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I checked out a sample - pretty cute :)

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Also, besides moving steadily in the direction of fascist authoritarian white supremacy for decades, the GOP has been steadily sinking deeper into the rotten mire of corruption. Rotten and corrupt? They make the Lord Weird Slough Feg (comic book reference, and if you don't know about him, take my word, Slough Feg is rotten} look wholesome.

Richard Nixon is the usual reference point for Republican corruption, authoritarian attitudes, and paranoia, but the GOP actually went downhill from there. Reagan was a professional B movie actor and far better at seeming amiable and clean-cut, but his racism was rank and his administration really WAS, in Trump's oft-used phrase, one of "the most corrupt in history." U.S. history, anyway.

I'm not even thinking much about the Iran-Contra thing.

There was the way Reagan's Department of Housing and Urban Development rigged grants to favour GOP contributors. Sixteen convictions there. Actual convictions, not rumour and assertion. James Watt, Secretary of the Interior, was indicted on two dozen felony counts. There were the lobbying scandals. Deaver, Reagan's Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying both to Congress and a federal grand jury. Again, convicted, not just accused and smeared. There were the EPA scandals, including Sewergate. The bribery scandal over Defense Department contracts.

George Walker Bush and his vile team lied and manipulated and pushed America into the Iraq War under completely false prenses.

And then came Trump and Trumpism.

And O'Malley Dillon just called them a bunch of fuckers? She was gentle.

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