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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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Yep. I was a George Will/Ronald Reagan/Al Laffer conservative.  I genuinely thought that if you cut taxes for the upper classes, then they would spend and invest and the economic result of that w

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4 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

The one between Trump and his flock, or between Fitlump and Mackowiak?

Fitlump's beef is that he's trying to take credit for what she's been doing.

If this turns into a real cat fight,  I will be more entertained by it than most.

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19 minutes ago, Bevo14 said:

Must be nice getting to make up shit and flat out lie all the time. I feel like I'm missing out. 

At this point she probably doesn't even think about words, it just spills out and she gets a check. Kinda like a Katrina and the Waves tribute band--there is no introspection, just a steady paycheck for Walking on Sunshine.

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52 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

If this turns into a real cat fight,  I will be more entertained by it than most.

It shouldn't' be.  Mackowiak is not going anywhere.   FL is female, (R), and attractive in the eyes of some, and so far, with the exception of one fiasco that got her scorched on Facebook/twitter with the MAGA crowd, she's threaded the needle on not pissing off either side too much.

Shit, she's even stayed out of the mask brouhaha.

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8 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


Actually had this cranked up in the car just last week. Fuck it, Ima go down a rabbit hole of great tunes soon. Makes more sense than anything on this thread.

Did it last night, wound up listening to The Gilded Palace of Sin from front to back at about midnight with some Old Forester.

Nice to let go of the world for a while. 

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Opinion: Let’s see if we have the GOP’s 2022 message straight

 

Republicans have latched on to a series of both foreign and domestic policies that will set the stage for their 2022 campaigns. Weirdly, their positions turn out to be starkly at odds with a majority of voters.

On foreign policy, some Republicans, in search of a way to deflect blame from their cult leader who cut a surrender agreement with the Taliban and drew down troops to 2,500, would now have voters believe it was all a ruse. Sure, they argue, Donald Trump ran on ending the war, but that was a lie. This is their excuse? That he was going to continue the forever war he ran against?

It seems Republicans are returning to the position that we should never leave Afghanistan, one at odds with most Americans. Even more striking, Republicans are already beating the drum to limit entry of Afghan allies, which 80 percent of Americans disagree with. The GOP message boils down to: Stay forever, and if not, don’t take Afghans with us. Most voters want out and want to take as many Afghan allies as possible. In fact, they think the Biden team is not doing enough to evacuate Afghans.

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If “America first” has become an indecipherable muddle, it looks like a masterpiece of statecraft compared with Republicans’ domestic agenda, which is not so much an agenda as a statement of what they are against.

Most clearly, Republicans are against democracy. Every single House Republican voted against the revival of the preclearance provisions in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act. In the Senate, every Republican voted against proceeding on debate of a voting rights bill. Filibuster-reform resisters such as Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) must understand by now that even the few Republicans who are willing to acknowledge that Trump instigated a violent insurrection — including Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) — are in favor of allowing states to suppress the vote and subvert election results.

Republicans in both the House and Senate were also unanimous in their opposition to domestic policy items such as the American Rescue Plan (including funding for states to keep first responders on the payroll and the child tax credit); an increase in funding for the Internal Revenue Service to go after tax cheats; raising taxes on corporations or the super-rich (even though both often manage to pay nothing in federal taxes); extending Medicare to cover vision, hearing and dental care; caps on prescription drug prices; subsidized child care; paid family leave; and free community college. Each item gets support from a majority of voters, including some with upward of 60 percent support, even among Republican voters. In a real sense, if a majority of Americans are in favor of something to help working- or middle-class voters, Republican politicians are against it.


Worst of all, Republicans are against lifesaving mask and vaccine mandates. The results are grim. Texas has more than 14,000 people hospitalized with covid-19 (the vast majority unvaccinated); Florida is even worse, with 17,000 hospitalizations. On Wednesday, Florida’s daily death count reached an all-time high of 228. Yahoo News reports that Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who’s on a mission to block mask and vaccine mandates, is the “first (and so far only) governor in the U.S. whose state is now recording more covid-19 deaths each day — long after free, safe and effective vaccines became widely available to all Americans age 12 or older — than during any previous wave of the virus.” CNN reports: “Florida and Texas account for nearly a third (31%) of current covid-19 hospitalizations. Florida has the worst per capita hospitalization rate in the country — about 80 hospitalizations per 100,000 people — followed by Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana, each with more than 55 hospitalizations per 100,000 people.” That’s Republican pandemic policy at work. All of this takes place as supermajorities of Americans favor mask and vaccine mandates.

Democrats should be running — it is not too soon! — against a party in favor of grossly unpopular things. Unusually in a midterm cycle, incumbent Democrats have the chance to make Republicans’ radical, dangerous and antidemocratic views the issue. Granted, without a thriving economy and a pandemic under control, Democrats will face stiff headwinds. But if Democrats have bragging rights on the economy and pandemic, their best hope for retaining the majority would be to paint a vivid portrait of what Republicans would do if they held power: continue an endless war, throw desperate refugees to the wolves, overturn elections, nix everything from the child tax credit to dental coverage for seniors and make Florida and Texas the model for covid-19 policy. Is that what voters really want?

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17 minutes ago, Biff Tannen said:

Just ran across some nutjob app on Fire TV called “Truth & Art” which is apparently some shithead who has been kicked off of every other platform for qanon and trumpkin bullshit. Not sure why Amazon is allowing this. 

I'm not sure who is worse about letting shit into their app store - Amazon or Google.

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I saw that video without context and thought, "This weirdo thinks that you can physically remove elected officials from a meeting, replace them instantly with regular citizens, and then have that new group pass legislation that same day?  Is that how this guy thinks elections work?"

Then I come here and see he's running for Governor?  He's trying to win an election, and he thinks elections are when people aren't physically in a building, that whoever else in the building gets to pass their own laws?  

Was he just trying to rile up his base there or is he actually this stupid?  Does he worry that when he's Governor and leaves the Capitol to go home to the Governor's Mansion to sleep...that the custodial staff back in the Capitol can pass a bunch of laws without him there?  

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38 minutes ago, Lobo said:

I saw that video without context and thought, "This weirdo thinks that you can physically remove elected officials from a meeting, replace them instantly with regular citizens, and then have that new group pass legislation that same day?  Is that how this guy thinks elections work?"

Then I come here and see he's running for Governor?  He's trying to win an election, and he thinks elections are when people aren't physically in a building, that whoever else in the building gets to pass their own laws?  

Was he just trying to rile up his base there or is he actually this stupid?  Does he worry that when he's Governor and leaves the Capitol to go home to the Governor's Mansion to sleep...that the custodial staff back in the Capitol can pass a bunch of laws without him there?  

He's describing how he would like the government to work. Fascists usually tell you exactly who they are and what they're doing before they do it 

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I can never tell what is worse:

  • That the GOP is recruiting stupid parents to exploit in their attempts to destroy the public education they require for their children at the local level; or
  • That they allow themselves to be exploited, without realizing the above, and that the GOP will throw them away once they're done with the above. 
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