GOP Will Shit Itself

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Fri Jun 22, 2018 5:52 pm

Among all the other nightmarish news from the past few weeks years, it seems this was overlooked:



TL;DR: The DoJ is basically declining to defend the ACA in the suit brought trying to deem it unconstitutional.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:17 pm

BBC: Dear Koch brothers... welcome to the resistance?

(not really, they're still dogshit stacked in vaguely human form).
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Yoji » Mon Jul 02, 2018 5:55 pm

And we're supposed to trust them after how many years of stoking the Tea Party and GOP for fun and profit?

Fat chance. You can't shake the Devil's hand and say you were just kidding.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jul 02, 2018 6:19 pm

Still, this is DEFINITELY a case of the GOP eating it's own!
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby zaratustra » Tue Jul 03, 2018 4:59 am

eighty. these fuckers are eighty.
murdoch is nearly ninety.

we've gone past being ruled by elders and into the realm of fucking mumm-ra

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby pacobird » Tue Jul 03, 2018 11:53 am

Thad wrote:I can't find it offhand, but I seem to recall linking to a Frank Zappa interview some years back where he made a similar criticism toward Libertarianism: he noted that the Libertarian Party supported giving land back to indigenous tribes, but also opposed imminent domain, and that of course the two positions are irreconcilable.

Zappa was probably closer to a Libertarian than any other political party (he favored a flat tax, and of course his views on drugs and free speech where very Libertarian-y), but this was one of several examples of why he wouldn't have made a very good Libertarian either. He also favored sin taxes and government funding for the arts.



I know I'm digging back here, but this is AFAICT the organizing principle of Left Libertarianism: you have a right to ownership of your own person and whatever property you develop via the sweat of your brow, but natural resources are owned collectively.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jul 16, 2018 4:46 pm



It seems the Republican party (or some members of it at least) was actively seeking secret connections with Russian government figures through the NRA well before Trump.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM...
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Romosome » Sat Jul 28, 2018 12:50 am

Content Warning: Child sexual abuse.
This is messed up enough that I'm going to put a spoiler on it. If things are too much for you right now, if you are overwhelmed by the cruelty of the world, do not read this. It will not help. You'll find out about it soon enough, if there is any justice. We need people who care right now, and we need them to not be broken, so please take care of yourself.

Everyone else needs to make sure everyone they know hears about this.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/07/27/immigrant-children-detention-crime/853470002/
https://www.thenation.com/article/six-year-old-girl-sexually-abused-immigrant-detention-center
ICE employees have been raping captive children. I'm calling it rape because I don't want to downplay this or quibble over where the line is that pushes something from "mere" child molestation to "rape rape". People are commiting sex acts with imprisoned children. This is rape.

I don't like posting this but people need to see it and know it. This is something I knew was going to happen, it doesn't surprise me, and I hate being right about it. Hopefully I'm not right about what else we haven't seen yet.


If you're not registered to vote, do it now.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Sat Jul 28, 2018 1:09 am

Yep. That's the type of people they're actively recruiting, even.

That's also without even getting into the fact that a frightening number of those children have simply disappeared, with many of the missing suspected to have been sold to sex traffickers
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Thad » Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:43 am

I expect (and certainly hope) that this will be the top story within a couple of days. Damned if it doesn't seem like a little too much of a coincidence that it broke on a Friday night, but even in our age of a fresh outrage every couple of days, this one feels like it's way too big to pass with the news cycle.

Took an anxiety pill, going to try and get some sleep, and tomorrow I'll look for a charity to donate to that's working to stop this.

I sincerely hope that it will be much harder to dismiss the "abolish ICE" movement as a fringe position next week than it was last week.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby zaratustra » Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:33 am

you know what's funny

trump voters thought hillary was the one keeping kids in cages to abuse them

actually it's not funny

it's a monstrosity

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby hngkong » Sat Jul 28, 2018 6:55 am

I fully believe that every single evil thing republicans claim democrats are doing is actually projection of either what they are currently doing or want to be doing.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby mharr » Sat Jul 28, 2018 7:33 am

Everyone ridicules the idea of projection when it's leveled at them and theirs, but holy shit it's a reliable rule of thumb. I think everyone that ever read a history book knew these stories were inevitable, at least they're coming to light while it's still happening, not the usual ten years after the monsters are safely dead.

We often envy our grandparents for having a simple and undeniable evil to stand together and declare war upon. Be careful what you wish for, but here we go. No grey zones here, if you stand for this you belong dead.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mothra » Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:20 pm

Agreed 100%

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby François » Sat Jul 28, 2018 2:33 pm

There's still a lot of "Clinton would have been worse than Trump" sentiment going around, and that's the same kind of "our guy is garbage but everyone's garbage so at least he's our garbage" projection. I mean, I don't think highly of Clinton myself, but she probably wouldn't be picking fights with Canada and drinking piss from Putin's boots quite so much. And if you ask around Trump's base, they'll swear up and down that we're doing better today then we'd be doing with her at the helm, even as they have to sell their soybean farm to a bank to settle their debts.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby IGNORE ME » Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:49 pm

Turns out we don't envy the unambiguous evil so much as the unambiguous solution. "Here's a gun, fire it at all the people speaking German" isn't going to work this time.

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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Blossom » Sat Jul 28, 2018 4:52 pm

I dunno, we have the ICE employee doxx. That's somewhere to start.
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Sat Jul 28, 2018 5:13 pm

"First thing we do is let's kill all the ICE agents."
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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Mongrel » Wed Aug 22, 2018 3:57 am

Just seen this Duncan Hunter story. It's pretty gassy.



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Re: GOP Will Shit Itself

Postby Bal » Wed Aug 22, 2018 4:02 am

Thad wrote:I expect (and certainly hope) that this will be the top story within a couple of days. Damned if it doesn't seem like a little too much of a coincidence that it broke on a Friday night, but even in our age of a fresh outrage every couple of days, this one feels like it's way too big to pass with the news cycle.

Took an anxiety pill, going to try and get some sleep, and tomorrow I'll look for a charity to donate to that's working to stop this.

I sincerely hope that it will be much harder to dismiss the "abolish ICE" movement as a fringe position next week than it was last week.


Just quoting this to remind us all that this did not become a top story and nothing substantive is being done about what I can only think is going to be the greatest national shame the US is likely to experience in the 21st century.

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