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High five! I did that last week. Let's hope they don't pull another voter fraud on us and count our votes.

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Great column, Stephen; great closer, Gillum. Wake up & smell the beaches, Flori-duh!

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"articulate" is their not-so-subtle putdown of choice. Cult 45 prefers the guy who speaks to his mob like the mobster he's always been.

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Remember the first rule of journalism: The race must be tight enough to ensure the necessary clicks to bring in the ad revenue.

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The Republican bench is made up of know-nothing morons with a lot of money behind them spouting bumper sticker slogans that mean nothing. The first time the face a credible opponent, they fold like a Florida house in a hurricane built after deregulation.

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Imma call it: DeSantis is gonna go to an actual earthian lobbying firm.

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The BOE has no record of receiving our applications for absentee ballots. Ms. Gnome is firmy convinced it's Republican ratfuckery. Too bad it doesn't have a chance in hell of working. We're both white people with picture ID's and utility bills with our names and home address on them. We're going Wednesday morning to vote at the early voting location, and all they've cost us is convenience.

Fuck Mike Dewine. (And, while we're at it, fuck Ted Cruz.)

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DeSantis, who was twitchy and blinky and all the other dwarves during the debate[...]

And this is why I keep coming to Wonkette.

Gillum is a man, so no common Chuck Todds will accuse him of being "overprepared."No, they'll just describe him as "eloquent" or whatever that dog whistle is they use when a POC dares to do English goodly.

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Hell, he was basically stalking her at one point. I wish she had told him to back the fuck off!

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He's beaten up several girlfriends, his own dad, plus a long history of random violence along with drug and alcohol abuse and menacing folks with guns. Sociopath much, you think? But by all means, Caribou Barbie, lecture the rest of us about how we live.

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To be honest, DeSantis was disadvantaged in the debate from the get go as he had to defend Donald Trump in part. That's unpossible logically speaking and the best one can do is deflect (which he did) but then again, only Trumpians think deflecting is a great way to debate. So yeah he would have gotten approval from his already-supporters for that but not from any potential new non-Trumpian ones.

Then again, he could have, you know, run on DENOUNCING Trump and calling him out for the liar-in-residence he is. But his loyal Trumpian base would have killed him politically for that (and with Death Threats too some of them might).

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I know bro, i’m Taking an absolute beating from some insane trumpites in the comments on mediaite dot com right now, it’s so ugly in theU.S. Nowadays

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Thanks! I love little tidbits like that.If you haven't seen it, check out "The Death of Stalin." It's a historical comedy with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Jeffery Tabor as Malenkov and Michael Palin as Molotov.

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I cast my early voting ballot for Andrew this morning. Fingers crossed and breath held that he prevails over all of the dirty tricks the Rethugs'll be pulling out of their asses in the coming weeks.

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Don’t disrespect the Newman j/k seriously tho we have a subscription in this house https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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So true nowadays there is just the side that is right (progressives) and the side that is wrong (grumpy old white dude party) https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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