Trump to Designate North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism, DOJ to Sue Over Proposed AT&T/Time Warner Merger, Della Reese Dead: P.M. Links

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  President Trump announced he would once again designate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism.

• The Department of Justice will reportedly sue to keep AT&T from buying Time Warner.
• A woman has accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of grabbing her buttocks while posing for a photo at the state fair in 2010.
• The New York Times suspended White House correspondent Glenn Thrush while investigating claims made against him of sexual misconduct.
• Apple's diversity chief, Denise Smith, has left her job after an outcry over comments suggesting being a minority or a woman were not the only qualifications for diversity.
• Argentina is looking for a missing submarine.
• R&B singer Della Reese has died, aged 86.

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[Fist of Etiquette]

President Trump announced he would once again designate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism.

And also fat.

[Rufus The Monocled]

Hello.

"A woman has accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of grabbing her buttocks while posing for a photo at the state fair in 2010."

Meh. A girl pinched my ass once.

Al Frankenrape!

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Time to call for Nancy Pelosi to step down.

[Zeb]

I suppose it's a person's right to complain about any unwanted physical contact. But this is getting silly.

I've had my ass pinched by men, women, goats. No harm done.

And if Al Franken pinches your butt and you don't like it, fucking say something, don't wait for 10 years until all the cool people are doing it.

With all of this sexual harassment/assault stuff coming out, I have to ask, why the hell did all of these people wait until now? If the first person Harvey Weinstein tried to trade a movie role for sex with went public with it, his years of creepy bullshit might not have happened. It's not as if that kind of thing was socially acceptable 25 years ago.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Goats? Go on...

[Zeb]

Fucker tried to eat my back pocket. Goats are trouble.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Goats are trouble.

...Until you get them near that cliff ...

[Palin's Buttplug]

The Peanuts will call you a "rape apologist" any minute now.

[Rufus The Monocled]

No. His point was cogent.

[Jimbo]

Well MY point is solid steal!

[The Judge]

Hmmm....

The pandering to and attempts to gain the agreement of an audience that you constantly insult doesn't really work, and is kind of sad. It comes off as needy and clingy, in a weird bipolar sort of way.

2/10

[sharmota4zeb]

Yes, when accusations pile up many years after the alleged events, it looks more like an attempt to get on the bandwagon.

[John]

It is getting very silly Zeb. But it is hard to have much sympathy for Franken when you know he would be up in arms demanding the guy resign if this were a Republican.

[Zeb]

Yeah, Franken is a hypocritical douche, I'm sure. I have little or no sympathy for him or anyone else involved in politics.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It's not as if that kind of thing was socially acceptable 25 years ago.

I believe it may have been swept under the rug more.

[Zeb]

That is evidently true. But if someone had made some noise about it, I suspect things would have gone differently for old Harvey and other men of his ilk.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Who makes noise to whom? As I recall, as recently as this year NBC pulled a story on allegations against Weinstein. The guy pulls a lotta water in this town. Pretty, no-name actresses and assistants don't pull shit.

And considering he's settled with a number of accusers over the years, so often that it became part of his contract, we can't say they were silent. I get and agree with your general point, but as a practical matter, it's too easy to judge what so-and-so ought to have done. Especially if we're talking before social media, or even before the internet was widely used. What should the assistant that won a settlement in 1990 have done? Rush the stage at the Oscars and say, "Harvey Weinstein jacked off into a plant right in front of me!" Until you have a platform like Judd or McGowan, it's difficult to make any impact publicly. Gossip and a payout might be the best you can hope for. It's certainly less risky.

[mad.casual]

With all of this sexual harassment/assault stuff coming out, I have to ask, why the hell did all of these people wait until now? If the first person Harvey Weinstein tried to trade a movie role for sex with went public with it, his years of creepy bullshit might not have happened. It's not as if that kind of thing was socially acceptable 25 years ago.

The part that boggles my mind is that it's apparently been rumor for the better part of a couple decades and *nobody* said anything. That means that at least half-a-dozen women heard the rumor, got molested (or men and women were an accessory to rape), *and allowed it to happen again*. Seth McFarlane makes an off-hand joke with zero first hand knowledge and he gets pilloried for it.

[Zeb]

I suspect that's part of why people are making such a big thing of it now. Lots of people knew what was happning for years and were basically complicit in covering it up. So now they need to make it all about the big bad men (who are undoubtedly bad men) and not about the big wall of silence that surrounded it all.

[The Last American Hero]

The funny part is the last year's worth of awards speeches centered around The Donald and his comments about how easy it is for rich celebrities to get laid, or if you took his comments literally, think he admitted to committing sexual assault. And they centered around this revelation knowing full well what a cesspool Hollywood is, and knowing who, specifically, are the worst offenders.

[Kandralla]

Well, in some of these cases people did talk and no one listened. Courtney Love and Rosanne Barr both publicly called out Weinstein and Louis CK respectively both several years ago.... people were still shocked to find out this was happening for some reason. If no one is listening or everyone would rather just ignore it and hope it goes away (and honestly, I think that's a significant part of a lot of this sexual stuff... like no one wants to imagine Charlie Rose standing naked in a room) and you have a lot to lose if people don't back you up, you're not going to keep pushing the issue.

[Brandybuck]

Young kids do stupid things. For some reason people expect their actors, senators, newscasters, etc., to never have been stupid kids. Screw that, this is reality.

HOWEVER, that's still not an excuse for being stupid as a kid. The problem with Weinstein/Weiner was a pattern of indiscretion lasting until well until middle-aged-hood. The problem with Moore was being a creepy 30 year old chasing after and diddling 13 year olds. The problem with Stuart Smalley is genuine, by golly, old fashioned hypocrisy. Someone calls you out, and you know you did it, the least you can do is come out and admit it.

I've pinched butts of the fairer sex when I was young and stupid. I stopped after one of the fairer sex slapped my face into next week. I'm not in the senate though, but if I were and she came forward and accused me of pinching her butt, I would admit, and I would apologize. The problem is that none of these people (except Stuart Smalley, who was caught dead to rights) admits it or apologizes. That's the least I expect from members of the ruling class and their Hollywood and media cheerleaders who think they can run my life better than I can run it myself.

[John C. Randolph]

why the hell did all of these people wait until now?

I think it's rather like the fall of communism. A lot of people were afraid to speak up until they saw a bunch of other people doing so.

-jcr

[Juice]

And ronery. (._.)

[John C. Randolph]

I will give credit where credit is due. The Nork government has always supported terrorism, and it was mealy-mouthed and cowardly to ever pretend otherwise. So, point to Trump for admitting the obvious once again.

-jcr

[Fist of Etiquette]

A woman has accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of grabbing her buttocks while posing for a photo at the state fair in 2010.

He's still just as funny as before though, right?

[Citizen X - #6]

Yep.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

"Trump to Designate North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism"
Jihadi kim

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Crusty, don't buy any sex dolls from North Korea. For several reasons, actually.

[Citizen X - #6]

Give North Korea's known technology level and respect for human rights, a Nork sex doll is almost certainly a lobotomized political prisoner.

[Juice]

Never buy. Only rent.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The New York Times suspended White House correspondent Glenn Thrush while investigating claims made against him of sexual misconduct.

Good. The White House is no place for abusers.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

SNL needs to have a skit where the actor who plays him in their press briefing scenes is dragged away by Melissa Mccarthy's scooter-podium.

[CE]

They already fired that guy.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Then hire some other fat dude for it. (Thrush was the fat one, right?)

[Episteme]

He's the one with the fedora (surprise, he's a creep!).

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

That doesn't...

{pauses, uncertainly puts on sunglasses}

...*narrow* it down.

[Eidde]

"Argentina is looking for a missing submarine."

Tomas Clancia is on it.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Apple's diversity chief, Denise Smith, has left her job after an outcry over comments suggesting being a minority or a woman were not the only qualifications for diversity.

There can be no diversity of thought on this subject.

[Jimbo]

Dude #1: "Hey, did you see what Denise wrote? That diversity isn't defined by the color of your skin?!"
Dude #2: "Great! Now we can fire her and replace her with a white woman."

[Bra Ket]

Her only job was to keep the SJW hordes off of apple's back.

[John C. Randolph]

I thought that was Al Gore's job. If he can't handle it, then as a shareholder, I want the company to quit paying him millions in cash and stock for being a director.

-jcr

[GamerFromJump]

Apple's diversity chief, Denise Smith, has left her job after an outcry over comments suggesting being a minority or a woman were not the only qualifications for diversity committing an act of thoughtcrime.

Fixed.

[Citizen X - #6]

President Trump announced he would once again designate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism.

It is sure to be effective this time!

[Palin's Buttplug]

President Trump announced he would once again designate North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism.

That'll teach those commies. You don't fuck with The Donald or he will fire your ass.

[Eidde]

"A woman has accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of grabbing her buttocks while posing for a photo at the state fair in 2010."

"Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it...

[BestUsedCarSales]

Perhaps more appropriate

[Fist of Etiquette]

Argentina is looking for a missing submarine.

Maybe it defected to the Falklands.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Oh no you dinnt!

[Eidde]

What islands are you talking about?

[Unicorn Abattoir]

R&B singer Della Reese has died, aged 86.

*Pours Della Reese's Pieces on ground.

[$park? leftist poser]

R&B singer Della Reese has died, aged 86.

Was she missing a pinky toe?

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

More of an ashy toe.

[Citizen X - #6]

Argentina is looking for a missing submarine.

Too bad. It's being chopped in a garage in Uruguay at this very moment.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Hopefully, no Swedish journalists were aboard.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

I never agree with that sentence in any context.

[Hank Stamper]

Della Reese will be suing Gabrielle for inappropriate touching when she gets to Heaven.

#MeToo

[Eidde]

Interesting how Smalley-gate is covered by the media in terms of "OMG Trump denounced a Democratic scandal without denouncing a Republican scandal!"

[Citizen X - #6]

It's not THAT interesting.

[Eidde]

I was attempting what you earthlings call sarcasm, apparently I still need to become more skilled in your earth ways.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Don't let Crusty "take you under his wing"

[Eidde]

Hey, that's not a wing!

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Crusty's wing is a rather loose-skinned scrotum.

[Ska]

That he can use it as a glider is the important, and impressive, thing to remember.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

When a sudden shadow appears overhead, it's already too late.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Already too late... *for the bad guys*.

[Citizen X - #6]

+1 Pom Poko

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

[Drums belly and displays "raccoon pouch"]

[TW]

Well in fairness Franken has pretty much admitted that the charges are true and was dumb enough to photograph himself committing the assault whereas in Moore's case, he's denied the charges and lucked out that the second accuser had the misfortune of picking Gloria Allred as an attorney.

[Palin's Buttplug]

You think Moore would admit to being the pedophile he is?

Your false equivalence is idiotic.

[Bra Ket]

And denying their guilt is exactly what a guilty person would do.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Lena Dunham, well known racist, gets xer just comeuppance.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

After Girls writer and executive producer Murray Miller was accused of sexual assault by actress Aurora Perrineau, Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner issued a statement in support of their long-time co-worker, describing Perrineau's accusation as "one of the 3 percent of assault cases that are misreported every year."

So much wrong here. First off, numbers are weapons of the patriarchy.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

This prompted such outrage that Dunham and Konner issued a second statement apologizing for the first, and saying, "We regret this decision with every fiber of our being."

I'll bet they do.

[Ska]

Excellent, let's continue with Banal Platitudes for $400, Alex.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

I am shocked, SHOCKED to find racists among hardcore progressives.

[Eidde]

Daily Affirmations, by Stuart Smalley

[Pro Libertate]

You know, Oumuamua is looking a lot like a spacecraft. What if it is?

[Hank Stamper]

Rendezvous with Rama?

[Pro Libertate]

Only if it slows down.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Can't be any worse than a Rendezvous With Yomamma.

[Citizen X - #6]

Crash it into Venus and see what comes out?

[Pro Libertate]

Actually, I think we should nuke Venus regularly, just to see what happens.

[Zeb]

Yes, I agree with this.

I also think that we should start bombarding Mars with every kind of microbe we can find. Maybe something will stick and when we finally get around to sending some people there in a few hundred years there might be something there to eat.

[Citizen X - #6]

"Cyanobacteria again? You know what, i'm not hungry after all."

[Pro Libertate]

Pigs. Mutated to live on Mars.

[Juice]

Not spiders?

[Pro Libertate]

Nobody wants pulled spider.

[Chinny Chin Chin]

Just tell everyone it's lobster. People have no issue eating ocean spiders.

[Pro Libertate]

Look, I said GMO pigs. That lay eggs.

[Episteme]

Eggs and bacon in one convenient package?

[The Last American Hero]

Do those microbes breed an ionosphere?

[Zeb]

Maybe, who knows?

My semi-serious point is that if people are ever going to teraform anyplace, might as well start trying. It's not going to happen overnight.

[BestUsedCarSales]

I've been seeding the cosmos since I was 11 years old or so. We all do what we can.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

NO SPOILERS

[Pro Libertate]

Could be Col. Taylor's ship coming back from, I dunno, some kind of Planet of the Apes. With some apes.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Better than crashing it into Uranus.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Crash it into Venus

Really?

/Uranus

[Fist of Etiquette]

Ready the humpbacks.

[Pro Libertate]

I saw an artist's rendering of the craft/comet/asteroid. Looks a little like the whale ship.

[Pro Libertate]

Crap, it also looks like the Doomsday Machine.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard."

[The Last American Hero]

Then you may want to move if your address is on Macross Island.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Influx Of Puerto Ricans To Orlando Could Change The State's Political Landscape

Already, approximately 168,000 Puerto Ricans have flown into Florida to land in cities like Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Half of those arrivals usually migrate to Orlando, a city that has seen its Puerto Rican population reach over 1 million since 2000.

MAGA!

http://dailycaller.com/2017/11.....landscape/

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

They're trying to get the hell away from that minimum wage.

[The Judge]

Hmmm....

Not really sure what you're going for here, seems like sarcasm? But mofongo is delicious and would signifcantly contirbute to an increase in American greatness.

3/10

[Libertarian]

Shiploads of money over the decades turned PR into a horrendous non-functioning economic dependent. No one could have predicted this.

[sharmota4zeb]

I don't think I trust the Daily Caller after they got rid of Milo.

[Bearded Spock]

Why do people always assume minorities are going to monolithically vote for Democrats? There are plenty of Republicans in PR and I think they would be the ones most likely to flee the Worker's Paradise.

In any case, despite the Media predictions FL is going to become the next Virginia Republicans have carried the state in three of the past five presidential elections.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Batshit crazy Judge Jeanine of Fox News busted for driving 119 mph in New York.

https://goo.gl/jQnk47

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Who was she groping at the time? We only accept groping stories, Shrike.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Maybe Bill O'Reilly was giving her The Shocker.

[True Scottsman]

That would do it.

[Palin's Buttplug]

see below

Charlie Rose has now been fingered by the anti-gropers.

[Bearded Spock]

Ahem...phrasing.

[Libertarian]

Speeding. Yet another victimless crime.

[Juice]

Texas woman killed after non-impaired driver taking breathalyzer test hits her

A Texas woman died Friday afternoon after being hit by a non-impaired driver who was taking a breathalyzer test while operating his vehicle.

The ignition interlock device prevents a vehicle from starting if the driver is found to have been drinking.

But, what's left out of the article, apparently this device also requires that you blow into it every ten minutes, even while driving, because you might try to fool the device and safety is our Number 1 Priority.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Must be fun to have the device shut the engine off while barreling down the highway if you don't take or pass the test.

[Juice]

According to wikipedia:

At random times after the engine has been started, the IID will require another breath sample. The purpose of this is to prevent someone other than the driver from providing a breath sample. If the breath sample isn't provided, or the sample exceeds the ignition interlock's preset blood alcohol level, the device will log the event, warn the driver, and then start up an alarm (e.g., lights flashing, horn honking) until the ignition is turned off, or a clean breath sample has been provided. A common misconception is that interlock devices will simply turn off the engine if alcohol is detected; this would, however, create an unsafe driving situation and expose interlock manufacturers to considerable liability.

Causing an unsafe driving condition by requiring that a driver blow into a tube while driving doesn't create liability for some reason. Nor does a car driving down the road with all its lights flashing and its horn honking create liability. ?\_(?)_/?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Of course I didn't actually believe it would just shot off the engine. I was just curious what the enforcement mechanism was. I would have preferred ejecting the driver.

[BYODB]

By 'logs the event' it means you're going to Jail, so there is that.

How does that prevent a passenger from blowing it for you?

[Leo Kovalensky]

This is the only way to travel long distances.

[Chipper Morning Truthjammer]

Wait, what happens if you don't blow while driving? Does the engine shut off while you are on the interstate?

[Zeb]

Yes. And locks your brakes.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

If you're in my car and you don't blow while I'm driving, you get kicked out on the side of the road.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

Unwritten rules of the road #3

[Bearded Spock]

Do you tell hitchhikers this before or after they fasten their seat belt?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

It's on a lighted sign on my front grille as I pull up.

Come on.

[Episteme]

Ejection seat.

[Pro Libertate]

The car explodes.

[John]

That is the most idiotic thing I have ever heard. Even for the government that is unbelievable.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Apple's diversity chief, Denise Smith, has left her job after an outcry over comments suggesting being a minority or a woman were not the only qualifications for diversity.

Burn baby burn.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

She's being replaced by a white woman, no less.

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Proggie zeal is more important than skin color. Just barely.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Eight women say Charlie Rose sexually harassed them ? with nudity, groping and lewd calls

Washington Post

https://goo.gl/J41o7T

I missed out on all the good groping.

[Palin's Buttplug]

"It was quite early in working there that he put his hand on my mid-thigh," said Creydt, who agreed to be interviewed on the record to support other women who were coming forward with what she deemed to be more serious claims concerning Rose.

Very weak groping, imo.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Very Weak Groping was my nickname in daycare.

[Palin's Buttplug]

If you are going to grope go for the inner labia, I say. Fuck this "mid-thigh" weak-kneed bullshit.

[BestUsedCarSales]

It's interesting that if people here go a week without pointing out your rape apologetic, you fall back into bragging about how you commit sexual assault.

[Palin's Buttplug]

I'm pissed off because I sat out the prime groping years!

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

That's more like it. I will not rest until the Sexual Assault backlog is 5 years out. I want to see waiting lists.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Charlie stepped up his game later:

A woman then in her 30s who was at the Bellport home in 2010 to discuss a job opportunity said Rose appeared before her in an untethered bathrobe, naked underneath. She said he subsequently attempted to put his hands down her pants.

I'll be on the groper beat the rest of the week.

[Libertarian]

I can tell you one place I WON'T be, and that's in my bunk.

[Tony]

"Job opportunity" is the most overused rape bait and isn't even fair. At least the creepers I used to know would offer real services, like lawyer work or a nice meal.

[Pro Libertate]

Its it possible that some of the women are. . .no, that can't be.

[Pro Libertate]

Sorry, is it possible.

[sharmota4zeb]

I've noticed some tech innovations over the past year that might have resulted from women entering the tech sector. For example, Google tells you what you meant to type before you finish typing.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Tell me you're here all week.

It sure explains the auto-correct on my android keyboard.

[John]

http://twitter.com/markberman/.....0030540803

And now it is Charlie Rose. The smuggest man in America apparently makes up for it by being creepy. WTF is with all of these guys and walking around naked in front of strange women?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Dear Leader Trump made it cool again.

[John]

Trump never walked around naked in front of strange women. Where do you get this stuff?

[Palin's Buttplug]

Trump is the Groper-in -Chief though.

[John]

Not really. He isn't accused of doing anything in years. I am pretty his thousand yard stare eastern European wife has something to do with that.

[Bacon-Magic glib reasonoid]

She's still hawt.

[Libertarian]

Even after all these year. Such stamina.

[John]

And she looks like she would slit your throat as you sleep. She just doesn't look like a woman you would want to screw with.

[SIV]

The Secretary of the Treasury's wife looks like a woman I want to screw with.

[John]

How did that doofus get her? And Yeah, I can think of a lot of things I would like to do with her.

[SIV]

He's a near-billionaire AND a movie producer.

[Telcontar the Wanderer]

Oh, to Mn her Uchin...

[Kivlor]

It's the stare that I find most comforting... brings back memories of home.

[Rick James]

CHARLIE ROSE!

[John]

Someone needs to start a pool for which woke male media figure is next to go down.

[Pro Libertate]

The Pope.

[John]

Okay, but only if it doesn't involve little boys. That is kind of expected at this point. So it doesn't count.

[Pro Libertate]

No. Playmates. Hung out with Hugh Hefner.

[John]

Mitt Romney would be funny. It would be great to watch all of the various "values conservative" who are ready to hang Moore turn on a dime and decide that we can't make judgements without absolute proof.

[Bearded Spock]

Never gonna happen; Romney's skeletons consist of driving with a dog in its box on his car and saying the "f" word during the 2002 Olympics.

My money is on W being the next conservative to get hit with allegations. He had a real drinking problem and a rep for being an entitled asshole while he was at Yale.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Pff, when George Takei got hit, I knew this was a five alarm, hook-and-ladder fire that just has to burn itself out.

[BestUsedCarSales]

What are they going to get him on though? He's no longer in power, so they can't take him down. He's not super public as a figure. He is one of the greatest artists of our time. And he already admits to being a sinner when a young kid. He'd probably just give a heartfelt apology and ask for forgiveness. Not enough drama there.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Hell, wingnuts are still going after Bill Clinton. Dubya is fair game too.

[BestUsedCarSales]

And I'm saying I think the results would be disappointing for most. He's already admitted to being a shit as a younger person. It would be totally in line with what is already known about him and so there's no drama or impact. The HW one passed away quickly too, for similar reasons.

[Bearded Spock]

Doesn't matter; Bush is a Republican and is still considered to be Satan's Right Hand Man by most of Proggie Nation. The Media would find some woman who received a sloppy kiss from a drunken 19-year old W at a Bones party some 50 years ago and spin it as the sexual crime of the century.

Didn't Rand Paul throw some chick in a pond in college because she wouldn't worship his Aqua Buddha?

[Libertarian]

He didn't mean "go down" that way.

[Episteme]

Well, he's got a new custom papal Lamborghini for his midlife crisis...

[Half-Virtue, Half-Vice]

Musical artists and athletes have total immunity, right?

[John]

Yes. Has to be a reporter or some suit. Musicians and athletes don't count.

[John]

The speaker list at the 2020 DNC is going to be quite fun

Bill Clinton, Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, Bob Mendendez. They could have a whole evening and just call it "Goper Night".

[Palin's Buttplug]

Goper Night".

Wouldn't that be Larry 'Wide Stance' Craig, Denny "boys shower" Hastert, Roy "pedophile" Moore, and Donald Groper in Chief Trump?

[John]

WAAAAA WAAAA. Cry some more shreek. Your tears are so enjoyable.

[Palin's Buttplug]

you said "GOPer".

[John]

Okay, fair enough. Then yeah, that would work well too. Go get Hassert out of jail on a work release. It would make the whole evening gay affirming.

[Pro Libertate]

Fred Grandy. Harvard educated, Congressman. And a gopher.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Just love it when Proggies eat their own ...

"'Hipster racism' comes to the forefront after Lena Dunham controversy" Moment

[Eidde]

So...they were racists before it was cool?

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

You just linked to your gmail account inbox. Very interesting reading. Are all those models over 18?

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Well what a fucktard I am ...

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

Thank you for advising me of my error.
I hope you did enjoy my newsletter.
All models are over the age of consent in the state in which they reside.

[BestUsedCarSales]

Those Anti-Spam detection models are BARELY legal.

[Entropy Drehmaschine Void]

'Hipster racism' comes to the forefront after Lena Dunham controversy

[BestUsedCarSales]

One thing I dislike about a lot of these sex crimes thing is how they are very commonly spoken about in vague terms. I feel like it's done on purpose because it leaves more to the imaginations, which usually means people think the worst. Which means people usually think of someone beating someone over the head with a fire extinguisher than raping them while they are incapacitated.

[Juice]

Apparently that USO tour was one big game of grabass.

Leanne tweeden Grabbing Ass On-Stage Same USO Tour

[Tony]

That clip simultaneously absolves Franken of both accusations, I think.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Video has been taken down. But presuming the video was as you say it was, it now appears that both Franken and Tweeden have some answering to do.

[Juice]

Damn, it was up like 30 minutes ago.

It showed some guy on stage singing with a guitar and her dancing around on stage next to him. She butt bumps him. He grabs her ass. She grabs his ass. That was pretty much it.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Oh, and video taken down because it violates the sex and nudity policy of the Youtubez. Is that irony? I can never tell.

[Juice]

Well, there was no sex or nudity, so I'll bet someone just made a DMCA complaint. Those seem to result in just automatic take down.

[Juice]

Well, here it is again. Actually this is better quality than the other one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJidGI-NMd0

[Juice]

This page also shows a lot more of this woman.

http://bipartisanreport.com/20.....-williams/

[mad.casual]

Della Reese has died

Of course the cosmos at Reason would memorialize a no-name black female artist and completely ignore an icon of the patriarchy like Malcolm Young.

Truly marking the end of an era.

[Diane Reynolds (Paul.)]

Sexual assault roundup, 4:46pm update:

NPR's top editor, Michael Oreskes placed on administrative leave after sexual harassment complaint.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Good grope reporting!

[John]

Yes Shreek, you love you some perverts.

[Unlabelable MJGreen]

Ooh, tomorrow should be fun: FCC to seek total repeal of net neutrality rules, sources say

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai will reveal plans to his fellow commissioners on Tuesday to fully dismantle the agency's Obama-era net neutrality regulations, people familiar with the plans said, in a major victory for the telecom industry in the long-running policy debate.

Trump-appointed Pai's plan would scrap the agency's core net neutrality rules, which prohibit internet service providers like Comcast or Verizon from blocking or slowing web traffic or negotiating paid deals with websites for "fast lanes" to consumers. The FCC will vote on the change in December.

[John]

Holy Cow is Charlie Rose sick fuck.

She said she was not intoxicated ? Rose had drunk his wine and then hers at the restaurant ? but said he appeared to be. It was nearly 2 a.m. and she was exhausted, she said. She also said she felt alone and powerless. It was the middle of the night, they were on his secluded property, and she did not know how to drive.

"I started talking in this feeble and compulsive way," she said. "I started talking about power, how the abuse of power can be. He completely lost it. 'What are you talking about? That's certainly not the case.' "

She said he then tried to put a hand down her pants.

"By the time he touched me the first time, he was already very angry," she said. "I was scared, and I was also kind of frozen."

After that, her memory is "hazy," she said. They ended up in his bedroom.

[John]

"I really, honestly, I've tried so hard, especially recently, since I've been thinking about this, to try to remember what happened between sitting by the pool and being in his bed," she said. "I have no recollection of how we went from here to there. I do remember I was crying the entire time."

He reached down her pants again, she said, and she pushed his hands away. As she wept, she said, Rose asked her, "Baby, oh baby, why are you crying?"

The encounter ended when he appeared to be asleep and she felt she could leave the room, she said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....960cac35d2

[Palin's Buttplug]

How sick on a scale?

10 = teen girl/boy predator (Judge Moore or Denny Hastert)

5- ?????

2 - serial philanderer (Bill Clinton)
1- butt check while fully clothed (Franken)

[John]

Al Franken is such a great American. Nothing says great like groping women, joking about murdering homosexuals and drugging and raping Leslie Stahl.

Keep crying shreek. I can't tell you how much I am enjoying your pain over this. Yell But Trump!! Come on. Don't deprive me of the pleasure of your misery.

[Palin's Buttplug]

Why are you avoiding the sickness scale?

[John]

There are a lot of sick fucks who are Democrats. Why don't you cry some more about it.

[Palin's Buttplug]

John, you defend Hastert for dragging a Lazy-Boy into the boys shower to watch them while he pleasured himself. You defend Roy Moore for his predatory habits in Alabama malls to pick up young girls. You people are sick.

Bill Clinton is an adulterer. So fucking what?

[John]

I never defended Hassert one time. Stop arguing with the voices in your head and get back to crying about so many liberals are fucking wierdos.

[observation apropos of nothing]

It's so weird that people think the way to address the sexual misbehavior of politicians they support is to discuss the sexual misbehavior of politicians they don't support.

?\_(?)_/?

[John]

Tell us about the war on womenz Shreek.

[John]

And Bill Clinton raped at least one and probably more women. I guess to Democrats raping women is just philandering. Could you put a video up on youtube of you sobbing and screaming with impotent rage over this? I think it would be a real public service to provide us with the pleasure of actually seeing you suffer.

[Tony]

Haven't we solidly established that you have no credibility on this issue what with your breathless marathon defense of the pedophile.

[John]

Tony I never defended Menendez. You are confusing me with someone else. You and shreek are the only ones I know who defended Menendez and he is the only one who is known to be into underage girls.

[Tony]

You are a liar and a pedophile defender.

[John]

Go find a single place where I ever defended Menendez. Show me a link.

[Tony]

Believing debunked horseshit is common among consumers of right-wing internet garbage, but it takes a special kind of malicious hypocrisy to behave the way you are right now.

[John]

And that is the Washington Post. Are they part of the evil right wing conspiracy too?

[observation apropos of nothing]

It's so weird how Tony always shows up to carry PB's water and vice versa.

?\_(?)_/?

[John]

It is funny as hell that it bothers him and shreek so much that Progs are turning out to be perverts. What they hell do they care? But they just can't help themselves. They will defend anything.

[Tony]

Perversion has no political party.

So why do you continue to defend the child toucher simply because of the letter after his name?

[observation apropos of nothing]

So weird.

[John]

Again Tony,. I don't defend Menendez or Clinton. You do.

[Tony]

Nope. I don't. You however are on record for days of defense of Roy Moore. You trashed his many, many accusers as part of a conspiracy. And you deflect to Democratic wrongdoing in a pathetic attempt to distract from that behavior. You are not a good person.

[Sevo]

"You however are on record for days of defense of Roy Moore."
I'm certainly not John, as we have had our differences, but he asked for a link, and you, as a slimy lefty, responded with a claim he kinda, sorta, well, maybe...
Listen, fuck-face: Got a link showing he did? Fine, post it. If not, please admit you're a pathetic excuse for humanity and please go off an die somewhere we can smell your remains.

[Sevo]

Oh, and for confirmation of Tony's skills in skeptical thinking, we have:

Tony|9.7.17 @ 4:43PM|#
"I don't consider taxing and redistribution to be either forced or charity."
Yep taxes are not collected by force. The lefty idiot Tony tells us so.

Tony|11.3.17 @ 6:09PM|#
"If I want to know about the science I'll usually go to Wikipedia."
Pretty sure that can stand without comment.

As long as he doesn't drink it.

Meet 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar asteroid known to have passed through the solar system.

Looks like the planet killer from Star Trek. Hope it doesn't turn around and come back for another pass at Earth.

Everyone's a little bit gropey today
So, everyone's a little bit gropey, okay
Grabbing ass might be uncouth
But you take it because you've got no proof
Don't treat it as sexual attacks
Everyone enjoys it, so relax

[Sevo]

Outside of calling that lefty asshole Tony on his bullshit, I wanted to suggest a couple of books on the Norks:
https://www.amazon.com /Nothing-Envy-Ordinary-Lives-North/dp/ 0385523912/ref=sr _1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511239794= 1-1&keywords=north+korea
https://www.amazon.com /Real-North-Korea-Politics-Stalinist/ dp/0199390037/ref=sr _1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511239839= 1-3&keywords=north+korea
https://www.amazon.com /North-Korea-Confidential-Dissenters- Defectors/dp/0804844585/ref=sr _1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511239839= 1-8&keywords=north+korea
Their foreign security service hasn't the material and skills of the Russkis, but they are deadly often enough. And deadly to those who happen to be nearby.

[Sevo]

And once more to turd and Tony:
The claim is that Paule deserved it since he broke the HOA rules.
Got any REAL evidence of the rules he broke, or just more lefty whining?

[BestUsedCarSales]

Why even argue that? The strong point is that one doesn't just assault people regardless. If he violated HOA rules than go to the HOA. If he didn't then he didn't. It's like how if you see someone jaywalking you don't get to just shoot them in the streets. You have to find a police officer who can shoot them in the streets for you.

[Bra Ket]

According to the neighbor, Paul's reason for opposing the HOA was "property rights". That smacks of libertarianism, i.e. nazism. Ergo his very existence is violence, and any violence directed at him is self-defense.