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i only liked him for 'vampire squid' which was pretty excellent writing and a decade ago.

speaking as a girl chicka and for the record: avenatti repelled me instantly, cuomo was always an entitled piece of garbage and donald trump was a flabby loser joke in CHICAGO in the 90's.

not responsible for your misplaced hero worship.

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More evil mouths of Evil https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Your reply gave me incredible hurtz. Why do you ladies insist that anyone who disagrees wit you is a Dump supporter?

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Why do you Xeeple insist on insulting everyone who disagrees with you? I mean, you don't even finish reading others' replies before starting hitting keyboards, all of you, seemingly in unison. OK, yeah, I entered an echo chamber, mea culpa.

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Just gonna resurface briefly and drop this here:

https://twitter.com/OAlexan...

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I think the Democrats could shift the Overton Window to the left by actually bringing up things like this and trying to do things that might not work.

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"Later when people on Twitter point out any mistakes I made or anything I might have misinterpreted, I’ll throw out stuff like if I’m the fourth lead on a Netflix show about a White House aide on the run from CIA assassins sent by high-level government officials engaged in a shadowy conspiracy to kill the president, as shorthand for why the stuff Mehdi's saying is bad.....Well, Elon liked it."

Chef's Kiss! Reminds me a bit of Jon Stewart's recent mocking of the MSM on his podcast.

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How dare those BIPOC and females challenge our established dominance in the status quo? So UPPITY to the master race/sex.

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Here in Norway shops are closed Thursday, good Friday, open from 9 to 4 Saturday, then closed Monday as well. Most people just take the whole week off, since schools out anyway, so might as well just hit the road and go to the mountain cabin and hop on the ski slopes and whatnot the weekend before easter.

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with bacon and blueberry jam.

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See also Bill Maher

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He was thoroughly filleted by Debbie Terminator-Schultz on the House floor.... I guess he figured Hasan couldn't be any tougher than she? Lol I dunno.

But I do know this type of snide cocky rapey GenX bro who used to be cool & thinks he's always the smartest guy in the room. He thought he could handle the likes of Mehdi Hasan. Ell oh ell.

(He's like all those Trump lawyers who keep laboring under the delusion that they can handle Ari Melber. Each one thinks he's the one who'll finally get a Gotcha.)

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Dead giveaway.

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He gets the tunnel vision wicked bad! Hasan just kept blindsiding him with one obvious question after another, there was nothing sneaky about it, but Taibbi was so locked into his trip that he has blinders on.

The whole "debate me!" crowd is now whining about how this was an unfair attack hit piece assault interview etc. etc. Tuff guys.

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I don't think he ever had it

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I think he was cool for a hot second in 1994. After that, even young naive me started noticing that misogyny.

Lots of GenX guys did that cloaking thing in those days.... They sounded just cool and Edgy™, but they can never truly hide the misogyny. It's like gas -- they can't hold it in, and you can smell it on them.

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