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A lot of celebration over exactly what everyone knew would happen
by
marcus
on 24 Mar 2019
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5 years ago
I don't think anyone thought that the President would be indicted. We don't even know if you can indict a sitting President. But some thought that the Mueller report or ...
Mueller report released to Barr
by
marcus
on 22 Mar 2019
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5 years ago
Oh, just saw a few hours ago that it's finally done. Nothing surprising at all - the attorney general has it now. My feelings about this ? Nothing at all. ...
Foxes can be bred to be docile, even pets in just a few generations
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marcus
on 2 Mar 2019
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5 years ago
What DNA From Pet Foxes Teaches Us About Dogs—And Humans https://www.nationalgeographic https://www.theverge.com/2018/
What's the opposite of the golden rule ? Donald Trump.
by
marcus
on 27 Feb 2019
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5 years ago
https://twitter.com/realDonald Fordham confirms that Trump team threatened the school if his grades became public https://www.marketwatch.com/st Donald Trump: "Let's see, what's the all time worst thing that I would most not ...
Nancy and Chuck hope the President learned his lesson
by
marcus
on 25 Jan 2019
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5 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/7B23DPdL
It's not 1984 (YET)
by
marcus
on 20 Jan 2019
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5 years ago
It's closer to idiocracy (as depicted in the movie titled "Idiocracy"). People get obsessed with minor specific (and bizarre incidents), take them out of context, and blow them out of ...
What's True and What's Not, About Trump's Wall ?
by
marcus
on 19 Jan 2019
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5 years ago
For starters we have something like 700 miles of "wall" on the southern border already. Here's an interesting piece about Tijuana that desribes the 2 walls that helped redifine the ...
What happened to the border wall money Congress already gave Trump? ($1.6 billion)
by
marcus
on 14 Jan 2019
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5 years ago
Part of the answer is that it's use is being held up by Trump's brilliant govt shutdown. There has been bipartisan building of walls along the border, but not making ...
$5 billion question: How border-security experts would spend money Trump wants for a wall
by
marcus
on 9 Jan 2019
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5 years ago
https://www.azcentral.com/stor Andrew Selee, president, Migration Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research center in Washington, D.C. "This will be fun," Selee begins. "Nobody's ever asked me to spend $5 billion before." His ...
Twenty Years From Now...
by
marcus
on 12 Dec 2018
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5 years ago
Twenty years from now, kids are gonna think "Baby it's cold outside" is really weird, and we're gonna have to explain that it has to be understood as a product ...
Trump Cucks: You should start thinking about how you're going to defend Trump
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marcus
on 8 Dec 2018
138 comments, latest
5 years ago
Mueller is coming for Trump. Believe it. We all know that there is absolutely nothing he could have ever done that would dissuade you from thinking that Trump is simply ...
Book: "Identity Crisis" explores the obvious role that ethnicity and race played in Trumps election
by
marcus
on 25 Nov 2018
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5 years ago
https://www.amazon.com/Identit Identity Crisis reveals how Trump’s victory was foreshadowed by changes in the Democratic and Republican coalitions that were driven by people’s racial and ethnic identities. The campaign then reinforced ...
Trump is starting to Panic
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marcus
on 17 Nov 2018
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5 years ago
"Trump is Starting to Panic" That all this makes Trump panic at some gut level is visible not merely in his widely reported spells of rage and bitterness and in ...
Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism
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marcus
on 28 Oct 2018
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6 years ago
Jewish leaders tell Trump he's not welcome in Pittsburgh until he denounces white nationalism. https://thehill.com/homenews/a Eleven members of the Pittsburgh affiliate of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice ...
So, are we going to give the lies about violence on the left a rest for a couple days ?
by
marcus
on 26 Oct 2018
48 comments, latest
6 years ago
There was Timothy McVeigh. There was those entitled right winger nutjob ranchers that did an armed takeover of a wildlife preserve a couple years ago. Or the list of 73 ...
Obama is right. There is nobody more dishonest than the typical republican
by
marcus
on 26 Oct 2018
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6 years ago
Obama: If Republicans really cared about Clinton's emails they would be 'up in arms' over Trump's iPhone https://thehill.com/blogs/blog Former President Obama says that if Republicans were truly concerned about the ...
Good point, I hadn't thought of it that way - a comment about Kanye
by
marcus
on 11 Oct 2018
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6 years ago
Trevor Noah shared a good observation: " I'm not a fan of this new Kanye West, but I will say I really enjoyed seeing Kanye make Trump feel the way ...
Serous conservatives are reversing their endorsement of Kavenaugh
by
marcus
on 3 Oct 2018
2 comments, latest
6 years ago
And not becasue of the Ford or other allegations, but because of the way he behaved at the hearing. It was not judicious and it was too partisan. https://thehill.com/homenews/s
Divorce rates down by 18% Wow !
by
marcus
on 1 Oct 2018
22 comments, latest
3 years ago
"Glad the divorce rate in America is falling? Thank millennials. https://bigthink.com/sex-relat Cynical and dark spin: Maybe the millennials haven't accumulated enough assets yet to make divorce enticing ?
Racism or a lack there of is not so much about critical thinking skills.
by
marcus
on 19 Sep 2018
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6 years ago
Although it is partly. Everyone rationalizes their beliefs. Excellent essay from current Time magazine. Don’t Let the Loud Bigots Distract You. America’s Real Problem With Race Cuts Far Deeper Excerpt: ...
What has the U.S. come to when it's impossible to have even a rough death toll from Hurricane Maria ?
by
marcus
on 16 Sep 2018
21 comments, latest
6 years ago
That is in Puerto Rico. What is the rough estimate of the number of people who died as a result of the hurricane ? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0 Apparently the death toll that ...
Be honest, which side does this kind of thing more
by
marcus
on 15 Sep 2018
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6 years ago
https://i.redditmedia.com/NnNO
Obama's and Bush's Eulogies
by
marcus
on 2 Sep 2018
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6 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/raDyWogv
Trump's political influence is expanding in Europe
by
marcus
on 26 Aug 2018
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6 years ago
Neo-Nazis March in Stockholm Ahead of Swedish Elections https://www.haaretz.com/world-
Just a few years back, when America was great
by
marcus
on 25 Aug 2018
41 comments, latest
6 years ago
www.youtube.com/embed/3c-Ijky9 RIP John McCAin, and thank you for your service to our country.
Trumps EPA, Asbestos and Russia
by
marcus
on 7 Aug 2018
2 comments, latest
6 years ago
Under future more sane U.S. governments, just think of all the money that will be spend on Asbestos abatement. Then again, maybe we're slowly becoming China or Russia, and we ...
Nobody likes tax increases - so guess what a political party that doesn't care about the people's future will do as a political strategy ?
by
marcus
on 3 Aug 2018
6 comments, latest
6 years ago
They lower taxes (especially on weathy and corporations) to a level that will cause massive deficits. Then when the other party complains about deferred maintenance of infrastructure and a lack ...
Yo Trump bubble boys, wanna see how bizarre things are getting in the reality based world ?
by
marcus
on 31 Jul 2018
12 comments, latest
6 years ago
Yeah yeah, it's just Stephen Colbert, so if he strings a bunch of Gulliani videos together you're totally justified in ignoring it. Nothing to see here folks, move along. www.youtube.com/embed/66Xe2X8b
Legit Guide to TrumpSpeak
by
marcus
on 21 Jun 2018
13 comments, latest
6 years ago
What are some others ?
Fall of the American Empire
by
marcus
on 18 Jun 2018
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6 years ago
I couldn't agree more. https://mobile.nytimes.com/201 Excerpt: But what does American goodness — all too often honored in the breach, but still real — have to do with American power, let ...
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