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Hooker P Tape skipping dipshit's avatar

This reminds me of a book I read once. Unfortunately, my library no longer is allowed to possess it.

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simpledinosaur's avatar

A lot of this is the usual ugly fascist bully behavior: Trump likes to pick an enemy he knows can't easily defend itself and brutalize it. That's his way of establishing dominance over everybody else.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

We was warned.

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Josh Reilly's avatar

Well yeah, except sex IS binary and since "gender" is (or was) a synonym for sex, so is gender. This is biological fact and like everything else in the living world, it has nothing whatever to do with politics. Having said that, this executive order and most of the Republican trans laws are punitive, cynical and foolish, in that legislators should NEVER get involved in sex, medicine, psychology or things like school counseling. But trans activists WAY overplayed their weak hand by insisting "trans women are women" (rubbish) and "no debate!" which is, you know, fascistic. And now here we are.

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Fog of Jen's avatar

Holy shit that political headline

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Stranger Than Friction's avatar

Was that Politico? They're dead to me (easy for me to say).

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Cal Papworth's avatar

Marcie, this is too, too, too brilliant and ferocious and depressing as fuck. I read 1984, in my Year 11 English class a thousand years ago, and I will never forget how appalled I was by my classmates’ agreeing “nah that could never happen” when IT HAS HAPPENED (fascist Italy, nazi Germany, Stalin, the Stasi) and is still happening (North Korea) and now it has started here, in America.

I hope it ends as badly for him as it has for all those dictators before him. Fuck them all to fucking hell and back.

Marcie, thank you. For feeling it too.

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wavicles's avatar

America! What a fucking, fucked-up country! Like no other... except all the other ones!

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Rank Member's avatar

Thank you, Marcie. Brilliant and timely.

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JustPixelz's avatar

As part of his commitment to lower egg prices, Felony Donnie ordered the State Department to stop allowing American citizens from using the "X" gender designation on passports. Using "X" is something that only affects the passport holder and, I suppose, those who would rather not use the photograph to confirm identity. Disallowing the "X" is petty cruelty by a "man" who revels in petty cruelty. Just ask Little Marco, who will be tasked with implementing this policy change.

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cdr3's avatar

Nicely done Marcie! Takes me back to reading 1984 in high school. Now we seem to be living it.

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wavicles's avatar

"I see that it says here that you've acknowledged that you've read this book; please go sit on that there Group W bench."

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Cakes We Like's avatar

I know who I'm rooting for right now.

#teamhamberder

#hamberderassassin

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Pope Scipio Newburyporticus's avatar

#deepstatecheeseburger

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#theBigMacdidit

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Always Be Ithacating's avatar

Four Year Hate Week is perfect, thanks, Marcie!

I'm thinking of making that my new double knuckle tattoos. Won't I be popular down at the senior center as I explain the tats are a protest, not a goal?

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Bupkus231's avatar

I was surprised that in your para mentioning "environmentalism", you didn't note that Felon47 has already abrogated our role in the Paris Accord ( for the second time ). What's next, kicking the entire UN out of the country ( geez - I better not give him ideas )

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Wokey McWokeface's avatar

Has "The Rise and Fall of the Turd Reich" been taken as a book title yet?

Twenty years or so too early for publication, I know. Just thought I'd get ahead of the story.

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🍁 L Ron Pony's avatar

WHAT rise? It's gonna be all fall.

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Mildred Downey Broxon's avatar

To God's ears!

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Oy!'s avatar

Fucking Melania looked like she just stepped out of the pages of a Mad Magazine 'Spy vs Spy' cartoon. Ugh.

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jltympanum's avatar

Did anyone see what shoes she was wearing? Were they all curvy?

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kasteel1's avatar

Hat on loan from the Hamburglar.

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paul's avatar

TBH, I thought it was Elon at first.

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InMyRoom's avatar

I had a good laugh at her costume.

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Or.G's avatar

Thinking about getting a gun.

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Regret's avatar

Training first. Lots of training.

On another note: Guns are force multipliers, but civil war isn't primarily about force, it is much more complex than that. Don't get me wrong, force is a required part of self defense during civil war, but not sufficient on its own. Once your only option to win is by killing that's called genocide, not rebellion.

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InMyRoom's avatar

Can you fire the gun and kill someone? If not, you have a rock. Or it will get taken away and used against you.

Are you trained? Well trained.

Can you keep the weapon secure but easily gotten to? It should be loaded at all times. You won't have time to load it if things are going down fast.

Kids? Depression? Just don't do it.

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weejee's avatar

Sending a hug and I suggest not on the firearm.

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