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Good to see you around!

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All traditions have to start somewhere.

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Only 3/5 of it.

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Read in the voice of Mayor Quimby.

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TYK. I missed the place.

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If Tim Scott was merely a conservative Senator who voted for tax cuts and abortion bans and the usual right wing stuff, I wouldn't admire him but at least I'd respect him--an example showing that even the most right wing white South Carolinians can vote for a black man if he delivers their agenda. That's not nothing! But he earns no respect from anyone, any more than his white colleagues, for enabling a monstrous president. It crosses the line from "favoring policies I disagree with" to "enabling fascism, bigotry, and mass death".

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"Is he the minority equivalent of a self-loathing gay, or just a crab who managed to crawl out of the tank, and has decided none of the other crabs get to enjoy the same freedom?" Yes.

In his second autobiography, he talks about how the taint of affirmative action prevented from landing a job with a top law firm. As a second year law student, he had already secured a job as Assistant Attorney General of the state of Missouri--hired by a fellow Yale alum.

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Tim Scott. Clarence Thomas. Eunice Rivers.

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When we factor in that no small part of “their agenda” is the maintenance of white supremacy, nothing may be preferable.

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Tacit admission that most blacks aren't free to travel South Carolina.

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The hep cats of the Be-Bob era used to refer to the players who refused to recognize that Jazz was changing from Dixieland and Swing - and would emphatically criticize their music as "not real Jazz"- as "moldy figs."

Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are two of the moldiest figs out there.

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Yep. Thomas blamed his inability to get a Wall Street lawyerin' job not on the racism that permeated those old white (in every sense of the word) shoe firms, but on Yale Law School for getting his hopes up.

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Jesus what a twat.

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And W can bounce a quarter of her butt, allegedly!

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Yes. The personal responsibility extoller also factors out his choice of political instead of corporate work with his summers during law school, and his dismal personality.

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Muggsy Bogues would like a word.

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