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So, remind me again, please? Who is Mike Pence? Won't he piss off President Bannon and his ever faithful and fretful sock puppet, Donnie if he says nice things about people of color?

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That is an argument Republicans have used, basically "we're not racist, we're just cynical, undemocratic ratfuckers!" But when litigated, as in Texas, the internal GOP communications reveal explicit racism. And the disparate negative impact on minority voters that occurs is still racist, whether it is done for explicitly racist or partisan reasons.

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I doubt he wrote it.....Republicans dont usually go on fact finding research missions to make speeches about anyone of color....He had to do the unthinkable...and hire a smart person to do it...

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Pence can smile nicely at you while he is quietly fist fking yer ass....You wouldn't feel a thing. lol...Trump is just a big old stupe...Being rich dont make you smart...No cure for stupid.

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I saw one of them big Grey pickup trucks pass me today with the stars and bars flying out the back.....And I thought ..Yep definitely home schooled for sure, he hasn't been told that they lost that war because they study alternative bizzarro southern history......A for real trumpanzee shit fer brains, clueless to the core.

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What's, like, a groan, but not enough for a real groan? Sort of, (groan).

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Pence is a theocratic monster in a flesh colored skin suit, but I could at least rest easy at night knowing the fundamentals of American democracy probably aren't going to be destroyed if someone says something mean about him on Twitter.

If I was Canadian right now I'd think this was absolutely hilarious.

I mean you couldn't script a pathologically myopic response than to make a celebration of one of this country's greatest patriots into a whine about perceived grievances TWO SENTENCES LATER.

"Abraham Lincolin is really great. I've read some great things about him. Not in the failing New York Times which is fake news! Sad! They said I moved a statue! I didn't move a statue!"

Can you even imagine what a State of the Union is going to look like?

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Domestic abuse victims are being deported, and the destruction of the Johnson Amendment has been promised. All the horribles are happening right now. I really don't see any difference.

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This is it. He is a horrible person, but he is actually, you know, someone who knows how to behave in a manner minimally befitting an officeholder and give some lip service to American values, instead of rambling dementedly about his fake poll numbers and fake crowd sizes. So he would be Nixon or Reagan horrible. And yes, they were actually really horrible. I kind of don't think he would sell the U. S. nuclear codes to bail out his bankrupt real estate empire, though.

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Yes - A dick stepping to end all dick steppings.

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am reading "Liberty's Exiles" by Maya Jasanoff at the moment. Fascinating account of what happened to, amongst others, black Loyalists in the American Revolution.

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Well of course, utter chaos results in productivity,

And you can measure "productivity," based upon models that represent failed businesses.

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Dear Mike Pence. To use the title of a current documentary that everyone should go see ( and no I'm not related to the film maker) "I Am Not Your Negro".

Signed, pretty much all of Black America.

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Mine's bigger:

Subject: a very belated thank you, [IRL name redacted]we are in the car, in ... Kansas? ... headed home to Montana from the Women's March. It's a week later, and the people are in the streets and in the airports and it's all awful and terrifying and uplifting at the same time. We are living in interesting times, I guess. Thank you for loving Wonkette, and helping us continue our Very Important Work of laughing in the face of these fucking assholes. I will be happy to get home. We are going to start holding signs in our 4000-pop town of Polson, MT. We love you for loving us, and standing with us, and also #RESIST.love,becca

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"Hola! Soy un Americano espectacular!"

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