PM
- I remember when the ACLU defended the KKK's 1st Amendment rights. You people are the true fascists. - RobVG - 3/17/2018 3:03:20 AM
  - That's why they're called The American Civil Liberties Union. - hank - 3/17/2018 3:38:21 AM
    - He apparently thinks 'freedom of speech' means... - RL - 3/17/2018 4:06:05 AM
      - Read your Mark Twain--The Duke and the Dauphin in "Huckleberry Finn." (n/t) - hank - 3/17/2018 4:25:29 AM
        
        I think the tar is almost at the right temperature- did you bring the feathers? - RL - 3/17/2018 4:44:58 AM
        
        Maybe that's a bit harsh, isn't it? - hank - 3/17/2018 12:45:02 PM
        
        You are right... - RL - 3/19/2018 10:26:44 PM
  - Ahhh, its friday night, and we know what THAT means where Rob is concerned... - RL - 3/17/2018 3:16:54 AM
    - Funny thing about the left wing terrorists. - hank - 3/17/2018 3:46:06 AM
- "...cowardice and complicity..." - hank - 3/17/2018 12:51:57 AM
  - I considered adding "collusion", but... - RL - 3/17/2018 2:18:02 AM
    - Amazing, astounding, atcetera. - hank - 3/17/2018 3:46:52 AM

FEC probes whether NRA got illegal Russian donations - RL - 3/18/2018 5:19:37 PM
- And the Right has been telling us for years how those nasty Liberals are going to "take away our guns". - hank - 3/18/2018 9:10:08 PM
  - If you sell out our country to a hostile adversary, should be allowed to have guns? - RL - 3/19/2018 3:35:16 AM
    - Its OK, as long as the so-called "hostile adversary" is not Liberal. - hank - 3/19/2018 4:22:16 AM

Trump's latest tweetstorm... - RL - 3/18/2018 4:22:45 PM
- Are these the actions of a sane, innocent man, Rob? - RL - 3/18/2018 4:43:57 PM
  - Yeah, but he's showing those Libtards who's in charge. - hank - 3/18/2018 4:58:39 PM
- he's shitting in his pants. - hank - 3/18/2018 4:35:37 PM

Three time loser - RobVG - 3/15/2018 2:39:40 AM
- LOL - RL - 3/18/2018 4:29:31 PM
- Sorry about the Glenn Beck crack. - hank - 3/15/2018 2:32:50 PM
  - They carry Glenn Beck, Hannity, Rush Limbaugh.... - RL - 3/15/2018 2:44:34 PM
    - What difference does it make. - RobVG - 3/15/2018 8:08:24 PM
      - Rob, she lost the election on a technicality. - hank - 3/15/2018 11:37:49 PM
        
        Yeah that's the new meme, the 50's never happened. - RobVG - 3/15/2018 11:45:58 PM
        
        Oh, the 50's happened... - RL - 3/15/2018 11:52:34 PM
        
        Rob, I'm old enough to remember the '50s. - hank - 3/15/2018 11:50:48 PM
        
        Haha - RobVG - 3/16/2018 2:12:12 AM
        
        What I remember about the '50s - ER - 3/16/2018 3:15:18 AM
        
        synchonicity - RL - 3/15/2018 11:53:07 PM
      - Yes- what difference does it make nearly a year and a half after the election...? - RL - 3/15/2018 11:09:15 PM
        
        Speaking of a year and a half, how's the collusion investigation coming along - RobVG - 3/15/2018 11:31:11 PM
        
        Remember how Trump assured you that he had NO business deals with the Russians? - RL - 3/16/2018 12:00:53 AM
        
        If you have to ask, you haven't been watching the news... - RL - 3/15/2018 11:40:41 PM
        
        Its coming along just fine. I'm really surprised you brought that up. - hank - 3/15/2018 11:40:22 PM
        
        And subpoenas for the trump organization itself... something Trump was scared enough about that he called it 'a red line' - RL - 3/15/2018 11:44:30 PM
- Glenn Beck? Really, Rob? Really?. - hank - 3/15/2018 2:54:09 AM
  - Attacking the source? - RobVG - 3/15/2018 3:48:09 AM
    - No, attacking a stupid and petty attempt at deflection... - RL - 3/15/2018 4:17:21 AM
- Well, a Montana right-wing talk radio station MUST have its finger on the pulse of America... - RL - 3/15/2018 2:51:05 AM

"When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoa… - RL - 3/18/2018 12:22:12 AM
- It may be the Conservative movement has provided America with a new pantheon of patriots. - hank - 3/18/2018 4:08:56 AM
  - And another pantheon of idiots... - RL - 3/18/2018 4:23:51 AM
- I suspect the majority will not be forgiving of the minority that supported Trump... - RL - 3/18/2018 4:08:10 AM

"Reluctantly I have concluded that President Trump is a serious threat to US national security. He is refusing to protect vital US interests from active Russian attacks. It is apparent that he is for… (n/t) - RL - 3/17/2018 3:49:55 AM
- I think the Russians are blackmailing Trump. - hank - 3/17/2018 4:08:25 AM
- Tillerson condemns Russia- and is fired. H.R. McMaster denounces Russia, and its leaked that he is next to go... - RL - 3/17/2018 3:52:54 AM
  - Sally Yates warns Trump he is being threatened by Russia. - hank - 3/17/2018 4:17:31 AM
    - I wonder how many weeks Sessions has left? - RL - 3/17/2018 4:24:07 AM
      - I think Sessions just bought himself some more time. - hank - 3/17/2018 1:50:56 PM
        
        'A great day for democracy' - RL - 3/17/2018 2:12:07 PM

Trump and Sessions sack McCabe - hank - 3/17/2018 1:10:33 PM

Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm for taking user data - RL - 3/17/2018 7:03:21 AM

“Never has a party abandoned and fled its principles and deeply held beliefs so quickly as my party did in the face of the nativist juggernaut,” - RL - 3/16/2018 4:13:58 AM
- Parallels - hank - 3/16/2018 12:38:12 PM

Trump campaign hires white supremacist- again... - RL - 3/16/2018 3:09:39 AM

“From what we can see, they were there. They have the ability to shut the power off. All that’s missing is some political motivation” - RL - 3/16/2018 2:59:07 AM

National security adviser McMaster joins list of 'adults' Trump fired - RL - 3/16/2018 1:37:54 AM
- It bears repeating... - RL - 3/16/2018 1:48:37 AM

After GOP spent millions on ads calling Lamb a 'Pelosi Liberal' Trump now says Lamb performed well in Pennsylvania because he’s ‘like Trump’ - RL - 3/16/2018 12:18:43 AM

Rat flees sinking shit- Trump's wife files for divorce... - RL - 3/15/2018 11:20:21 PM
- Like father, like son. - hank - 3/16/2018 12:12:02 AM
- What? She doesn't want to go down in history as the wife of a traitor? - BuckGalaxy - 3/15/2018 11:47:04 PM
  - Welcome back! - RL - 3/16/2018 12:01:15 AM

Trump aide escorted from white house after financial wrong-doing discovered, then Trump campaign hires him - RL - 3/15/2018 4:24:29 AM
- On the Colbert show (yes, I get my news from Steven and Seth) - hank - 3/15/2018 3:20:06 PM

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