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  1. 23 minutes ago, Lurch said:

    I’d give good odds that dotus is confusing this with preexisting conditions he’s being told to fight against behind the scenes

    He's probably thinking how Obamacare got mixed up with Iranian political strategy.

  2. 44 minutes ago, Chooky said:

     

    George Will:  Collectivist and distributive economic plans might very likely be a gradual necessity twenty years from now, with careful implementation of course, but current market infrastructure will provide poor to a non existent transition to such a reactionary shift in policy.

    Current GOP:  They're soytarded, cuck fags, right?

    George Will:   Uh, well ...

    Current GOP:  And if those tardo pussies think they're gonna take my guns they'll get a bullet right in the fucking face!

    George Will:  Sure, uh, interesting sound bite from candidate O'Rourke, for instance, to coincide with your concerns there.  From a strategy perspective, presidential campaigns based on "what I'll take from you" rather than "what I'll do for us" is a disadvantaged leverage point, regardless of the context within the issue.  In spite of overwhelming polling data, even among conservative circles, that was a poor presentation and I imagine we'll see him walk back such an aggressive and overbearing appearance.

    Current GOP:  They're all faggots!  They can eat a bag of dicks!

    George Will:  I'm gonna go grab my sixth glass of scotch and drink it on the drive home.  You guys take it easy.  Good luck. 

     

     

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  3. We all should be so thankful for what the President has done for us.

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/lou-dobbs-heaps-praise-on-trump-for-making-weekends-possible-for-us-all?ref=home

     

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    Lou Dobbs wants his viewers to thank President Donald Trump for their weekend. At the end of his show on Friday, the Fox Business Network host signed off by reminding his viewers to “Have a great weekend,” adding, “The president makes such a thing possible for us all.” Dobbs did not explain why Trump was responsible for making great weekends possible.

     

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    But in recent days, the longtime friend of the president seemed to reach new levels of sycophancy on his show. After visiting the White House earlier this week, Dobbs told his viewers that the “joint is hopping,” and did not hold back in his description of the atmosphere. “On every level on every floor, this White House is energized,” he said. “There’s sunshine beaming throughout the place, and on almost every face. It’s winner central at the White House and the president is at the top of his game.”

     

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  4. 43 minutes ago, tchookem said:

    Honest question, who is the legitimate future of the GOP?

    I thought it might be Hurd, but he appears to tapping out. Crenshaw is younger, but I don't see anyone taking him seriously?

    I don't know who's out there nationally, but it seems like the best young GOP minds are the Ben Shapiro types. And that's a damn shameful place to be.

    DeSantis 2024 is my guess. He's 41. And he's full on Trump gurgler, so unless the GOP totally repudiates the tenets of Trumpism, he's the frontrunner.

     

     

  5. https://deadspin.com/someone-wanted-a-johnny-manziel-jersey-bad-enough-to-st-1838083531

     

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    The Texas A&M campus police asked for help Thursday afternoon identifying a “person of interest” in the theft of the uniform of NFL bust and CFL flameoutJohnny Manziel, last seen having a cup of coffee with the now defunct Alliance of American Football. The uniform was reportedly stolen from A&M’s Hall of Champions, a huge museum at Kyle Field that “celebrates the iconic football stadium and Texas A&M Athletics.” It took a couple hours, but the Twitter plea was apparently a success, and the person of interest has been identified.

    Here’s a description of the caper, which evidently was not the work of a world-class international cat burglar, courtesy of the Bryan-College Station Eagle:

     

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    According to Lt. Bobby Richardson with university police, a man entered the Hall of Champions around 7:30 p.m. Aug. 26 and undressed a mannequin that was sporting a full Manziel Texas A&M football uniform. The man took the entire replica uniform, which is worth $925, Richardson said.

    Hall of Champions hours of operation vary and it did not appear the man forced his way into the facility, Richardson added. Surveillance footage shows the man wearing what appears to be Texas A&M athletic gear, but authorities said those involved with university athletics did not recognize the man.

     

     

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    More disturbing than the image of a person quietly undressing a mannequin in order to make off with a Johnny Manziel uniform is the thought of someone paying $925 on the black market for a stolen Johnny Manziel uniform.

     

  6. 9 minutes ago, BrickHorn said:

    These idiots are literally drinking turpentine now?

     

    I hope they move onto bleach

     

    (Only because of this Dead Milkmen song)

     

    Spoiler

     

    I've got some buddies and we all drink bleach
    You know we practice what we preach
    We're not a drunken bunch of frat-boys
    Trashed on beers
    Or a stoned bunch of hippies
    With no careers
    I wanna drink bleach with a Georgia peach

    My pals and I all drink Clorox
    Or eat Snowy Bleach right out of the box
    Teenage suicide rate's shot high
    And we understand the reasons why
    Bleach does more than whiten socks

    Don't you wanna hang out with the Bleach Boys, baby?
    In a world where ministers murder golf pros
    Don't you wanna drink some bleach tonight?

    Maybe there'll be a party at the beach
    We'll bitch about life and chugalug bleach
    No one's getting high, and no one's getting drunk
    I've got a case of bleach stashed in my trunk
    I wanna die with Clorox within reach

    I'm very proud of the respect I've earned
    And my voice is very deep cause my throat got burned
    Bleach keeps you young so I've been told
    Cause no one who drinks it lives to get old
    Drink it with a chaser was the first thing that I learned
     

    Don't you wanna hang out with the Bleach Boys baby?
    In a world where midgets run for mayor
    Don't you wanna drink some bleach tonight?

    I had 26 friends in the beginning
    But now it seems our numbers are thinning
    Some people drive fast, others love to bet
    Still others snort coke in a private jet
    But drinking bleach is my way of winning

    Don't you wanna hang out with the Bleach Boys baby?
    In a world where welders own our schools
    Don't you wanna drink some bleach tonight?

    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I'm so bored I'm drinking bleach
    I am so bored!
    I am so bored!

     

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  7. 20 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:

    America first!

     

    Imagine that.

    A President that can't put down a phone, so a "friendly" country decides to put monitoring shit around the White House.

    No telling what the (pick any country name out of a hat) has done as well.

    But hey, those liberal tears are sure sweet.

    Another general fuck you to Trump voters everywhere.

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  8. 29 minutes ago, Fozzz said:

    I know someone who is a Trump supporter that manages a vape shop.  He's a nice guy and I hope nothing Trump does negatively impacts his employment but I wonder what's going on in his head right now with Trump ostensibly going after the vaping industry.  

     

     

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  9. Gee, imagine that.   

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/team-trump-wrestles-with-its-2020-qanon-problem?ref=home

     

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    In late August 2018, Lisa and John Welch weren’t feeling great about the future of QAnon, the ludicrous conspiracy theory that posits that Donald Trump is engaged in a secret battle with pedophilic elites in Hollywood, big banks, and the Democratic Party.

    Lisa had bought into the theory first, then convinced her husband to sign on. But none of the mysterious Q’s predictions in anonymous internet forums had come to pass nearly a year after it started in October 2017, and QAnon believers were starting to lose faith. After yet another Q prediction failed to materialize in 2018, an armed, crazed QAnon fan allegedly shut down a bridge near the Hoover Dam with an improvised armored truck. 

     

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    The Welches decided they needed some way to show how many Trump supporters believed in the mega-conspiracy theory, which has pulled in Pizzagate and a wide range of other conspiracy theories. They printed up T-shirts and signs that said “We Are Q” and passed them out at a Trump rally in Tampa, Florida. 

    “We took ’em to the rally and handed ’em out, and the rest is history,” Lisa Welch told a crowd of roughly 100 QAnon believers who gathered to rally across the street from the White House on Wednesday.

    The Welches’ signs and T-shirts, along with other QAnon-related signs and “Q” cut-outs, were unavoidable in cable news coverage of the rally. Suddenly, people all over the country were asking what why a segment of Trump fans adored the letter Q, and QAnon believers were invigorated. 

     

     

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    “By the time the rally was over, they didn’t have any choice but to put us on [TV],” said John Welch.

    The Tampa rally wasn’t the first time QAnon believers had appeared among Trump’s faithful, but it did show QAnon fans that showing up to the rallies with Q signs and clothes could have a real world effect. 

    Now QAnon believers eager to appear at Trump rallies are posing a challenge to the president’s reelection. As Trump faces a tough campaign, some of his most visible supporters come from QAnon-world, where various factions include 9/11 Truthers, anti-Semites, and people who think John F. Kennedy Jr. is still alive and will soon return to arrest Democrats.

     

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    But to QAnon supporters, Trump rallies are a great chance both to see the president and to get their message out without going through a media they claim is biased against them.

    “It’s like Trump tweeting,” said Pennsylvania contractor Daniel Graham, who drove to Washington for Wednesday’s rally.

    To Team Trump, though, QAnon diehards who adore Trump and garner media coverage and camera shots at his 2020 rallies have been a longtime nuisance. One current senior Trump campaign official told The Daily Beast that the standard operating procedure among most staff has been to generally just “ignore them” and not “make a big deal out of” them, both to deprive them of as much press attention as possible and to avoid “pissing off the crazy” people.

    In a particularly weird bit of Trumpworld drama that unfolded earlier this year, QAnon believers turned on and began targeting former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka after he called their beliefs “GARBAGE.” Since the Tampa rally, Gorka and other Trump allies have struggled to stop QAnon’s spread, on the grounds that it’s an embarrassment to the larger Trump coalition.

    And over the past year, more and more QAnon fans who also support Trump have alleged that their Q gear and shirts have been banned from the president’s rallies, and they have accused security personnel of instructing them to, for instance, turn their T-shirts inside out. The U.S. Secret Service, for its part, has publicly denied that it is involved in QAnon suppression at Trump rallies. If QAnon-related clothing and signs are banned, it’s possible that the ban has been imposed by additional, hired security guards, rather than the Secret Service.

    The Welches began to appear at other Trump rallies with more QAnon merch, despite being harried by what John Welch described as Secret Service agents. After a security guard tried to stop him from handing out Q koozies, he claims he just threw them out to the crowd “like a rock star.”

    When asked to comment on these matters, the Trump team hinted at its justifications, though typically while going out of its way not to mention the term “QAnon.”

    “No non-Trump-related political messaging is permitted inside the venue. We do our best to ensure this rule is fully enforced,” Michael Glassner, chief operating officer of the 2020 Trump campaign, said in a brief statement.

    Technically, QAnon is Trump-related political messaging, brought to a wacky, sometimes violent, and extremely online fringe. It’s Trump-related enough that some of the conspiracy theory’s top proponents have sought White House meetings with this president. Several have been successful.

    Last year, a grinning Trump somehow ended up posing for an Oval Office photo op with YouTube conspiracy theorist Lionel Lebron, one of the leading promoters of the QAnon theory. In July, Trump invited several QAnon promoters to his White House Social Media Summit, where he praised the QAnon pushers and other “memesmiths” for their work on his behalf.

    But while a White House visit serves as the ultimate sign of Trump’s approval for QAnon’s top echelon, the rallies are the only place where most Q believers get a chance to see the man they believe is about to topple a global cannibal conspiracy. 

    Q believers have resorted to unorthodox craft methods to get around the apparent ban on QAnon gear at Trump rallies. Sometimes, they cover QAnon shirts with another shirt to get through security, then remove the decoy shirt once the rally starts. In August, a Trump campaign ad featured, apparently accidentally, multiple sanctioned campaign signs that had been doctored with tape and markers to show “Q’s.”

    And sometimes, the QAnon message actually comes from a speaker at the rally. 

    At an August event in Cincinnati, Brandon Straka, who’s become a personality on the right after founding the “#Walkaway” movement urging traditionally Democratic constituencies to leave the party, used his warm-up spot at the rally to tell the crowd “Where we go one, we go all.” That phrase is the most prominent QAnon slogan, and QAnon supporters cheered when Straka used it from the stage. Straka later insisted he didn’t mean to imply any QAnon connection.

    The presence of Q believers at rallies also means Trump could accidentally endorse the theory, at least in the eyes of its believers. Nearly every Trump appearance produces footage that QAnon believers scrutinize in hopes of seeing Trump’s hand movements form what they believe to be a “Q.” 

    But at a July rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Trump called a baby wearing a QAnon symbol on the back of its onesie “beautiful.” The onesie appeared to have been altered, with a marker line added to make the printed “O” design into a “Q.” 

    QAnon believers were thrilled by what they saw as Trump’s confirmation, via the baby, that the theory was real. The child was soon dubbed “Q Baby,” and her parents—North Carolina Trump supporter Roman Riselvato and his girlfriend—made an Etsy page to sell clothing with a design similar to the onesie after requests from Q fans.

    Riselvato told The Daily Beast that, should he get the opportunity to go to another Trump rally, he’d definitely bring more Q-related signs or clothing to get QAnon’s message out to other potential recruits. 

    “It’s a necessity to know that you’re not alone,” Riselvato said.

     

  10. 12 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

    The fuck?

     

    2 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:


    But for real—the fuck?


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    Seriously.

    Iran gets access to $15 billion in exchange for going back to what the Obama admin had negotiated. Only this time, there would be no UN oversight.

    And to think people were bitching about the "billions" that Obama bailed out Iran with.  And how many times Trump cried how horrible of a deal it was.

     

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  11. Just now, RPM said:

    You have to add tobacco flavor to the juice. 

    Admittedly, I know nothing about vaping.  I just assumed there was tobacco and other flavors available; not that you added flavor to juice.  Read somewhere else earlier (forget where) that fruit flavors and anything that wasn't "tobacco" would be banned, but tobacco flavors would be available.

     

     

  12. 10 minutes ago, scottsins said:

     


    What’s his stated reason for banning vape stuff? The recent “epidemic” of deaths which were due to people doing street made shit with all kinds of trash in it?

    Or, because they are bad for people, you know, like analog cigarettes?

     

    Flavors is the ban he's floating.  Kids are more apt to go for flavored vaping, allegedly over tobacco flavor.

     

  13. On 9/9/2019 at 8:31 PM, SoCalHorn said:

    Any recs on cheaper end for 50ish inch just to watch Netflix and amazon prime? Looks like the roku TVs would be best

    I picked up a 55" TCL for $279 at Sams last weekend as an auxiliary set to put in the den for Saturday game day viewing.  4K, blah blah.  Has Roku built in, but I can't speak to how well it works.  I just hooked an extra Apple TV to it and streamed away all weekend.

     

     

  14. Fuck 'em.  All of 'em.

     

    https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/us/politics/trump-alabama-noaa.html

     

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    The White House was directly involved in pressing a federal scientific agency to repudiate the weather forecasters who contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian would probably strike Alabama, according to several people familiar with the events.

    Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, told Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, to have the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration publicly disavow the forecasters’ position that Alabama was not at risk. NOAA, which is part of the Commerce Department, issued an unsigned statement last Friday in response, saying that the Birmingham, Ala., office was wrong to dispute the president’s warning.

     

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    In pressing NOAA’s acting administrator to take action, Mr. Ross warned that top employees at the agency could be fired if the situation was not addressed, The New York Times previously reported. Mr. Ross’s spokesman has denied that he threatened to fire anyone, and a senior administration official on Wednesday said Mr. Mulvaney did not tell the commerce secretary to make such a threat.

    The release of the NOAA statement provoked complaints that the Trump administration was improperly intervening in the professional weather forecasting system to justify the president’s mistaken assertion. The Commerce Department’s inspector general is investigating how that statement came to be issued, saying it could call into question scientific independence.

     

     

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    The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, which is controlled by Democrats, announced on Wednesday that it too has opened an investigation into Mr. Ross’s actions.

    The White House had no immediate comment on Wednesday, but the senior administration official said Mr. Mulvaney was interested in having the record corrected because, in his view, the Birmingham forecasters had gone too far and the president was right to suggest there had been forecasts showing possible impact on Alabama.

    Mr. Trump was furious at being contradicted by the forecasters in Alabama. On Sept. 1, the president wrote on Twitter that Alabama “will most likely be hit (much) harder than anticipated.” A few minutes later, the National Weather Service in Birmingham posted on Twitter that “Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian. We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama.”

     

     

  15. 5 hours ago, TahoeHorn said:

    I think that sanctuary cities are a horrible idea.  In fact, I think any instances of disdain for the rule of law are dangerous......snipped because I'm not going to completely quote the ramblings of an old jackass

     

    Go fetch a few dozen glazed and go hang out with the boys and celebrate that massive North Carolina special election win from last night, then sit around and bitch about the NFL and how those uppity negros just aren't American enough for your tastes. 

    You and your ilk are what's wrong with America.  Full stop.  I got mine, fuck everyone else should be tattooed on your lily white forehead.

     

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  16. 1 minute ago, longhornmatt said:

    How can you run up even close to that large of a bill for limousine service?  Even if it was several 180 mile trips back and forth, that is still an outrageously unfathomable number.  

    Well, you see, it will get out that the US contracted with Trump Limousine Service*.  As we all know it is the most classy, the absolute best in limousine service anywhere in the world.  Plus, the country didn't have to ship over vehicles for the Pence entourage to use, so it actually saved the taxpayer money.  #MAGA!

     

     

     

     

    *I have no idea if there is actually a Trump Limousine Service, but honestly, who among us would be surprised if this actually happened?

  17. 1 minute ago, Horn Under a Bad Sign said:

    Hilarious. Bolton calling Trump a liar, saying Trump was too big of a chickenshit to fire him to his face. 

    Bolton's probably correct on both counts, but fuck him.

    GOP on GOP crime ongoing, with the world watching.  High comedy.

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