Wednesday Open Thread

by: Colorado Pols July 18, 2018 at 6:14 AM MDT

“If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.”

–Gerald R. Ford

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RepealAndReplace says:

July 18, 2018 at 6:25 AM MDT

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/obituaries/john-stormer-none-dare-call-it-treason-author-dies-at-90.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fpolitics&action=click&contentCollection=politics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=sectionfront

Coincidence? I think not.

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RepealAndReplace says:

July 18, 2018 at 6:27 AM MDT

I don't know which is more disturbing: the press conference in Helsinki or the apologists in the GOP.

Just saw John Kennedy, R-LA, interviewed on CNN. He buys the typo/grammar error explanation.

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- Zappatero says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 6:53 AM MDT
  
  He was in Moscow on July 4. Betcha Cory glad he didn’t take that little invitation.
  
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unnamed says:

July 18, 2018 at 7:35 AM MDT

Benedict Donald DOES stink. That is not a typo. No missing " ' ".

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The realist says:

July 18, 2018 at 7:35 AM MDT

President Sharpie.

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Duke Cox says:

July 18, 2018 at 8:09 AM MDT

"Oh where, oh where have our little trolls gone, oh where, oh where can they be?

With the stench of their boss filling up the whole place, to them it must smell like pee..!"

Hey there T***pians! Let's hear once again how each of you are not accomplices to treason. Are any of you seriously trying to peddle the bullshit story that you didn't see this coming? I am sure no one warned you…right?

Now is the time for you to abandon the Duper in Chief. Forget politics…stop this insane bastard now.

Even if he packs the Supreme court for you, do you think he won't disregard the court when it suits him? Are you unwilling to NOT be fools?
( Which is, by the way, a double negative…just saying)

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- unnamed says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 8:50 AM MDT
  
  Really. I wanted to talk to MAGAt-anus about his view as to why separating families and locking children in cages, and kowtowing to Vladimir Putin MAGAs.
  
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- RepealAndReplace says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 9:18 AM MDT
  
  Is it possible that something has finally broken that even those morons cannot spin…..
  
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Davie says:

July 18, 2018 at 8:18 AM MDT

George Will, who advises voters to dump the GOP in November, has this to say about Benedict Donald's Traveling Horror Show:

Will also questioned whether Russia has something on Trump to "keep him compliant."

"Americans elected a president who — this is a safe surmise — knew that he had more to fear from making his tax returns public than from keeping them secret," Will writes. "The most innocent inference is that for decades he has depended on an American weakness, susceptibility to the tacky charisma of wealth, which would evaporate when his tax returns revealed that he has always lied about his wealth, too.

"A more ominous explanation might be that his redundantly demonstrated incompetence as a businessman tumbled him into unsavory financial dependencies on Russians. A still more sinister explanation might be that the Russians have something else, something worse, to keep him compliant."

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- Conserv. Head Banger says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 11:12 AM MDT
  
  Somebody should ask Carlson, Hannity or Ingraham about the hold the Russians have on Trump.
  
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Davie says:

July 18, 2018 at 8:25 AM MDT

Pants-crapping pedophile, Ted Nugent, is a Gun Grabber! Apparently, he was scared there wouldn't be enough good guys with guns to take out all the bad guys with guns that haunt his concerts.

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- Arvadonian1 says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 8:49 AM MDT
  
  I don't understand how this SOB still has a career, and a leadership role in the NRA and Republican politics while Kathy Griffin and the Dixie Chicks are both seen as pariahs.
  
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  - unnamed says:
    
    July 18, 2018 at 8:51 AM MDT
    
    Because he's on wingnut (and Russian) welfare.
    
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  - Duke Cox says:
    
    July 18, 2018 at 9:51 AM MDT
    
    See…"P.T Barnum"….
    
    Your answer lies there.☺
    
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  - JohnInDenver says:
    
    July 18, 2018 at 10:07 AM MDT
    
    The article talks about "about 1000" attending, with ticket prices at $60, $50 and $40. The venue [Berglund Center Performing Arts Theatre] seats 2,148, so a less-than half-full venue.
    
    Revenue $50,000 (if we speculate on median price tickets). T-shirt and hat sales don't seem likely to add much. Minus hall rental, advertising, transportation & lodging rider, security and insurance.
    
    Ted Nugent's "career" seems one step up from a vanity project.
    
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    - Voyageur says:
      
      July 18, 2018 at 12:07 PM MDT
      
      Nugent hasn't had a hit since the Horst Wessel Liad.*
      
      *Nazi Party Anthem.
      
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Genghis says:

July 18, 2018 at 8:26 AM MDT

MGM Resorts uses an obscure law to sue Las Vegas mass shooting victims

Because guns, Big Entertainment and toart refoarm are what America is all about.

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RepealAndReplace says:

July 18, 2018 at 11:55 AM MDT

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/18/politics/montenegro-nato-article-5/index.html

His antipathy for defending Montenegro is based on the fact that most of his base thinks that Montenegro is part of BLM.

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- MichaelBowman says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 12:18 PM MDT
  
  It currently has 20 troops serving in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led training mission there
  
  We have one less serving in Afghanistan this week with the death of Army Ranger Christopher Celiz during combat operations. My cousin is a C-17 pilot with the Air Force and she had the somber honor of flying his remains home. RIP, Sergeant Celiz.
  
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  - JohnInDenver says:
    
    July 19, 2018 at 10:19 AM MDT
    
    As rare as those deaths are, you would think the President and Vice President would make a point of honoring the dead in some evident way.
    
    Though it may not mean much to your cousin, this left-leaning & "saved by the end of the draft" near-conscientious objector who strongly opposes the continuation of our efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, deeply appreciates her service.
    
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    - MichaelBowman says:
      
      July 19, 2018 at 10:31 AM MDT
      
      Thank you.
      
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    - MichaelBowman says:
      
      July 19, 2018 at 10:41 AM MDT
      
      He did find time in his busy schedule yesterday between fluffing sessions for his Fox interviews, to personally attend to the remains of the Secret Service man who died of natural causes while protecting him during his Scottish golf outing.
      
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- Conserv. Head Banger says:
  
  July 18, 2018 at 12:50 PM MDT
  
  Trivia thought for R & R and any others interested. What victorious country in World War I lost its independence as a result of the war. Answer: Montenegro.
  
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  - Voyageur says:
    
    July 18, 2018 at 12:54 PM MDT
    
    Debatably, so did Serbia, which also became part of Yugoslavia, albeit the dominant part.
    
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    - RepealAndReplace says:
      
      July 18, 2018 at 3:07 PM MDT
      
      This time of year 104 years ago, World War I started with a bunch of idiots making really stupid decisions.
      
      All things old are new again.
      
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      - Conserv. Head Banger says:
        
        July 18, 2018 at 3:52 PM MDT
        
        The Serbian monarch became the monarch of the new Yugoslavia. The Montenegrin royal family went into exile.
        
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MichaelBowman says:

July 18, 2018 at 2:18 PM MDT

Pres. Trump tells Tucker Carlson “Montenegro is a tiny country…they are very aggressive people” (Below Trump w/ Montenegro PM last year)

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