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    TrumpsTinyHandsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 1:02pm

    The first of these I can remember is the Chicago welfare queen who was making 100K per year getting welfare payments for nonexistent children. That fictional character brought to you by the original liar-in-chief: Ronald Reagan.

    Follow-up: if you make up a story about a woman making up children, are those children real, or super-double-imaginary?

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      Jason JohnsonTrumpsTinyHands
      8/08/17 2:02pm

      The woman that Regan created the racist “Welfare Queen” myth from was Linda Taylor. Mind you her ACTUAL story is insane and deserves a movie

      http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/history/2013/12/linda_taylor_welfare_queen_ronald_reagan_made_her_a_notorious_american_villain.html

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      TrumpsTinyHandsJason Johnson
      8/08/17 2:46pm

      Wow, as Paul Harvey would say, that is the rest of the story.... although, to be fair, she was in jail for fraud in 1977, so in 1980 when he was all “welfare cheats get away with shit,” kind of not really true.

      Also related: read “Under The Banner of Heaven”. Descirbes the goings on of fundmentalist mormom sects in the US, Canada and Mexico. Pretty fucked up, but they make a system of claiming their plural wives as unwed mothers and taking as much aid as possible. They have quite a racket going. Warning: the book is super upsetting, and welfare and food-stamps fraud is like the nicest thing they do.

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    Michael HarriotStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 1:42pm

    Let’s not forget about Maine Governor Paul Lepage’s binder full of drug dealers, two of whom were named “Shifty” and “D Money,” who came to Maine to sell heroin and impregnate white girls

    http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/01/08/maine-governor-paul-lepage-shifty-d-money-drugs-sot.wmtw

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    poo javelinStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 12:25pm

    “What do you mean imaginary? Jim is every bit as real as me” said Trump spokesman John Miller! And John Barron backed him up on this…

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      insectsentiencepoo javelin
      8/08/17 5:20pm

      It’s like Buckaroo Banzai all over again

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      poo javelininsectsentience
      8/08/17 5:23pm

      Jim is 79 years old and hails from Grovers Mill, NJ!

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    carlvenkmanStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 12:41pm

    T-Bone? Really? T-Bone. That’s funny.

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      rockymay!carlvenkman
      8/08/17 1:03pm

      Thank you. T-Bone was the best be could do?!?!? Rilly?!?!? What about Junebug or T-Money?!?!?

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    smoke&waterStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 12:26pm

    I had an imaginary friend.

    I’m kidding of course. I don’t have any friends.

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    Ugh.Stephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 12:17pm

    Drop Dead Fred’s foreign policy ideas are surprisingly cogent.

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      Foszæ BosatsuUgh.
      8/08/17 12:24pm

      Having dealt with some of Dissociative Identity/Multiple Personality/Tulpamancy community, i’d more likely trust them as stable, reasonable people than pathological liars creating some politically-expedient fiction. Hearing from some rogue part of your own brain seems less troublesome than arbitrarily claiming you speak for an imaginary sky wizard too. Poorly understood facts and scientific mysteries are still preferable to posturing behind flat-out bullshit.

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    Not Enough Day DrinkingStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 1:24pm

    Oh, it goes much further back than that...

    George Bush: ‘God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq’

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    Darmok eats Challah at 12NagraStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 1:32pm

    Children create imaginary friends because they’re lonely. I don’t know why adults do it, but this article basically explains why.

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    F Trump and his GoonsStephen A. Crockett Jr.
    8/08/17 12:39pm

    no witty comment to make - simply enjoyed reading this piece. Thanks Stephen

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