TPM’s Duke Of Dukes: The Quarterfinals | Talking Points Memo

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The last round of matches was a bloodbath. Perhaps, most notably, the expected champ of the “Sorry For (Tea) Partying” region, Rob Ford, was absolutely demolished by an underdog, Dinesh D’Souza. Our tight Tristate Area match-up between Anthony Weiner and Chris Christie saw Weiner squeak through. And another tight match between the armed Dick Cheney and Jack Abramoff saw Abramoff, a legend, gunned down by the former VP.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1349836
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Please do seeding differently. A 1 vs. a 16 is very lopsided. An 8 vs. a 9, no. Too many evil people eliminated in the first two rounds. Perhaps 1-2, 3-4, 5-6 etc,

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I think you’re letting D’souza off to easily. He’s a pretty odious figure in my book.

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Uhm. To coin a phrase, “there’s something happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear…”

Aren’t these people all from the mid 2000s? Is this some kind of flashback?

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Spelling and editing thumb down for TPM! QuaRterfinals, not Quaterfinals, as in the header.

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I can’t help but think about the next Duke of Duke generation. We just haven’t heard about all their misdeeds and screwups yet. I’m still sad Jerry Falwell couldn’t go longer. And no Kash Patel. Duke really did set the bar high.

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Actually you have to subterranean to find Duke’s bar.

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This playoff is illegitimate without Abramoff. Boycott.

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Dinesh D’Istortion was already let off… with a presidential pardon, if you recall. Hence his inclusion.

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This is so hard! Starting at the quarters, but all of these guys are so evil it’s hard to pick one over the other. And of course, as I said somewhere else, the ultimate winner really should be Dotard IQ45 and his TraitorTot ‘s. Still, a little dark entertainment during dark times. Thank you TPM

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I have to go with Cheney at this round. I may get to pull my “Republicans are just glad Cheney’s only shooting off his own mouth” line out of the steamer trunk.

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Such tough choices.

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D’Souza is odious, for sure. But he wasn’t an elected official, so his actual impact is diminished.

What a dilemma…

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This round was easier voting for me.

Duke and Blago for so brazenly, casually, shamelessly selling the public trust as if it were their chattel–to me, the distilled essence of the Dukes.

Weiner for so doing his damnedest to destroy his country by thinking exclusively with his smaller head.

Rudy because of the stumbling and bumbling and lighting his reputation completely on fire… Manafort seems to have had at least a veneer of competence.

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Gotta be Wiener. He arguably laid the final blow to make Trump president. D’Souza’s been little more than an eternally pissed off gasbag on conservative media.

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I guess it’s a little unclear - and maybe taken differently among different people - if we’re voting on the people in their entirety or for the specific things they originally got the Duke for. E.g., Dick Cheney is one of the monsters of our time, but shooting his friend in the face was a relatively minor part of that. Likewise, D’Souza’s actual offense was just the rank conservative hypocrisy turned criminal, but he also played a major role in the demonization of both Clinton and Obama (hard as it is to believe now that he’s now reduced to a clownish Twitter troll).

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I’m not sure of the brackets system for this, myself.

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D’Felon* deserves a place at the hog trough for his ridiculous blather about Fascism supposedly being a leftist ideology**

  • ok D’Pardoned

**BTW, Mussolini coined the term and defined Fascism as an “ideology of the right”. His words, not mine.

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Ok, but you have to give him credit for exposing the fact that before the 1960s, it was the Democrats who were the party of slavery and segregation, which liberal so-called “historians” have been hiding from you!

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SMH.
Of course.