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On November 16 2017 10:08 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
What really pains me is that I desperately want to understand what the GOP is and is doing from a neutral point of view, but keep coming to the conclusion they are just evil assholes, cartoon villain style.
I simply can’t remember when is the last time i heard the GOP take a position that was not fucking outrageous on basically any subject. There is an issue? Chose the single worst position possible et voilà! you succesfully predicted what the Trump administration is gonna do.
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On November 16 2017 18:28 Biff The Understudy wrote:What really pains me is that I desperately want to understand what the GOP is and is doing from a neutral point of view, but keep coming to the conclusion they are just evil assholes, cartoon villain style. I simply can’t remember when is the last time i heard the GOP take a position that was not fucking outrageous on basically any subject. There is an issue? Chose the single worst position possible et voilà! you succesfully predicted what the Trump administration is gonna do.
Well before the Trump era, I've always found the moral-relativism of Republicans on issues such as this, environmental etc, to be hysterically hypocritical in relation to their "social issue" dogma. We want to wax sanctity about fetuses and the like, but we will never let common protests impede almighty business from venturing over all life as we know it.
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I think it is generally assumed that we aren't at war for some totally benign reason. If we are sending a bunch of dudes to get killed in some foreign country, it is probably not the sort of program you cut from a budget.
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On November 16 2017 23:51 Mohdoo wrote:I think it is generally assumed that we aren't at war for some totally benign reason. If we are sending a bunch of dudes to get killed in some foreign country, it is probably not the sort of program you cut from a budget.
But we are at war, even if the leadership likes to pretend otherwise. We are bombing several countries at this time. Assisting in Syria and still have troops deployed in Afghanistan. The current Republicans are just like the ones during the Bush era that doesn’t want to pull out of these wars, but also don’t want to levy the taxes necessary to support them. So much so that the pentagon is saying that the tax cuts are irresponsible.
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On November 16 2017 18:28 Biff The Understudy wrote:What really pains me is that I desperately want to understand what the GOP is and is doing from a neutral point of view, but keep coming to the conclusion they are just evil assholes, cartoon villain style. I simply can’t remember when is the last time i heard the GOP take a position that was not fucking outrageous on basically any subject. There is an issue? Chose the single worst position possible et voilà! you succesfully predicted what the Trump administration is gonna do.
they pretty much are these days. you'd have to go back aways to find something different, or look at some of the state GOP orgs that are more reasonable (typically the ones in more left-leaning states where they have to be somewhat different in order to have a chance).
of course you tend to hear about the crazy stuff more than the not-crazy stuff; so there might be a few sane positions that you don't hear about because they're boring and/or universally agreed upon so there's not much to say.
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Biggest personal disappointment since Dustin Hoffman. Even if the photo is a joke -- way wrong. And the way she describes his kissing her is pretty bad. It's looking like the end for Al Franken.
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Assuming the story accurately represents events he should resign.
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On November 17 2017 00:45 Leporello wrote:https://twitter.com/LeeannTweeden/status/931176738586890241Biggest personal disappointment since Dustin Hoffman. Even if the photo is a joke -- way wrong. And the way she describes his kissing her is pretty bad. It's looking like the end for Al Franken.
Never liked him. So long, jackass!
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We are living through the greatest epoch of schadenfreude in human history.
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On November 17 2017 00:45 Leporello wrote:https://twitter.com/LeeannTweeden/status/931176738586890241Biggest personal disappointment since Dustin Hoffman. Even if the photo is a joke -- way wrong. And the way she describes his kissing her is pretty bad. It's looking like the end for Al Franken.
God damn it Al! there goes a potential dem runner for 2020.
What is the correct protocol for this stuff? Do they finish out their term and then don't run again? Do they get removed?
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Helping darken the line between politician and entertainer is a needed and good thing, party identification of the accused notwithstanding.
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On November 17 2017 00:53 xDaunt wrote:
We are living through the greatest epoch of schadenfreude in human history.
I feel like Oprah is just handing it out on her show. And the R's get some... and now the D's! and back to the R's!!!! EVERYONE GETS SOME SCHADENFREUDE
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Franken had been in my mental top 5 for "who on the hill is a predator?" since those stories started. Now that one (sitting congressman) has been named, let's get the rest?
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On November 17 2017 00:54 IyMoon wrote:God damn it Al! there goes a potential dem runner for 2020. What is the correct protocol for this stuff? Do they finish out their term and then don't run again? Do they get removed?
Doesn't it depend on the amount of backlash and what the person feels like doing? It doesn't sound like there's any legal action coming so he can finish out his term if he wants, but probably with no Dem support and no Dem funding. With $15 million paid out because of congressional sexual harassers I can't imagine anyone is willing to point the figure and try to forcibly remove him from office.
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So whom do we want to appoint to lead the #metoo inquisition?
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fuck al franken. i admired him. he was a loud, frank, progressive voice on a lot of important things. what a disappointment. get outttt
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On November 17 2017 00:59 xDaunt wrote:
So whom do we want to appoint to lead the #metoo inquisition?
Ted Cruz. We know he is into incest porn, good enough of an alibi for me
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On November 17 2017 00:59 xDaunt wrote:
So whom do we want to appoint to lead the #metoo inquisition?
Obviously Anita Hill.
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On November 17 2017 00:54 IyMoon wrote:God damn it Al! there goes a potential dem runner for 2020. What is the correct protocol for this stuff? Do they finish out their term and then don't run again? Do they get removed?
What?! Why in the world would you have wanted him to be president?
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