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Scotus 5:4 “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, then go fucketh thyself.”
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Religion is the root of all evil.
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Today’s Cruz Newz is a repackaging of yesterday’s Cruz Newz.
TPM knows you need your daily dose.
Just as we have painfully learned that Roe v Wade is not actually “settled law” and keeps getting nibbled away at, we will learn that the Gay rights movement can’t now simply declare victory and disband. But the good news is that along with “marriage” in this country come a lot of financial advantages that now will apply equally to Gay people. So, for the moment, I choose to be happy and rejoice.
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Funny, ol’ “Tail-gunner Ted” wasn’t howling about activism when the Supremes decided that Catholic Church doctrine on birth control trumped the Constitution.
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I stopped reading at “… going into a winnable presidential cycle”. I know it’s early, but in no poll has any Republican come even remotely close to Clinton.
What’s going on with TPM the last few months? The articles appear to be increasingly poorly written, poorly proofread, and even more transparently click bait than they used to be. Combine all of this with the new disastrous commenting platform and I find myself coming here less and less.
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Funny, Ed left out the most obvious anti-LGBT dogwhistle – “Family Values”. Perhaps it’s been used so much it’s too obvious – less like a dogwhistle and more like a moose call.
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angry, but not too demanding
Or, Republican wife syndrome…
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I think we can add “dogwhistle” and “trolling” to terms that TPM writers don’t actually know the meanings of.
I have read one of purposes of the new AP history exam was to tech young people to respect authority.
Yet here we have social conservatives showing total disrespect for the highest court in the land.
You really can’t get anymore more hypocritical then that.
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A little History Lesson from XKCD: http://www.xkcd.com/1431/
Yeah, I caught that, too. Ed KIlgore does have a habit of disregarding certain facts in order to serve up a meme more fitting with Washington “wisdom”.
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What else would you expect from a group of bigots whose ringleader is a TexASShole?
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Tail Gunner Ted?
More like RANCID RAFAEL!
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I am amazed that Ted Cruz, of all people, would say something which could be construed as being “against gays”.
I had always assumed that he was gay and that his extreme TeaBagger views were put forth as a compensation for what I was sure would be a certain level of religious and conservative uneasiness with such a person.
When Cruz talks, the volume of his voice sounds gay to me.
When Cruz walks he looks gay.
When he approaches the podium, that looks gay.
The inflection of his voice is gay.
The nouns and verbs in his sentences sound gay.
He facial features look gay.
His habitual smirk is the sort which looks gay.
His ancestors come from a part of Cuba which is very gay.
The Canadian operative who let him into the U.S. I know is gay.
The hair tonic that he uses looks gay to me (although his hair
reminds me of how MINE looks with MY hair tonic)
It is surprising that the MSM have not picked up on this.
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After all, it takes off the political table an issue where most Republicans are required by their alliance with the Christian Right to take a position they know is a long-term (and increasingly, a short-term) loser.
This bit of Beltway Buffoonery never ceases to amaze me. Because something becomes law doesn’t somehow magically “take it off the table”. It’s been said time and time again that if Republicans would pass an immigration bill somehow that issue would be taken off the table. Bullshit! Had Republicans passed an immigration bill, and if they do so in the next Congress, all it will do is incentivize 2016 candidates to talk about how horrible the law is and come up with a more regressive plan. The same goes for gay marriage. Marriage equality becoming the law of the land simply gives the batshit wing of the party something to rail against. It’s yet another issue to use to tell white, evangelicals that they’re somehow being discriminated against because the government will no longer discriminate against others. Gay marriage was off the table for Republican candidates. Now it’s on the table, front and center.
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Lots to unpack here, but overall it sounds right. Seems to me Institutional/donor GOP have abandoned that fight to open their arms to a new constituency, but their candidates will make the proper noises at the religious right when necessary. The RR will insist upon open opposition, of course. The GOP will most certainly have to apoint judges so the RR gets a parallel universe funded by taxpayers in as many areas as possible. And force as many of us to live there too, as much as they can.
Oh, but the RR will demand a Great Big Bone to stop barking quite so loudly on this one. Josh in his editorial is right: gay marriage may not become the incesssant longterm virulent populist campaign that abortion has become, at least not to the extend that they will force the courts to dissolve gay marriages once they are established fact and everybody knows a couple in their family & friends circles. It just doesn’t carry the SHAME power that abortion does.
The RR is so close to success in making abortion inaccessible on false grounds in red states, and the SC is so unbalanced it will go along with anything. They must strike while they can, now more than ever.
Oh, yes, they will demand the court’s invalidate women’s fundamental right to privacy. Both the Party and the RR fully intend to criminalize abortion and make contraception unavailable to the people who can’t afford it.
Count on it. It’s already in process:
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You are likely right about the religious right getting riled up and putting it front and center, but that campaign may not gain the traction they get on other issues. Acceptance/respect of gay & lesbian couples in popular culture ultimately may give extremist positions less room to maneuver.
Of course there is no limit to the bottom so who knows.
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THE PEOPle SHould BE aLLOWed TO vOTE TO decIDE whO theY want to DIscriMInate AGaiNST, noT liBERAL eliTE suPREME COURT jusTICES!!1!!!ONE!!!1
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