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by ca cokz
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on Thu Aug 04, 2022 at 06:44 AM PDT
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2020 in Arizona: Arizona Republicans lose both US senators; the state winds up being a key to Biden’s election; and two elected Congressional representatives identified as ringleaders in the attack on the nation’s Capitol. And how does the party deal...
by flylooper
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on Tue Jan 12, 2021 at 09:04 AM PST
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The Maricopa County GOP has voted to censure Cindy McCain, with the full Arizona GOP scheduled to vote on the censure resolution on January 23rd. They charge that she had the gall to defend her husband, Senator John McCain, from Trump. They also say...
by ianmh1984
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 06:52 PM PST
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I lay the blame for chronic legislative gridlock squarely at the feet of the effective ban on earmarks. Without a tangible incentive to keep the a dialog open, opposing interests are eventually reduced to debating philosophy and shouting slogans at...
by Random82
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on Sat Jan 09, 2021 at 10:02 AM PST
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This morning Meghan McCain tweeted out that she was “Headed back to work this morning to trigger all the people who would rather half the country doesn’t exist. See ya 11 kids.” McCain has been out on maternity leave this past year and just recently...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 06, 2021 at 10:53 AM PST
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During her second appearance on the leader of the genre in daytime talk, The View (1/5/21), following her maternity leave, Meghan McCain was told in no uncertain terms by one of the other four co-hosts, Joy Behar, that she was not missed....
by ReasonaBill
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on Wed Jan 06, 2021 at 12:11 PM PST
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Result #1: The more lawsuits; the more fundraising. And mostly off the backs of working class Trumpers who can ill afford to send money to a rich guy, with the lion’s (or liar’s ) share going towards a Save America Pac and not towards the...
by KKwriter
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on Sun Dec 13, 2020 at 09:11 AM PST
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First off, I can’t say how much I am humbled by the degree of support I received for my first diary here! I really appreciate how you have welcomed this Ex-GOPer to your fold! So as a follow up I got to thinking about perhaps things that...
by Ex GOPer
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on Thu Oct 29, 2020 at 03:42 PM PDT
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In 2008 after John McCain announced his running mate would be Sarah Palin, I heard a number of Republicans say, “I really like her.” But when they said it, it was in a way that sounded like they ...
by sak1364
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on Thu Oct 22, 2020 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Stung by reports from The Atlantic and The Washington Post that President Trump repeatedly described fallen American soldiers as “losers” and “suckers.”� Trump and the Administration quickly ...
by KeithDB
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on Fri Sep 04, 2020 at 09:16 AM PDT
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Am I getting over my ski tips this morning with the recent military polls and the Atlantic article, followed by the confirmations, of Donald’s calling decorated veterans, wounded and crippled veterans, POW’s and war dead losers? You tell me —...
by shr4bob
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on Fri Sep 04, 2020 at 08:27 AM PDT
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WILMINGTON, Del. — Cindy McCain is going to bat for Joe Biden, lending her voice to a video set to air during Tuesday night’s Democratic National Convention programming focused on Biden’s close friendship with her late husband, Republican Sen. John...
by srelar
230 comments
on Tue Aug 18, 2020 at 03:36 PM PDT
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Early Tuesday morning, trust fund mediocrity Meghan McCain decided to write her faux observations of the world around her. Responding to another night of police escalations of violence against protesters, McCain wrote: “My neighborhood in Manhattan is...
by Walter Einenkel
106 comments
on Tue Jun 02, 2020 at 03:04 PM PDT
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There have been a lot of commentators in the past few days comparing the present mess to 1968, when there was rioting in the streets of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy, and general unrest over the Vietnam War. Those are valid...
by Dan K
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on Mon Jun 01, 2020 at 12:47 PM PDT
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People’s names have a way of becoming nouns and verbs. This is just a short list of how some names, we are all too familiar with, will come to mean something new after the tRump-era ends. Lexiconists and historians may disagree with this list and will...
by Paul Frea
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on Fri May 22, 2020 at 11:58 AM PDT
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So today Trump decided to “honor” the more than half million Americans who were captured and held as POWs. Some honor. He even wrote the word right there in his tweet: “captured.” Except Cadet Bone Spurs doesn’t like military men and women who are...
by Mother Mags
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on Thu Apr 09, 2020 at 05:03 PM PDT
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So lets first state the obvious: Donald Trump is a danger to not just America, but modern civilization and general civility as we know it. When I head into the voting booth this November, I will undoubtedly cast a vote for Team Blue. However, an...
by JoeyTwoTone
107 comments
on Sun Mar 08, 2020 at 10:22 AM PDT
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A lot of Democrats are scared. Especially Democrats who were alive in 1972. Maybe that is why there is such a huge disparity between the under 45 and over 45 in the current Democratic Primary. For some reason that 1972 was so scary, so scarring and so...
by stilltilting
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on Mon Mar 02, 2020 at 04:02 PM PST
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On Wednesday’s The View, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came on to discuss, among other things, why the word “socialism” won’t turn America into a prison-state. Co-host Meghan McCain opened by comparing herself to Ocasio-Cortez, saying, “I feel like...
by Walter Einenkel
300 comments
on Wed Feb 19, 2020 at 12:17 PM PST
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The assassination of Iranian major general Qassem Soleimani has once again put the United States and the Middle East into very unsteady and dangerous diplomatic territory. Democratic officials have lambasted the president for his reckless actions,...
by Walter Einenkel
284 comments
on Tue Jan 07, 2020 at 12:46 PM PST
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