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Post by thebin on Apr 19, 2024 10:00:36 GMT -5
By the way 1988 called and wanted to remind everyone to retain their capacity for astonishment despite the fact that the former and maybe future president is an elderly B list celebrity turned crime boss and is currently a criminal defendant in a nyc court. Its like a really coked out Home Alone script that was treated by Tarantino but also w heavy notes by Franz Kafka.
Don’t ever lose sight of how excited we would all be to hear this as young kids with our Reagan Bush pins on.
It’s revolting what that man-child did to the party of Lincoln. My old party.
The Chinese say… “May you live in interesting times.” Indeed.
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Post by hoyajinx on Apr 19, 2024 11:23:29 GMT -5
By the way 1988 called and wanted to remind everyone to retain their capacity for astonishment despite the fact that the former and msybe future president is an elderly B list celebrity turned crime boss and is currently a criminal defendant in a nyc court. Its like a really coked out Home Alone script that was treated by Tarantino but also w heavy notes by Franz Kafka. Don’t ever lose sight of how excited we would all be to hear this as young kids with our Reagan Bush pins on. It’s revolting what that man-child did to the party of Lincoln. My old party. The Chinese say… “May you live in interesting times.” Indeed. When did you fully bail on the party?
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Post by thebin on Apr 19, 2024 13:15:15 GMT -5
Fully? Absolute point of no return was when Trump won the nomination in 2016. It should never have been possible for so many people who knew better to completely cave.
Severe doubt started way earlier tho probably most memorably for me when McCain (who i did vote for ultimately) selected the Proud Moron Sarah Palin. A grave mistake that ultimately i think will be fatal for the party of Lincoln. Its already gone really, the GOP now is a zombie coalition of white nationalists and Trump cultists put together after he highjacked the party from some very weak willed people.
I was a real Republican too thru college and into my late 20s. My entire family was and (except for me) remain party loyalists. Painfully frankly. I was Politically very Active. Worked the RNC in San Diego for Dole. Worked at the political tv show the McLaughlin Group out of Gtown in 1999. I was not particularly naïve if i may say so. I waited in lines in manhattan to bote for Republicans.
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Post by hoyajinx on Apr 19, 2024 13:23:31 GMT -5
Fully? Abdolute no return was Trump winning nomination in 2016. It should never haveen possible for so many people who knew better to completely cave. Severe doubt started when McCain (who i did vote for) selected Palin. You got wise to it earlier than I did. I liked McCain and thought he was a principled Republican. I was not crazy about Palin and thought it was a cynical calculation. I fully punched out on the national level the same time you did. Trump was such a transparently terrible person who was in no way a true Republican. Locally, everybody was reasonable until about 2020 when the MAGA brain rot fully set it. Haven’t even thought about voting for a Republican since then, and they will have to undo everything they’ve done since Trump for me to even consider voting for a Republican again. I don’t see that happening.
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Post by thebin on Apr 19, 2024 13:30:38 GMT -5
I still would vote for Romney NOW. In a flash. But i think Trump should die in prison frankly if there were any justice at all.
THAT’s where i am on the Republican Treason that is Trump’s third straight uncontested primary romp. The entire party needs to burn to the ground. We need to start over w a sane actually conservative party.
There will be a special place in hell for McConnell and Graham and the whole lot of Cowards for selling out our Republic on the cheap to a Gameshow Host.
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Post by thebin on Apr 19, 2024 13:39:48 GMT -5
Fwiw in 2016 i was ready to vote for any republican over Hillary of the field of 25 except for 2: Trump and Cruz. And that was who came in 1,2: and tgey even despised each other. Tgat was rather instructive to this broadcaster. Try as i may i can muster no equivalent disgust for the likes of Biden. Or Hillary. Just nowhere near as odious imo.
So i said i really don’t think i like my team very much….
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 19, 2024 13:43:27 GMT -5
I still would vote for Romney NOW. In a flash. But i think Trump should die in prison frankly if there were any justice at all. THAT’s where i am on the Republican Treason that is Trump’s third straight uncontested primary romp. The entire party needs to burn to the ground. We need to start over w a sane actually conservative party. There will be a special place in hell for McConnell and Graham and the whole lot of Cowards for selling out our Republic on the cheap to a Gameshow Host. One thing I absolutely hate about the press is that it keeps identifying the MAGA GOPers as "conservative" Republicans. They are radical nihilists.
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Post by thebin on Apr 19, 2024 21:10:38 GMT -5
That’s where i am: i went from never voting for a Democrat in my life until Trump got on the ballot- to now where he so infected the party w his cancer that i also will not soon soil my sense of personal dignity by voting for any Republican whatsoever until there is some serious Truth and Reconciliation. In reality the GOP lost a generation of once loyal party members forever when they nominated Him. I am among them. There are not 30 million of us. Maybe only 5…10mm tops? But we were not replaceable. We voted regularly and contributed. We are now mortified to be identified with these people's. That is not a party long for this earth. They manifestly cannot govern themselves. As we speak their own Speaker counts on Democratic rescue. Again. Marjorie Taylor Green will figure that out surely. Good luck with her as the Brains of the Party. Seriously. Stop laughing. If she is not the future of the party, who is? Fully? Abdolute no return was Trump winning nomination in 2016. It should never haveen possible for so many people who knew better to completely cave. Severe doubt started when McCain (who i did vote for) selected Palin. You got wise to it earlier than I did. I liked McCain and thought he was a principled Republican. I was not crazy about Palin and thought it was a cynical calculation. I fully punched out on the national level the same time you did. Trump was such a transparently terrible person who was in no way a true Republican. Locally, everybody was reasonable until about 2020 when the MAGA brain rot fully set it. Haven’t even thought about voting for a Republican since then, and they will have to undo everything they’ve done since Trump for me to even consider voting for a Republican again. I don’t see that happening.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 21, 2024 12:18:41 GMT -5
Clown morons. A rotten week for MAGA Republicans’ feeble stunts MAGA House Republicans would rather do anything but their jobs. They would rather indulge right-wing media consumers with baseless impeachments, motions to vacate the speaker’s chair (again!), fruitless hearings and parroting Russian propaganda. None of these activities serves the interests of the voters; none improves U.S. national security. For these minions of Donald Trump, chaos and paralysis appear to be the goal. Fortunately for the country, Democrats have figured out how to short-circuit the antics and humiliate Republicans. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/21/maga-antics-fail-mayorkas/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 24, 2024 4:36:07 GMT -5
Let's see if I've got this straight. Foreign aid package which is essentially the same as the bipartisan bill negotiated by Sen. Langford but without any border provisions because the psychopath Grifter told the MAGA GOPers to reject it so that Grifter and his sycophants could keep it as a campaign issue? Morons. "Cult over country" should be the new slogan of the "Republican" cult. Senate passes Ukraine, Israel aid bill after months-long debate The Senate passed a version of the aid bill in February, following months-long negotiations to come up with a GOP-demanded bipartisan border deal linked to the aid that fell apart after Trump announced his opposition. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/23/senate-vote-foreign-aid-ukraine-israel/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 27, 2024 9:26:43 GMT -5
One of the "leaders" of the MAGA GOP. Cruelty is part of their brand. What's Greg "Tex" Abbott going to do to keep up? Maybe shoot some protesting students because they are "less than worthless" and "untrainable"? The Guardian's article describes a section of Noem's book, set for release next month, in which she recounted shooting her dog after deciding it was “less than worthless” and “untrainable.” In her account, Noem grabbed her gun and led the dog, named Cricket, to a gravel pit. “It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done,” Noem wrote. Noem wrote that her daughter seemed confused when she came home from school, asking, “Hey, where's Cricket?” www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-defends-account-killing-dog-new-book-rcna149631C'mon, Tex. This looks weak! After Texas state troopers arrested more than 50 people at a University of Texas at Austin protest this week, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is facing accusations that the state went too far. Police in riot gear broke up an unsanctioned but nonviolent demonstration at the state’s flagship university Wednesday. thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/
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Post by hoyajinx on Apr 27, 2024 10:40:53 GMT -5
One of the "leaders" of the MAGA GOP. Cruelty is part of their brand. What's Greg "Tex" Abbott going to do to keep up? Maybe shoot some protesting students because they are "less than worthless" and "untrainable"? The Guardian's article describes a section of Noem's book, set for release next month, in which she recounted shooting her dog after deciding it was “less than worthless” and “untrainable.” In her account, Noem grabbed her gun and led the dog, named Cricket, to a gravel pit. “It was not a pleasant job, but it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done,” Noem wrote. Noem wrote that her daughter seemed confused when she came home from school, asking, “Hey, where's Cricket?” www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/kristi-noem-defends-account-killing-dog-new-book-rcna149631C'mon, Tex. This looks weak! After Texas state troopers arrested more than 50 people at a University of Texas at Austin protest this week, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) is facing accusations that the state went too far. Police in riot gear broke up an unsanctioned but nonviolent demonstration at the state’s flagship university Wednesday. thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4620838-texas-governor-abbott-backlash-mass-arrest-ut-austin-pro-palestine-protest/They care about people as much as Noem cared about Cricket.
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 27, 2024 16:51:48 GMT -5
Texas! Yee Haw! The cruelty is the point even in a reversed voter fraud conviction. Eight years of legal h+ll for her yet MAGA GOPers complain about the Grifter's hush money/election interference case is being brought too late. Which prosecution is truly politically motivated? Tarrant County District Attorney Phil Sorrells wants Crystal Mason’s illegal voting conviction reinstated, his office announced Thursday. Mason, a Tarrant County resident, was acquitted of an illegal voting charge last month. Sorrells’ office is now asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to overturn the ruling that cleared her. www.texastribune.org/2024/04/25/crystal-mason-illegal-voting-texas-tarrant-county/
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Post by DanMcQ on Apr 30, 2024 5:10:23 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 30, 2024 5:13:53 GMT -5
Sick. Killing a puppy in order to impress the Grifter and his cultish base to become his Veep nominee? Just sick. This tells you all you need to know about "Republicans" - the cruelty is the point. The South Dakota governor is one week out from the publication of her new book, No Going Back (more on that title later). On Friday, The Guardian reported on one of the anecdotes Noem shares with her readers. In the book, the governor recalls the day she realized that her puppy, Cricket, had crossed the line from poorly behaved menace to, well, a problem that needed solving. Noem led Cricket to a gravel pit. Then she pulled the trigger. “It was not a pleasant job,” the governor writes. “But it had to be done.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2024/04/did-kristi-noem-just-doom-her-career/678237/?utm_campaign=atlantic-daily-newsletter&utm_content=20240429&utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_term=The+Atlantic+DailySeems like poor Cricket had the same characteristics as the Grifter - an "aggressive personality" and "untrainable." Noem said Cricket had an “aggressive personality” and was “untrainable,” per the Guardian’s report. Noem took Cricket on a pheasant hunt with older dogs to try to teach the canine, but Cricket went “out of her mind with excitement, chasing all those birds and having the time of her life.” time.com/6971773/kristi-noem-memoir-dog-kill-children-net-worth/
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Post by SSHoya on Apr 30, 2024 11:39:09 GMT -5
So sad. I'd rather see the MAGA GOP self destruct via its radical nihilism. A sizable number of GOP lawmakers cast doubt on the odds of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) pulling the trigger on her motion to vacate Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), with some arguing her efforts lost momentum after members went home for recess. www.axios.com/2024/04/30/marjorie-taylor-greene-johnson-motion-vacate-gop
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Post by tashoya on May 1, 2024 14:39:21 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on May 1, 2024 14:49:51 GMT -5
He knows that his sycophantic cultists are as dumb or dumber than he is. Penn must be thrilled he is an alum.
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Post by hoyajinx on May 1, 2024 15:58:58 GMT -5
He knows that his sycophantic cultists are as dumb or dumber than he is. Penn must be thrilled he is an alum. To be fair, there are some very right leaning folks on this message board who also don’t seem to grasp the basics of inflation.
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Post by SSHoya on May 2, 2024 7:24:09 GMT -5
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