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It’s not just a US thang. America’s ‘Taliban 20’ Republicans have the same roots as our Brexit spartans {link to the Guardian} It is a commonplace that today’s Conservative party has become an ungovernable rabble – a group of factional sects unfit to...
by LaFeminista
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on Sun Jan 08, 2023 at 06:00 AM PST
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Sounds like a good name for a techno band. 2 comments
on Fri Nov 10, 2017 at 06:14 AM PST
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Remember Steve Stockman, wingnut Tea Party GOP congressman from the great state of Texas, who served a single term in the 90’s and then another one during the Obama era, and was one of Obama’s biggest detractors, going so far as to bring his BFF Ted...
by kovie
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on Sat Mar 18, 2017 at 08:33 AM PDT
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When I read the tweet my first thought was wtf is JEW-S-A? Then I watched the video and I understood — it was a Trump supporting Infowars drone not-so-cleverly replacing the “U” in the “U-S-A” chant with the word “Jew.”
Why? The man in the...
by antediluvian
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on Sat Oct 29, 2016 at 05:36 PM PDT
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Dear Republicans,
Call a lawyer and make sure he’s good, because I’m suing for divorce, and I plan to take you for every penny. For starters, I’m citing irreconcilable differences- my ...
by Woody25
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on Fri May 06, 2016 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Like many people who enjoy the entertainment that is politics, and especially the circus of the 2016 Republican primary, I have pondered the Trump phenomenon. Now, I don't pretend to be an expert ...
by Woody25
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on Sat Sep 12, 2015 at 09:26 AM PDT
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No, this is sadly *not* a typo.
In a recent article published in _The National Security Law Journal_, a recently hired West Point law professor named William Bradford has argued that it is lawful ...
by lone1c
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on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:38 AM PDT
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Sometimes I wonder whether the right wing is insane. Other times, I'm sure of it.
by Cartoon Peril
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on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 07:25 AM PDT
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I love me the Black Helicopter alien autopsy crowd. It helps me feel so ... normal. Anyway that's what I tell the voices ... voices I keep hearing: "Go to tupperware parties .. Jimmy Hoffa is ...
by Cartoon Peril
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on Sat May 02, 2015 at 08:10 PM PDT
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The nightmare of Armageddon is becoming more real every day as the signs continue to reveal that we are inhabiting the End Times forecast by the Biblical prophets of talk radio. Death and ...
by News Corpse
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on Fri Mar 13, 2015 at 02:13 PM PDT
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Yep, that's true. Here's Hizzoner's wisdom . The Republicans got their feelings hurt and managed to find a sufficiently supine federal "judge" in Texas to accommodate them. Jackass saw fit to ...
by Cartoon Peril
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on Mon Feb 16, 2015 at 09:30 PM PST
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That's the gist of a message from Senator Mike Lee, (R-Utah) via a Town Hall email. To quote from the email:
Obamacare, the VA scandal, the IRS scandal--these are just a few examples of what ...
by xaxnar
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on Sun Feb 08, 2015 at 12:45 PM PST
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On his radio show today, January 29, Hannity was going on with the current right wing memes: the President is running a lawless administration, he's trashing the constitution, even his ...
by xaxnar
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on Thu Jan 29, 2015 at 01:17 PM PST
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of any minimum standard of qualification to participate in ANY issue facing the people of New York EVER again!
George E. Pataki ✔ @GovernorPataki
Follow
Sickened by these barbaric acts, ...
by Americans for a Republican Irrelevancy
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on Sun Dec 21, 2014 at 12:13 PM PST
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To all the people who recommended the insipid, Joe the Plumber-esque, Canadian open letter propaganda diary, you should be ashamed. I have never read anything more offensive posted to this site.
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by James Hepburn
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on Tue Nov 11, 2014 at 12:43 PM PST
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Under present law, with a tiny number of exceptions, every child born in the United States is a citizen, regardless of the citizenship or immigration status of the child's parents.
by Cartoon Peril
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on Sat Nov 01, 2014 at 05:32 AM PDT
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That's right, sez Dennis Prager , wingnut crankmeister. Here's the short version:
The Democratic party has been become a wholly destructive force in this country. Even though you may not intend to,
by Cartoon Peril
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on Tue Oct 28, 2014 at 01:45 PM PDT
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Thomas Sowell, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University writes this day over at National Review ... the congressional elections this year are overwhelmingly national, just as ...
by Cartoon Peril
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on Tue Oct 14, 2014 at 08:42 AM PDT
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Oh, yeah, I'm loving this one. Obama = Hitler, Obama = Stalin, and Obama = Phil Spector are starting to get a bit shopworn, so now we've got Obama = Robespierre, or at least so sayeth VICTOR! DAVIS!
by Cartoon Peril
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on Thu Oct 09, 2014 at 08:30 AM PDT
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Last week, I published a diary regarding The St. Louis Post Dispatch's announcement that it would be investigating Michael Brown for the killing of Michael Brown—by "seeking the release of any ...
by I give in to sin
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on Thu Sep 04, 2014 at 08:52 PM PDT
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