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Johnnie wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:51 pm He did himself a good service of PR with his lone Republican impeachment vote.

I'm stunned a 76 year old is going to retire from politics. I thought the move was to make sure the Senate was his retirement home and hospice care. He's so young.
If he had an easy re-election, perhaps. But he'd have to either fight like hell to get renominated by the GOP here or run as an independent.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
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BeckyHammon’s hoodie wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:10 pm Say what you want about Romney, but we should all be so lucky to look as good as him at 76. There might be something to that Mormon living.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:37 pm
Johnnie wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:51 pm He did himself a good service of PR with his lone Republican impeachment vote.

I'm stunned a 76 year old is going to retire from politics. I thought the move was to make sure the Senate was his retirement home and hospice care. He's so young.
If he had an easy re-election, perhaps. But he'd have to either fight like hell to get renominated by the GOP here or run as an independent.
Really? I always assumed that Mormon Poster Boy Romney could have that seat as long as he wanted it.
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Pruitt IV wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:48 pm
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
The son of one of our friends was in Aspen for Labor Day weekend, and texted that he saw Boebert in a bar there, drunk as shit at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, doing shots of tequila from her friend's cleavage.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:55 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:37 pm
Johnnie wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:51 pm He did himself a good service of PR with his lone Republican impeachment vote.

I'm stunned a 76 year old is going to retire from politics. I thought the move was to make sure the Senate was his retirement home and hospice care. He's so young.
If he had an easy re-election, perhaps. But he'd have to either fight like hell to get renominated by the GOP here or run as an independent.
Really? I always assumed that Mormon Poster Boy Romney could have that seat as long as he wanted it.
The cult of Trump has condemned him as a disloyal servant.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:55 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:37 pm
Johnnie wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:51 pm He did himself a good service of PR with his lone Republican impeachment vote.

I'm stunned a 76 year old is going to retire from politics. I thought the move was to make sure the Senate was his retirement home and hospice care. He's so young.
If he had an easy re-election, perhaps. But he'd have to either fight like hell to get renominated by the GOP here or run as an independent.
Really? I always assumed that Mormon Poster Boy Romney could have that seat as long as he wanted it.
He'd skate to a win if he ran as an independent. But the GOP here is almost as crazy as the GOP in Southern states.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:57 pm
Pruitt IV wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:48 pm
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
The son of one of our friends was in Aspen for Labor Day weekend, and texted that he saw Boebert in a bar there, drunk as shit at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, doing shots of tequila from her friend's cleavage.
Shows you how safe her seat is when she in Aspen one weekend and Denver the next, neither of which are anywhere close to her district (major cities being Grand Junction and Pueblo... 100s of miles from Denver and/or Aspen.)
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I expect her to get trounced. She only won by a sliver last time, and there wasn’t even much organized support for her opponent. Same guy is opposing her again, and this time he’s got organized support.

ps: Grand Junction is only 120 miles from Aspen. We went there regularly when I was a kid.
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Mitt is getting out before this book by McKay Coppins (who's a great writer who happens to also be a Mormon) comes out.

Let's just say that Mitt ain't a fan of JD Vance:

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mister d wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:56 pm I'd like to know all the details about the food. I want it to be fancy scallops and Trump had to special request like butter pasta.
Romney, potential U.S. secretary of state, hails Trump after dinner
Romney made his remarks after a lengthy meal with Trump and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at a French restaurant at a Trump hotel in Manhattan. They dined on garlic soup with frog legs, scallops, steak and lamb chop.
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In the end, Romney will win. Like Dole and McCain before he’ll be remembered more for his rare moments of true centrism and less for the other 95 percent of the time.

But I can live with that because he never got to wield true power. The voters spoke.
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:57 pm
Pruitt IV wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:48 pm
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
The son of one of our friends was in Aspen for Labor Day weekend, and texted that he saw Boebert in a bar there, drunk as shit at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, doing shots of tequila from her friend's cleavage.
Why he didn't take video of this and send it to Mediate really stinks.
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Daaaamn!

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DaveInSeattle wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 4:41 pm
mister d wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 2:56 pm I'd like to know all the details about the food. I want it to be fancy scallops and Trump had to special request like butter pasta.
Romney, potential U.S. secretary of state, hails Trump after dinner
Romney made his remarks after a lengthy meal with Trump and Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus at a French restaurant at a Trump hotel in Manhattan. They dined on garlic soup with frog legs, scallops, steak and lamb chop.
No idea why they bothered with something so fancy.
On the day of my first visit, he showed me his freezer, which was full of salmon fillets that had been given to him by Lisa Murkowski, the senator from Alaska. He didn’t especially like salmon but found that if he put it on a hamburger bun and smothered it in ketchup, it made for a serviceable meal.
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Pruitt IV wrote: Wed Sep 13, 2023 3:48 pm
U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance.
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https://x.com/DavidCornDC/status/170234 ... 61215?s=20

OK, how are y'all embedding Tweets nowadays?
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:40 am

OK, how are y'all embedding Tweets nowadays?
Change "x" in the link to "twitter".
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:40 am https://x.com/DavidCornDC/status/170234 ... 61215?s=20

OK, how are y'all embedding Tweets nowadays?
replace ‘x’ with ‘twitter’.
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That Carlson quote is a weird example of "everything they say is projection".
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mister d wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:53 am That Carlson quote is a weird example of "everything they say is projection".
I think that's more "the grass is always greener". I've seen other conservatives talk about how united the left is compared to them.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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That's kind of fascinating.

I wonder if it's a factor of both sides having a lot of bickering in areas that only they frequent, while the MSNBC and Fox channels are frequented by "the other side" so it looks monolithic because they aren't in the weeds of the opposition?

Not sure how to better articulate that...
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Like she doesn't even know how to keep it on the dl
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:57 am
mister d wrote: Thu Sep 14, 2023 10:53 am That Carlson quote is a weird example of "everything they say is projection".
I think that's more "the grass is always greener". I've seen other conservatives talk about how united the left is compared to them.
I think they're probably reacting to the fractions that Trump has created in the GOP. They used to be way more coordinated than the Dems. That's probably been less true the past few years. The left have a very clear common enemy in Trump, even if there are still a ton of fractured policy goals and passions. The right isn't sure if they're the MAGA crazies or the buttoned-up, old-school, pipe-smoking, capitalist bigots they used to be.
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P.D.X. wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:52 am Like she doesn't even know how to keep it on the dl
Just go to the rest room like us sophisticated folk.
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Giff wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:24 am
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:52 am Like she doesn't even know how to keep it on the dl
Just go to the rest room like us sophisticated folk.
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I've actually done it at the movies too...you just have to hold it in for a long time and then bend over like you' dropped something.
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Giff wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:30 am I've actually done it at the movies too...you just have to hold it in for a long time and then bend over like you' dropped something.
I'll blow it into my shirt too. Not perfect but dissipates.
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Giff wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:24 am
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:52 am Like she doesn't even know how to keep it on the dl
Just go to the rest room like us sophisticated folk.
But was she vaping weed, or tobacco? If it was weed, why didn't she just eat a gummy before the show?
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Because she's a fucking moron?
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L-Jam3 wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:17 am Because she's a fucking moron?
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DaveInSeattle wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:16 am
Giff wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 10:24 am
P.D.X. wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 8:52 am Like she doesn't even know how to keep it on the dl
Just go to the rest room like us sophisticated folk.
But was she vaping weed, or tobacco? If it was weed, why didn't she just eat a gummy before the show?
I'm going with moron and hope I have 0% in common with this woman other than our shared race and possibly hair color. I vape cause gummies don't do anything for me.
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She not just a moron...she's the worst type...an entitled moron.
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After those vids and pics,
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I would hate myself, but yeah.
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Square Rob wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 12:25 pm After those vids and pics,

I would hate myself, but yeah.
Ha, I was fantasizing about her tits while watching right when her date started fondling them.
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Oh, that's fucking glorious.



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Johnnie wrote: Sat Sep 10, 2022 8:13 pmOh shit, you just reminded me about toilet paper.
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