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The Trump braggadocio fumbles keep coming and this one about who wants to be his VP, begs us to pick it up and run with it. From his recent Newsmax interview with Greg Kelly at about 1:35 mark on this link shown by Colbert last night. (Scroll down to...
by KKwriter
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on Sun Mar 17, 2024 at 07:07 PM PDT
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I saw this cartoon by Etta Hulme when it was first finished on June 7, 1982. I’ve thought about it often over the years. I found it again today. I was thinking that conservatives have not changed much in 42 years, 82 years, or even 202 years. I also...
by jtg
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on Sat Feb 24, 2024 at 05:53 PM PST
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Once again, The New York Times is predicting doom and gloom about the 2024 election. In an article titled, “Trump Just Keeps Doing Appalling Things, and the Ranks of the Disengaged Are Growing”, by Michelle Goldberg www.nytimes.com/… the author...
by Bezoo74
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on Fri Jan 19, 2024 at 04:18 PM PST
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I am not talking just winning a few seats—I am thinking blowout—especially if we get Trump in handcuffs before the election! Lookit! KY Dem Gov Andy Beshear Wins Reelection! New Hampshire: Democrat Paige Beauchemin has won a special election! Democrat...
by sepiasiren
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on Tue Nov 07, 2023 at 07:09 PM PST
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June saw four national byelections in Canada and some provincial ones which I covered last month with several more happening at the end of July and beginning of August including one Federal seat in Calgary along with two Provincial byelections in...
by DiamondDaibhid
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on Sun Aug 20, 2023 at 10:40 PM PDT
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I just read a diary that pissed me the hell off! Every now and then you’ll see some moralizing diary on the trend list lecturing progressives about words and imploring us to sanitize our speech very carefully so as not to offend the feelings of some of...
by Democratic Strategist
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on Tue Jul 11, 2023 at 08:13 AM PDT
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Two children whose bodies had been pulverized by bullets fired at them decapitated, whose flesh had been ripped apart, that the only clue of their identities was the blood-spattered cartoon clothes clinging to them, clinging for life and finding none.”...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun May 21, 2023 at 03:22 PM PDT
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“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary ” ― H.L. Mencken Everyone who has a child, or has been a child, knows that when a...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Wed May 17, 2023 at 03:28 PM PDT
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Thirty years ago, growing, possessing, or selling marijuana was totally illegal in America and most other countries. Polling showed that the vast majority of Americans opposed marijuana legalization. Many American states, especially the most right-wing...
by SteveDavis
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on Tue May 02, 2023 at 08:36 AM PDT
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“First, they came for the goats.” Politicians, both conservative and liberal, believe in big government — different versions certainly, but big either way. American liberals think the role of government is to provide a social safety net; equal...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Apr 02, 2023 at 05:36 PM PDT
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Good afternoon from Hollywood! On Saturday, I woke up to discover that Damon Griffin had gifted me a 1 year ad-free membership to Daily Kos. THANK YOU, DAMON! :) I have seen multiple diaries thanking those who gifted them a membership. Sorry I didn’t...
by Gay CA Democrat
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on Mon Mar 20, 2023 at 11:53 AM PDT
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The image above is the product of a model developed in the following research analyzing the variations in conservative vs. liberal communications about American society. Liberal and Conservative Representations of the Good Society: A (Social)...
by Joseph2482
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on Fri Mar 17, 2023 at 05:24 PM PDT
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Woke. A funny term, especially how it is used. It is possible that Progressives are being suckered into the conservatives’ game by allowing them to define the word to our disadvantage. Although it started out in the 40’s with a positive connotation,...
by T C Gibian
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on Thu Mar 09, 2023 at 07:12 AM PST
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Like most things that involve race in America, logic, nuance, and meaning are hostage to grandstanding. The creator of the comic Dilbert, Scott Adams, fully displayed his faux intellectualism shrouded in a racial tirade worthy of former Alabama...
by ReasonaBill
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on Mon Feb 27, 2023 at 12:18 PM PST
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“I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.” � ― � ...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Tue Feb 07, 2023 at 08:29 AM PST
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The accompanying image says it all, but Daily Kos requires all “diaries” to include some text.
by Perlinator
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on Mon Dec 26, 2022 at 10:00 PM PST
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My, the last few years have been tiring, haven’t they? Sometimes I feel it’s been doubly tiring since I’m an American living in Europe. This means I keep an eye on a goodly portion of the world and her politics because much of it can affect me...
by KLWhite
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on Sun Nov 13, 2022 at 04:22 AM PST
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In reply, Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead. A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Nov 12, 2022 at 04:19 PM PST
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Like all Rip-off Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections, Ohio Republicans’ ads claim their candidates will do something about crime. In Ohio, that means they will probably be committing more of them. The other GOP focus tends to be the economy,...
by ClintAaron
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 07:10 AM PDT
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It is official. Blacks are now less likely to die of COVID than whites in general. And conservative whites are more likely to die than liberal whites. Why? Medical and social scientists will tease ...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Thu Oct 20, 2022 at 04:52 PM PDT
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