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Well with talks of concentration camps in Texas, we've officially hit Nazi Germany status.

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Could be better, though.

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Siberia?

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Does catch and release explain why Manafort is in jail RIGHT NOW!?! Mueller caught him, took his name, and said please show up in court in a couple of months and quit being such a criminal. The chances of that happening? Zero! It's crazy!

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Poppy Trump HATES what Trump is doing to children at the border, literally the cruelest thing this side of murder that you can do to a parent or child, and hopes that Democrats will DO SOMETHING to stop Trump from doing to Trump the things that make Trump sad. He is a monster. We are living in a very dark time that history will remember as a cautionary tale of what can happen when simply anyone is allowed to run for such a powerful office. How did we do this to ourselves? We make people take classes to learn to drive a car, but we let cruel, weak, inexperienced bigots like Trump lead our nation without a second of political or governmental experience. Wtf?

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Is this autobiographical? "We catch a criminal, a real criminal, a rough, tough, criminal. We take his name and then we release him. And we say please to show up to court in a couple of months. You know what the chances of getting him to court are? Like zero. OK? It's crazy!"

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Every time I read this moniker I think of Mr. Ed.Sorry, I grew up in that TV era, so Clever Hans is only my second thought.Huh, Hans could at least count. Mr. Ed just moved his lips with, so the rumor went, the encouragement of peanut butter and then whatever words his handlers wanted were put into his mouth. So I guess that is pretty accurate. Is that what everyone was already thinking? Was I late to the party again? Where's the meme? https://uploads.disquscdn.c... Although Mr. Ed was a pretty good looking stable genius, so it is not really a fair comparison on that count.

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"I have to have that." Pretty much sums up Trump's mentality.

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Yes but you see it's unpopular so obviously the Dems are responsible. See Republicans are responsible for all the things they like and the Dems are responsible for all the things that are unpopular even when they're the exact same thing. Remember, these are the people who wanted to get rid of Obama care, but wanted to keep the ACA.

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I just read that Trump flip flopped and will support the bill.

By late afternoon, the White House indicated to House Republicans that the president "just misunderstood" the question and supports the compromise, according to a House GOP source.Then in the early evening, White House spokesman Raj Shah released a written statement publicly pledging support for two House Republican bills and explaining the mix-up."The President fully supports both the Goodlatte bill and the House leadership bill. In this morning's interview, he was commenting on the discharge petition in the House, and not the new package. He would sign either the Goodlatte or the leadership bills," Shah said.

When you don't bother to think about anything other than your wallet and ego, it is easy to do a 180.

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Not if dehumanization is part and parcel of the messaging.

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If you made a golem from used colostomy bags it would make a better leader than Resident Rump

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Great twist on the basic rules. Keep the 10th circle for truly elite by limiting memberships. If someone really really merits inclusion, oust one of the lesser lights.

Alan, you are a genius.

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We may have a naming rights winner.

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Good choice for naming rights. But the competition for that is stiff, so I'll wait until the contenders sort some of themselves out of the race.

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Gold fish or Guy Pierce's character in Memento.

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