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I understand.

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On Rachel Maddow's show this evening (8/30 - Thursday) Democrat Abigail Spanberger, a former CIA officer, stated her campaign had hired an outside firm to perform opposition research on her. Donald J. Trump refused to allow his campaign to do this - although it is standard practice today. Apparently FOIA requests from the candidates themselves take forever. Back in December 2017 this company filed its requests for information on her. To date - they have received nothing. But Paul Ryan's Super PAC gets an answer in 3 weeks with illegal information? And lacks the decency and shame to realize this is wrong? Back in the day a candidate for president received the other candidate's pre-debate prep book. Rightly suspecting it might be a trap (it wasn't) but still trying to do the right thing, they returned the material to the other campaign and notified the authorities. That's doing the right thing - something Paul Ryan, apparently doesn't understand.

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It feels good but they end up winning, sadly. That's their whole thing, the reason they rally and do all the stupid shit. It's to get a violent reaction. They then claim that we're no different.

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now i have to buy a steve miller song.

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Need a cornet or ophicleide? I have friends...

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this used to circulate in theatre circles via cassette. now of course...

anyway, brilliant asshole.

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'Assmange,' OMG. That's splendid!

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i thought that was 'shopped.

jesus.

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there is still one more day in august and there is still one more friday in august and august was supposed to be the bomb and fridays are ALWAYS terrifying.

a girl can hope anyway.

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i don't know. punching a nazi is a sweet option.

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Well, details. Apparently the government had on and off tried this crap for years but the ACLU sued and they stopped in 2009? But the Trumpies started it up again. I think there's one doctor who was ACCUSED of falsifying one birth certificate (and it doesn't even look like that was ever proven) out of 15,000 births. It's a very sucky story. There's a WOnkette piece up now about it, based on the WAPO story, which will make one Scream.

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This is a close approximation of me dancing in a club. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

Note that I am somewhat worse animated than the bear, and slightly less coherent once I've had enough drinks to dance in the first place.

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And only give him cuy to eat....

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And people on yahoo are saying she was bait for a home robbery.

huzzah, texass.

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