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Yes, we are gerrymandered as fuck, but that does not excuse this asshat winning a statewide race.

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No. They ran Barrett, the same guy Walker shellacked the first time. No surprise he won.

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Wississippi.

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A new low every day.

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This was a good description of PA in my youth. Even in the solidly blue part of the state, deer hunting was considered part of the year end holidays. We don't see too many deer hanging head down from porches in town these days. Glad to hear fewer "He killed Bambi" remarks.

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And they will continue to spout this oral diarrhea until someone they actually care about (incl themselves) suffers or dies from it. Because they have no capacity for empathy.

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I've just read a book about Piltdown Man. (early Victorian period.) The Anglican Church of those days sounds just like Evangelical movement now. Emphasis on harshness, not on compassion or depth. That's how the author described it, not what I say. Adherence to orthodoxy was it-- and non-adherence was punished. I thought the current situation was a bizarre US thing. "Do you believe in the literal truth of the Bible or don't you?" It was into this atmosphere that Darwin published his book. Timidly. So he referred to human beings as being part of his theory, in one sentence only.

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Can't you also have a parallel list: most thoughtlessly cruel act either in or out of office?

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I think it's a shame Democrats have this 'political correctness' problem. We might get somewhere if, when they made their ludicrous statements , "ah, we'll make it so they want to go." "Excuse me?" 'Yes, self-deportation!" Or, "I'd like to buy Greenland." "Some bad things are going to happen to her." If when any non- sedated person heard any of these novelty statements we'd let out a spontaneous laugh. Or a yell and a high five. But we don't because of being trained to be considerate, all those years ago. We lose so much that we have to make up in painful reasoning. "You see, it's ridiculous to talk about buying a country that belongs to itself blah bla-- it wastes so much time, and people believe you, since you're president, right?' etc etc Has anyone laughed in his face during his entire presidency? Or at any of his toadies? I saw a guest do it on Fox. Bill Burton. Or Bob Burton. I wrote him a letter. It was so funny.

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Finally a delegation of AIDS advocates were permitted to visit the White House. They were met on the driveway by a bunch of aides. Wearing rubber gloves. Remember that? That's the GOP.

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I'm truly patheticI'm racist-- you get itAnd I IDOLIZE lies-- I don't care!

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He's got a veneer though, his appearance of normalcy, it's almost overpowering. Rob Portman has the same. I spose Portman is a better person. But who knows? Would we learn that he's really a better person? Doesn't matter I suppose.

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Doesn't take a lot to be a better person, though.

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What you say is so true. His being a better person could be just his talking less. He did speak up for gay people when his son turned out to be gay. Still there's no doubt Ron Johnson would never have done that much in ten million years. Or one hundred million.

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But first wasn't there a vote just on whether he should be recalled? And they got about a billion signatures for it?

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