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#9541 Aptorian

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Posted 09 October 2019 - 07:23 PM

Robert Redford is a highly overrated actor. Change my mind.

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Posted 09 October 2019 - 07:26 PM

worry, on 09 October 2019 - 06:12 PM, said:

Wow, Sneakers has an oddly broad and durable cultural impact for a movie that nobody ever really talks about. This thread is now about USA Politics AND the movie Sneakers.

Hard agree. SNEAKERS is a great-ass movie.

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Posted 09 October 2019 - 09:15 PM

Aptorian, on 09 October 2019 - 07:23 PM, said:

Robert Redford is a highly overrated actor. Change my mind.

Clearly you haven't seen All Is Lost.

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Posted 09 October 2019 - 09:59 PM

President trump implying the US doesn't owe the kurds because they didn't help the US in Normandy?

Is their context I'm missing that makes this comment understandable?

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Posted 09 October 2019 - 10:08 PM

Cause, on 09 October 2019 - 09:59 PM, said:

President trump implying the US doesn't owe the kurds because they didn't help the US in Normandy?

Is their context I'm missing that makes this comment understandable?

'The president appears to have been referring to a Tuesday Townhall column by Kurt Schlichter praising Trump for his decision. “The Kurds helped destroy ISIS, true. It’s also true that the Kurds would have fought ISIS anyway, since the psycho caliphate was right next door,” Schlichter writes. “Let’s be honest—the Kurds didn’t show up for us at Normandy or Inchon or Khe Sanh or Kandahar.”'

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Posted 09 October 2019 - 10:33 PM

And he's sure proud of it: https://twitter.com/...059263297908737

Anyway, I'm thinking of becoming one of those guys who still gets red in the face with rage every 45 minutes about Benghazi, but handwaves away the Prez facilitating Turkey doing a genocide on the Kurds.

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 12:44 AM

QuickTidal, on 09 October 2019 - 07:26 PM, said:

worry, on 09 October 2019 - 06:12 PM, said:

Wow, Sneakers has an oddly broad and durable cultural impact for a movie that nobody ever really talks about. This thread is now about USA Politics AND the movie Sneakers.

Hard agree. SNEAKERS is a great-ass movie.

SNEAKERS Rules. Its been a few years time for a re-watch.

And for the love of god Congress, stop being surprised when they ignore you! Subpoena, fine, contempt, JAIL! FFS!

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 02:09 AM

Huh, odd timing. Did something happen to change their minds?

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 02:49 AM

Aptorian, on 09 October 2019 - 07:23 PM, said:

Robert Redford is a highly overrated actor. Change my mind.

Who else could play both cool hand Luke and Bob woodward.

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 06:16 AM

Azath Vitr (D, on 09 October 2019 - 10:08 PM, said:

Cause, on 09 October 2019 - 09:59 PM, said:

President trump implying the US doesn't owe the kurds because they didn't help the US in Normandy?

Is their context I'm missing that makes this comment understandable?

Repeating someone else's nonsense doesn't make it any better. Such a ridiculous argument.

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 09:20 AM

Vengeance, on 10 October 2019 - 02:49 AM, said:

Aptorian, on 09 October 2019 - 07:23 PM, said:

Robert Redford is a highly overrated actor. Change my mind.

Who else could play both cool hand Luke and Bob woodward.

Wasn't Cool Hand Luke Paul Newman?

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 05:05 PM

Okay, buckle up. Today's events are rolling hard and fast!

Two Giuliani Associates Tied to Ukraine Scandal Arrested on Campaign Finance Charges.
They were arrested last night at Dulles Airport trying to flee the country.
William Barr found out 12 hours ago they were going to be arrested...and they were fleeing the country this morning. Probablity that he tipped them off immediately? High...it's high.
These two are also a part of Trump's legal team.

Indictment link

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 05:19 PM

President of Ukraine swears there was no blackmail.
No... really... he crossed his heart and hoped to die and everything.

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#9554 Aptorian

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 07:37 PM

QuickTidal, on 10 October 2019 - 05:05 PM, said:

Seen on Reddit:

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Stupid liberals! This isn't even about Ukraine, this is a different, completely unrelated case of corruption involving Giuliani! You guys look like fools right now!

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Posted 10 October 2019 - 08:30 PM

I can't even tell if that's sarcasm or not. But...

For the international crowd, Rep. Pete Sessions is Jeff's brother btw.

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Posted 11 October 2019 - 12:09 AM

Abyss, on 10 October 2019 - 05:19 PM, said:

President of Ukraine swears there was no blackmail.
No... really... he crossed his heart and hoped to die and everything.

Their mistake was not bringing his patron a briefcase full of money.

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Posted 11 October 2019 - 02:10 AM

Hard to tell which one of the frontrunners has their finger on the pulse.

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Posted 11 October 2019 - 05:34 AM

worry, on 11 October 2019 - 02:10 AM, said:

Hard to tell which one of the frontrunners has their finger on the pulse.

I still feel like Biden should have run as a republican and primaried Trump.

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Posted 11 October 2019 - 02:24 PM

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