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Too bloody right. That is just what real American patriots did fight to get away from a couple hundred years ago. See the lines from "The Old Issue" above.

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A PhD in it, maybe. Respect for it, none.

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I'd say you are closely and accurately on the right track. But more like Pence and Cheney. Mike Pence is even on record as saying that his inspiration and the person he'd like to copy as Vice President, is Cheney. Anybody who can say that unabashed is a person to dread, especially if the nominal President is too childish and lazy to attend his daily intelligence briefings. Reptoid aliens horribly mutated even by the standards of the parent stock, all right.

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Maybe so. Now all we have to do is figure out WHICH set of Ten Commandments. Do the characters who talk so reverently about them even know there are two completely different sets in the Old Testament? The second lot appears in Exodus Chapter 34. They were apparently, so the Bible says, given by God after Moses shattered the tablets with the first, better known set. The second lot? Doesn't even include the commandments most people like best, such as "Thou shalt not Kill" "Thou Shalt Not Steal" and "Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery". Probably Donald Trump would be glad to hear it and prefer the second set. Please don't tell him about them; I doubt he follows Wonkette, so my mentioning the matter here should be all right.

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Of course not.

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I remember when Bill Clinton was elected and Hillary was involved with healthcare. The right went ballistic! Comments like ...she wasn't elected....she should only be giving white house tours like a first (woman) lady....she should know her place, and much worse.But now with Trump? Whoa, what difference! Now it's nepotism is ok, conflict of interest is ok, and if anything even appears improper, then change the rules for Trump.The US has truly entered uncharted waters.

Thanks (but no thanks) to all the dems who did not vote. Silence is the voice of complicity.Just ugh!

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^^^^THIS^^^^

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No dice, I know another person who's offering a McLaren F1, which is objectively more expensive than a Land Range Rover. Try again next time, Maryfcolby!

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Because we have to laugh at something -- Evan, you KILLED me with "Trump shouldn’t hire Ivanka to be on his White House staff or in a newly created cabinet position called 'Hottest Presidential Daughter,' or his sons Uday and Qusay can’t be the joint secretaries of incorrect haircuts?" That's some Pulitzer-prize shit right there.

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The part about Newt I borrowed from Krugzilla, the second part I saw on a random posting somewhere.

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I wonder if Newt knows the reason that we have Nepotism laws is because of John F Kennedy appointed his brother Bobby Attorney General

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but wasn't their whole thing in the election that we needed to be more "colorblind" like them and not separate people into groups because lawd almighty if we celebrate our differences and address the inequities those differences have inherited then we'll all be Sodomites because REASONS!?

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They probably did. Some of them were downright classy. Rotten elitists. Well at least that's all gone now.

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I guess if we all magically assimilate white skin, loaded bank accounts, a Rolls Royce AND a private jet in the garage, America will be great!

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... except that Russia, like Trump, doesn't have as much financial clout as they'd like the rest of the world to believe. Now, considering Don the Deadbeat Con is up to his flabby orange baboon-ass in hock to them, I expect he will be selling America (tm) at rock-bottom prices, as long as his personal loans are forgiven. Or to suppress the blackmail material Putin most likely has on him... it's gotta be one of those two things. America! Everything's on the table! Make an offer!

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... and if they've ever listened to Cat Stevens a.k.a Yusuf Islam... don't even bother packing a suitcase, you're on the next train out of the country.

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