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PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
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#243876: May 30th 2018 at 8:42:03 AM

What Kool-Aid is she on

I believe it's their new "blame literally anything but the actual problem" flavor (now with 50% more desperation!).

i'm tired, my friend
StarOutlaw Since: Nov, 2010
#243877: May 30th 2018 at 9:12:47 AM

[up]She's my district's rep and I can tell you that she's full of shit, about both porn causing shootings and being in grocery stores. The worst thing you'll find is tabloids.

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#243878: May 30th 2018 at 9:13:50 AM

Shootings are caused by everything except guns. God, porn, video games, medicine, you name it. Just don't talk about guns. Unless its adding them to the situation.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
PhysicalStamina i'm tired, my friend (4 Score & 7 Years Ago) Relationship Status: Coming soon to theaters
i'm tired, my friend
#243879: May 30th 2018 at 9:22:45 AM

Honestly I think blaming shooting on God would anger their constituents even more.

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TheRoguePenguin Since: Jul, 2009
#243880: May 30th 2018 at 9:27:35 AM

[up]It's "lack of God" to be clear. Matt Bevin actually had that pray away crime thing.

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#243881: May 30th 2018 at 9:29:32 AM

[up][up]Depends on how you word it. "God decreed it was their time, and that's why they died" might go over better with them. Of course, as a Christian myself, that's utter bullshit, but evangelicals have already shown that they don't seem to practice even remotely the same religion that we do.

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243882: May 30th 2018 at 9:42:51 AM

Oh my God!

Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s........chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too...and that’s how I read that - Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you.........There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did!

The first thing I notice is that he he seems to be quoting Goudy, but the tenses are really strange. The "And I wish I did!" part is interesting as well, because it doesn't seem to be part of the original quote, and is trump's actual commentary coming through.


And with that out of the way, here's the rest

A tweet about the Nashville rally he attended night, was totally not written by him at all.

The Failing and Corrupt @nytimes estimated the crowd last night at “1000 people,” when in fact it was many times that number - and the arena was rockin’. This is the way they demean and disparage. They are very dishonest people who don’t “get” me, and never did!

And this one I just have no idea.

Bob Iger of ABC called Valerie Jarrett to let her know that “ABC does not tolerate comments like those” made by Roseanne Barr. Gee, he never called President Donald J. Trump to apologize for the HORRIBLE statements made and said about me on ABC. Maybe I just didn’t get the call?

edited 30th May '18 9:53:26 AM by megaeliz

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#243883: May 30th 2018 at 9:54:14 AM

Probably because the statements made about Gowdy are at least somewhat deserved and tied to facts, rather than being completely over the line racist nonsense.

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
Just a harmless giant from a foreign land.
#243884: May 30th 2018 at 10:01:27 AM

[up][up]Bob Iger is CEO of the Mouse Empire aka Disney. He also used to be ABC Boss back in the 90s for a year. He's been one of the people who'd actively condemned Roseanne Barr's tweets. ABC is also owned by Disney, so the decision that the show got axed was possibly also made by him (or with his agreement after the fact)

Obviously Trump considers the 'Fake News' about him as bad as virulently racist and antisemitic remarks

edited 30th May '18 10:03:22 AM by 3of4

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Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#243885: May 30th 2018 at 10:05:57 AM

So Barr tried to say that Ambien (a sleep aid) was responsible for her racist rant on Twitter. The maker of the drug countered to say that racism is not a known side effect of any of their products.

https://twitter.com/SanofiUS/status/1001824999496404992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2018%2F05%2F30%2Fhealth%2Fambien-roseanne-barr-racist-tweets-bn%2Findex.html

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danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#243886: May 30th 2018 at 10:11:54 AM

Damn, Sanofi and Dictionary.com spitting some hot fire.

3of4 Just a harmless giant from a foreign land. from Five Seconds in the Future. Since: Jan, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#243887: May 30th 2018 at 10:32:22 AM

I hope Sanofi is offering a burn salve as part of their product range. Barr is needing some.

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#243888: May 30th 2018 at 10:39:01 AM

context for what the dictionary website said

She'll blame hackers next

edited 30th May '18 10:39:24 AM by Ultimatum

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243889: May 30th 2018 at 10:50:12 AM

[up][up]

"...While all pharmaceutical treatments have side effects, racism is not a known side effect of any Sanofi medication,” Ashleigh Koss, Head of Media Relations, North America, Sanofi US tells @Cnn

That's actually a rather epic burn. grin

edited 30th May '18 10:51:00 AM by megaeliz

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TacticalFox88 from USA Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Dating the Doctor
#243891: May 30th 2018 at 12:07:21 PM

Drunken mans words are a sober man's thoughts as they say.

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243892: May 30th 2018 at 1:03:41 PM

Umm...

CIA report says North Korea won't denuclearize, but might open a burger joint

WASHINGTON — A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News — a finding that conflicts with recent statements by President Donald Trump that Pyongyang intends to do so in the future.

Trump is continuing to pursue a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the CIA analysis, which is consistent with other expert opinion, casts doubt on the viability of Trump's stated goal for the negotiations, the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile.

"Everybody knows they are not going to denuclearize," said one intelligence official who read the report, which was circulated earlier this month, days before Trump canceled the originally scheduled summit.

In an odd twist, a list of potential concessions by North Korea in the CIA analysis included the possibility that Kim Jong Un may consider offering to open a Western hamburger franchise in Pyongyang as a show of goodwill, according to three national security officials.

It suggests Kim is interested in a peaceful gesture to an American president whose love of fast-food burgers is well known — and who, during the 2016 campaign, had said he wanted to talk nukes over a burger with the North Korean leader.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/north-korea/cia-report-says-north-korea-won-t-denuclearize-might-open-n878201

edited 30th May '18 1:06:52 PM by megaeliz

danime91 Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
#243893: May 30th 2018 at 1:05:53 PM

The way to peace lies in McDonald's? Then again, didn't NK propaganda claim Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger?

edited 30th May '18 1:06:04 PM by danime91

megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243894: May 30th 2018 at 1:08:04 PM

[up] Maybe he's just really big fan of hamburgers?

edited 30th May '18 1:08:58 PM by megaeliz

CrimsonZephyr Would that it were so simple. from Massachusetts Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
Would that it were so simple.
#243895: May 30th 2018 at 1:09:57 PM

The McJuche: Mystery Meat, Kimchi, Tomato, and Nerve Agent.

Oh, and a couple slices of pickle.

edited 30th May '18 1:10:51 PM by CrimsonZephyr

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megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243896: May 30th 2018 at 1:21:41 PM

Which Burger chain would it it be, you think? Mc Donald's, 5 Guys, Burger King, Wendy's, or something else entirely?

Rationalinsanity from Halifax, Canada Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: It's complicated
#243897: May 30th 2018 at 1:25:36 PM

I'd just love to be the firm's PR head when that plan went into action...

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
megaeliz Since: Mar, 2017
#243898: May 30th 2018 at 1:43:25 PM

Some other possible names

  • Nothing-Burger
  • Trump Burger
  • Burger-Gate
  • Ivanka's place
  • Kim's Burgers
  • Burgers and Spies

edited 30th May '18 1:44:14 PM by megaeliz

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#243899: May 30th 2018 at 1:49:32 PM

The way to peace lies in Mc Donald's? Then again, didn't NK propaganda claim Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger?

We had a pretty good relationship with Russia for like a decade after they opened their doors to Ronald McDonald.

Nothing builds bridges between formerly hostile nations like a shared love of the quarter pounder.

edited 30th May '18 1:50:12 PM by TobiasDrake

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AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#243900: May 30th 2018 at 2:16:24 PM

Which Burger chain would it it be, you think? Mc Donald's, 5 Guys, Burger King, Wendy's, or something else entirely?

Burger Kim.

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