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Bannon Says Trump Tower Russia Meeting Treasonous, Unpatriotic; Manafort Suing Mueller; Doug Jones Joins Senate: P.M. Links

Ed Krayewski | 1.3.2018 4:30 PM

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    Steve Bannon called a meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., a number of other people connected to the Trump campaign, and several Russians at the Trump Tower in 2016 was "treasonous" and "unpatriotic." The president responded by suggesting in a statement Bannon "lost his mind" after getting fired and losing his job at the White House.

  • Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller and the Justice Department.
  • Doug Jones was sworn as the junior senator from Alabama, the first Democrat to represent the state in the Senate since its other senator, Richard Shelby, became a Republican after the 1994 Republican revolution.
  • The head of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran claims that anti-government protests have ended and that authorities have made numerous arrests.
  • A 19,000-pound space station belonging to China is expected to make an "uncontrolled re-entry" back to Earth sometime in the next three months.
  • A star in the constellation Cygnus is likely flickering due to dust particles orbiting it, not alien megastructures.
  • The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Thomas Monson, died aged 90.

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  1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    The president responded by suggesting in a statement Bannon "lost his mind" after getting fired and losing his job at the White House.

    Manufactured drama for ratings.

    1. Deven   7 years ago

      Bannon is going heel! This really is professional wrestling. It all fits.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

        Going?

        1. SIV   7 years ago

          If you're a prog, he's teasing a face turn

      2. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

        Bannon was born for heels.

        1. Half-Virtue, Half-Vice   7 years ago

          It works for the Diva's but idk if anyone in heels is going to beat Lesner at WrestleMania.

    2. Rufus The Monocled   7 years ago

      Hello.

      Latter Day Saints have a president?

      I though that would be Jesus.

      /shrugs shoulder Takes bite out of slice of margherita pizza.

      1. Juice   7 years ago

        washed down with caffeine free diet coke?

        1. Rufus The Monocled   7 years ago

          Barbarian.

          ESPRESSO.

      2. EscherEnigma   7 years ago

        He's comparable to the Catholic pope. Earthy representation and so-on.

    3. Tony   7 years ago

      This is even better than the Omarosa episode.

      1. Ecoli   7 years ago

        Somebody needs to smack dat azz!

  2. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    Doug Jones was sworn as the junior senator from Alabama...

    SAVE US, DOUG JONES

    1. Rhywun   7 years ago

      I thought Mueller was going to save us.

      1. Rich   7 years ago

        "Give him a chance!"

    2. Tony   7 years ago

      That's what congressional pages said.

    3. CE   7 years ago

      Doug Jones does have 303 career saves, according to Baseball Reference dot com.

  3. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

    A 19,000-pound space station belonging to China is expected to make an "uncontrolled re-entry" back to Earth sometime in the next three months.

    [insert possibly racist joke about Asian drivers]

    1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

      You know who else was expected to make an uncontrolled re-entry?

      1. Rich   7 years ago

        Anthony Weiner?

      2. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

        Major Tom?

        1. Rat on a train   7 years ago

          No wonder. Major Tom is a junkie.

      3. Philadelphia Collins   7 years ago

        Apollo 13?

      4. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

        I expect they'll have to deorbit ISS at some point.

      5. Rat on a train   7 years ago

        The 101st cock blocked that move.

    2. bevis the lumberjack   7 years ago

      Made in China.......

  4. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller and the Justice Department.

    Mueller about to be hoisted on his own litigious petard!

  5. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

    Steve Bannon called a meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., a number of other people connected to the Trump campaign, and several Russians at the Trump Tower in 2016 was "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."

    Also unpatriotic: wearing less than four shirts.

    1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      Finally, we have conclusive evidence that Citizen X and Gilmore are the same person.

      1. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

        All i'm saying is, dude wears a lot of shirts at a time.

        1. Jgalt1975   7 years ago

          You know who else wore a lot of shirts at a time?

          1. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

            Reinhold Messner?

        2. BYODB   7 years ago

          The real question is this: does he pop the collar of all four shirts or just the one?

        3. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

          It takes a lot of layers to soak up all the gin sweat.

    2. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

      Fewer. Make America Grammatically Correct Again.

      1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

        Nice. Now we have proof Fist is Crusty. My new years resolution is to compile enough evidence to prove that everyone is actually Tulpa.

        1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

          I don't do sockpuppets or alter egos. I mean, do I come across as someone who wouldn't want credit for his comments?

          1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

            Shouldn't.

        2. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

          Also, gross.

        3. Aloysious   7 years ago

          My new years resolution is to compile enough evidence to prove that everyone is actually Tulpa.

          Only Tupla would say that.

          1. Charles Easterly   7 years ago

            I just logged in and I do not know if you are still viewing these unhallowed threads, Aloysious, yet I wanted to applaud your comment nonetheless.

            Signed: Charles, who believes himself not to be anyone else.

            1. DenverJ   7 years ago

              ^definitely Tulpa

        4. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

          "My new years"

          year's

      2. Grammar Girl   7 years ago

        Although Garner's Modern American Usage says that 10 items or fewer is the correct choice, other reference books such as Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage and The Cambridge Guide to English Usage note that the admonition that writers should not use less for countable items is relatively new, beginning as the personal opinion of one usage writer from the 1700s, and the Oxford English Dictionary has examples of less being used with countable items going back to nearly the dawn of printed English and continuing to this day. I find it impressive that the first citation of less being used with a countable noun in the OED comes from King Alfred the Great himself. He was the great promoter of English over Latin, and in the year 888, he wrote about less words.

        Language researchers tend to believe that using less with some countable nouns is natural and that the restriction against doing so is constructed and forced. For example, Mark Liberman reported on the linguistics site Language Log that in real writing?both from Google News and the Web in general?instances of "N votes or less" far exceeded "N votes or fewer."

        1. Grammar Girl   7 years ago

          A preference, not a rule.

          1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

            Linguistics, especially as practiced by a libertarian, should be descriptive, rather than prescriptive.

            1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

              I believe they are acting descriptively here. Though it's hard to say, they are citing evidence that it is correct rather than simply allowing it. Kind of a linguistic grey area.

        2. Half-Virtue, Half-Vice   7 years ago

          There should be less words in this block text if you want me to read.

        3. Square = Circle   7 years ago

          the admonition that writers should not use less for countable items is relatively new, beginning as the personal opinion of one usage writer from the 1700s

          Same for the "rule" that you don't end sentences on prepositions.

          1. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

            Whatchu you talkin' bout?

        4. Unlabelable MJGreen   7 years ago

          All good English came after the 1700s, ya jabroni.

          1. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

            OMG! LOL! FYTW!

        5. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

          The Official Fist of Etiquette Stylebook says fewer. Look it up.

  6. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

    A star in the constellation Cygnus is likely flickering due to dust particles orbiting it, not alien megastructures.

    But can you prove it's not alien megastructures? Check, and mate.

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

      If the telescopes can see dust particles in a star light years away from us, they'd damn sure see an alien megastructure.

      1. CE   7 years ago

        The can't see dust particles. They can see the light being filtered more in blue wavelengths than in red wavelengths, which rules out an opaque object and suggests dust. And which is exactly what the aliens would do to camouflage their megastructures, or if they were using Blue-Blockers on the megastructure walls because it's too sunny there.

  7. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    The head of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran claims that anti-government protests have ended and that authorities have made numerous arrests.

    Turn Iranian social media back on so you can hashtag Mission Accomplished.

  8. Citizen X - #6   7 years ago

    The head of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran claims that anti-government protests have ended and that authorities have made numerous arrests.

    Making Iran Great Again!

    1. BYODB   7 years ago

      They are only one letter away from amazing eggs.

  9. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    A star in the constellation Cygnus is likely flickering due to dust particles orbiting it, not alien megastructures.

    They're going to have to change that star or the whole string will go out.

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

      Excerpted from Foundations in String Theory, by FoE.

    2. Ecoli   7 years ago

      Not in a parallel universe.

      1. CE   7 years ago

        EE jokes have the highest potential.

        1. Sevo   7 years ago

          Watt about it?

  10. Rich   7 years ago

    Paul Manafort is suing Robert Mueller and the Justice Department.

    Alright! Now the FBI can investigate that, too!

  11. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

    A 19,000-pound space station belonging to China is expected to make an "uncontrolled re-entry" back to Earth sometime in the next three months.

    Probably made in China. Always look for the union label.

  12. OpenBordersLiberal-tarian   7 years ago

    Steve Bannon called a meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., a number of other people connected to the Trump campaign, and several Russians at the Trump Tower in 2016 was "treasonous" and "unpatriotic."

    That's it. Drumpf's horrible presidency is effectively over. If even Steve Bannon can't deny the Russian collusion, it's only a matter of time before Mueller can prove something impeach-able happened.

    1. Jgalt1975   7 years ago

      What I'm trying to figure out is what prompted Bannon to suddenly jump on this. I thought he was supposed to be "fighting for Trump from outside the system" these days or something like that.

      1. granite state destroyer   7 years ago

        Probably nothing more exciting than Trump just not taking his calls. Bannon has a high opinion of himself.

  13. Rich   7 years ago

    scientists have only been able to narrow the crash zone down to between the 43? North and 43? South latitudes

    Better start evacuations NOW.

    1. Libertarian   7 years ago

      Equatorial zones hardest hit. LITERALLY!!

  14. Rich   7 years ago

    The head of the Revolutionary Guard in Iran claims that anti-government protests have ended

    Ah, so *that's* where Baghdad Bob ended up!

  15. Juice   7 years ago

    The president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Thomas Monson, died aged 90.

    He's now in charge of the planet that's building the megastructure around KIC 8462852.

    1. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

      This joke is good.

      1. Trigger Warning   7 years ago

        Super good.

  16. Rich   7 years ago

    If the dimming had occurred in all colors equally, megastructures would still be on the table.

    Sheesh, people -- they're *alien* megastructures, DUH!

    1. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

      BUILD THAT SPHERE! BUILD THAT SPHERE! BUILD THAT SPHERE!

      1. Trigger Warning   7 years ago

        An actual Dyson Sphere would be impossible. Too big, too massive.

    2. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

      There is an alien megastructure in our neighborhood.

  17. Jimbo   7 years ago

    "uncontrolled re-entry"
    Better than an uncontrolled rear-entry, amirite?!

    1. Sometimes a Great Notion   7 years ago

      Thank you sir, may I have another.

      1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

        I'll be watching you!

        1. Trigger Warning   7 years ago

          *applause*

  18. Rich   7 years ago

    Fire breaks out at Hillary and Bill Clinton's house in Chappaqua

    Fortunately, the damage was confined to the server room.

    1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

      Exchange server hardest hit.

    2. Unicorn Abattoir   7 years ago

      Hillary's pants severely burned in the blaze.

    3. Libertarian   7 years ago

      Scullery maids and butlers hardest hit.

    4. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

      The fire eventually went out by itself. Like Vince Foster.

      1. Half-Virtue, Half-Vice   7 years ago

        The fire double tapped two with the left hand?

  19. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

    "Uncontrolled re-entry" was my nickname in Lamaze class.

    1. Jimbo   7 years ago

      You did Lamaze? Pussy.

      1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

        Hence the nickname.

  20. Juice   7 years ago

    LAWL

    1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

      I don't know that I like the idea of KFC in another country, much less one making fun of our president!

      1. Tony   7 years ago

        I ate at the KFC right outside the Tower of London, and I still feel a little ashamed by that. It was gross there too.

        1. Fist of Etiquette   7 years ago

          Did they overboil the chicken?

          1. Tony   7 years ago

            I don't know why KFC is so bad.

            1. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

              Maybe it's your crushing low self esteem and depression more than the herbs and spices.

  21. Sevo   7 years ago

    "Steve Bannon called a meeting between Donald Trump, Jr., a number of other people connected to the Trump campaign, and several Russians at the Trump Tower in 2016 was "treasonous" and "unpatriotic.""
    Cite missing.

    1. Tony   7 years ago

      The source is Steve Bannon you idiot.

      1. Libertarian   7 years ago

        The source is Wolff, the author, actually.

        1. Libertarian   7 years ago

          He's already been caught fabricating Trump comments about Boehner.
          http://dailycaller.com/2018/01.....oehner-is/

          1. Unlabelable MJGreen   7 years ago

            That is not what that link shows.

      2. Sevo   7 years ago

        Leave it to Tony to presume a 'source' for an un-confirmed rumor passes for some sort of evidence
        Fucking lefty retards; how do they get that stupid?

        1. Tony   7 years ago

          So what are you asking for? The guy is quoting Bannon from an interview. Maybe he made it up. But that's what the source is: "Interview with Steve Bannon."

          1. Sevo   7 years ago

            "So what are you asking for? The guy is quoting Bannon from an interview. Maybe he made it up. But that's what the source is: "Interview with Steve Bannon.""

            Some EVIDENCE! Conducting an interview ought to include some questioning of claims; J-school 'exhaust' at one time did so.
            For starters, the man is an imbecile; "treason" requires some sort of dealing with a declared enemy of the US. We may like or dislike Russia depending on the issue at hand, and Putin is only barely a civilized human being, but Russia is NOT an "enemy" of the US.
            So we know at the beginning that "treason" is a bullshit claim; how much else is bullshit? For pete's sake, loser, they've got one volunteer and one former employee who (yippee!) 'lied to' and FBI agent, and one guy who laundered money before he was employed.
            All this after a YEAR of investigating a guy despised by losers like you and the press in general; you'd think they'd have at least an un-paid parking ticket by now.
            Pathetic.

            1. DenverJ   7 years ago

              Pathetic sad.

            2. Unlabelable MJGreen   7 years ago

              The story was Bannon's opinion of the event.

              This is not hard, dude.

              1. Sevo   7 years ago

                "The story was Bannon's opinion of the event.
                This is not hard, dude."
                If that is directed to me, I already know that, dude.
                "Journalists" are presumed to ask question rather than parrot answers, dude.

        2. Unlabelable MJGreen   7 years ago

          Evidence of what? I think the problem is you keep jumping 2-3 steps here.

      3. MarkLastname   7 years ago

        Wolff is a somewhat questionable source. One example, he claimed Trump had never heard of John Boehner as of Election Day when in fact Trump has regularly golfed with (and retweeted) Boehner before that.

        The rift may have some truth to it, but Wolff definitely has a tendency to embellish.

  22. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

    Oh, and Trump finally did what Democrats could never achieve, tax the 1%.

    1. BigT   7 years ago

      "Jennifer Rubin author of the conservative "Right Turn" blog notes, "The bottom line here is that Congress identified a legitimate issue, but not a responsible process for addressing it."

  23. creech   7 years ago

    My copy of the Constitution says : Art.III, Sec.3 "Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort." Did the Trump team promise the Russians something, say technology to help keep submarines undetectable, in exchange of Hillary's e-mails? Or were they just willing to receive the factual e-mails that Hillary somehow forgot to wipe from her private server?

    1. Tony   7 years ago

      Making Trump president is arguably giving Russia all the aid and comfort it could hope for. He's both a puppet and completely incompetent, convenient if their goal is to undermine the US's interests in every way possible.

      1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

        Did you know he was recruited as a sleeper agent while he was on The Apprentice?

        1. Tony   7 years ago

          In what was the simplest psyop ever performed.

        2. Chipper Morning Baculum   7 years ago

          You know who else was a sleeper agent? That Amtrak conductor in Washington state.

          1. Jgalt1975   7 years ago

            For fuck's sake, can people learn the difference between a "conductor" and an "engineer"?

            1. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

              Clearly this was the brakeman's fault.

            2. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

              Here's a story bout an engineer
              Choo choo charlie was his name we hear
              He had an engine and he sure had fun
              He used good-n-plenty candy, to make his train run.

      2. Gilbert Martin   7 years ago

        "He's both a puppet and completely incompetent, convenient if their goal is to undermine the US's interests in every way possible."

        So, just like the prior President then.

        1. Half-Virtue, Half-Vice   7 years ago

          Barak did seem to be giving a lot of comfort with those firm hand pats on the thigh of Putin's stooge.

      3. The Last American Hero   7 years ago

        A real puppet would make it harder to drill for oil, since high oil prices benefit Russia. Oops, that was BHO and Reset Button Clinton.

        Must be some kind of 5 dimensional chess or something.

      4. Sevo   7 years ago

        "Making Trump president is arguably giving Russia all the aid and comfort it could hope for. He's both a puppet and completely incompetent, convenient if their goal is to undermine the US's interests in every way possible."

        You lost, you fucking loser. Making up fantasies about the guy who beat that pathetic hag is the stuff of juveniles.
        Grow up, loser.

      5. MarkLastname   7 years ago

        Their goal most likely is to eliminate economic sanctions, which is actually also in accord with our interests.

        It's fascinating how so many leftists have become zero sum game nationalists this past year.

    2. EscherEnigma   7 years ago

      Are you really surprised that Bannon doesn't actually know what the Constitution says?

    3. CE   7 years ago

      And who made the Russians our enemies? Weren't they our allies in the last 2 big wars?

      1. Consigliere of the Dark Ones   7 years ago

        The US did invade Russia in between those wars.

        1. Sevo   7 years ago

          No, the US did not "invade" Russia; that is lefty bullshit.
          If you like I'll be happy to quote chapter and verse to make it clear. Would you like to be embarrassed?

        2. Sevo   7 years ago

          I'll save you the pain, if you prefer.
          Read Pipes:
          "The Russian Revolution"
          Or perhaps that comsymp Figes:
          "A People's Tragedy"
          Neither claims anything like 'an invasion'

  24. Tony   7 years ago

    I really thought the "Mueller grand jury is too black to be impartial" thing would have more legs. Or am I just not watching enough Hannity?

    1. Diane Reynolds (Paul.)   7 years ago

      Who?

      1. Tony   7 years ago

        Fat guy with the chinchilla on his head, current chief propagandist for the fat guy with the wombat on his head.

        1. BYODB   7 years ago

          I legitimately haven't heard anyone say that, but it wouldn't shock me that someone did. Outrage generates clicks, it seems.

        2. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

          I want to see Hannity and Doocy file sexual harassment charges against each other. Sign o' the times.

    2. Sevo   7 years ago

      No, you're just a fucking idiot.

      1. Tony   7 years ago

        So you, Sevo, don't think the grand jury is biased because it has too many black people on it?

        1. Sevo   7 years ago

          I have zero opinion on the grand jury.

        2. MarkLastname   7 years ago

          No one knows what you're talking about because you're probably the only one here who watches Hannity.

    3. EscherEnigma   7 years ago

      Meh. It's a grand jury. They're infamous for rubber-stamping whatever the prosecutor wants. So the composition doesn't actually matter.

      1. Ecoli   7 years ago

        I would like to see a majority Muslim grand jury indict a ham sandwich.

  25. Half-Virtue, Half-Vice   7 years ago

    What is Bannon's end game? It can't still be political can it?

    1. Tony   7 years ago

      I think you mean final solution.

      1. Philadelphia Collins   7 years ago

        You're quoting a fellow leftist again.

        1. Tony   7 years ago

          History's most famous right-wing fascist was not a leftist.

          1. Consigliere of the Dark Ones   7 years ago

            You'd like Fascism, Tony. Your boy Bernie Sanders does:

            If I were elected president, the foxes would no longer guard the henhouse. To ensure the safety and soundness of our banking system, we need to fundamentally restructure the Fed's governance system to eliminate conflicts of interest. Board members should be nominated by the president and chosen by the Senate. Banking industry executives must no longer be allowed to serve on the Fed's boards and to handpick its members and staff. Board positions should instead include representatives from all walks of life ? including labor, consumers, homeowners, urban residents, farmers and small businesses.

            Compare chapter 1-2 of The Coming Corporate State.

          2. Mock-star   7 years ago

            I thought we were talking about Hitler.

          3. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

            Do you consider China to be socialist or fascist? Is the Central Committee made up of left wingers or right wingers? Is it merely who owns the means of production that makes the difference? In both cases the state is in control of those means, to one extreme or another.

            1. The Last American Hero   7 years ago

              The true distinction is between authoritarians and freedom lovers, but Tony refuses to acknowledge the horseshoe.

              Tell us, Tony, how did the Jews fare under your boy Uncle Joe? Or was he a right-winger as well?

              1. Sevo   7 years ago

                Pretty sure Hitler's and Lenin's policies were different, thus:
                1) Lenin murdered more people, but Hitler topped him on the Jew-count.
                2) Hitler was at least smart enough to avoid collectivizing ag. He just co-opted the farmers and set prices and quotas.
                3) Hitler was dumb enough to start a war he could not win.

                As a measure of the press in the west, Ford and Lindbergh were properly vilified as Nazi sympathizers. The Pulitzer Board in 1990 refused to rescind Walter Duranty's prize.
                If it weren't for double standards, the left would have none at all.

          4. Philadelphia Collins   7 years ago

            Liar. Hitler was a National Socialist.

          5. Sevo   7 years ago

            "History's most famous right-wing fascist was not a leftist."

            You should learn to read, Tony:
            "The Wages of Destruction", Tooze, pg106
            "...As we have already seen, the New Plan, which effectively regulated the access to each and every German firm to foreign raw materials, created a substantial new bureaucracy, which controlled the vital functions of a large slice of German industry..."
            Admittedly, even Tooze continues to somehow see that sort of government control as 'right', even as he later details Hitler's plans to totally absorb business within the government.
            Hitler's grab of business was nearly equal in progress with Lenin's; Lenin didn't start a war that he couldn't win, so he was given time for his thugs to finish the job.
            But any claim that Hitler was other than a socialist is so much ignorance.

            1. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

              The Soviets were commies, which are left wing.
              The Nazis attacked the Soviets.
              Therefore the Nazis are the opposite of left wing.

              This glimpse into Tony's brain is brought to you by DERP! It's a floor wax and a dessert topping.

          6. MarkLastname   7 years ago

            Fascists and the Koch bros can't both be right wing; they are ideological opposites. Either AnCaps are the furthest right or fascists are; can't both be, they're at opposite poles. Pick a coordinate system and stick with it at least.

  26. Libertarian   7 years ago

    "A star in the constellation Cygnus is likely flickering due to dust particles orbiting it, not alien megastructures."

    Yep, I imagine that an alien civilization capable of building megastructures and living off the flesh of beings in other solar systems would be nowhere near advanced enough to camouflage their existence with dust clouds.

    1. Gilbert Martin   7 years ago

      Congratulations.

      You qualify for your own Alien show on the History Channel.

    2. Careless   7 years ago

      Might want to read the article first

    3. EscherEnigma   7 years ago

      Meh.

      With FTL, then camouflage is pointless as you can just move the camera further away to look back in time.

      Without FTL, there's no reason to hide from anyone as no one can get to you without world-ships, and you already have a giant alien super structure so that's probably not a threat to you.

      So "camouflage" is probably lower on the list of possibilities then "alien art structure that happens to look like dust".

    4. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

      The case for camouflage.

  27. Careless   7 years ago

    Might want to read the article first

    1. Careless   7 years ago

      crap

  28. Philadelphia Collins   7 years ago

    Rush should write a song about it.

    1. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

      Hold the Red Star proudly high in hand!

    2. Charles Easterly   7 years ago

      Rush should write a song about it.

      +1

  29. This Machine Chips Fascists   7 years ago

    Love theme for Trump-Bannon cage match.

  30. DajjaI   7 years ago

    Cuckfest 2018 - great lineup. Don't at me.

  31. Get To Da Chippah   7 years ago

    The speed with which Bannon has changed from 'contemptible spawn of Lucifer' to 'credible source of information' for leftists like Tony is pretty astounding.

    1. Tom Bombadil   7 years ago

      Bannon looks like pigpen after a 50-year binge.

      1. Telcontar the Wanderer   7 years ago

        EPIC WIN

  32. DenverJ   7 years ago

    Ok here's the truth: it's actually a swarm of alien megastructures, but the aliens are microscopic, so megastructures to them are the size of grains of dust.

    1. Sevo   7 years ago

      So downsized?

    2. Agammamon   7 years ago

      The aliens are an upload civilzation and the 'megastructure' is a cloud of cell-sized networked processors in multiple orbits around the sun as a Matrioshka brain.

      1. Agammamon   7 years ago

        Oh, and we were exterminated 1,250 years ago - it'll just take another 1,200 years before the Nicol-Dyson shot gets here.

    3. Azathoth!!   7 years ago

      it's actually a swarm of alien megastructures, but the aliens are microscopic, so megastructures to them are the size of grains of dust.

      So, the aliens are Whos then?

  33. Sevo   7 years ago

    OK, New Year.
    Wife and I were chatting last Friday, and as the last trading day of the year (especially with new tax laws coming), it IS a bell-weather of how the market (you, me and everyone who hopes to retire on something other than cat-food) thinks the current admin is doing and, more importantly, how we think it's gonna do next year; the market discounts the future.
    It was flat (well, minus 1/2 of 1%). Nobody took money of the table, except those adjusting things for the tax changes. We did prepays, contributions, but no real 'moves'. Ignore the polls where twits vent, listen to where there is skin in the game: The market. Trump is popular.
    So in honor of lefty losers who, regardless of the promises they made, are still here (and benefiting greatly by Trump's activities), I looked for a remembrance of 11/9/16:
    https://www.youtube.com/
    watch?v=2oZpTzTL9cU
    Stuff it up your butt, Tony, turd, and commie-kid under your new handle!

  34. Old Mexican's Speedos   7 years ago

    Bannon also got tired of so much winning.

    I am going to run out of popcorn! Please, president Trump, I can't take all this winning! It's too much!

    1. Sevo   7 years ago

      OM, I know that supposed "wall" is your one-issue message, but it ain't happened, it ain't likely to happen, and if it did, it won't work anyhow.
      You ought to quit confusing the map with the territory.

      1. Old Mexican's Speedos   7 years ago

        Re: Sevo,

        OM, I know that supposed "wall" is your one-issue message

        Not only the wall, Sevo. You understand NOTHING.

        What about his stupid views on trade? His horrid foreign policy based on dick-sizing? His casual attitude towards avowed racists and white supremacists? His terrible pick for a DOJ head, an anti-drug warrior who loves asset forfeiture? The restrictions he proposes on legal immigration (a proposal based on lies and myths) which completely ignore Market demand, something that will only exacerbate undocumented immigration?

        1. Azathoth!!   7 years ago

          OM, when it comes to anything Trump. you're completely around the bend.

          Anything.

  35. quackquack   7 years ago

    hi

    1. BestUsedCarSales   7 years ago

      Hello

    2. Telcontar the Wanderer   7 years ago

      Hi there a bad... girl.

    3. MarkLastname   7 years ago

      Oh hi quackquack.

  36. Old Mexican's Speedos   7 years ago

    Re: Sevo,

    OM, I know that supposed "wall" is your one-issue message

    Not only the wall, Sevo. You understand NOTHING.

    What about his stupid views on trade? His horrid foreign policy based on dick-sizing? His casual attitude towards avowed racists and white supremacists? His terrible pick for a DOJ head, an anti-drug warrior who loves asset forfeiture? The restrictions he proposes on legal immigration (a proposal based on lies and myths) which completely ignore Market demand, something that will only exacerbate undocumented immigration?

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