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Molly Ciliberti's avatar

Trump will do anything to keep us from discussing the Signal Houthi PC small group chat. Hence he “is pissed at Putin”. Next Trump will demonstrate juggling. I was wrong; Trump is playing with the market and tariffs. SIGNAL HOUTHI PC

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larry gassan's avatar

C'mon, Rick! Dontcha know her nickname is "Take It or Leavitt"?

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SHERRY REISCH's avatar

Thank you for sharing your insights and knowledge.

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Rich's avatar

Rick...I was going to suggest something like this. While I love the podcast....the nature of this hellscape requires more up to date content. More reactions from you and the LP\LQ team is of great value.

With recorded pods, although awesome....since the news and outrages are so fast and furious, pods can be out of date the second after they are recorded.

Thats why the Friday lives are so great.....its live.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Yeah, I had to abort Rick's take on the economy and a couple Bulwark takes because they were recorded before Trump's Great Reset (LOL) of the tariffs yesterday.

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Leigh Blake's avatar

Thank you Rick!! This is VITAL!! ( April 10). Leavitt is not only arrogant , she's a prevaricator and reeaaally irritating. Not that 'irritating" is necessarily the problem. But as we follow this lying regime, we are all floundering and wondering HOW we get these idiots OUT!! But they continue to dupe too many of our citizens who have not the curiosity to FIND THE TRUTH. My bottom line will always be "How the heck do we get them OUT?"

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Hillbilly Skeleton's avatar

I call her Komical Karoline

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Steve Erlitz's avatar

Some one needs to tell this bitch that as bad as Goldberg may be, he couldn’t have added himself to that thread on Signal.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

And Goldberg isn't even "bad," he's a mainstream national security reporter, not some frothing ideologue.

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Steve Erlitz's avatar

I agree.

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Lory's avatar

Accurate assessment. All of his press secs have been cranky, entitled, petty liars. How dare they behave like that? Whatever the antithesis of truthful decorum is, they aren’t it. I’m literally so exhausted by her scowl and contempt I can’t watch.

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Lory's avatar

*are not aren’t

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Patrick's avatar

Can we work in "Pete Hegseth, amateur wet t-shirt enthusiast."?

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Big ones ..

Wet ones ...

BIG WET ONES !

--Frank Zappa

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OldnTired's avatar

Reading Karoline's Wiki page says it all. From the get-go all she wanted to be was a servant of the Dark Master. Look at her internships. Look at how she, even before she became employed by Trump, was a Siren for Trump, calling men to the deaths of their souls on the Rocks of Trumpdom. I thought all Trump 45's press secretaries were pathetic, and Spicer was the 'best' among them (low bar) but this creature of the dark is beyond disdain.

You can also tell that much of her material is provided to her by her Master or his ghost minions. "The failing Atlantic". Ho hum. Give me a break. All print media is in trouble, mostly because of the web, whether it be by taking away advertising revenue, or providing 'instantaneous' updates on stories that deserved 5 minutes total at best, not beaten into the ground for days. I can remember when a Sunday newspaper had 10, 20 pages of employment ads from corporations. Today? Nada. The same goes for general ads. No more Target, few big box stores. You can't operate without those revenues.

I'd have some cold nasty comments about her persona but I've risen above that. (yeah, sure).

But she did at least get a college degree, something that no one in her family before her did. Did she earn it? I don't know. But it's a deserved question.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Wasn't it some dumbshit bible college, though?

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OldnTired's avatar

Saint Anselm, a Benedictine (Roman Catholic) college founded in 1889. Not what you'd call a traditional 'Bible college'. However, you can go to a fine institution and still come out intellectually blind and just plain ignorant. I give you a certain graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

Catholic learning institutions are generally known for their quality of education despite any political or social biases. I wonder, though, if they were infected by the Trad Catholics who think Pope Francis is illegitimate because he said that gay people were, you know, God's children, too.

As for Wharton, Trump had a professor who famously said that Stupid Hitler was the dumbest student he ever had. According to Mary Trump, his sister Maryanne wrote all his papers for him.

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OldnTired's avatar

And I just thought Daddy Trump funded a number of professor's retirement funds to get his boy a degree.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

That too, doubtless.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

I don't torture myself watching Trump's WH podium pressers.

Sean Spicer was all I needed to see. Otherwise I stick to SNL parodies of them.

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Pamela Sousa's avatar

My best friend does the same but also she keeps up on the going ons by watching C-span where the live action happens between both partys

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Bob McKeown's avatar

I'm a bit of a stickler with my penchant for serious music, but I gotta give two thumbs down for the new bumper music. The dad rock rockabilly with the screeching punched in guitar was bad enough, but this bit of transparently DAW produced urbanism screams phoniness.

Maybe no one will notice this but dudes like me and there are less and less of us.

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Bob McKeown's avatar

This thread is pretty inactive so I can get away with this. Just to palate cleanse from the thought of that music, here's an example of some of my favorite, from the Japanese avant garde drum and bass legends, Ruins. From their DVD Let's Dance With Irregular Rhythms.

Irregular? Heh. This ain't progrock in odd time signatures, this is pure through composed, superhumanly tight avant garde. There isn't a groove or so much as a repeating riff in all 19 minutes. I doubt any of you could sit through thirty seconds of it, but you never know. It is one of my favorite things ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqI0uI9aU64

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Joan Nassivera's avatar

I am and he was evil incarnate.

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Leigh Horne's avatar

barf and eek

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Ellen's avatar

She is Bullshit Barbie.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Slava Ukraine!

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Debbie Hupp's avatar

Never have I ever seen this much dissent against an American President.

Intimidation, litigation, for all who disagree. It’s insane.

Miles Taylor should have stayed anonymous, but that may become an overused pen name.

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