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    Trump and Russia- the optimism is fading

    From our resident Russian bot? Couldn't be...
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    Best news I've heard all week

    I have been feeling salty and fried lately.
  3. That's not it at all. The names in the binders were already public knowledge. We knew Bruce and Leo had been there, as well as Trump and Prince Andrew and the Clintons. So far, it's less impressive than the Trump "tax return" that Maddow got hold of a few years ago. She only hyped that for a few hours before air and it turned out to be basically nothing. This has been hyped for months or years even; turns out to be rehashed info already released. I eagerly await further news. I want to know. But I'm sure not holding my breath.
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    Rachel Maddow is on now!

    If you searched it while in another country, it would be called Gulf of Mexico, though.
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    Rachel Maddow is on now!

    Only in court under oath. No other news outlets have been rung up for 3/4 of a billion for lying.
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    Gene Hackman Died Last Night At 95

    Sandler deserves throat punches for MOST of the movies he's made.
  7. Just catching up on this... So they released a bunch of pablum nobody cares about exclusively to right wing "influencers?" What's worse, a clownshow or a shitshow? This is both.
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    Gene Hackman Died Last Night At 95

    French Connection is such a great flick. Hoosiers and the Conversation as well. The Birdcage was funny as hell but hasn't aged very well.
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    Court Ruling Against the AP

    JFC. He limited access to the most powerful office in the world to the largest news gathering org in the world. If a dem president had done this you'd want blood, rightfully. Now you're picking nits with my wording while bltching about Democrats engaging in censorship and praising this admin for transparency. You're off the reservation man. Wake up.
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    Elon musk access to the treasury

    We are going to see this much more, I would think. Gov't workers worried about their jobs, morale tanking, being asked to accomplish tasks they are not capable of because their colleagues were already fired without an opportunity to train replacements. Institutional knowledge is being removed completely from the institutions. What was already inefficient now becomes near useless. The seeming lack of thought given to eventual outcomes of firing thousands of unelected bureaucrats is startling. Eventually, something bad will occur that could have been prevented or mitigated by some of the individuals and agencies being axed. Then all hell will break loose. The FAA is a perfect example of a vital agency already running short staffed with low morale. I won't pin the recent rash of plane crashes on Trump, but what we see today may only be a small indicator of what is to come.
  11. As they should, strategically speaking. From a purely partisan political standpoint, the party is in terrible shape. They lack vision, leadership, common sense, policy wins, communication, I could go on. Their best bet is to do absolutely nothing for the next 2 years at least and let Trump and MAGA undo themselves with stupidity, chaos, and weak leadership. This is not what's best for the country, of course, but since when did either party GAF about that?
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    Supreme Court Case on Discrimination

    In this instance everyone realizes that the lower court fuct up bigly, even the lawyers in the case. This will be a unanimous decision in favor of the white woman, as it should be based on what I read about the case. ETA: Even the Biden admin filed a brief supporting the plaintiff.
  13. My first thought as well. But, whatever. There has been enough identified misbehavior within the FBI that this wouldn't be particularly surprising. If the whistleblower seems legit, it's worth investigating.
  14. If this was Biden licking Pelosi's toes LC/MO would have 15 active threads about it on the first page.
  15. Well that shouldn't be a problem now.
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    Court Ruling Against the AP

    Interesting. I went back to search again and came up with the third different answer numerically, but it was still Mexico.
  17. Why did she need a liver transplant so young? Heavy drinker?
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    What's The First Historic Thing You Remember Watching?

    My sippy cup? Probably about 6 oz.
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    Court Ruling Against the AP

    I can't read that unless I register with Fox News. I'd rather not do that. My understanding is that Obama "worked around" some Fox journalists, didn't call on them, gave them less "exclusive" access, etc. I will not defend those actions. But he did not revoke any access to Fox that other news outlets traditionally enjoyed. Trump has.
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    Court Ruling Against the AP

    Actually, Mexico has more shoreline by nearly 400 miles.
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    Court Ruling Against the AP

    The AP is an international news org, not an American one. They are not beholden to this standard. Either way, I don't care about the reasoning. That a POTUS unilaterally sidelined the largest news organization in the world should give people pause. No other president has ever done this. I do not believe for a moment that if Obama or Biden did it to Fox news that you or anyone else here would have supported it, regardless of rationale. I wouldn't have.
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    Join the resistance!!!

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