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TV’s Frink said:

Dude, calm down.

I voted for Bill Clinton. So I possibly voted for a sexual predator. Would I vote for him today in the same exact situation? Maybe? I dunno.

I voted for him too, at the time I did that, I didn’t know he was a sexual predator. I don’t vote or support people I know to be or believe to be sexual predators.

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TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I found this article interesting.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/what-if-democrats-majority-hinged-on-a-child-molester.html

In all honesty, if a sexual predator was the Democratic nominee for a position, I think the Democratic Party at large would still support that candidate. I think many of the liberals here would. I’d have a good chance of doing so as well.

Well, I guess I am not a liberal then, because I would not support a candidate from either party that was a sexual predator.

That’s what you tell yourself. But would you actually do it? People say all sorts of things, but never do them.

I really don’t appreciate this response.

Yeah but it’s a reasonable response.

You have a unique definition of the word reasonable.

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Dude, calm down.

I voted for Bill Clinton. So I possibly voted for a sexual predator. Would I vote for him today in the same exact situation? Maybe? I dunno.

I voted for him too, at the time I did that, I didn’t know he was a sexual predator.

I’m so old that my memory is shot, but I’m pretty sure women were accusing him before his first term, and definitely before his second term.

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I found this article interesting.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/what-if-democrats-majority-hinged-on-a-child-molester.html

In all honesty, if a sexual predator was the Democratic nominee for a position, I think the Democratic Party at large would still support that candidate. I think many of the liberals here would. I’d have a good chance of doing so as well.

Well, I guess I am not a liberal then, because I would not support a candidate from either party that was a sexual predator.

That’s what you tell yourself. But would you actually do it? People say all sorts of things, but never do them.

I really don’t appreciate this response.

Yeah but it’s a reasonable response.

You have a unique definition of the word reasonable.

Sounds reasonable.

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TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Dude, calm down.

I voted for Bill Clinton. So I possibly voted for a sexual predator. Would I vote for him today in the same exact situation? Maybe? I dunno.

I voted for him too, at the time I did that, I didn’t know he was a sexual predator.

I’m so old that my memory is shot, but I’m pretty sure women were accusing him before his first term, and definitely before his second term.

Maybe they were. But, I didn’t know whether to believe them or not, and it was my first election and I was only 18. I did not vote for Clinton in his second election.

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TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

Warbler said:

yhwx said:

I found this article interesting.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/what-if-democrats-majority-hinged-on-a-child-molester.html

In all honesty, if a sexual predator was the Democratic nominee for a position, I think the Democratic Party at large would still support that candidate. I think many of the liberals here would. I’d have a good chance of doing so as well.

Well, I guess I am not a liberal then, because I would not support a candidate from either party that was a sexual predator.

That’s what you tell yourself. But would you actually do it? People say all sorts of things, but never do them.

I really don’t appreciate this response.

Yeah but it’s a reasonable response.

You have a unique definition of the word reasonable.

Sounds reasonable.

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The Moore Senate campaign response just keeps getting lower and lower.

That’s right. They aren’t saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore, they’re just saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore through an anonymous intermediary, which is a totally different thing, because you can deny you said it. Because normal people unconnected to the Moore campaign make that kind of statement all the time in their normal everyday robocalls to Alabama voters, so it might be one of them.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

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CatBus said:

The Moore Senate campaign response just keeps getting lower and lower.

That’s right. They aren’t saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore, they’re just saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore through an anonymous intermediary, which is a totally different thing, because you can deny you said it. Because normal people unconnected to the Moore campaign make that kind of statement all the time in their normal everyday robocalls to Alabama voters, so it might be one of them.

That’s terrible. I hope they catch the scum responsible.

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dahmage said:

CatBus said:

The Moore Senate campaign response just keeps getting lower and lower.

That’s right. They aren’t saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore, they’re just saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore through an anonymous intermediary, which is a totally different thing, because you can deny you said it. Because normal people unconnected to the Moore campaign make that kind of statement all the time in their normal everyday robocalls to Alabama voters, so it might be one of them.

That’s terrible. I hope they catch the scum responsible.

Check Trump’s phone records.

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dahmage said:

dahmage said:

CatBus said:

The Moore Senate campaign response just keeps getting lower and lower.

That’s right. They aren’t saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore, they’re just saying the Washington Post is paying women thousands of dollars to lie about Moore through an anonymous intermediary, which is a totally different thing, because you can deny you said it. Because normal people unconnected to the Moore campaign make that kind of statement all the time in their normal everyday robocalls to Alabama voters, so it might be one of them.

That’s terrible. I hope they catch the scum responsible.

Check Trump’s phone records.

“John Miller”

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This joke chart has been making its way around Twitter, except… it’s not a joke. It’s an actual chart presented at today’s House Judiciary Committee oversight committee (by Rep. Gohmert, where all the crazy that isn’t coming from Trump originates)

Look carefully at this thing. What links James Clapper, Susan Rice, David Petraeus, Eric Holder, and the Obama State Department together in this insidious Russia/UraniumOne web? You guessed it – Benghazi! Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein even warrant their own crazy bubbles on this Russia/UraniumOne chart, cause Rosenstein’s job description is all about the Uranium, and he was US Attorney in Maryland until Trump put him to his current position, so that’s awkward. In fact, Mueller’s on there twice for good measure. So’s Comey. And Obama. And Susan Rice. Because doubling the crazy bubbles makes it seem doubly nefarious.

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This was on Hannity.

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These dumbasses wouldn’t know a good organizational flow chart of it hit them in the face.

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As I said when I posted a similar image last page, they’re getting desperate. The number of usual suspects on twitter furiously doing their taxes over this insanity is embarrassing.

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These things look like the early stages of an AI learning to make flow charts.

Ceci n’est pas une signature.

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http://nypost.com/2017/11/15/trump-accused-of-copy-pasting-tweets-on-mass-shootings/

President Trump was slammed on social media for an apparently errant tweet about last week’s mass killing in Texas — sent on the same day a gunman went on a killing spree in California.

“May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI and Law Enforcement has arrived,” Trump wrote late Tuesday at the end of his 12-day tour of Asia.

His missive closely mirrored what he tweeted about the Nov. 5 church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, that killed 26 people and wounded 20.

“May God be w/the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas. The FBI & law enforcement are on the scene. I am monitoring the situation from Japan,” he tweeted at the time.

Idiot.

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And also a child.

https://nypost.com/2017/11/15/trump-to-ucla-players-wheres-my-thank-you/

Three UCLA basketball players who were held in China on suspicion of shoplifting have returned to the US, where an indignant President Trump greeted them with a tweet.

“Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!” the president tweeted Wednesday morning.

Trump has said he sought the help of Chinese President Xi Jinping in securing the release of freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley.

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TV’s Frink said:

And also a child.

https://nypost.com/2017/11/15/trump-to-ucla-players-wheres-my-thank-you/

Three UCLA basketball players who were held in China on suspicion of shoplifting have returned to the US, where an indignant President Trump greeted them with a tweet.

“Do you think the three UCLA Basketball Players will say thank you President Trump? They were headed for 10 years in jail!” the president tweeted Wednesday morning.

Trump has said he sought the help of Chinese President Xi Jinping in securing the release of freshmen LiAngelo Ball, Jalen Hill and Cody Riley.

They had a press conference this morning where they thanked the great pumpkin. Since they returned to the U.S. a couple days ago I presume UCLA was waiting for them not to be jet-lagged and groggy in front of tv cameras.

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Oh hey look Roy Moore’s attorney is also racist!

https://thinkprogress.org/roy-moore-attorney-msnbc-e37c6b5f31b0/

In a rambling interview on Wednesday morning, Roy Moore’s attorney, Trenton Garmon, tried to explain and defend the way Moore is responding to various accusations of sexually abusing young girls. When hosts Ali Velshi and Stephanie Ruhle asked why Moore would need to ask a girl’s parents for permission to date her, Garmon suggested that Velshi comes from a “diverse background” and could not understand Alabama culture.

“Culturally speaking, obviously there’s differences,” Garmon began. “I looked up Ali’s background there, and wow, that’s awesome you’ve got such a diverse background. It’s really cool to read through that.”

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wow, Trenton Garmon is a moron.

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This is insane.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/two-more-women-describe-unwanted-overtures-by-roy-moore-at-alabama-mall/2017/11/15/2a1da432-ca24-11e7-b0cf-7689a9f2d84e_story.html

Gena Richardson says she was a high school senior working in the men’s department of Sears at the Gadsden Mall when a man approached her and introduced himself as Roy Moore.

“He said, ‘You can just call me Roy,’ ” says Richardson, who says this first encounter happened in the fall of 1977, just before or after her 18th birthday, as Moore, then a 30-year-old local attorney, was gaining a reputation for pursuing young women at the mall in Gadsden, Ala. His overtures caused one store manager to tell new hires to “watch out for this guy,” another young woman to complain to her supervisor and Richardson to eventually hide from him when he came in Sears, the women say.

Richardson says Moore — now a candidate for U.S. Senate — asked her where she went to school, and then for her phone number, which she says she declined to give, telling him that her father, a Southern Baptist preacher, would never approve.

A few days later, she says, she was in trigonometry class at Gadsden High when she was summoned to the principal’s office over the intercom in her classroom. She had a phone call.

“I said ‘Hello?’” Richardson recalls. “And the male on the other line said, ‘Gena, this is Roy Moore.’ I was like, ‘What?!’ He said, ‘What are you doing?’ I said, ‘I’m in trig class.’ ”

Richardson says Moore asked her out again on the call. A few days later, after he asked her out at Sears, she relented and agreed, feeling both nervous and flattered. They met that night at a movie theater in the mall after she got off work, a date that ended with Moore driving her to her car in a dark parking lot behind Sears and giving her what she called an unwanted, “forceful” kiss that left her scared.

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I remember needing to ask a girl’s parents permission to date her at one point, I don’t fully understand that question, but his response is undeniably dumb.