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Aaaand this is why everyone I know with dual or multiple citizenship is packing up and leaving. Or at least sending their children home.

We’ve all seen this particular film before, 80 or so years ago, it doesn’t end well.

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Does a Tanton smell as bad on the inside as the outside?

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and don't forget that Orban's people helped write Project 2025 and it's closely aligned with GOP-darling Hungarian fascists (and we can be assured Putin had a hand in this in his quest to destroy the US).

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What is it with ophthalmologists? Rand Paul, that senator from OK?

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but he is not a real ophthalmologist, no legal board certification; he just likes to play doctor

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I think some people get into science and medicine because they have scientific minds and even want to help people.

And some get into those things because they are bigots and they want to prove/validate their bigotry to themselves and to the world.

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Well, whose "heritage" did you think that the Heritage Society was trying to promote? White Christian Nationalist heritage, of course.

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Ta, Brooke. Get. Out. The. Vote. for. a. Straight. Democratic. Ticket!!!!!!!!!

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I am a (retired white male) radical environmentalist to the point that I decided long ago not to burden the earth with any children and their environmental footprint. But this eugenics crap makes me so mad I want to go out and have babies with all the women of color right now, just to show these people how fucked up they are with this bullshit.

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Jeez. Good connectin' the dots, there. My dad was shit-talking Scaife and The John Birch Society types back in the 70s!

"Scaife steered the family’s fortune toward conservative causes so thoroughly that Hillary Clinton once pinpointed him as the figurehead of a "vast right-wing conspiracy."" -E&E News Politico

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Sounds like your dad was intelligent. It's too bad for all the denialism in the press when Hillary pointed it out, because she was right on the money. Misogyny blocked all of that, as it did her when she ran (& actually won) in 2016. Were it not for all the misogynists across the globe interfering the orange pill would not have illegitimately slithered his way into the WH. It's such an epic failure & tragedy.

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It was pretty clear what was happening back in the 90s when she was trying to push through health care reform. That's when she became enemy #1 and all the smearing started.

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Oh yes...Bernie Sanders. I'll never forget. Hillarycare was worlds better than the ACA ended up being. The smearing of Bill Clinton, that continues today, is an obvious hit job that the press, if it were actually intelligent & sophisticated, should've seen right through & slapped those stories down. The majority of the sources for each of those fake "scandals" is propaganda/lies by a republican. Bill Barr is the "source" that claims Bill Clinton was "in on" the drug running while he was Governor with Bush. Again...the "sources" are sketchy at best. Whenever someone comes out to clear Bill Clinton or correct the record there is another liar, or hater that claims the opposite. All the press had to do about those female accusers was to follow the money & they'd see that Jones, Flowers, etc...were paid by republicans to exaggerate the truth or make something up.

The 1990s was the turning point to say to the GOP liars that their power grabs must stop, but those in congress didn't do it. I was frustrated that the press was so adversarial & ugly to Bill Clinton, yet both Reagan & Bush Sr. & Jr. have done massive harm to the rule of law, democracy, & have left a blueprint of how to break the government, cheat, steal elections, dirty tricks, etc.. Newt Gingrich the hypocrite, admitted that reTHUGs wanted to be a "1-party rule" in government which = fascism. I saw that they were going to become fascist when they repeatedly got away with crime after crime (Iran-contra, drug running, cointel, CIA involvement in media, double-standards, corruption, etc..). Yet both the press reTHUGs & sadly some Dems ran around with their hair on fire over a BJ, which never should've been a thing, but...partisan corrupt fascists have to drum up faux outrage while pretending their ranks aren't teaming with pedophiles.

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They sure "Tripped" him up. Lol, see what I did there?

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I'd be curious to know the connections between Heritage and the CIA.

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Well I can tell you that Bill Barr was a CIA agent & shouldn't have been allowed to serve in the WH because of that conflict of interest in my opinion. Of course the most notorious is none other than, George H.W. Bush who was in the CIA since the 1950s & beyond. Another rule/law that is not codified on the books is....no intel person should be allowed to be POTUS. Period. I don't know about Heritage, but wouldn't doubt it. It's one of the ways the GOP got so powerful with GHWB there to feed it with wars, Iran-contra, etc...

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Didn't know about Barr. Makes sense, though.

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Sigh....Billionaires obviously should have no more say than any other individual. That should be codified in the law, also. This is why congress should not be allowed to just repeal laws, because of the consequence (see corrupt repeal of the Fairness Doctrine). I'm baffled by the lack of protection for democracy, over the special interests & further corruption of those that already have more power & money than they deserve or need. The public at large must be protected from the wealthy & powerful. Until we get the public to understand how vile & evil it is to ask for large tax cuts under false pretense (trickle down lies), or future promises....it won't stop. No party participating in the democratic process of U.S. government should be ALLOWED to run on tax cuts for the rich, taking away livelihood/assistance for the poor, interfering with education or healthcare & doing anything to Social Security. Social Security should be protected by the gov't & from the gov't. The tax code needs to be protected from corrupt politicians to award the rich, as well. We have to have certain areas where politicians cannot touch.

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So glad to see Brooke writing here. She’s so damn good.

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Agreed!! And this is a fascinating and horrific story.

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Geez - I remember reading about John Tanton and FAIR back in the 'oughts, early in my time on the Internet. I was on a "reader forum" at the time, and was arguing with some asshole that tried to present FAIR as a legitimate organization, so I did my research and found that they were a bunch of racist shitbags. I'm glad to read here that Tanton is now dead, but his damned ideas are still being embraced by the extreme, racist right ( am I being redundent here? )

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My mother (may she rest in peace) used to go to conferences. Why? Well it was her hobby I suppose. It would take a long time to explain this - so let’s just leave it at - she was a delusional, grandiose narcissist. Anyway…

Whenever there was a conference in DC (where I lived) she’d invite me along. Well, once we went to a FAIR conference. This was back in the days when some left-ish people were anti-immigration. So we’re talking to this guy. And his shtick was that immigrants from south of the border shouldn’t be allowed to come into the US because they’re all super conservative Catholics who will take away women’s rights and stuff. (And also the taking our jobs so the capitalists can keep the workers down thing.) LOL, right?

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The documentary Bad Faith shines a light into the Christian Nationalist movement.

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For the record, I do not actually like this, just, you know, good job on the research and drawing-lines-between-dots and stuff.

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Correct me if I’m wrong but hadn't others been living in America for approximately over 20,000 years before Europeans showed up? So where do people get off on America for Americans' BS?

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the first human inhabitantants don't count, because they couldn't rightly defend themselves against the pale sea pirates who started to arrive six centuries ago.

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Details...

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Because they tell themselves those people have all died out. Except for the casinos.

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Quite a few years ago, I was waiting for the bus and found myself wondering how white Americans were going to deal with becoming minorities due to inevitable demographic shifts.

Clearly, the answer is “not well.”

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