False Rumors About Antifa Starting West Coast Fires Follow Months-Long Conservative Hysteria | Talking Points Memo

I keep waiting for the Nazgul to arrive! To extend the metaphor, the other day I went to check in on the alternate reality of Foxnews.com and what flashed into my mind was the Paths of the Dead, the pass between Rohan and Gondor.

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You could have gotten paid good money for that advice if you’d offered to help when they were trying to make her presentable.

Their problem and it would be yours too, is that no lipstick is going to make a difference to what is missing inside the skull there.

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POC don’t have a problem sussing this.

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No they do not.

And that is one thing that keeps me going. They’ve faced so much worse.

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Years ago Bill Wyman wrote that Keith never got laid because he was a junkie and had no interest.

That’d motivate me to get off the shit.

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Keith is clean right down to cigarettes these days - he doesn’t smoke, he doesn’t do drugs.

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It’s hilarious when white people claim they don’t understand how we got here. It’s llike GOPers saying “How did the GOP become the party of Trump”?

Everyone else saw it.

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Damn. Now I’m hungry for minestrone soup.

Guess I’d better join up with antifa! Where’s their web site again?

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I know. We underestimate our own awfulness.

And we are - even the most sensitive of us - still largely ignorant of what it is like and has been like for African Americans.

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I’m amazed and happy he’s still alive!

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Don’t forget where this business model came from: right wing hate radio.

Rush Limbaugh and his unctuous fellow travelers have a lot to answer for.

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It’s not clear where exactly the rumors began.

It’s clear enough — all roads lead to Russia. Along the way, you’ll meet many spoiled citizens who think it’s fun to play with guns.

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Was up the McKenzie River in March to the Blue River, Vida Oregon area. A strange mix of Mormon and QAnon. They got burned badly this week.
Talent got burned also. Still haven’t heard from my hippie friend there.

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Are you kidding? He’ll outlive all of us. He’s solid gristle.

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I don’t know which I find more distressing, the fires that are consuming the Left Coast states or the fact that the moron in chief is not even mentioning them or offering financial or any kind of assistance. And we know why: we don’t vote for him, so we can just go pluck ourselves.

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My folly.

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Hmm…during my youth, it never seemed that drugs increased the appearance of lucidity, with one exception, the one doing the drug often felt THEY were extremely lucid. :slight_smile:

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Dotard may not be saying anything, but both California and Oregon have been approved for federal disaster aid.

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Exactly. Three states. Three states that provide a lot of the GNP are burning. You’d think that he’d at least have a thought for the lost revenue.

Fucker.

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This looks like something from another planet but it’s from outside Oroville CA, north of Sacramento.

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