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Mark Mansour's avatar

A terrific piece and a great read. I’ve written a piece titled A Rogue Court: What To Do About It. You can find it at Substack.com/@markmansour. Please take a look.

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#Kevin roberts viagra

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Owlftr13's avatar

You have to win the election first and Mango isn't in office to help you. Bring your nonsense next 1/6 when there will be a thousand DC National Guard troops at the capitol hoping these assholes show up again.

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Tessie's avatar

"any president, put politics off to the side, any president having to second guess, triple guess every decision they're making in their official capacity, you couldn't have the Republic that you just described."

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It's really amazing, when you think about it, that the first 44 Presidents managed to get anything done at all, what with the constant worry about trivialities like, "Not stealing state secrets" and "Not selling us down the river to Russia" and "Not staging an insurrection" and "Not breaking the law every waking minute".

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Tessie's avatar

"If people in the audience are looking for something to read over Independence Day weekend, in addition to rereading the Declaration of Independence, read Hamilton's No. 70"

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Yeah, THAT's what Leroy Billy Joe Bob Bob from Alabama who went to fifth grade does over a holiday weekend in summer -- READ.

Hell, if this asswipe can find one member of his audience who doesn't think "essay" is spelled "SA", I will give him a shiny dime.

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Tessie's avatar

"The reason that they are apoplectic right now, the reason that so many anchors on MSNBC, for example, are losing their minds daily is because our side is winning."

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Of fuckin' COURSE he thinks that.

In the impossible to top words of G.S. Croft, we expect of others what we expect of ourselves.

THEY'RE fine with fascism, or any other atrocity, as long as their side "wins"*, so they assume that OUR only metric is the same.

*No, of COURSE it never occurs to them that the leopards will eat their faces, to the point where that's become a commonly understood figure of speech in American culture.

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Tessie's avatar

Go fuck yourself, Kevin.

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"any president, put politics off to the side, any president having to second guess, triple guess every decision they're making in their official capacity, you couldn't have the Republic that you just described."

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::sarcastic Homer Simpson voice:: "I can't steal HIS money! I can't print my OWN money! WHY DON'T I JUST LAY DOWN AND DIE??"

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"any president, put politics off to the side, any president having to second guess, triple guess every decision they're making in their official capacity, you couldn't have the Republic that you just described."

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It's really amazing, when you think about it, that the first 44 Presidents managed to get anything done at all, what with the constant worry about trivialities like, "Not stealing state secrets" and "Not staging an insurrection" and "Not selling us down the river to Russia" and "Not breaking the law every waking minute".

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Tessie's avatar

"The second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the Left allows it to be."

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"SEE WHAT YOU MADE ME DO??"

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"let me speak about the radical Left."

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There IS no radical Left in this country, and hasn't been for at least 50 years.

If there were, the street in front of the Supreme Court building would be ankle-deep in blood.

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Jim Parker's avatar

When fascists say "We're in the process of taking this country back.", they mean back to the 16th century. If you weren't a white Christian male then, you were merely chattel or a slave. That's what we're faced with now. On Independence Day, of all days. And if they want "blood", they should really be careful what they wish for. They like to think progressives and liberals are weak and soft. Think again, Slappy.

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Zap's avatar

"We're in the process of taking this country back." To the middle ages.

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AlbertCamus's avatar

Take America back to what, 2008? Two disastrous, useless wars and an economy in ruins? Or 2020, with a pandemic and inflationary tariffs and massive federal debt? You pick.

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Tessie's avatar

Slavery days.

They want to take us back to slavery days.

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Marla's avatar

I just love how these Reich-wingers think they’re the only ones with guns.

It’s so cute.

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Zen Gali's avatar

"It means understanding that if Trump and Biden are the nominees, Trump is a rapist, a felon, a traitor and a fascist who brings with him a government of rapists, felons, traitors and fascists. Meanwhile Biden — regardless of his true mental state — brings in a Cabinet of brilliant, compassionate experts who care about this country and want it to succeed."

This. There isn't enough emphasis on this. Politics is a TEAM SPORT, not some duel between superheros. And I would pick a moral team backing a moldy potato before I picked the viper's nest surrounding Drumpf.

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