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Another low: "Who cares what you think?"

http://www.salon.com/2004/0...

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He also gave money to Africa to combat AIDS, so he wasn't 100% horrible, just maybe 97%, whereas someone like Ted Cruz is 110% horrible.

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I look at George H.W. Bush as a great American president at this stage. That's saying a lot about how friggin' nuts the GOP has gotten.

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I can pulls ideas out of my ass and write them down somewhat legibly. Where's *my* plum NYT gig?

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Ah, now I see.

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Yes, with each new Republican president one says, "How much worse can it get?"And then one sees the likes of Cruz or Trump in the wings, and one realizes . . . a lot worse.

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so they send out this toothless Chihuahua, Brooks, to gum Raphael Cruz back in to line- yeah, that'll work or, more probably, to reassure the squishes that, no, the Republican Party isn't really that irredeemably fucking EVIL, just a bad apple or two, nothing to see here, carry onDavid Brooks is to politics as Giardia is to digestion

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and how do you like the fucking view?

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By "normal", I meant " common".

It's actually a bigger problem in France, England and all the "progressive" Scandinavian countries.https://upload.wikimedia.or...

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it would not surprise me much if the "bigger problem in France, England etc." were more a function of those countries reporting, recording and investigating a higher percentage of rape allegations than most of the world does. Skeptical revenant is skeptical

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Of course. It's kinda like Star Trek or Doctor Who; you can have a damn good time without trying to defend every ham-fisted plot device and recton. We're really just here to kick ass and hide in boxes, anyway.

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Oh, I get it. I'm a Resident Evil fan after all. Excluding RE6, obvs.

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Pretty fucking awful.

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Soon they'll just run the head of the KKK, with Stormfront and Reddit as VP and Secretary of Defense.

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David Brooks made reference to an Applebee's salad bar one time. As a thing which does not exist, it has been a point of mockery for lo these many years. If only I could find the original Wonkette piece.

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Ahh! Clash of two cultures, then. Mocking Olive Garden - including the unlimited breadsticks - is well established tradition from the BCO days.

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