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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1492226
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third!
Puppy is being pretty non compliant. In the meantime, enjoy a pic of my baby marijuana cigarette plant.
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Where’s Puppy?
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Jeez, Puppy hasn’t even had coffee yet.
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Enough of these GQP reich wing jackholes. Does no one have a guillotine available?
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Where do these retributive actions take us, if not toward violence?
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If you want to read sophistry in action, take a gander at Ross Douthat’s (I know) Q&A with J.D. Vance (I know, I know) in today’s NYT:
(gift article)
So much reasonable-sounding crap. I particularly love the material where he talks about trying to bring jobs to people who don’t want jobs at the terrible wages they pay immigrants, without offering any proof that those folks will take such a job at ANY price. (Also, has he really talked to the corporate overlords?)
And then there’s the material about orange guy, but I’ll leave that for the folks here to discover …
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I’d like to see the Convicted Felon Republican Nominee in prison orange (so flattering!) behind bars for his big RNC Convention debut. Any chance of that? Please??
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“It’s clear to anyone paying a wit of attention that the House GOP is the forward operating base for Trump’s campaign of retribution.”
That’s the point though. Most people are not “paying a wit of attention” and the Zombie Fourth Estate sees its job as making sure that anyone who is paying attention is thoroughly inundated with false equivalence paradigm whitewash nonsense carefully designed to undo anything they might have learned by doing so.
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Lauren was great on Democracy Now this morning. To paraphrase, she said “Leonard Leo is accusing ME of unethical behavior?”
She was followed by Justin Elliott, one of the Pro Publica reporters (and TPM alum) on the Supreme Court corruption stories.
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But Joe Biden is old and just stood there while other people swayed to the music.
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