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On Jan. 6, after the mob receded from the Capitol, Oath Keeper Wiliam Todd Wilson sat in a hotel room less than a mile away and listened as Elmer Rhodes attempted to call someone who he thought could connect him to then-President Donald Trump. After a...
by Brandi Buchman
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on Thu May 05, 2022 at 08:11 AM PDT
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Robert Reich has a must-read opinion piece at The Guardian. Here’s how it starts: Most of the 74,222,957 Americans who voted to re-elect Donald Trump – 46.8%of the votes cast in the 2020 presidential election – don’t hold Trump accountable...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Dec 27, 2020 at 10:27 AM PST
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Comedian Flip Wilson on his variety show had a skit character whose catch phrase was, "The debbil made me do it!" �This is good comedy, but some people in real life claim that God told them to do ...
by SolarKitty
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on Wed Sep 09, 2020 at 09:45 AM PDT
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Yahoo reports that Princeton is rejecting Woodrow Wilson’s racism. “The trustees concluded that Woodrow Wilson’s racist thinking and policies make him an inappropriate namesake for a school or college whose scholars, students, and alumni must stand...
by hestal
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on Sat Jun 27, 2020 at 06:59 PM PDT
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This text of what I wrote in 2007:
The current Right-wing Republican leadership uses the government and laws against the individuals to protect the corporations and businesses. As a committee ...
by Ronald England
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on Sun Oct 06, 2019 at 06:00 AM PDT
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Leave it to Rick Wilson to use his “colorful” rhetoric to stir up a hornets nest with the Republican fascist cult. The other night on CNN he let loose on one of his classic attacks on the Republican base.
The comments start at the 6:45 mark.
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by pollwatcher
431 comments
on Sun Jan 06, 2019 at 09:43 AM PST
with 485 Recommends
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Mrmuni12 has a very nice blog on the rec list where (he) discusses a Washington Post column about Never Trumpers. Never Trumpers can be a pretty intense subject around here, with typically 2 types of responses about them.
1) Burn em at the stake...
by pollwatcher
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on Sun Dec 16, 2018 at 07:46 AM PST
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In a really smart and powerful op-ed, opinion writer Carlos Lozada goes after leading Never Trump Authors as being part of the source of Trump, not a particularly effective counterweight.
www.washingtonpost.com/...
Anti-Trump conservatives...
by Mrmuni12
192 comments
on Sat Dec 15, 2018 at 07:39 PM PST
with 289 Recommends
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I know, a lot of people here really hate the never Trumpers because of their past sins, I get that. But in this insane period of our nation’s history, they are our allies in an all out fight to save our democracy. There will come a day, and I hope...
by pollwatcher
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on Fri Jan 12, 2018 at 05:52 AM PST
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After reading this story, I kept hoping to hear an outpouring of support for Rep. Wilson:
www.huffingtonpost.com/…
Sadly, one still has to use a fine comb indeed to find expressions of support. Any female politician should be outraged and vocal....
by lunaclara
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on Tue Oct 31, 2017 at 12:51 PM PDT
with 17 Recommends
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In example 1,000,001 of the Shitgibbon’s frantic attempts to distract from the Trump/Russia story, he’s sent Minion Kelly over to Laura Ingraham’s show on Faux “News” to stir up the Gold Star Family controversy and take further swipes at Congresswoman...
by CaliSista
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on Mon Oct 30, 2017 at 09:34 PM PDT
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I remember being told by an elementary school teacher,’ “it is more likely you will pick up more bad habits than good ones, so be careful of your associations.”
The honorable Four Star General John Kelly has gone the Full ‘Trump’ Monty. Kelly...
by ReasonaBill
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on Mon Oct 23, 2017 at 10:40 AM PDT
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Oh, what a lovely week it was.
Out of frustration that the Republican Congress had not repealed Obamacare, last week Trump announced that he was cutting Obamacare cost-sharing reduction (CSR) payments. The CSR payments subsidize insurers for...
by bmethven
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on Sat Oct 21, 2017 at 05:25 PM PDT
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Chief of Staff John Kelly nailed it when he said “an empty barrel makes the most noise.” Of course, he wasn’t referring to the Tic-Tac-popping, Pussy-grabbing, Tweet-raging, military-service-evading libertine whose office adjoins his at 1600...
by 4kedtongue
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on Sat Oct 21, 2017 at 09:00 AM PDT
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In the end, the people who mattered the most – the only ones who really mattered – were treated as if they didn’t matter at all.
And that’s a damn disgrace.
U.S. Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson, 25, of Miami Gardens, Fla., and three other soldiers...
by TheDogFather
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on Fri Oct 20, 2017 at 05:16 PM PDT
with 7 Recommends
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When I first read and watched Gen Kelly’s presser yesterday I was really put off by the second half of it where he spoke about Rep. Wilson.
On reflection, though, and having grown up in a family with several narcissists in it, it is important to...
by HiVoter
11 comments
on Fri Oct 20, 2017 at 03:04 PM PDT
with 1 Recommend
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This is exactly the s-t that Trump loves.
He attacks someone like the Representative Wilson or Ted Cruz or Khizr Khan or whoever, and then everyone goes off and gets incensed about it. As Rachel has been saying, this is a diversionary tactic.
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by mattinjersey
5 comments
on Fri Oct 20, 2017 at 02:39 PM PDT
with 10 Recommends
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Edited to add: Thank you all for your support. I truly felt alone after hearing all of the bootlicking journalists sing Kelly’s praises. You all really helped.
Now they all have egg on their faces cause their shining White Knight lied and Sociopath...
by adigal
359 comments
on Fri Oct 20, 2017 at 08:15 AM PDT
with 392 Recommends
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"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present." —Adlai Stevenson Democrats fight for equal opportunity and justice for all and the way we get there is by getting everyone out to vote. Democrats make...
by Martin Smyth
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on Sun Sep 24, 2017 at 02:30 PM PDT
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Rick Wilson is a Conservative Republican we would all love to hate in normal times. But anyone who thinks these are normal times (I’m looking at you NPR!!) is not only delusional, but they are putting all of us in danger. I know that my continuous...
by pollwatcher
268 comments
on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 05:50 AM PDT
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