Discussion for article #222961
Why do even the names of batshit crazy Rethuglicans sound batshit crazy?
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Yes…waiting for the “as the Founding Fathers intended” part - White, Male, Protestant, and Land Owning.
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This must be a meme pushed hard by the radical right as I’ve heard several RWNJ say the same thing.
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Yeah…of course, Florida wasn’t one of the original colonies and used to be a Spanish territory. Oh wait, that would mean…
Nevermind 
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“I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote,”
You did? Where?
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I think the GOP should run on that one.
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It’s an inevitable outgrowth of the recent SCOTUS opinions on campaign financing. If dollars = speech, then obviously the greater the net worth, the bigger the impact someone should have on politics. Its an easy step from there to only allowing property owners to vote…and those with more property votes should count more.
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Yeah, of COURSE they think this is a great idea… now that the native Americans have been obliterated.
Beforehand, not so much.
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One guy was saying this when Clinton was in office, so it’s not a recent thing. I think the .01 percent have believed this for a long, long time.
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England a few hundred years ago - you know, that country we fought to free ourselves from.
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No taxation without representation. No representation without taxation.
Perhaps he could explain to us all why early absentee voting is a “travesty”.
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“I’ve had some radical ideas about voting and it’s probably not a good time to tell them, but you used to have to be a property owner to vote,” Yoho said at a speaking event at the Berean Baptist Church in Ocala, Florida. The crowd responded with applause.
He’s talking about land right? Not people??
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No comment without cognition.
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Yo ho, yo ho, it’s off the edge we go…
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Well, of course. It’s an obvious next step. It’s not even surprising. It’s just yer basic reactionary, jumping the shark.
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When will the baggers learn that everything they say is cached somewhere?
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I wonder how long it’s gonna be till some Rethuglican somewhere proposes to re-introduce slavery… I’m guessing not long.
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Completely mainstream, for the company he keeps.
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