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they editing out the huff ing ,... ton pole

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So? What's the problem with that? I think we should poll taxes. We don't hear enough about the taxes' opinion on things.

Why are you all looking at me like that?

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Always upfist Swedish chef, my husband's favorite muppet.

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We're a republic, not a Henry the 8th re-run.

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I know, he was absolutely terrible.

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#Bavariaghazi!!!!11!!

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Ah, the shape of their trap becomes clear...

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She was pretty awful, too.

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Got another one. I was teaching an intro course in American government (as a TA, in grad school) about 25 years ago, in a southern state. A friend of mine had invited a Republican organizer from Mississippi (the state of) to speak about, uh, organizing. So I and my class walked over to hear the guy.

When the conversation turned to who should be able to vote, this guy said, bring back the property qualification--it really keeps the riff-raff out.

Hand on the Bible, swear to God and the FSM, he said that.

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I'm not surprised. Texas counties are small, small, small. 250+ leaves you with a lot of postage stamps with no tax base.

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I don't think these people know it's not the 1890s any more.

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Worse than I thought!

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Cruz is still more punchable. In the face.

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Thatcher, Thatcher, milk snatcher--a sweet gentle lamb.

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Reagan wanted to get rid of Social Security. Oh, how I wish he'd succeeded there! Republicans wouldn't have been able to win an election for a hundred years. George W. Bush wanted to privatize SS...right before the stock market crashed. He couldn't get a Republican congress to go through with it because they knew they'd never get elected again.

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Doesn't matter. They're not true Christians. Like Putin, they worship money and power. And anyway, most aren't Catholic of any denomination. Most are Evangelical, Born Again, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecostal, Mormon.

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