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We live in a post-fact society.

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Where everyone the KGB knows your name.

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Normsky!

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If he can just make through this campaign, get elected and inaugurated, then all this scrutiny will stop and the Media will leave him in peace.

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And those PP videos Carla went on and on about.

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got my first pair of x-ray specs that way!

;-)

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I remember him telling the media to back the fuck off his daughters, but not much else.

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That demonization, of course, never includes Fox News - which is taken as Holy Writ.

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Joe Biden makes a couple of stupid jokes or asks the guy in a wheelchair to stand up and he's a gaff-machine. Yep, Old Joe just can't keep his foot out of his mouth. It's obviously his own fault.

These guys insult the Pope, practice unabashed racism or, in the case of Ben Carson, spout a real theory about Joseph shooting grain out of his butt into a pyramid so it could be stored for the care and feeding of unicorns (okay, I paraphrased a little), and IT'S THE MEDIA'S FAULT.

Makes perfect sense.

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And I bet the patient is charged for both sponges.

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"They can't control, you know, social media. They would like to..." which is why all the Republicans want to limit net neutrality.

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I've completely switched to "rocket scientist" as my go-to symbol of intelligence...but only because my beloved's kid is an actual rocket scientist and he's really smart.

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Don't be silly. Everyone knows Tupperware was the big rage.

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A bigfoot showing up at the UN riding a unicorn is more likely.

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