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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#189626: May 17th 2017 at 8:38:28 PM

LOL, no Sympathy Pence. You can get fucked.

You tied yourself to this traitorous administration of your own free will.

New Survey coming this weekend!
DingoWalley1 Asgore Adopts Noelle Since: Feb, 2014 Relationship Status: Can't buy me love
Asgore Adopts Noelle
#189627: May 17th 2017 at 8:39:50 PM

If Pence is worried that he's gonna get dragged down with Trump, then he does have dirt on him and he should throw himself on the mercy of everyone.

Of course, I'm not the most trusting of 'just' Twitter sources, but it is possible it's true.

Reflextion from a post-sanity world (Time Abyss) Relationship Status: What's love got to do with it?
#189628: May 17th 2017 at 8:48:29 PM

Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, everyone in the administration who stood behind Trump can stand up alongside him against the (ENTIRELY METAPHORICAL) wall.

Someone did tell me life was going to be this way.
BearyScary Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: You spin me right round, baby
#189629: May 17th 2017 at 8:57:21 PM

I wonder how butthurt Paul Ryan is that Trump doesn't want to cut food stamps. grin

Do not obey in advance.
TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#189630: May 17th 2017 at 9:06:16 PM

Trump said he'd leave Medicaid and Social Security alone, too, but that hasn't stopped the ACHA from targeting the former and the latter I'm sure Paul Ryan will go for. Trump just says things and will sign whatever's put in front of him. Ryan doesn't care.

Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#189631: May 17th 2017 at 9:21:36 PM

Turns out the movie we're in is not Star Wars, or The Lion King, or Harry Potter. It's Reservoir Dogs.

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
#189632: May 17th 2017 at 9:38:20 PM

"Trexit? Online bettors play early end to Trump presidency" - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-odds-idUSKCN18D2E5

The bookies are getting in on it now.

Bettors on both sides of the Atlantic are ramping up wagers in niche online markets over whether Donald Trump will serve out a full term as U.S. president in the wake of controversies surrounding the dismissal of FBI Director James Comey.

Some, such as the online political stock market Predict It, have seen record volume during the last two days on contracts focused on whether Trump will be impeached. Others based in the United Kingdom are drawing bets on the less-specific question of whether Trump remains in office until his term expires in January 2021.

The contract on Predict It titled "Will Donald Trump be impeached in 2017?" saw volume of more than 100,000 contracts in the last 24 hours after reports of a memo written by Comey that said Trump had asked him to end the Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe into ties between former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn and Russia.

At one point early on Wednesday, the price of a "yes" contract on the impeachment question jumped to a record 33 cents, implying a 33 percent probability that Trump would be impeached. That compares with only 7 percent just over a week ago.

By late in the day, however, the price had slid back to 27 percent, just above where it ended late Tuesday at 24 percent.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#189633: May 17th 2017 at 11:16:58 PM

[up][up] Huh, I always figured we were in a Coen brothers movie instead of a Tarantino flick.

Disgusted, but not surprised
rmctagg09 The Wanderer from Brooklyn, NY (Before Recorded History) Relationship Status: I won't say I'm in love
The Wanderer
#189634: May 18th 2017 at 12:12:32 AM

Funny since Kill Bill's on right now.

(Though I don't think that's the Tarantino movie in question that our current situation matches the most.)

edited 18th May '17 12:12:55 AM by rmctagg09

Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.
Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#189635: May 18th 2017 at 12:23:38 AM

This thing about tabloids horrifies me. Shouldn't they be prevented from calling this garbage "news" by truth-in-advertising laws?

...You have truth-in-advertising laws, right?

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."
TropesForever God forbid women do anything from wait where is she Since: Sep, 2016 Relationship Status: I wanna be your dog
God forbid women do anything
#189636: May 18th 2017 at 12:30:26 AM

Well, it's not really advertising. Truth-in newspapers is not something I would imagine America to have.

thebeatles.com/careers
DrDougsh Since: Jan, 2001
#189637: May 18th 2017 at 12:49:35 AM

Is it just me or has Trump's hair turned noticeably whiter since he entered office?

TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#189638: May 18th 2017 at 12:54:35 AM

[up] The venomous caterpillar he uses as a wig must be getting stressed out. Poor thing.

edited 18th May '17 12:55:11 AM by TrashJack

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
Elle Since: Jan, 2001
#189639: May 18th 2017 at 12:56:38 AM

@Meri: They have coasted for years on a mix of "free speech" and "no one actually takes them seriously" but before the election the worst they got was fake celebrity gossip (sometimes of political figures but not so nasty as it's been lately). You could get them on libel in theory but libel laws are hard to prosecute here when it comes to public figures because Acceptable Targets. Even harder when the public figures are in government as short of actual incitement to rebellion/violence that's what free speech is expressly meant to protect. Truth in Advertising laws exist but don't apply.

In other news; NYT writer throws up his hands and gives up while writing a piece about a duck ramp in the capitol Reflecting Pool how how it attracted controversy. This is not The Onion.

edited 18th May '17 1:00:54 AM by Elle

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#189640: May 18th 2017 at 1:08:57 AM

[up] Seriously, what kind of asshole rants about government waste when talking about a duck ramp? How much did the thing even cost? Talk about Skewed Priorities.

Oh wait, it's a Republican Rep from North Carolina. That explains it.

edited 18th May '17 1:09:44 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
Tuckerscreator (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Drift compatible
#189641: May 18th 2017 at 1:12:36 AM

Is it just me or has Trump's hair turned noticeably whiter since he entered office?

It's well documented that being President ages you 20 years in under a decade. That was the only silver lining I took out of this whole fiasco: a chance to subject the Drumpf to The Last Crusade treatment.

Or maybe Stephen Miller is draining his lifeforce. Dude's already a vampire.

M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#189642: May 18th 2017 at 1:15:10 AM

[up]I just figured Trump is having trouble finding the time to schedule hair coloring treatment. I wouldn't be surprised if that's actually his natural hair color.

Disgusted, but not surprised
Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#189643: May 18th 2017 at 3:22:56 AM

The Trump campaign reportedly had 18 undisclosed contacts with Russia, though none of them appear to be outright illegal.

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/world/trump-campaign-russia-1.4120988

edited 18th May '17 3:23:19 AM by Rationalinsanity

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
TerminusEst from the Land of Winter and Stars Since: Feb, 2010
#189644: May 18th 2017 at 5:03:47 AM

Frontline investigates how the Bundy family’s fight against the federal government invigorated armed militias and “patriot” groups — helping them grow to levels not seen in decades. Only available in the US for now, but I'm sure everyone here is resourceful.

Si Vis Pacem, Para Perkele
tclittle Professional Forum Ninja from Somewhere Down in Texas Since: Apr, 2010
Professional Forum Ninja
#189645: May 18th 2017 at 5:40:25 AM

SO, the Drudge Report seems to have gotten a statement from Roger Ailes' wife saying he has died.

edited 18th May '17 5:40:53 AM by tclittle

"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#189646: May 18th 2017 at 6:02:48 AM

This man single handed lay is probably the reason why American democracy is rotting to the core even if you discount what's Russia did and continues to do

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TrashJack Confirmed Doomer from beyond the Despair Event Horizon (4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
Confirmed Doomer
#189647: May 18th 2017 at 6:03:15 AM

[up][up] *Spit Take*

"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's Dictionary
M84 Oh, bother. from Our little blue planet Since: Jun, 2010 Relationship Status: Chocolate!
Oh, bother.
#189648: May 18th 2017 at 6:06:12 AM

Guy was a shitty human being who was a big part of why FOX is what it is. I'm not going to celebrate his death since I'm not that kind of person for the most part, but I'm not really sorry he's gone either.

Wonder if this might be a hoax or something. I'll wait for something other than Drudge Report to pick up on this.

edited 18th May '17 6:07:00 AM by M84

Disgusted, but not surprised
carbon-mantis Collector Of Fine Oddities from Trumpland Since: Mar, 2010 Relationship Status: Married to my murderer
Collector Of Fine Oddities
#189649: May 18th 2017 at 6:07:59 AM

I see the major news sites running the story now.

Medinoc from France (Before Recorded History)
#189650: May 18th 2017 at 6:08:51 AM

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction."

I say, at last an obituary we can rejoice from. After all the beloved celebrity deaths from 2016...

edited 18th May '17 6:10:05 AM by Medinoc

"And as long as a sack of shit is not a good thing to be, chivalry will never die."

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