Cleanup in Aisle Lunatic (h/t romad1)

[CMRivdogs]

Every other word out of this moron's mouth is wokeism. Maybe if he stopped trying to date minors....he'd grow up and learn something.

Spoon fed by daddy, got into W&M on a legacy. The guy has never had any real life experience. 

Edited April 5, 2022 by CMRivdogs

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So Oklahoma banned abortions. 
this nation is screwed 

[Jim Cowan]

"Patriot" is one of those words that has been ruined, like "heritage" which is now a dog-whistle word.

[pfife]

[Motown Bombers]

 

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[Tigerbomb13]

  On 4/6/2022 at 1:31 AM, Motown Bombers said:

 

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[oblong]

That Gaetz/Austin exchange shows the best and worst of our country. The best is that we have civilian control of the military member of our legislature can talk to a top military guy that way and not be punished.  The worst is that a guy like Gaetz is a member of our legislature. 

[pfife]

I thought it was spectacular when Gaetz claimed we were behind on hypersonics and Austin asked him where he got that assessment and he literally answered "I don't know" .

A complete and total knob

[Shades of Deivi Cruz]

Josh Mandel deserves to lose on merit alone. No need to resort to Photoshop conspiracies. Of course, none of the folks Mandel is competing with on the GOP side are any better. He, Vance and Gibbons are all nasty candidates.

[chasfh]

  On 4/5/2022 at 5:05 PM, Jim Cowan said:

People don't have to be embarrassed about being stupid now, they can actually be proud of it.

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How can they not be proud of so much bot affirmation?

[chasfh]

  On 4/5/2022 at 5:18 PM, CMRivdogs said:

 

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Kinzinger is so disgusted at his party being run by children that he’s going to step aside and allow his seat to be taken over by one of them.

[romad1]

My God, the diplomatic talent standing next to each other

 

JBIII and Blinken just tilted the pinball machine scoring system for diplomatic success.

[oblong]

Baker may have been the most important person in the 2nd half o the 2th century that wasn't a "leader".   He looks good for his age.  I have his last book but I didn't get too far into it before being distracted.  Need to go back to it.

 

[romad1]

  On 4/6/2022 at 1:34 PM, oblong said:

Baker may have been the most important person in the 2nd half o the 2th century that wasn't a "leader".   He looks good for his age.  I have his last book but I didn't get too far into it before being distracted.  Need to go back to it.

 

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I had a second reason for posting this to this thread.  JBIII is among those disgusted by the lunacy of the Trumpist GOP.

[CMRivdogs]

  On 4/6/2022 at 1:22 PM, chasfh said:

Kinzinger is so disgusted at his party being run by children that he’s going to step aside and allow his seat to be taken over by one of them.

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He figures he's getting beat anyway. Why spend a small fortune.

 

[ewsieg]

  On 4/5/2022 at 3:16 PM, Tigerbomb13 said:

I don’t remember a group being like the MTG/Gaetz/Cawthorn/Gosar contingent pre-Trump. You’d find some crazies, but the floodgates opened far and wide six years ago. 

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It's not only that the floodgates have opened, add to that how they are handled within their party.  I'm sure this country has never lacked a handful of idiots in congress at any given point, but the majority/minority leaders helped form who represented the party and ensured they hid others from the spotlight.  Today, it's almost like McCarthy is minority leader in name only.  Assuming he would even want to, any attempts at shunning some of those you mentioned might get him called out by Trump.  He has no control.  The patients run the asylum.

[ewsieg]

  On 4/5/2022 at 9:22 PM, oblong said:

So Oklahoma banned abortions. 
this nation is screwed 

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I still contend that if SCOTUS upholds one of these abortion bills we're seeing out of the South, it will be the best thing for the democratic party in the long run.

[CMRivdogs]

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While Orbán’s appeal may be elusive to those of you who think that liberal democracy defines the West, his attraction for Tucker and other elements of the right is obvious. A substantial faction of the conservative movement now regardshis government “which censors LGBT content, demonizes immigrants and ethnic minorities, extols the virtues of the traditional family, and feuds constantly with the supposed globalists of the European Union” as a political model.

In other words, Orbán gives them that sweet autocratic dopamine hit they so desperately crave, without the whole rotting corpse, war crime, genocide thing. 

This is who they have become.

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[Motown Bombers]

  On 4/6/2022 at 1:22 PM, chasfh said:

Kinzinger is so disgusted at his party being run by children that he’s going to step aside and allow his seat to be taken over by one of them.

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Apparently Illinois gerrymandered him out of office so he was going lose either way. 

[chasfh]

  On 4/6/2022 at 3:56 PM, Motown Bombers said:

Apparently Illinois gerrymandered him out of office so he was going lose either way. 

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Not necessarily. LaHood is running in that district and he stands a good chance of winning.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[Motown Bombers]

 

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[Tigerbomb13]

  On 4/6/2022 at 5:06 PM, Motown Bombers said:

 

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This is really fucked up. Those poor kids.