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CWC-in-the-minds said:
Kavanaugh might have blood in his hands now. Figuratively.

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If it weren't for the apparent evidence to the contrary I'd suspect that's a "woman".
 
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Mr. Professional said:
Inner cities will be cannibalistic hellscapes less than a week after their supply lines are cut off. People seem to forget how many people live in these cities.
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It's what I've been saying this whole time about these urbanite and suburbanite tenderfoots that see everyone that lives in the icky red drumph supporting flyover states as a bunch of troglodyte deplorables, forgetting that much of these people and places they insult happen to be the entire country's bread basket

Clearly their mommies and daddies haven't taught them the lesson of "Never fuck with the people that serve you your food"
 
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Adamska said:
The comedy tomorrow will be delicious whether the GOP gets Kavenaugh in. Dem or GOP tears regardless based on what I was hearing on AM radio.

I also still find it funny that the deranged Dems are going full exceptional, since Kavenaugh shouldn't have been the hill to die on for the midterms; he's pretty much about the same as Kennedy in most details (he's only a bit more on the right), and so is a fine replacement... and I say this as a left-lib. Still, I'm going to laugh in the fairly likely case he gets in tomorrow, and laugh at the short GOP salt fest if he doesn't.
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Here’s the silver lining. No matter what, these antifa idiots will riot like crazy.

If Brett is confirmed: usual reeing, but Dems always double down on dumb policies, so basically status quo

If Brett isn’t confirmed: Dems and lefty leaders will see this as a confirmation of their tactics and ramp it up even more. Expect riots to be way more dramatic and theatrical, maybe even bloody, and not the menstration kind.

Silver lining because, free entertainment
 
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Most mornings I wake up, early, and I punch on NPR (which, by the way, I’ve kind of stopped listening to beyond getting the morning’s headlines; their jellied, timorous neutrality in the face of what is going on in this country will not wear well in the eyes of history). And sometimes, still, when I hear Lakshmi Singh or one of them say, “President Trump today…”, I have this out-of-body experience, and I am transported back to my New York days in the early 1990s, when with a different roll of the dice The Donald could have ended up not just in bankruptcy but in jail, and I think to myself:

President who? What Trump?

But there he is. The president of the United Fucking States of America. By now, we’re used to it, I guess. But the insanity of it hits you in unpredictable places. Some time in spring of 2017, I took my daughter to the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History. The one with the big mammoth and the blue whale and all those taxidermied mammalia.

We went to the gift shop. They have a great kids’ section, and with a six-year-old, as she was then, you know going in you’re likely to drop some pretty serious cabbage. So we looked around. And the corner of my eye caught a book, for kids, one of those books on the presidents with all their pictures on the cover, that make kids go, “Martin Van Buren? Those sideburns… what’s up with those, dude?”

And it struck me then: Trump’s face will be on such books, books for children, children like the Boy Scouts he got to boo Obama, for all time. And there is nothing we can do about it. No way to erase it. Placemats. Know what I mean, those kids’ placemats of the presidents? Donald J. Trump. As long as the United States exists and kids still need placemats.

I will confess—and conservatives will make fun of this, but let them, it’s the way it is—that one of the main reasons I wanted Hillary to win, one of the main emotional reasons I should say, was so that my daughter would spend the first eight or hopefully 12 years of her life seeing that the presidents of the United States were a black guy and a woman. And she would have met the woman, though that’s really neither here nor there. I just wanted her to see that presidents could look… like her. They don’t now.

Is there going to be a Donald J. Trump presidential library? I guess so. But where? Manhattan? Man, will that be a fight. I want a front-row seat at that community board meeting! Queens? Maybe. But here’s my bet. He’ll put it in West Virginia. Not Morgantown. God forbid.


But yes: All those dignified accoutrements of the presidency will inevitably belaurel Donald Trump. A library. A museum. Schools named after him. Can you imagine? The Donald J. Trump Magnet School? If he’s alive, he’ll joke that it should be called the Donald J. Trump Chick Magnet School.

Of course, I just joked that.

Oh, Lord. How did this happen? That’s what I still wake up wondering, more days than I’d prefer to admit. I mean, I know. I wrote about it in real time, and watched it, although like everybody else I missed it. I remember that in what was probably my first column about him after he announced his candidacy, I wrote that he’d fade around World Series time. Shows what I knew.

His admirers would say I underestimated him. And yeah, I suppose that’s true. But the more important point is this. It’s not that I underestimated Trump. It’s that I overestimated the Republican electorate.

I thought there was just no way that they would decide that that man belonged in the Oval Office. How could anybody think that? Governor of New York? Well, that’s nuts too, actually, but that I could have imagined 25 years ago. Rich guys can buy shit. That’s how it works.

But president? How did 63 million people vote for that man for president?

Despise Hillary Clinton: 20 million.

Care about nothing except overturning Roe v. Wade: 20 million.

Actually think Trump is going to bring back manufacturing and coal: Seven million.

Loathe people who aren’t white: Six million

That leaves 10 million I can’t explain. It was, and still is, stunning that all these people would take a flyer on the presidency of the United States.

Big news of the last 10 years? You bet. The biggest. I have to give him that. If he reads this, which of course he won’t, he’d say: Fine, Tomasky, whatever. I’m a winner, and you’re a loser. And yes, fair enough.

But something tells me the news isn’t over. For 40 years, reality and fate have never quite caught up with him. But in the White House, as the one man who laid his hand on a Bible and swore he’d uphold the law, the law has a way of catching up.

I’d wager that the biggest Trump news hasn’t broken yet.
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Fuzhou said:
This was just "I bet one day something will happen" but stretched out to make it article length.
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Agreed. This is 'you'll be sorry, someday!', and pathetic to boot.

He doesn't understand how Trump got nominated, let alone elected? Talk about living in an isolation ward or a deep-space habitat for fuck's sake. How about 'the intelligence to glom onto major issues, like illegal immigrant crime and the economy, while his competitors were still trying to figure out what socks to wear'?
 
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Vorhtbame said:
I'm grateful none of them has "acquire gun" on their to-do list. I'd hate for them to hurt themselves with it.

No, I don't mean accidental discharge. I mean dropping the gun on their toes because their noodly arms are too limp to support the weight.
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I've seen a person like this shooting before and you aren't too far off. :roll:

This dude found a way to make a 9mm handgun not known for reliability issues in average conditions (i.e. not dumping desert hell silt into it) jam with almost every shot because their hold was so weak it was short-stroking during recoil.
 
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Are you fucking kidding me.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ac...to-publish-their-childrens-health-information

A Democratic congressional intern accused of publishing the private information of at least three Republican lawmakers allegedly threatened to leak senators’ children's health information if a witness told anyone about his activities.

Jackson Cosko, who recently worked as an unpaid intern for Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, was arrested for allegedly posting the personal information (or "doxxing") of a number of senators including Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Mike Lee, R-Utah, and Orrin Hatch, R-Utah on Wikipedia -- with information such as their home addresses and phone numbers. Graham, Lee and Hatch's information was published on Thursday.

According to a sworn statement by Capitol Police Captain Jason Bell, a witness Tuesday saw Cosko at a computer in a senator’s office, where he used to work, a day after two other unnamed senators' information had been put on Wikipedia. Cosko worked for other Democratic senators including Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., and former Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.

Sources familiar with the case tell Fox News Cosko was in Sen. Hassan's office, where he was caught using a login he was not authorized to use. Cosko earlier was let go by Senator Hassan's office. A spokesman for Hassan says she "strongly denounces the alleged actions.”

According to Bell's statement, Cosko is alleged to have been confronted by the staffer and then walked out. Hours later the witness received an email from "livefreeorpwn@gmail.com" saying: “If you tell anyone I will leak it all. Emails signal conversations gmails. Senators children’s health information and socials.”

“Socials” apparently referred to social security numbers, while Signal is a secure messaging application. Bell said that there was probably cause to believe that Cosko published the information of senators, and then made threatening statements directed to the unnamed witness “with the intent to hinder, delay, or prevent” the witness from reporting it to authorities.

Cosko's defense attorney, Brian Stolarz, told Fox News his client acted alone.

"We all need to take a deep breath," said Stolarz. "In this political climate everyone wants to jump to conclusions. We need to put the conspiracy theories aside and focus on the allegations. Jackson Cosko is innocent until proven guilty, and we intend to challenge the charges."

Cosko is charged with publishing restricted personal information, threats in interstate communication, unauthorized access of a government computer, identity theft, witness tampering, second degree burglary, and unlawful entry. The complaint says that five senators were doxxed. Fox News learned Wednesday that Capitol Hill police were investigating additional doxxing incidents, including one involving Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.

While it was not clear what the motivation was behind the posting of personal information, Graham, Lee and Hatch have been outspoken defenders of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh amid sexual assault allegations against him. The doxxing began on Thursday, and came moments after Graham had scorched Senate Democrats in a fiery speech for what he called “an unethical sham” in their treatment of Kavanaugh.

Cosko was dressed in shorts, a t-shirt and tennis shoes and looked uneasy as Magistrate Judge Deborah Robinson detailed the seven charges against him, which carry the possibility of more than 20 years in prison.
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Now, legally, he is innocent until proven guilty. I won't argue that.

But holy shit.
 
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https://globalnews.ca/news/4512075/donald-trump-saudi-king-2-weeks-u-s-support/

Will the US have to apologize to Saudi Arabia as well now?

Donald Trump says Saudi King wouldn’t last ‘2 weeks’ without U.S. support
By Jon Gambrell The Associated Press


U.S. President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s king “might not be there for two weeks” without U.S. military support, further increasing his pressure on one of America’s closest Mideast allies over rising oil prices.

As crude oil prices reach a four-year high, Trump repeatedly has demanded OPEC and Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, push prices down. However, analysts are warning prices could go up to $100 a barrel as the world’s production is already stretched and Trump’s sanctions on Iran’s oil industry take effect in early November.


Criticizing America’s longstanding military relationships with allies has been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential campaign and his time in office. Trump returned to that theme Tuesday night in Southaven, Mississippi, mentioning both Japan and South Korea.

However, Trump’s comments on Saudi Arabia implied the kingdom’s Al Saud monarchy, which oversees the holiest sites in Islam, would collapse without American military support.

“We protect Saudi Arabia – would you say they’re rich?” Trump asked the cheering crowd. “And I love the king, King Salman, but I said, ‘King we’re protecting you. You might not be there for two weeks without us. You have to pay for your military, you have to pay.”‘



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Trump didn’t elaborate on when he made the comments to Saud Arabia’s 82-year-old monarch. Trump and King Salman last shared a reported telephone call on Saturday, in which they discussed “efforts to maintain supplies to ensure the stability of the oil market and ensure the growth of the global economy,” according to the state-run Saudi Press Agency.

There was no immediate reaction Wednesday in Saudi Arabia to Trump’s remarks. Riyadh has worked to cultivate warm relations with Trump after having rocky moments with former President Barack Obama.

Saudi Arabia welcomed Trump for his first overseas trip as president. Trump’s administration, particularly his son-in-law Jared Kushner, has sought a close relationship with King Salman’s son Mohammed bin Salman, the country’s crown price and next in line to the throne.

But oil prices seem to be getting in the way, especially as benchmark Brent crude oil is near $85 a barrel – a four-year high. Trump in July tweeted without evidence that Saudi Arabia would increase its production “maybe up to 2,000,000 barrels” a day. Saudi Arabia currently produces some 10 million barrels of crude oil a day. Its record is 10.72 million barrels a day.



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Meanwhile, U.S. gasoline prices are up ahead of November midterm elections in which Trump already faces political headwinds. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline in the U.S. is $2.88, up from $2.55 a year ago, according to AAA.

Trump criticized oil producers in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly last week.

“OPEC and OPEC nations are, as usual, ripping off the rest of the world, and I don’t like it. Nobody should like it,” he said. “We defend many of these nations for nothing, and then they take advantage of us by giving us high oil prices. Not good. We want them to stop raising prices. We want them to start lowering prices and they must contribute substantially to military protection from now on.”
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But Iran for once agrees:

https://www.newsweek.com/iran-agree...king-not-survive-two-weeks-us-support-1153461

IRAN AGREES WITH DONALD TRUMP FOR ONCE, SAYS IT'S TRUE SAUDI KING COULD NOT SURVIVE 'TWO WEEKS' WITHOUT U.S. SUPPORT
BY TOM O'CONNOR ON 10/4/18 AT 3:48 PM



Iran's top diplomat actually agreed with President Donald Trump on social media Thursday, highlighting recent remarks in which the Republican leader claimed that Saudi Arabia would not last long without U.S. backing.

At a campaign rally Tuesday in Southaven, Mississippi, Trump claimed to have told Saudi Arabia's King Salman, "King, we're protecting you. You might not be there for two weeks without us. You have to pay for your military" during an unspecified conversation between the two leaders. The U.S. has offered extensive military assistance to Saudi Arabia, a fellow leading foe of Iran, which has competed with the kingdom for influence via proxy wars and political struggles across the Middle East.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif took to Twitter to respond to Trump's comments, criticizing Saudi Arabia's dependence on foreign backing and apparently offering to reconcile in the interest of regional stability.

"President Trump repeatedly humiliates the Saudis by saying they can't last 2 weeks without his support. This is the recompense for the delusion that one's security can be outsourced. We again extend our hand to our neighbors: let's build a 'strong region', and stop this conceit," Zarif tweeted.






President Trump repeatedly humiliates the Saudis by saying they can't last 2 weeks without his support. This is the recompense for the delusion that one's security can be outsourced.
We again extend our hand to our neighbors: let's build a "strong region", and stop this conceit.



Trump did not say when he made the remark to the Saudi monarch, but the two spoke via telephone Saturday in what the official Saudi Press Agency described as a "discussion of distinguished relations and ways of developing them in the light of the strategic partnership between the two countries." Days prior, Trump told a press conference that Salman told him, "Sir, you can’t have peace in the Middle East without peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians," to which the president quoted himself as saying, "Why? What difference? Why does that matter so much?"

Saudi Arabia has been critical of Trump's unwavering support for Israel, with which Riyadh has never established diplomatic relations due to its support for the cause of Palestinians seeking to return to lands they were displaced from during the 1948 establishment of the majority-Jewish state. Saudi Arabia and Israel, however, have found themselves increasingly aligned along a U.S.-led axis to oppose Iran, which has also offered assistance to Palestinian movements and accused the three powers of destabilizing the region.

Iran cut ties with Israel after the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought the ruling clerical government to power and Saudi Arabia severed its diplomatic relationship with Tehran in 2016 after Iranian protesters burned down Riyadh's embassy in response to the kingdom's execution of an influential Shiite Muslim cleric. Zarif has previously said he was willing to enter into talks with Saudi Arabia in order to resolve their dispute, but Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir has refused, saying Iran must first change its behavior.

Last week, Jubeir appeared along officials from Bahrain, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, the U.S. and Yemen at the 2018 United Iran Against Nuclear Iran summit in New York, where he asked, "How can we negotiate with a state that wants to kill us?" He said the only way to make headway with Iranian leaders was by "pressuring them and by forcing them to change."

https://sneed.newsweek.com/sites/www.newsweek.com/files/styles/embed-lg/public/2018/10/04/gettyimages-686016044.jpgPresident Donald Trump (C) and Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al-Saud (R) take part in a welcome ceremony ahead of a banquet at Murabba Palace in Riyadh, May 20, 2017. Saudi Arabia is the world's second-largest arms importer and is the top U.S. customer.MANDEL NGAN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Saudi Arabia and Israel were among the few countries to support May's U.S. withdrawal of the 2015 nuclear deal forged by Trump's predecessor along with China, France, Germany, Russia and the U.K. As Trump moves to impose further sanctions on Iran, Europe has joined China and Russia in establishing measures to counter these restrictions and continue doing business with Tehran.

At the same time, some European countries have actively drawn back their military assistance to Saudi Arabia, whose human rights records have been criticized as it struggles to defeat the Zaidi Shiite Muslim group known as Ansar Allah or the Houthis suspected of receiving Iranian assistance in Yemen. Saudi Arabia remains the world's second-largest arms importer, however, and is the top customer of U.S. weapons.
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Johnny Bravo said:
Sadly I have a retail job. Anyway, she's pretty annoying and spends more time talking to customers about inane shit than actually working, so I'm glad she got in trouble.

Funnily enough I work with a lot of people who are open Trump haters. I also live in an area with a lot of them, but I haven't heard any IRL salt about today's broadcast other than that one autistic girl. People only seem to sperg about this test online for woke points.

Personally? A system like this is long overdue. Even though we have Amber Alerts and shit like that on television we all know television viewership is declining every year, meanwhile everyone and their grandmother owns a smart phone. It's a good move. If Trump didn't do it the next president would. He'd probably be heralded as a progressive hero for it too, if he's a democrat.
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You work in retail. If my past experience in that field is any indication you're definitely a sped minder.

Totally agree regarding the alerts. Our country only got this shit properly running in the last few years.
 
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TheGreatCitracett said:
All the skills they want to learn involve theft, burglary, or destruction.
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I think that speaks more about their character than anything else, really.
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Lindsey Graham is transcending into absolute Chad territory.

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Transcending?

At this point, he's already there!
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As someone who considers themselves a Leftist, it physically pains me when these idiots don't realize they're actively helping Trump and the Right with their hysteria.
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Why though?
 
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Are you fucking kidding me.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ac...to-publish-their-childrens-health-information

Now, legally, he is innocent until proven guilty. I won't argue that.

But holy shit.
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Cosko's defense attorney, Brian Stolarz, told Fox News his client acted alone.

"We all need to take a deep breath," said Stolarz. "In this political climate everyone wants to jump to conclusions. We need to put the conspiracy theories aside and focus on the allegations. Jackson Cosko is innocent until proven guilty, and we intend to challenge the charges."
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How are you going to try and claim your client is innocent after saying he did the crime alone?
 
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