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kpete

(72,904 posts) Mon Feb 18, 2019, 07:55 PM Feb 2019

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Dan Rather's Epic Response to Trump's Fake Emergency

Dan Rather
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@DanRather
"I didn't need to do this" is something I occasionally say after ordering dessert, not after ordering national emergencies.

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Dan Rather's Epic Response to Trump's Fake Emergency (Original Post) kpete Feb 2019 OP

EXCELLENT!! Cha Feb 2019 #1

Indeed, excellent! ffr Feb 2019 #5

Must have been listening to his bloated "gut" Evolve Dammit Feb 2019 #2

And to whom are you referring? kmla Feb 2019 #7

Message auto-removed Name removed Feb 2019 #3

I always liked him TexasBushwhacker Feb 2019 #4

Perfect. dalton99a Feb 2019 #6

Actually, he did need to do it. CaptYossarian Feb 2019 #8

Too bad the subtle beauty of Rather's delicious tweet majdrfrtim Feb 2019 #9

K&R Scurrilous Feb 2019 #10

Cha

(320,585 posts)

1. EXCELLENT!!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 08:12 PM

Feb 2019

ffr

(23,448 posts)

5. Indeed, excellent!

Reply to Cha (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:47 PM

Feb 2019

Evolve Dammit

(21,817 posts)

2. Must have been listening to his bloated "gut"

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 08:54 PM

Feb 2019

Does he really even think before stuff spews out? No.

kmla

(4,047 posts)

7. And to whom are you referring?

Reply to Evolve Dammit (Reply #2)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 12:23 PM

Feb 2019

Just curious.

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TexasBushwhacker

(21,289 posts)

4. I always liked him

Reply to Name removed (Reply #3)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:11 PM

Feb 2019

but then, he's from Texas. I got to know his sister, Pat. We taught at the same high school north of Houston. She outed me as a fellow Democrat.

dalton99a

(95,269 posts)

6. Perfect.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 10:51 PM

Feb 2019

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)

8. Actually, he did need to do it.

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 02:25 PM

Feb 2019

Since the voters rejected it and Congress voted against it. He was told that he should create the crisis, get sued, and take his chances with his stacked Supreme Court. His poker hand has five aces in it--thanks to the blocking of Merrick Garland.

majdrfrtim

(340 posts)

9. Too bad the subtle beauty of Rather's delicious tweet

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 05:37 PM

Feb 2019

will be lost completely on the MAGA costume-wearers.

/snark

Scurrilous

(38,687 posts)

10. K&R

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Tue Feb 19, 2019, 07:50 PM

Feb 2019

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