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Who could that possibly be? Mrebo? Post Praetorian? Ferris? C3PS?

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That certain person may still be reading the thread, as I’m sure breaks are not permanent.

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I suppose that is possible.

back to topic.

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Warbler said:

Who could that possibly be? Mrebo? Post Praetorian? Ferris? C3PS?

I miss three of these people.

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TV’s Frink said:

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There’s a strangely peaceful air in this thread of late. Weird.

Echo chambers usually are.

Hahahaha.

Go ahead and defend Trump then.

I plan to but I there’s a few things I have to finish first. I’ve typed up a to-do list of things I’m most likely to enjoy and not find to be a waste of time, and I plan on discussing Trump in this thread but first I need to finish dripping hot wax onto my balls, then after that I have to figure out how many tennis balls fit up my anus, and then the Trump discussion is the very next thing on the list.

Harrison Ford Has Pretty Much Given Up on His Son. Here's Why

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Same old Stinky. Thanks for that mental image.

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Where were you in '77?

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TV’s Frink said:

I hate when restaurants do this, Denny’s does it every time I order Moons Over my Hammy. I go from thinking I’m right about to get more Hammy than I could’ve possibly imagined to realizing I’m getting way less Hammy than I need right now.

Harrison Ford Has Pretty Much Given Up on His Son. Here's Why

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Was Ferris banned or has he just not posted in a while?

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Jeebus said:

Was Ferris banned or has he just not posted in a while?

The second one.

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Warbler said:

TV’s Frink said:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/20/politics/donald-trump-golfing-presidency/

President Donald Trump has made visiting his Florida golf courses a near every-weekend habit in the first month of his administration, and his aides are trying to obscure whether Trump is actually golfing during the visits.

One possible reason: Trump was a frequent and vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s golf habit, regularly slamming the former president for playing golf with many pressing issues before the country. Trump even suggested during a 2016 event in Virginia, in a knock on Obama, that if elected he was “not going to have time to go play golf.”

“I’m going to be working for you, I’m not going to have time to go play golf,” Trump said at the time.

Trump has visited his two golf courses near his Mar-a-Lago estate – Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach and Trump National Golf Course in Jupiter – six times in his first month in office.

I am pretty sure each trip costing the tax payers a bit of money. It is not cheap to fly the sitting US President to and from places.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/president-trump-mar-a-lago-trips-cost-taxpayers-millions/

Budget watchdogs are criticizing the cost of President Trump’s visits to Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida. Mr. Trump has been at his so-called “Winter White House” the past three weekends. That’s 11 of his first 33 days in office. The travel has an estimated price tag of $10 million.

Between Secret Service and police surrounding the estate, and the U.S. Coast Guard in the surrounding waters, Mar-a-Lago is a fortress when the president is here. The White House won’t disclose the exact cost of Mr. Trump’s visits, but the $10 million estimate is based on figures from a similar trip by President Obama in 2013.

Mr. Trump often attacked his predecessor over his travel. He once tweeted: “President @barackobama’s vacation is costing taxpayers millions of dollars—Unbelievable!”

Four years ago, a weekend Mr. Obama spent in South Florida cost taxpayers $3.6 million. The Pentagon spent about $2.8 million for Air Force One plus support aircraft and military personnel. The Secret Service and the Coast Guard added nearly $800,000.

During his eight years in office, Mr. Obama racked up about $97 million in travel costs. Mr. Trump is on pace to eclipse that by the end of his first year.

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http://www.eclectablog.com/2017/02/i-honestly-dont-believe-that-trump-voters-want-to-take-nathaniels-medicaid.html

The cost of the medical supplies Nathaniel requires –“suction catheters, oxygen tubes, tracheostomy ties, and so on” — alone is $5,000 a month.

Their saving grace is that as a former foster child Nathaniel still qualifies for Medicaid.

But that could all change if Paul Ryan gets his way and is able to turn the federal Medicaid program into “block grants” that states can spend as they please.

if we take the path Paul Ryan desires, we’re dooming Kim, Rich and Nathaniel Rankin. We’re dooming them to toxic anxiety at least and abject poverty at worst. And there millions, yes MILLIONS, of Americans in similar situations.

Whatever differences we have, I have to believe that Trump voters don’t want to uninsure Nathaniel. So I’m asking you to reach out to any that you know and implore them to let their representatives know that they do not want that to happen in their names.

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https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/834181712783560705?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet

Donald J. TrumpVerified account
‏The so-called angry crowds in home districts of some Republicans are actually, in numerous cases, planned out by liberal activists. Sad!

Mark PygasVerified account‏
@realDonaldTrump A protest is generally an organised group of people, yes.

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@realDonaldTrump Thank you, President Dictionary.

Parker MolloyVerified account‏
realDonaldTrump I really don’t think you understand how to use “so-called” correctly in a sentence.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/02/21/anne-frank-center-slams-trump-do-not-make-us-jews-settle-for-crumbs-of-condescension/?utm_term=.ed8a0f6662b3

President Trump spoke out Tuesday against anti-Semitic threats, but his words were not enough for the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect, whose executive director called the president’s acknowledgment of anti-Semitism a “Band-Aid on the cancer of Antisemitism that has infected his own Administration.”

Yep. It’s also a Band-Aid that was put on long after the patient already bled out.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/02/21/donald-trumps-unbroken-streak-of-falsehoods-now-stands-at-33-days/?utm_term=.54ef1230eb41

Wow.

Donald Trump has been president for all or part of 33 days. He has averaged four falsehoods or misleading statements a day(!) in that time. There hasn’t been a single day of Trump’s presidency in which he has said nothing false or misleading.

That data, which comes from a terrific new project from The Post’s Fact Checker that seeks to document Trump’s statements in the first 100 days of his presidency, is stunning.

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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/02/donald_trump_s_disturbing_dalliance_with_anti_semitic_rhetoric.html

So please don’t be too grateful that President Trump has finally said that anti-Semitism is “horrible.” It’s more notable and more telling that he has also given voice and cover to the vile argument that these attacks and threats are not really happening to Jews or, worse, that Jews are doing this to their own communities in an effort to delegitimize Trump. The real question we should be asking Donald Trump today isn’t whether he deplores episodes of racial hatred. It should be whether he even believes they are happening or whether he truly thinks they are staged by his enemies to malign him.

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Well look at this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/business/milo-yiannopoulos-resigns-from-breitbart-news-after-pedophilia-comments.html

Mr. Yiannopoulos’s downfall this week — a dizzying 24 hours in which he lost his speaking slot at the pre-eminent conservative conference, had a book deal canceled and, on Tuesday, resigned under pressure from his job as a senior editor at Breitbart News — was a sign that in today’s political culture, when each day seems to bring a fresh lowering of the bar for decency and civility, some limits still remain.

His glib remarks about pedophilia by Roman Catholic priests and his endorsement of sexual relations with boys as young as 13 drew widespread condemnation from many of the conservatives who had long stood by him, even as he offended so many others with his insulting remarks about Hispanics, African-Americans, Muslims and Jews.

Mr. Yiannopoulos, appearing in Lower Manhattan wearing a sober suit and red tie on Tuesday afternoon, uttered the words that he had refused to say so many times before: I’m sorry. “I don’t think I’ve been as sorry about anything in my whole life.”

Related:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2017/02/21/the-96-hours-that-brought-down-milo-yiannopoulos/?utm_term=.2990c9f579ea

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Just so you all know, I’ve mellowed since several months ago and haven’t been visiting this thread much. Let me say here that Milo is one of the most despicable people on Earth. Interestingly, those comments, amongst other things, were what made me reevaluate him a few months ago and realize how awful he is. If people think that this is at all going to be the end of him, they still don’t get him. He’s going to be a thorn in everyone’s side until they finally figure out what makes people like him lose momentum, and it isn’t giving them a ton of attention. This is no different than him getting banned from Twitter.

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moviefreakedmind said:

Let me say here that Milo is one of the most despicable people on Earth. Interestingly, those comments, amongst other things, were what made me reevaluate him a few months ago and realize how awful he is.

I’m very glad to hear you say this.

If people think that this is at all going to be the end of him, they still don’t get him. He’s going to be a thorn in everyone’s side until they finally figure out what makes people like him lose momentum, and it isn’t giving them a ton of attention. This is no different than him getting banned from Twitter.

I think you’re probably right, as he was getting even more attention after his ban from Twitter. Although it might be possible that losing Brietbart does more damage to his brand than losing Twitter.