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With Hurricane Harvey bearing down on Texas, Trump takes care of what is important- pleasing white supremacists - RL - 8/26/2017 12:28:42 AM
- Joe Arpaio thanks conspiracy theorist Alex Jones for getting his story to Donald Trump - RL - 8/26/2017 1:50:40 AM
  - The is a procedure for a pardon, - podrock - 8/26/2017 3:31:37 PM

When does early voting start for 2020? - mcfly - 8/25/2017 3:24:59 PM

Charlottesville sent shockwaves through Canada's right-wing media - mcfly - 8/23/2017 2:37:43 PM
- It's almost hard to grasp the concept of a tipping-point any more - Robert - 8/23/2017 11:01:23 PM

Blue green algae is taking over Alberta's lakes - mcfly - 8/22/2017 9:14:23 AM
- Sad - Robert - 8/23/2017 4:54:30 AM

uh, seriously? - podrock - 8/21/2017 8:35:05 PM
- "I'm a smart guy..." - mcfly - 8/22/2017 9:28:18 AM
  - "Most impressive thing any president has done." - podrock - 8/22/2017 3:00:07 PM
    - Inside the Oval Office... - mcfly - 8/22/2017 8:05:17 PM
    - Laugh all you want, but Obama never had an eclipse this big! - RL - 8/22/2017 4:43:29 PM
- Maybe he wants a medical discharge? - Robert - 8/21/2017 10:20:15 PM
  - The blind leading the blind? - podrock - 8/21/2017 10:54:31 PM
    - Speaking of icons... - Robert - 8/22/2017 3:48:37 AM
    - excellent - Robert - 8/22/2017 1:49:31 AM

Alt-right thugs overwhelm Boston! - Robert - 8/19/2017 6:03:06 PM
- OMG! - mcfly - 8/19/2017 9:29:19 PM
  - Yeah, a beautiful thing indeed - Robert - 8/19/2017 10:54:28 PM
    - I'm positively giddy... - mcfly - 8/20/2017 2:34:29 PM

The company Trump supporters keep - RL - 8/17/2017 12:19:19 AM
- Here's yet another video of America Nazi Christopher Cantwell - mcfly - 8/17/2017 7:39:04 PM
  - And hiding behind a gun - Robert - 8/17/2017 8:35:08 PM
- that video, wow. - SDG - 8/17/2017 4:59:27 PM
  - I just did, and wow - Robert - 8/19/2017 1:59:07 AM
  - Agreed. That young journalist, and her videographer, did a most impressive job. - mcfly - 8/18/2017 2:31:34 PM
    - And a ditto wow, a good one this time - Robert - 8/19/2017 2:08:36 AM

BBC: Should Washington and Jefferson monuments come down? - mcfly - 8/19/2017 12:23:04 AM
- You dig and you dig and you dig... - Robert - 8/19/2017 2:07:25 AM

Breitbart's Bannon Booted - mcfly - 8/18/2017 6:20:59 PM
- Breitbart comment: "Obama lied for 8 years. Trump can't touch that record." - Robert - 8/18/2017 6:32:28 PM
  - Trump is too busy setting records of his own - mcfly - 8/18/2017 6:49:45 PM
    - It's complicated - Robert - 8/18/2017 8:16:12 PM
- Ding, dong, Steve Bannon's gone... - Robert - 8/18/2017 6:27:21 PM

“In about the next 30 to 35 days, I will be the most colourful character you have ever talked about,” - podrock - 8/18/2017 3:42:01 AM
- I'll look into a countdown clock. - Robert - 8/18/2017 4:11:09 AM
  - But how to set it? - podrock - 8/18/2017 4:45:04 AM

Bannon's "accidental" interview - mcfly - 8/17/2017 8:58:37 PM

Trump Lawyer Forwards Email Echoing Secessionist Rhetoric - RL - 8/17/2017 3:18:43 AM
- Tell me again exactly how "BOTH saved America". - hank - 8/17/2017 12:37:52 PM
  - Thanks for that, hank - mcfly - 8/17/2017 4:09:09 PM
  - Robert E Lee was also opposed to Civil War monuments - SDG - 8/17/2017 3:33:24 PM

Hate map - SDG - 8/16/2017 3:16:44 PM
- That was disturbing - Robert - 8/17/2017 12:17:03 AM
- I had no idea the Daily Stormer was in Baltimore... - RL - 8/16/2017 4:09:27 PM
  - In Spokane as well, which surprised me. - SDG - 8/16/2017 8:17:58 PM

Daily Stormer has been kicked offline - RL - 8/15/2017 7:52:26 PM
- "Remember all those times I defended @realDonaldTrump and believed he was not actually racist? Well... I am a f*****g dumbass. #imsorry" - RL - 8/16/2017 4:49:34 PM
- And the Trump meltdown at his press conference is breathtaking... - RL - 8/15/2017 8:17:11 PM
  - Dear god... he just keeps digging! - RL - 8/15/2017 8:18:10 PM
    - John Kelly's reaction during the meltdown - RL - 8/15/2017 8:36:29 PM
      - The man standing over the nuclear 'football' in that picture looks worried... - RL - 8/15/2017 10:58:15 PM
      - David duke is- of course- thrilled.... - RL - 8/15/2017 10:26:04 PM
      - It is vitally important to watch that shit show in its entirety - RL - 8/15/2017 9:42:57 PM

DOJ wants IP addresses of 1.3 million internet users that might not like Trump - RL - 8/15/2017 10:38:32 PM

After Charlottesville, Trump retweets — then deletes — image of train running over CNN reporter - RL - 8/15/2017 6:17:04 PM
- And in another retweet, Trump makes it clear he understands that he is a fascist - RL - 8/15/2017 6:40:34 PM

I'm calling for an immediate ban on white right-wing males until we figure out what the hell is going on... - RL - 8/15/2017 2:45:01 AM
- classic sting operation - SDG - 8/15/2017 3:27:05 PM

Monument-al miscalculation - RL - 8/15/2017 1:22:47 AM

The hounds heard the dog whistle loud and clear... - RL - 8/13/2017 7:51:48 PM
- It's really difficult to escape the conclusion... - hank - 8/13/2017 7:59:56 PM
  - agreed, Trump's silence is being heard loud and clear. - SDG - 8/14/2017 11:54:34 PM
  - He can't criticize the white nationalists for the same reason he cant criticize Putin... - RL - 8/14/2017 12:17:42 AM
  - Meanwhile, the Alt-right organizer had a bad day in Charlottesville - RL - 8/13/2017 8:09:16 PM
    - Fascists have had worse days than that - mcfly - 8/14/2017 12:48:48 AM
      - I will settle for their humiliation... - RL - 8/14/2017 3:23:43 AM
    - So much for the 'master race', eh? - RL - 8/13/2017 10:10:03 PM
    - Ah, that cleansed the palette - Robert - 8/13/2017 8:41:23 PM
      - Did I actually write "palette"? I meant "palate", of course. - Robert - 8/14/2017 2:14:40 AM
      - This will put a bad taste in your mouth - RL - 8/13/2017 9:45:46 PM
        
        thanks. - Robert - 8/14/2017 2:15:11 AM

Godwin's Law in a new light - Robert - 8/14/2017 5:06:54 PM
- Godwin's Law has always been a con. - hank - 8/14/2017 7:10:56 PM
  - Plus - Robert - 8/14/2017 8:07:55 PM

Meanwhile, Germans have little patience for American neo-Nazi bullshit - RL - 8/13/2017 11:15:33 PM

And today they strike Seattle... - RL - 8/13/2017 9:03:13 PM

And a past owner of the car gets doxxed - RL - 8/12/2017 10:19:43 PM
- The Current owner - RL - 8/12/2017 10:50:39 PM
  - Registered Republican - RL - 8/12/2017 11:27:56 PM
    - It was him - RL - 8/13/2017 1:04:45 AM
      - more on the terrorist - RL - 8/13/2017 6:12:21 AM
        
        best bit of the article - RL - 8/13/2017 6:17:02 AM
  - And of course within minutes the MAGA morons scream 'false flag' - RL - 8/12/2017 11:17:13 PM
    - Haven't you heard? - hank - 8/13/2017 2:09:50 AM
    - The podcast version - Robert - 8/13/2017 1:06:31 AM

Neo-Nazis 'unite the right' rally of Trump supporters leads to state of emergency - RL - 8/12/2017 6:14:50 PM
- I'm not surprised this didn't happen sooner, - hank - 8/12/2017 11:32:03 PM
- Feuer und Wut - Robert - 8/12/2017 8:44:00 PM
  - Supposedly a perp was just apprehended... - RL - 8/12/2017 9:31:52 PM
- The iconic image - Robert - 8/12/2017 6:46:43 PM
  - My great-uncle killed Nazis and liberated concentration camps as part of the Thunderbird division... - RL - 8/12/2017 7:03:11 PM
  - Maybe Trump will pay the driver's legal bills... - RL - 8/12/2017 6:54:59 PM
- A fascist just drove a car into a crowd of counter-protesters - Robert - 8/12/2017 6:44:16 PM
  - Maybe the driver thought he was in North Carolina... - RL - 8/12/2017 7:27:09 PM
    - THIS is the GOP - RL - 8/12/2017 7:40:33 PM
      - News keeps reporting the car had no license plates - RL - 8/12/2017 8:10:40 PM
        
        I saw that too - Robert - 8/12/2017 8:54:06 PM
        
        Look at image I posted above - RL - 8/12/2017 9:10:18 PM
        
        Yeah, visible in multiple images. - Robert - 8/13/2017 12:53:34 AM
  - “We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That’s what we believed in. That’s why we voted for Donald Trump, because he said he’s going to take our country back.” - RL - 8/12/2017 7:07:47 PM

Military action against Venezuela now on the table, for some reason... - RL - 8/11/2017 10:52:02 PM
- If he ever really needs to threaten somebody no one's going to believe him. - hank - 8/11/2017 11:04:17 PM
- The reason's transparent - Robert - 8/11/2017 10:54:57 PM

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