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   j.a.m. on 30th January 2018 at 6:07 pm

   “If Clinton were president, we wouldn’t be hearing about payouts to porn stars to cover up affairs.”

   Oh? We’ve been hearing for 25 years about Hillary’s ruthless and unscrupulous tactics to cover up Bill’s “bimbo eruptions”. If you put that sleazy duo back in the White House, it would be déjà vu all over again.

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     Heather Hastie on 31st January 2018 at 4:41 am

     Grow up.

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       rickflick on 1st February 2018 at 12:41 pm

       I think there’s a hormone for that. 😎

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   Jenny Haniver on 30th January 2018 at 7:46 pm

   The only way I can tie this link about Paul Manafort’s background and machinations https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-manafort-american-hustler/550925/ to today’s post is to reference his name in the chart “Trump and his team’s ties to Russia,” but the article was just published and the info is timely; and today there was an interview with the author on NPR’s “Fresh Air” https://www.npr.org/2018/01/29/581478324/paul-manafort-joined-the-trump-campaign-in-a-state-of-despair-and-desperation, which I highly recommend.

   And now, on top of everything else, we have to worry about “berzerk leprosy bacteria”? That kinda characterizes Trump’s malign influence on theworld.

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   Lee Knuth on 31st January 2018 at 6:12 am

   Seems FOX news can never let a moment go by to trash Hillary. Guess they never heard that winners should be gracious.

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     Heather Hastie on 31st January 2018 at 8:03 am

     I can’t help thinking they’re just sucking up to Trump. So many Republicans in the public arena these days seem to be playing to an audience of one. They don’t care what anyone thinks except him.

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   Mark R. on 31st January 2018 at 8:15 am

   Faux Fox loves to create its faux outrage for its addled adherents. It is a simple strategy that works once a bogeyman has been established and the propaganda has taken hold. Perhaps it’s the christianity in them that drives this need for conspiratorial worldly-evils to fight. Christians I used to know reveled in their fantasies of an “end-of-days” battle…the christians against the rest of humanity plus demons and devils. They love their grand delusions and the grander they are, the more believable. Trump knows too well how easy it is to manipulate the Evangelical masses; hate and fear are powerful motivators, especially for those who feel they are righteous and have a predilection for credulous thinking.

   The salt crystals reminded me of a Borg ship…or cheese.

   Loved the German Shepherd “push-ups”. One of my late grandmothers had a German Shepherd who could open any door, as long as it wasn’t locked. He used his paws or his mouth, depending on the type of door-knob. He also knew at least a dozen tricks; the smartest dog I’ve ever known. Sadly, some asshole killed him with a poison dart. Is that sick or what?

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     Heather Hastie on 31st January 2018 at 8:40 am

     Iirc, German Shepherds are at the top of the table for average intelligence along with Labs and closely followed by Retrievers. All lovely dogs.

     Trump’s got that whole extremist Christian paranoia mindset going on with his irrational fears of poisoning and Muslims, so he probably relates well to the Evangelicals.

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       Linda Calhoun on 1st February 2018 at 1:31 pm

       Don’t forget Border Collies.

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         Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 1:33 pm

         Oh yes, very smart too!

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   nicky on 31st January 2018 at 4:52 pm

   Mr Trump and his supporters going on and on and on about Ms Clinton is extraordinarily unusual. It is reminiscent of a usurper going on and on about the rightful, but deposed, ruler.
   I guess Mr Trump knows that Hillary actually won, and only lost due to electoral fraud and other dirty tricks. I have no other explanation for this remarkable phenomenon.

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     j.a.m. on 31st January 2018 at 5:59 pm

     President Trump has been hard at work reviving the American Dream, because “Americans are dreamers, too.” Hillary spent the past year on long, brooding walks in the woods. It’s really her graceless sore loser followers, if anyone, who perpetuate bitterness.

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       Linda Calhoun on 31st January 2018 at 10:12 pm

       “President Trump has been hard at work reviving the American Dream…”

       I read this morning that only 9% of Fortune 500 companies have shared any of their tax cut with their workers.

       And, your version of the “American Dream” seems only to include white males. The rest of us should just “know our place”.

       I keep trying to figure out what you’re doing here. I have asked you point-blank, and you refuse to answer. Are you being paid to do this? Do you troll for the joy of it? Is this the only site you troll, or are there others?

       If you are trying to convince us of something, you’re not doing a very good job of it. Coming here and voicing your endless hostility just shows me who I don’t want to be. I can’t imagine getting up in the morning and thinking, “Ooooh, let’s go poke the libtards today.”

       My newborn kids await. Real joy there.

       Bye.

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         j.a.m. on 31st January 2018 at 11:31 pm

         Your beef is with Nicky, who claims immediately above, yet again, that Clinton “only lost due to electoral fraud,” which you insist does not exist.

         Something tells me that if Obama sneezed and 9% of employers suddenly paid out bonuses to rank and file, you’d be spinning that rather differently. Everyone’s take-home pay is going up next paycheck, and over time everyone benefits from faster growth, higher productivity and pay, and more opportunity.

         Meanwhile, the President’s first SOTU scored a 75% approval rating, including a majority of Dems. The amputee who fled North Korea, and the young husband and wife who adopted a homeless drug addict’s baby as their fifth child (after the cop husband came upon the pregnant woman shooting up behind a 7-11) were the emotional high notes. (And needless to say Melania’s stunning white pantsuit got 100% approval.)

         https://www.cbsnews.com/news/viewers-approve-of-trumps-first-state-of-the-union-address-cbs-news-poll/

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           Linda Calhoun on 1st February 2018 at 12:52 am

           I have no beef with Nicky.

           And, I’m not “spinning” anything.

           Obama is no longer President, so that comment is completely irrelevant.

           And, I still notice that you have not said what you hope to accomplish by trolling this site.

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           Linda Calhoun on 1st February 2018 at 1:02 am

           And, oh, about that “tax cut”: the IRS has been instructed to redo the tax tables to reduce people’s tax refund, so that it looks like the cut is bigger than it is. Once people realize that they are getting a smaller, or no, refund, they won’t be happy, but of course that will be after the election, so who cares, right?

           And, I don’t know if you do your own taxes, but I do, both personal and for our farm and our other business. One little dance that the new tax law did was to eliminate the personal exemption, which for us amounted to over $8000.00 last year. So, doubling the individual deduction doesn’t actually amount to getting twice the deduction, which of course, they didn’t mention when they were bragging about it. It actually only amounts to getting 1/3 more, not twice more.

           And, on top of that, the law is written so that individual tax cuts will expire, whereas corporate tax cuts will not.

           Oh, and when the property tax deduction gets seriously reduced, many people in higher value/higher property tax areas will actually end up paying more. I understand that that was deliberate, in order to “punish” blue states like CA, NY, and NJ.

           Same deal for health insurance premiums, state and local tax deductions, etc.

           BFD.

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           Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 7:29 am

           All who were celebrated were worthy of the honour. I do not see how President Trump or his policies had anything whatsoever to do with their personal heroism.

           I’m quite sure the president had nothing whatsoever to do with Melania’s choice of clothing. For the first time, she didn’t even travel from the White House in the same car as her husband. As I’ve been saying since the election, the person I feel sorriest for is Melania because it’s at least four years before she can leave an unfaithful, boorish, and possibly abusive husband.

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       Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 7:19 am

       Is there anything she could do that you would approve of? What’s wrong with long walks in the woods? How do you know she was brooding? Did you ask her? Do you have some evidence for her emotional state? Why do you care so much what she did? Or do you, yoo, understand that if the election had been fair, she would be your president?

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         j.a.m. on 1st February 2018 at 4:38 pm

         We know she was brooding because she wrote a whole book about it, and then went on a world tour to promote it.

         She ran for president twice and lost twice — decisively, fair and square.

         At this point we’ve all wasted much too much of our lives fretting over the Clintons. Time for them to enjoy the grandkids and try to keep their sleazy shenanigans out of the papers.

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           Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 5:15 pm

           You’re the one who keeps bringing the Clintons up.

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       David Coxill on 7th February 2018 at 5:59 pm

       Playing golf and twitting is not work ,that is all he has done for the last year .

       Are you a poe by the way ?

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   nicky on 31st January 2018 at 5:42 pm

   The “Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Bill”, is not completely unreasonable, although I would have voted against it.
   The development from zygote to newborn is a process, and I am sympathetic to legislation that takes that into account. Like, say, ‘on demand’ until 12 weeks and only for very serious reasons (such as mother’s life in danger or severe malformation of the fetus) after 20 weeks.
   Nevertheless I would have voted against.
   First of all, as explained above, there are cases where a 20 weeks+ abortion is indicated.
   Secondly, it talks about ‘pain-capable’ which is way too simplistic, highly contentious, an probably incorrect.
   Thirdly use of the term ‘Unborn Child’ is also ‘sloppy’, to put it charitably.

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     Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 7:14 am

     That’s pretty much how I feel Nicky.

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   Linda Calhoun on 1st February 2018 at 1:15 am

   The people who are obsessed with “pain capability” in utero don’t give a shit about the kid after it’s born.

   To take just one example, zika babies are in constant pain, and they cry all the time. Funding for mosquito abatement has been severely cut, by the same legislators who propose nonsense like this.

   The point of anti-abortion legislation has nothing whatever to do with the fetus. It’s about controlling women.

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     nicky on 1st February 2018 at 6:30 am

     Yep, that appears to be the case.

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     Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 7:39 am

     I agree completely. They want to force all women to carry pregnancies to term, no matter the circumstances in which they got pregnant, how dangerous it is for them, and the health of the foetus. Then the woman is on her own with virtually no help or support whatsoever.

     FFS, unlike every other Western country, the US doesn’t even guarantee sick leave, maternity leave, or paid parental leave (the rest of us have all three) and even has less annual leave than everyone else.

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       Linda Calhoun on 1st February 2018 at 8:54 am

       Plus, the maternal mortality rate in the US is skyrocketing.

       Get a clue, Repubs. When mom dies, the fetus goes with her.

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         Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 9:35 am

         It’s the highest amongst developed nations. That’s because even pregnant women don’t get the care they need.

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   nicky on 1st February 2018 at 6:12 am

   Mr Trump has been hard playing golf. Maybe better.
   My point was that he appears to be obsessed with Ms Clinton, whom he ‘defeated’ more than a year ago.
   This is excessively peculiar, why would he go on and on about her? The only reason I can see for this remarkable obsession is that deep inside he knows he’s an usurper.
   Note that the electoral fraud I’m referring to is not this imaginary ‘voter fraud’ (in fact void accusations of the latter has been an instrument to carry out electoral fraud via eg. Kobach’s ‘Crosscheck’)

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     nicky on 1st February 2018 at 6:26 am

     oops, this was an answer to jam.

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     Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 7:49 am

     There’s plenty of legal ways the election is rigged in the favour of Republicans. Land is mire important than people, so getting a 3 million majority doesn’t win you the presidency. And electoral boundaries are drawn by those in power instead of an independent commission. Despite years of gerrymandering, mostly by the GOP, it’s taken one extreme case to finally get the courts to review one district. That’s because your courts are political animals too, and often rule on the basis of politics or personal belief instead of the law.

     Trump was even skiting in the SOTU about how many partisan judges he’s appointed to the courts, plus one to the Supreme Court. It’s a disgrace.

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       j.a.m. on 1st February 2018 at 4:19 pm

       Clinton did not get a “3 million majority”, or any kind of majority. A majority of voters rejected her. She lost the overall tally by five million votes.

       Obama appointed radical, lawless ideologues to the bench. Trump, to his everlasting credit, is appointing non-partisan, non-activist judges who respect the rule of law and the limits of their own powers. Democratic self-government is far safer with Trump’s appointees than Obama’s.

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         Heather Hastie on 1st February 2018 at 5:23 pm

         If Clinton lost the overall tally by 5 million, Trump lost it by 8 million FFS,

         And there is a post where I analysed the votes of the Supreme Court back over multiple years, If the way the more liberal justices is so lawless, why did their conservative colleagues agree with them on a majority of occasions? The only cases people like you notice are those where they don’t agree with the result.

         And it was a Republican majority SCOTUS that made abortion legal.

         And if you think Trump’s appointees are non-partisan, you would make a very poor judge. In particular if you think Gorsuch is less partisan than Obama’s pick you’re deluded. I suppose you agree with the idiot who thinks God killed Scalia to make people vote for Trump: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/lance-wallnau-god-allowed-antonin-scalia-to-die-in-order-to-motivate-people-to-vote-for-trump/

         I admit that’s Obama’s fault though. He left too many vacancies.

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