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23rd February 2022, 04:45 PM | #201 |
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Rick's GOP platform is rather long-winded. He can simplify it to one sentence.
"Make America a white, male, christian ruled dictatorship." |
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23rd February 2022, 05:26 PM | #202 |
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23rd February 2022, 05:34 PM | #203 |
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...our governments are just trying to protect us from terror. In the same way that someone banging a hornets’ nest with a stick is trying to protect us from hornets. Frankie Boyle, Guardian, July 2015 |
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24th February 2022, 10:36 PM | #204 |
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Former Prez. Trump mistakenly thought that the U.S. invaded Ukraine.
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25th February 2022, 12:10 AM | #205 |
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25th February 2022, 07:19 AM | #206 |
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I have my doubts. Usually the GOP is lining up in a desperate bid to see who can outdo the cruelty of the last GOPper to propose something. I'd like to see actual evidence of them actually shying away from this craziness.
Frankly, I've seen too much of the Republican party of late to believe any of them are going to back away from the crazy. They're just gonna build a platform of bigger crazy instead. |
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25th February 2022, 07:51 AM | #207 |
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25th February 2022, 07:55 AM | #208 |
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Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) says Russia is a communist country (dumb) and invaded Ukraine because they need more farmland (dumber).
https://news.yahoo.com/sen-tommy-tub...211237327.html |
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25th February 2022, 08:07 AM | #209 |
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Some reporter asked AZ Governor Ducey about crazy lady Wendy Rodgers cuddling up to nazis and he replied "better than having a democrat in office." Stay classy!
Tweets are embedded in this blog thingie here. She's speaking at nazi Incel douchebag Nick Fuentes' "America First PAC" later this week, presumably to avoid those liberal cucks at CPAC. |
25th February 2022, 08:10 AM | #210 |
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Ted Cruz called Jen Psaki "Peppermint Patty."
Jen: "I can't be offended. I like Peppermint Patty." Swing and a miss, Ted.... He should have said, "She's uglier than my wife." |
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25th February 2022, 08:32 AM | #211 |
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Am I late to the party with this “do you know who I am” gem?
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...21862.html?amp |
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25th February 2022, 08:37 AM | #212 |
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AZ Governor Doug Ducey saying the quiet part out loud. It seems to me the Rs are getting more vocal and more unhinged.
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25th February 2022, 09:32 AM | #213 |
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It's the usually right-wing word salad. they have no principles, no ideas, no actual policies. They just have these vague notions of being angry at stuff. That's why they can hold one position on issue A and hold a position on issue B that actually is a direct contradiction to their former position. The smart ones at least know to space the contradicting statements out and not have them in the same bullet point.
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25th February 2022, 12:23 PM | #214 |
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25th February 2022, 03:03 PM | #216 |
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25th February 2022, 03:08 PM | #217 |
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27th February 2022, 05:07 AM | #218 |
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Mike Lindell confronted CBS News’ Robert Costa at CPAC. He called him a “traitor to America“ and got everyone to chant “traitor! traitor! traitor!“ at him.
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27th February 2022, 03:58 PM | #219 |
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28th February 2022, 03:12 PM | #220 |
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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28th February 2022, 03:54 PM | #221 |
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The do love their chants: Lock her up, Let's go, Brandon, Traitor, You will not replace us, Fire Fauci, Send her back, Stop the Steal, etc. I think it's all their little brains can remember.
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28th February 2022, 04:17 PM | #222 |
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28th February 2022, 06:48 PM | #223 |
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1st March 2022, 09:03 AM | #225 |
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Of course, we are not talking Bible-Christians with all that “love your neighbor” “forgive your enemy” and “whatever you do to the least of my brethren you do to Me.”
We are talking prosperity-Gospel crap: “my having lots of money is proof that God loves me.” (See Joel Osteen ministries for more details) |
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1st March 2022, 09:07 AM | #226 |
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1st March 2022, 12:20 PM | #227 |
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I guess Biden is responsible for inflation elsewhere, too. Most of Europe and several other countries are experiencing high inflation rates for the same reasons the US is. But ignorance and/or stupidity reduces it to 'blame Biden'.
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4th March 2022, 02:06 PM | #228 |
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https://twitter.com/mattdcompton/sta...41121583640577
Maybe not quite safe for work. Put the sound on. Don't be drinking coffee or any other beverage. |
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4th March 2022, 03:33 PM | #229 |
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4th March 2022, 04:29 PM | #230 |
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9th March 2022, 07:13 AM | #231 |
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Being the victim of genocidal atrocities does not give you free reign to commit your own genocidal atrocities. When Republican politicians were young, they were the kids who watched James Bond movies and said "I want to grow up to be just like [insert name of villain here]." |
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9th March 2022, 08:45 AM | #232 |
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Gunter Haas, the 'leading British expert,' was a graphologist who advised couples, based on their handwriting characteristics, if they were compatible for marriage. I would submit that couples idiotic enough to do this are probably quite suitable for each other. It's nice when stupid people find love. - Ludovic Kennedy |
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9th March 2022, 08:47 AM | #233 |
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"And that pilot? Albert Einstein. And then the whole plane clapped."
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9th March 2022, 04:18 PM | #234 |
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Being the victim of genocidal atrocities does not give you free reign to commit your own genocidal atrocities. When Republican politicians were young, they were the kids who watched James Bond movies and said "I want to grow up to be just like [insert name of villain here]." |
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10th March 2022, 02:09 PM | #237 |
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Also merely having his license revoked will never stop him from driving
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10th March 2022, 02:09 PM | #238 |
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“If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago |
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10th March 2022, 03:43 PM | #239 |
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This is the same guy who lied about his friend leaving him for dead in the car after the accident (his now ex-friend actually pulled him out of the burning car), lying about the accident ending his going to the Naval Academy when he'd already been rejected before the accident, and had several claims of harassing women while in college, etc. He's an idiot.
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