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MC Fresh Breath

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  1. Unless I'm on your ignore list...
  2. Things like this are why some of us stay in the 'doomed' camps. How do you fight that kind of money? https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/22/us/politics/republican-dark-money.html
  3. I don’t care what anyone says. Chili mango is an excellent munchie snack.
  4. In a prior post you stated "that Roe was not a key initiating moment in the evangelical take over of the GOP. " Which the article quite clearly contradicts. Note: You tone it down a bit and in your 2035 state "But the political vehicle that that group coalesced behind in a politically effective way was abortion" But it wasn't Roe, it wasn't abortion, that got the evangelicals a foothold. Just like the drug war, which I'm pretty sure you oppose, it was racism. That they later turned to abortion to be that catalyst (as better detailed in that piece, and others easily googled) doesn't mean Roe was some horrible trigger. No more than a woman wearing a mini skirt is a trigger for rape.
  5. Here you go, dude. I'm not negging you. I found your participation in the Covid thread to be something helpful. But in this thread you confound me. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/05/religious-right-real-origins-107133/ Also, please note that the more overall important thing to me is the loss of women's rights soon to be followed by the loss of other's rights. For me, it really does boil down to her body, her choice. And given this SC and the movement behind overturning Roe, the loss of the country is kind of a package deal, imo. Just being honest with where I stand.
  6. https://floridapolitics.com/archives/548917-miguel-tweet/
  7. By sleeping on mattresses made of money.
  8. https://www.deseret.com/utah/2022/8/17/23310668/school-investigates-female-athlete-transgender-complaint
  9. You're somewhat describing how I became a lefty and left my small town Texas whack-a-doo religious upbringing behind. Seeing more intelligent people question and ridicule assumptions I had held dearly a good chunk of my young life put me on a path of questioning everything. "If this really smart (and quite often funny) group of people think this way, and make this cogent argument, then why am I holding on to the opposite." Something about the unexamined life not being worth living.
  10. https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2022/08/florida-school-district-now-requires-teachers-lgbtq-students-dont-say-gay/
  11. On a more macro level, it was pointed out in a reddit comment that 8 of the 10 R's who voted to impeach Trump are out of office. 4 retiring, 4 lost.
  12. The role she had then and the role she has now are in many respects the same one, applied to radically different circumstances—she is defending her movement against the pretenders who would sully its work. That she was wrong about Obama then and right about Trump now is obvious, but it was the willingness to play in the mud that made her a rising star and a member of Congress in the first place, just as it was the breakdown of public trust and civic guardrails during the Bush era that made possible Trump’s MAGA ascent. By the time she decided that orange man, in fact, bad, the damage had long since been done. She is left to critique the ruling party in exile; the sort of person who in a different context people like the Cheneys might think to covertly fund and equip. None of this is to erase the work she’s done as a dogged and justifiably incensed leader on the January 6 Committee. She stands almost alone in her caucus, in her decision to not just quietly retire, or gripe anonymously to the press, but to actually fight back and wield the power she has against the threat she’s so clearly recognized. She’ll be fine, of course, both professionally and financially, but if the stand she took cost nothing, well, a lot more people would have taken it. But perhaps her fate might also be a lesson to the aspiring public servants out there—that the movement you cynically stoke might some day come for you, too. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2022/08/liz-cheney-defeated-by-harriet-hagerman-wyoming-primary-donald-trump/
  13. The breaking of the country started before him, imo. He is a POS and the cult is indeed a pox from which we might not recover. But that cult didn’t just sprout up overnight. They have been with us for some time, waiting for the monster who encouraged them to take their masks off. I stand by my rankings.
  14. I don’t care about her and think her father is second to Kissinger in most evil politicos alive. But it is depressing that the reason she is out is because she went after Trump.
  15. Its a start. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/7/28/23282217/climate-bill-health-care-drugs-inflation-reduction-act
  16. I don't understand why Scott Adams keeps getting posted in this thread. People haven't given a fuck about Dilbert in forever. This is the only place I see his dumb ass being discussed.
  17. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-jones-sandy-hook-shooting-defamation-case-will-proceed-connecticut-judge-ruling/
  18. r/iamverybadass He invited them to kick down his door. Mission accomplished.
  19. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/donald-trump-fbi-search-violence-b2145439.html
  20. FBI delivers subpoenas to several Pa. Republican lawmakers: sources say Federal investigators delivered subpoenas or paid visits to several House and Senate Republican offices in the Pennsylvania Capitol on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to multiple sources. At least some of the individuals receiving subpoenas were told they were not targets of an investigation, according to at least six sources reached by PennLive, but that they may have information of interest to the FBI. All of the sources had been briefed on the investigative moves in some way, but demanded anonymity in order to discuss them. The information being requested centered around U.S. Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., and the effort to seek alternate electors as part of former President Donald Trump’s efforts to remain in office after the 2020 election, several sources said. https://www.pennlive.com/news/2022/08/fbi-delivers-subpoenas-to-several-pa-republican-lawmakers-sources-say.html
  21. Meta's latest AI chatbot has mixed feelings about CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "It is funny that he has all this money and still wears the same clothes!" https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/metas-latest-ai-chatbot-has-mixed-feelings-about-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-it-is-funny-that-he-has-all-this-money-and-still-wears-the-same-clothes/articleshow/93380653.cms Link to chatbot in the article. Like most of these bots, I got bored with it pretty quickly.
  22. Was gonna work up a number 6 on them.
  23. Indeed. I notice the right has also decided to take and use the phrase "Banana Republic." With the usual complete lack of self awareness. The accusation/confession meme here.
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