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Vrede too wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 10:26 am
billy.pilgrim wrote:
Wed Mar 14, 2018 8:20 am
Without Google, can you guess who said,

"“I’m willing to be guided by God Almighty, the creator of the universe and the four corners of the 12th dimensional helix that is the giant hourglass in a moosehead on fire that is God’s mind,” he said."
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Before Google: Charlie Manson
After Google: I'm a little surprised, I though the crazy was all marketing.
https://lawandcrime.com/media/after-bei ... nal-helix/
Here's some info. on the "12th dimensional helix":
http://ascendedrelationships.com/dna-activation/
Ka-ching.

I'm seeing too many "giant hourglass" references to pin that one down.

Here's some info. on the "moosehead on fire":
http://fox8.com/2017/08/16/fire-freaks- ... -westlake/
:D :wave:
Not to be forgotten - the president of the united states of America believes or pushes the crap these very people spout.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”

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More and more we are needing comprehensive lists of POSPOTUS Officials' similar screw ups.

Ryan Zinke Spent $139K on Doors—Here Are All the Trump Officials Accused of Misspending Taxpayer Dollars
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I was reading a book by Vasily Grossman called "The Hell of Treblinka", written in 1944. Grossman was a Jewish guy that lived in the Soviet Union and witnessed firsthand some of the atrocities committed by Nazi Germany.

One thing that caught my eye were these passages:
Scholars, sociologists, criminologists, psychiatrists, and philosophers—everyone is asking how all this can have happened. How indeed? Was it something organic? Was it a matter of heredity, upbringing, environment, or external conditions? Was it a matter of historical fate, or the criminality of the German leaders? Somehow the embryonic traits of a racial theory that sounded simply comic when expounded by the second-rate charlatan professors or pathetic provincial theoreticians of nineteenth-century Germany—the contempt in which the German philistine held “Russian pigs,” “Polish cattle,” “Jews reeking of garlic,” “debauched Frenchmen,” “English shopkeepers,” “hypocritical Greeks,” and “Czech blockheads”; all the nonsense about the superiority of the Germans to every other race on earth, all the cheap nonsense that seemed so comical, such an easy target for journalists and humorists—all this, in the course of only a few years, ceased to seem merely infantile and was transformed into a threat to mankind. It became a deadly threat to human life and freedom and a source of unparalleled crime, bloodshed, and suffering. There is much now to think about, much that we must try to understand.

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What led Hitler and his followers to construct Majdanek, Sobibor, Bełzec, Auschwitz, and Treblinka is the imperialist idea of exceptionalism—of racial, national, and every other kind of exceptionalism.
Man, doesn't this sound familiar? You see a lot of "edgy" racist humor online. If you call them out you'll be told "relax, it was just a joke. This seems to be a cornerstone of the alt-right. "Humorous" racism that's not serious, but serious at the same time. An "otherization" of people through shitty humor.

Then you have these newly created perpetual enemies that even our President complains about - "The Deep State", "Globalists".

Your enemies, or those you want to be rid of, are all secretly working for the Deep State. Or they're being paid by some billionaire. It's a lazy catch-all that works rather well, unfortunately, and has many echos with what's happened in the past when exceptionalism and authoritarianism take hold.

Really interesting times (unfortunately)!
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Ben Carson Blames Purchase of $31,000 Office Dining Set on His Wife

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How and Why could his wife "Order" something for "His" Job?.....She is NOT an Employee of HUD.....
Sure, throw your wife under the bus. What a guy.
Don't they usually blame Obama?
Apparently, a woman`s place is under the bus.
We already found out you knew about the purchase, Ben. So why bother lying now? Time for you to start filling out your resume.
You are an idiot. Resign and stop embarrassing yourself.
the buck stops with Carson's wife, which is a lot closer than the buck ever gets to Donnie J Bankruptcy.
The wife is not a public servant, so......
Apparently neither is her husband.
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Found:
Ben Carson is absolute PROOF that one doesn't need to be a brain surgeon to be a brain surgeon.
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Tell the U.S. Senate: Block and resist Ronny Jackson. Don’t let Trump privatize the VA.

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The Koch brothers and Trump want to put for-profit vultures between veterans and their doctors.

Trump fired former VA Secretary David Shulkin because Shulkin opposed Trump’s radical privatization plans. To replace him, Trump has nominated his personal doctor, Ronny Jackson – a man with zero experience in management who is most famous for his comically over-the-top praise of Trump’s physical condition.

Even congressional Republicans are wary of Trump’s privatization plans and Jackson’s nomination to lead the country’s largest health care provider.2 But it will take extra pressure to convince senators to block and resist Jackson’s nomination and oppose privatization.

Tell the U.S. Senate: Block and resist Ronny Jackson. Don’t let Trump privatize the VA....
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Tell the U.S. Senate: Block and resist Ronny Jackson. Don’t let Trump privatize the VA.

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The Koch brothers and Trump want to put for-profit vultures between veterans and their doctors.

Trump fired former VA Secretary David Shulkin because Shulkin opposed Trump’s radical privatization plans. To replace him, Trump has nominated his personal doctor, Ronny Jackson – a man with zero experience in management who is most famous for his comically over-the-top praise of Trump’s physical condition.

Even congressional Republicans are wary of Trump’s privatization plans and Jackson’s nomination to lead the country’s largest health care provider.2 But it will take extra pressure to convince senators to block and resist Jackson’s nomination and oppose privatization.

Tell the U.S. Senate: Block and resist Ronny Jackson. Don’t let Trump privatize the VA....

Forget all his other bs. This suckup quack stood in front of the American people and lied about the physical he falsified for Donnie. That was his only job and he failed. Just as his who do I suck up to next attitude will damage the va.
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Eamus Catuli~AC 000000 000101 010202 020303 010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.

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"Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) ripped the office of special counsel Robert Mueller in an interview on Sunday, calling the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia a "breakdown" of the U.S. Constitution."

Says the guy who led the impeachment of Bill Clinton over a few blowjobs. :roll:

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O Really wrote:
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"Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) ripped the office of special counsel Robert Mueller in an interview on Sunday, calling the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia a "breakdown" of the U.S. Constitution."

Says the guy who led the impeachment of Bill Clinton over a few blowjobs. :roll:
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O Really wrote:
Mon Apr 16, 2018 9:49 pm
"Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) ripped the office of special counsel Robert Mueller in an interview on Sunday, calling the investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia a "breakdown" of the U.S. Constitution."

Says the guy who led the impeachment of Bill Clinton over a few blowjobs. :roll:
While having an affair with House of Representatives staffer more than two decades his junior and despite being married.
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hypocrisy thy name is republican
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At Yale, we conducted an experiment to turn conservatives into liberals. The results say a lot about our political divisions.

... For example, over a decade now of research in political psychology consistently shows that how physically threatened or fearful a person feels is a key factor — although clearly not the only one — in whether he or she holds conservative or liberal attitudes.

Conservatives, it turns out, react more strongly to physical threat than liberals do. In fact, their greater concern with physical safety seems to be determined early in life: In one University of California study, the more fear a 4-year-old showed in a laboratory situation, the more conservative his or her political attitudes were found to be 20 years later. Brain imaging studies have even shown that the fear center of the brain, the amygdala, is actually larger in conservatives than in liberals. And many other laboratory studies have found that when adult liberals experienced physical threat, their political and social attitudes became more conservative (temporarily, of course). But no one had ever turned conservatives into liberals.

Until we did....

But before they answered the survey questions, we had them engage in an intense imagination exercise. They were asked to close their eyes and richly imagine being visited by a genie who granted them a superpower. For half of our participants, this superpower was to be able to fly, under one’s own power. For the other half, it was to be completely physically safe, invulnerable to any harm.

If they had just imagined being able to fly, their responses to the social attitude survey showed the usual clear difference between Republicans and Democrats — the former endorsed more conservative positions on social issues and were also more resistant to social change in general.

But if they had instead just imagined being completely physically safe, the Republicans became significantly more liberal — their positions on social attitudes were much more like the Democratic respondents. And on the issue of social change in general, the Republicans’ attitudes were now indistinguishable from the Democrats. Imagining being completely safe from physical harm had done what no experiment had done before — it had turned conservatives into liberals.

In both instances, we had manipulated a deeper underlying reason for political attitudes, the strength of the basic motivation of safety and survival. The boiling water of our social and political attitudes, it seems, can be turned up or down by changing how physically safe we feel.

This is why it makes sense that liberal politicians intuitively portray danger as manageable — recall FDR’s famous Great Depression era reassurance of “nothing to fear but fear itself,” echoed decades later in Barack Obama’s final State of the Union address — and why President Trump and other Republican politicians are instead likely to emphasize the dangers of terrorism and immigration, relying on fear as a motivator to gain votes.

In fact, anti-immigration attitudes are also linked directly to the underlying basic drive for physical safety. For centuries, arch-conservative leaders have often referred to scapegoated minority groups as “germs” or “bacteria” that seek to invade and destroy their country from within. President Trump is an acknowledged germaphobe, and he has a penchant for describing people — not only immigrants but political opponents and former Miss Universe contestants — as “disgusting.”

... It turned out that those who had not gotten a flu shot (feeling threatened) expressed more negative attitudes toward immigration, while those who had received the vaccination (feeling safe) had more positive attitudes about immigration.

In another study, using hand sanitizer after being warned about the flu virus had the same effect on immigration attitudes as had being vaccinated. A simple squirt of Purell after we had raised the threat of the flu had changed their minds. It made them feel safe from the dangerous virus, and this made them feel socially safe from immigrants as well....
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America Is a Dangerous Place to Be a Kid
An analysis of OECD countries unmasks the ways America is failing its youth.


... Measure for measure, America is one of the most dangerous places in the world for a kid to grow up.

According to a multiyear study of mortality data, children in the United States are at higher risk of getting killed than their peers in virtually every other comparably wealthy society. Our country’s number-one child-death ranking centers on two primary factors—teens shot to death, and babies extinguished soon after birth....
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More Jim Carrey:

Michael Cohen x 2:
Auto-moronic ASSphyxiation. ;^P

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(The text surrounding the image refers to a threat Cohen once made to the media: “I’m warning you, tread very fucking lightly, because what I’m going to do to you is going to be fucking disgusting,” he told The Daily Beast in 2015. “You understand me?”)
Is there a short bus to take "all the best people" to prison? ;^P

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EPA administrator Scott Pruitt:
I looked on Trivago. The cheapest room in Washington is a youth hostel with bunkbeds at $81 a night. The $50 room Scott Pruitt got was a bribe from an energy lobbyist. Need your pipeline approved? Do it through Pruitt!

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National Security Advisor John Bolton:
“Bombing Syria should interrupt the news cycle for a day or two, Mr. President. Moscow has agreed to act like they’re upset. We’ll call it: OPERATION DESERT STORMY DANIELS.”

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Look at Bolton's mustache.

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Now ook at Bolton on TV today...
https://www.yahoo.com/news/no-decision- ... 48085.html

Is it my imagination or are the ends of the mustache starting to move toward the center - eventually leading to more like an infamous German leader version.

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