Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:57 PM

PCIntern (20,982 posts)

Holy fucking shit.

I’m rooting for the CIA, the FBI, and John Bolton.

OMFG.

WTF happened to this world?

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63 replies	Author	Time	Post
Holy fucking shit. (Original post)	PCIntern	Jan 2020	OP
shit be cray	Kali	Jan 2020	#1
Waxing nostalgic	central scrutinizer	Jan 2020	#39
I want to join you in your outrage but I need you to tell me what you're talking about.	underthematrix	Jan 2020	#2
Think about it...	PCIntern	Jan 2020	#4
My understanding of the post	leftieNanner	Jan 2020	#12
Thank you. I truly didn't understand but now I do.	underthematrix	Jan 2020	#23
To enjoy DU one should understand things like irony, innuendo, "things-ain't-what-they-seem"	erronis	Jan 2020	#20
Dont feel bad	Soxderrube	Jan 2020	#46
Welcome to DU!	lark	Jan 2020	#58
IKR	OhZone	Jan 2020	#3
Conservatives happened to it. Radical, foaming conservatives.	JHB	Jan 2020	#5
Somehow, unbeknownst to us we stepped into the dark side	lunatica	Jan 2020	#6
Go Deep State!	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2020	#7
LOL! I swear I want the sweater.	nolabear	Jan 2020	#8
Go Reds - Smash State	Ellen Forradalom	Jan 2020	#22
That's funny!	MaryMagdaline	Jan 2020	#57
We're cheering on their infighting	eleny	Jan 2020	#9
I'll post again - to think there can be a reconciliation of the	NoMoreRepugs	Jan 2020	#10
Counting on John Bolton is pretty unsettling.	TNNurse	Jan 2020	#11
No kidding	southerncrone	Jan 2020	#56
K&R, we're living the last season of The Man In The High Castle !!!!!	uponit7771	Jan 2020	#13
The world turned upside down, that is what happened	madaboutharry	Jan 2020	#14
ROFL	malaise	Jan 2020	#15
2 out of 3 have already let us down.	maxsolomon	Jan 2020	#16
Would that message sell books?	Control-Z	Jan 2020	#32
I don't think Bolton has any standing	Harker	Jan 2020	#53
Up is down and down is up.	Vinca	Jan 2020	#17
When Bolton and George Bush seem somewhat sain you know things have gotten fucked up! nt	Quixote1818	Jan 2020	#18
yes, it is pretty crazy!!	subana	Jan 2020	#19
Because all those bad people in the world the republicans always warned you about...	WyattKansas	Jan 2020	#21
Yeah...	Moral Compass	Jan 2020	#24
Former Hippies Put in Horrible Position of Rooting for F.B.I.	klook	Jan 2020	#25
Andy Borowitz's report demonstrates a wider phenomenon.	Democrats_win	Jan 2020	#26
lol	Cosmocat	Jan 2020	#28
"The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right"	Hermit-The-Prog	Jan 2020	#38
A lot of people have unlikely allies these days.	Ellen Forradalom	Jan 2020	#59
We've landed in Orwell's 1984.	slumcamper	Jan 2020	#27
+1 nt	pazzyanne	Jan 2020	#35
Mixed Emotions...to paraphrase Milton Berle...	moonseller66	Jan 2020	#29
Almost wet my keyboard reading that.	Elwood P Dowd	Jan 2020	#30
Great!	PCIntern	Jan 2020	#31
Carl Reiner	NewJeffCT	Jan 2020	#37
Pete Seeger saw Obama elected and inaugurated	RVN VET71	Jan 2020	#44
Desperation..	stillcool	Jan 2020	#33
i still won't buy his book.	barbtries	Jan 2020	#34
We use the public library a lot. There's always a long list of patrons who sign up to read ...	Hekate	Jan 2020	#41
if i read it	barbtries	Jan 2020	#42
All we are missing are the demagorgons	Danmel	Jan 2020	#36
I feel ya. Hubby & I are straight out of the '60s, and ever since Comey was fired in that despicable	Hekate	Jan 2020	#40
Politics makes strange bedfellows	Warpy	Jan 2020	#43
"Holy fucking shit. WTF happened to this world?"	left-of-center2012	Jan 2020	#45
Fasten your seat belts. We are all going for a ride.	Marcuse	Jan 2020	#47
Now is the time to be very careful, all the roaches are in play	Miigwech	Jan 2020	#48
Don't forget rooting for Jeff F--ing SESSIONS, and Jim 'Shithead' Comey; and even John Roberts.	TrollBuster9090	Jan 2020	#49
Your last line	Kaiserguy	Jan 2020	#50
we are rooting for the institutions	AlexSFCA	Jan 2020	#51
Sometimes the biggest thing I hate Trump for	dflprincess	Jan 2020	#52
Our dumber than box of rox cousins "elected" this clown waving the stars and strips, that's what.	lambchopp59	Jan 2020	#54
This is the time for those agencies to prove to those who were skeptical of them wrong (by doing the	NCLefty	Jan 2020	#55
and Romney!	garybeck	Jan 2020	#60
What's hard to believe is that the Republican	Old Terp	Jan 2020	#61
Thom Hartmann just cleaned up the language and shared this OP. n/t	ariadne0614	Jan 2020	#62
Wow! Thanks!!	PCIntern	Jan 2020	#63

Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:58 PM

Kali (50,890 posts)

1. shit be cray

- theferret

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Response to Kali (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:26 PM

central scrutinizer (9,881 posts)

39. Waxing nostalgic

For John Bolton and Jeff Sessions? Once I would have rather jabbed myself with a sharp stick in the eye.

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:59 PM

underthematrix (5,632 posts)

2. I want to join you in your outrage but I need you to tell me what you're talking about.

Please.

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Response to underthematrix (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:59 PM

PCIntern (20,982 posts)

4. Think about it...

Please.

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Response to underthematrix (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:38 PM

leftieNanner (8,811 posts)

12. My understanding of the post

Is that, as a general rule, DUers are not huge fans of any of those. To be rooting for them to succeed - especially Bolton - runs counter to most everything we support here.

It's like rooting for USC to beat UCLA if you are a Cal grad, if USC winning would put Cal in the Rose Bowl. (That happened a few years ago.) Cal never roots for USC. As we here don't root for Bolton.

Does that clear it up for you?

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Response to leftieNanner (Reply #12)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:03 PM

underthematrix (5,632 posts)

23. Thank you. I truly didn't understand but now I do.

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Response to underthematrix (Reply #2)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:00 PM

erronis (9,204 posts)

20. To enjoy DU one should understand things like irony, innuendo, "things-ain't-what-they-seem"

I must admit I get nonplussed frequently, especially by cryptic headlines.

Enjoy!

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Response to erronis (Reply #20)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 05:53 PM

Soxderrube (26 posts)

46. Dont feel bad

I got blocked by the "jury" once for making a sarcastic remark , I just ignore all innuendos.

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Response to Soxderrube (Reply #46)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 08:51 AM

lark (17,389 posts)

58. Welcome to DU!

Yeah you have to watch what you post here. My hot head has gotten me in trouble a couple of times, but I learn and have gotten better at reading my posts first to make sure it fits the terms of service. However, if you are respectful of the posters and support Democrats, this is a great place to come and learn things and share things as well. I find it to be a home away from home, where I can communicate with like minded people. Hope you enjoy it here as well.

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 12:59 PM

OhZone (2,696 posts)

3. IKR

This world be cray now

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:00 PM

JHB (32,470 posts)

5. Conservatives happened to it. Radical, foaming conservatives.

Conservatives determined to burn the country to the ground to take the US government back to the 19th century.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:05 PM

lunatica (51,427 posts)

6. Somehow, unbeknownst to us we stepped into the dark side

of the looking glass.

I feel it too! What universe is this?

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:10 PM

MaryMagdaline (6,039 posts)

7. Go Deep State!

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:12 PM

nolabear (37,612 posts)

8. LOL! I swear I want the sweater.

Also, Whatsamatta U.

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Response to MaryMagdaline (Reply #7)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:03 PM

Ellen Forradalom (16,128 posts)

22. Go Reds - Smash State

Iowa City socialists sold this button decades ago. Politics aside, it's hilarious

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Response to Ellen Forradalom (Reply #22)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 08:43 AM

MaryMagdaline (6,039 posts)

57. That's funny!

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:13 PM

eleny (45,844 posts)

9. We're cheering on their infighting

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:33 PM

NoMoreRepugs (5,178 posts)

10. I'll post again - to think there can be a reconciliation of the

the parties is ludicrous, theirs is an alternate reality.

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:33 PM

TNNurse (4,941 posts)

11. Counting on John Bolton is pretty unsettling.

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Response to TNNurse (Reply #11)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:05 AM

southerncrone (5,460 posts)

56. No kidding

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:39 PM

uponit7771 (73,694 posts)

13. K&R, we're living the last season of The Man In The High Castle !!!!!

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:40 PM

madaboutharry (35,380 posts)

14. The world turned upside down, that is what happened

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:41 PM

malaise (223,633 posts)

15. ROFL

and it's not you alone

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:42 PM

maxsolomon (23,540 posts)

16. 2 out of 3 have already let us down.

Bolton could well say something like "Trump did it, but it is in his powers".

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Response to maxsolomon (Reply #16)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:50 PM

Control-Z (15,549 posts)

32. Would that message sell books?

It is what I would expect from Bolton any other day but he's got a book to sell. At least that's what I'm hoping.

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Response to maxsolomon (Reply #16)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 11:32 PM

Harker (6,454 posts)

53. I don't think Bolton has any standing

as a constitutional scholar, but Scalia long ago lowered the bar for Dershbag, Bolton, and others.

Of course, they're playing to less than half the audience.

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:48 PM

Vinca (45,464 posts)

17. Up is down and down is up.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:50 PM

Quixote1818 (25,506 posts)

18. When Bolton and George Bush seem somewhat sain you know things have gotten fucked up! nt

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:55 PM

subana (586 posts)

19. yes, it is pretty crazy!!

I never thought I would ever be happy about Bolton doing anything!!

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:02 PM

WyattKansas (1,553 posts)

21. Because all those bad people in the world the republicans always warned you about...

Well, the republicans opened up the front door and invited them in, so the republicans could rule with an iron fist.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:04 PM

Moral Compass (927 posts)

24. Yeah...

Go figure. I used to worry about what was in my FBI file back in the day. Definitely didn’t think that they were the good guys—more like the American Gestapo.

Now they’re the closest thing we’ve got to good guys. They at least are concerned that there be rules.

Not like this lot of anti-democratic subversives.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:11 PM

klook (9,990 posts)

25. Former Hippies Put in Horrible Position of Rooting for F.B.I.

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/former-hippies-put-in-horrible-position-of-rooting-for-fbi

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Response to klook (Reply #25)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:21 PM

Democrats_win (6,520 posts)

26. Andy Borowitz's report demonstrates a wider phenomenon.

I can't explain it but we see it everywhere! It's not really--we're becoming our parents sort of thing. Or the conservatives are the new radicals---although this plays a part.

We are truly witnessing a tectonic shift in ideology. We support stability, rationality and beneficial work while the so-called conservatives support radical destruction of systems that have "helped" us somewhat. Conservatives are tools of the Kochs, the Mercers and anything that helps real people, they're against.

Or is it more basic: Governments should help the people--we say. Conservatives are just stupid fucks.

I'm Ok, you're Ok Corral. (Speaking to Conservatives)

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Response to Democrats_win (Reply #26)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:24 PM

Cosmocat (13,365 posts)

28. lol

Third sentence is SPOT on.

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Response to klook (Reply #25)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:17 PM

Hermit-The-Prog (18,385 posts)

38. "The Dirty Fucking Hippies Were Right"

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Response to klook (Reply #25)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:01 PM

Ellen Forradalom (16,128 posts)

59. A lot of people have unlikely allies these days.

Feminists are finding that out.

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:24 PM

slumcamper (1,305 posts)

27. We've landed in Orwell's 1984.

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Response to slumcamper (Reply #27)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:04 PM

pazzyanne (4,727 posts)

35. +1 nt

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Response to PCIntern (Original post)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:38 PM

moonseller66 (430 posts)

29. Mixed Emotions...to paraphrase Milton Berle...

It's like seeing your wife and her lover driving off a cliff in your new Corvette!

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Response to moonseller66 (Reply #29)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:45 PM

Elwood P Dowd (10,792 posts)

30. Almost wet my keyboard reading that.

I'm so old, I remember watching Uncle Miltie on the family black and white TV back in the 1950s.

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Response to moonseller66 (Reply #29)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:46 PM

PCIntern (20,982 posts)

31. Great!

Made me laugh out loud. Only Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks are left of that generation.

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Response to PCIntern (Reply #31)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:13 PM

NewJeffCT (56,438 posts)

37. Carl Reiner

is still pretty active on Twitter and one of his fondest hopes is to live long enough to see Trump gone

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Response to NewJeffCT (Reply #37)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:57 PM

RVN VET71 (1,741 posts)

44. Pete Seeger saw Obama elected and inaugurated

twice!

Happily, he passed before the Tea Party maggots matured into the current venomous MAGAts.

I hope Carl Reiner stays with us long enough to witness a restoration of the moral and ethical leadership we held under President Obama and after Trump is hounded out of office and replaced by a genuine American -- of the Democratic persuasion, of course.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:51 PM

stillcool (30,813 posts)

33. Desperation..

I know it is futile, but maybe, somehow, someway...

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:52 PM

barbtries (24,482 posts)

34. i still won't buy his book.

he could have already testified. his reason for not doing so apparently was pure greed.

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Response to barbtries (Reply #34)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:30 PM

Hekate (66,234 posts)

41. We use the public library a lot. There's always a long list of patrons who sign up to read ...

...political books, so be prepared to get in line.

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Response to Hekate (Reply #41)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:35 PM

barbtries (24,482 posts)

42. if i read it

that's what i'll do. i'm waiting on my copy of A Very Stable Genius right now, and am wading through the Mueller Report.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:11 PM

Danmel (4,013 posts)

36. All we are missing are the demagorgons

We are truly in the "upside down. "

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:27 PM

Hekate (66,234 posts)

40. I feel ya. Hubby & I are straight out of the '60s, and ever since Comey was fired in that despicable

...manner -- by tv comment while he was across the country doing his job, and then told he should find his own way home -- we have found ourselves in sympathy with people employed by agencies we never trusted.

indeed

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:38 PM

Warpy (99,229 posts)

43. Politics makes strange bedfellows

but most of them don't last all that long. Undoubtedly the FBI will soon be back to keeping close tabs on the Quakers and Raging Grannies (not making this up) instead of a disaster in the White House who has threatened their careers.

Bolton is the fascinating one, he hasn't contradicted a single word of leaked text. He's despised by the left as a warmonger, so there is no way the propagandists can say he's part of a deep state leftist plot.

I'm just enjoying the collapse of the coverup. I'm hoping "so what?" isn't an adequate defense.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 05:10 PM

left-of-center2012 (25,729 posts)

45. "Holy fucking shit. WTF happened to this world?"

Well, for one, the English language has declined.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 06:16 PM

Marcuse (3,736 posts)

47. Fasten your seat belts. We are all going for a ride.

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 06:18 PM

Miigwech (3,662 posts)

48. Now is the time to be very careful, all the roaches are in play

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 07:14 PM

TrollBuster9090 (5,560 posts)

49. Don't forget rooting for Jeff F--ing SESSIONS, and Jim 'Shithead' Comey; and even John Roberts.

We crossed that Rubicon a long time ago when we started rooting for Jeff 'White Sheet' Sessions to hang in there, so that Trump wouldn't stick 'Judge' Jeanine in as Attorney General. Or suddenly making that shithead Comey, who, together with PUTIN provided the two hits to Clinton that put Trump over the finish line into some kind of HERO.

And what about rooting for reactionary John Roberts to be the only semi-adult in the room during a Senate trial.

What next? We start actually BELIEVING Susan Collins when she says she's 'concerned?'

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Response to TrollBuster9090 (Reply #49)

Tue Jan 28, 2020, 08:49 PM

Kaiserguy (740 posts)

50. Your last line

Believing Susan Collins when she say's concerned. NEVER!!

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 09:16 PM

AlexSFCA (5,445 posts)

51. we are rooting for the institutions

bastions of career professionals

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 10:32 PM

dflprincess (25,750 posts)

52. Sometimes the biggest thing I hate Trump for

is putting us all in situations like this.

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:01 AM

lambchopp59 (1,554 posts)

54. Our dumber than box of rox cousins "elected" this clown waving the stars and strips, that's what.

I'm so ashamed to have one of those, even if he did de-friend me on Facebook after I asked him to stop sharing racist posts about President Obama 12 years ago.
Shortly thereafter, I de-activated my FaceBook forever due to the hateful rants all of the past Rethug collegues of mine relentlessly posted.
Fox news and ilk have spiraled ever continuously downward below the lowest common denominator, taking us all with them.

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:02 AM

NCLefty (3,374 posts)

55. This is the time for those agencies to prove to those who were skeptical of them wrong (by doing the

right thing). I'm rooting for them to do that.

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:11 PM

garybeck (9,583 posts)

60. and Romney!

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:14 PM

Old Terp (447 posts)

61. What's hard to believe is that the Republican

act like they don't believe something as bad or even worse involving Trump will not come out in the following days or weeks. Old Rude, Crude and Lewd can't keep clean.

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 12:16 PM

ariadne0614 (898 posts)

62. Thom Hartmann just cleaned up the language and shared this OP. n/t

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Wed Jan 29, 2020, 01:16 PM

PCIntern (20,982 posts)

63. Wow! Thanks!!

On his radio show?

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