Political Thread for Week of May 18
Posted by assassin
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wtf? Guess I missed this...Trump Interstate
Posted by EffinIllini
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*facepalm**
Posted by DocWalk20
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I demand reparations for getting unfairly branded on social media as the guy who stole the lectern.
Posted by OB25
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there's no way any of that money goes to anyone other than Trump and his cronies*
Posted by shua
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Feels weird to say but i'd rather it go to them rather than the J6ers*
Posted by illini21
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Yeah all these people getting excited and then getting peanuts would be pretty amusing.*
Posted by OB25
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…and entirely on brand*
Posted by DocWalk20
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Everybody knows it was Biden who stole the lectern in 2020.*
Posted by DT
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All part of Nancy's Pelosi's plan.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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China says Trump lied about trade deals with them
Posted by Stu
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I’m shocked*
Posted by Mrap24
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I always made fun of the woke term “pregnant person” until Donald Trump’s admin showed me my error
Posted by ATL
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Dude should get his umbilical hernia repaired.*
Posted by DocWalk20
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What an awesome country we live in
Posted by RVA
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How many SWAT teams does this country need?
Posted by complainant
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No peace deal with Iran any time soon, per Supreme Leader. Now what?*
Posted by Stu
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Weekly market manipulation?*
Posted by Mrap24
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doesn’t matter, we’ve already won. one of the best wins anyone has ever seen*
Posted by lcubed
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Theldon Whitehouth ith on MEthNow, and hith microphone ith ekthtra buhthy.
Posted by complainant
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Too rich. The all-white country club thing would destroy him. *
Posted by assassin
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I suppose the American electorate does hate wealthy New Englanders, traditionally.
Posted by complainant
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Doesn’t have to be real*
Posted by assassin
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NAACP calling on black athletes to reconsider attending schools with voting rights rollbacks
Posted by ATL
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good luck with that.*
Posted by Ari Gold
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I'm sure it will take everyone a while to fully process this new information
Posted by Sammich
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There’s been a reverse Great Migration going on for awhile
Posted by illiniranger
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Couple other factors
Posted by illiniranger
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Having spent a lot of time there, Chicago could learn a lot from Atlanta in terns of fostering...
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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There’s a natural limit to growth in the Sun Belt that they approaching.
Posted by illiniranger
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More are moving to suburban Cook, Will and NWI.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Concur. They’re not all moving to the Sunbelt.
Posted by illiniranger
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nm
Posted by IlliniRunner
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Wonder if this trend will continue as southern states try to dismantle civil rights gains
Posted by IlliniRunner
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some people, but not really enough people*
Posted by torinese
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Just look at Raleigh
Posted by TarheelIllini
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No doubt. No argument there.
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Having lived in VERY rural South Carolina for seven years.
Posted by Stu
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Black guy walking down the street:
Posted by illiniranger
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You live in rural southern Illinois, right? Because that's not "the Midwest." That's Dixie.
Posted by complainant
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It’s a secret third thing. Midwest appalachia
Posted by illiniranger
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No, I don’t agree
Posted by illiniranger
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You know where I lived for nearly four years, right?
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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there are a decent amount of people that prefer the "southern" racism over the "northern" racism.
Posted by torinese
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DINGDINGDING....Was saying this to LBK JUST THIS WEEK while watching the documentary I posted
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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…or even Georgia outside Atlanta South.
Posted by DocWalk20
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I lived in South Georgia, not like this at all.
Posted by illiniranger
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Could it also be that your perception of the racism is different
Posted by IlliniRunner
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No
Posted by illiniranger
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no one who has been around diverse populations thinks that racism is a one way street*
Posted by torinese
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Yeah, no shit
Posted by illiniranger
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the smug cloud eminating from you would make George Clooney jealous*
Posted by assassin
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Shack *
Posted by illiniranger
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lulz*
Posted by chorizo
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Fair enough. Just relaying one couples’ experience that was shared with me.
Posted by DocWalk20
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i don't think chicago has done much intentional. there has been black migration from the city to the
Posted by torinese
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Slightly off topic, but one of the most striking parts of The Warmth of Other Suns…
Posted by DT
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Seems like the perfect time for a remake of Amazing Grace and Chuck.*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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In another 400 years or so, we should catch on.*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Congrats to Tarbiz for getting a job at the NAACP!*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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Please identify me as TarheelIllini, Showbiz doesn’t post here anymore
Posted by TarheelIllini
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ok, tarbiz*
Posted by VIV
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Love it, but money talks.*
Posted by voiceofreason
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This. All sounds great in principle, but when that specific athlete gets offered 70% more by said
Posted by UofIL6
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This. I'd love to pretend this would have an impact...
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Barney Frank=Ed Martin*
Posted by Gene Parmesan
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Interesting interview with him last week in the NYT about his take on the current dem party:
Posted by Herman Blume
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Let's go, Hawaii!
Posted by ghost_of_clt
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That article didn’t give much detail, so it’s hard to know what exactly is being done
Posted by DT
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Anything is something and more than nothing :shrug
Posted by ghost_of_clt
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Bye, bye Massie.*
Posted by gullit
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Meh. I remember his Christmas card. Good riddance. *
Posted by doubledown
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It wasn't his Christmas card. Just an ill-advised tweet.*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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The guy who won is much worse.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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lost his job because he demanded the epstein files be released. what a world*
Posted by VIV
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Do you also think Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman lost their seats because of the Epstein files?*
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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I think Cori Bush wins the primary *
Posted by JacobRDaugherty
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no*
Posted by VIV
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Hmm... because they are black?
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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no.
Posted by VIV
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Entire party needs to be burnt to the ground*
Posted by reggiedunlop
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It already has been. The issue is that the charred remains continue to be allowed to govern.*
Posted by Sammich
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What this guy says.*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Massie lost by 10,280 votes. His opponent got 10,854 mail in votes.
Posted by Mrap24
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Great night to be a manufacturer of infant caskets.
Posted by Chuck Woodaby
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The new guy reminds me of a crazier Michael Flynn, so not really ideal.*
Posted by Toonces
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Now run as an independent *
Posted by assassin
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Can't do it in Kentucky.
Posted by gullit
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Too bad. *
Posted by assassin
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Oh no Bari
Posted by Stu
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Trump’s plan for Iran was to install President Business Casual after the war in Iran?
Posted by ATL
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Are they giving him the Lester Cowens treatment?
Posted by complainant
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oh.. ok apparently he wasn't killed?
Posted by ijustkrushalot
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There are so many crazy angles to this I don’t know where to begin.*
Posted by Toonces
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With the sleepy brown eyes, the butter pecan thighs, and the hairy butt?
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Great skit.*
Posted by illiniranger
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I feel like the straight man partner in an 80’s comic action movie.
Posted by DT
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Here’s something
Posted by Stu
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FBI saying that the mosque shooters had been 'radicalized'
Posted by ATL
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Here’s something
Posted by Stu
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Cooper will win, you can out serious money on it*
Posted by TarheelIllini
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Even by JD Vance standards this is a crazy ass statement
Posted by Sounder
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Is it worse than him imploring people to "vote out the crazy leadership in DC"?
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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that guy is a smudge of turd on the lip of the toilet seat.
Posted by memyselfandillini
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He’s an unctuous little parasite. *
Posted by doubledown
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"protest"*
Posted by Herman Blume
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lawtalkers...the anti-weaponization fund has a new document posted today
Posted by Nobster
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Media outlets credulously reporting on this bullshit is fucking infuriating.
Posted by doubledown
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and then there's this little tidbit
Posted by Sounder
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yeah...that's what i posted. it was dated today and it is a blanket covering any tax crime*
Posted by Nobster
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yeah...that's what i posted. it was dated today and it is a blanket covering any tax crime*
Posted by Nobster
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Carries about the same legal weight as a letter to Santa Claus. *
Posted by doubledown
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Blanche loves to cuck. real DOJ would never
Posted by memyselfandillini
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Not a lawtalker, but administrations can't unilaterally bind future administrations.
Posted by doubledown
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The actions of Pam Bondi/Kash Patel/Todd Blanche juxtaposed with the creation of this fund
Posted by Sounder
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lawtalkers...the anti-weaponization fund has a new document posted today
Posted by Nobster
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LOL, Trump endorses John Paxton in TX Senate race. Excellent.*
Posted by Carl Spackler
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Please let him win*
Posted by Sounder
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Ken Cornyn will be sad*
Posted by assassin
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Polymarkets now have Talarico favored to win*
Posted by Sounder
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Well Wennington is Canadian so he’s ineligible.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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Explain Ted Cruz then.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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Same with Kukoc*
Posted by UofIL6
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Big day for Thomas Massie. Hopefully he can fend off Trump's handpicked AIPAC stooge.*
Posted by Warrin'_Illini
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I have some bad news….*
Posted by Toonces
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No discussion of the mosque shooting? Once again a parent is responsible for not securing her weapon
Posted by ATL
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The video of the SD Mayor getting his ass publicly handed to him was *chef's kiss*
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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I've always found the San Diego Republican Military culture to be super weird*
Posted by Sounder
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Well you got a lot of Marines who always tend to make it a bit weird
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Don't get me started on military personnel who still support Trump*
Posted by Sounder
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Didn’t see that. About what?*
Posted by ATL
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Here
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Ironic incompetence
Posted by larue33
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If that was used as a counterexample in a security training class, it would be dismissed as
Posted by doubledown
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how does the author not reference DOGE directly?*
Posted by torinese
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ATL, you're never going to believe this story.
Posted by complainant
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Those Republicans sure do love them kids!
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Oh boy, peds!!!*
Posted by Stu
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30 year bond at highest since 1999*
Posted by Stu
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trump gonna get tamed by the bond market. bessent can't save him.*
Posted by cpsteine
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Every second it goes a little higher*
Posted by CoronaTheirAss
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TWSS*
Posted by ATL
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Nm*
Posted by Stu
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Nm*
Posted by Stu
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Nm*
Posted by Stu
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Today’s hands
Posted by ATL
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Fucking ghoulish, the other hand is RFK*
Posted by Sounder
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Or Red Skull.*
Posted by SurfTheBoneyard “Surf is just a national treasure.” — Jackie
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Nationals ban the fan who unfurled the white supremacist banner
Posted by ATL
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I assume Trump will throw him some of the $1.7B for the horrible persecution *
Posted by DT
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doubtful it was a fan in the first place*
Posted by assassin
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Yeah, MAGAts hate baseball.
Posted by complainant
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I hold nothing personally against baseball
Posted by Sounder
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MMA now America's Pastime
Posted by KingTalkyTiki
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Rome’s downfall lasted centuries. We're speed running that mfer *
Posted by DT
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when would you say it started? hanging chad day?*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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Citizens United. *
Posted by assassin
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plenty of warning signs and cracks, but I’d say the invasion of Iraq
Posted by DT
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the Bush Jr / Cheney / WMD one? We really didn’t know what we didn’t know*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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When the GOP conspired with the Iranian hostage takers, realizing that they could
Posted by doubledown
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oooh, good answer*
Posted by torinese
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In my mind, the chain of events began with the downfall of the Shah.
Posted by Stu
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please explain...the other responses i have good context on*
Posted by torinese
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I almost feel bad for NASCAR as they pine for the attention MLB and NFL gain from White Nationalism.
Posted by complainant
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at this point Inthink they’d take LGbTQs attention. That era seems done*
Posted by memyselfandillini
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So disgusting to hear him talk about insurrectionists like this
Posted by UofIL6
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"I know very little about it" is the new "a lot of people are saying." It means he's the architect.*
Posted by complainant
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He's gotta send a message that people committing treason on his behalf will be compensated. *
Posted by doubledown
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Exactly. If you commit crimes for me, you will be pardoned and paid*
Posted by snipes824
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...and prime the pump for the coup in 2029
Posted by KingTalkyTiki *Depending on where the stock market is.
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major attack coming tomorrow
Posted by assassin
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On Minneapolis?*
Posted by ATL
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We need a name. Maybe "Operation Hot Mother"*
Posted by shua
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Let's try to top that*
Posted by Sammich
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