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09-05-2018 , 08:25 PM
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Originally Posted by #Thinman
BOOM

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/o...esistance.html

between this and woodward...the end is near

...Gun to head I'd say anonymous = _________


Spoiler:
My guess is Mattis but I'm sure we'll find out soon enough...someone that wrote something like this, in a serial killer type of way, eventually will want the world to know it was them who wrote the article
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09-05-2018 , 10:07 PM
Lol that guess is bad and you should feel bad

It’s probably
Spoiler:
BEAUREGARD THREE
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09-05-2018 , 10:26 PM
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09-06-2018 , 05:00 AM
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Originally Posted by PunkRockHec
...Gun to head I'd say anonymous = _________


Spoiler:
My guess is Mattis but I'm sure we'll find out soon enough...someone that wrote something like this, in a serial killer type of way, eventually will want the world to know it was them who wrote the article
My money is on Pence, **** it. Dude is ambitious and amoral like you read about. The idea of him doing things just to rile Trump up and eventually take over one way or another doesn't seem super crazy to me.

Hes basically disappeared during a lot of this, al.ost certainly by design. He's an all around terrible human being who's dying to be President.
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09-06-2018 , 09:13 AM
the arguments for it being Coats are pretty strong
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09-06-2018 , 11:44 AM
Bovada lines:




MyBookie lines:





Kellyann Conway free money
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09-06-2018 , 12:06 PM
Mike Pence -150 and Field -310 in addition to 17 other names is a worse crime than anything Trump has done so far
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09-06-2018 , 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by #Thinman
BOOM

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/05/o...esistance.html

between this and woodward...the end is near
Literally nothing is going to happen.
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09-06-2018 , 01:22 PM
My favorite (not betting favorite just weird appreciation) is Donald Trump being listed and at only +2500. That really says all you need to know about his administration.
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09-06-2018 , 07:26 PM
Now that John McCain has been in the ground for a few days, I think a respectful enough time has passed for me to write a bit about why I don't like him.

If there was anything that John McCain was truly good at, it was being an attention whore of the highest degree. While the joke has been said about several politicians (most memorably, Chuck Schumer), I first heard it said that the most dangerous place in Washington D.C. was between John McCain and a TV camera. This was noticeably on display on 9/11, when, as I clicked through the coverage, I saw McCain's mug pop up eventually on every channel. This is a man who worked hard to cultivate his relationships with the media so that he could be the most frequent guest on the Sunday talk show circuit.

I never believed the folksy veneer of a kindly and wise grandpa-ish figure that McCain crafted. This is a man who was a very standard Republican for most of his career. His deviations from that were mostly to protect his image. I think his commitment to finance reform came more from a desire to rehabilitate his image than any sincere belief in it. I am certain that his vote against the Obamacare repeal was a combination of his enjoyment of the adulation and his desire to stick it to Donald Trump. I think he would have voted for it if Donald Trump had been a less combative candidate who had never insulted McCain, but I also think that Trump would never have been elected if he wasn't such a dick.

The posthumous praise for McCain came from the suckers who fell for his story and the smart people who used him to attack Trump. I can only respect the latter and not the former.
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09-06-2018 , 07:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Dudd
Mike Pence -150 and Field -310 in addition to 17 other names is a worse crime than anything Trump has done so far
very much this
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09-06-2018 , 08:09 PM
so Kavanaugh is a complete disaster, but it probably doesn't matter

because nothing matters
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09-06-2018 , 10:50 PM
its going to matter a lot


will shape american life more than congress for the next 30 years


before AIs turn us into paperclips
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09-06-2018 , 10:50 PM
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Originally Posted by #Thinman
the arguments for it being Coats are pretty strong
Coates is a real strong pick. Fits the mold of an old school conservative who would like all the terrible **** he's done and still be offended by Trump's bucking the norms. Plus hes the DNI and no one (outside minorities or the poor) have had it worse under ****bird than the intelligence community.
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09-07-2018 , 11:21 AM
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09-07-2018 , 11:23 AM
oops, this doesn't look good....get a paid supporter in there

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09-07-2018 , 12:03 PM
Every time I see one of those rallies im always like..."I guess the people in the crowd forgot their hoods"
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09-07-2018 , 01:10 PM
MAGA hats are the new hood. I'm somehow still amazed every time I see someone actually wearing one in public.
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09-07-2018 , 05:59 PM
kneeling to flag: BAD!
Wiping BOOGERS on flag: PATRIOT!

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09-10-2018 , 11:08 PM

wat
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09-10-2018 , 11:55 PM
Lot of "wat" packed into one tweet there.
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09-11-2018 , 12:01 AM
isnt this guy in jail
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09-11-2018 , 02:10 AM
His sentence doesn't start immediately.

Does anyone else remember that Alex Karras played a character named George Papadopolis on Webster?
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09-11-2018 , 07:47 AM
Papadopoulos is only in trouble because he got hammered and ran his mouth to foreign diplomats, he’s a run of the mill dumbass of the sort you would expect to be hired by the Donald Trump campaign.
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09-11-2018 , 02:24 PM




from the woodward book


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“If you’re going to run for president,” Bossie said, “you have to know lots of little things and lots of big things.” The little things were filing deadlines, the state rules for primaries—minutiae. “You have to know the policy side, and how to win delegates.” But first, he said, “you need to understand the conservative movement.”
Trump nodded.
“You’ve got some problems on issues,” Bossie said.
“I don’t have any problems on issues,” Trump said. “What are you talking about?”
“First off, there’s never been a guy win a Republican primary that’s not pro-life,” Bossie said. “And unfortunately, you’re very pro-choice.”
“What does that mean?”
“You have a record of giving to the abortion guys, the pro-choice candidates. You’ve made statements. You’ve got to be pro-life, against abortion.”
“I’m against abortion,” Trump said. “I’m pro-life.”
“Well, you’ve got a track record.”
“That can be fixed,” Trump said. “You just tell me how to fix that. I’m—what do you call it? Pro-life. I’m pro-life, I’m telling you.”
Bannon was impressed with the showmanship, and increasingly so as Trump talked. Trump was engaged and quick. He was in great physical shape. His presence was bigger than the man, and took over the room, a command presence. He had something. He was also like a guy in a bar talking to the TV. Street-smart, from Queens. In Bannon’s evaluation, Trump was Archie Bunker, but a really focused Archie Bunker.
“The second big thing,” Bossie said, “is your voting record.”
“What do you mean, my voting record?”
“About how often you vote.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Well,” Bossie said, “this is a Republican primary.”
“I vote every time,” Trump said confidently. “I’ve voted every time since I was 18, 20 years old.”
“That’s actually not correct. You know there’s a public record of your vote.” Bossie, the congressional investigator, had a stack of records.
“They don’t know how I vote.”
“No, no, no, not how you vote. How often you vote.”
Bannon realized that Trump did not know the most rudimentary business of politics.
“I voted every time,” Trump insisted.
“Actually you’ve never voted in a primary except once in your entire life,” Bossie said, citing the record.
“That’s a ****ing lie,” Trump said. “That’s a total lie. Every time I get to vote, I voted.”
“You only voted in one primary,” Bossie said. “It was like in 1988 or something, in the Republican primary.”
“You’re right,” Trump said, pivoting 180 degrees, not missing a beat. “That was for Rudy.” Giuliani ran for mayor in a primary in 1989. “Is that in there?”
“Yes.”
“I’ll get over that,” Trump said.
“Maybe none of these things matter,” Bossie said, “but maybe they do. If you’re going to move forward, you have to be methodical.”
Bannon was up next. He turned to what was driving the Tea Party, which didn’t like the elites. Populism was for the common man, knowing the system is rigged. It was against crony capitalism and insider deals which were bleeding the workers.
“I love that. That’s what I am,” Trump said, “a popularist.” He mangled the word.
“No, no,” Bannon said. “It’s populist.”
“Yeah, yeah,” Trump insisted. “A popularist.”

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