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This is such unbridled horseshit. I live in fucking California, and I'm not sure if I've ever seen a Fuck Trump shirt/flag/bumper sticker/whatever in person. I can't go a day without seeing Let's Go B

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Did not have former Skid Row lead singer Sebastian Bach talking shit to MAGA cult members on my bingo card. But here we are.  

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Minnesota Republican who sent his daughter to "conversion therapy"  thinks child abuse and bad parenting make people gay:


https://deadstate.org/mn-republican-who-sought-healing-for-his-lesbian-daughter-thinks-child-abuse-makes-people-gay/

Original article from City Pages

The only reason Paul Gazelka is still the Majority Leader is that the Senate didn't face the electorate in 2018.

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A friend spotted this yesterday. He wanted to blow it up on social media but I advised him not to -- that bank craves that sort of attention. From their "Core Values" (always with the "core values," this assholes. That and "moral fiber."): 

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Dismayed by the lack of reliable banks, Chappell Hill Bank was formed by liberty-minded Texans in Chappell Hill, Texas in 1907. Since its founding, the bank’s mission has been to not only protect a customer’s financial interests, but to honor their Constitutional rights, freedoms and privacy.
 

An important facet of the bank’s creation was its strategy of combining warm and friendly service with sound and solid assets. It was this conservative approach to offering people “a hand up” rather than “handouts” that first attracted farmers and ranchers over a hundred years ago, when the bank was known as Farmers State Bank. 

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Today, Chappell Hill Bank continues its commitment to its customers in ways that have formed deep roots in Texas while attracting accounts from across America. For example, not long ago when the bank adopted a first-in-the-nation policy to honor a customer’s Second Amendment rights, the overwhelmingly positive reaction earned the bank national media attention and messages of support and encouragement from around the world. For over a century, Chappell Hill Bank has not only meant great rates and good old-fashioned courtesy, it’s also been a rallying cry for liberty-minded people everywhere.

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I just can't. I'd ask wtf is wrong with people, but I know whatever answer I get won't be satisfactory

You sound like someone who doesn't support STATES RIGHTS!

Why do you hate America, which hatred you symbolize by [checks notes] not celebrating a treasonous movement that waged war against America?

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49 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

I just can't. I'd ask wtf is wrong with people, but I know whatever answer I get won't be satisfactory

Because they are fucking losers, so of course they latch onto other losers?

I have plenty of ancestors and distant relatives who were Confederates.  The younger ones, I can give a pass on, people do stupid shit at 16, 17, 18.  But the older folks?  They fully knew better, and they knew what they were doing was wrong.

As I like to remind certain family members, there is a reason why the abolition movement came out of the churches and was driven by Christians in the North.

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Chappell Hill was home to a wonderful African-American artist named Johnnie Swearingen. (1908-1993) He has a painting in the Smithsonian but for a long time, he wasn't appreciated in large part because he was self-taught and black. Weird trivia: one of his first paintings he gave to the bank president of the time.

Here is a link to a Texas Monthly article about him, unfortunately the picture links are not available so if you'd like to view his work, try the second link to the collection at the historical museum.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/painting-the-towns-3/

"Swearingen and his art posed a good-humored but very real affront to aesthetic and social norms in this tiny town, a village more of the Deep South than the Old West. Just as nettlesome, the paintings also challenged its gingerbread version of history. “Chappell Hill residents today quietly promote the vanished age of elegance through careful preservation of the town’s past,” reads a panel in the museum. Displays of plow points and sepia photographs of couples in their tennis whites, documenting what the museum calls a “gentler era,” are, as anyone knows, code for plantation life. For Chappell Hill, as for many other small Southern towns, such images of refinement and antiquity have affirmed a comforting, proud identity."

"Johnnie Swearingen saw things differently. Less interested in a “vanished age” than in the present-day world around him, he offered a roving, bird’s-eye view of Washington County during four decades of change. Men stagger into taverns. Nurses dawdle in a parking lot outside the local hospital. A farmer steers his tractor into an iridescent field of maize .It’s as if we have two tales of Chappell Hill, and the discrepancy between them is what has made Swearingen’s paintings so unsettling. They blow up the lacy skirts of yesteryear, chronicling a history that’s closer to the present, slippery but true."

http://www.syntuit.com/artspace/jss/ex1.htm

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A friend spotted this yesterday. He wanted to blow it up on social media but I advised him not to -- that bank craves that sort of attention. From their "Core Values" (always with the "core values," this assholes. That and "moral fiber."): 

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I'd bet my next paycheck the people behind this whine about kids getting participation trophies with a straight face.

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An important facet of the bank’s creation was its strategy of combining warm and friendly service with sound and solid assets. It was this conservative approach to offering white people “a hand up” rather than “handouts” that first attracted white farmers and ranchers over a hundred years ago, when the bank was known as Farmers State Bank. This deeper sense of segregated purpose enabled the bank to become one of the few financial institutions west of the Mississippi to keep its doors open throughout the Great Depression.

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Nothing, because they are committed to the man at the top. He defines them.
Soldiers are expendable. The Godking is not.

I’ve had to stop listening to NPR in the morning and switch to AM sports.  After dropping the 3yo off at daycare and tuning in, the rest of my 20m commute was spent ranting to myself about the GOP policies on science, regulations, immigration, equal rights, the environment, blind worship of Trump, McConnell, Fox News, etc.  I get my news from a variety of sources using google news so I KNOW when it’s all lies...hell im pretty liberal but avoid places like Slate because I don’t want to cloud my perception from sources that are too biased either way.  
 

It’s just sad and not NPRs fault.  Public radio is a hugely valuable resource but yelling at David Greene for not calling a spade a spade...instead of doing an admirable job of neutrally reporting the latest GOP hypocrisy in the impeachment trial...was starting my day off poorly.  

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Chappell Hill was home to a wonderful African-American artist named Johnnie Swearingen. (1908-1993) He has a painting in the Smithsonian but for a long time, he wasn't appreciated in large part because he was self-taught and black. Weird trivia: one of his first paintings he gave to the bank president of the time.
Here is a link to a Texas Monthly article about him, unfortunately the picture links are not available so if you'd like to view his work, try the second link to the collection at the historical museum.
https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/painting-the-towns-3/
"Swearingen and his art posed a good-humored but very real affront to aesthetic and social norms in this tiny town, a village more of the Deep South than the Old West. Just as nettlesome, the paintings also challenged its gingerbread version of history. “Chappell Hill residents today quietly promote the vanished age of elegance through careful preservation of the town’s past,” reads a panel in the museum. Displays of plow points and sepia photographs of couples in their tennis whites, documenting what the museum calls a “gentler era,” are, as anyone knows, code for plantation life. For Chappell Hill, as for many other small Southern towns, such images of refinement and antiquity have affirmed a comforting, proud identity."
"Johnnie Swearingen saw things differently. Less interested in a “vanished age” than in the present-day world around him, he offered a roving, bird’s-eye view of Washington County during four decades of change. Men stagger into taverns. Nurses dawdle in a parking lot outside the local hospital. A farmer steers his tractor into an iridescent field of maize .It’s as if we have two tales of Chappell Hill, and the discrepancy between them is what has made Swearingen’s paintings so unsettling. They blow up the lacy skirts of yesteryear, chronicling a history that’s closer to the present, slippery but true."
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Thanks for the info, I somehow had never heard of him despite having extensive historical familial ties to that area.
Washington Co is definitely racist AF and deeply Trump country.
Nearby Crimes Co has a Confederate memorial as well that they had to relocate from the courthouse to private property a few yards away.
I loved our family ranch down there and miss it.
I don't miss all the racist assholes and Aggies tho.
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39 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

 

Just finished listening to it. Ten minutes of a "tough" interview where he was asked hard questions and the reporter stood her ground, refuting a few points where he was dissembling or outright lying.

After which, off mic, a staffer pulls her into his office where he goes into a ten minute tirade dropping an f-bomb on an NPR!!! reporter asking her to point out Ukraine on an unlabeled map. She does so and then he's just like "leave me alone!"

These bullies full of bravado are what they've always been and always will be: milksop, crybaby pantywaists.

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Just finished listening to it. Ten minutes of a "tough" interview where he was asked hard questions and the reporter stood her ground, refuting a few points where he was dissembling or outright lying.
After which, off mic, a staffer pulls her into his office where he goes into a ten minute tirade dropping an f-bomb on an NPR!!! reporter asking her to point out Ukraine on an unlabeled map. She does so and then he's just like "leave me alone!"
These bullies full of bravado are what they've always been and always will be: milksop, crybaby pantywaists.

FUCK. YES.
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Pompeo's statement, "Americans don't care about Ukraine," is wrong. Many do. They care about their fight for democracy. They care about Russia attempting to subvert that democracy. Americans care about many countries around the world and most of all,  Americans care about America. However, when the highest officials in the country, the most powerful media voices obscure and dissemble the discussions regarding foreign policy; when they outright manipulate and machinate foreign officials to self-serving gains, Americans and the world suffers and doesn't have the ability to learn enough to care either. As someone who once lived in 'flyover' country, he should know this. Americans are worth more than his dismissal that 'he knows what and who Americans are.' Are we self-centered, selfish and stupid? Sure, but we have potential and he shouldn't write us off like he wrote off Ukraine in favor of the Kremlin master to whom his Commander now kowtows.

 

What a piece of dung. Oh, and a misogynist to boot. Glad Kelly stood her ground.

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Lose your temper, say stupid shit, blame the unhinged media. Rinse and repeat. All of these people need to be banned from public life. Can we do that?

 

 

The woman has a Masters in European Studies from fucking Cambridge.  I'm betting she can find Ukraine on a fucking map.   For a West Point guy, Pompeo lacks honor, to put it mildly. 

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The woman has a Masters in European Studies from fucking Cambridge.  I'm betting she can find Ukraine on a fucking map.   For a West Point guy, Pompeo lacks honor, to put it mildly. 

Truly, one of the takeaways I’m getting from the Pompeo part of this admin is that I am now MUCH less impressed by a West Point degree than I was before. This guy was the top of his class? In terms of intellect and honor, I’m underwhelmed as hell.
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Between the three of them, M.L. Kelly, Fiona Hill, and Marie Yvanovitch could have him in a weeping puddle on the floor leaving Pelosi to walk in with the final word. These guys get women pissed enough, some women's group out there is going to yarn-bomb the capitol building with a XXXXL pink vagina hat.

Undefeated.

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On 1/17/2020 at 4:16 PM, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

lulz:

 

You gotta be some kind of pussy ass bitch to be wearing Trump socks

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He combines the good looks and Adonis-like body of Lev Parnas with the intellect of Eric Trump. And ladies, believe it or not he appears to be single.

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You gotta be some kind of pussy ass bitch to be wearing Trump socks
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He combines the good looks and Adonis-like body of Lev Parnas with the intellect of Eric Trump. And ladies, believe it or not he appears to be single.

Ladies?
That is a man who sobs to himself with self-loathing as he beats off to interracial gay porn. A lot.
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Ladies?
That is a man who sobs to himself with self-loathing as he beats off to interracial gay porn. A lot.

That dude dresses up like a woman and flirts with teenage boys online. Prove me wrong 

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Gee, what a shame.  

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/27/kevin-mccarthy-war-powers-resolutions-106170

 

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy implored his Democratic counterpart on Monday to reconsider maneuvers that restrict the GOP’s ability to use procedural tactics to shape a pair of war powers resolutions coming to the floor this week.

In a letter delivered to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), McCarthy (R-Calif.) asked the Democratic leader to reconsider his party's strategy and emphasized how important it is to preserve the limited tools that are available to the minority party.

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The House will vote Thursday on a pair of measures — led by California Democrats Barbara Lee and Ro Khanna — that would further crack down on Trump’s ability to launch unilateral strikes on nations like Iran.

But Democrats have taken careful steps to avoid an embarrassing repeat of last year, when Republicans essentially forced the House into a do-over on a similar bill. The fear is that Republicans will use a procedural vote — known as a motion to recommit — to split Democrats and force certain changes to the bill, as the GOP has successfully done on some of the most contentious measures of 2019.

 

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Last February, the GOP temporarily tanked bipartisan legislation to rein in Trump’s war-making powers in Yemen — a historic vote that marked the first time since the passage of the 1973 War Powers Act that both chambers agreed to halt a military effort.

At the time, Republicans had seized on tensions within the Democratic Caucus over certain remarks perceived as anti-Semitic by some of their own members. GOP lawmakers eventually secured enough Democratic votes to amend the legislation and add language condemning anti-Semitism, which held up the measure.

 

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