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QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 23, 2017 -> 06:15 AM) Shame about the police shooting peaceful protesters with tear gas and rubber bullets, though. If they were smarter and wanted to be left alone, they should have carried Nazi flags and tiki torches.

QUOTE (JenksIsMyHero @ Aug 22, 2017 -> 02:44 PM) Why have a private conversation to trick Littlefinger? Seems unnecessary. If that convo was in the open, then I could buy it. Maybe because he always has spies nearby? You never know who could be hiding nearby helping him out. I dunno....I'm really grasping at straws here.

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 22, 2017 -> 01:10 PM) Those cheap mass produced statues are weird. Get rid of them all now. That's so bizarre they are fake like that. Good video. I thought the bigger takeaway was the timing of these things getting mass produced (i.e., during Jim Crow era and during the Civil Rights movement of the 60s). Any argument that these were made to honor the South or whatever other excuses proponents have, is disingenuous. These were built as a big F.U. to black people.

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Good video at the link. Greg, you may want to check it out since you seemed aghast about the statue situation.

Maybe someone already mentioned this but the army of dead doesn't seem very scary anymore. Jon and his 5 or 6 friends literally killed a few hundred of them without suffering a single casualty. I guess you can count Benjen although those were odd circumstances. Still scratching my head as to why he didn't jump on the horse as well.

QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Aug 22, 2017 -> 07:50 AM) Trump also pretty much announcing last night that we will be at war with Afghanistan forever. @MicahZenko Bottom line: Trump has now expanded US military presence and/or airstrikes in EVERY combat theater he inherited from Obama. War forever. Worked really well for Russia to be in Afghanistan forever.

"Trump is already on track to spend more on travel in a year than President Obama did in eight" link So no, they are not all the same.

QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 11:38 AM) Has there ever been a president who didn't golf and go on vacation too much? Yeah, but does anyone come close to what Trump is doing? All this stuff is on record. We can compare how often each President golfs and goes on vacation, at least in the modern era. Trump is blowing everyone out of the water and he's the only one I could recall going out of his way complaining about other Presidents. The secret service cannot keep up. When the heck has that ever happened in our lifetimes?

It took Trump 7 months to bankrupt the secret service.

QUOTE (bmags @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 08:13 AM) See, this part is entertaining but also what has bothered me about the show this season. They are way too self aware of conversation around show. The joke about Gendry rowing, the diving into Tormund and Brienne, it's a lot of "haha, we know you guys were joking about this, wink wink" Which reminds me so much of comic book movies and the kind of shallow fan service that makes you feel like you liked the film but then forget everything about it hours later. It's empty calories. I enjoyed last night's episode, but it just is riding on all of the work done seasons ago now. Due to nothing recently, I actually felt like the night king could have killed Dany and Jon takes over the dragons. But then I came to my senses. They are too scared now to kill Bronn. Too scared to kill Jorah. It's just a comic book movie now, people are supposedly dying but no one is in danger. You completely nailed it. I'm feeling the same way this season.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 21, 2017 -> 06:31 AM) Saw this comment, thought it was pretty spot on... Of all the stupidest contrivances on GOT, the one tonight was the worst to date: the army of the dead found a super heavy chain, in the middle of nowhere, to haul a dead dragon out of the water. What the hell? Were they carrying an enormous chain with them all along, just in case they need to haul something big out of the water?? Please, writers, directors, don't do this to us. Why not have the Night King jump into the water, revive the dragon there and then emerge from the water riding the dragon? Now that would have been a dramatic ending to this episode. You strain things enough as it is. Stop these ridiculous plot devices. LOL. Love it.

Jorah: "We may all freeze to death here." (Thoros' body burning 2 feet away with no one standing near it to warm up)

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Aug 17, 2017 -> 07:25 PM) KKK leader threatens to 'burn' black Latina journalist and calls her a 'n*****' during interview https://www.yahoo.com/news/kkk-leader-threa...-211000053.html "There are very nice people on both sides"

QUOTE (greg775 @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 06:15 PM) I can see why Trump blamed some people besides the white supremists. He ripped white supremists and Nazis. He said he despises their actions. What more do you want? I get it. Everybody despises Trump. But what has he done so bad of late in regard to this situation? You know, the hooligans ripping down statues aren't the best behaved people as well. Trump is awful. We all know that but he's not racist, folks. He's just not no matter how much you want him to prove to be one. Why do we have statues honoring men who were treasonous to our country? You do not find this to be odd? On top of that, these men honored in statues were responsible for wanting to keep slavery and killed Americans to try to make that happen. So yeah, I can see why people would want to rip down these statues.

Btw, Trump is on camera right now defending the white supremacists at Charlottesville. Saying many were good people.

QUOTE (Chicago White Sox @ Aug 15, 2017 -> 01:09 PM) ....without really giving the other side a chance to explain their views & opinions. That's definitely the case here. It's not like rabbit hasn't continually put his foot in his mouth regarding this topic.

Watched the first ep of Ozark. I'll keep watching.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 10:54 AM) This is probably the biggest lie of all of them. There have been post after post equating all Trump voters/supporer to this and anything else done with racial overtones. Well you have to admit, when a candidate gets public support by hate groups and Nazis, might be time to question why you support said candidate.

QUOTE (brett05 @ Aug 14, 2017 -> 10:45 AM) Finally? He did it right away He denounced Nazis right away? What world are you living in? There's a reason why so many of those hate groups were applauding his statements over the weekend.

QUOTE (Jerksticks @ Aug 12, 2017 -> 07:16 PM) I bet there are less than 10,000 white supremicists in this country. Acting like 50 million people are white supremicists is a serious problem. A serious problem. Since you backed it up so well, I will have to agree with you.

So Sad!

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Aug 12, 2017 -> 03:18 PM) Trump's extremely not specific statement working as intended https://twitter.com/ashleyfeinberg/status/8...src=twsrc%5Etfw Funny how he gets extremely specific when making statements about others. Always vague when it comes to white supremacists and Nazis. I'm sure that's not intentional.

8 months into his presidency and we're on the brink of nuclear war and nazis killed a person in broad daylight. #MAGA

Link And LOL at the first comment.