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Toledo/Dayton. Pleasure/Paradise. We can't expect president best brain to focus on such trivialities when he's trying so hard to imitate sincerity.

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Didn't he set a different tone after the Las Vegas massacre?

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Same. He makes me angry. When I see or hear him I reflexively let out a curse or string of curses. I hate that whispery whiny voice most; it fills me with rage.

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Can I also say I like Cory Booker a decent fair amount? He's in my top 6 for sure.

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Oh I'm pretty sure his breath and his body both smell like dogshit or worse. The guy even *looks* smelly. I can't even picture him taking a shower.

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I usually skip longish posts but am glad I didn't here. That was extraordinary and refreshing, even if I did have to look up 'flense.'

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Ugh. Mental illness my ass, people living with a major mental illness are far more likely to be victims of violence than commit violence. Violent, hate filled and racist white guys aren't that way because of mental illness - they are that way because they are selfish entitled ass hats.

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Nope. He just don't read so good. Also a wee bit too much Adderall.

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Research indicates that playing violent video games leads to being more blasè about video game violence, but not more blasè about real life violence. It's as though humans can differentiate between real life and entertainment!!

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Have adblock plusDid not know this.Many thanks.

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45 is a television star. He is as animated a speaker as anyone. He screams! He Shouts! He Denounces! He Mocks! But whenever they make him read words of denouncement of white supremacy from a teleprompter, his affect is completly dead. It's almost as if he's the son of a Klansman who, emboldened by dreams of the biggest tower in Moscow, descended a golden escalator one day and announced a white nationalist war.

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I hope this turns around

Unlikely.

The Chinese government has _had_ it with Trump's shit, and have cut off all imports of US agricultural products.And Modi has just taken the world three big steps closer to nuclear war between India and Pakistan.

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Get a certified check for the security arrangements up front, because otherwise Trump will direct the government to stiff your city government, and it'll cost your taxpayers big bucks. Trump's minions still owe El Paso over half a million dollars from the last time he was there.

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He played in a porno-grind band, a shock-value-only group whose songs featured grotesquely violent and misogynist lyrics. Do not search for album cover images online unless you have a strong stomach -- the cover for the album on which Betts performed is pictures of dismembered female bodies.

But he was too weird even for his bandmates, (brought a pistol on tour, suggested holding up a convenience store, boasted about his high-school kill list and rape list) and they quit appearing some months ago.

ETA: oh, yeah: and he bragged about his methamphetamine use

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Bullshit soup. Well said.

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If there's one immigrant I wish we'd kept out, it would be Rupert Murdoch.

But he was allowed to become a US citizen.

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