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They've built a whole new wing in hell for the Rethug party.

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Apparently some people like being oppressed.

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Or any person with a conscience, for that matter.

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Or in 2016.That would have been good.

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Literally long ago evolved in English to mean figuratively.

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Or, ideally, to the canopy of an Esso station.

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Both Obamas would be even better.

Why not? Their girls are all grown up now, they would have the same work schedule, same vacation schedule, best benefits plans on the face of the earth. They could even carpool.

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It's simple: a vessel bursts and or a muscle contracts severely and the heart ceases to pump blood through the body. The main advantage in the case we're considering is the heart attack victim is no longer able to speak or or publish diatribes online.

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Poor woman doesn't realize that Republicans fantasize and dream about having blood on their hands, especially that of women and children.

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I think it was actually the other way around.

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"Yeah, but how do we know she's in danger?""She died, so I guess she was. Oops."

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Fuck around, find out.

The second part will happen and these people are going to look like the fucks screaming at black people in the 1960s -- hated.

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It's interesting how those visuals of white policemen with dogs on leashes lunging at black folks hasn't had any effect on those who resort to the comparable verbal tactics today. In fact, they see it as their duty to attack the "woke" any way they can, optics be damned.

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Time to fight back, no? I'll go get a hammer and a cold chisel and carve "11. If God wants a man to have an erection, He will give him one" at the bottom of a stone tablet.

Now, how do we get Big Pharma to refuse to send Viagra to red states? If we can figure that one out, every one of those white-haired pious Republican assholes will immediately drop dead from a stroke.

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The same way gays, Asians, Latinos and blacks also can vote Republican. Just assume that the stuff Republicans are saying about doing to your own people will never happen to you specifically, because you have enough money or clout to be exempted.

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1) Let's not forget that Tricia Cotham won re-election by championing abortion rights. Her betrayal is less famous but no less vile than Krysten Sinema's. She's a state legislator, but punishing her needs to be a national priority.

2) Write off the panel's ruling on mifepristone. Even for the Fifth Circuit, the draw for the panel couldn't possibly be worse. The full circuit court is our next, best hope.

3) Montana Governor Greg Gianforte: do we need more proof that MAGA-friendly Republicans are lawless and oathbreakers? Like all Governors, he swore an oath to uphold his state's constitution.

4) "While some may label this as a compromise, it feels like a more radical turn. It underlines the unsettling truth that the battles over gender-affirming care and abortion rights are not separate, but rather two faces of the same coin, driven by the same factions, using the same justifications to limit access to vital care." Well, yeah. Need I remind anyone that F-to-M transitions don't seem to worry the Right much? It's the notion that a woman (that they could conceivably lust for) was once a man that freaks them the fuck out. Say it with me: misogyny is the ur-hatred. Still, a linking of the two might be a good thing, in the end. I suspect that it's been getting awfully lonely and terrifying being trans these days.

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