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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Hail to the Hairpiece / Trump’s Address to Congress

Trump’s Address to Congress

by John Cole|  February 28, 20178:27 pm| 122 Comments

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Against my better judgement I am watching his address.

*** Update ***

I lied. I can’t watch this fucking shit. I’m going to play a video game. I tried and just wanted to puke when I watched his cabinet and smiling Jeff Sessions walk in.

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  1. 1.

    debit

    February 28, 2017 at 8:29 pm

    Remember when Obama dared put his feet on the desk?

  2. 2.

    hitchhiker

    February 28, 2017 at 8:30 pm

    great. your commentary will get me thru.

  3. 3.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 28, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    Not sitting like a lady. Sr. Lucia would not be amused.

  4. 4.

    Keith P.

    February 28, 2017 at 8:31 pm

    “Lieutenant Kellyanne!!! Lieutenant Kellyannnnnne! They have ice cream! Ice creaammmmmm!”

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    When did you have better judgement? Asking so I can update the files.

  6. 6.

    Feebog

    February 28, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    Good on ya. Can’t do it myself.

  7. 7.

    Droppy

    February 28, 2017 at 8:32 pm

    Just ordered “Eyewitness to the Bowling Green Massacre” by Frederick Douglass from Amazon. He was the one who pulled her out of the rubble, I’m pretty sure.

  8. 8.

    GoodDoc01

    February 28, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    Spot on analysis. https://twitter.com/ClaraJeffery/status/836443948348428288

  9. 9.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 28, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    Better hide all the breakables.@Adam L Silverman: He did choose you as a front pager.

  10. 10.

    Darkrose

    February 28, 2017 at 8:33 pm

    My mother would hop out of her grave and slap me if I sat like that in a professional setting. No home training.

  11. 11.

    Yarrow

    February 28, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    That picture is both horrifying and hilarious. She really has no class. No respect. It’s all about her.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    I’m going to listen. It’s difficult to both watch and follow comments here. But I can listen to my local NPR station on the iPhone, and participate in the snarkfest that seems certain to erupt here on the iPad, and all will be well, all will be well, all will be exceeding well.

  13. 13.

    lamh36

    February 28, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    Enjoy yourself…I’d rather have a lobotomy

  14. 14.

    Jerzy Russian

    February 28, 2017 at 8:34 pm

    OK, that image made my laugh. I don’t have a TV on which to watch the shitshow, so I am counting on Balloon Juice for material that I can point to and laugh at.

  15. 15.

    efgoldman

    February 28, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    Nobody hates Kelly Anne Rienstahl more than I do, but this isn’t really worthy of anybody’s time and effort. A total nothing burger.
    BYW, she’s been awfully quiet since exposing the media’s failures in reporting the Bowling Green Massacre.
    Not watching or listening to Tangerine Tumerous. I don’t want to buy new TVs

  16. 16.

    amk

    February 28, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    putin: mission accomplished 2

  17. 17.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 8:35 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: You really think that shows better judgement?// Also, if we can’t tease each other who, exactly, can we tease?

  18. 18.

    geg6

    February 28, 2017 at 8:38 pm

    Oh god, Cole. Hide the breakables now. Or better yet, watch the Penguins with me.

  19. 19.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    I’m watching, on the assumption this will be his last one.

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    February 28, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    @CTDems 17m17 minutes ago
    More
    Congrats to Representative-elect Dorinda Borer on her huge win in #WestHaven!

  21. 21.

    amk

    February 28, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    Against my better judgement I am watching his address.

    is republicanism hotel california?

  22. 22.

    Baud

    February 28, 2017 at 8:39 pm

    I hope he farts in the middle of his address.

  23. 23.

    Baud

    February 28, 2017 at 8:40 pm

    @lamh36: Yay!

  24. 24.

    geg6

    February 28, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @efgoldman:

    Other than the complete unprofessionalism displayed, that is. As the only woman in the room (that I can tell), this is not a good look.

  25. 25.

    GoodDoc01

    February 28, 2017 at 8:41 pm

    @Baud: How would we tell the difference?

  26. 26.

    Jeffro

    February 28, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    The only thing I’d be watching for is – hoping against hope here – a Dem walkout at Trumpov’s first lie. It’s not like he’s going to propose any details or policies of any kind.

    This is a guy who thinks America’s inner cities (all black, did you know that?) are war zones, that Obamacare is “a disaster”, and that Jewish people are probably the ones calling in the bomb threats to JCCs all over America. False flag, dontcha know.

    Anyway, gonna take good care of the ol’ blood pressure and read a good book instead!

  27. 27.

    lamh36

    February 28, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    Like I said…Cheeto Prez lives for ratings…so even if I didn’t literally hate him and everything he stands for, I wouldn’t watch this address LIVE…I’ll read the excerpts

  28. 28.

    Keith P.

    February 28, 2017 at 8:42 pm

    @Baud: You’ll have to watch Paul Ryan to tell. Mitch McConnell has a fart pokerface, but you’ll know the second the smell hits them when Paul Ryan’s “Golly, gee, welcome to united Republican leadership” expression turns to “Is that ketchup? Ketchup and onions?”

  29. 29.

    Kay Eye

    February 28, 2017 at 8:43 pm

    @Darkrose: Raised by wolves.

  30. 30.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 28, 2017 at 8:44 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Better judgment, worse judgment, potato, pahtato. We are all mad here.

  31. 31.

    danielx

    February 28, 2017 at 8:45 pm

    Is that fucking harpy actually related to Ann Coulter? Who is, be it noted, considerably past her “hot blonde conservative” sell-by date.

  32. 32.

    lamh36

    February 28, 2017 at 8:45 pm

    smhh…everything this man does screams insincerity…smh

    What’s the name of this movie?

    pic of Cheeto on his way to give his address

  33. 33.

    Baud

    February 28, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    @GoodDoc01: It’ll make policy sense.

  34. 34.

    Keith P.

    February 28, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    @Keith P.: Sorry, not McConnell…Pence. Neither one would react to smelling a fart, though,

  35. 35.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    @lamh36: Do you have less back pain than before?

  36. 36.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 28, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    @Kay Eye: Wolves are good parents.

  37. 37.

    japa21

    February 28, 2017 at 8:46 pm

    Based on what was discussed on the last thread and other things to cpome out of Trump’s mouth since 1/20, I sent out a tweet which said

    Two phrases associated with Truman that Trump doesn’t get. “If you can ‘t stand the heat get out of the kitchen” and “the buck stops here”.

    And doing so I realized two of our Presidents have a last name starting “Trum”. Other than that t5hey couldn’t be further apart from each other.

  38. 38.

    JMG

    February 28, 2017 at 8:47 pm

    John, you’re a stronger man than I am. I look forward to waking up tomorrow and reading your rant on this topic. For now, I’m going upstairs to re-read Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy. I am just at the chapter where Sherman’s army goes through South Carolina.

  39. 39.

    amk

    February 28, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    @Baud: Isn’t he always? Only diff, his mouth does that job.

  40. 40.

    Ian G.

    February 28, 2017 at 8:48 pm

    @geg6:

    Speaking of the Penguins and hockey, the New York Islanders look like they’ll be calling up a top prospect, Joshua Ho-Sang, for their game against Dallas on Thursday. Who is he? Well, he’s from Canada, but his father is from Jamaica and emigrated to Canada. Dad is 3/4 black and 1/4 Chinese (hence the surname). Mom emigrated to Canada from Chile, but is of Russian-Swedish-Jewish heritage.

    So the Isles have a hot prospect of Jewish-Black-Chinese-Hispanic heritage. I feel like his existence will cause a few strokes among “alt right” hockey fans out there. If so, good.

  41. 41.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 28, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    @lamh36:
    This is vastly more important than whatever comes out of Trump’s wind-hole this evening. My google fu is failing me. What are the results in Connecticut looking like in general?

  42. 42.

    Mary G

    February 28, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    I watch because I get motivated to continue resistance and out of a feeling of duty to witness, also it’s fun to comment on here.

  43. 43.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 28, 2017 at 8:49 pm

    So how late is he gonna be?

  44. 44.

    amk

    February 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @lamh36: Isn’t there also a GA special election for fucking price’s seat?

  45. 45.

    Baud

    February 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: McCrory also won in Hartford.

  46. 46.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    @Baud:

    I hope he farts in the middle of his address.

    Do you mean apart from whatever Bannon has given him to emerge from his mouth? His tiny little pursed assholean sphincterish mouth?

  47. 47.

    danielx

    February 28, 2017 at 8:51 pm

    I am just at the chapter where Sherman’s army goes through South Carolina.

    Which is absolutely delightful to read.

    @japa21:

    From what I gather, his motto throughout his career has been “the buck stops anywhere else, and I’ll move it there if need be”.

  48. 48.

    Mike J

    February 28, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    Laugh In will be on one of the retro TV channels.

  49. 49.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 28, 2017 at 8:53 pm

    @Baud:
    Do we have any sense of whether turnout reflected public anti-Trump sentiment, like last week?

  50. 50.

    Lizzy L

    February 28, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    I canNOT watch or listen to the man, so I’m counting on the folks here for the play-by-play.

  51. 51.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    @amk:

    Isn’t there also a GA special election for fucking price’s seat?

    Yup, April 18th, with a runoff in, I think, June.

    I live one district over so cannot vote, but plan to do some phonebanking or doorknocking or whatever is needed.

  52. 52.

    lamh36

    February 28, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    @Aleta: yes…the meds finally kicked in and I was able to actually get a restful night’s sleep.

    Tomorrow I get the keys to my new apartment and I get to go bedroom shopping for a better bedroom

  53. 53.

    Baud

    February 28, 2017 at 8:54 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: I don’t have that info.

  54. 54.

    Alain the site fixer

    February 28, 2017 at 8:55 pm

    I’m hoping for three rants so that all America that is watching, and the morning shows tomorrow, have lots of fertile ground for sound and video clips. Sad that that’s where I’m at; much as I despised President Bush, I never hoped for substandard public performances nor stark policy departures from the norm, but in many ways, I’m hoping for a heightened contradiction between trumpism and the normal American way. That seems logical and right, and that’s a scary place to be, hoping for corruption to be so obvious as to be unavoidable for society and people at large to confront and ameliorate.

  55. 55.

    Cain

    February 28, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    I dunno about the outrage of couchgate… the picture seems to be taken while she’s looking for a photo app? Who knows? Not that I give a shit if she’s get pummeled after all Obama also got it for putting his feet on the desk.

    You guys are stronger people than I am for watching this shit storm. I’m going to watch it through twitter and snark.. I’m heading out for dinner.

  56. 56.

    Alain the site fixer

    February 28, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    @Mike J: that’s genius, man

  57. 57.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 8:56 pm

    As mentioned, I will be listening but not watching. The only reason that I’d be tempted to watch is to see whether any Dems stand and quietly walk out. But, being Dems, that’s pretty unlikely, so I’m content to listen on NPR and follow along/participate in commentary here.

  58. 58.

    Keith P.

    February 28, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    The more I think about it, Mike Pence *would* react to Trump farting, but it would be one of those things where his whole body pivots a bit to the left, then pivots back to the right, and then goes back to staring blankly at the camera.

  59. 59.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 28, 2017 at 8:57 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: NPR? Fuck that shit.

  60. 60.

    laura

    February 28, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @Kay Eye: Nah, raised by skanks.

  61. 61.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    @danielx: No, but her husband dated Coulter before he settled on KellyAnne.

  62. 62.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @Cain:

    the picture seems to be taken while she’s looking for a photo app?

    There was one taken either right before or right after a shot of KAC taking a picture of the HBCU prezzes (still on the sofa with her legs spread). Apart from everything else, there is presumably an official WH photographer. Why the hell would KellyAnne need to be taking bad, out-of-focus, ineptly-composed shots of a bunch of people in the Oval when there’s a professional to capture the moment?

  63. 63.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:00 pm

    @Ian G.: CBP won’t let him in the country for the game with a background like that.

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @amk: Yes.

  65. 65.

    Yarrow

    February 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Listening seems like an even worse punishment than watching. At least with watching you occasionally get a crowd reaction shot.

    I’m sure some place like The Guardian will liveblog it. And people will comment here. And Twitter. That’s all I need to see if anything exciting happens. I can always tune in then if there’s some good drama to watch.

  66. 66.

    Sab

    February 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @lamh36: Avoid four-posters. They can be dangerous.

  67. 67.

    magurakurin

    February 28, 2017 at 9:01 pm

    @efgoldman: Conways job is to service Dolt 45 when he gets tingly.

  68. 68.

    lamh36

    February 28, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    i tried ya’ll I really did. But I can’t even stomach following along on twitter…I’ll see ya’ll on the flip side…maybe
    #CheetoPrezFirstAddress

  69. 69.

    Yarrow

    February 28, 2017 at 9:02 pm

    Cole’s giving up.

    I lied. I can’t watch this fucking shit. I’m gonna go play tides of numenura— Sad Trombone Sound (@Johngcole) March 1, 2017

  70. 70.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    Ryan looks like he’s medicated with euphorics.

  71. 71.

    dm

    February 28, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: So she could tweet it, probably

  72. 72.

    SFAW

    February 28, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    @Ian G.:

    He’ll fit right in, in NY. (Meant in a good way.)

  73. 73.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 9:05 pm

    I’m thinking Melania is one of the top leakers.

  74. 74.

    Villago Delenda Est

    February 28, 2017 at 9:06 pm

    @efgoldman: Leni libelz! Leni actually had talent, even if she used it in the service of evil. Kellyanne has no talent at all.

  75. 75.

    SFAW

    February 28, 2017 at 9:07 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    No, but her husband dated Coulter before he settled on KellyAnne.

    Dinesh D’Douchea?

  76. 76.

    vhh

    February 28, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    @efgoldman: Riefenstahl, please. Antecedents are important, esp. when you are trying to distinguish Nazis from mere neoNazis.

  77. 77.

    geg6

    February 28, 2017 at 9:08 pm

    @JMG:

    Oooo, my favorite part!

  78. 78.

    SFAW

    February 28, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Kellyanne has no talent at all.

    I disagree. She has talent, just not for anything that makes the world a better place. Riefenstahl COULD have done good work, were she not a Nazi, KAC could never be anything but what she is today.

  79. 79.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    @SFAW: I have no information on inmate # 3467832.

  80. 80.

    geg6

    February 28, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    @Ian G.:

    Heh. Love it!

  81. 81.

    Ruckus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:09 pm

    @Yarrow:

    It’s all about her.

    Actually it’s all about being the second narcissist in line. She does have a boss she pimps.

  82. 82.

    danielx

    February 28, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    There’s a (possibly apocryphal) story about a wealthy Republican in Chicago during Lyndon Johnson’s administration who truly hated LBJ. Supposedly, every time Johnson made a televised speech the guy would buy a new television so when Johnson came out with his customary “Mah fellow Amuricans…” greeting, he could fire a shotgun into the TV screen.

    You know, thinking about it, TVs are pretty cheap now…no. Must not go there.

  83. 83.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    February 28, 2017 at 9:10 pm

    I really don’t care how KAC is sitting and whether it is “lady-like” or not… bigger Trump issues to focus upon. It strikes me like when Repubs worried over Michelle’s bare arms. YMMV.

  84. 84.

    Kathleen

    February 28, 2017 at 9:11 pm

    @amk: More like the Roach Motel.

  85. 85.

    Mike J

    February 28, 2017 at 9:12 pm

    @Alain the site fixer:

    Man with movie slate:
    “Daniel Ellsberg Story, take one!”
    clack
    “Hey, somebody already took it.”

  86. 86.

    Ruckus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:13 pm

    @danielx:

    Who is, be it noted, considerably past her “hot blonde conservative” sell-by date.

    She has always and forever been past that, not that she hasn’t tried selling herself innumerable times.

  87. 87.

    Irony Abounds

    February 28, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    Please wake me up from this horrible horrible nightmare.

  88. 88.

    patroclus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:14 pm

    Good start – he actually mentioned the anti-Jewish pogrom and racism in the context of Black History Month. Obviously, someone wrote that for him and he doesn’t mean it, but still a good start.

  89. 89.

    Kathleen

    February 28, 2017 at 9:15 pm

    @Aleta: Someone just showed him a picture of dying seals.

  90. 90.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 9:16 pm

    Getting stomach cramps, brain is bleeding, lower back bilious. Can’t take the applause. I think I’m about to cave.

  91. 91.

    efgoldman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    @Jeffro:

    This is a guy who thinks America’s inner cities (all black, did you know that?) are war zones

    Isn’t the Tasteless Tower, where he lives, smack in the middle of an inner city?

  92. 92.

    patroclus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:18 pm

    Now, he’s just lying and over-promising. Oh well…

  93. 93.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @magurakurin:

    Conways job is to service Dolt 45 when he gets tingly

    EW EW EW EW EW!!!

  94. 94.

    Miss Bianca

    February 28, 2017 at 9:19 pm

    @efgoldman: seconded. To all of it.

  95. 95.

    JGabriel

    February 28, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    John Coie @ Top:

    I lied. I can’t watch this fucking shit. I’m going to play a video game.

    Me too. Which game? I went with Skyrim.

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 28, 2017 at 9:22 pm

    So far it’s a campaign speech. Nothing more, nothing less.

    Boring. I expect I’ll wander off soon.

  97. 97.

    M. Bouffant

    February 28, 2017 at 9:23 pm

    @Irony Abounds: And it doesn’t feel/Like it’s ever gonna stop!

  98. 98.

    efgoldman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @vhh:

    Riefenstahl, please.

    I typod it, but Alain has apparently put us into “randomly not allowing editing” mode tonite for fun and profit.

  99. 99.

    Frankensteinbeck

    February 28, 2017 at 9:25 pm

    @magurakurin:
    …given his stated attitudes towards women, possible.

  100. 100.

    efgoldman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:26 pm

    @geg6:

    Oooo, my favorite part!

    Your big toe? Your right ear?

  101. 101.

    Miss Bianca

    February 28, 2017 at 9:27 pm

    @Yarrow: I’m hoping Adam is watching out of his farmore highly-developed-than-mine sense of civic responsibility, and will be reporting back.

  102. 102.

    patroclus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    Good to know that we’re going to destroy ISIS, end crime, end drug addiction, create jobs, and all the rest. No mention of how we’re going to do any of that.

  103. 103.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:29 pm

    @Miss Bianca: I’m watching it. Had it set to DVR, so just started watching a few minutes ago.

  104. 104.

    danielx

    February 28, 2017 at 9:31 pm

    He makes Bush sound like Cicero.

  105. 105.

    Miss Bianca

    February 28, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: you are a better man than I, Gunga Silverman. Counting on you and the rest of the jackals here,

  106. 106.

    Darkrose

    February 28, 2017 at 9:32 pm

    @efgoldman: Like I said over at LGM, it’s one more example of this administration’s contempt for black folks. They can’t even be arsed to do a photo op right. And when you remember that these are the HBCU administrators, and Betsy DeDumbass whitesplained to us all about how HBCU’s are a shining example of school choice, this picture encapsulates the regime’s lack of respect perfectly.

  107. 107.

    Miss Bianca

    February 28, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    @danielx: oK, that was my first splutter-snort LOL of the evening, sir. Well-played!

  108. 108.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Don’t count on me. Not a chance in hell. No fucking way.

  109. 109.

    Darkrose

    February 28, 2017 at 9:34 pm

    @JGabriel: I’ve been playing a lot of Skyrim lately. I love Final Fantasy XIV, but I’m not comfortable playing MMO’s and having to deal with people right now. Skyrim allows me to kill racist Nords and Nazi Elves and have fun doing it.

  110. 110.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 28, 2017 at 9:36 pm

    @Miss Bianca: Its a standard Stephen Miller written speech.

  111. 111.

    Soprano2

    February 28, 2017 at 9:38 pm

    Lots of bullshit promises, nothing about how to actually make them happen.

  112. 112.

    Soprano2

    February 28, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    They’re going to lower the cost of health insurance? How? More bullshit promises with no way to do it.

  113. 113.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 9:40 pm

    I’m out. Thought I could do it.
    Chi tace acconsente.

  114. 114.

    patroclus

    February 28, 2017 at 9:42 pm

    Now he’s lying about health insurance, with no plan at all.

  115. 115.

    Aleta

    February 28, 2017 at 9:45 pm

    @Darkrose: The whole thing looked like an intentional insult by a psychopath.

  116. 116.

    The Lodger

    February 28, 2017 at 9:46 pm

    @Cain: Doesn’t anyone else remember the West Wing episode where Bartlet chews out the clueless conservative blonde and finishes by saying, “When the President stands, everybody stands.”

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    The Lodger

    February 28, 2017 at 9:50 pm

    @Keith P.: Gotta love the expression on Pence’s face. He looks like my cat (not the smart one) at a physics lecture.

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    Darkrose

    February 28, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    @The Lodger: One of the best moments in that show. “In this house, when the President stands, nobody sits.”

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    danielx

    February 28, 2017 at 10:02 pm

    Going to have to turn off everything….sounds and looks like the weather is getting pretty sporty. We are definitely expecting rain, as the saying goes. Keep those of us affected updated please!

  120. 120.

    jake the antisoshul soshulist

    February 28, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    I have decided that someone needs to knock that smirk off Paul Ryan’s face.
    You could tell when Trump was lying by the smirk.
    Ryan may have the second most punchable face in the Republican Party.

  121. 121.

    JGabriel

    March 1, 2017 at 12:55 am

    Darkrose:

    Skyrim allows me to kill racist Nords and Nazi Elves and have fun doing it.

    I only started replaying it a few weeks ago – hadn’t thought about the killing racist Nords aspect, but you make a good point. I usually play as neutral/indifferent to the Nord/Imperial conflict, but maybe I should join up with the Imperials this time around.

  122. 122.

    Cogitari Safari

    March 1, 2017 at 1:59 pm

    I couldn’t watch more than a few minutes myself even though I know it’s important to watch (and not merely read the transcript) to catch the tone, body language, attitude, responses, etc. It was just too grotesque watching that recalcitrant anti-American addressing the American congress. It was akin to watching your mother get raped by Neanderthals.

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