If he was having sex I would suspect a designer STD has parked in his brain.

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People who back Trump, they're a lost cause.

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Deplorables was the term.
What a winner that was.
Careful.

concordtom said:

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Another Bear said:

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People who back Trump, they're a lost cause.

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Deplorables was the term.
What a winner that was.
Careful.

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Traitors is more apt. And the irony isn't lost on me that this crew has kittens over athletes taking a knee at the anthem.

Agreed.

"It's like a gigantic, presidential whack-a-mole, with Trump pounding any new threat as it pops up, leaving nothing to chance. Here's a look at the people and institutions that Trump has set his sights on all in recent days:

The media
The Justice Department
The FBI
Attorney General Jeff Sessions
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein
The intelligence community
Special counsel Robert Mueller
Mueller's team of prosecutors
New York state investigators and prosecutors
Democrats on intel committees
Unreliable GOP senators

This adapts a classic Trump technique that he used during the campaign: constant, withering criticism combined with brutal belittling, in an effort to create tectonic shifts in voter attitudes.

Trump used this combination to eviscerate the GOP field, then shrink Hillary from a political colossus." Axios

"Resist efforts to politicize intelligence oversight" ... Five former top U.S. intelligence officials, who served under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, warn against plans for Justice Department officials to hold a GOP-only briefing about the role of a 2016 informant in the FBI's Russia investigation.

The latest plan is a briefing for two Republican House members, with a separate briefing added for the bipartisan "Gang of Eight" lawmakers who are traditionally briefed on intelligence matters.
The letter is to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Speaker Paul Ryan, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi:

"Congressional oversight of counterintelligence investigations is one of the most important and sensitive functions of the Intelligence Committees in Congress. Traditionally, intelligence and law enforcement agencies are exceedingly careful in briefing the Committees about active counterintelligence investigations, given the sensitivity of the operational activity, the need to protect human sources, and the privacy interests of any Americans who may be involved. In our experience, such Executive Branch briefings have always been bipartisan."
"When oversight activity is bipartisan, it can serve as an important check on government activity. When congressional oversight is overly partisan or focused on undermining important counterintelligence investigations we worry about inappropriate political influence on the investigators and the erosion of a bipartisan approach to intelligence and national security. Any effort to exclude one party or the other from sensitive counterintelligence oversight briefings threatens to undermine the oversight function and sends the wrong signal about the professional, non-political manner that must govern U.S. intelligence activities."
"We urge you to allow congressional oversight activities to proceed in a fully bipartisan manner and to resist efforts to politicize intelligence oversight for the benefit of one party or another. Our national security depends on strong bipartisan congressional oversight."
The letter is signed by:

Leon Panetta, former Secretary of Defense and former CIA director
James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence
Michael Hayden, former CIA director
John Brennan, former CIA director
John McLaughlin, former acting CIA director." Axios

I'm ready for this again, BIG TIME!!

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This piece of propaganda is really unfair and untrue.
Anti Trump supporters preach hate, too.

The Republicans on here except for Concordtom:

Trump is the exploding volcano.

Morning news check in.
Is he dead yet?

Morning news check-in #500.
Is he dead yet?
(One day, the answer will be yes. And I have two hopes for it: soon, and natural causes)

concordtom said:

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This piece of propaganda is really unfair and untrue.
Anti Trump supporters preach hate, too.

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"There is such a thing as discernible reality. Facts, as John Adams once said, are stubborn things, and yet too many Americans are locked into their particular vision of the world, choosing this view or that perspective based not on its grounding in fact but on whether it's a view or perspective endorsed by the leaders one follows."
Jon Meacham, The Soul of America

concordtom said:

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Morning news check-in #500.
Is he dead yet?
(One day, the answer will be yes. And I have two hopes for it: soon, and natural causes)

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The couple that spawned Donald, Fred and Mary Anne, lived to be 93 and 88, respectively. Donald will definitely be alive after his one or two terms in office.

Not if he trips and falls and hits his head.

That photo is really something. Even with mom and dad, he's got that cocky look on his face that says, "see mom and dad, I'm better than you, too.

I haven't checked the news since Kennedy said he'd retire.
World Cup soccer instead.
So, what's happened?
Did Trump host a hookerfest at the White House and suffocate while trying to nurse?

"In the 1941 noir potboiler movie I Wake Up Screaming, Betty Grable's character asks a corrupt cop: "What's the good of living without hope?" To which he replies, "It can be done." The movie's title is how I've been feeling lately when I snap awake each morning, grab the newspaper and read what new atrocities Trump has committed against the English language, common decency, and American ideals laid out in the constitution. Acts of corruption, racism, and public lying that have driven other politicians from office in shame are merely the outrage du jour for the Trump administration." Kareem Abdul Jabbar, The Guardian

I love Kareem!

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(One day, the answer will be yes. And I have two hopes for it: soon, and natural causes)

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I wouldn't care how he dies but I do agree with on the "soon" part.

You guys sound like my wife. I'm worried about the bad juju that might ensue from wishing that on someone. I will settle for a mundane perp walk through the Rose Garden in chains with lots of tears and banshee wailing.

I think I've decided that death is getting off too easy.
If he dies, there are too many scumbags in place and they are too emboldened with their uncaring cruel dishonest ways that it won't make enough of a difference - at all.

We need a complete repudiation from the broad electorate.
Hopefully someone of character from either party stands up and collects the requisite votes.
We have a bunch of horrible people leading this country, and a bunch of decent, but foolish, people being led by them. Wake up, America.

After the repudiation of evil at the polls, and a restoration of honesty, dignity, and civility, I wish for "Death By Booka!" (and not for myself, obviously)

Death or Booka

Three explorers are captured by a tribe in the Amazon jungle. The chief is going to punish the intruders.
He calls the first explorer to the front of the tribe and asks, "Death or Booka?" Well the explorer doesn't want to die, so he opts for booka. The tribe starts screaming BOOKA! and dancing around. the chief then rips the explorers pants off and has sex with him.
The chief calls the second explorer to the front and asks, "Death or Booka?" Well not wanting to die either, he opts for booka. The tribe again starts screaming BOOKA! and dancing around. The chief rips the second guys pants off and has sex with him.
The chief calls the third explorer to the front and asks, "Death or Booka?" Well the third guy has a little more self respect and thinks death would be better than being violated in front of hundreds of tribesman, so he opts for death.
The chief turns to the tribe and screams "DEATH BY BOOKA!"

Wait, wait. Don't tell me.

"Real civil, CT."

I don't know how Dotard should be done but given his love of television, it should be a live international broadcast. You know, it would get YUUUGE ratings, just tremendous and unbelievable. THE BEST!!!

Well, two of Trump's peers died on July 4.

Like others here, I also believe he will live forever. He is highly motivated not to want to find out if there is a merit based Afterlife.

It would be too great an honor to die on the same day as them.
We could pick another historic day, however. How about April 30, Hitler died.
May 8, VE Day.
Aug 6, Hiroshima

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Like others here, I also believe he will live forever. He is highly motivated not to want to find out if there is a merit based Afterlife.

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How about a merit-based death?

Anyone else have mad respect for concordtom for being a Republican who is vocally enraged by the damage the president of his own party is doing to our country and its institutions? Seems like a country before party Bear to me.

concordtom said:

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It would be too great an honor to die on the same day as them.
We could pick another historic day, however. How about April 30, Hitler died.
May 8, VE Day.
Aug 6, Hiroshima

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Clownocracy, thus April 1st

Perfect.
Agreed!

Didn't that dude fall into a vat of acid?
How perfect would that be, too!!!

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Anyone else have mad respect for concordtom for being a Republican who is vocally enraged by the damage the president of his own party is doing to our country and its institutions? Seems like a country before party Bear to me.

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If only there were another 50 million people like me who were raised in a republican household, complete with photos of presidents, taught to view democrats as the "tax and spend" party - and yet now recognize that the Republican Party is a complete ****ing joke!

It's not just the party, it's an entire network and cultural shift. We are doomed.

Maybe it was always thus, but trump is simply so blatant that he exposes how horrible.

For the record, BA, I married a gal from RI whose dad ran for local office as a democrat, who committed his life to helping serve mentally ******ed (rhymes with recarded) people. It influenced me JUST A LITTLE.
He said when I first met him, cause I asked what he felt the meaning of life was, that we all have a responsibility to help those who were less fortunate than ourselves.
Jack Kennedy-esque. "Ask not..."

Very different from (half of the 4) parents who felt that Atlas Shrugged explained everything.
****ing idiots. They lost their hearts in their chase for the golden ring. Self aggrandizement.

I changed my initial registration from Republican to Independent 20 years ago when I moved back to CA, and only recently registered as republican again, if only so I could vote my local rep out in the primary. But now we have open primaries so that was pointless.
And since trump, I am not Independent, I am "vote the ****ers out" hostile!