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Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 10:19 AM Oct 2013

I dunno what scares me more--the Wackihedin House Republicans

or the knowledge that there are entire areas of the country (Gerrymandered or not) so infested with pustulent bags of hateful vitriol as to provide them with majorities to cheer them on and guarantee them safe seats no matter what despicable outrages they perpetrate on the world at large.


And believe me, it was not easy confining myself to such temperate language in describing my feelings.

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I dunno what scares me more--the Wackihedin House Republicans (Original Post) Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 OP
As A Member Here, Mr. Johonny, Recent Said, Sir... The Magistrate Oct 2013 #1
Almost sounds like a Supreme Court case--Rove v. Wade… Jackpine Radical Oct 2013 #2

The Magistrate

(95,255 posts)
1. As A Member Here, Mr. Johonny, Recent Said, Sir...
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 10:40 AM
Oct 2013

"The difference is the old guard republicans knew these tactic were a ploy to get stupid people to vote against their self interest. The new guard are the stupid people that believed them. The old guard can't understand why the new guard doesn't understand the crap the party says they believe in is just window dressing and the new guard thinks the old guard are sell outs because they won't stand up for what they believe in (even though they don't believe in it). Meanwhile the RW media flames on as they can remember what is a lie and what was a lie to cover the lie... "

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
2. Almost sounds like a Supreme Court case--Rove v. Wade…
Sat Oct 5, 2013, 11:18 AM
Oct 2013

Wade Michael Page and the rise of violent far-right extremism

The man who opened fire in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin was not just a crazed loner, but a vocal neo-Nazi – in fact, his white supremacist ideology reflected a growing form of extremism that expresses its strength through violence rather than at the ballot box.
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