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  • Second thoughts? Democrats starting to regret burning millions of dollars on just Beto O’Rourke

    10/14/2018 4:50:36 AM PDT · by kevcol · 79 replies
    Twitchy ^ | October 13, 2018 | Brett T.
    Beto O’Rourke, the Senate candidate so cool that he rode a skateboard on stage at his rally Saturday in Corpus Christi, is looking more and more like John Ossoff 2.0. Hollywood’s favorite Texan is still down by about 9 points against incumbent Sen. Ted Cruz, where he’s been hovering for a while. And now it looks like Democrats are having second thoughts about burning all their campaign money in one place.
  • Mormon Church president tells women to get off social media for 10 days

    10/12/2018 6:31:26 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 27 replies
    The Patriot-News ^ | October 12, 2018 | Julie Zauzmer, The Washington Post
    For over a year since the #MeToo movement began, women have turned to social media with stories of sexual harassment and calls for reform that have powerfully reshaped our society. In recent weeks, women have flooded Facebook and Twitter and Instagram with pleas to #BelieveWomen, as Brett Kavanaugh gained a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court amid turmoil over accusations of sexual assault. And with just weeks to go before the Nov. 6 midterms, women are sure to make their presence known online in an election largely centered on female candidates' surging campaigns and female voters' intensifying anger. At this...
  • Deranged media gets Trump advisor Stephen Miller’s 3rd grade teacher to badmouth him (And Rabbi)

    10/12/2018 3:36:59 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 23 replies
    Legal Insurrection ^ | October 11, 2018 | William A. Jacobson
    So many lines have been crossed by Democrats and their supportive media, IÂ’m not sure there are any lines left. Stephen Miller, advisor to Trump, is hated by Democrats and other leftists because of his role helping elect Trump and MillerÂ’s strong positions on immigration. MillerÂ’s condo building has been the subject of protests. The New York Times investigated MillerÂ’s high school and college years: Mr. MillerÂ’s journey to this point, outlined over dozens of interviews with friends, classmates and current and former colleagues, is a triumph of unbending convictions and at least occasional contrivance. It is a story of...
  • On the Internet, no one knows you're a cat (Vanity)

    10/12/2018 10:49:18 AM PDT · by KosmicKitty · 15 replies
    KK | October 12, 2018 | KK
    KosmicKitty - Since Oct 12, 2002
  • Keller @ Large: What Is The Takeaway From Trump’s Meeting With Kanye?

    10/11/2018 3:56:47 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 11 replies
    WBZ-TV ^ | October 11, 2018 | Jon Keller
    BOSTON (CBS) — “I love this guy right here, let me give this guy a hug,” said pop star Kanye West as he rounded the desk in the Oval Office and enveloped President Trump in an embrace. The cameras love it, and this was the takeaway from their televised meeting that Trump lovers will love and Trump haters will hate. But there was more to this meeting than that. The president’s adversaries could learn something from Kanye’s explanation of what drew him to candidate Trump during the campaign. “I love Hillary, I love everyone right?” he said. “But the campaign...
  • T.I. Calls Kanye West's Trump Meeting "A Repulsive, Disgraceful & Embarrassing Act Of Desperation"

    10/11/2018 2:47:02 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 75 replies
    Hip Hop DX ^ | October 11, 2018 | Kyle Eustice
    T.I. went on an epic tirade following Kanye West’s meeting with Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday (October 11). Alongside a FOX News video clip, T.I. took to Instagram to purge his thoughts on — what he calls — “the most repulsive, disgraceful and embarrassing act of desperation” he’s ever witnessed. “Now I’ve been extremely patient and made it a point to not jump to any premature conclusions about Ye’& his antics… Partially due to the lessons learned from the outcome of other similar situations dealing wit my brother Wayne (which I admittedly mishandled a bit in hindsight),”...
  • I'm No Longer Using imgbb dot com For Posting FReep Images

    10/10/2018 11:01:15 PM PDT · by CaliforniaCraftBeer · 13 replies
    freerepublic.com ^ | October 10, 2018 | CaliforniaCraftBeer
    Effective immediately I won't be using the free image hosting service called imgbb.com. Over the last 2 weeks I've noticed a HUGE increase in pop-up ads in my lower right hand corner of my monitor (whether I'm online or not all), many ads seem legitimate software upgrade offers, but others are invitations to date various women of Asian countries. These small pop-up ads all have the source listed as ibb.co, which I've discovered is originating from imgbb.com. With all of my image posts I may be spreading this same '3rd Party Cookie' advertisements to my fellow FReeper's, so I've decided...
  • Steve Kerr pushing for a Popovich, O'Rourke presidential ticket

    10/10/2018 5:08:00 PM PDT · by GuavaCheesePuff · 43 replies
    Fox San Antonio ^ | October 9, 2018 | Jeff Garcia
    If Warriors' Steve Kerr has his way, San Antonio Spurs' Gregg Popovich and Texas U.S. Senate Candidate Beto O'Rourke will be on the 2020 Presidential ticket. Even though there has been a push for Kerr and Pop to run for the presidency, Kerr showed his support for O'Rourke with the Spurs Head Coach as his running mate for Vice President.
  • Hillary: Right So Threatened by Gay Marriage They Chose Authoritarian Trump

    10/10/2018 12:57:04 PM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 97 replies
    Breitbart Video ^ | 10-10-2018 | Pam Key
    Tuesday on CNN International’s “Amanpour,” former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said cultural changes like gay marriage caused the right in America to “seek the kind of leadership that will limit freedom.” Clinton said, “Why is it when the world, and in particularly the West, is by any measure richer and safer and healthier and stronger, what is giving rise to these yearnings not for greater freedom and democracy that lives up to its name—where you don’t try to throw voters out of the role, but you want everyone to vote, what is it that...
  • CNN anchor: How dare you call these Democratic protesters a “mob”

    10/10/2018 1:59:44 AM PDT · by kevcol · 21 replies
    Hot Air ^ | October 9, 2018 | Allahpundit
    When the media is convinced that Republicans are “pouncing,” though, they feel obliged to treat the underlying objection as though it’s offered in bad faith. Hence Baldwin’s exaggerated reaction in the clip. . . . If Baldwin doesn’t like the word “mob” being thrown around, she should consider that Senate Dems have now branded Kavanaugh a would-be teenaged rapist with nothing but an accusation to support the claim. Has she reacted this way to any lefties who have made that claim on her show lately?
  • MSNBC Guest Frets Over '1000-Year Reich' After Kavanaugh Confirmation

    10/09/2018 5:23:09 PM PDT · by kevcol · 30 replies
    NewsBusters ^ | October 9, 2018 | Ryan Foley
    Guest Danielle Moodie-Mills remarked on guest host Richard Lui’s comment that President Trump had a very good week, saying “it’s just funny to me that a good week for Donald Trump is a horrible week for our democracy and the American public.” . . . After issuing a call to action for Democratic voters, Mystal wondered if “this reign that they now have control over all three branches of government, we’re going to see if this reign lasts for 30 days or two years or a thousand-year reich.”
  • VANITY: Liberal college pal going nuts about Kavanaugh asks the following...

    10/09/2018 2:00:51 PM PDT · by SilvieWaldorfMD · 133 replies
    Self ^ | 10-9-18 | Self
    So I've been thoroughly enjoying the Total Meltdown amongst the Left. I have some college pals who are Northeastern liberals and they're going totally apesh*t about Brett Kavanaugh having been confirmed as SCOTUS Associate Justice. One of them (who is a total blowhard yet I'm friends with him because we have like 50 mutual friends and have known each other since 1985) asks the following question: "Serious question for my RW friends: What are your top 3 cases you’d like to see the court hear and what result are you hoping for? Adult-type responses only....all others will be deleted." I...
  • Meghan McCain: Kavanaugh Swearing-In Ceremony Was ‘Tone-Deaf’

    10/09/2018 11:53:21 AM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 104 replies
    Tuesday on ABC’s “The View,” co-host Meghan McCain said the swearing-in ceremony last night forSupreme Court Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh was “tone-deaf.” (snip) Sunny Hostin said, “He turned a supreme court confirmation into a political rally.” She added, “To see him talk politically at a swearing-in ceremony is so beyond the pale, it was so inappropriate. It hurt me to watch.” Meghan McCain said, “The optics are important. I agree that the ceremony aspect I would have pulled immediately. I actually — had I been emotionally capable of being on the show at the time this happened the second Kavanaugh...
  • Kavanaugh Conservatives vs. Booker Democrats

    10/08/2018 7:31:35 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 20 replies
    The Weekly Standard ^ | October 5, 2018 | Christopher Caldwell
    Years from now, perhaps only days from now, when people are no longer quite so inebriated with partisanship, those who wish Brett Kavanaugh well and those who wish him ill will probably agree on one thing: His defiant September 27 statement denying the charges leveled against him in the course of his Supreme Court confirmation is the defining speech of our time. Kavanaugh rejected outright Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that he had jumped her and gagged her at a party 36 years ago, when both were in high school. He denied knowingly having met her. None of the witnesses she...
  • Hillary Clinton Advises CBS's 'Madam Secretary' on White Nationalist Threat

    10/08/2018 3:34:34 AM PDT · by kevcol · 51 replies
    Newsbusters ^ | October 7, 2018 | Lindsay Kornick
    Secretary of State Elizabeth McCord (Téa Leoni) attempts to procure a nuclear disarmament deal between India and Pakistan. Before the talks even begin, the India Prime Minister and Foreign Minister are apprehensive over working with the United States as “a country that has repeatedly subjected us to barbaric terrorist attacks and endless wars” with a “despicable record on human rights and racism.” Elizabeth and her CIA Special Activities Division head, husband Henry (Tim Daly), for their part, don’t disagree with that description.
  • Should Abortion Be Only A Womans Choice Or Should Men Have Reproductive Rights Too?

    10/07/2018 5:32:22 PM PDT · by Morgana · 108 replies
    TNN News Raw2 ^ | October 7, 2018 | Tommy Sotomayor
    Should Abortion Be Only A Womans Choice Or Should Men Have Reproductive Rights Too? live stream
  • Jeff? Jeff? Yoo-hoo! Jeff? (Vanity in search of a missing man)

    10/07/2018 4:56:36 PM PDT · by Magnatron · 76 replies
    Somewhere in my hippocampus | 7 October 2018 | Me
    Is it me, or has Jeff went completely underground recently? He used to pop up every now and then with some worthless statement about pot or illegal immigration, but lately it seems he’s completely disappeared. Has he been spending his time on LinkedIn updating his resume? Getting ready for the day after elections? I’m worried for the old elf.
  • Did Jane Mayer, Ronan Farrow, and Michael Avenatti give Trump his biggest victory yet?

    10/07/2018 1:36:21 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 29 replies
    The Washington Examiner ^ | October 7, 2018 | Byron York
    A lack of contemporaneous evidence was always the greatest weakness of Christine Blasey Ford's allegation that at a high school party in 1982 — 36 years ago, when she was 15 years old — a drunken 17 year-old Brett Kavanaugh forced her onto a bed, tried to undress her, and, when she tried to scream, covered her mouth with his hand. But the second biggest weakness in Ford's story was that it did not appear to fit into any pattern. There were no other allegations that Kavanaugh had done anything similar to anyone else. In the notorious #MeToo cases of...
  • Doris Kearns Goodwin (Historian): Persuade People To Dislike Trump

    10/07/2018 6:53:38 AM PDT · by Sir Napsalot · 88 replies
    RCP Video ^ | 10-6-2018 | Ian Schwartz
    (snip) On Trump's relationship with his supporters, Goodwin said they feel like Trump's their friend. However, she said, that is not the same as being a cult president where they just believe what you say, somehow, but you're not giving them what they really hoped for. GOODWIN: What's more important is that we have to persuade other people of why we have to go against Mr. Trump right now. MAHER: Because he's a traitor. GOODWIN: No, because using that language is not going to reach the people you want to reach. MAHER: But what language would you use? GOODWIN: Here's...
  • RUSSIANS WRESTLING WITH BEARS

    10/06/2018 9:29:58 PM PDT · by BEJ · 9 replies
    Now that the Kavanaugh appointment is done and we have victory, we have to turn to more serious issues like, "Can we beat the Russians at Bear Wrestling?" The Russians are military and very friendly (they shake hands with everyone while wrestling). This bear wrestling warms my heart... and the bear enjoys it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW4mC_GzcBs