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Wouldn't you prefer "I am an admirer of alliteration, apologies."

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Just to seal the deal on how craven they are, why don't they announce that Trump will be a moderator for the debate, which he will conduct "Apprentice" style?

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Perhaps I should amend to say "self-identified 'cool kid'".

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dammit

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Those results don't look so rosy to me. 44% chose a Republican candidate, 36% a Democrat, and the other 20% were even lower-information "voters."

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Winding one's way through wondrous wordplay? Why not?

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Damn! Now I have to write another theme song for this guy, because I wrote one for Pizza Rat.

Pizza Rat,

Pizza Rat!

Your friendly neighborhood

Pizza Rat!

Wants a slice,

Any kind!

Catches slices

Just like flies!

Look out!

Here comes the

Pizza Rat!

In the chill of night,

At her fav’rite pizza joint,

Like a streak of light,

She grabs her fav’rite slice!

(etc.)

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'Eastern' grey squirrels are a fucking plague. Rats with bushy tails. They push all other squirrels and everything else on their rung of the ecosystem to the brink of extinction.The local red squirrels in the UK were driven to remote parts of Scotland and remote areas before they started doing something about the grey fuckers.In Vancouver, some moron introduced them to Stanley Park and they've now colonised most of the Fraser Valley and beyond.Fucking hoodlums!

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The poor guy has been thoroughly vilified by the Republicans. He is seen as a buffon. It's unfortunate.

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If Don Lemon moderates, I'll watch.

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To be fair to CNN, and I always want to be fair to CNN, they're really just playing along with all the other mopes, jackamos, provocateurs, and drama-daries who keep cynically (imo) pushing the mock-candidate Biden (mc-B) into the discussion. I assume the primary motivation is the oh-so-important Horse Race Narrative, but also keeps the "Hillary is tanking" narrative alive based on polls that improperly include the mc-B. Can I take it on faith that, come the Friday before the Vegas debate when the mc-B still has not announced his candidacy, we can finally put the mc-B to bed?

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Or move the debate to The Trump?

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The only ones I hear asking Joe to run are the media, trying to start a Dem Clown show because it'll be good for ratings no other reason, don't do it Joe.

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I guess CNN wants to be a Playa for the Dems, like Faux News is for the G.O.P. Considering their performance (or lack thereof) in moderating their turn at the Republican temper-tantrum-on-tour that masquerades as a debate, I'd say that's well out of their league.

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This is all on you, Wonkette. I clicked on that pizza rat video and spent the next twenty minutes watching ridiculous vines.

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I can't tell a squirrel without a program. We have "fox" squirrels and the cutest little black squirrels. And some a grey, but not big like the east coast ones I grew up with.

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