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calimary

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17. And factually accurate.

Reply to Peregrine Took (Reply #12)

Wed Mar 23, 2022, 03:13 PM

Mar 2022

The rise of that schmuck Gingrich was the beginning of the end. Used to be cordiality between the two parties. Now one of them has devolved into Slash ‘n’ Burn.

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Devastating article on the Republican Party [View all] SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2022 OP

You can't have democracy and minority rule, gab13by13 Mar 2022 #1

Yet, 2000 & 2016? czarjak Mar 2022 #2

Yeah, that's 20 years after Gingrich and Reagan and Atwater fucked America for good librechik Mar 2022 #4

Well said. Peregrine Took Mar 2022 #12

And factually accurate. calimary Mar 2022 #17

Nancy Pelosi would agree with you. OMGWTF Mar 2022 #24

limbaugh and rw radio played a major part. need investigation of putin use of rw radio certainot Mar 2022 #27

It always seems to me to be more than just greed, lust for power, white supremacy, toxic masculinity barbaraann Mar 2022 #3

I'm right there with you. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2022 #5

Maybe extreme paranoia, like what Stalin had and Putin has, that destroys all vestiges of humanity? barbaraann Mar 2022 #7

I have one brother who has been indoctrinated by his choice of news sources. SleeplessinSoCal Mar 2022 #10

I'm sorry for your loss. I lost a brother to the Cult in 2016 as well. barbaraann Mar 2022 #11

Sociopathy is what makes them evil. I_UndergroundPanther Mar 2022 #9

Right on. I was just about to say that. HUAJIAO Mar 2022 #18

Right on. I was just about to say that. HUAJIAO Mar 2022 #19

They don't view brown, Black, yellow, red, female, LGBTQ, non-Christians as people as equals. Claire Oh Nette Mar 2022 #14

Pretty depressing if it's all just part of the nature of some humans, barbaraann Mar 2022 #16

It's also many years of propaganda by Republican leaders and Fox creating victimization. Lonestarblue Mar 2022 #15

I wonder how that compares to the propaganda that helped instigate the Rwanda genocide. barbaraann Mar 2022 #21

a lot of it is 30 years of team limbaugh rationalizing the racism and stupid and lying about certainot Mar 2022 #28

Excellent points. barbaraann Mar 2022 #31

anti-American Republicans need to be shipped to Siberia Achilleaze Mar 2022 #6

Not just in this country, in England as well (Brexit). JoanofArgh Mar 2022 #8

It's been a world wide movement for a couple of decades now... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #20

kremlin's been getting revenge for Voice of America - feeding rw radio all over the world and certainot Mar 2022 #29

K & R jalan48 Mar 2022 #13

The GOP doesn't believe Dems have a legitimate right to govern Danascot Mar 2022 #22

that's the result of dems ignoring/not challenging rw radio for 30 years certainot Mar 2022 #30

...K&R... spanone Mar 2022 #23

Fuck these people NEOBuckeye Mar 2022 #25

Ed Buckham is the traitor who worked for DeLay Ilsa Mar 2022 #26