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AboveTheGrayFog's avatar

New Hampshire is trying to go the way of Florida? Why do all these Republican politicians want to race to the bottom so badly?

And if New Hampshire citizens want to "live free or die" by setting Florida as their goal, well Florida has recently got many new ways to die, leprosy being one of them, and these good folk of New Hampshire, should they choose to die, may get to experience some of them.

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diane's avatar

Maggie Hassan.

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John Lindhe's avatar

Recreational marijuana is legal in MA, it's not in the 'freedom' state of NH.

You can only buy hard alcohol in NH at state owned stores.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Yeah, but depending on what you want to put into your head, in Mass. you might have to wait 60 days.

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belfryo's avatar

I remember back in the 70s and 80s when all decent people thought women would save the world...Little did we know that we'd need to qualify that BIGLY..."DEMOCRATIC women" will save the world...RW fascist women are JUST as much garbage as their male counterparts....

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

I recall that as well, and back then I used to look at Margaret Thatcher and Phyllis Schlafly and Anita Bryant and go: "Wha?"

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chascates's avatar

I'd love for my state to drive away gun owners who can't live with a measly 10 round magazine but, uh, Texas.

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tg's avatar

No point. They'd just start carrying more guns.

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skinnercitycyclist's avatar

Your right to arm up to the extent of your insecurities ends at the point of my slaughter and that of 5-20 others.

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Bagels of Doom's avatar

I was hoping to never see that spinless weirdo again.

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Zap's avatar

I hate that fake-ass republican "strength" they vainly try to convey.

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The Horned Tulip God's avatar

The unfortunate truth is when it comes to the idea of "Live Free or Die," New Hampshirites do tend to be a bit unhinged. In between the Nice White Liberal enclaves are pockets of sovereign citizens, doomsday preppers, and your classic backwoods anti-gubmint types who will absolutely buy into all of this. Additionally, anything tagged as becoming too Massachusetts is bound to be believed. New Hampshire has been fighting "Massholes" fleeing to their cheaper cost of living state for decades now, to the point where small towns are purposely keeping roads unpaved to keep out the bourgeoise McMansion crowds.

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The Horned Tulip God's avatar

Oh definitely, it's the whole Upper New England. But the article is about NH specifically. I've got family living in NH who are pretty liberal (and a bit too old to be starting over somewhere), and I get kept up to date on everything that Lower New England and New York are doing wrong.

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Blanche de Shambles's avatar

Didn't New Hampshire have that town that was taken over by libertarians, and then gradually collapsed to the point where it ultimately fell to the Ursine menace?

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The Horned Tulip God's avatar

It's like a domestic version of Galt's Gulch.

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Bitter Scribe's avatar

Just once I'd like one of these bastards to be honest and say, "I'm running for governor because I need a job."

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Blanche de Shambles's avatar

That was once Bob Dole's response when he was asked why he was running as Ford's vice-presidential nominee.

"It's indoor work, no heavy lifting."

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Querolous's avatar

Like most vice presidents in this era, Garner had little to do and little influence on the president's policies. He famously described the vice presidency as being "not worth a bucket of warm piss" (for many years, this quote was bowdlerized as "warm spit".)

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OneYieldRegular's avatar

"Trump is a role model for kids."

DAMN. I'm not complaining, but if the Substack non-comments allowed images, we would be here ALL DAY posting them.

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Zap's avatar

I am.

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Mavenmaven's avatar

How dark indeed (aside from the logo), holding his coffee mug in one hand when he knows that Trump can't do that!

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GrumpyDem's avatar

Have I mentioned yet today how much I hate that there's no thumbnails on this shitstack thing.,

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Vagenda and Peeara's avatar

"Chris Sununu is serving his fourth term as governor and his regular appearances on the Sunday morning shows provided hope to naive viewers that there were still “normal” Republicans in significant numbers, like, say just one."

Chris Sununu is in no way normal. I watch him ALL the time on the Sunday shows and on CNN. He repeats the same brain dead talking points that all Republicans spew, only he says them a lot faster and with a smile on his face. He might be less openly racist than someone like Tommy Tuberville, but he's still an asshole. I think he's even using the "abortion up to the minute of birth" bullshit.

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tim gueguen's avatar

More Guns. Less Crime is the title of a book by an academic named John Lott, who "proved" that very claim. Other academics disagreed. Lott even had a sockpuppet that he used to post support for himself.

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Dirty-Work's avatar

"But what if they’re mad now?"

Stop it. I'm too stoned for this.

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calliecallie, aka pollyanna's avatar

"...Massachusetts...is the liberal “and Ken” to California’s “Barbie.”"

"Is he saying we have no balls? Tell me he's not saying we have no balls." - Matt Damon

"Not too smaht of him." - Ben Affleck

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