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Remember when, say last week, that Lindsey Graham put out the word that any federal judge nearing retirement age should either retire or go on senior status so as to fill more judgeships with unqualified Federalists nominees?
Well I wonder if Biden wins would we see this move played out for his nominations? Even if they’re “old school” Republicans?
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The poor bastard who needs the most help is Rubio. For two reasons:
(1) He is a natural coward
(2) He is about as iffy** a “white” man as there is, given Trump’s White Nationalist politics
** Cuba has similar amounts of African ancestry in its collective heredity as Puerto Rico
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A lot of people were monetizing Trump in a number of ways. They may be seeing that the golden goose coming to an end.
That they are. Everyone wants things to be normal again. But that normal cannot exist anymore. This country is growing up, kicking and screaming in rapid pace. We are going to have a normal, but possibly better. Personally, I see this period of time to be as tectonic to social change in the same way I think the 60s were for people and how they see the world. It is going to be uncomfortable, but like new clothes, a few wears and it feels good.
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Well said.
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I wonder what the current OK Governor did with Failin’ Fallin’s first daughter trailer that was parked out back of the Governor’s mansion?
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It is what happens when a corrupt political party suddenly realizes they are on the losing side of a sea change. Oops. Better start trying to sound contrite and sane.
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You know what it is? They talk fast, don’t listen, and don’t really ask a question.
And you could say this about both of them.
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Ohmygod, I read that too fast and I thought I was reading about PP throwing his panties and they’d be anything but petty.
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The Soviet Union lost 7,000,000 soldiers in battle in WWII
It also lost 7,000,000 civilians (Sir John Keegan)
And yet Russia now has Nazis and Nazi adherents
And so, I “understand” Stephen Miller the way I understand induced sociopathy.
It’s either THAT or he’s fuckin’ nuts from the Jump.
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I think it’s also instructive that Republicans like Langford, Cruz, John Kennedy, and many others aren’t stupid. In fact, most are Ivy League graduates. They’ve apparently taken a vow of malicious disingenuousness, purposely acting stupidly, for electoral considerations.
Rather than taking the time to educate or explain issues to their base, as Langford does here, they choose to cravenly cave to their right wing constituents biases and ignorance. It’s morally repugnant.
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There is a difference in being occasionally rational and keeping his job.
For some politicians it’s a constant high wire act with no net. For others, it makes sense to drift left or right with prevailing wind.
Let’s see if Langford uses this moment to break away from Trump. He and Mitt may become the leaders of a new movement.
He needs to condemn the Tulsa rally as a health hazard. That will be the test.
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Don’t forget that Lankford will running for reelection leading up to the sentinel of Rosewood, aka Black Wall Street massacre. Jan 1-7 1923.
I can’t tell if you approve of what Langford specifically is saying or disapproving. But it’s likely disapproval. The fact is he’s lining up with House Democrats like Clyburn and Omar in voicing disapproval and then acting on reforms to policing. When we get R support for any reason, even those of self preservation, we have to accept it at face because we know they’ll hear from the moron who’ll spew all the viciousness he’s capable of.
Senator James Lankford, Republican of Oklahoma, said he supported a national ban on chokeholds, though the legislation still being drafted in the Senate is not expected to have such a prohibition. “Absolutely, we should have that,” he said on ABC. “That was one of the things that we should have engaged in a long time ago.”
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Umm, why didn’t he care about facts the other 19,000 times and counting?
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First, it is amazing that this is such a tough position for Republicans to take.
Second, Republicans must see they are on the wrong side of history. I don’t know when in the next ten years that Confederate generals names will be removed as names of our military bases (hopefully very soon), but it is surely just a matter of time (thank God!).
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This is actually an interesting ethical question. Let’s say everything you’ve ever done was bad until yesterday, when you did an unquestionably good thing. To what degree is that in-itself good thing tainted, and an occasion for further blame, because you didn’t do similar good things in the past?
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Another GOP coc----er–repubican hoping we’ll forget how he voted during the impeachment trial.
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In this instance, certainly I approve of his position. I’m, in fact, very impressed with his incisiveness and intelligence as he describes the racist underpinnings of the naming of military bases. Just wondering where it goes off to when we’re discussing, say, impeachment or tax cuts or healthcare or climate change, etc.
My point is they resort to maliciously false arguments to support policy positions that do harm to the American people. That they’re smart enough to know the empirical evidence is not on their side, yet they’re unwilling to reconsider their agenda.
I give him credit for this one instance, but that doesn’t excuse his votes on almost every other issue of importance.
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I neither expect Langford to move away from tRump or to condemn the rally. Neither would be popular with the far right majority in the state where I grew up.
And promptly left.
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The good act is not tainted, but the pattern remains, otherwise one’s ethics are at best situational.
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