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I know. The rubes will be fleeced, that’s a given, but it’s going to make good comedy.

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Bad tragedy, I fear....

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Paul Weyrich received all the "Young Republican" mailing lists after that election.He was, almost single-handedly, mainly responsible for the rise of the new right in the late 70s.

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In Oz we call this branch-stacking. It's not usually so successful here, though

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Once worked a guy named Shingle, first name.

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Pretty sure WTAF didn't "leave", they were never over here to start with. But I could be wrong.

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At this point, it shouldn't be too hard to sneak a few of our own in. Shove some Q-tips in our ears, but not quite all the way into our brains*. We don't have to go all-out with the ruse, some of us can be "discovered" as liberal infiltrators. Then the who's-antifa paranoia will consume them, leaving only Kurt Russel alone on the ice, voting D.

(The package does say, not for use inside ears. The MAGA crowd apparently took this as liberal medical advice, so they shove those Q-tips hard and deep enough for a temporal lobe lobotomy. But that's what a edgy, badass yellow snake would do, just to show Fauci's wrong, again.)

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Goddess but I had forgotten about Trey Gowdy

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where does governance fit in with a party of ideologues?

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This guy! Right here. This is what we should all be afraid of. Remember that Hitler's party had to win enough seats in the Reichstag first to engineer a takeover. It wasn't a bloody coup. He just co-opted the existing government. The MAGAs are literally doing the same thing. Taking over the corpse of the Republican party to lend themselves a thin veneer of civility and then taking over the whole shebang when they are strong enough. Taking over the Republican party is them literally giving themselves money enemas.

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I'll make a note of that.

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Zip drives!

(it counts as a wrong answer, because nobody ever needed that many zip drives, and if they had that many for some number of days, the click of death would soon winnow the field)

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Nate Leupp? Presley Stutts? are these real names?

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who?

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still superior humans to republicans

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the leopards are gonna get to fat to run

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