Performative Austerity Vanishes As GOP Flees Town Before Trump's Dictator-Style Parade

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Mostly peaceful protests? You can fuck right off with that nonsense. The only reason they are not peaceful is because the cops are rioting again.

And y’all are supposed to be one of the good ones and not do this both sides bullshit.

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“And it matters the least when the wannabe dictator head of the Republican Party decides to throw himself a multi-million dollar bday bash.”

I read this as “…baby bash.” Seems more fitting.

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Just to underline a tangent to this point, it is one thing for a teen to lack impulse control.

It is another for adults in positions of responsibility to lack impulse control.

In which case should a political party be held accountable?

Well, clearly, our press does not know.

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My oh my, one headline does not at all look like the other. How can that possibly be?

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Before or after she attended the Tent Awning Watch Party?

I don’t ordinarily fat shame but really. Although I have to acknowledge that there may well be some genetic factors involved here. Especially for the fat cells located between the ears.

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Thank you. Of course, a lot of this depends on how widespread knowledge of the demonstration is. Something the infotainment media doesn’t cover at all is limited to purely local impact, like the downtown district of the city.

So arranging for media presence is necessary. Even if it’s just social media. Which, sadly, can now be very convincingly faked.

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You may be surprised to learn that the people least tolerant of fat people are themselves fat.

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(Terry Moran was fired from ABC, not CBS.)

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Public pressure only works if it’s followed through with consequences. But the same people commit crimes and keep getting elected. It’s easy to go protest for a day. Much, much harder to run a campaign to get an elections board position, school board - all the smaller stuff that the right took over so successfully.

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I’ve often wondered if it might be effective (=harder to ignore) to protest at the media site (e.g., Fox HQ) than the usual state capitol or wherever. :thinking:

(Besides, WE need to “work the refs” (media), too, as Republican’ts have done for decades. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:)

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John Thune will yaking it up with dairy guys who are worried about losing their undocumented workers…er essential South Dakota workers as NOem calls them. Thune is gonna have to go into the weeds to make sure that NOem stays the hell away from the cash cow undocumented workers in their home state. Miss the shit show in DC? Naw, making sure he avoids a shit show on the dairy farms/meat processing in South Dakota

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But he didn’t mention that he has access to the bank accounts of others, like Theil, the Kochs and all that other white supremacist money

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Well, he can claim that the weather kept people from attending. Too bad. I was hoping that the turnout on a bright sunny day would be pitiful and would show the SOB that his Glorification Parade was after all, a pathetic joke and that HE is a pathetic joke.

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Holding out hope for a lightning strike on the reviewing stand.

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The unintended result of this roundup of anyone ICE can get their hands on is beginning to show up in the Agriculture industry, the construction industry, the food service industry and the health care industry. The so called illegals (and other perfectly legal hispanics) are afraid to go to work, and it leaves all the workplaces too short of labor to get a job done.
Rightwingers are just incapable of thinking any of their dumb ideas through to the logical conclusion, and they never learn from their mistakes, so here we are with a bunch of self righteous morons running the country right into the ditch.

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As a red state, Ohio will qualify for government assistance after FEMA is dismantled. Illinois, for example, not so much.

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Well…boy howdy! Let those good MAGAts sleep on the floor of the gym like the Marines and Nat. Guard are having to do in LA. No food, no water no bathrooms.

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It’s hard to have rational thoughts when your entire identity is made up of cruelty, insecurity, stupidity, rage, racism, pettiness and religion.

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And that good “ole time religion” just stokes their pettiness, cruelty stupidity and racism et cetera. Wonder what their Geeeesus would think about all those good christians?

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Question of the day: Will we see the goosestep?

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