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Mr. Scorpio

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June 21, 2017

Until we figure out a way to overcome GOPr gerrymandering...

This problem will continue.

My suggestion is for Democrats to start moving into red districts. We can start on the margins and move on from there.

I, myself, am less than one mile away from a Democratic district's line and represent a sure-fire Dem vote in a neighboring red district. This area is only red America on district map.

We have a current electoral system where the politicians get to pick their voters and not the other way around.

Until we change this process, GOPrs will continue to run the government without having the majority of voters voting for them.

If we want to stop Trump and the GOPrs from destroying the entire country, Dems who make up the majority, will have leave our enclaves and cross that line. That's how you beat them.

And as always, FDT.

June 20, 2017

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June 16, 2017

Fuck Donald Trump with a rusty coat hanger

http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-military/338172-yes-trump-is-privatizing-the-va

BY SUZANNE GORDON, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 06/16/17 04:40 PM EDT

New proposals announced by the Trump Administration and Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin should dispel any doubt about the administration’s intentions to privatize the Veterans Health Administration.

Although President Donald Trump and Shulkin have insisted they are opposed to privatization, the proposal the VA Secretary unveiled to the Senate Committee on Veterans Affairs on June 7 – coupled with Trump’s Veterans Health Administration budget – will end up pushing more veterans to private doctors and hospitals, and ultimately dismantle the VHA system.

In his testimony to the Senate Committee about a replacement for the Veterans Choice Program that sunsets this August, Shulkin said he wants to create the Veterans Coordinated Access Rewarding Experience program.
June 15, 2017

I just lurked by a forum consisting of "Tree of Liberty" gun nuts...

And, of course, they were all upset at the shooting of Scalise and others yesterday, blaming the attack on "liberals."

I didn't have the heart to inform them of the amount of irony that's being lost on them.

I figure that the "Molon Labe" gun nuts are all in the same boat too.

June 14, 2017

I have no qualms telling everyone that I hate Republicans

But it's really counterproductive and even wrong to go shooting at them, even when they themselves go out of their way to facilitate a proliferation of guns on the streets of America... Even arming mentally unstable people out there.

In spite of their own prior rhetoric about the 2nd Amendment making it alright to shoot politicians, I won't fault them that much for their own hypocrisy when it comes to their own getting shot.

In spite of their lack of concern for people unlike themselves, they are human. Barely.

Also, I'd like to point out for the record that shooting at Congressional Republicans is not typical for any of us on the left. Most of us recognize that such a thing is wrong and we'd rather do something about GOPrs with the business end of a ballot box, not the business end of a gun.

I will say that I can't wait until the NRA spins this debacle, I'm sure that most of us don't keep syrup of ipecac in the house for emergencies.

Lastly, I'm sure that we're all glad to see that Steve Scalise will recover from his wounds. I'm sure that he can't wait to leave the hospital so he can get back to the important work of denying health care to millions of Americans.

Take care!

June 13, 2017

Beauregard uses a lot of convoluted sentences...

Just to say that he's only testifying to cover Trump's ass.

June 13, 2017

Beauregard is guilty as sin

It's leaking out of all of his weasely little pores.

June 13, 2017

If Beauregard was so keen on the rules about avoiding contact btwn the WH and the FBI...

Then why did he leave Comey alone in a room with Trump?

Hmmm?

June 12, 2017

This week's favorite nickname for Donald John Trump

Some are mine, others are yours, my faves from that rap name thread.

Enjoy.

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