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Trump Threatens to Censor Cable News, Maine-Size Hole in Antarctic Ice, Bernie Sanders to Open Women's Convention: A.M. Links

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 10.12.2017 10:00 AM

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    "The government … does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities," ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in a case involving anti-Trump protest organizers.

  • Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
  • President Trump has been threatening news media on Twitter for about 24 hours now. He also threatened to pull all emergency personnel from Puerto Rico.

Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked. Not fair to public!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2017

It would be really nice if the Fake News Media would report the virtually unprecedented Stock Market growth since the election.Need tax cuts

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017

With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017

The Fake News Is going all out in order to demean and denigrate! Such hatred!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2017

  • The Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing "anti-Israel bias."
  • A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
  • The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Did I forget to set my clocks back?

    1. Aloysious   8 years ago

      No, no, no. It's fall forward and spring backwards.

    2. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      Conan's father was right - steel is the only thing you can count on.

      1. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

        I haven't watched Conan in a while. What's the story? Did his dad beat him or something?

        1. Conchfritters   8 years ago

          No, his dad taught him the riddle of steel, before he was eaten by dogs.

          1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

            Poor Conan.

            1. BYODB   8 years ago

              Crom doesn't care.

      2. Episteme   8 years ago

        Jet fuel can't melt it?

  2. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.

    Cultural appropriation?

    1. Rhywun   8 years ago

      I was trying to suss out from that article what the scandal is actually about, without much luck.

      1. KDN   8 years ago

        On Sept. 26, the FBI announced that four assistant basketball coaches from Arizona, Auburn, Oklahoma State and Southern California had been arrested on a slew of bribery and fraud charges related to the investigation into Adidas.

        The FBI is going to bring the pain to KU next, but they don't quite have the case sewn up.

        1. KDN   8 years ago

          If you're unfamiliar: the FBI decided to kick over a rock and notice the sleaze surrounding men's basketball recruiting at power 5 schools. Easy money for a prosecutor intent on making a name for himself.

          1. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

            They didn't even kick over a rock - they arrested a financial advisor who was running a Ponzi scheme, and the financial advisor gave them the case. It was an easy investigation after that.

            1. KDN   8 years ago

              Or, a rock fell into their laps and begged them to look underneath. Regardless, the only thing surprising about this scandal is how pervasive it is (Auburn? Really? I don't think they've produced a first round pick in thirty years) and how brazen the perpetrators.

              1. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

                brazen the perpetrators.

                Especially considering how many middle men they now use. It used to be the shoe companies to the coaches, and that was it. Now it's more like, the shoe companies to the AAU coaches who, with the shoe company's help steer the kids to the shoe company affiliated schools. But, there are so many hands in the current pot they were bound to get caught.

                1. creech   8 years ago

                  Still don't see the federal crime here. If I take a golf resort vacation in return for recommending a vendor's product to my employer, I may be fired for breaking my employer's rules for purchasing agents, but did I commit a federal crime? If my employer chooses to overlook it, then what crime has been committed?

                  1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

                    Your company is not regulated like the NCAA.

                  2. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

                    Still don't see the federal crime here.
                    Here:

                    Longtime Arizona assistant basketball coach Emanuel "Book" Richardson was released from federal custody on a $50,000 bond Tuesday following his arrest as part of a federal corruption scheme.

                    Richardson appeared in U.S. District Court in Tucson on charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, solicitation of bribes by an agent of a federally funded organization, conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, wire fraud conspiracy and travel act conspiracy.

                    If convicted, Richardson is facing a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison and a $1.5 million fine, court officials said.

                    1. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

                      Here is a legal analysis.

                    2. CE   8 years ago

                      So basically, no real crime.

            2. CE   8 years ago

              Still don't see the crime here. Who is the victim? Shouldn't the Justice Dept be focusing on reducing crime in Chicago, instead of going after crooked college hoops coaches and sleazy shoe companies and agents?

        2. Rhywun   8 years ago

          It's like "suddenly discovering" that a Hollywood mogul is a sleazebag.

  3. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.

    Maine, you dawg.

  4. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    President Trump has been threatening cable news media on Twitter for about 24 hours now.

    Doesn't he see they need each other?

    1. Longtobefree   8 years ago

      Or maybe he is specifying network news, which does have to bow to federal pressures.

      1. Brandybuck   8 years ago

        "We have to have a broadcast news cartel otherwise laissez faire, and you don't want laissez faire!"

  5. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    Goddammit, ENB.

    1. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

      I don't get in to work until 10, so I'm in favor of this lynx movement. Use your considerable influence and make this the new normal, Liz!

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        Fuck that. What am i supposed to do for an hour after i get into the office? Work?

        1. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

          Just zone out for about an hour. Stare at your desk, it'll look like you're working.

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            I'd rather complain about the lack of links in the comments of whatever the last posted thread was.

            1. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

              Second to last.

          2. Brandybuck   8 years ago

            The trick is a perl script that pretends to be code in the editor, but is really just sucking down random snippets from CPAN...

            As long as you don't slump over or start snoring, they'll never notice your eyes are closed.

        2. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

          You can research how tribes got their names.

  6. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.

    He hopes to supplement his Bernie Bros with some Bernie Hos?

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      It's sexist, but it's about social justice.

      1. CE   8 years ago

        Yeah, do they really need an old white man telling them how to fix things?

    2. Episteme   8 years ago

      Bernie will come out as a lady so "she" can lead the party going into 2020?

  7. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    So, shreek is a rape apologist, in case anyone was unaware that he is a piece of shit.

    1. Aloysious   8 years ago

      I'm just tickled that shrike is talking about Weiners.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        If you're tickled by shreek's weiners, you're gonna need a police report and probably some antibiotics.

        1. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

          He has multiple? Is he a reptilian?

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            Well, he has access to multiple.

          2. BestUsedCarSales   8 years ago

            He has many. His genitals look like a sea anemone.

  8. Aloysious   8 years ago

    A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.

    You know who else has a mysterious hole?

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Harvey Weinstein, and he'd like to show it to you?

      1. Aloysious   8 years ago

        eeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

    2. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

      This stall?

    3. DJF   8 years ago

      Maybe Maine is trying to get a head start on winter so they stole the ice and dropped it on Maine?

      1. sarcasmic   8 years ago

        Nope.

    4. DEATFBIRSECIA   8 years ago

      JFK?

  9. Jerryskids   8 years ago

    Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.

    When is Condi Rice scheduled to speak?

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      When the sun rises in the west and sets in the east. When the seas go dry and mountains blow in the wind like leaves.

    2. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

      When her girlfriend, Ms. Beans, is done with her.

  10. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    ...ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in a case involving anti-Trump protest organizers.

    What ethnicity is this judge???

  11. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

    No Harvey Weinstein links?

    WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING A SERIAL RAPIST, ENB?

    1. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

      Oh boy.

    2. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

      Follow the Links trail. That's why they were late. Weinstein's people called the Koch people who called Gillespie who called to wake up ENB to say if she ever got around to posting Links make sure remove any Weinstein links.

      1. Horatio   8 years ago

        WAKE UP SHEEPLE!

    3. Square = Circle   8 years ago

      No Harvey Weinstein links?

      WHY ARE YOU DEFENDING A SERIAL RAPIST, ENB?

      You rubbed shit all over yourself yesterday. Own it and stop being such a whiny bitch.

    4. Red Rocks White Privilege   8 years ago

      If what I did to you yesterday was a crime, I'd be getting life in prison.

  12. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    The Donald bloviates. The hypersensitive lefty media overreacts. It's like the media are a clowder of cats and the Donald has a laser-pointer.

    1. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

      lol he just bloviating

    2. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

      You just made Citizen X go "awwww" and now he loves the media.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        You can make them run into a wall!

        1. BestUsedCarSales   8 years ago

          I had a dream last night where I had to watch after Trump. He kept pushing his way into random people's houses until he found a kitten to play with.

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            Are you sure you weren't just watching C-SPAN?

            1. BestUsedCarSales   8 years ago

              Jesus, no. What do you take me for?

              1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

                People do weird things on Ambien, especially when they wash eight of them down with sizzurp.

    3. colorblindkid   8 years ago

      I don't know if it's just because of incompetence and the fact that he has no idea how things work, but so far Trump has actually used less actual government force to suppress information or intimidate the press. He just blabbers and says insane things and screams fake news, but it's not like he's actually shutting down papers or labeling journalists co-conspirators for espionage or wiretapping AP phone records. Is it an actual strategy by Trump? I doubt it. He probably does want to do all those things, but doesn't know how, and everybody around him would prevent it from happening anyway.

      1. Horatio   8 years ago

        The strategy is much like his predecessor: a never ending campaign. In Trump's case that means pointing out how awful the news is to him so his base doesn't look too hard at his day-to-day operations. So long as Trumpkins can say "look how mean everyone is to him!" then he's golden.

      2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Trump is distracting children with his tweets. The media falls for it every time, just like a child.

      3. Brandybuck   8 years ago

        He's too incompetent to actually do gub'ment things. Which is actually working.

        I now have a theory that Europe was deliberately inbreeding their royalty for the same reason.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          Some of those later Hapsburgs were hard to look at.

  13. Jerryskids   8 years ago

    The deep water in that part of the Southern Ocean is warmer and saltier than the surface water. Ocean currents bring the warmer water upwards, where it melts the blankets of ice that had formed on the ocean's surface. That melting created the polynya.

    Since the hole continually exposes the water to the atmosphere above, it is difficult for new ice layers to form. When the warmer water cools, on contact with the frigid temperatures in the atmosphere, it sinks. Then it reheats in deeper areas, allowing the cycle to continue.

    Mystery solved!

    1. BYODB   8 years ago


      Known as a polynya, this year's hole was about 30,000 square miles at its largest, making it the biggest polynya observed in Antarctica's Weddell Sea since the 1970s.

      So, not anthropogenic climate change after all?

  14. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.

    The start to every Stephen King book.

    1. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      You have forgotten the face of your father.

      1. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

        Problematic!

    2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      And where most of King's horrible filler stories should be dropped.

  15. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    Former Senior Advisor to President Obama: What to Bring to the Gun Fight

    The interpretation of the Second Amendment that prevails on the far right today was reverse-engineered to pander to fantasists. If it takes hold nearly all gun regulations will eventually be overturned, and once Democrats resign themselves to that interpretation, the fight will be over. That's not what the Second Amendment imagines, and it is clearly not what the founders intended, but it is where the political fight over guns is taking us. (As an aside, what the founders likely did intend has become outmoded. The Second Amendment is in many ways an anachronism, framed before the age of drones and cruise missiles, when a well-armed civilian militia have actually been capable of turning back a foreign invasion. Times change. This is not Red Dawn. You are not Patrick Swayze. Chill out.)

    The entire piece is almost worse than Palin's Buttplug.

    1. Unlabelable MJGreen   8 years ago

      This is why the US swiftly pacified Afghanistan and Iraq. Drones and cruise missiles destroy all resistance.

      1. BYODB   8 years ago

        Not to mention that American's are much more likely to realize that a drone can simply be jammed which basically 'kills' the pilot. Oops.

        My understanding is that when this happens they autopilot back to a base, but they won't be shooting any missiles in such a scenario. It's why we only use them on goat herders.

    2. MP   8 years ago

      That's not what the Second Amendment imagines, and it is clearly not what the founders intended, but it is where the political fight over guns is taking us.

      Clearly. It's so fucking obvious that I don't even have to spend one word substantiating that. Stupid far right fantasists.

    3. sarcasmic   8 years ago

      WOLVERINES!!!

    4. Bubba Jones   8 years ago

      So he admits that the 2nd amendment was intended as a check on federal power.

      And therefore we need more firepower, not less.

    5. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      What, is C Thomas Howell chopped liver?

      1. Horatio   8 years ago

        AHEM...Charlie Motherfucking Sheen?

    6. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      If you start from the assumption that almost all of your fellow human beings are thoughtless, amoral, entirely reactive sheep, this article starts to make sense.

    7. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      "The interpretation of the Second Amendment that prevails on the far right today was reverse-engineered to pander to fantasists."
      Speaking of pandering to fantasists... lefty fantasists.

      Always look to motives. Why would Americans want guns and why would socialists not want Americans to have guns?

    8. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

      That's not what the Second Amendment imagines, and it is clearly not what the founders intended

      Uh uh...

      Also, never-mind the multitude of comments made by the founders that directly contradict this a-hole.

      1. Red Rocks White Privilege   8 years ago

        So-called "students of history" are typically anything but.

    9. CE   8 years ago

      The Second Amendment is in many ways an anachronism, framed before the age of drones and cruise missiles, when a well-armed civilian militia have actually been capable of turning back a foreign invasion...

      Yeah, that could never happen now. Think Afghanistan was easy to occupy? Try Montana and Wyoming.

      The well armed citizenry doesn't have to defeat the invading army in open battle, it just has to make the occupation too costly in day to day loss of life and politically unpopular back in the invading country.

  16. Fist of Etiquette   8 years ago

    With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!
    ? Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2017

    Since there's no way this is happening, I consider all of this harmless fun.

  17. Longtobefree   8 years ago

    Or maybe he is specifying network news, which does have to bow to federal pressures.

  18. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    Twitter suspended Rose McGowan after she told Ben Affleck to "fuck off"

    O. Em. Gee.

    1. MP   8 years ago

      It's repulsive how many people accept that it's OK to have the content platform provider filtering content based on "community standards".

      1. Red Rocks White Privilege   8 years ago

        Not to mention that she actually managed to shame Affleck into an apology, and every time people see him now, they're going to think "rape enabler." Twitter ought to be giving her a damn medal, not suspending her account.

        1. BYODB   8 years ago

          No shit, but Twitter is for twits. Never forget that.

  19. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    Tiny, Transparent Worm Challenges Notions About Sex

    Abstinence may have found its most impressive poster child yet: Diploscapter pachys. The tiny worm is transparent, smaller than a poppy seed and hasn't had sex in 18 million years.

    It's basically just been cloning itself this whole time. Usually, that's a solid strategy for going extinct, fast. What's its secret?

    "Scientists have been trying to understand how some animals can survive for millions of years without sex, because such strict, long-term abstinence is very rare in the animal world," says David Fitch, a biologist at New York University. Most plants and animals use sex to reproduce.

    As he and his colleagues report in the recent issue of Current Biology, this seemingly unimpressive roundworm seems to have developed a different way of copying its genes ? one that leads to just enough mutations to give the worms room to adapt, but not enough to cause crippling defects.

    It's going to be a doll-fucking future.

    1. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

      Phrasing, Crusty. Do you want us to think you have an American Doll credit card?

      1. Chipper Morning, Mean Girl   8 years ago

        Jesus, that reads horribly. Sorry, Crusty. Did not mean to imply you had OMWC tastes.

  20. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention

    "A pink pussy hat is a right!"

    1. Bubba Jones   8 years ago

      Why do you need more than one type of hat?

      1. Brandybuck   8 years ago

        More than one kind of pink pussy hat is wasteful.

  21. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.

    Universities and their shoes, yanno? It's like get a room already. Oh wait, you did, you have a whole closet for 'em. This guy knows what I'm talking about.

  22. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    Foiled in Congress, Trump Moves on His Own to Undermine Obamacare

    President Trump, after failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act in Congress, will act on his own to relax health care standards on small businesses that band together to buy health insurance and may take steps to allow the sale of other health plans that skirt the health law's requirements.

    The president plans to sign an executive order "to promote health care choice and competition" on Thursday at a White House event attended by small-business owners and others.

    Interesting. I aim to believe that his administration is too inept to actually accomplish something like this. Also, now he can't blame Congress for when something goes wrong.

    1. Horatio   8 years ago

      Considering how much of O-care was "fixed" via executive orders this was inevitable. And didn't the Donald say that the R's plan was too cruel and heartless or something to that effect?

      1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Cruel and heartless plays second fiddle to Trump literally being Hitler.

  23. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    The Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)

    Leave them before they leave you. Trump's not getting burned like he did on the manufacturing council again.

  24. Bee Tagger   8 years ago

    President Trump has been threatening news media on Twitter for about 24 hours now.

    I dont think Twitter should ban Trump, but if they did... I am fascinated at what might happen.

    1. Bubba Jones   8 years ago

      Twitter would die.

      1. KDN   8 years ago

        Good riddance.

    2. Conchfritters   8 years ago

      The rating would go in the toilet.

    3. Mike Laursen   8 years ago

      Their monthly AWS bill would go way down?

  25. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    The Trump administration has announced that the U.S. will pull out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), citing "anti-Israel bias."

    A man can dream. Also, I guess he doesn't 'fucking love science'. Bill Nye the used-to-be-maybe-a-science-enthusiast-guy haz a sad.

    1. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

      Science is a liberal hoax to rednecks.

      1. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

        It's also a hoax to people who think there are more than two sexes/genders, and people that think carbon dioxide is a "pollutant"...

        And sure, those "rednecks" that grow all your food are completely illiterate in the world of agricultural science, animal husbandry, etc.

        1. Tony   8 years ago

          Fucking sheep doesn't make you a scientist.

          1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

            Apparently fucking bears doesn't make you a scientist either.

      2. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

        Seeing how many liberals don't even follow the correct application of scientific method, it is a joke.

        Liberals use what they think scientific method is to say science proved them right. Unfortunately for lefties, they don't learn from history nor scientific method to obtain a firm grasp on reality.

        Example is socialism. Its does not work. Never has and there is zero observable empirical evidence to show that it does. Yet, lefties keep trying to force everyone to embrace socialism.

        1. sarcasmic   8 years ago

          Intentions. Socialism is based upon good intentions. If you say it won't work then you disagree with the good intentions, and that makes you a bad person with bad intentions. Nobody cares what bad people with bad intentions have to say about anything.

        2. Tony   8 years ago

          You are so painfully confused it's almost cute.

      3. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

        Every time I see a pretty picture of some stars, I think "Man, I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE!"

        Someone with a big telescope took those pictures so obviously science.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          I heard someone say once that the site should really change its name to "I Fucking Love Looking at Pictures of Natural Phenomena."

          1. $park? leftist poser   8 years ago

            Since those pictures were taken with science and posted on an internet made of science it seems fair enough to just use a short name.

        2. John   8 years ago

          Sparky,

          Everyone loves science sexually. Science is such a tramp.

      4. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

        Science is a liberal hoax to rednecks.

        Like rape is to you, stupid.

  26. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    The FBI is investigating the University of Kansas' relationship with Adidas.

    The Federal Bureau of Investigation, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, told the Kansan on Wednesday that it has documents related to the University of Kansas and its sponsorship with the Adidas apparel company, but cannot release them due to an ongoing legal investigation.

    The big news is that the FBI answered a FOIA request.

    I am related to a high profile NCAA basketball coach, and it's been fun speculating to my relatives that he is next, but he actually could be next. Man oh man.

    1. Eek Barba Durkle   8 years ago

      I hope your last name is Calipari.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        Close. Crusty's last name is Caligari.

        1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          You misspelled "Caligula".

          1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

            Uncultured heathen.

            1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

              Silent films freak me out.

              But you're right about the heathen part.

      2. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

        I wish! I would also doubt he gets caught, because he cheats the right way.

        Respect.

  27. Palin's Buttplug   8 years ago

    The global upswing in economic activity is strengthening, with global growth projected to rise to 3.6 percent in 2017 and 3.7 percent in 2018.

    https://goo.gl/xKULMa

    Orange Fucking Moron immediately takes credit.

    1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

      Why not? Obama took credit for "his" economy.

      Presidents get the credit and blame for the US economy when they really don't have much to do with it. Congress affects the economy more than a president does.

      On that note, Trump is rolling back government regulation that will improve the economy so he deserves a tiny bit of credit. Just like Obama helped weigh down the economy with his TARP bailouts and deserves the blame for the Great Recession lasting years longer than it had to.

      It will nice to finally get out the Great Recession after 8 years of Obama. FDR kept the US in the Great Depression until WWII the economy going.

      1. colorblindkid   8 years ago

        Yeah, put this in the "something that always happens and any president would do but now it's bad cuz Trump" category.

        1. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

          Media strategy 101 since Nov. 6, 2016....

  28. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    I'm re-posting this: How Top NBC Executives Quashed The Bombshell Harvey Weinstein Story

    interviews with 12 people inside and outside NBC News with direct knowledge of the reporting behind Farrow's story suggest a different cause of death. All of the sources who spoke to HuffPost asked not to be named, either because they weren't authorized to speak to the media about the story or because they were fearful of retribution from NBC News executives. These sources detailed a months-long struggle within NBC News during which Oppenheim and other executives slow-walked Farrow's story, crippling it with their qualms and irresolution.

    Mia Farrow's creepy-looking son has a sac his maybe father Frank Sinatra would be proud of.

    1. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

      Toward the end, the concerns seemed to take on a personal tone, and it became difficult to tell where the Weinstein team's attempts to discredit the story left off and NBC News' editorial forbearance began. According to multiple sources inside and outside of NBC News who worked on the aborted story, Oppenheim related to Farrow what Weinstein's lawyers had said in complaint to NBC: that Farrow had a conflict of interest because Weinstein had helped revive the career of Farrow's estranged father, director Woody Allen. Weinstein's representatives would later use a similar line of attack when the story landed at The New Yorker. The magazine, known for its rigorous vetting process, saw no conflict of interest.

    2. John   8 years ago

      The fact that he turned out to have some balls leaves no doubt that Sinatra must be his father.

    3. Red Rocks White Privilege   8 years ago

      I love that he threw them under the bus and Maddow helped him do it.

      Ideally, given that everyone important is abandoning him, I'm hoping Weinstein completely loses his shit and promises the Feds that he'll give up the dirt on every rapist and pedophile in the business that he knows in exchange for some form of immunity. It would be poetic justice that Hollywood's perverse toxic culture of virtue-signaling and moral degeneracy was brought down by one of its own as a final "fuck you" to everyone who wouldn't stay loyal.

      1. BYODB   8 years ago

        Nah, he just fled the country. Classic.

  29. Bubba Jones   8 years ago

    Solution: don't use twitter.

  30. Rebel Scum   8 years ago

    A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.

    Something something your moms nickname in college.

  31. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

    "The government ... does not have the right to rummage through the information contained on DreamHost's website and discover the identity of, or access communications by, individuals not participating in alleged criminal activity, particularly those persons who were engaging in protected First Amendment activities," ruled D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin in a case involving anti-Trump protest organizers.
    But the government can violate the 4th Amendment to spy on Americans because "terrorism", said D.C. Superior Court Judge Robert Morin.

    At least he is standing up for 1st Amendment rights.

  32. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

    Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.
    Nothing says women power like an old white Jewish socialist man speaking about how he knows what its like.

  33. loveconstitution1789   8 years ago

    A "mysterious hole as big as the state of Maine" has appeared in Antarctica.
    How else do you think Lake Freeze My Balls Off would be created?

  34. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

    Sen. Bernie Sanders will be the first speaker at a women's convention organized by the same group that organized the inauguration-weekend Women's March.

    Is he going to read from his essay about how all women really fantasize about being gang-raped?

    1. Horatio   8 years ago

      Look, when Bernie sees people lining up for something he assumes whatever they're queuing for has been fairly distributed.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        It's how you know the economy is healthy!

        1. Horatio   8 years ago

          In capitalist countries only the rich get to rape woman and the poor are left with nothing! RAPE IS A HUMAN RIGHT!!

          1. John   8 years ago

            You think you are kidding. But if you look at the left's reaction to things like Ratherham and the rampaging Rapugees in Germany and Sweden and they actually seem to believe that.

      2. John   8 years ago

        Bernie thinks natural wealth and beauty of women needs to be fairly distributed by the state just like all other forms of wealth. Socialist sex is the most fair sex.

    2. Tony   8 years ago

      How ironic that he and Ayn Rand share that view.

      1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

        I know, right? I bet they hooked up back in the '70s and it was nasty.

        1. John   8 years ago

          If you are a really dedicated and connected Objectivist, I am told they let you see the sex tape of that. It is said to be mindblowing.

      2. Horatio   8 years ago

        Oh yeah, Ayn definitely liked the rough ride.

        1. John   8 years ago

          It is always the quiet bookish ones who turn out to be the freakiest.

  35. Crusty Juggler   8 years ago

    Bernie Sanders always looks like he is farting.

    1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

      Then he opens his mouth and it is confirmed.

  36. Tony   8 years ago

    So Bernie Sanders is crashing has gone from crashing political parties to crashing an entire gender?

  37. Domestic Dissident   8 years ago

    Block Yomomma to campaign for Ralph Northam in Virginia gubernatorial race.

    1. John   8 years ago

      So I guess we can say hello to Governor Gillespie. Has Obama ever campaigned for a winning Candidate? The guy really has an amazing reverse Midas Touch.

      1. BYODB   8 years ago

        I'll note that Mark Levin is stumping for the Republican, or at least talking him up, and frankly I'd bet on the Jewish Gnome being more effective than Obama at this point.

        1. Citizen X - #6   8 years ago

          So, what you're saying is Cliff Hyra has a chance?

          1. BYODB   8 years ago

            Nope, not a snowballs chance in hell. =/

  38. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   8 years ago

    Trump Threatens to Censor Cable News

    If this is what it takes to get liberals back on board with the First Amendment, maybe this is a good thing.

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