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Found this adorable footage of Bill Barr as a baby. https://m.youtube.com/watch...Such a rebel. what happened?

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that Robert Milky Way fella seems nice.

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I figured it was something innocuous. I also figured that mentioning clickbait would raise some hackles and get it resolved ASAP. Strategic trolling as it were.

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"Of course, Trump himself has used "anonymous sources" for everything from birtherism to accusing an opponent's father of assassinating a former president to passing as his own public relations representative. This is typical GOP and Trump projectionism of accusing their opponents of what you are doing/have done, like voter fraud!"

The difference is that legitimate anonymous sources are, and always have been, an important part of responsible journalism. A source has to be confirmed at least twice by other sources for it to be considered legitimate and published. Dump's "anonymous sources" are always "many people," "people are saying," and "a lot of people are saying." In other words, they're the voices that live in his head. Nothing legit about them.

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Just making sure we're aren't turning into Buzzfeedette :-P

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r/SuddenlyGay

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The Mercers have already cut him off. I hear tell he kept hassling Sheldon Adelson for more until he got cut off there, too. https://www.vanityfair.com/...

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Bonnie Gold? Morton Gold? Arielle Gold? Tracey Gold? Ernest Gold? Andrew Gold? Missy Gold?

There are so many to choose from . . . .

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I will never forget the Purple Heart bandaids. It’s one of the most obscene things ever done in a campaign.

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Yep, he was the main lobbyist for the bill in the US. I'm surprised that Germany hadn't passed sanctions before.

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Interesting question. I wonder why no one has followed up on it.

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Rather than telling the actual truth and being able to reasonably spin it as "Obama sucks, I fixed it," which would be a defensible if hyperbolic position, Trump and Co. instead choose to continue with the straight up lie because Trump CAN'T LET ANYONE THINK OBAMA DID SOMETHING GOOD. It's so pathetically on brand.

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Yeah, it seems to have only been on that one article. Why it was a two page I don't know - you didn't get exxxtra content to speak of on pg 2. And could only go back to the previous story, not forward. Maybe its an experiment?

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Also, don't forget these conspiracy pushers.

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That was an extremely weaselly performance by Wilkie. Heat of the campaign - right. The only credible excuse for Assmouth's comments would amount to something like, "He doesn't really hate our troops - he was just throwing a tantrum because he didn't want to go, and so he lashed out at whatever he could because he's got the temperament of a spoiled four-year-old."

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