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I'm sure Assange feels like ol' Donny will come to his rescue real soon. Julian though his tiger ride would last longer than the statute of limitations. But the tiger is always hungry.

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Screaming right wing headline: "Trump Wants Immigrants To Kill White People!!!"

Actual reality: Trump's White People Kill Immigrants

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"And I think they’re especially bothered by the fact that she not only wears a Muslim headscarf but also has a hint of a Somali dialect — she clearly isn’t trying to whiten up her act for the crackers whose asses we’re all supposed to kiss."

Never have truer words been written. They want their coloreds to be like Piyush "Bobby" Jindal and Raphael "Ted" Cruz: moralizing God-bothers that repeat brain dead conservative dogma and constantly pander to the rubes.

And if they deviate from that in anyway the entire GOP will try and put them back in their place. Just look at how they treated Tim Scott (aka J.C. Watts 2.0) when he torpedoed Neo-Confederate Thomas Farr's judicial nomination.

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Yeah, Scott must be looking at Candace Owens and thinking, wow, if I’d known *that* was what they wanted I’d have never started with this bullshit

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Oh, Julian, you should know by now, Trump only cares about one thing and that is Trump. Even though he apparently mentioned Wikileaks 163 times during the campaign including "I love Wikileaks" he said, yesterday, that he had never heard of Wikileaks; it wasn't his thing. Snort!

Part 2 of the "Game of Trump's Throne" is about to start: Emperor Trump's investigation into the investigators with his frog-like AG taking the lead. The FBI and maybe the CIA will be trashed to distract the rubes from the upcoming election campaign if only because Trump has become an incoherent babbling mess and, yes, Congress will see the redacted report, which will consist of four words: "No collusion, no obstruction."

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Sorry (/not sorry), but your second graf leaves me no choice but to post this:

http://tinyurl.com/y6phqk9a

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That was IRL LOL at "Ivanka, First of Her Name."

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I too have circulated this masterpiece

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"...everyone else who trusted Trump got thrown to the wolves." And it says a lot about Cheetolini that Stephen Miller has been the exception (so far).

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Probably because the reason Miller knows where the bodies are buried is, he put them there. While Trump watched.

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So the Ecuadorians got tired of his cat's crap and booted him. This is what happens to bad roommates.

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I think Omar could have chosen her words better, but reading her full statement, it seems clear she wasn't trying to downplay 9/11. Which is why any propagandist who *does* cite the whole thing will sandwich it between outraged sputtering that focuses on those four words alone. I know I'm just stating the obvious here, but I really can't think of any better way to say it.

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At least since Newt's insistence on taking down the outrageously moderate Bill Clinton, the rightwing play has been, if you can't find a liberal supervillain, invent one. Their transparency would be laughable, if it didn't work so well.

But I guess if you're a 70something white dude with a giant suburban house, new car, month-long trips to the locales of your choice, and full health coverage, it's just FUN to believe there's a supervillain out to get you. And there probably is! After all, there aren't as many white people on TV as there were when you were a kid... so SOMEONE must be taking them out!

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What they wanted Omar to say:

"Cair was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that a scary number of Muslim terrorist fanatics, with Muslim-y terrorist names like Mohammed and Waleed and Abdulaziz, viciously and terroristically murdered thousands of innocent white Christians in the most dastardly act of Muslim terrorist violence on Americans ever perpetrated in the history of the non-Muslim world, and because of this Muslim terrorism all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties. Now that I think of it, we clearly deserved it."

And it still wouldn't do the trick because she "wears a Muslim headscarf," i.e., she's one of THEM.

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