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That is historic for Republicans, no?That there are that many minorities running for the Face Eating Leopards Party?

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All of whom will loudly condemn more recent immigrants.

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The Revolutionary American Revolutionary Marxist Party of America of course.

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Yeah, but apparently a bit longer ago than 10 years ago.

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To paraphrase Trading places

McCarthy “I told you I could get Kinzinger out and a black guy into a Republican Congress”Scalise “A bets a bet. Here you are, one dollar. Now you aren’t going to give him any committee seats are you?”McCarthy, “Do you really think I’m going to let a “insert racial epithet” run our congress?”

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No one does 'woke'. 'Woke' isn't a real thing.

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And almost none of them have a chance to win. They were all run in strong Democratic districts. They probably promoted them just to get the headline and had their PR person push the article.

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The best line? "Still, the numbers speak for themselves."

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Many of them still don’t. And for those who do get paid, almost none of them are fairly compensated fairly for their physical work, time, talent, and emotional labor.

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It’s a really bad picture of him, in mid-word; people often don’t look like themselves in mid-word. Here’s a more representative sample of him ten years ago. He was younger, but still his recognizably decrepit self.https://www.youtube.com/wat...

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They offer you "escape from the Democrat plantation" by hiring you as a house n*gr*.

It's a pyramid scheme, of course.

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In the flip side, the Democratic Party should not take for granted that these minority groups will always vote for them. Republicans have used the culture war stuff to shave off quite a few of these voters.

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The Gray Lady has dementia.

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The NYT's did not allow comments for this piece of journalistic garbage. That's probably okay though since my comment would have unlikely been posted by them anyway. It would have gone something like this: BEING A RACIST WHO SUPPORTS RACISM DOES NOT EQUATE TO DIVERSITY, YOU DUPLICITOUS MOTHERFUCKERS!

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Nothing says libertarian like tweeting Kremlin talking points.

https://twitter.com/Mediait...

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You'd think that by the time you got a job with the NYT, you'd have learned what "tokenism" is.

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