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milestogo

(16,829 posts) Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:19 PM Dec 2018

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oh please just bury him already

The television coverage of this event has gone on for too long. Do we really need to keep seeing the train?!

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oh please just bury him already (Original Post) milestogo Dec 2018 OP

Why do you watch it? Kaleva Dec 2018 #1

yes, but I'm consoled by how much it is freaking out Trump... n/t hlthe2b Dec 2018 #2

So why keep watching it? BannonsLiver Dec 2018 #3

wish I could give you one million RECS jodymarie aimee Dec 2018 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author flyingfysh Dec 2018 #5

I know! I was going to post the same thing. Laffy Kat Dec 2018 #6

I'm trying really hard to not make a Weekend at Bernie's joke NightWatcher Dec 2018 #7

From the time the coverage began I have started and finished a novel and begun another one. That dameatball Dec 2018 #8

Good luck getting them published ! nt eppur_se_muova Dec 2018 #13

Try the power button pintobean Dec 2018 #9

Michaelangelo Signorile of Sirius/XM wrote an oped reminding people how GHWB Eliot Rosewater Dec 2018 #10

Amen to that blueinredohio Dec 2018 #11

MSNBC is my default station. milestogo Dec 2018 #12

Am I being paranoid or is there no way a Democrat would get this much airtime. betsuni Dec 2018 #14

Odds are you will find out before long misanthrope Dec 2018 #15

Just take a deep breath and change the channel. Marrah_Goodman Dec 2018 #16

Kaleva

(36,294 posts)

1. Why do you watch it?

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:20 PM

Dec 2018

hlthe2b

(102,200 posts)

2. yes, but I'm consoled by how much it is freaking out Trump... n/t

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:20 PM

Dec 2018

BannonsLiver

(16,352 posts)

3. So why keep watching it?

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:21 PM

Dec 2018

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)

4. wish I could give you one million RECS

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:24 PM

Dec 2018

it will never end...and I have not watched one minute of it...WI needed all the national coverage it could get this week and it's all Poppy...

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Laffy Kat

(16,376 posts)

6. I know! I was going to post the same thing.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:27 PM

Dec 2018

Seriously.

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

7. I'm trying really hard to not make a Weekend at Bernie's joke

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:28 PM

Dec 2018

Whoops

dameatball

(7,396 posts)

8. From the time the coverage began I have started and finished a novel and begun another one. That

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:28 PM

Dec 2018

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does take a while.

One day I hope they give the peanut farmer who served on a submarine equal time. But I doubt he would want that. Maybe GHWB wouldn't have either. I don't know.

eppur_se_muova

(36,257 posts)

13. Good luck getting them published ! nt

Reply to dameatball (Reply #8)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 08:37 PM

Dec 2018

pintobean

(18,101 posts)

9. Try the power button

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:30 PM

Dec 2018

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

10. Michaelangelo Signorile of Sirius/XM wrote an oped reminding people how GHWB

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:39 PM

Dec 2018

extended the violent murderous actions of the Reagan administration as it relates to killing people with AIDS because they purposely would not recognize it and spend money to resolve it.

He just wanted some "balance" to be out there.

I have given him only respect up until now due to his service in WWII, the actions of the men and women in those days were truly heroic and I insist on giving him props for that. But I also think balance is needed.

Oh, and the very first comment an AA friend of mine had when she heard the news was "the man who gave us Willie Horton politics"

blueinredohio

(6,797 posts)

11. Amen to that

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:47 PM

Dec 2018

Get the man buried.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)

12. MSNBC is my default station.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 05:51 PM

Dec 2018

So much of the talk going on is just "filler".

betsuni

(25,449 posts)

14. Am I being paranoid or is there no way a Democrat would get this much airtime.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 08:51 PM

Dec 2018

misanthrope

(7,411 posts)

15. Odds are you will find out before long

Reply to betsuni (Reply #14)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:30 PM

Dec 2018

Carter is the same age as Bush41. Bill Clinton has aged rapidly since his coronary issues emerged.

Marrah_Goodman

(1,586 posts)

16. Just take a deep breath and change the channel.

Reply to milestogo (Original post)

Thu Dec 6, 2018, 09:33 PM

Dec 2018

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