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(*shudder*) - in my family a martinet was a 7 strap, leather whip used for punishment

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(No, Politico, that adage is not attributable to either Mark Twain or Sonia Sotomayor.)

But is it attributable to Iris Weinshall?

I'm going to assert that it is without checking because that's how I ride: Free, white, and stupid.

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I remember the outrage as if were never.

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Galvanize also means to spur into action. So maybe the friend was out drumming up support for voting rights or something. ;) Or they could've been out in the garage applying that zinc undercoating we like.

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Scalia was lucky he escaped with his life. Of course, he was later smothered by a Rentboy he refused to pay, at another hunting lodge.

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Collins who took photo ops with boof?

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Yes of course!

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I'm just appalled that you think fucking a manatee is funny. That's Ted Cruz level of humor, and really you are a disgusting human being. I'm sure you upvoted the prison rape jokes and nude Melania pix. If you have young children I'm calling CPS. No, they are already damaged beyond help.

I don't give a flying fuck about your opinion of my comments. You are too gross, crude, and generally disgusting for me to care. This is why America is failing. Even the alleged Dems are pieces of shit.

And no, moron, an animal cannot give consent to sex. I'd ask how stoooopid you are but I see that already.

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Ah, you're back. I've missed you. Please look up the word perseveration. You will find your picture there.

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I think you should flag her as she threatened you (I did), even if she crossed out that one line. And for that matter comparing you to Ted Cruz should be considered a threat. She is going far beyond critising people now.

She clearly does not understand the different levels of humour that exist in this world and has decided that HER opinions on it are the ONLY valid ones.

She also clearly thinks SHE has a personal direct line to the people that run this site. In that regard she's just like all the misguided, deluded people who think they have a personal direct line to their hero Donald Trump.

All I can think of is I'm glad I have a life and don't live a life where insuliting others that I know nothing about seems to be a prime driving factor.

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Everything you say is correct and I appreciate it. I have two thoughts on this. One is that if she thinks she can outlast me by making clumsy remarks she is going to be surprised. I agree that she resembles a MAGAt. She also strikes as a sad and lonely person who is trying to connect on this site despite the fact that she is not very good and give and take.

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Thanks. As I consider myself a non-regular compared to others here, I don't see all of her rants and insults, but I saw something about her critsising someone named Paul that I didn't intially see. One thing I noticed that is very MAGAT-like is she copied the thread and put the comment she didn't like in bold letters as if that was going to prove her point!

And hey, I am often sad and lonely, but I sure don't blame people here. Mind you we all to some extent can blame part of that on the political situation we are in, and of course COVID. I would not be surprised if her next looney gambit will be to blame some of us for COVID and whatever the next variant that comes down the pike is, even before it happens...

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She and a few other people on Wonkette are similarly annoying. They grate on me because they don't seem to get the jokes and their comebacks usually miss the point by a mile. And like MAGAts, they never seem to adjust their thinking in the face of facts and they never apologize. Now that I think about it, maybe sarafina is tfg! he's been kicked off twitter and he knows somewhere in that black hole where his soul ought to be that Truth Social is going nowhere.

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I will be the first to admit that I, for the most part, do not tell rude jokes. But then my best friend does it continuously, so I am used to hearing them. But in no case have I ever been truly disgusted or uspet about these jokes if there is a valid point behind them. And with the immense amount of scumbags in the wordld of politics that we have to deal with on a daily basis, there are lots of reasons for these.And as such, she should've adjusted her thinking about them, but just as you say, she uses the MAGAt playbook all the time.

As for her being TFG, as bad as she is, she clearly has a better command of English that he does, so maybe she can be his next press secretary if the evil one somehow wins again (yikes!)...

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When you're right you're right. She does have a bigglier command of the English language than tfg. Often the non-commenters here are on fire and I spend a lot of time laughing my ass off. Also too the Wonkette writers are regularly hysterically funny. Once in a while something rather off color comes through but usually nothing to throw a hissy fit about and certainly nothing to attack anyone over. As for rude jokes perhaps proliferating because of the last five years of agony, my swearing has definitely increased. I've always been a swearer but these MAGAts have put me into overdrive.

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