Kurt Eichenwald Keeps At It

Kurt Eichenwald accused Trump, with fair specificity and no signalling of ironic intent, of having gone to a mental asylum in 1990 due to erratic behavior brought on by "amphetamine derivatives."

He's now explaining this was... "a joke."

Newsweek reporter Kurt Eichenwald said Tuesday his baseless allegation that President-elect Donald Trump was once institutionalized in a mental hospital was actually part of a series of jokes and intended to be a "signal to a source" to talk with him.
Eichenwald made the comments on "Good Morning America," as host George Stephanopoulos asked him about the September tweet in which he said, without evidence, he believed "Trump was institutionalized in a mental hospital for a nervous breakdown in 1990."
"Any regrets about that?" Stephanopoulos asked.
"There's a long story behind it," Eichenwald said after some brief laughter. "When you go through the full lead up to that tweet -- there was a reporting purpose for that tweet going out, which is more than you are going to want to hear about."
"I was making fun of Fox News and the rest, who were doing 'Hillary has seizures,' 'Hillary has Multiple sclerosis,' 'Hillary has Parkinson's,' you know, let's go to Dr. Oz," he continued, referring to a point in the election during which both candidates' health was under the microscope.
"So I was writing a series of jokes leading up to that with the intent of sending that tweet, which was a signal to a source to talk to me," Eichenwald concluded.
The bizarre claim went unchallenged by Stephanopoulos, who moved on to another topic.

Newsweek, Business Insider says, has not responded with comment on their employee's apparently casual slander for purposes of "jokes" and "signalling" to a source to talk to him.

Below, a clip of Eichenwald's appearance with the docile, no-follow-up questions George Stephanopolous, and Eichenwald's newest jihads -- making threats of outings against people who merely didn't object strenuously enough to his alleged assault-by-.gif.

—@kurteichenwald said on GMA his Trump mental hospital tweet was part of series of jokes & intended to be “signal to a source” to talk w/him pic.twitter.com/kKj0MqE03I
— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) December 20, 2016

I could be wrong @Twitter @Support, but it sure looks like @kurteichenwald is making threats. You willing to risk it? #LooseCannon pic.twitter.com/kAZUy3vV7g
— Duke (@somethingldsay) December 20, 2016

If @twitter @Support @safety had any integeity, they'd suspend @kurteichenwald for threatening people. #LooseCannon pic.twitter.com/mWTQx3VYsU
— Duke (@somethingldsay) December 20, 2016

Posted by: Ace at 01:00 PM

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1 The Saga Continues:

Trump Tower stands tall, the battlements surmounted by the flaming Golden Scalp Weasel, a sign that the master is home. Guards stand in the lobby before the Golden Elevator. The seneschal enters and is whisked to the throne room. The room is gaudy in an unrestrained explosion of hyperactive baroque decoration. Marble, gold leaf, carved plaster and frescos cover every vertical and most horizontal spaces. On his large throne made of the skulls of clowns and candidates Donald Trump sits.
"Oh Bearer of the Golden Scalp Weasel I bring you great news! The Electoral College has met and declared you the new President!"
"And that Texas guy, Spanky or what ever he was called?"
"He somehow...disappeared," the seneschal says, his beady Wisconsinite eyes darting to either side. "Anyhow, the faithless seemed to be mostly those who had sided with the defeated Duchess of Chappaqua, voting for people who didn't even run."
"Truly?"
"Colin Powell, Faith Spotted Eagle, and Marvin the Martian."
"Then nothing stands between me and the capital," Trump says rising from the throne. "The last resistance is swept away."
The seneschal eyes Trump before asking "Are you going out dressed like that? It's pretty chilly."
Trump adjusts his fur loincloth before placing the great two-handed sword over his shoulder, in easy reach for his smaller than large average hands. "The heat of victory is enough. Where's my wife?"
Melania comes from the back of the throne room. "Thees chainmail bikini, eet ees zo chafing."
"You rock that babe."
Reince stares and gasps before stuttering "I don't mean to be...bu..bu...."
"Trump the Barbarian, Bearer of the Golden Scalp Weasel, and Red Melania his consort are set for the sacking of the imperial capital. The way is opened."

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:03 PM (hLRSq)

2 Boo-yeah!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:03 PM (hLRSq)

3 This thread needs free tampons.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 20, 2016 01:03 PM (uyrlv)

4 Ha!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:03 PM (hLRSq)

5 who now? fuck this guy and his braindead enablers.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 20, 2016 01:04 PM (KP5rU)

6 I was going to ask who Kurt Eichenwald was, but then I saw Newsweek. Well, no wonder I never heard of him.

Posted by: rickl at December 20, 2016 01:05 PM (zoehZ)

7 I thought the defining characteristic of a joke was humor.

Every time the left says, "I was joking" it seems like nobody is laughing.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:05 PM (xeeHA)

8 "Newsweek, Business Insider says, has not responded with comment on their employee's apparently casual slander for purposes of "jokes" and "signalling" to a source to talk to him."

Translation: Newsweek's attorneys are reading over the letter from Trump's attorneys and deciding on how many zeroes are going to be on the settlement check their bankrupt employer is going to send.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:06 PM (hLRSq)

9 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) at December 20, 2016 01:06 PM (kff5f)

10 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) at December 20, 2016 01:06 PM (kff5f)

11 How is a guy that works for a broke website, worth all of this TV time? The COBs here probably have more reader's.

Posted by: Jean at December 20, 2016 01:07 PM (2RVmA)

12 Kurt, is that a dick in your mouth or the mumps. No shame if it's the former, by the way.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:07 PM (fjfUn)

13 Corgis called.

I think they're having too much fun playing with the new troll that wandered in.

Posted by: Dead Parrot Society at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (AJeMv)

14 Emma Tiller PhD will never be president!

Like Hillary Clinton.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (xeeHA)

15 *Mikey NTH

That is an epic. Even more classy, no 1st!

Let the saga continue.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (u82oZ)

16 Pretty simple MO: make ridiculous claims/poke the bear. Then when inevitable negative reaction happens, claim "was just joking, why so serious" or act as if victimized.

Enough already.

Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (0J6e7)

17 "Signal to a source"? Is this a new thing?

Posted by: Mega at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (AOgoV)

18 All of my posts to Ace have been a series of ever-expanding jokes, culminating with what will be my last post which will also be "my signal to a source" on the inside of government that will start the nukes flying. And that inside source is:

Bill Wynn.

The post will begin with: "As a lifelong Republican I am concerned . . . "

Posted by: Publius Redux at December 20, 2016 01:09 PM (Fb9aZ)

19 The COBs here probably have more reader's.
Posted by: Jean

Only before they take a royal shit on us and then flounce to another website.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 01:09 PM (ZBp8/)

20 Kurt, is it true you were once caught diddling underage boys?

Hahaha. That was just a joke and also a signal for my pet llama to take out the trash.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:09 PM (fjfUn)

21 I thought the defining characteristic of a joke was humor.

Nope.

Posted by: Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Samantha Bee, Jon Stewart, SNL, Wanda Sykes, et al at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (uyrlv)

22 Between Kurt Eichenwald and his "CIA sources" (aka, voices in his head), Keith Olbermann and his Russia obsession, and Paul Krugman's conspiracy theorizing, neo-9/11 Trutherism, I don't know WHO'S going to win this season on The Apprentice: Trump Derangement Syndrome edition!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (4df7R)

23 seneschal

----

Really??? Pedant we much??

Anyway..... Tucker is littering the highway with liberal corpses.

MeAgain.... chop chop. Somebodies on your heels.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (8XRCm)

24 Secret signals to a source? The man talks like a paranoid schizophrenic.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (0mRoj)

25 Somebody tell the Left that it's ok. Steiner is coming.

Posted by: Mega at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (AOgoV)

26 @8 Translation: Newsweek's attorneys are reading over the letter from Trump's attorneys and deciding on how many zeroes are going to be on the settlement check their bankrupt employer is going to send.
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You misspelled "all resigned because they realized that their employer wouldn't have enough money to pay them after Trump's lawyers were finished."

Posted by: junior at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (ff27+)

27 Kurt Eichenwald.Name sounds like a Nazi war criminals.

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (r/0kC)

28 Test

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (wJky2)

29 Trump called Bill Clinton a liar on Twitter. Hahaha! Best election ever!

Posted by: Jmel at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (jOsih)

30 Kurt was the shooter on the grassy knoll, wasn't he.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (fjfUn)

31 Oh, now it's a joke?

I guess saying he was quoted "out of context" doesn't work with twitter. I'm sure he'll soon apologize "if he offended anyone"....

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (NOIQH)

32 Yeah, I'm thinking the whole "cocaine-induced breakdown" thing is a bit of projection.

Posted by: joncelli, Mansplaining Rage Monkey at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (RD7QR)

33 Kurt Eichenwald. That's a Nazi name isn't it?

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (HgMAr)

34 Why not just email the source? Or tweet asking the source to contact him? Oh, I know- it has something to do with the CIA!!

Posted by: LASue, now even more deplorable at December 20, 2016 01:11 PM (R2dMB)

35 Kurt was the shooter on the grassy knoll, wasn't he.

Yes he was.

No wait! Just kidding!!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (wJky2)

36 I'm sure Kurt would swat someone because he's a delusional douche nozzle.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (ZLlh9)

37
Kurt.

Have you read "Catcher in the Rye"??

Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (8XRCm)

38 16 Pretty simple MO: make ridiculous claims/poke the bear. Then when inevitable negative reaction happens, claim "was just joking, why so serious" or act as if victimized.

Enough already.
Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (0J6e7)

Typical passive-aggressive wankery

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (0mRoj)

39 WHATS THE FREQUENCY DONALD

Posted by: KUrT EICheNVaLD at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (AOgoV)

40 Not funny "haha".

Funny queer....

Posted by: Slingblade at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (EVi2J)

41 just. not. quick. enough.

Posted by: wth at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (HgMAr)

42 Has anyone told Emma, PhD that we've moved to a new thread?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (n9gGi)

43 Whenever they let slip their true thoughts which must be kept secret, "It was a joke."

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (XoldI)

44 "The bizarre claim went unchallenged by Stephanopoulos, who moved on to another topic."

WHAT OTHER TOPIC??? The guy is famous for one thing: going cookoo bananas on teevee.

It's like having Richard Speck on your show, and he doesn't want to talk about slicing up nurses. He wants to move on to another topic. There IS no other topic!!!

Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (TOk1P)

45 Does Teh Donald have any standing to sue this asshole into the ground for libel?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (X6fMO)

46 I was joking that Krugman should be referred to the NYT employee assistance program assuming a big prog firm would have an EAP. I'm guessing Kurt is SOL at Newsweek. Their only benefit is probably a free subscription.

Posted by: GregV61 at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (H0lcY)

47 And this is the best he can come up with ?

No wonder Newsweek is worthless.

Posted by: jsg at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (gs8be)

48 Kurt's neck is circumcised.

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (Bdeb0)

49 Hey Kurt. Right now I'm doing you're wife.

Haha. Just kidding. That was a signal for her to meet me at the local WaWa.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (fjfUn)

50 The bizarre claim went unchallenged by Stephanopoulos, who moved on to another topic

Let me guess--"Democrats: Still Just as Awesome As Always!"

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (MZcWR)

51 I do agree with him though. It is a joke. Our national media industrial complex is a sick, old, tiresome joke.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2016 01:14 PM (TOk1P)

52 21 I thought the defining characteristic of a joke was humor.

Nope.
Posted by: Amy Schumer, Sarah Silverman, Samantha Bee, Jon Stewart, SNL, Wanda Sykes, et al at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (uyrlv)

I am funny! Ready, here we go: I'm a slut! My vagina! MY VAGINA!

Please laugh.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at December 20, 2016 01:14 PM (0mRoj)

53 The guy is nuts...to believe anyone thinks he looks like his Twitter pic.

That was 100 pounds and 10 years ago.

Posted by: LASue, now even more deplorable at December 20, 2016 01:14 PM (R2dMB)

54 Whenever they let slip their true thoughts which must be kept secret, "It was a joke."

That might have been believable 30 years ago. It's so threadbare now it's see thru.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:14 PM (wJky2)

55 50 Let me guess--"Democrats: Still Just as Awesome As Always!"
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (MZcWR)

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Wrong. We were looking for "Old News".

Thank you for playing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:14 PM (n9gGi)

56 OT - Schmoopie (George Stephanopolis) is looking pretty worse for wear.

Posted by: josephistan at December 20, 2016 01:14 PM (7HtZB)

57 Oh, and if "it's a joooooooke" doesn't work he'll move on to "performance art," because there's a checklist you have to fill out in these situations.

Posted by: joncelli, Mansplaining Rage Monkey at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (RD7QR)

58 I think even Stephanpolous was scared. Right after the shot ended he probably called for security.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (fjfUn)

59 It's beyond time to de-credential Goerge Snuffleupagas, and ABC as a news organization.

Posted by: Barky McFuckstick's Rogue Telepromter at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (i0ykY)

60 What's the frequency Kurt?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (/tuJf)

61 I was promised a massive old-time media shakeout after the election, when dead wood like Kurt here was pruned; could be just his little YOLO while waiting for the axe to fall.

Plus, he's nuts. So, there's that.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (nd1zx)

62 Has anyone told Emma, PhD that we've moved to a new thread?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:12 PM (n9gGi)

You missed Emma - whose hotness has yet to be determined - finally deigning to answer why she believes the GOP having all three branches is a goosestep away from Auschwitz, but the Dems having all three branches was sweetness and light.

Parse through her gauzy sophistry and it was simply, "well, we're the good kind of dictators, you deplorable flaggots!"

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (X6fMO)

63 45 Does Teh Donald have any standing to sue this asshole into the ground for libel?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2016 01:13 PM (X6fMO)

Being a public figure he'd have to establish actual malice, but that probably not insurmountable in this case.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (0mRoj)

64 I guess that is more creative than leaving cash in a brown paper bag behind the dumpster.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 20, 2016 01:16 PM (7ZVPa)

65 Next, Kurt displays his Vulcan Mind Meld technique while juggling flaming swords and beeping a clown horn.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:16 PM (fjfUn)

66 AP flips out.

Shocking Trump tweet. How dare he!

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Trump-blames-Islamic-terrorists-for-Turkey-10807656.php

Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Jumping ahead of investigators, President-elect Donald Trump is blaming Islamic terrorists for deadly violence in Turkey and Germany and vowing anew to eradicate their regional and global networks.

If AP had been around in 1941, they would have written this headline:

FDR Jumps to Unwarranted Conclusion in Shocking Racist Speech

Wash. DC, Dec. 8, 1941 (AP) --President Roosevelt today made baseless accusations against Japanese people in a bizarre speech made on radio to the entire nation. In this speech, FDR made the odd claim - - with no supporting evidence -- that Japan was behind an explosion some reported hearing in the Pearl Harbor of Honolulu, in the territory of Hawaii.

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2016 01:16 PM (jBuUi)

67 HA HA HA IT WAS JUST A JOKE

Posted by: John Hinckley at December 20, 2016 01:16 PM (AOgoV)

68 "Signal to a source"
=====
You mean, like all those women who came forward and swore Trump groped them?

Say, where are all the lawsuits they must have filed?

Oh, and funny thing about this jackass' suit in TX: TX strictly forbids recovery for "pain and suffering" unless you 1st show some actual damages. Let's see your medical records of your visit to the hospital, asshole.

I ought to report his lawyer for sanctions--he knows damned good and well he doesn't have a case and filed anyway.

Oh, and funnier thing about this asshole's suit: TX has a rather strong anti-SLAPP law--get ready to pay a shitload in attorney fees, asshole.

Posted by: RoyalOil at December 20, 2016 01:16 PM (e2Rx3)

69 62 Parse through her gauzy sophistry and it was simply, "well, we're the good kind of dictators, you deplorable flaggots!"
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2016 01:15 PM (X6fMO)

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I'm sure she used some jargon, too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (n9gGi)

70 So this guy still has his job at Newsweek... why?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (xDfZq)

71 By the way it appears Turkey is using this assassination of the Ruskie Amb as another excuse to purge more people.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (sRFAL)

72 and he is threatening folks on twitter? And twitter is okie dokie about this because he is on 'their side'?

Posted by: IC at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (a0IVu)

73 I see Kurt left his Big Book of Tucker Carlson Lies at home this time.

Posted by: josephistan at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (7HtZB)

74 22 Between Kurt Eichenwald and his "CIA sources" (aka, voices in his head), Keith Olbermann and his Russia obsession, and Paul Krugman's conspiracy theorizing, neo-9/11 Trutherism, I don't know WHO'S going to win this season on The Apprentice: Trump Derangement Syndrome edition!
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:10 PM (4df7R)

First prize is six months' hospitalization at a locked inpatient psych ward!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (0mRoj)

75 Stephanopolous to Kurt: "How do you jog in those big red floppy clown shoes?"

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (fjfUn)

76 Did Kurt bring his three ring binder of Stephanopolis Lies like the one he made for Tucker?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (tf9Ne)

77 #RealNews

Posted by: Mega at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (AOgoV)

78 AP flips out.

Shocking Trump tweet. How dare he!

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Trump-blames-Islamic-terrorists-for-Turkey-10807656.php

Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany

The terr shouting "Aloha Snackbar" was kinda a give-away.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (wJky2)

79 The thing I love most about Kurt Eichenwald is his Twitter user pic. It is such an abject lie. It's clearly meant to make him appear classy, intelligent, attractive, and urbane, with just a hint of devil-may-care insouciance. "I cut so fine, you won't know you've lost your arm til you go to sip your Chardonay," it says, with a sly wink. "I have a unique set of skills and you'll never know half of them because you aren't important enough to warrant their use."

But then you see him on TV and he's just a tubby, balding, scruffy lunatic who's clearly suffering from paranoid delusions and a conspiracy complex that would make Alex Jones say, "Whoa, buddy. Calm down. I think you've gone a little overboard."

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (4df7R)

80 Trump doesn't really want to be president. Any minute now he's going to drop out and hand it over to Hillary.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (cAnNx)

81 So he was blowing into a dog whistle, then? No wonder these idiots always think the Right is blowing dog whistles. Classic projection.

Posted by: Kensington at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (Cw3TC)

82 70 So this guy still has his job at Newsweek... why?
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (xDfZq)

Because the only people who read it have already read every other magazine at the doctor's office?

Posted by: joncelli, Mansplaining Rage Monkey at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (RD7QR)

83 72 and he is threatening folks on twitter? And twitter is okie dokie about this because he is on 'their side'?
Posted by: IC at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (a0IVu)

Yes and yes.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (0mRoj)

84 Keith Olbermann just emailed and said Eichenwald needs to dial it back a notch.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (xDfZq)

85 So this guy still has his job at Newsweek... why?
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (xDfZq

Dere's still a Newsweek? Your shitting me?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (sRFAL)

86 84 Keith Olbermann just emailed and said Eichenwald needs to dial it back a notch.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (xDfZq)

Burn!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (8hICw)

87 >>Trump blames terrorists!

Um, maybe he's been listening to and watching ISIS?
Kinda hard to miss the signs:

http://www.bookwormroom.com/2016/12/19/ankara-isis-assassination/

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (NOIQH)

88 So this guy still has his job at Newsweek... why?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (xDfZq)

The local AM radio people sometimes joke about how they're swimming in cash, being in AM radio. I would imagine writing for Newsweek these days is a few notches below being on AM radio.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (TOk1P)

89 6 I was going to ask who Kurt Eichenwald was, but then I saw Newsweek. Well, no wonder I never heard of him.
Posted by: rickl at December 20, 2016 01:05 PM (zoehZ)

I know. I'm just stunned that Newsweek still exists at all. It's just a webpage now, right?
They probably hired this silly, lunatic in a desperate attempt to get some attention. Their "journalism" certainly isn't getting them any attention.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (+lVUW)

90 "The bizarre claim went unchallenged by Stephanopoulos, who moved on to another topic."

Because the last thing you want to do is encouraged the crazy while he is sitting near you.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (hLRSq)

91 I was Wallowed on the last thread. However, as a lifelong Republican, I believe many here are just fearful that Mr. Eichenwald's bombshell reporting will cost Trump the election. It will be an early night.

Posted by: Bull Wynn at December 20, 2016 01:19 PM (OD2ni)

92 By the way it appears Turkey is using this assassination of the Ruskie Amb as another excuse to purge more people.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (sRFAL)
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I think at this point, anything that happens is going to be an excuse for that.

Perfectly executed coup.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (xeeHA)

93 Why is Stephanopolous still here? I thought he and his family were headed to Australia? Did the Oz immigration tell him to get bent?

Posted by: IC at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (a0IVu)

94 17 "Signal to a source"? Is this a new thing?
Posted by: Mega at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (AOgoV)

Well... he was accusing Trump of drug abuse.... soooo....

Signal to his SOURCE?

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (qf6WZ)

95 Dude's 15 minutes aren't over?

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (4WhSY)

96 Kurt, The Son of Sam called. He wants his dog whistle back

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (fjfUn)

97 Shouldn't Stephanopoulous be put out to pasture now that his Clintonian masters are politically dead? Shouldn't he be put on the funeral pyre with them?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (uyrlv)

98 Well... he was accusing Trump of drug abuse.... soooo....

Signal to his SOURCE?

The chair is against the wall. Repeat:
The chair is against the wall.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (wJky2)

99 Sounds like a nazi to me... Eichenwald?????

Posted by: USNtakim at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (hMqvx)

100 "Jumping ahead of investigators" LOL

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (r/0kC)

101 Why is Stephanopolous still here? I thought he and his family were
headed to Australia? Did the Oz immigration tell him to get bent?

He got tripped up by the 'You must be THIS TALL to move to Australia!' sign at the embassy.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (nd1zx)

102 "I cut so fine, you won't know you've lost your arm til you go to sip your Chardonay,"

You big Meanie!!! [cries]

Posted by: Michelle Fields at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (OD2ni)

103 >>"Signal to a source"? Is this a new thing?

Yeah, don't think there's an exemption to libel for "signalling a source."

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (NOIQH)

104 94 17 "Signal to a source"? Is this a new thing?
Posted by: Mega at December 20, 2016 01:08 PM (AOgoV)

Well... he was accusing Trump of drug abuse.... soooo....

Signal to his SOURCE?

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (qf6WZ)

He also claims to have Trump's 1982 medical records provided by one of Trump's doctors. Even pre-HIPAA, I guarantee you this was a violation of state law.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (0mRoj)

105 71 By the way it appears Turkey is using this assassination of the Ruskie Amb as another excuse to purge more people.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2016 01:17 PM (sRFAL)

Of course they're likely purging the people that would be against what just happened. Obama's best buddy Erdogan is an Islamist.

And the Turks do really love their purges.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (cAnNx)

106 95 Dude's 15 minutes aren't over?
Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (4WhSY)

He borrowed another 15 from the alien who probed his anus last Sunday. It said it was leaving this crazy planet anyway.

Posted by: joncelli, Mansplaining Rage Monkey at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (RD7QR)

107 WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KURT?

Posted by: Dan Rather's Ham Radio, Which Is Made Out Of Real Ham at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (nd1zx)

108 Put your tinfoil on.

The blue lagoon is turning green.

I repeat, the blue lagoon is turning green.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (fjfUn)

109 I was Wallowed on the last thread

???

A pig rolled around in you?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (kff5f)

110 Eichenwald in Newsweek: The Banality of Stupidity.

Posted by: Hannah Arendt at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (hA1V+)

111 oh good, it wasn't fake news then

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (oGRue)

112 66
Shocking Trump tweet. How dare he!

http://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/Trump-blames-Islamic-terrorists-for-Turkey-10807656.php
Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2016 01:16 PM (jBuUi)

The phrase "eradicated from the face of the earth" fairly rolls off the tongue, don't it?

Posted by: rickl at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (zoehZ)

113 99 Sounds like a nazi to me... Eichenwald?????
Posted by: USNtakim at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (hMqvx)

It sounds like the name of a concentration camp.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (0mRoj)

114 AP flips out.

Shocking Trump tweet. How dare he!

Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany

Like I said on Twitter, this is how "fake news" happens.

https://twitter.com/nowhere_nh/status/811268195336257536

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (4df7R)

115 Welcome to Eichenwald: "Insanity Will Make You Free".

Posted by: Dan Rather's Ham Radio, Which Is Made Out Of Real Ham at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (nd1zx)

116 >>"Signal to a source"? Is this a new thing?

I'm old school. When I want to signal a source that I want to talk with them I call them and tell them I want to talk with them.

Kurt should have taken his own advice and stepped away from the keyboard for a while.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (/tuJf)

117 I can see ol' Kurt turning into him who should not be named.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (wo3jg)

118 108 Put your tinfoil on.

The blue lagoon is turning green.

I repeat, the blue lagoon is turning green.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (fjfUn)

Is there a nekkid Brooke Shields involved?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (0mRoj)

119 Well he said what sounded like Source, but maybe he really said Sores.

Posted by: jsg at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (gs8be)

120 >>>53 The guy is nuts...to believe anyone thinks he looks like his Twitter pic

i'm thinking he cut it out from a magazine, ala george on seinfeld.

Posted by: concrete girl at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (3ZKSL)

121 "101 Why is Stephanopolous still here? I thought he and his family were
headed to Australia? Did the Oz immigration tell him to get bent?"

I never realized Stephie was married to the "No you're shmoopy" lady from Seinfeld. She seems even more annoying in real life. The Soup Nazi had good instincts when he banned her ass.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (OD2ni)

122 101 Why is Stephanopolous still here? I thought he and his family were
headed to Australia? Did the Oz immigration tell him to get bent?

He got tripped up by the 'You must be THIS TALL to move to Australia!' sign at the embassy.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (nd1zx)

Oy! No wankers in Oz!

Posted by: Assistant Ambassador for Keeping Wankers Out of Oz at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (RD7QR)

123 109 I was Wallowed on the last thread

???

A pig rolled around in you?
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (kff5f)

"Not that there's anything wrong with that!"

~ Seinfeld

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (8hICw)

124 Why is Stephanopolous still here? Every one knows there will never be another Clinton presidency. Stephanopolous had his day in the sun.

Posted by: USNtakim at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (hMqvx)

125 Put your tinfoil on.

The blue lagoon is turning green.

I repeat, the blue lagoon is turning green.

Paper covers rock. Repeat:
Paper covers rock.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (wJky2)

126 Kurt - the voices - they are coming from inside your head!

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (1BQGO)

127 On the off chance that Emma, PhD is still lurking around, I'm posting what I just posted on the previous thread below:

================

519 516 Have you considered that the only "anti-oppressive" government is the one that governs the least?

Have you considered that the "American right" is trying to foster such a government?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 01:18 PM (ZBp8/)

=====================

If a government can go from "oppressive" to "anti-oppressive" merely by the change of who is in charge, you've got serious structural problems with your government.

I highly recommend, if you're still here, to read Charles C.W. Cooke's piece from National Review Online about ideal size of the state now that Donald Trump is in charge (at the time, it was only the spectre of him possibly being in charge):

http://tinyurl.com/z4u49cw

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (ELUpj)

128 Kurt should have taken his own advice and stepped away from the keyboard for a while.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (/tuJf)
Yup. And maybe find a nice, meditative ashram in India for some quality self reflection time. Or tweak his pharmaceuticals.

Posted by: IC at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (a0IVu)

129 7 I thought the defining characteristic of a joke was humor.

Every time the left says, "I was joking" it seems like nobody is laughing.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:05 PM (xeeHA)

This is the kind of response you get from the immature types. When my niece was fifteen she would sometimes make an inappropriate remark. When you told her that that was not acceptable, her excuse was, "I was just joking." She grew out of it. Apparently Eichenwhatever never did.

Posted by: nerdygirl at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (+lVUW)

130 technically he was virtue signalling to his source.

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (oGRue)

131 Oy! No wankers in Oz!

"New Bruce, are you a pooftah? NO POOFTAHS!"

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (nd1zx)

132 The signal is in my bowl of Alphabet's cereal! It's the only safe way to transmit...otherwise *they* will intercept. The organization can't be trusted! El Psy Congroo!

Posted by: broseidon on even newer magic glowy rectangle at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (qE5S+)

133 119
Well he said what sounded like Source, but maybe he really said Sores.

Posted by: jsg at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (gs8be)/i]

Or... SOROS.

>_______>
<_______<
O_______O
ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (4df7R)

134 "Trump blames terrorists!"

How dare he take people at their word about their motivations!

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (hLRSq)

135 Maybe gets involuntary institutionalized for coming out as a Trump supporter.

How in the hell has this man not been involuntary institutionalized? He is fucking nuts.

Posted by: Pepe, American Nationalist at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (Mdmyk)

136 122 101 Why is Stephanopolous still here? I thought he and his family were
headed to Australia? Did the Oz immigration tell him to get bent?

He got tripped up by the 'You must be THIS TALL to move to Australia!' sign at the embassy.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (nd1zx)

Oy! No wankers in Oz!
Posted by: Assistant Ambassador for Keeping Wankers Out of Oz at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (RD7QR)

The goats over there can be real c*nts.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (0mRoj)

137 Is there a nekkid Brooke Shields involved?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:23 PM (0mRoj)

Not naked, but websearch "Brooke Shields Vienna Opera Ball." Worth your time.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (X6fMO)

138 sorry but, this guy has some serious mental issues. yet he is on GMA and they all pretend like he is normal.

Democrats exhibit 1 for why you lost - you let an obviously deranged individual speak as an expert on your shows. It shows that a) you don't care how crazy someone is as long as he is on your side, and b) his ravings seem normal and mainstream to you.

Posted by: Geroge Orwell's Ghost at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (UgF8H)

139 He's whining about being treated mean now because he said dumb stuff. And that's the tale of our culture now: the bad guy isn't the one who did bad stuff, its the one that caught them doing it. They're an oppressor, a bully!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (39g3+)

140 Look. Can the next display of crazy please be from a fairly nice looking naked woman? I realize that's hard to find in liberals. But these continuous displays of crazy are becoming tiresome. Not entertaining.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (fjfUn)

141 Not naked, but websearch "Brooke Shields Vienna Opera Ball." Worth your time.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at December 20, 2016 01:25 PM (X6fMO)

Very nice indeed

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (0mRoj)

142 "Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany

Posted by: rickb223"

That's just plain crazy. Trump must be a conspiracy nut.

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (1BQGO)

143 I heard a rumor that Skip Bayless banged five sexy stewardesses last night. And none of them could report for work today.

Posted by: Totally not Skip Bayless at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (OD2ni)

144 And the Turks do really love their purges.

Tell me about it.

Posted by: Constantinople at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (kff5f)

145 Eichenwald graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas and Swarthmore College. Among other interests during his time at Swarthmore, he was a founding member of Sixteen Feet, an a cappella vocal octet

This. He has to be ghey

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (NbJXF)

146 The rooster crows in the dead of night.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (cAnNx)

147 The CIA sent me a hidden coded message that Putin hacked the Electoral College and changed Trump's attendance records and grade point average!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (hA1V+)

148 143 I heard a rumor that Skip Bayless banged five sexy stewardesses last night. And none of them could report for work today.
Posted by: Totally not Skip Bayless at December 20, 2016 01:27 PM (OD2ni)

====================

"Go Skip! You da man!"
-Also Totally not Skip Bayless, I Swear

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (ELUpj)

149 Isn't this the clown that Tucker had on? There was a vid linked here I think but lets face it, I don't care enough about this POS to go looking for it.

Posted by: IP at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (4byLl)

150 Be aware that they are serving bad parsley.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (cAnNx)

151 What an asshole. Hope Trump sues his ass.

Posted by: Pepe, American Nationalist at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (Mdmyk)

152 This Kurt guy is mental. I wonder what kinds of pharmaceuticals he's taking. More importantly we need to help him find something that works so he doesn't hurt anyone.

Posted by: Fritz at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (BXsBi)

153 This guy's nuts!

Posted by: Man literally trying to fuck a bug at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (7HtZB)

154 This place is really cool.

Posted by: Emma Sometits at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (NbJXF)

155 The blue lagoon is turning green.

Are we going to see Brooke Shields' boobehs this time?

Posted by: Bandersnatch, gentleman cad at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (mgbwf)

156 Keep putting this guy on TV. As many shows/exposure as possible. The more the spotlight is on HIM, the more paranoid, deranged, and confused he gets. And I want MORE, dammit.

Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (S2VsH)

157 146 The rooster crows in the dead of night.
Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (cAnNx)

Nothing wrong with some midnight cock.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (0mRoj)

158 The rooster crows in the dead of night.

The cock comes at midnight.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (wJky2)

159 Hope Trump sues his ass.

Honestly, I hope Trump (remember - the guy who responds to *everything*) says, "...who?"

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (kff5f)

160 Let's go see the whales breach the surface.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (cAnNx)

161 They should make Kurt the next DNC chairman.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (fjfUn)

162 156 Keep putting this guy on TV. As many shows/exposure as possible. The more the spotlight is on HIM, the more paranoid, deranged, and confused he gets. And I want MORE, dammit.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at December 20, 2016 01:29 PM (S2VsH)

=====================

Only if this ends with him having a high profile job at the New York Times.

It's the proper place for him.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (ELUpj)

163 I continue to hope that Eichenwald's appearance on Tucker Carlson will eventually be revealed as a piece of bizarre, avant garde performance art, ala Joaquin Phoenix circa 2009.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (4df7R)

164 So this is how reporters send "secret messages."

"Hey, I'm going on that wingnut Tucker Carlson's show tonight. When I pull out the big white binder called 'Tucker Carlson's Lies' that's a sign for you to call me at 11 pm sharp. Give me the secret codewords which are 'Tucker Carlson's Lies' and make sure the blinds are drawn and you're not standing in front of a window."

Not only this this guy a loon, he's seen "All the President's Men" once too often.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (s7vJs)

165 142 "Trump blames terrorists for killings in Turkey, Germany

---

I heard that terrorist made a killing in the market yesterday

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (oGRue)

166 His shtick pays really well for doing nothing

Posted by: Beto Ochoa (Beto In Austin) at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (n8eXC)

167 He borrowed another 15 from the alien who probed his anus last Sunday. It said it was leaving this crazy planet anyway.

I see. "One for the road," as it were.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (4WhSY)

168 This guy is clearly batshit crazy. Bush Derangement Syndrome was bad. TDS is going to be an order of magnitude worse. We are probably going to have to institutionalize some of these poor bastards.

This guy and the crazy bitch in Wisconsin yesterday are prime examples of people who are circling the drain and need some intervention.

Posted by: DanInMN at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (h5ffp)

169 Les sanglots longs des violons de l'automne
Blessent mon couer d'une langueur monotone.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (nd1zx)

170 So I get lectured on fake news by the media...and they put this bozo on the air?

Posted by: Geroge Orwell's Ghost at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (UgF8H)

171 The kitchen table only has 3 legs.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (cAnNx)

172
I think at this point, anything that happens is going to be an excuse for that.

Perfectly executed coup.
Posted by: Moron Pundit

Only makes sense if Putin flagged the ambassador as a traitor.

Turkey hitting him without such a nod is an insane move.

So, no, not a perfectly executed unless you are assuming layers of conspiracy.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (ZBp8/)

173 The ~~Dolphin~~ Dauphin told Henry V an elaborate joke.

https://youtu.be/NHAAH8PCnMo

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (VdICR)

174 KAYNE gets involuntary institutionalized for coming out as a Trump supporter.

How in the hell has this man not been involuntary institutionalized? He is fucking nuts.

Posted by: Pepe, American Nationalist at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (Mdmyk)

175 "101 Why is Stephanopolous still here? I thought he and his family were
headed to Australia? Did the Oz immigration tell him to get bent?"
.............

You can send him. We'll just throw the shrimp on the Barbie.

Posted by: Abbo Cannibals at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (HgMAr)

176 Don't get Kurt with me !

Posted by: Kurt at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (gs8be)

177 This. He has to be ghey

---

I guess we know what Eichen values...

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (oGRue)

178 It was bad enough while they were in power. Now that they've lost it's just getting worse and worse by the minute.

Posted by: The Chicken at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (XoldI)

179 Doctor Tiller to the white courtesy phone.

Doctor Emma Tiller, PhD, to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Fritz at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (BXsBi)

180 John's cock is against the wall.

Repeat:

John's cock is against the wall.

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (RD7QR)

181 Kurt is married with three kids. He's a loon. There are men, however, you know, who like to sing who are not gay or crazy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (tOcW/)

182 164 So this is how reporters send "secret messages."

"Hey, I'm going on that wingnut Tucker Carlson's show tonight. When I pull out the big white binder called 'Tucker Carlson's Lies' that's a sign for you to call me at 11 pm sharp. Give me the secret codewords which are 'Tucker Carlson's Lies' and make sure the blinds are drawn and you're not standing in front of a window."

Not only this this guy a loon, he's seen "All the President's Men" once too often.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (s7vJs)

Ten bucks his notebook contains nothing but his own psychotic ravings written in crayon and his own feces.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (0mRoj)

183 This guy is a LOON

Posted by: Keith Olbermann at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (oGRue)

184 "eradicated from the face of the earth"

Genocidal statement!

Posted by: Eric Hoffer's Thumb at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (0J6e7)

185 >Well... he was accusing Trump of drug abuse.... soooo....

Signal to his SOURCE?
Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 01:20 PM (qf6WZ)

Maybe he meant it was a signal to his dealer..

Posted by: Lea at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (lIU4e)

186 "138 sorry but, this guy has some serious mental issues. yet he is on GMA and they all pretend like he is normal."

I used to feel that way when Howard Stern used to have Daniel "KKK" Carver on to laugh at him. Apparently, Carver's sister was killed by a black guy when he was young and it pushed him over the edge on racial hatred. It was sad and Stern exploited his pain for laughs.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (OD2ni)

187 >>>>>The rooster crows in the dead of night.
.
.
.John has a long mustache.

The penguins are under the bed, repeat, under the bed. They are not in the refrigerator.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (icl5y)

188 107 WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY, KURT?

Posted by: Dan Rather's Ham Radio, Which Is Made Out Of Real Ham at December 20, 2016 01:22 PM (nd1zx)

LOL. And the radio is operated by a real meathead.

Yeah, I've got a real beef with Rather.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (xDfZq)

189 that Japan was behind an explosion some reported hearing in the Pearl Harbor of Honolulu, in the territory of Hawaii.

They did it because of global warming. And jobs. It was our own fault.

Posted by: The MFM at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (ul9CR)

190 We basically have to start hounding these turds out of their professions.

The left has to feel the cleansing fire.

Give no quarter, show no mercy.

They haven't.

We shouldn't.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (+lv+r)

191 Only if this ends with him having a high profile job at the New York Times.

HE got fired from the NYT, big scandal involving him paying off a child porn producer for a story and possibly product.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (39g3+)

192 Thought:

Now that Trump has the Republican Party under his control, what happens to the debates in 2020?

We've been itching for serious change in the format and selection of moderators, and we've gotten small token bits. Will Trump demand that certain big name entities have no involvement? (ABC...cough)

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (ELUpj)

193 My puppy sleeps at the foot of my bed.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (cAnNx)

194 His hands! What was Raymond doing with his hands?!

Posted by: IP at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (4byLl)

195 Apparently Eichenwhatever never did.
Posted by: nerdygirl at December 20, 2016 01:24 PM (+lVUW)
--------

I guess my daughter does that sometimes, too, when she's not confident about what she said.

But having the social skills of an 8-year-old is setting a pretty low bar.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (xeeHA)

196 It was bad enough while they were in power. Now that they've lost it's just getting worse and worse by the minute.
Posted by: The Chicken

I know, right? The next four years are gonna be awesome!

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (wJky2)

197 The guy seems a bit... odd.

Posted by: Zombie Jeffrey Dahmer at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (4WhSY)

198 Jean has a long moustache.
Repeat
Jean has a long moustache.

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (r/0kC)

199 Mainline me Kurt! Mainline me good and hard!

Posted by: throrazine shot at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (Mdmyk)

200 191 Only if this ends with him having a high profile job at the New York Times.

HE got fired from the NYT, big scandal involving him paying off a child porn producer for a story and possibly product.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (39g3+)

=====================

They really need to hire him back. He's great for their brand.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (ELUpj)

201 193 My puppy sleeps at the foot of my bed.
Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (cAnNx)

Message received and understood.

Posted by: Buzzion's super secret source at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (0mRoj)

202 He got tripped up by the 'You must be THIS TALL to move to Australia!' sign at the embassy.
Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 20, 2016 01:21 PM (nd1zx)

Is Georgie short? I never realized that, maybe because the one time I saw a pic of him standing, he was standing next to Robert Reich.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (s7vJs)

203
Kurt: where is the chair? Against the wall? Or against the door?

How many times does it take for you to grasp our signaling protocol?

-- your source

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (BK3ZS)

204 Has he deleted those tweets. Can't find them.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (wo3jg)

205 We basically have to start hounding these turds out of their professions.

The left has to feel the cleansing fire.

Give no quarter, show no mercy.

They haven't.

We shouldn't.

Amen. After all, the left is all about fairness.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (wJky2)

206 John has a long mustache.
The penguins are under the bed, repeat, under the bed. They are not in the refrigerator.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (icl5y)

The peanut butter is down my shorts.
(repeat)
The peanut butter is down my shorts.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (xDfZq)

207 The cock comes at midnight.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:30 PM (wJky2)

Tell me about it.

Posted by: The Chicken at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (X6fMO)

208 Only makes sense if Putin flagged the ambassador as a traitor.

Turkey hitting him without such a nod is an insane move.

So, no, not a perfectly executed unless you are assuming layers of conspiracy.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 01:31 PM (ZBp8/)
---------

I was more talking about Erdogan's culling of all opposition in the country. I don't think Turkey was involved at all with the assassination. I think it is exactly what it appears to be on the surface: A jihadi lunatic with access.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (xeeHA)

209 Message received and understood.

Posted by: Buzzion's super secret source at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (0mRoj

Took ya long enough.

Posted by: buzzion at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (cAnNx)

210 When the aliens appear at Trump Tower i'll have the last laugh. I've been sculpting it in mashed potatoes for weeks!

Posted by: Eichenwald at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (oGRue)

211 Can anyone explain why Trump (or Bannon or someone) doesn't sue the crap out of a few of these "reporters" for slander?

Posted by: Joekur at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (FJqd3)

212 >>>The penguins are under the bed, repeat, under the bed. They are not in the refrigerator<<<

Winona has a big brown beaver.

Posted by: Fritz at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (BXsBi)

213 Signal to his SOURCE?

---

signal received. I'm writing your new lithium Rx now...

Posted by: Kurt's doctor at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (oGRue)

214 211 Can anyone explain why Trump (or Bannon or someone) doesn't sue the crap out of a few of these "reporters" for slander?
Posted by: Joekur at December 20, 2016 01:36 PM (FJqd3)

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Suing them would give them exposure and an element of power. Ignoring does the exact opposite.

I think ignoring them is smarter.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (ELUpj)

215 Is Georgie short? I never realized that, maybe because the one time I saw a pic of him standing, he was standing next to Robert Reich.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (s7vJs)

5'7"

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (wo3jg)

216 Is Georgie short? I never realized that, maybe because the one time I saw a pic of him standing, he was standing next to Robert Reich.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (s7vJs)

Steffy is about 4-foot-3. When you see him on ABC News, he's actually sitting on 5-6 Manhattan phone books.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (xDfZq)

217 "Well, we thought having a pudgy guy with a scruffy 'dicks-go-here' goatee and not much on the ball do some TV appearances would boost our exposure to the millenials, but Chuck Todd was happy at NBC, so we ended up with Kurt, here...."

Posted by: Newsweek: Keeping Your Dentist's Coffee Table Dust Free Since 1933! at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (nd1zx)

218 liHalyr lotnCin llwi vnere be irpsdneet of the Uetidn tatSes

Posted by: Ripley at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (1BQGO)

219 Didn't Newsweek "formally" become a partisan news brand when they sold it for a $1?

I mean, it;s always had a liberal bent, but at one time it was at least pretending to be a straight news outlet that played both sides, but a group bought it out and basically said it was going to be rebranded into like a Huffington Post.

What was ironic is basically all the same people stayed on, showing it was always a liberal news/entertainment outlet.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (l1NwZ)

220 The carrots are in the chili. The carrots are in the chili. Do you read me?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (ul9CR)

221 ABC and Stephanopolus knew exactly what they were doing with thiis "interview."

See how it worked? They got the message out there about Trump and the mental institution, Stephie spent no time at all calling it fake or false, then let it go on about Fox News and other "conservative" outlets.

And their audience absorbed some more fake news. Exactly as planned.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (U6f54)

222 >>Signal to his SOURCE?

Dude. That's what the dark net is for. The Dark Net.
*wink, wink*

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (NOIQH)

223 "Is Georgie short? I never realized that, maybe because the one time I saw a pic of him standing, he was standing next to Robert Reich."

He always insisted that he be photographed standing between Robert Reich and Donna Shalala.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (OD2ni)

224 HE got fired from the NYT, big scandal involving him paying off a child porn producer for a story and possibly product.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM

He should really have a seat right over there.

Posted by: Chris Hansen at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (S2VsH)

225 I think the Left is going to spiral out of control and somebody's going to get hurt. They hated Bush, but I was never afraid to tell people I voted for him.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (dFi94)

226 Climb Mount Niitaka

Posted by: Kurt's source at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (oGRue)

227 He's now explaining this was... "a joke."

Newsweek itself is a joke.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (SRKgf)

228 Suing them would give them exposure and an element of power. Ignoring does the exact opposite.

I think ignoring them is smarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (ELUpj)
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I agree with that but also think the optics of the POTUS suing people that say bad things about him are terrible.

People say bullshit nonsense about the president. It's like... a thing.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (xeeHA)

229 Don't worry about this slander lawsuit.

It's just a "joke".

Posted by: Kristophr at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (BiOIn)

230
I think Kurt is talking to the Tamponese. Check out the blue shaded pixels in some of his tweets -- yeah, that's High Tamponese.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (BK3ZS)

231 The lotion is on the skin. Repeat. The lotion is on the skin.

Posted by: Jame G at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (XoldI)

232 This guy Eichenwald. . .he's not too tightly wrapped, is he?

Posted by: Charlie Manson at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (X6fMO)

233 179
Doctor Tiller to the white courtesy phone.

Doctor Emma Tiller, PhD, to the white courtesy phone.

Posted by: Fritz at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (BXsBi)

Anyone seen........

http://tinyurl.com/jgzc8ge

Posted by: Emma Sometits at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (NbJXF)

234 The rooster crows in the dead of night.
.
.
.John has a long mustache.

The penguins are under the bed, repeat, under the bed. They are not in the refrigerator.

Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM

Kurt has a small penis. I say again, Kurt has a small penis.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (p+Wdc)

235 Herr Eichenwald really needs to loosen the tin-foil. And grow up. But mainly grow up.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 01:39 PM (pdHvg)

236 Love the Get Smart bit.

( Max is exchanging password phrase with agent dressed as a tree)

Max: Who wrote Little Women?

Agent: The book or the screenplay?

Max: There was a book?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 01:40 PM (ZLlh9)

237 LOOK TO THE SKIES, KURT! LOOK TO THE SKIES!

Posted by: Dan Rather's Ham Radio, Which Is Made Out Of Real Ham at December 20, 2016 01:40 PM (nd1zx)

238 It's all a joke.

Posted by: Edward Blake at December 20, 2016 01:40 PM (OzJeO)

239 Kurt is the one acting like he is withdrawing from a meth addiction, not Trump.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:40 PM (NbJXF)

240 Is Georgie short? I never realized that, maybe
because the one time I saw a pic of him standing, he was standing next
to Robert Reich.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:35 PM (s7vJs)
They both sued the city for building the sidewalks too close to their ass

Posted by: MAC-SOG at December 20, 2016 01:40 PM (QPdNE)

241 I wonder how many people now understand that CBS, ABC and NBC are the fake news sites, and that the 'fake' news sites they decry are real?

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (7ZVPa)

242 "227 He's now explaining this was... "a joke." "

That's not a joke. That's not a joke. That's a severe behavioral disorder.

Posted by: Chet from Weird Science at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (OD2ni)

243 People say bullshit nonsense about the president. It's like... a thing.

Th-they said I was gay. I was just jovial!

Posted by: James Buchanon at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (ul9CR)

244 So, I'm confused: Kurt defended the lie on Tucker's show, but tried to write it off as a joke on Snuffalapagis' show? Which was first?
WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY KURT??

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (ty7RM)

245 K K K K Keep it real, Kurt! I'm wi wi wi with you!

Posted by: Max Headroom at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (nd1zx)

246 Source: "...and in conclusion, I was Deep Throat, I know who was on the grassy knoll, and OJ Simpson faked the Mars landing."

Kurt Eichenwald: "OK, sounds good. I've written that all down."

Source: "Goodbye."

Kurt Eichenwald: "Wait, how can I get in tocuh with you?"

Source: "Well, just give me a call on the ol' telephone, I suppose."

Kurt Eichenwald: "No, that would be too easy."

Source: "Well -- how else?"

Kurt Eichenwald: "here's an idea: I give you a signal on TV."

Source: "On TV?"

Kurt Eichenwald: "Sure -- I go on some talk show, and then give the secret phrase. Then you'll know to call me."

Source: "Uhhhhh...."

Kurt Eichenwald: "Your job is to sit in front of the television 24 hours a day flipping back and forth between all channeles fractically, looking for me, in case I show up on some talk show with my secret message to you."

Source: "Uh, what day will this be, again?"

Kurt Eichenwald: "Oh, no particular day. Just sit there for months, scanning the airwaves, waiting for my secret message to you."

Source: "I gotta go."

Kurt Eichenwald: "No, wait, we haven't agreed on a secret handshake yet!"

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2016 01:42 PM (jBuUi)

247
145 Eichenwald graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas and Swarthmore College. Among other interests during his time at Swarthmore, he was a founding member of Sixteen Feet, an a cappella vocal octet

This. He has to be ghey

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (NbJXF)

I know a guy who sings in an a cappella group and also in our church choir. He's 6'4", was a career Marine and has a wife and three kids. I would not call him gay.

Neither would you.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:42 PM (s7vJs)

248 Th-they said I was gay. I was just jovial!
Posted by: James Buchanon at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (ul9CR)

Pipe down, Buchanan! We don't need any more of your guff!

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (xeeHA)

249 >> They both sued the city for building the sidewalks
>> too close to their ass

Actually, Reich sued the city when the FD showed up and hooked up a hose to his dick.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (TppKb)

250 Newsweek is woke.

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (Bdeb0)

251 Eichenwald is Yiddish for Tiny Penis, correct?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (ul9CR)

252 Kurt:

2-5 19-21-18-5 20-15 4-18-9-14-11 25-15-21-18 15-22-1-12-20-9-14-5

Posted by: Ovaltine Secret Code Departmentt at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (1BQGO)

253 So, I've got 5 bucks that Der Eichenwalderfuhrer will be at "performance art" in couple weeks.

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (RD7QR)

254 I actually think it would be a good thing to have a really litigious Trump going after reporters for libel and slander.

You really can bankrupt people and destroy them, if for nothing else it's a shot across the bow.

You don't want to get sued by someone with unlimited resources and wants to make an example out of you.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (l1NwZ)

255 When he was on Tucker Carlson's show, he never once at any time even hinted that his allegation was a joke. He kept going on about how he had obtained Trump's medical records. He was serious. Insane, but serious.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 01:44 PM (dFi94)

256 Did Eichenwald say "yeah, that's the ticket!"? Don't want to watch the video.

Posted by: huerfano at December 20, 2016 01:44 PM (jkkMG)

257 247
145 Eichenwald graduated from St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas and Swarthmore College. Among other interests during his time at Swarthmore, he was a founding member of Sixteen Feet, an a cappella vocal octet

This. He has to be ghey

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:28 PM (NbJXF)

I know a guy who sings in an a cappella group and also in our church choir. He's 6'4", was a career Marine and has a wife and three kids. I would not call him gay.

Neither would you.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:42 PM (s7vJs)

Not if you wanted to continue living, anyway.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 01:44 PM (0mRoj)

258 252 Kurt:

2-5 19-21-18-5 20-15 4-18-9-14-11 25-15-21-18 15-22-1-12-20-9-14-5
Posted by: Ovaltine Secret Code Departmentt at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (1BQGO)

=====================

Shit...now he's gonna go kill John Lennon.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:44 PM (ELUpj)

259 The monkey is in the banana patch. The monkey is in the banana patch.

Posted by: Saul G at December 20, 2016 01:44 PM (XoldI)

260 Suing them would give them exposure and an element of power. Ignoring does the exact opposite.

I think ignoring them is smarter.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:37 PM (ELUpj)
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I agree with that but also think the optics of the POTUS suing people that say bad things about him are terrible.

People say bullshit nonsense about the president. It's like... a thing.

------------

Ultimately, such a suit could create a new standard. Not sure Sullivan is upheld with respect to these types of accusations against the President.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:45 PM (gmeXX)

261 It's all a joke.
Posted by: Edward Blake

No shit.

Posted by: Andy Kaufman at December 20, 2016 01:45 PM (ZBp8/)

262 "Kurt has a small penis. I say again, Kurt has a small penis."

Unlike that he-man Skip Bayless.

Posted by: Totally not Skip Bayless at December 20, 2016 01:45 PM (OD2ni)

263 OT
Sarah Hoyt has a sale today on (vampire book)

Link in nic

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 20, 2016 01:45 PM (Om16U)

264 Posted by: Ovaltine Secret Code Departmentt at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (1BQGO)

A crummy commercial? Son of a BITCH!

Posted by: Ralphie Parker at December 20, 2016 01:45 PM (0mRoj)

265 254 I actually think it would be a good thing to have a really litigious Trump going after reporters for libel and slander.

You really can bankrupt people and destroy them, if for nothing else it's a shot across the bow.

You don't want to get sued by someone with unlimited resources and wants to make an example out of you.
Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 01:43 PM (l1NwZ)

=====================

Yeah...that's a bad idea.

We don't need to set precedent with a largely liberal judiciary that the president suing people for saying things that the president doesn't like is valid.

Just imagine what President Julian Castro would do with that power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:46 PM (ELUpj)

266 I know a guy who sings in an a cappella group and also in our church choir. He's 6'4", was a career Marine and has a wife and three kids. I would not call him gay.

Word. I lift at the gym with a black friend (and Trump voter!) who sings in an a capella group. Dude is built exactly like an NFL linebacker. His muscles have muscles. I sure as fk wouldn't call him gay. (He has a wonderful voice too. Wish I could sing like that.)

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at December 20, 2016 01:46 PM (ul9CR)

267 When Hillary collapsed and they had to toss her in the scooby van, she also was sending a secret message.

The message was ... "I'm a physical wreck and can't stand for more than 20 minute".

Eichenwald's secret message was "I'm a crazy lying leftist loon, and need psychiatric help".

Posted by: illiniwek at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (/aIFg)

268 Nah, Eichenwald is German for Stoned Forest.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (pdHvg)

269 Just imagine what President Julian Castro ...

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Thanks James. I needed a good chuckle this afternoon.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (gmeXX)

270 O/T

Stolen from WZ. WHITE POWER!! Nice story about CHRISTIAN students response to a thug at their school. Lot of WHITE kids!

http://tinyurl.com/grmto7a

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (NbJXF)

271 Is it just me, or does Kurt seem like he could benefit from some professional help?

Posted by: Zombie Ed Gein at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (4WhSY)

272 "a signal to a source"

IT WAS TWITTER, DUMBASS. How about "yo, dude, call me"?

You couldn't make these idiots up if you gathered Bill Shakespeare, Truman Capote, and Douglas Adams in a room and gave them a gross of hash brownies to eat.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (B+qrE)

273 Trump doesn't need to sue - he's punching back at journalists/media sources via twitter and at his rallies.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (NOIQH)

274 OT... From HuffPo, so i guess they'd know more,

Listerine's claims are true, it indeed does cure Gonorrhea.

Posted by: IP at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (4byLl)

275 269 Thanks James. I needed a good chuckle this afternoon.
Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (gmeXX)

===================

The specific example might be ridiculous, but the overall point isn't.

I remember when Donald Trump being president was considered a joke (circa early 2015 for the entire country).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (ELUpj)

276 Nah, Eichenwald is German for Stoned Forest.

Stoned Forest sounds like a space-rock band name. I like it.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? - Takin' My Time on my Ride at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (ul9CR)

277 Trump doesn't have to sue them. He just needs to keep doing what he's doing. Point at them and call them "those dishonest people. Very dishonest."

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (dFi94)

278 191 Only if this ends with him having a high profile job at the New York Times.

HE got fired from the NYT, big scandal involving him paying off a child porn producer for a story and possibly product.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:34 PM (39g3+)

Why don't you have a seat, Kurt?

Posted by: Chris Hanson at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (7HtZB)

279 K K K K Keep it real, Kurt! I'm wi wi wi with you!

Posted by: Max Headroom at December 20, 2016 01:41 PM (nd1zx)

Watch that show after a couple bong hits sometime.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (Jcg9Q)

280 272 "a signal to a source"

IT WAS TWITTER, DUMBASS. How about "yo, dude, call me"?

You couldn't make these idiots up if you gathered Bill Shakespeare, Truman Capote, and Douglas Adams in a room and gave them a gross of hash brownies to eat.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (B+qrE)

=====================

Or a DM. It's not that complicated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (ELUpj)

281 Super Secret message to Kurt Eichenwald:

Histay ishay ayay ecretsay.

Shit, the Russkies will have to put together another Enigma machine to crack that.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 01:49 PM (s7vJs)

282 message received. I'll see you at the rodeo

Posted by: Bill Burkett at December 20, 2016 01:50 PM (oGRue)

283 Kurt Eichenwald, February of this year:

RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS ARE A BIGGER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN ISIS

tp://tinyurl.com/h45goe5

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:50 PM (39g3+)

284 Com'on, Kurt. It wasn't a joke. Everybody knows that you were trying to slander Trump and if you think it was a secret signal your supporters should pick up on-well, that's just nuts.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:50 PM (tOcW/)

285 So when is Stephanopoulos and family leaving for Australia, or was it New Zealand? He has to find someplace where his daughter can have the right to abort his grandchild.

Posted by: deepred at December 20, 2016 01:51 PM (8oULY)

286 Does never stick your dick in crazy apply to gays?

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 20, 2016 01:51 PM (wBmeZ)

287 The specific example might be ridiculous, but the overall point isn't.

I remember when Donald Trump being president was considered a joke (circa early 2015 for the entire country).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (ELUpj)
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I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us.

Also, I think, if they get control again, they are going to work very hard to ensure Democracy can't get in the way of their control anymore. I think this emotional experience has pushed them all the way totalitarian.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:51 PM (xeeHA)

288 283 Kurt Eichenwald, February of this year:

RIGHT-WING EXTREMISTS ARE A BIGGER THREAT TO AMERICA THAN ISIS

tp://tinyurl.com/h45goe5
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 01:50 PM (39g3+)

======================

"Dangerous right wing and their constitutional amendments of mass destruction..."
-Kurt Eichenwald, member of the intelligentsia

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:51 PM (ELUpj)

289 Shit, the Russkies will have to put together another Enigma machine to crack that.

---

Boon: Russian?

forget it, he's rolling

Posted by: otter at December 20, 2016 01:52 PM (oGRue)

290 I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us.

--------------

At this rate, the Democrats aren't even going to be around the next time.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:52 PM (gmeXX)

291 261 It's all a joke.
Posted by: Edward Blake

No shit.
Posted by: Andy Kaufman at December 20, 2016 01:45 PM (ZBp8/)

Behind every good joke is an element of truth.

Posted by: Zombie Andy Kaufman at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (Pq0ey)

292 287
I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us.

Also, I think, if they get control again, they are going to work very hard to ensure Democracy can't get in the way of their control anymore. I think this emotional experience has pushed them all the way totalitarian.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:51 PM (xeeHA)

====================

If they lose 2020, I think the fever will break. They'll either get taken back over by the center of their party or they'll split.

If they win 2020, we've fucked.

I'm hoping for 4% economic growth to be a minimum over the next four years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (ELUpj)

293 It's a simply foolish generalization to say that only gay men like to sing in choirs. I've known quite a few men who sing in church choirs and none of them are gay. This would include FenelonSpouse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (tOcW/)

294 More #fakenews.

MSM fails to report that assassin of Russian ambassador said all followers of Mohammad must commit Jihad.

Wonder why? Watch the video

http://tinyurl.com/j73jayc

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (NbJXF)

295 Stolen from WZ. WHITE POWER!! Nice story about CHRISTIAN students response to a thug at their school. Lot of WHITE kids!

http://tinyurl.com/grmto7a

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 01:47 PM (NbJXF)
====================

Thanks for posting that, Nip Sip. Wonderful story.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (dFi94)

296
I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (8XRCm)

297 I agree with that but also think the optics of the POTUS suing people that say bad things about him are terrible.

People say bullshit nonsense about the president. It's like... a thing.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (xeeHA)

Unfortunately, we may see a level of fuckery that will force us to revisit the problem.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (VdICR)

298 271
Is it just me, or does Kurt seem like he could benefit from some professional help?

Lobotomy or electroshock?

Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (LAe3v)

299 It's a simply foolish generalization to say that only gay men like to sing in choirs. I've known quite a few men who sing in church choirs and none of them are gay. This would include FenelonSpouse.

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I don't think people are saying that. I think people are saying if you have tendencies, then glee clubs just put you over the top.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (gmeXX)

300 More unhinged leftist lies and projection.

http://tinyurl.com/z7apqnq

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (r/0kC)

301 At this rate, the Democrats aren't even going to be around the next time.
Posted by: SH

The cult of the collective will never die. It's a mind-virus.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 01:55 PM (ZBp8/)

302 Lobotomy or electroshock?
Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (LAe3v)

Yes

Posted by: Deplorable votermom @vm on Gab at December 20, 2016 01:55 PM (Om16U)

303
Among other interests during his time at Swarthmore, he was a founding member of Sixteen Feet, an a cappella vocal octet

So I guess any melodious amputees need not have applied?

Fookin' ableists...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Irredeemable Cycling Stars (TM) at December 20, 2016 01:55 PM (BK3ZS)

304 297
Unfortunately, we may see a level of fuckery that will force us to revisit the problem.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (VdICR)

===================

The more vitriolic they get, the less effective they'll be.

They shouldn't be silenced, but amplified so that all the world can see their insanity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:55 PM (ELUpj)

305 The movie 'Zulu' and the Welsh choir. Toughest sumbitches ever.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 20, 2016 01:55 PM (MIKMs)

306 296
I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.
Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (8XRCm)

I'm not a smart man, but I know what primo kush is.

*bong rip*

Posted by: Forrest Gump at December 20, 2016 01:56 PM (0mRoj)

307 Does never stick your dick in crazy apply to gays?

Don't look at me! I wouldn't know.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 01:56 PM (wJky2)

308 @292

It's going to be Kamala Harris.

She ticks all of the SJW boxes.

Black - Check.
Woman - Check.
SJW - Check.
Bug fuck crazy - Check.

Book it.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 20, 2016 01:56 PM (+lv+r)

309 The sidebar article from the Federalist on how the media can rebuild their credibility:

They can begin by not hiring people who need to have the lithium blasted down their throats with fire hoses.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 01:56 PM (hLRSq)

310 Kurt! Is it secret? Is it safe?

Posted by: Gandalf at December 20, 2016 01:56 PM (XoldI)

311 Id rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy

Posted by: Kurt 007 at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (9n0dl)

312 Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (gmeXX)

The person who made the initial comment was Nip Sip and no, if he intended it that way he worded it poorly. Sing in choirs=gay. Yep; that's what it sounded like.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (tOcW/)

313 The sidebar article from the Federalist on how the media can rebuild their credibility:

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Why are we giving them tips?

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (gmeXX)

314 301
The cult of the collective will never die. It's a mind-virus.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 01:55 PM (ZBp8/)

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If the Democratic Party dies as an effective organizing force in American Politics, the cult of the collective will have no effective body to attach to.

We'll never declare total victory, but a generation without effective organization would be great.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (ELUpj)

315 Of course,to do so would "get ahead of the investigation"

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/252403/

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (r/0kC)

316 Yeah...that's a bad idea.

We don't need to set precedent with a largely liberal judiciary that the president suing people for saying things that the president doesn't like is valid.

Just imagine what President Julian Castro would do with that power.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Not opinion based "libel" but something that is demonstrably false.

An Editor for Newsweek saying Trump has been committed to a mental asylum is false and there should be a legal penalty for this.

It's not like he's saying "Trump is endangering Social Security!!"

The liberal judiciary has ever held back on anything before, I'm not going to pull punches with the hope it will appeal to their better angels. That ship has sailed.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (l1NwZ)

317 I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us.

Know what I love?

That after a few tentative feelers were put out there to see what the reaction would be, there has been absolutely no follow-up on early stories that Chelsea was being groomed for a future Senate run.

Hillary's failure is so complete, she's officially killed off the Clinton brand.

That, plus the fact that she will never be President, has made me truly appreciate Hillary Clinton.

Thank you, Hillary. Thank you from a grateful nation.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:58 PM (4df7R)

318 I don't think people are saying that. I think
people are saying if you have tendencies, then glee clubs just put you
over the top.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (gmeXX)
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Oops. Forgot to add some Johnny Mathis to my Christmas playlist. I can never decide if I like Nat King Cole's version of "Chestnuts Roasting O'er an Open Fire", or the Johnny Mathis version. But hands down, Mathis has the best version of Sleigh Ride.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 01:58 PM (dFi94)

319
this Fake News thing is really hurting these shits

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2016 01:58 PM (Tz9cL)

320
It's a simply foolish generalization to say that only gay men like to sing in choirs. I've known quite a few men who sing in church choirs and none of them are gay. This would include FenelonSpouse.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (tOcW/)

West Point has a very good choir

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 20, 2016 01:58 PM (lKyWE)

321 Unfortunately, we may see a level of fuckery that will force us to revisit the problem.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (VdICR)
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I suppose it is possible they could go too far. But that'd be pretty far and would have to be more than the rantings of one deranged lefty.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (xeeHA)

322 I can never decide if I like Nat King Cole's version of "Chestnuts Roasting O'er an Open Fire", or the Johnny Mathis version.

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NKC's version is my favorite Xmas song. Just amazing.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (gmeXX)

323 It seems like lefties rarely respond to anything conservatives actually believe, say or do. All they ever do is rant about their deranged fantasies.

Posted by: Northernlurker at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (wBmeZ)

324 I wouldn't call anyone gay or any name for no reason. I would add though and it may be a defect in my brain, but the size of a person has never stopped me from running my mouth when I thought deserved. That could account for some ass whippings I've taken.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (ZLlh9)

325 The person who made the initial comment was Nip Sip and no, if he intended it that way he worded it poorly. Sing in choirs=gay. Yep; that's what it sounded like.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (tOcW/)

I think you're reading a bit too much into it, or maybe need to turn your sarcasm meter on.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (Jcg9Q)

326 It's going to be Kamala Harris.

She ticks all of the SJW boxes.

Black - Check.
Woman - Check.
SJW - Check.
Bug fuck crazy - Check.

Book it.
Posted by: Kreplach

No question. I've been saying it is gonna be Harris in 2020 for quite some time now. I think she would be the chosen one to run even if Hillary had one this year.

People outside California have never heard of her and so have no idea what is about to hit.

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (jBuUi)

327 It's going to be Kamala Harris.

She ticks all of the SJW boxes.

Black - Check.
Woman - Check.
SJW - Check.
Bug fuck crazy - Check.

Book it.
Posted by: Kreplach

That IS scary.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (wJky2)

328 I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us.

My birth control platform is to eliminate all boners in America.

Posted by: Elizabeth Warren's Yelling Voice at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (Pq0ey)

329 Yeah Sen. Kamala Harris and her Order of the Masonic Police underlings are the Demoncrats next viable candidate. Unless Michelle runs her over to get back into the White House for food.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (pdHvg)

330 had one = had won

Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (jBuUi)

331 Yeah Nat King Cole killed it on his Christmas album. It is odd hearing him sing Oh Christmas Tree in German 20 years after the Nazis, though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (39g3+)

332 Why are we giving them tips?

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (gmeXX)

They sacrificed everything they had for Hillary Clinton.

Everything. Every last scrap of credibility. Every last sense of human decency. Their present, their future.

All was burned in sacrifice to Hillary Clinton achieving the presidency.

Do you think they are going to start acting sensibly now?

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (hLRSq)

333 290 I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us. "

I'm willing to bet it will be either Fauxahontas or Kamala Harris, who is being described as the Dem's rising (red) star.

Both of them out of touch coastal elites with vags. Yes, the way they shitcanned Tim Ryan was a sign they have learned nothing from the election and they love identity politics too much to give it up.

If Trump does a great or even passable job, I'm not worried.

I'm not worried anyway. I spent 3 years worrying about the 2016 election, I want to take a breather before I start fretting about 2020.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (s7vJs)

334 274 OT... From HuffPo, so i guess they'd know more,

Listerine's claims are true, it indeed does cure Gonorrhea.
Posted by: IP at December 20, 2016 01:48 PM (4byLl)

Oh of course it does.

Or so I'm told.

SQUIRREL!

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (RD7QR)

335 NKC's version is my favorite Xmas song. Just amazing.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (gmeXX)
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Yeah, I think that's the version I'm going with.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (dFi94)

336 That IS scary.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (wJky2)

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If she can be Attorney General in California, she must be a batshit crazy leftist.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (xeeHA)

337 211 Can anyone explain why Trump (or Bannon or someone) doesn't sue the crap out of a few of these "reporters" for slander?

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It's almost impossible to win a slander suit. Especially if you're a "public figure".

Posted by: Farmer Joe at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (zSMr0)

338 It's going to be Kamala Harris.

If the GOP had a remotest clue they'd be doing hardcore deep background study and vetting on her right now. And on anyone else they might throw out there, like Castro.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (39g3+)

339 At this rate, the Democrats aren't even going to be around the next time.

Posted by: SH

The average age of their "bench" is, what? 102? The young Democrats aren't actually Democrats - they're out-and-proud socialists and genuine Communists. That's who they'll be running in four years, but they'll pretty them up and make them sound like they're as American as apple pie. It's in their nature.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (4df7R)

340 Sounds like Kurt needs a tampon. Hope he lives close to Columbia Univ.

Posted by: MacGruber at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (FEAjO)

341 Are there gay men who like to sing?, yes but straight men I know who sings in church choirs appreciate it because:

1. They feel like singing is praying twice. (That's actually a quote by someone)

2. They like the appreciation because there are always more women than men in church choirs. and so the male voices are particularly important in many selections.

3. They enjoy being around women who like to sing. :^) and if you have a pleasant and good director it's fun to be in a choir.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (tOcW/)

342 So will black men flock to the polls to vote for a black woman?

Posted by: josephistan at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (7HtZB)

343 >> Black - Check.
>> Woman - Check.
>> SJW - Check.
>> Bug fuck crazy - Check.

You forgot:

Indian (dot-not-feather) - Check.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (TppKb)

344 Fauxcahontas, Kamala, good odds. Dark horse: Tammy Duckworth.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (MIKMs)

345 Am I missing something?

I'm not seeing the 'involuntarily institutionalized' crazy here.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (wo3jg)

346
I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us

Disagree. They'll run someone who sounds more centrist than he / she is. I'm thinking Mark Warner or Tim Kaine.

I'd prefer Tulsi Gabbard just for the aesthetics.

Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (LAe3v)

347 340 Sounds like Kurt needs a tampon. Hope he lives close to Columbia Univ.
Posted by: MacGruber at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (FEAjO)

Have you ever seen Kurt and a stack of loose tampons in the same room? WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (RD7QR)

348 307
Does never stick your dick in crazy apply to gays?

Well, since being ghey is crazy, how do you know?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (NbJXF)

349 If the GOP had a remotest clue they'd be doing hardcore deep background study and vetting on her right now. And on anyone else they might throw out there, like Castro.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (39g3+)

It is to laugh!

"Be Prepared" is NOT the motto of the GOP Establishment.

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (wCEn4)

350 So will black men flock to the polls to vote for a bug fuck cray cray black woman?

FIFY

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (wJky2)

351 338 It's going to be Kamala Harris.

If the GOP had a remotest clue they'd be doing hardcore deep background study and vetting on her right now. And on anyone else they might throw out there, like Castro.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (39g3+)

Castro is dead & isn't American. He may be able to vote democrat, but he can't be President.

Posted by: josephistan at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (7HtZB)

352 Fauxcahontas, Kamala, good odds. Dark horse: Tammy Duckworth.

Corey Booker...book it.

Posted by: Al Leppo at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (vmsda)

353 Castro is dead isn't American. He may be able to vote democrat, but he can't be President.

Not Fidel, Julian.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (4WhSY)

354 Speaking of macho singers, check out the You Tube vid of Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker singing "Ave Maria" at a DC church. Tucker is a trained opera singer.

Wouldn't call him ghey either. Nice pipes. Nice leg muscles too.

The Ravens have a guy getting his PhD in Math from MIT and an opera singer on their roster. It's almost enough - almost, but not quite enough - to make me root for the Ravens.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (s7vJs)

355 Disagree. They'll run someone who sounds more centrist than he / she is. I'm thinking Mark Warner or Tim Kaine.

I'd prefer Tulsi Gabbard just for the aesthetics.
Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (LAe3v)
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We shall see. I think, as mentioned above, the bench for the Dems is all Communists and old people. I feel like they are going to try to run "their Trump" against us. Because they are emotional children and only think in those terms.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (xeeHA)

356 Are there gay men who like to sing?, yes but straight men I know who sings in church choirs appreciate it
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I wish we had a church choir. What I really wish is that we had a worship band. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. We don't even have a pianist or organist. We've got bupkis.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (dFi94)

357 >>3. They enjoy being around women who like to sing. :^) and if you have a pleasant and good director it's fun to be in a choir. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:02 PM (tOcW/)

That's true. And some straight men like to be around women who know how to make sandwiches. And there's nothing wrong with that!

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (Bdeb0)

358 Tammy Duckworth, good gosh what traitorous slime but yeah she checks two more boxes than Harris.

Veteran - Check
Disabled - Check

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (pdHvg)

359 Speaking of jokes, OT and likely a shill-y thing but, these guys are good for a laugh. https://vid.me/AgonywolfMedia

Especially if you like the old MST3K.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (xJa6I)

360 Oops. Forgot to add some Johnny Mathis to my Christmas playlist. I can never decide if I like Nat King Cole's version of "Chestnuts Roasting O'er an Open Fire", or the Johnny Mathis version. But hands down, Mathis has the best version of Sleigh Ride.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 01:58 PM (dFi94)

What about polka music? Do the Swedes do polka music?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (xDfZq)

361 I spent 3 years worrying about the 2016 election, I want to take a breather before I start fretting about 2020.

pffffft. Sunshine Patriot.

Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (LAe3v)

362 I'm calling it now. The Democrats are going to run somebody really terrible next time. Somebody truly horrifying to us.

As opposed to what? The democrats running a good honest candidate?

Posted by: StrawMan at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (HST3u)

363
Merkel is pissed off at German media and social media for, get this, reporting facts.

Merkel is angry that the media/press implicated one of her darling muslims for the atrocity that one of her darling muslims committed.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (Tz9cL)

364 354 Speaking of macho singers, check out the You Tube vid of Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker singing "Ave Maria" at a DC church. Tucker is a trained opera singer.

Wouldn't call him ghey either. Nice pipes. Nice leg muscles too.

The Ravens have a guy getting his PhD in Math from MIT and an opera singer on their roster. It's almost enough - almost, but not quite enough - to make me root for the Ravens.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (s7vJs)

Doesn't Mike Rowe sing opera?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (0mRoj)

365 Castro is dead isn't American. He may be able to vote democrat, but he can't be President.

Not Fidel, Julian.

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His political career is pretty much dead.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (gmeXX)

366 They'll pick a black guy again with the hope of recreating the mocha magic of Barack.

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (r/0kC)

367 DLoesch just sent a Tweet about Eichenwald being Tweeted "a seizure inducing Tweet." Apparently he has epilepsy, among other things. Apparently Twitter is turning over ID info on the original Tweeter.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (ty7RM)

368 I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.

Posted by: fixerupper
***

Stone Roses were there too.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (m3iiU)

369 >> I'd prefer Tulsi Gabbard just for the aesthetics.

And something that sometimes seems to approach judgment.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (TppKb)

370 Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (Bdeb0)

You spelled it wrong. It's sammich. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (tOcW/)

371 So. None of that is insane in the slightest.

Posted by: alexthechick - rrraaawwwrrr at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (mf5HN)

372 346 Disagree. They'll run someone who sounds more centrist than he / she is. I'm thinking Mark Warner or Tim Kaine.

I'd prefer Tulsi Gabbard just for the aesthetics.
Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (LAe3v)

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You have to get that centrist sounding white man through a primary that sets identity politics and oppression Olympic medals above everything else.

That ain't going to happen, at least not yet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (ELUpj)

373 345
Am I missing something?

I'm not seeing the 'involuntarily institutionalized' crazy here.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (wo3jg)

You have to watch this AFTER watching Kurt's appearance on Tucker Carlson, and then reading through the ensuing Twitter meltdown and subsequent deletion of those tweets. Add all of that together w/ Kurt's latest assertion that the "joke" tweet about Trump being institutionalized - the one that made his Carlson appearance so unhinged - was a "signal for a source" to contact him, and it's really easy to imagine Eich's medicine cabinet is stocked with lithium.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (4df7R)

374 he's just a tubby, balding, scruffy lunatic who's clearly suffering from paranoid delusions and a conspiracy complex that would make Alex Jones say, "Whoa, buddy. Calm down. I think you've gone a little overboard."

You type that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (8J/Te)

375 Castro is dead isn't American. He may be able to vote democrat, but he can't be President.

Not Fidel, Julian.
Posted by: Blanco Basura

Out of San Antonio

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (wJky2)

376 363 They are supposed to cover it up so as to not prove the "far right" is,you know,right.

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (r/0kC)

377 Back on topic, I sang in our church choir for years. I liked it, we had a mix of older married men and some younger drama queens who could sing. Dunno if they were friends of Dorothy or not, but was a good time.

There's something very pleasing in the more simple melodies of the old hymns, you don't have that in modern worship.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (xJa6I)

378 I wish we had a church choir. What I really wish is that we had a worship band. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. We don't even have a pianist or organist. We've got bupkis.
Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM

I thought you went to a rockin' church in a movie mall that had a worship band of some sort. Or are you talking about the Rev's stuffy old Lutheran church?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (xDfZq)

379 What about polka music? Do the Swedes do polka music?
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (xDfZq)

The only music I know of that is associated with Swedes is metal.

They love metal.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (xeeHA)

380 What about polka music? Do the Swedes do polka music?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (xDfZq)
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Oh now you did it. Just wait. I'm going to find it and then you'll be sorry you asked.....

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (dFi94)

381 maybe need to turn your sarcasm meter on.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 20, 2016 01:59 PM (Jcg9Q)

If you visit AoSHQ and don't have your sarcasm meter on; you might just regret it!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (wCEn4)

382 I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.

Posted by: fixerupper
***

Stone Roses were there too.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW
****

Along with Stone Sour

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (m3iiU)

383 The Dems won't run one of their ringers unless things go very bad during Trump's first 4 years. If Trump has even the least successful first 4 years the Dems will run a sacrificial ideologue.

Posted by: davidt at December 20, 2016 02:08 PM (XoldI)

384 >>370
Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (Bdeb0)
You spelled it wrong. It's sammich. ;^) Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (tOcW/)

Some straight men also like to watch gay women make sandwiches, and then watch them eat the sandwiches. But not many straight men like that.

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:08 PM (Bdeb0)

385 366 They'll pick a black guy again with the hope of recreating the mocha magic of Barack.
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (r/0kC)

Which leaves Corey Booker, as far as I can tell, since he's the only black Dem with any national exposure at all.

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:08 PM (RD7QR)

386 Let's face it. No matter how stupid he sounds Eichenwald is just trying to avoid the Clinton suicide list.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 20, 2016 02:08 PM (2dFSo)

387 381 If you visit AoSHQ and don't have your sarcasm meter on; you might just regret it!
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (wCEn4)

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You'll probably pull a muscle.

Maybe that's what happened to Emma, PhD.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (ELUpj)

388 The real problem is that you can't tell a hysterical nutbag not to be a hysterical nutbag, because if they *are* a hysterical nutbag, they won't understand.

There is something that puts the hair on the back of your neck up about dealing with someone who *thinks* they are perfectly rational but are actually flipping delusional.

TFW you're accused of being delusional because you can't see the flying monkeys...

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (wB8Tg)

389 DLoesch just sent a Tweet about Eichenwald being Tweeted "a seizure inducing Tweet." Apparently he has epilepsy, among other things. Apparently Twitter is turning over ID info on the original Tweeter.

And what proof is there, besides his word, that it caused a seizure?

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (wJky2)

390 I think the top bit of news in the Turkey attack is getting under reported.

A top ally of Russian strongman Vladimir Putin said a NATO country was "highly likely" to have been behind the shooting.

Frantz Klintsevich, deputy chairman of the Russian upper chamber's defense and security committee, called the assassination "a planned action," the Daily Mail reported.

"Everyone knew that he was going to attend this photo exhibition. It can be ISIS, or the Kurdish army, which tries to hurt (Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan," he said.

"But may be - and it is highly likely - that representatives of foreign NATO secret services are behind it. What has happened is a true provocation, a challenge. It is a challenge for Russia," said Klintsevich, a member of the ruling council of United Russia party, Putin's vehicle of power.

http://nypost.com/2016/12/19/russian-ambassador-
to-turkey-shot-in-targeted-attack/

Obviously, if a NATO member had anything to do with this, it would be huge. But, the fact that Putin even suspects it might be true is very significant.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (R+30W)

391 Male Black Dem? I'm available, just sayin.

Posted by: Mel Reynolds at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (4byLl)

392 326 It's going to be Kamala Harris.
She ticks all of the SJW boxes.
Black - Check.
Woman - Check.
SJW - Check.
Bug fuck crazy - Check.
Book it.
Posted by: Kreplach
No question. I've been saying it is gonna be Harris in 2020 for quite some time now. I think she would be the chosen one to run even if Hillary had one this year.
People outside California have never heard of her and so have no idea what is about to hit.
Posted by: zombie at December 20, 2016 02:00 PM (jBuUi)

No, they don't. She's poison. All she needs to do now is come out of the closet, and she's a shoo-in for the Democrat nomination in 2020.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (SRKgf)

393 Maybe the Demoncrats will run Al Roker in 2020?

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (pdHvg)

394 Proof? This is Twitter we're talking about here.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (xJa6I)

395 385 Which leaves Corey Booker, as far as I can tell, since he's the only black Dem with any national exposure at all.
Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:08 PM (RD7QR)

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And apparently with a similar propensity for making up stories about his past as our current president.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (ELUpj)

396 312 Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 01:54 PM (gmeXX)

The person who made the initial comment was Nip Sip and no, if he intended it that way he worded it poorly. Sing in choirs=gay. Yep; that's what it sounded like.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:57 PM (tOcW/)

Damn.... so as a young Lad I was Gay????

Musta got better?

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (qf6WZ)

397 Oregon Muse- you asked for it:

Nu ar det jul igen (Now it is Christmas again). Get drunk on glogg and dance around the house, ending at the Christmas tree. Oh yes. We do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVeIaWfvok

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (dFi94)

398 It's going to be Kamala Harris.

If the GOP had a remotest clue they'd be doing hardcore deep background study and vetting on her right now. And on anyone else they might throw out there, like Castro.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:01 PM (39g3+)

"If"

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (OzJeO)

399 Hank Johnson -2020 Vote for me or I'll tip this bitch over !

Posted by: Al Leppo at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (vmsda)

400 Squirrel turds got nothing on these nut bars.

Posted by: SOMESASSHOLESTOLEMYPEN at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (nQHw/)

401 They'll probably try someone like Kamala Harris which is basically Obama 2.0

My hope is someone like Elizabeth Warren gets the nom.

A minority woman like kamala will pull the turnout up, but Trump is in a much better position being an incumbent

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (l1NwZ)

402 385 366 They'll pick a black guy again with the hope of recreating the mocha magic of Barack.
Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 02:06 PM (r/0kC)
Which leaves Corey Booker, as far as I can tell, since he's the only black Dem with any national exposure at all.
Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:08 PM (RD7QR)

Nah. Been done. It's Kamala Harris. Black, AND a woman. Also crazy, incompetent, fascistic, and hard left.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (SRKgf)

403 Are there gay men who like to sing?, yes but straight men I know who sings

+++++

Battle Hymn of the Republic == Straight
Somewhere Over the Rainbow == FFS

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (ZiGe/)

404 390 Obviously, if a NATO member had anything to do with this, it would be huge. But, the fact that Putin even suspects it might be true is very significant.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (R+30W)

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I'd put more money on:

"Putin knows who did it, but finds it more expedient to put the blame on NATO."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (ELUpj)

405 "It's a simply foolish generalization to say that only gay men like to sing in choirs. I've known quite a few men who sing in church choirs and none of them are gay. This would include FenelonSpouse.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke"

And don't forget Deacon Jones on the Brady Bunch telling Peter and his friends that he was in the glee club.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 02:12 PM (OD2ni)

406 My hope is someone like Elizabeth Warren gets the nom.

A minority woman like kamala will pull the turnout up, but Trump is in a much better position being an incumbent

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (l1NwZ)

Fauxcahontas will be too old for a first run.

We can only hope that Trump turns things around bigly, a la Reagan, and therefore has a lock on 2020.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:12 PM (SRKgf)

407 @Anon Y. Mous

Yeah, saw that too. That's insane, if they actually believe it. Can't figure out why they want to pick a fight with NATO unless things are really, really bad domestically.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2016 02:12 PM (xJa6I)

408 Obviously, if a NATO member had anything to do with this, it would be huge. But, the fact that Putin even suspects it might be true is very significant.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (R+30W)

After Barky and Shrillary and the dems have been making up shit about Russia "hacking the election" there was no doubt that Russia was going to accuse the West of this assassination.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2016 02:12 PM (zc3Db)

409 404 390 Obviously, if a NATO member had anything to do with this, it would be huge. But, the fact that Putin even suspects it might be true is very significant.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (R+30W)

=====================

I'd put more money on:

"Putin knows who did it, but finds it more expedient to put the blame on NATO."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (ELUpj)

Yeah, he's not going to let a crisis go to waste. Maybe he's got an offensive in Ukraine warming up.

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (RD7QR)

410 Not Fidel, Julian.

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 20, 2016 02:04 PM (4WhSY)

Julian's politics are pretty close to Fidel's.

Aren't the Castro twins something like 5'1"?

It's superficial, I know, but that would put them at a disadvantage on the debate stage next to Trump. I think Barron is taller than they are.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (s7vJs)

411 402 Nah. Been done. It's Kamala Harris. Black, AND a woman. Also crazy, incompetent, fascistic, and hard left.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (SRKgf)

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I get the feeling that it's going to be someone like her, if not her herself.

I don't know how she plays on the stump, especially to an audience that doesn't think that Bernie Sanders is probably a bit too centrist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (ELUpj)

412 The Democrats' media shield needs to be under relentless attack by the Republican and conservative thought leaders every time they appear in public. We need to shove their insistence that we address "fake news" down their throats so hard they choke on it. Stories like this are perfectly designed to illustrate the point. Punch back three times as hard, because twice as hard doesn't seem to be quite sufficient for the task.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (yjhOG)

413 Tammy Duckworth, good gosh what traitorous slime but yeah she checks two more boxes than Harris.

Veteran - Check
Disabled - Check
Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (pdHvg)

First term Illinois Senator running after only serving 4 years in the Senate?

Yah, the Dems would so nominate her.

Posted by: The Political Hat at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (OzJeO)

414 It's superficial, I know, but that would put them at a disadvantage on the debate stage next to Trump.

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Along with their lack of intelligence.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (gmeXX)

415 I thought you went to a rockin' church in a movie
mall that had a worship band of some sort. Or are you talking about the
Rev's stuffy old Lutheran church?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (xDfZq)
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My happy fun church has fun and happy music. Rev's church has music we're supposed to sing from 1292. This is not a typo. They have hymns that pre-date the Reformation. Nobody seems to know how they go. Oldest song we have at happy fun church is from around 2011.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (dFi94)

416 406 Fauxcahontas will be too old for a first run.

We can only hope that Trump turns things around bigly, a la Reagan, and therefore has a lock on 2020.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:12 PM (SRKgf)

=======================

I wouldn't put too much into the age argument.

They really need a national figure, and they don't have much. Age won't stand in the DNC's way if they become convinced that Warren is their ticket.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (ELUpj)

417 Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (R+30W)

I've got this!

Posted by: Zombie Gavrilo Princip at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (wCEn4)

418 Barbershop quartet is so gay it's not funny

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (ZiGe/)

419 Punch back three times as hard, because twice as hard doesn't seem to be quite sufficient for the task.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (yjhOG)

"And never punch down!" -- someguy

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (zc3Db)

420 ...ace touched on that (seizure) the other night-someone put up a "blinky" GIF on twitter. His wife immediately jumped onto his feed to tell the world; and was "alerting" authorities. Kankles face-plants in front of the world and is totes healthy. This guy wigs from a strobe GIF; and we have a full-scale investigation. Interesting times-

Posted by: pahound at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (aUOh9)

421 We've got bupkis.
Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016

Now, grammie. It's not a large rockin' non denom. Evangelical church, but if you have two or three gathered in His name Christ is in your midst.

Don't have a pianist or organist because they can't afford one, or because the church doesn't do hymns with accompaniment? Do you se the hymns on CD?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (tOcW/)

422 Proof? This is Twitter we're talking about here.

Sorry. No proof and all you get from me is a hearty GFY.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (wJky2)

423 If it's Harris, the Dems will have California locked up and it'll be an early night.

Posted by: Bull Wynn at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (XoldI)

424 So will black men flock to the polls to vote for a black woman?

Yeah, that's a question all right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (39g3+)

425 Well, with Reverse Jesus being the new talent scout for the Dems farm team, they should be in great shape to lose the next 2 elections....

Posted by: runningrn at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (9KLZ+)

426 Fauxcahontas will be too old for a first run.

We can only hope that Trump turns things around bigly, a la Reagan, and therefore has a lock on 2020.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
________

I'm not sure it matters, a joke candidate like Bernie came pretty close to knocking off the Clinton Machine, and the guy seemed way older than he actually was.

Elizabeth Warren seems younger than Bernie Sanders, and in a crowded field, she could pull it off.

My money though would be on Kamala, and if I'm being honest, she'll be formidable even though she has a checkered past.

A big reason we won was minorities simply didn't turn out.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (l1NwZ)

427 409 Yeah, he's not going to let a crisis go to waste. Maybe he's got an offensive in Ukraine warming up.
Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (RD7QR)

======================

And then you throw in Trump's comments questioning the purpose or efficacy of NATO, and suddenly those individual states don't feel very strong together.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (ELUpj)

428 I'd put more money on:

"Putin knows who did it, but finds it more expedient to put the blame on NATO."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (ELUpj)
_____________________________________

Testing the resolve of NATO perhaps?

Posted by: IP at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (4byLl)

429 I don't really like worship music or hymns. I'm an equal opportunity curmudgeon I guess.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (0mRoj)

430 Well, with Reverse Jesus being the new talent scout for the Dems farm team, they should be in great shape to lose the next 2 elections....

------------

He's the gift that keeps on giving.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (gmeXX)

431 WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama pardoned 78 people and shortened the sentences of 153 others convicted of federal crimes on Monday -- the most individual clemencies ever granted in a single day by any president. As he nears the end of his second term, Obama has issued more commutations than the previous 11 presidents combined, according to the White House.

... it says a lot about this friends

Posted by: SMOD at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (NVmJr)

432 My happy fun church has fun and happy music. Rev's church has music
we're supposed to sing from 1292. This is not a typo. They have hymns
that pre-date the Reformation. Nobody seems to know how they go. Oldest
song we have at happy fun church is from around 2011.

I cannot abide modern church music. It's all guitars and and drums and hippies and it sucks. Give me a good chant any day.

Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (LAe3v)

433 Hymns from 1292? And no one knows how they go?

So it all sounds like Buddy Elf making a song up?

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (ZiGe/)

434 They have hymns that pre-date the Reformation. Nobody seems to know how they go.

Its odd, almost as if you might learn them if you sang them once in a while. Some really, really good music from the past.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (39g3+)

435 Keep f****ing that chicken Kurt.

Posted by: USNtakim at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (hMqvx)

436 426 I'm not sure it matters, a joke candidate like Bernie came pretty close to knocking off the Clinton Machine, and the guy seemed way older than he actually was.

Elizabeth Warren seems younger than Bernie Sanders, and in a crowded field, she could pull it off.

My money though would be on Kamala, and if I'm being honest, she'll be formidable even though she has a checkered past.

A big reason we won was minorities simply didn't turn out.
Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (l1NwZ)

======================

Also, remember Trump is pretty damn old himself, but he doesn't seem like it because he's very high energy.

So is Warren.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (ELUpj)

437 As opposed to what? The democrats running a good honest candidate?

Posted by: StrawMan at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (HST3u)

What? Name one?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (NbJXF)

438 388 The real problem is that you can't tell a hysterical nutbag not to be a hysterical nutbag, because if they *are* a hysterical nutbag, they won't understand.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 20, 2016 02:09 PM (wB8Tg)

I tried doing that once. Guy called on my church's line and tried to tell me he was the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world as foretold in Revelation. He had a web page and everything.

I told him he was batshit crazy.

He got angry. Nobody likes being called batshit crazy, even if they're batshit crazy.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (xDfZq)

439
"Putin knows who did it, but finds it more expedient to put the blame on NATO."
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:11 PM (ELUpj)

Why wouldn't he democrats and the media have been poking him with a stick about the election hack for over a month now with little evidence.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (lKyWE)

440 "I'd prefer Tulsi Gabbard just for the aesthetics.
Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (LAe3v"

If that's the standard they can go with the former Pennsylvania AG. She looks wild. She should be out of the big house by 2020.

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (OD2ni)

441 420 ...ace touched on that (seizure) the other night-someone put up a "blinky" GIF on twitter. His wife immediately jumped onto his feed to tell the world; and was "alerting" authorities. Kankles face-plants in front of the world and is totes healthy. This guy wigs from a strobe GIF; and we have a full-scale investigation. Interesting times-

Funny thing about that: there is NO police report....

Posted by: runningrn at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (sUP4M)

442 Yeah a lot of straight men are interior decorators too but that doesn't mean we have to be all PC and get upset when someone makes a stereotype comment intended as a joke,

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (ZLlh9)

443 Don't have a pianist or organist because they can't
afford one, or because the church doesn't do hymns with accompaniment?
Do you se the hymns on CD?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (tOcW/)
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We don't have a pianist/organist because after 20 years she asked the board for $400 a year in compensation. They said no. o_O

So now Rev has to submit his hymns and liturgical music to St. Louis HQ and they pipe in a virtual organist on Sunday morning.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (dFi94)

444 Hillary's failure is so complete, she's officially killed off the Clinton brand.

That, plus the fact that she will never be President, has made me truly appreciate Hillary Clinton.

Thank you, Hillary. Thank you from a grateful nation.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit Vaginassassin, aka Beth at December 20, 2016 01:58 PM

Is it wrong that I'm hearing this in Darth Vader's voice?

"Bubba-wan's failure is now complete..."

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at December 20, 2016 02:19 PM (p+Wdc)

445 424
So will black men flock to the polls to vote for a black woman?

Yeah, that's a question all right.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

If TV commercials are to be believed, in the last year or so, black men only like white women. It's amazing what the hive of independent minds thinks is original.

Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:19 PM (LAe3v)

446 ...and Lizzie has that "melodious" speaking voice. Reminds me of how Mary Kloggenstein must sound-

Posted by: pahound at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (aUOh9)

447
You have to get that centrist sounding white man through a primary that sets identity politics and oppression Olympic medals above everything else.

That ain't going to happen, at least not yet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

If Bill Clinton was like 55 instead of zombie-like, are you suggesting that he couldn't win?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (ZBp8/)

448 Nu ar det jul igen (Now it is Christmas again). Get drunk on glogg and dance around the house, ending at the Christmas tree. Oh yes. We do this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUVeIaWfvok

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:10 PM (dFi94)

Ha! I SAW that movie in the theater, would you believe.

Yes, there's nothing that makes me think of Christmas spirit more than Ingmar Bergman.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (xDfZq)

449 Hymns from 1292? And no one knows how they go?
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It's a mystery to me, too. They've been singing out of the same hymnal since 1941. You'd think they'd have caught on by now.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (dFi94)

450 I'd put more money on:

"Putin knows who did it, but finds it more expedient to put the blame on NATO."

And technically, he's correct.
The assassin was a state actor. Turkish Spec Ops Police Officer.
Turkey is a NATO country.
Regardless of the reasons of the individual, Turkey is responsible. NATO is responsible.

Treaties pledging defense suck for this very reason.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (wJky2)

451 442 Yeah a lot of straight men are interior decorators too but that doesn't mean we have to be all PC and get upset when someone makes a stereotype comment intended as a joke,
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (ZLlh9)

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So, out of left field:

I watched the episode of Star Trek where Kirk meets Abraham Lincoln last night (stay with me....)

Lincoln calls Uhura a "negress", and she doesn't bat an eye. She just simply says, "Words don't hurt me. I'm comfortable with who I am."

Remember, Star Trek has always been to the left of the American center, and that's what the left tended to sound like (they also hated hippies). How would that exchange go now?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (ELUpj)

452 I cannot abide modern church music. It's all guitars and and drums and hippies and it sucks. Give me a good chant any day.

Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:16 PM (LAe3v)

Yeah, I'm really big on the Catholic Hit Parade from 1350.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (s7vJs)

453 Gosh-$400 a year sounds like a really low salary to play every week. I had no idea people could get piped in music. When I served little churches that had no musician we used the hymnal on CD. FenSpouse was the sound technician. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (tOcW/)

454 Black men don't flock to the polls for anyone.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (ZLlh9)

455 Ha! I SAW that movie in the theater, would you believe.
===================================

Ya, I've managed to fall into the tree on more than one occasion.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (dFi94)

456 447 If Bill Clinton was like 55 instead of zombie-like, are you suggesting that he couldn't win?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (ZBp8/)

========================

Yes. Especially with the women in his closet (he should have chosen a binder).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (ELUpj)

457 >> My money though would be on Kamala, and if I'm
>> being honest, she'll be formidable even though she
>> has a checkered past.

They got one first-term Senator with a checkered past into the Oval Office. I wouldn't be surprised to see them try again.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (TppKb)

458 I think Trump was right when he said we don't know how to win. Trump won, we control both houses, and people still want to talk civil war, secession, and who the Donks run in 2020. And it's 5 days before Christmas. Fuvk it, dudes, go bowling or something!

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (oDW2u)

459 440 "I'd prefer Tulsi Gabbard just for the aesthetics.
Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:03 PM (LAe3v"

If that's the standard they can go with the former Pennsylvania AG. She looks wild. She should be out of the big house by 2020.
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (OD2ni)

Dude, that's like sticking your dick in crazy and then electing crazy to national office. That would be...well, par for the course for the DemonRats.

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (RD7QR)

460 even if they're batshit crazy.

It's parakeets, bats won't nest in your belfry.

Posted by: DaveA at December 20, 2016 02:22 PM (8J/Te)

461 I cannot abide modern church music. It's all guitars and and drums and hippies
=======================

Those are my people!!

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:22 PM (dFi94)

462 450 And technically, he's correct.
The assassin was a state actor. Turkish Spec Ops Police Officer.
Turkey is a NATO country.
Regardless of the reasons of the individual, Turkey is responsible. NATO is responsible.

Treaties pledging defense suck for this very reason.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (wJky2)

=======================

"What do you mean?"
-Austria Hungary, circa 1914

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:22 PM (ELUpj)

463
remember 1982-1987?

Trump can repeat that economic growth.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2016 02:22 PM (Tz9cL)

464 Just in case you have to worry aboutbhim, Kurt's twitterbpic is about 20 lbs, fifteen years and a couple of inches' hairline out of date.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (Kucy5)

465 Signal? He was signalling?

Impossible, I spent that whole evening as a tourniquet for his dignity.

Posted by: White Flag at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (adsVM)

466 This guy is really a crazy person

Posted by: jihadi at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (I64i9)

467 Is there a record of a Whaambulance being sent to his address?

Posted by: Buzzsaw at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (tf9Ne)

468 Rush right now voicing his opinion that Obama will be the media's main mouthpiece against anything and everything Trump does after January 20, and will be a go-to talking head, speaking from his own office in his D.C. home, on every cable and network "news" show.

Rush says it will be done in unprecedented fashion, in its frequency and regularity, as no former president ever has inserted himself as the voice of opposion to his successor, the way Obama will do.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (U6f54)

469 >> Dude, that's like sticking your dick in crazy and then
>> electing crazy to national office. That would
>> be...well, par for the course for the DemonRats.

Yeah, but if you're First Crazy you get the Secret Service and Air Force One.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (TppKb)

470 427 409 Yeah, he's not going to let a crisis go to waste. Maybe he's got an offensive in Ukraine warming up.
Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (RD7QR)

======================

And then you throw in Trump's comments questioning the purpose or efficacy of NATO, and suddenly those individual states don't feel very strong together.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:15 PM (ELUpj)

Yup... maybe... just maybe... its time for the EU to... oh... I don't know... DEFEND ITSELF?

EU population 506 Million... Russia 144 Million..

EU GDP $16.23 Trillion.... Russia GDP $1.33 Trillion

Now.... just why in the hell are MY Tax dollars going to defend someone with 4 times the People, and 12 Times the money... of the enemy we are defending them from?

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (qf6WZ)

471 Wasn't Stephanopolous and his spawn going to move to Australia? Instead, his bat-shit crazy wife has some cable show coming out and is celebrating her young daughter's tantrum about Trump and the end of abortion. Sick.

Posted by: Cheri at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (oiNtH)

472
We don't have a pianist/organist because after 20 years she asked the board for $400 a year in compensation. They said no

+++

There's a Nasruddin story where a moneylender is drowning and the people are all Give me your hand! But he won't and he's sinking and then Nasruddin yells TAKE my hand! And he saves the guy.

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (ZiGe/)

473 >>And technically, he's correct.
The assassin was a state actor. Turkish Spec Ops Police Officer.
Turkey is a NATO country.
Regardless of the reasons of the individual, Turkey is responsible. NATO is responsible.

Yea, I don't buy that. Major Nidal Hasal was a US Army officer but also a secret jihadi.

You can't always hold an entire country responsible for what an individual does on his own.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (/tuJf)

474 I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.

Posted by: fixerupper
***

Stone Roses were there too.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW
****

Along with Stone Sour
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (m3iiU)

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Dont forget "12 Stone"

Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (8XRCm)

475 468 Rush right now voicing his opinion that Obama will be the media's main mouthpiece against anything and everything Trump does after January 20, and will be a go-to talking head, speaking from his own office in his D.C. home, on every cable and network "news" show.

Rush says it will be done in unprecedented fashion, in its frequency and regularity, as no former president ever has inserted himself as the voice of opposion to his successor, the way Obama will do.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (U6f54)

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That relies on the idea that Obama loves the spotlight.

We know that's not true.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:24 PM (ELUpj)

476 Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (ZLlh9)

I don't mind a joke. It's not like people never makes joke about that stuff here. I think Nip Sip has very specific idea about what indicates someone is gay and what is not. Some of it is silly.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:24 PM (tOcW/)

477 I heard a lot of people really want Skip Bayless to run for President given his tremendous intelligence, wit, charm and beautiful physique.

Posted by: Totally not Skip Bayless at December 20, 2016 02:24 PM (OD2ni)

478 I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.

Posted by: fixerupper
***

Stone Roses were there too.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW
****

Along with Stone Sour
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (m3iiU)

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Dont forget "12 Stone"
Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (8XRCm)

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and...... They all ROCKED!!!

Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 02:24 PM (8XRCm)

479 Rush right now voicing his opinion that Obama will be the media's main mouthpiece against anything and everything Trump does after January 20, and will be a go-to talking head, speaking from his own office in his D.C. home, on every cable and network "news" show.

Rush says it will be done in unprecedented fashion, in its frequency and regularity, as no former president ever has inserted himself as the voice of opposion to his successor, the way Obama will do.

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Its like an early Christmas gift.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:24 PM (gmeXX)

480 If TV commercials are to be believed, in the last year or so, black men only like white women. It's amazing what the hive of independent minds thinks is original.
Posted by: pep at December 20, 2016 02:19 PM (LAe3v)

White She-Devil, aka 'Black Man's Kyroptonite'

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2016 02:24 PM (xJa6I)

481 419 Punch back three times as hard, because twice as hard doesn't seem to be quite sufficient for the task.

Posted by: Smallish Bees at December 20, 2016 02:13 PM (yjhOG)

"And never punch down!" -- someguy
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (zc3Db)

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they definitely punch above their weight...

Posted by: Bobama at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (/CIN4)

482 Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (oDW2u)

What did we win?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (ZLlh9)

483 470 Yup... maybe... just maybe... its time for the EU to... oh... I don't know... DEFEND ITSELF?

EU population 506 Million... Russia 144 Million..

EU GDP $16.23 Trillion.... Russia GDP $1.33 Trillion

Now.... just why in the hell are MY Tax dollars going to defend someone with 4 times the People, and 12 Times the money... of the enemy we are defending them from?
Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (qf6WZ)

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But then their welfare states collapse, and what will American liberals have to look at as a model for American governance?

Priorities, man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (ELUpj)

484 Remember, Star Trek has always been to the left of the American center, and that's what the left tended to sound like (they also hated hippies). How would that exchange go now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (ELUpj)
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Lincoln: I apologize for not ending slavery sooner. I acknowledge my privilege.

Uhura: Apology not accepted. You are evil as are all cis-gendered white males. Give me free college.

and... SCENE!

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (xeeHA)

485 Also, remember Trump is pretty damn old himself

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:17 PM (ELUpj)

Yeah, but he'll be running for RE-election, not initial election. That's a big difference.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (SRKgf)

486 I think Kurt's Teutonic forefathers would be pretty ashamed of his fecklessness.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (mdwk9)

487 Never trust a guy whose last name sounds like a concentration camp.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (4ErVI)

488 Yea, I don't buy that. Major Nidal Hasal was a US Army officer but also a secret jihadi.

You can't always hold an entire country responsible for what an individual does on his own.

When he kills another country's ambassador you can.
It's considered an act of war. If the offended country wants to see it that way.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (wJky2)

489 462 450 And technically, he's correct.
The assassin was a state actor. Turkish Spec Ops Police Officer.
Turkey is a NATO country.
Regardless of the reasons of the individual, Turkey is responsible. NATO is responsible.

Treaties pledging defense suck for this very reason.
Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (wJky2)

=======================

"What do you mean?"
-Austria Hungary, circa 1914
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:22 PM (ELUpj)

Beware of foreign entanglements....

Posted by: Shit George Washington, who had like, 4 dicks, said... at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (qf6WZ)

490 356---I wish we had a church choir. What I really wish is that we had a worship band. Yeah, like that's gonna happen. We don't even have a pianist or organist. We've got bupkis.
Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:05 PM (dFi94)
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A Lutheran church without music?
Holy carp. I've never heard of such a thing.
I always think of the Lutherans as having some of the best organists and choirs around.

I dunno. Maybe I'm just thinking of colleges like St. Olaf's, Valpo, or Roanoke College here in SW VA, etc., etc., all of which have great music programs.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (Nox3c)

491 Lincoln: I apologize for not ending slavery sooner. I acknowledge my privilege.

Uhura: Apology not accepted. You are evil as are all cis-gendered white males. Give me free college.

and... SCENE!
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (xeeHA)

=====================

Too tame. Try again.

We need spittle, and a call for 40 acres and a mule.

Go!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (ELUpj)

492 Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (U6f54)

I can definitely see that happening from the malignant legacy narcissist. I can also see Trump and his spokespeople blasting him back with some embarrassing details that Obama wouldn't want out to the general public.

Posted by: Cheri at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (oiNtH)

493 441 420 ...ace touched on that (seizure) the other night-someone put up a "blinky" GIF on twitter. His wife immediately jumped onto his feed to tell the world; and was "alerting" authorities. Kankles face-plants in front of the world and is totes healthy. This guy wigs from a strobe GIF; and we have a full-scale investigation. Interesting times-

Funny thing about that: there is NO police report....

Posted by: runningrn at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (sUP4M)

I raise the bs flag. The man was being exposed as a crazy fool so he decided to play the victim card (he's having a seizure! you mean wingnuts endangered his health!) to get out of a jam.

Makes me think of how, when my parents yelled at me when I was 6 or so, I would tell them that if I died in my sleep they would sure feel bad!

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (s7vJs)

494 Rush right now voicing his opinion that Obama will be the media's main mouthpiece against anything and everything Trump does after January 20, and will be a go-to talking head, speaking from his own office in his D.C. home, on every cable and network "news" show.

Rush says it will be done in unprecedented fashion, in its frequency and regularity, as no former president ever has inserted himself as the voice of opposion to his successor, the way Obama will do.

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In all honesty, this should be welcome news for the GOP. Obama has only shown an ability to persuade people to do one thing - vote for him - which he cannot do again.

Let him take up the oxygen on the other side.

Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (gmeXX)

495 Won't Obama yammering on about each and everything Trump does be delightful?/sarc. Shoot me now!

Narcissists gotta be narcissists.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (tOcW/)

496 >> Now.... just why in the hell are MY Tax dollars going
>> to defend someone with 4 times the People, and 12
>> Times the money... of the enemy we are defending
>> them from?

More importantly, someone with an immigration death-wish and spending on average what 1% of GDP on defense (NATO target is 2%, which is still low, and we're somewhere under 3%.)

The Brits will pay for Anjem Choudhury's legal defense but can't afford catapults for their new carriers.

Merkel can absorb all those immigrants under her skirt like something out of the Nutcracker but trying to find a Budeswehr tank that starts is another story.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (TppKb)

497
Remember, Star Trek has always been to the left of the American center, and that's what the left tended to sound like (they also hated hippies). How would that exchange go now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (ELUpj)

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Captain Uhura would kick his ass.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (8XRCm)

498 485 Yeah, but he'll be running for RE-election, not initial election. That's a big difference.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:25 PM (SRKgf)

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The point wasn't Trump's age today or in four years, just that he's old, but he doesn't seem old.

It's the "seem" part that's more important.

Warren doesn't seem as old as she is, so the age factor is less important. Hillary definitely did seem old, so it was more of a factor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (ELUpj)

499 Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (wJky2)

I'm glad you didn't see it that way. Thanks bunches.

Posted by: Libya at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (ZLlh9)

500 "He who sings prays twice" is St. Augustine, I believe.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llamabutcher at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (+PJcZ)

501 Rush right now voicing his opinion that Obama will be the media's main mouthpiece against anything and everything Trump does after January 20, and will be a go-to talking head, speaking from his own office in his D.C. home, on every cable and network "news" show.

Rush says it will be done in unprecedented fashion, in its frequency and regularity, as no former president ever has inserted himself as the voice of opposion to his successor, the way Obama will do.

But if Trump turns it around, and the economy takes off, people are prosperous and happy, and he manages to unfuck our foreign policy, the contrast from the Obongo era will be manifest to all and sundry. At that point Obongo will be a duskier version of Jimmy Carter, and with comparable influence.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (SRKgf)

502 Never trust a guy whose last name sounds like a concentration camp.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (4ErVI)

Well said

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (xJa6I)

503 So, out of left field:

I watched the episode of Star Trek where Kirk meets Abraham Lincoln last night (stay with me....)

Lincoln calls Uhura a "negress", and she doesn't bat an eye. She just simply says, "Words don't hurt me. I'm comfortable with who I am."

Remember, Star Trek has always been to the left of the American center, and that's what the left tended to sound like (they also hated hippies). How would that exchange go now?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:20 PM (ELUpj)

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Lenny Bruce had a killer routine where he'd count the minorities in the audience ("That's two n_______s, three k--kes, and a s__c...") and he was a radical.

some time in the late 60s the hardline commies realized that the "do your own thing" approach wasn't working. It just made people want to do drugs and have sex. Not good for revolution. So they switched to the "language is everything" approach.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (zSMr0)

504
Have an idea for a new show on MSNBC starring:
Kurt Eichenwald, Keith Olbermann, Paul Krugman.
Call it the K.K.K show.

Posted by: YIKES! at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (yfObW)

505 >>When he kills another country's ambassador you can.
It's considered an act of war. If the offended country wants to see it that way.

And I don't think Putin does because he knows what Islamic jihadism is all about. He's had enough experience with it in his own country.

There is zero chance this was a Turkish government sponsored action.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (/tuJf)

506 The point wasn't Trump's age today or in four years, just that he's old, but he doesn't seem old.
It's the "seem" part that's more important.
Warren doesn't seem as old as she is, so the age factor is less important. Hillary definitely did seem old, so it was more of a factor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (ELUpj)

True enough.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (SRKgf)

507 Approaching 500 comments without a single "I'd hit that Twitter avatar. The female one."

What's wrong with you people?

Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (zke7T)

508 It's going to be Kamala Harris.
She ticks all of the SJW boxes.
Black - Check.
Woman - Check.
SJW - Check.
Bug fuck crazy - Check.
Book it.
Posted by: Kreplach

Meet her nightmare:

LA Mayor Garcetti

"Hispanic" check
Navy, reservist check
Ivy League check
Rodes scholar check
SJW * actual degree in * check
Pro police check

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (ZBp8/)

509 Fredo will overplay his hand out of Office just like he did while in Office. Let him and the left continue to dig. As long as PE Trump delivers, it's all a plus for us

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (sRFAL)

510 Rush says it will be done in unprecedented fashion, in its frequency and regularity, as no former president ever has inserted himself as the voice of opposion to his successor, the way Obama will do.
Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 20, 2016 02:23 PM (U6f54)

======================

That relies on the idea that Obama loves the spotlight.

We know that's not true.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Wanna see unprecedented? Trump goes after Barky for the classified documents on Hillz homebrew illegal server.

Or just shut up a fade off into obscurity.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (wJky2)

511 Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (Nox3c)
==========================

We do have music, such as it is. Our pianist/organist was let go by the church and now we use a virtual organ piped in from St. Louis. It's pretty limiting, but there is some sound at least.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (dFi94)

512
Lincoln did say something to Uhura in that episode about being a beautiful negress and wondered why she was free.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (Tz9cL)

513 We don't have a pianist/organist because after 20 years she asked the board for $400 a year in compensation. They said no. o_O

That's just wrong. An accompanist can spend easily that much in books of music and gas to practice. Its not unreasonable that they should be compensated a small amount, after all the Pastor gets paid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (39g3+)

514
Alright, Kurt, you bleeding asshole.

I got your signal.

What do you want, you paranoid fuck?

You do know I'm imaginary, right?

Posted by: The Shining Galapagos Tortoise of Unbearable Truth at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (vZ9Fw)

515 >> At that point Obongo will be a duskier version of
>> Jimmy Carter, and with comparable influence.

If Trump succeeds he can urinate in Obama's direction.

If he fails then we can expect a lot of Obama-Kamala Harris press conferences in a couple years.

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (TppKb)

516 507 Approaching 500 comments without a single "I'd hit that Twitter avatar. The female one."

What's wrong with you people?
Posted by: Slo-Pitch Whiffer at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (zke7T)

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Past 500 now. We've failed.

Wipe the slate clean and start again, people.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (ELUpj)

517 I don't know what to think of any of this. Has Emma Tiller, PhD weighed in ?

Posted by: SD at December 20, 2016 02:30 PM (FNROi)

518 There is zero chance this was a Turkish government sponsored action.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (/tuJf)

That was my take yesterday. If the Turkish government had had a hand in this, then they're even more retarded than the Democrats.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:30 PM (SRKgf)

519 I WILL INFORM MY CONTACTS AT CIA TO UPDATE ALL YOUR FILES!!! ESPECIALLY YOU, JEW GOLDSTEIN!!!

Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at December 20, 2016 02:30 PM (qJhUV)

520 189 that Japan was behind an explosion some reported hearing in the Pearl Harbor of Honolulu, in the territory of Hawaii.

They did it because of global warming. And jobs. It was our own fault.
Posted by: The MFM at December 20, 2016 01:33 PM (ul9CR)

Japan, the founding member of "Blood for Oil"

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at December 20, 2016 02:30 PM (FtrY1)

521
I saw Stoned Forrest open for the Stone Temple Pilots in 07 at the Iowa State Fair.

Posted by: fixerupper

***

Stone Roses were there too.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW

****

Along with Stone Sour

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at December 20, 2016 02:07 PM (m3iiU)

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Dont forget "12 Stone"
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The Stone Poneys closed the show...

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 20, 2016 02:31 PM (0kXpQ)

522 >> Wanna see unprecedented? Trump goes after Barky
>> for the classified documents on Hillz homebrew
>> illegal server.

There's that. He unquestionably knew, and Lynch is unquestionably bent, and there's probably plenty of other Cabinet and advisors who are vulnerable to various charges coming out of the Most Transparent Administration in History (TM).

Posted by: JEM at December 20, 2016 02:31 PM (TppKb)

523
This Kurt Eichenwald is almost as much of lying whiny vagina as Rick Wilson.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 20, 2016 02:31 PM (Tz9cL)

524 Too tame. Try again.

We need spittle, and a call for 40 acres and a mule.

Go!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (ELUpj)

Lincoln: I know now that my opinion doesn't matter in any way because I am a white male. I hereby make you president, Uhura so that you can rule wisely in a way that no man ever could. Also, here is all of my money that you earned and I did not.

Uhura: My first act as President is to put Lincoln in jail for stealing the money I earned. Now I am going to have seven abortions.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:31 PM (xeeHA)

525 It's starting to dawn on these fing assholes that there's going to a be a priced paid for their abusiveness this time around. GWB was a patsy, above the fray. Trump is a part time boxing promoter. You figure it out.

Posted by: charley horse at December 20, 2016 02:31 PM (+kahX)

526 454
Black men don't flock to the polls for anyone.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:21 PM (ZLlh9)

Yeah, most states stopped selling booze on election day. Cut down on turn out. Course back then it wasn't just Black men that would sell a vote for a drink.

http://tinyurl.com/zp5x2av

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:32 PM (NbJXF)

527 That's just wrong. An accompanist can spend easily
that much in books of music and gas to practice. Its not unreasonable
that they should be compensated a small amount, after all the Pastor
gets paid.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:29 PM (39g3+)
==============================

Picture 75 year old retired dairy farmers. That's our elder board. Not a lot of music appreciation, and very reluctant to part with a dime.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:32 PM (dFi94)

528 517 I don't know what to think of any of this. Has Emma Tiller, PhD weighed in ?
Posted by: SD at December 20, 2016 02:30 PM (FNROi)

======================

"I'm just here to learn. Now go watch Fox News, you ignorant filth."
-Emma, PhD.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:32 PM (ELUpj)

529 A Lutheran church without music?
Holy carp. I've never heard of such a thing.
I always think of the Lutherans as having some of the best organists and choirs around.

I dunno. Maybe I'm just thinking of colleges like St. Olaf's, Valpo, or Roanoke College here in SW VA, etc., etc., all of which have great music programs.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 20, 2016 02:26 PM (Nox3c)

Yeah, I always thought of the Lutherans as having great music too. They did at the services I went to (I've been to 2 Lutheran services in my entire life).

I mean, they had Bach writing stuff for them. That's pretty much the A team.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:32 PM (s7vJs)

530 Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (/tuJf)

I said yesterday that there is absolutely no upside for Erogdan to allow this. He does have some blame though for allowing the growth of Islamic radicalism within the government.

Posted by: Libya at December 20, 2016 02:32 PM (ZLlh9)

531 It's going to be Kamala Harris.
She ticks all of the SJW boxes.
Black - Check.
Woman - Check.
SJW - Check.
Bug fuck crazy - Check.
Book it.
Posted by: Kreplach

Meet her nightmare:

LA Mayor Garcetti

"Hispanic" check
Navy, reservist check
Ivy League check
Rodes scholar check
SJW * actual degree in * check
Pro police check

Democrats rigg the primary for the person they want and nevermind what their base wants: check

Posted by: YIKES! at December 20, 2016 02:32 PM (yfObW)

532 There is zero chance this was a Turkish government sponsored action.

Doesn't matter if it was or not. Their government official offed the other government official performing legitimate Russian government business.

Now, before Russia throws down, they have numerous paths they can take. They don't have to go to war.

The ball is in Russia's court though.

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (wJky2)

533 There is zero chance this was a Turkish government sponsored action.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (/tuJf)

Except for the total lack of Security at the event...

May not have been Endrogan... but the fact that the guy shot... and shot.. then had time for a Monologue like a bad Super Villain?

Hinky to put it mildly...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (qf6WZ)

534 Would it ruin Christmas if I kill the neighbor's dog that has been barking now for TWO hours?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (NbJXF)

535 524
Lincoln: I know now that my opinion doesn't matter in any way because I am a white male. I hereby make you president, Uhura so that you can rule wisely in a way that no man ever could. Also, here is all of my money that you earned and I did not.

Uhura: My first act as President is to put Lincoln in jail for stealing the money I earned. Now I am going to have seven abortions.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:31 PM (xeeHA)

====================

We could use more, but the network might think it's too much.

We'll compromise with Middle America and make it 4 abortions (rounding up from 3.5, half of 7). That should make them happy, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (ELUpj)

536 That was my take yesterday. If the Turkish government had had a hand in this, then they're even more retarded than the Democrats.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:30 PM (SRKgf)
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It was exactly what it looked like it was on the surface. A jihadi taking an opportunity for revenge. End of story.

I'd be gobsmacked if it was anything else.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (xeeHA)

537 Never been to a Lutheran church.

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (ZiGe/)

538 >>451
442 Yeah a lot of straight men are interior decorators too but that
doesn't mean we have to be all PC and get upset when someone makes a
stereotype comment intended as a joke,
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 20, 2016 02:18 PM (ZLlh9)

Thoughtcrime. Melmoth unperson.

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (Bdeb0)

539 The point wasn't Trump's age today or in four years, just that he's old, but he doesn't seem old.
It's the "seem" part that's more important.
Warren doesn't seem as old as she is, so the age factor is less important. Hillary definitely did seem old, so it was more of a factor.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (ELUpj)

True enough.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

_______

Trump has an insane amount of energy, it definitely helped him as he gave off the vibe he was never going to stop punching.

It seems clear to me Warren wants to be the nominee as she has inserted herself as much as possible to directly have feuds with Trump.
And the she does have a following with donors and activists. I don't think her age would be a big issue, Millenials ate up Bernie.

She'd be pretty easy to beat in my opinion unless we have some sort of 2008 type economic catastrophe.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (l1NwZ)

540 Would it ruin Christmas if I kill the neighbor's dog that has been barking now for TWO hours?
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (NbJXF)
______________________________

Depends... who's Christmas are we talking?

Posted by: IP at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (4byLl)

541
The Germans lit up the Brandenburg Gate in the German national colors. Gee I hope that isn't offense to any members of a certain religion that might trigger them to..oh I don't know drive a truck into a crowd of people

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (493sH)

542 Except for the total lack of Security at the event...

May not have been Endrogan... but the fact that the guy shot... and
shot.. then had time for a Monologue like a bad Super Villain?

Hinky to put it mildly...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (qf6WZ)

WHAT? The guy that shot him WAS SECURITY. That's how he got the gun into the place, he was a cop.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (NbJXF)

543 "At that point Obongo will be a duskier version of Jimmy Carter, and with comparable influence."

Yep.

If you're old enough, this is Reagan Redux. If you also lived in NYC, this is Giuliani Redux.

Both Reagan and Giuliani ignored MSM, had effective first terms and got re-elected in landslides. Rudy even won Manhattan the second time.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (SIY7D)

544 "I watched the episode of Star Trek where Kirk meets Abraham Lincoln last night (stay with me....)

Lincoln calls Uhura a "negress", and she doesn't bat an eye. She just simply says, "Words don't hurt me. I'm comfortable with who I am."

I watched the "Spock with a goatee" episode last week. Uhura rocked that ultra skimpy outfit. She was in great shape. Also funny seeing AU Sulu trying to put the moves on her. He was not a very good actor....

Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (OD2ni)

545 >>534
Would it ruin Christmas if I kill the neighbor's dog that has been barking now for TWO hours? Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:33 PM (NbJXF)

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (Bdeb0)

546 Used to enjoy watching Kamala take on Hulkamania back in the '80's.

Posted by: Rick in SK at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (/CIN4)

547 In one of the campaign speeches Obama gave for Hillary, he urged people to vote for Hillary for his and his legacy's sake. People really took that to heart and voted against him. There is NO way that Reverse Jesus can turn things around and become Touchdown Jesus, when he is so arrogant in his own conceit. Of course he'll get endless media coverage, but that will backfire too. People will see his face pop up on their TV screen, and they will turn it off!

Posted by: runningrn at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (sUP4M)

548 Would it ruin Christmas if I kill the neighbor's dog that has been barking now for TWO hours?

++++

Dunno. Is he telling you anything?

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (ZiGe/)

549 It does seem Teutonic metal has crystallized and become brittle.

Eichenwald is one. Then there is Pajama Boy himself - Ethan Krupp.

Posted by: Anna Puma at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (pdHvg)

550 544 She was Roddenberry's squeeze before Majel Barrett(yeah,and Gene was married too).

Posted by: steevy at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (r/0kC)

551 541

The Germans lit up the Brandenburg Gate in the German national
colors. Gee I hope that isn't offense to any members of a certain
religion that might trigger them to..oh I don't know drive a truck into a
crowd of people

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (493sH)

So it looks like a ghey parade? Rainbow colors?

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (NbJXF)

552 OT: Fox says there were "dozens of classified documents" on Weiner's computer.

Shockingly.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (xeeHA)

553 Except for the total lack of Security at the event...

May not have been Endrogan... but the fact that the guy shot... and shot.. then had time for a Monologue like a bad Super Villain?

Hinky to put it mildly...
Posted by: Don Q

Yeah, psychos never practice in front of a mirror or anything.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (ZBp8/)

554 both Garcetti and Harris are in favor of #Failifornia spending tax dollars to defend illegals from deportation.

that's not going to sell well to the rest of the country.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (0kXpQ)

555 >Kurt is married with three kids. He's a loon. There are men, however, you know, who like to sing who are not gay or crazy.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (tOcW/)

I get where you going with this, but I have been aware of married with two kids/choral singing men who turned out to have been gay along.

Posted by: Lea at December 20, 2016 02:37 PM (lIU4e)

556

Russians?

Posted by: Mortimer - FINISH HER ! at December 20, 2016 02:37 PM (toH8T)

557 Picture 75 year old retired dairy farmers. That's our elder board. Not a lot of music appreciation, and very reluctant to part with a dime.

I know that effect all too well. My brother works for a board of dairymen just like that. They're super reluctant to spend anything on anything, no matter how good an idea it is. I go to church with a lot of dutch dairy farmers. They get rich for a reason but sometimes that tendency can be bad.

If I were named something as Naizesque as Kurt Eichenwald, I'd be very hesitant to make cracks about Jews.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 20, 2016 02:37 PM (39g3+)

558 544 I watched the "Spock with a goatee" episode last week. Uhura rocked that ultra skimpy outfit. She was in great shape. Also funny seeing AU Sulu trying to put the moves on her. He was not a very good actor....
Posted by: Benji Carver at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (OD2ni)

=====================

When I started going through TOS, I was shocked at how hot she was.

Of course, Gene Roddenberry was a complete lech, so it really shouldn't be a surprise. In a way, he was the Michael Bay of his time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:37 PM (ELUpj)

559 >>Doesn't matter if it was or not. Their government official offed the other government official performing legitimate Russian government business.

Yea, it absolutely matters. This was an off duty police officer doing something on his own. He wasn't even part of a security detail so his job is pretty irrelevant.

It appears that both Erdogan and Putin have recognized this act for what it was, a terrorist attack, and are continuing their relationship. There have been a number of statements coming from both Ankra and Moscow stating this since yesterday.

The real problem is what to do with Syria. Russia and Turkey have different goals and are trying to figure some sort of compromise. We, of course, are sitting on our dicks while Obama golfs.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

560 It's a simply foolish generalization to say that only gay men like to sing in choirs. I've known quite a few men who sing in church choirs and none of them are gay. This would include FenelonSpouse.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:53 PM (tOcW/)

Just let it go, for Pete's sake.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (MiBfH)

561 WHAT? The guy that shot him WAS SECURITY. That's how he got the gun into the place, he was a cop.
Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (NbJXF)

I don't know if it has been established that he was actually working security for the event...

But where was the REST of security.... except calling in asking their bosses...

"Uh, Central? Abdhul ABulBul just shot the Russian? what do you want us to do?"

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (qf6WZ)

562 Lenny Bruce had a killer routine where he'd count the minorities in the audience ("That's two n_______s, three k--kes, and a s__c...") and he was a radical.

some time in the late 60s the hardline commies realized that the "do your own thing" approach wasn't working. It just made people want to do drugs and have sex. Not good for revolution. So they switched to the "language is everything" approach.

Posted by: Farmer Joe at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (zSMr0)

I actually think the Bruce thing was about breaking down civility. Even in the 50's, using the "n" word was pretty déclassé, if not forbidden. Educated people didn't use it.

Bruce was about breaking taboos. The left broke all the taboos and then set about making new speech codes on the ashes of the old. They never really wanted "do your own thing" they wanted to destroy the old things and replace them with their own taboos and rules.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (s7vJs)

563 the dead ambassador was famous for disdaining security precautions...

whether it be armored vehicles or security staff.

as i understand it, he didn't have an actual bodyguard with him when he was shot.

Posted by: redc1c4 at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (0kXpQ)

564 552 OT: Fox says there were "dozens of classified documents" on Weiner's computer.

Shockingly.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (xeeHA)

----------------

and a shit-ton of underage pron

Posted by: Rick in SK at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (/CIN4)

565 When I started going through TOS, I was shocked at how hot she was.

Of course, Gene Roddenberry was a complete lech, so it really shouldn't be a surprise. In a way, he was the Michael Bay of his time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:37 PM (ELUpj)
---------

I remember seeing her in Playboy during my formative years. Always effected the way I saw her. Hot, in other words. A clear 1 on the points scale.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (xeeHA)

566 The Germans lit up the Brandenburg Gate in the German national colors.
Gee I hope that isn't offense to any members of a certain religion that
might trigger them to..oh I don't know drive a truck into a crowd of
people

As long as they have a mass candlelight vigil there and sing "Imagine", they should be okay.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 20, 2016 02:39 PM (qJhUV)

567 545
>>534

Would it ruin Christmas if I kill the neighbor's dog that has been
barking now for TWO hours? Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:33
PM (NbJXF)

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. Or the one.

Posted by: General Zod at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (Bdeb0)

The dog obviously is in distress, so I humanely put him out of his misery?
Somehow, I don't think I can sell that.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:39 PM (NbJXF)

568 Trump has an insane amount of energy, it definitely helped him as he gave off the vibe he was never going to stop punching.

It seems clear to me Warren wants to be the nominee as she has inserted herself as much as possible to directly have feuds with Trump.
And the she does have a following with donors and activists. I don't think her age would be a big issue, Millenials ate up Bernie.

She'd be pretty easy to beat in my opinion unless we have some sort of 2008 type economic catastrophe.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (l1NwZ)

I'm not sure she wants to run, frankly. If she wanted to, she should've run this time around after Hillary stepped in the dog's business. Bernie's success should have shown her the Hildabeast was vulnerable, and this was her time of times.

But she didn't run. Maybe she just doesn't want to be President?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:39 PM (SRKgf)

569 494---Obama has only shown an ability to persuade people to do one thing - vote for him - which he cannot do again.
Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (gmeXX)
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And it's noteworthy that he has shown no ability to get people to vote for candidates OTHER than himself.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 20, 2016 02:39 PM (Nox3c)

570 Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:14 PM (dFi94)

Get an old Episcopalian hymnal. Those are full of the good stuff.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 02:40 PM (hLRSq)

571 Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:38 PM (/tuJf)

I'd be looking REALLY carefully for any ties this guy had to Iran...

Because a breakdown of relationships between Turkey, and Russia, would help them immensely.... as they try to stabilize their hold on the region...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:40 PM (qf6WZ)

572 547 In one of the campaign speeches Obama gave for Hillary, he urged people to vote for Hillary for his and his legacy's sake. People really took that to heart and voted against him. There is NO way that Reverse Jesus can turn things around and become Touchdown Jesus, when he is so arrogant in his own conceit. Of course he'll get endless media coverage, but that will backfire too. People will see his face pop up on their TV screen, and they will turn it off!
Posted by: runningrn at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (sUP4M)

This is my reaction. People will finally be able to say what they've been thinking but suppressing, which is that Obama the Savior turned out to be kind of a douchebag, actually.

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:40 PM (RD7QR)

573 568 I'm not sure she wants to run, frankly. If she wanted to, she should've run this time around after Hillary stepped in the dog's business. Bernie's success should have shown her the Hildabeast was vulnerable, and this was her time of times.

But she didn't run. Maybe she just doesn't want to be President?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:39 PM (SRKgf)

=====================

I can imagine them promising her the Treasury Department to stay out. She probably figured that she couldn't go up against the Clinton machine and win.

If she had known how close Bernie got, I bet she would have run.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (ELUpj)

574 >>Except for the total lack of Security at the event...

There wasn't a total lack of security. Security gunned downed down the shooter.

It may have been poor security by our standards might be true but again, it does not seem to have set Putin off.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (/tuJf)

575 555
>Kurt is married with three kids. He's a loon. There are men, however, you know, who like to sing who are not gay or crazy.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 01:32 PM (tOcW/)

Yeah, but usually they are in chains.

http://tinyurl.com/jdzqr6q

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (NbJXF)

576 The Saker talked a bit about the assassination. He thinks they thought the gallery was sterile or clear and the Russian ambassador was too risky. He said it would indicate the assassin still had credentials.

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (ZiGe/)

577 494---Obama has only shown an ability to persuade people to do one thing - vote for him - which he cannot do again.
Posted by: SH at December 20, 2016 02:27 PM (gmeXX)

=======================

At the presidential level.

He could move to Michigan and take a winnable seat. Or go to Hawaii and stay in the Senate for the rest of his life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (ELUpj)

578 554 both Garcetti and Harris are in favor of #Failifornia spending tax dollars to defend illegals from deportation.
that's not going to sell well to the rest of the country.
Posted by: redc1c4 at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (0kXpQ)

God willing, by 2020 that issue will be done and dusted.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (SRKgf)

579 552 OT: Fox says there were "dozens of classified documents" on Weiner's computer.

Shockingly.
Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:36 PM (xeeHA)

Gosh, it's almost like -- now stay with me here -- Hillary and Huma had almost no computer security! They would be open to hacking by a state actor, like, say, the Russians!

Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:42 PM (RD7QR)

580 Nood

Posted by: rickb223 at December 20, 2016 02:43 PM (wJky2)

581 Get an old Episcopalian hymnal. Those are full of the good stuff.

Posted by: *Mikey NTH - The Outrage Outlet Wishes the Electoral College a Merry Trumpmas! at December 20, 2016 02:40 PM (hLRSq)
==========================

Either that, or the playlist on K-love.

Posted by: grammie winger - Glad Tidings of Great Joy at December 20, 2016 02:43 PM (dFi94)

582 both Garcetti and Harris are in favor of #Failifornia spending tax dollars to defend illegals from deportation.

that's not going to sell well to the rest of the country.

Posted by: redc1c4

Ghey marriage
Nationalized health insurance
Trannies in your kid's bathroom

Want some more 'things that can't happen?'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 20, 2016 02:44 PM (ZBp8/)

583 Trump has an insane amount of energy, it definitely helped him as he gave off the vibe he was never going to stop punching.

+++

He won't have it after the inauguration and the meeting with Mr Gray Alien who tells him what's what.

Posted by: Bigbys Preening Fingers at December 20, 2016 02:44 PM (ZiGe/)

584 574 >>Except for the total lack of Security at the event...

There wasn't a total lack of security. Security gunned downed down the shooter.

It may have been poor security by our standards might be true but again, it does not seem to have set Putin off.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (/tuJf)

My first boss when I was doing Ships Self Defense Force stuff for the Navy...

"Slow Security, is no Security"....

Posted by: Don Q. at December 20, 2016 02:44 PM (qf6WZ)

585 There wasn't a total lack of security. Security gunned downed down the shooter.
It may have been poor security by our standards might be true but again, it does not seem to have set Putin off. Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:41 PM (/tuJf)
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From what I recall the shooter was very young (21?). Probably nobody senior left in the security services after Erdogan's purges; you know, those senior types who know what they are doing averting tragedy.

Posted by: mustbequantum at December 20, 2016 02:45 PM (MIKMs)

586 Gosh, it's almost like -- now stay with me here -- Hillary and Huma had almost no computer security! They would be open to hacking by a state actor, like, say, the Russians!
Posted by: Totally Not joncelli at December 20, 2016 02:42 PM (RD7QR)
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Remember when the new hotness was "there is no proof state actors hacked Hillary's email."

Doesn't their new hacking angle sort of, maybe, fuck that up?

I guess internal consistency has never been one of their cultural norms.

Posted by: Moron Pundit at December 20, 2016 02:45 PM (xeeHA)

587 Posted by: Lea at December 20, 2016 02:37 PM (lIU4e)

So, you are agreeing with Nip Sip that only gay men sing in church choirs?

If Fen Spouse turn out to be he's been in the closet so long that we need to give him to GoodWill. ;^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 20, 2016 02:45 PM (tOcW/)

588 There is NO way that Reverse Jesus can turn things around and become Touchdown Jesus, when he is so arrogant in his own conceit. Of course he'll get endless media coverage, but that will backfire too. People will see his face pop up on their TV screen, and they will turn it off!

Posted by: runningrn at December 20, 2016 02:35 PM (sUP4M)

That's how I see it too. The MSM has glommed onto "Look at Obama's high approval ratings! Everyone loves him and wants to keep on seeing him on TV!"

First of all, they don't consider that just maybe the approval rating polls are as screwed up as all the other polls were. Secondly, his Great Eloquence didn't pull in votes for Hill or Congressional Dems. And lastly, even people who like him are going to get sick of him being a Big Buttinski and sticking his nose in national business. They know that's not what ex presidents are supposed to do.

Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at December 20, 2016 02:45 PM (s7vJs)

589 See how it worked? They got the message out there about Trump and the mental institution, Stephie spent no time at all calling it fake or false, then let it go on about Fox News and other "conservative" outlets.

And their audience absorbed some more fake news. Exactly as planned.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 20, 2016 01:38 PM (U6f54

Just discussed this with a colleague at lunch today. We were relating the 'fake news" that our loony left acquaintances are repeating as gospel over and over on Facebook and other social media sites. They read or see a headline from their own nutty sites and immediately begin to parrot it and broadcast it to everyone they know.

They are modern technology Paul Revere's. With nothing else to do or to occupy their feeble minds.

According to them, Trump is going to strip the citizenship from every gay person. He is going to require Americans to register their religious affiliations. He thanked all the African Americans for not voting. Etc.

The above is just stuff we have read in the last 24 hours.

Posted by: Jen at December 20, 2016 02:46 PM (en0W8)

590
Keep humping that chicken, Kurt. Also, this is why you got Trump(ed).

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie at December 20, 2016 02:46 PM (1hM1d)

591 But she didn't run. Maybe she just doesn't want to be President?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
_________

She didn't run because she was afraid of the Clinton Machine. Same with Biden.

I think both now wish they had.

We joke about Vince Foster, but Democrats know the Clintons are deeply corrupt and play for keeps and usually stay out of their way.

Bernie was there just to be a sort of Ron Paul role and talk about issues and caught fire because he was the only one to really challenger her.

Posted by: Maritime at December 20, 2016 02:49 PM (l1NwZ)

592 If you watched Tucker Carlson interview the guy, it was VERY apparent that it was no joke.

This new retreat into "humor" has all the credibility of Anthony Weiner's claims his Twitter was hacked.

Posted by: red speck at December 20, 2016 02:57 PM (RcEOo)

593 There is zero chance this was a Turkish government sponsored action.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 20, 2016 02:28 PM (/tuJf)

And who failed to vet the guy they hired as a security cop, hmmm? And who has been purging secularists from all the state agencies, and stocking them with islamists? Even if the shooter was not acting on direct orders from Erdogan, the Turkish government's islamist bent guarantees that some jihadists are going to get into postions with access.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2016 03:01 PM (MiBfH)

594 WHAT? The guy that shot him WAS SECURITY. That's how he got the gun into the place, he was a cop.

Posted by: Nip Sip at December 20, 2016 02:34 PM (NbJXF)

But he wasn't the assigned security for that event. The assigned security, both Russian and Turk, were nowhere to be seen. That's what is odd. Especially the lack of Russian bodyguards.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 20, 2016 03:08 PM (MiBfH)

595 Eichenwald has a disturbing habit of disturbing behavior, i.e., his "research" and "reporting" on child pron when he was with the NY Slimes and his subsequent "rescue" of young male....he blamed everyone else for how that blew up in his ugly face, then, too. go figure.

Posted by: the Butcher at December 20, 2016 04:41 PM (AGJqR)

596 This man Eichenwald is a serial confabulator.

There is no sign of joking in the run up to the slander-tweet. He has actually made three excuses in one afternoon.
My guess is that none of them are precisely true.

It reminds me of his "just doing research" on pedo porn story, you know, the one where he later also claimed that he wasn't doing official research, but just trying to help a kid out.

Meanwhile, the kid's mom says E. was offering to help fund the kid's porn ventures.

He did get caught paying the kid money and using that as leverage to get access to the (18yo) kid - which was just let go by all even though he didn't tell his employer about the payments, and argued after the fact that his money-sending was not related to reporting. He's tried to have it both ways. If he gets the "anything for a scoop" way, he's in serious breach of journalistic ethics. The other way, he's guilty of that and maybe being a person who fits that face and voice that he has.

Posted by: SarahW at December 20, 2016 06:26 PM (Sp1NT)

597 Today Kurt was doing Google searches on people who Tweeted him and then warning them that he was going to show up at their specific offices. That's just nuts! And he pretended to be his wife Tweeting that he'd had a seizure. He has some serious mental problems, and may be headed towards a psychotic break.

I have been leery of him ever since that Justin Berry child porn scandal thing, where he blamed his epilepsy on failing to remember that he'd given money to a child porn site while doing his story

Posted by: Jane at December 20, 2016 07:38 PM (e/BSh)

598 Oh boy. This has been the problem with the Obama years, the insane or the inexperienced gaining the levers of control.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 20, 2016 09:18 PM (CV0nS)

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