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Given how many times I was harassed by those coast guard chumps with their fucking deck guns, that was definitely my early and mid-2000s impression of DHS

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You really can't argue with Republicans who think Trump is a competent, rational leader:

“Liz Cheney is a bitter, horrible human being. I watched her yesterday and realized how bad she is for the Republican Party. She has no personality or anything good having to do with politics or our Country,” he said in a statement. “She is a talking point for Democrats, whether that means the Border, the gas lines, inflation, or destroying our economy. She is a warmonger whose family stupidly pushed us into the never-ending Middle East Disaster, draining our wealth and depleting our Great Military, the worst decision in our Country’s history. I look forward to soon watching her as a Paid Contributor on CNN or MSDNC!”https://www.washingtonpost....

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... the interest rate has been basically zero for a decade and a half...

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"How the ‘Big Lie’ Became a Big Threat" - The Bulwarkhttps://thebulwark.com/how-...

"There is reason to be less sanguine today about the fate of American democracy than at the nadir of the Trump administration (pick your low point). The longstanding and cynical GOP obsession with anti-voter-access laws has mixed with Donald Trump’s Big Lie about the supposed theft of the 2020 election by Joe Biden, congealing into a Republican campaign for indefinite single-party control of American government.

It might be too late to turn back toward democracy. But it’s urgent that we try."

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It would be sad, McCarthy calling anyone a horrible human being, if it weren't so funny.

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That's one of Trump's "statements," isn't it?

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I think this was Trump's statement.

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So which asshole republican senators are on this committee who will just spout bullshit instead of actually doing anything useful?ETA, too many to list. Lindsey, Mitch, Marco, to name a few.https://www.appropriations....

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I recall when the DHS was created that the general feeling was that it existed to BE domestic terrorism, Gestapo-style.I like this rebranding.

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Qevin sounds just like one of those shrill, too-eager schoolgirls absolutely DESPERATE to be voted Homecoming Queen.

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You're right, I was trying to check it in the story, and I scrolled too far. But McCarthy's words tend to blend with TFG's very easily, so it's an understandable error.

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But Ted Fled gets a pass??????

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Yes, the blending of Bullshit. One giveaway was the "MSDNC," one of his stupid cutesy lines.

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Wait a sec, I thought Republicans thought those were GOOD things?

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I just noticed that. If he had included "lamestream media," I would have known for sure.

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Would she vote for a Democrat?https://twitter.com/margare...

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