Okay, so Arpaio is pardoned? Fine, so be it. But acceptance of a pardon is an automatic admission of guilt. Period. He can never hide behind any claim of innocence or righteousness again.exitflagger wrote:The pardon won't inspire as much outrage as it should because it just blends in with the shitshow parade but this shows that our president has no compunction about flagrantly trampling on the rule of law. He will do this as often as possible now, particularly in the Russian collusion case, you can bet your ass.
This asshole needs to go ASAP.
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"I'm just here for the irony and the dancing."
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DEATH ROW JOE wrote:They bonded over birtherism.Chip Z'Hoy wrote:Sherriff Joe pardoned.
What a couple of cunts.
Here is the official "explanation":
For those keeping score at home, accepting a pardon is legally an admission of guilt and can be used against you in civil cases. Let the lawsuits begin.
and on another note, this action is all about Russia-gate. Trump's message was loud and clear "support me, don't roll over on me, let them convict you. I will pardon you"
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This is bit on the long side but it's a good prediction of how things will in the Trump swamp. He's got big balls and there is no shame in him at all.
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Job opening for gathering positive news about Drumpf.
Job opening for gathering positive news about Drumpf.
Only users lose drugs.
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I think a job finding bands to offer free backline to Stonebroke shows would be easier to do..Rageman wrote:https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house- ... 42199.html
Job opening for gathering positive news about Drumpf.
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"I'm just here for the irony and the dancing."
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So who will Drumpf blame for the hurricane? Obama or both sides of Texas?Turner Coates wrote:
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I didn't see any rich white folks walking through that water on the Weather Channel's FAKE NEWS.Luminiferous wrote:
So who will Drumpf blame for the hurricane? Obama or both sides of Texas?
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Houston is under water and dumbass is tweeting about a fucking wall.
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They say he's going to Texas on Tuesday. First priority will be getting private golf courses up and running, as well as implementing other job creation to make America great again once more.That-guy wrote:Houston is under water and dumbass is tweeting about a fucking wall.
"I'm just here for the irony and the dancing."
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The wall issue seems like a big opportunity for the Trump opposition. Remind Trump and everyone else of his own words on the campaign trail to make Mexico pay for the wall. First, force him to explain exactly what his plan is as far as the method he'll use to force Mexico to pay, then tell him to go procure the funding. Hell, if he wants this so badly, *he* can pay for his stupid wall and then get the money back from Mexico. But this bullshit about the taxpayers now footing the bill prior to a reimbursement wasn't part of the bargain.
The left should be jamming it home for the American public that *they* will be paying for this project.
The left should be jamming it home for the American public that *they* will be paying for this project.
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please tell me this one is real.DEATH ROW JOE wrote:
Only this doofus could find the silver lining of this tragedy as an employment opportunity.
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I had to look this up myself. No, unless the tweet was changed, only the first part is accurate. But I certainly would not be surprised by Trump throwing in something about jobs in there. So no, he didn't mention the jobs this time.Pierce Foreskin wrote:please tell me this one is real.DEATH ROW JOE wrote:
Only this doofus could find the silver lining of this tragedy as an employment opportunity.
What is it with this jobs line anyway? The man has done almost nothing proactive for seven months. How in the world would anyone be convinced jobs that just suddenly became available in greater numbers? Obviously I know the answer to that, which involves people who believe whatever they're told, but still...
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He is almost too easy to copy since you really don't know what he will say.TenBenny wrote:I had to look this up myself. No, unless the tweet was changed, only the first part is accurate. But I certainly would not be surprised by Trump throwing in something about jobs in there. So no, he didn't mention the jobs this time.Pierce Foreskin wrote:please tell me this one is real.DEATH ROW JOE wrote:
Only this doofus could find the silver lining of this tragedy as an employment opportunity.
What is it with this jobs line anyway? The man has done almost nothing proactive for seven months. How in the world would anyone be convinced jobs that just suddenly became available in greater numbers? Obviously I know the answer to that, which involves people who believe whatever they're told, but still...
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Trump frustration with Tillerson rising fast
https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-frust ... 23564.html
There's a ticking problem with Rex Tillerson, and it's growing louder by the day, according to officials inside and close to the White House.
President Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with his Secretary of State. One time recently, after Trump had returned from a meeting on Afghanistan, a source recalled Trump saying, "Rex just doesn't get it, he's totally establishment in his thinking."
Tillerson's jaw-dropping comments on TV today will likely only worsen their relationship.
Fox News Sunday moderator Chris Wallace asked Tillerson about Trump's response to the racist carnage in Charlottesville.
Tillerson replied: "I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government, or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values."
Wallace asked the obvious follow-up question: "And the president's values?"
"The president speaks for himself," Tillerson said.
Wallace looked stunned.
https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-frust ... 23564.html
There's a ticking problem with Rex Tillerson, and it's growing louder by the day, according to officials inside and close to the White House.
President Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with his Secretary of State. One time recently, after Trump had returned from a meeting on Afghanistan, a source recalled Trump saying, "Rex just doesn't get it, he's totally establishment in his thinking."
Tillerson's jaw-dropping comments on TV today will likely only worsen their relationship.
Fox News Sunday moderator Chris Wallace asked Tillerson about Trump's response to the racist carnage in Charlottesville.
Tillerson replied: "I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government, or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values."
Wallace asked the obvious follow-up question: "And the president's values?"
"The president speaks for himself," Tillerson said.
Wallace looked stunned.
"I'm just here for the irony and the dancing."
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This really speaks volumes. Trump does not give one squishy shit about what's right for the country or what reflects the principles of our system of government. He's nothing but a troll for the perverse entertainment of his idiotic followers. All he knows is to do the opposite of what's right and his quasi-militia of retards will continue to cheer him on. The more wrong and fucked up it is the more Trumptards dig in.Turner Coates wrote: a source recalled Trump saying, "Rex just doesn't get it, he's totally establishment in his thinking."
Pure stupidity distilled down to it's essence.
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You know it's fake since he spelled unprecedented correctly.Pierce Foreskin wrote:please tell me this one is real.DEATH ROW JOE wrote:
Only this doofus could find the silver lining of this tragedy as an employment opportunity.
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LMFAO, then Tillerson's comment made national news. Trump must have exploded. Tillerson is no fool. He realizes that after all the resignations, Trump can't possibly fire Tillerson (although Trump just might be dumb enough to do it). Watch Tillerson, Mattis, Kelly and the other grownups start to throw Trump under the bus on a regular basis. Trump is in for a rough ride.Turner Coates wrote:Trump frustration with Tillerson rising fast
https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-frust ... 23564.html
There's a ticking problem with Rex Tillerson, and it's growing louder by the day, according to officials inside and close to the White House.
President Trump has been growing increasingly frustrated with his Secretary of State. One time recently, after Trump had returned from a meeting on Afghanistan, a source recalled Trump saying, "Rex just doesn't get it, he's totally establishment in his thinking."
Tillerson's jaw-dropping comments on TV today will likely only worsen their relationship.
Fox News Sunday moderator Chris Wallace asked Tillerson about Trump's response to the racist carnage in Charlottesville.
Tillerson replied: "I don't believe anyone doubts the American people's values or the commitment of the American government, or the government's agencies to advancing those values and defending those values."
Wallace asked the obvious follow-up question: "And the president's values?"
"The president speaks for himself," Tillerson said.
Wallace looked stunned.
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Can't decide which blue quote is a better description of Trump supporters. Think I'll go with the first one as the official title, and the second one as the "alt".exitflagger wrote:This really speaks volumes. Trump does not give one squishy shit about what's right for the country or what reflects the principles of our system of government. He's nothing but a troll for the perverse entertainment of his idiotic followers. All he knows is to do the opposite of what's right and his quasi-militia of retards will continue to cheer him on. The more wrong and fucked up it is the more Trumptards dig in.Turner Coates wrote: a source recalled Trump saying, "Rex just doesn't get it, he's totally establishment in his thinking."
Pure stupidity distilled down to it's essence.
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Now it seems there's an amendment being pushed by a Republican senator onto the table to stop funding for Mueller's investigation. I think there's a decent chance something like this would never pass, but fuck these assholes. Seriously. This is the one of the only Hail Mary shots sensible Americans have left at derailing's Trump's crazy train presidency. This investigation has to be kept alive. Shit, I'll bet Americans would donate to a Mueller investigation GoFundMe if they had to.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/2 ... sia-242108
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That fucking piece of shit actually said that he announced Arpaio's pardon while Texas was being hammered by Harvey because he thought the RATINGS WOULD BE HIGHER. Fucking RATINGS! People are suffering and dying and losing everything they have, AND HE'S CONCERNED ABOUT FUCKING RATINGS!
FUCK ALL OF YOU FUCKING TRUMPTARDS WHO VOTED FOR AND STILL SUPPORT THIS VILE ASSHOLE!!!!
Trump defends pardoning former Sheriff Arpaio
President Trump on Monday said he announced his pardon of former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio as Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas because he “assumed the ratings would be far higher.”
“In the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally,” Trump said during a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö. “You know, the hurricane was just starting.”
“He’s done a great job for the people of Arizona, he’s very strong on borders, very strong on illegal immigration,” Trump said about Arpaio. “I thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly when they came down with their big decision to go get him right before the election voting started.”
Democrats blasted Trump on Friday for announcing his pardon of Arpaio as Harvey made landfall, with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) accusing Trump of “using the cover of the storm” to issue the pardon.
The White House announced Trump’s decision to pardon Arpaio on Friday night in a statement.
“Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration,” the White House said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... tv-ratings
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is a worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon.”
Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt after he disobeyed a federal judge’s order to stop racially profiling individuals suspected of illegally entering the U.S.
FUCK ALL OF YOU FUCKING TRUMPTARDS WHO VOTED FOR AND STILL SUPPORT THIS VILE ASSHOLE!!!!
Trump defends pardoning former Sheriff Arpaio
President Trump on Monday said he announced his pardon of former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio as Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas because he “assumed the ratings would be far higher.”
“In the middle of a hurricane, even though it was a Friday evening, I assumed the ratings would be far higher than they would be normally,” Trump said during a press conference with Finnish President Sauli Niinistö. “You know, the hurricane was just starting.”
“He’s done a great job for the people of Arizona, he’s very strong on borders, very strong on illegal immigration,” Trump said about Arpaio. “I thought he was treated unbelievably unfairly when they came down with their big decision to go get him right before the election voting started.”
Democrats blasted Trump on Friday for announcing his pardon of Arpaio as Harvey made landfall, with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) accusing Trump of “using the cover of the storm” to issue the pardon.
The White House announced Trump’s decision to pardon Arpaio on Friday night in a statement.
“Throughout his time as Sheriff, Arpaio continued his life’s work of protecting the public from the scourges of crime and illegal immigration,” the White House said.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administrat ... tv-ratings
“Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now eighty-five years old, and after more than fifty years of admirable service to our Nation, he is a worthy candidate for a Presidential pardon.”
Arpaio was convicted of criminal contempt after he disobeyed a federal judge’s order to stop racially profiling individuals suspected of illegally entering the U.S.
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Ratings for who? The mainstream media? Why does he care?
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For whoever broke the story first, I don't fuckin' know. He's a goddamn attention whore, he wants to make everything about him. He doesn't give a fast fuck about Texas or anyone else.
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Sounds like your leader:
https://worldview.carnegiecouncil.org/a ... 8_a010.pdf
Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
t is a sign of the speed at which events are I moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated
edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year
ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious
intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone
down the book’s ferocity and present Hitler in as
kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was
still respectable. He had crushed the German labour
movement, and for that the property-owning classes
were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left
and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that
National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.
Then suddenly it turned out that Hitler was not
respectable after all. As one result of this, Hurst and
Blackett’s edition was reissued in a new jacket explaining
that all profits would be devoted to the Red Cross.
Nevertheless, simply on the internal evidence of Mein
Kampf, it is difficult to believe that any real change
has taken place in Hitler’s aims and opinions. When
one compares his utterances of a year or so ago with
those made fifteen years earlier, a thing that strikes
one is the rigidity of his mind, the way in which his
world-view doesn’r develop. It is the fixed vision of a
monomaniac and not likely to be much affected by the
temporary manoeuvres of power politics. Probably, in
Hitler’s own mind, the Russo-German Pact represents
no more than an alteration of time-table. The plan laid
down in Mein Kampf was to smash Russia first, with
the implied intention of smashing England afterwards.
Now,‘as’it has turned out, England has got to be dealt
with first, because Russia was the more easily bribed
of the two. But Russia’s turn will come when England
is out of the picture-that, no doubt, is how Hitler sees
it. Whether it will turn out that way is of course a
different question.
Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into
effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a
continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of
“living room” (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts),
a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially,
nothing ever happens except the training of
young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh
cannon-fodder. How was it that he was able to put this
monstrous vision across? It is easy to say that at one
stage of his career he was financed by the heavy industrialists,
who saw in him the man who would smash
the Socialists and Communists. They would not have
backed him, however, if he had not talked a great
movement into existence already. Again, the situation
in Germany, with its seven million unemployed, was
obviously favourable for demagogues. But Hitler could
not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not
P.
’
From The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of
George Orwell, Volume 2, edited by Sonia Onvell and Ian
Angus, copyright 0 1968 by Sonia Brownell Onvell. Reprinted
by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
been for the attraction of his own personality, which
one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein
Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one
hears his speeches .... The fact is that there is something
deeply appealing about him. One feels it again
when one sees his photographs-and I recommend
especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst
and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early
Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the
face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a
rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of
innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is
little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The
initial, personal cause of his grievance against the
universe cah only be guessed at; but at any rate the
grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus
chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero
who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If
he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it
seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that
he is fighting against destiny, that he can’r win, and
yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of
such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that
one sees turn upon some such theme.
Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic
attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the
last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed
tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond
ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such aview of
life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and
the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children
playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is
never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers;
tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his
own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength,
knows that human beings don’t only want comfort,
safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control
and, in general, common sense; they also, at least
intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to
mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However
they may be as economic theories, Fascism and
Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any
hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably
true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism. All
three of the great dictators have enhanced their power
by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples.
Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more
grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good
time,’’ Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle,
danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation
flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get
sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the
last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation
“Greatest happiness of the greatest number” is a gQod
slogan, but at this moment “Better an end with horror
than a horror without end” is a winner. Now that we
are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought
not to underrate its emotional appeal.
George Orwell (Mach, 1940)
https://worldview.carnegiecouncil.org/a ... 8_a010.pdf
Review of Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
t is a sign of the speed at which events are I moving that Hurst and Blackett’s unexpurgated
edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year
ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious
intention of the translator’s preface and notes is to tone
down the book’s ferocity and present Hitler in as
kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was
still respectable. He had crushed the German labour
movement, and for that the property-owning classes
were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left
and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that
National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.
Then suddenly it turned out that Hitler was not
respectable after all. As one result of this, Hurst and
Blackett’s edition was reissued in a new jacket explaining
that all profits would be devoted to the Red Cross.
Nevertheless, simply on the internal evidence of Mein
Kampf, it is difficult to believe that any real change
has taken place in Hitler’s aims and opinions. When
one compares his utterances of a year or so ago with
those made fifteen years earlier, a thing that strikes
one is the rigidity of his mind, the way in which his
world-view doesn’r develop. It is the fixed vision of a
monomaniac and not likely to be much affected by the
temporary manoeuvres of power politics. Probably, in
Hitler’s own mind, the Russo-German Pact represents
no more than an alteration of time-table. The plan laid
down in Mein Kampf was to smash Russia first, with
the implied intention of smashing England afterwards.
Now,‘as’it has turned out, England has got to be dealt
with first, because Russia was the more easily bribed
of the two. But Russia’s turn will come when England
is out of the picture-that, no doubt, is how Hitler sees
it. Whether it will turn out that way is of course a
different question.
Suppose that Hitler’s programme could be put into
effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a
continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of
“living room” (i.e. stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts),
a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially,
nothing ever happens except the training of
young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh
cannon-fodder. How was it that he was able to put this
monstrous vision across? It is easy to say that at one
stage of his career he was financed by the heavy industrialists,
who saw in him the man who would smash
the Socialists and Communists. They would not have
backed him, however, if he had not talked a great
movement into existence already. Again, the situation
in Germany, with its seven million unemployed, was
obviously favourable for demagogues. But Hitler could
not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not
P.
’
From The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of
George Orwell, Volume 2, edited by Sonia Onvell and Ian
Angus, copyright 0 1968 by Sonia Brownell Onvell. Reprinted
by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
been for the attraction of his own personality, which
one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein
Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one
hears his speeches .... The fact is that there is something
deeply appealing about him. One feels it again
when one sees his photographs-and I recommend
especially the photograph at the beginning of Hurst
and Blackett’s edition, which shows Hitler in his early
Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the
face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a
rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of
innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is
little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The
initial, personal cause of his grievance against the
universe cah only be guessed at; but at any rate the
grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus
chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero
who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If
he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it
seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that
he is fighting against destiny, that he can’r win, and
yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of
such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that
one sees turn upon some such theme.
Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic
attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the
last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed
tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond
ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such aview of
life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and
the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children
playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is
never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers;
tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his
own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength,
knows that human beings don’t only want comfort,
safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control
and, in general, common sense; they also, at least
intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to
mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However
they may be as economic theories, Fascism and
Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any
hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably
true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism. All
three of the great dictators have enhanced their power
by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples.
Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more
grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good
time,’’ Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle,
danger and death,” and as a result a whole nation
flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get
sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the
last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation
“Greatest happiness of the greatest number” is a gQod
slogan, but at this moment “Better an end with horror
than a horror without end” is a winner. Now that we
are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought
not to underrate its emotional appeal.
George Orwell (Mach, 1940)
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toucheThat-guy wrote:You know it's fake since he spelled unprecedented correctly.Pierce Foreskin wrote:please tell me this one is real.DEATH ROW JOE wrote:
Only this doofus could find the silver lining of this tragedy as an employment opportunity.
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Re: Dump
I have an idea for replacing one of those statues...
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