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Something that probably doesn't get talked about enough is the number of post Tea Party GOP congressmen who are insane. Not just religious creeps like Huckabee, or opportunists like Cruz, but legitimately out of their minds.

12-12-2017 , 08:25 PM

#3877

Loki

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

real or onion?

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Hillary Clinton Would Have Used Supreme Court To Destroy Christians

“If Hillary were elected and then she replaces [Antonin] Scalia with someone who has contempt for the God we know rules the universe, and our freedom of religion would have been gone. They consider Christians a hate group, even though it’s the one true religion based on ‘God so loved the world he gave his son. His son so loved the world he gave his life,’ and they have turned that upside down. They were going to be coming after Christians with the help of then a 5-4 Supreme Court,” Gohmert said.

Clinton’s persecution of Christians may have even landed him in jail, he said he told his wife.

Gohmert said, “So on election night I said, ‘But if on the off-chance Hillary wins, sweetheart, you need to be ready. They’ll probably have me in jail within four years,’ and I wasn’t kidding. I really believed that if she had won, my freedom was at stake because of my Christian beliefs.”

Way too easily real.

12-13-2017 , 07:43 AM

#3878

dereds

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

Nationalism is by far the most dangerous political ideology in human history. It's the bedrock on which both communism and fascism rested. I once read a giant History of the 20th Century book. I've forgotten most of it, but my takeaway from it was that the 20th century could be summarized as the century of nationalism.

This is wrong. That Bukharin and Stalin later declared against Marxist othodoxy that Socialism in one country was possible does not place nationalism as the bedrock of communism.

12-13-2017 , 06:57 PM

#3879

ScreaminAsian

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12-13-2017 , 08:15 PM

#3880

JimHammer

Digg'n the gifs

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12-14-2017 , 12:20 AM

#3881

Johnny Truant

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ScreaminAsian

He shot himself today.

12-14-2017 , 07:07 AM

#3882

yeSpiff

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12-14-2017 , 07:14 AM

#3883

ChrisV

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He looks like he's about to put that thing through Pence's face.

12-14-2017 , 07:22 AM

#3884

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Not quite as childish as him driving.

12-14-2017 , 12:26 PM

#3885

ScreaminAsian

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12-14-2017 , 02:31 PM

#3886

batair

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To be fair to republicans since they are in bed with an ex kgb op there is no need for our intelligence agencies anymore and we can just use Putins now.

12-14-2017 , 06:32 PM

#3887

ReasonableGuy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Johnny Truant

He shot himself today.

Good riddance.

Kentucky lawmaker killed himself after sexual assault allegations

Quote:

He won the 49th District State House race in Kentucky last year despite his Facebook posts that compared then-President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama to monkeys. At the time, he shunned calls for him to drop out of the race -- and ultimately won the election.

12-14-2017 , 06:35 PM

#3888

+rep_lol

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no tears

12-14-2017 , 08:35 PM

#3889

ScreaminAsian

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12-14-2017 , 08:46 PM

#3890

ChrisV

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wtf. How is that constitutional?

12-14-2017 , 08:49 PM

#3891

ChrisV

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Just Reasonable Moderate Republican John Kasich doing Reasonable Moderate things I guess.

12-14-2017 , 08:49 PM

#3892

awval999

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

wtf. How is that constitutional?

It's not.

12-14-2017 , 08:55 PM

#3893

ChrisV

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Wonder if Kasich actually will refuse to sign it on the grounds that it is manifestly unconstitutional.

12-14-2017 , 08:57 PM

#3894

stinkubus

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LOL as if that has ever stopped them before. Abortion opponents have been wasting tax payer money for decades on this **** every time they get in power.

12-14-2017 , 09:04 PM

#3895

goofyballer

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Assuming Ohio doesn't lack for abortion providers, seems easy enough to get around:

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Doctors who knowingly violate the ban would face losing their medical licenses and could serve jail time. Women seeking the terminations, however, would not be punished.

Go to a new doctor and don't tell them about the condition, ez game. (not that this excuses it or makes it any less idiotic)

12-15-2017 , 07:29 AM

#3896

tame_deuces

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Quote:

Originally Posted by ChrisV

They're also a poison.

When more and more politicians get elected by claiming the system is completely rotten, you'll increasingly erode not only the trust in the system as it exists, but ultimately you'll end up with an electorate which does not even believe that a trustworthy system could exist.

Because obviously these people can't actually fix the problem. They'll have to continue to rail that the system is rotten. If not, they'll lose to the next guy who claims they represent a rotten system.

And then at the end of the line, when there is not enough trust left to be had, the entire system will collapse. I think this development is actually happening now. Truth now seems to be completely subjective and policy does not have to be grounded in anything resembling evidence. This makes it impossible to pass functional policy.

Because the simple truth is that most major political directions in democracies can work. Social democracy works, capitalism works, free markets work, coalition politics works. We might prefer one over the other, and work towards that end - but what doesn't work is throwing cogs into the system and then screaming that nothing works until people believe you.

12-15-2017 , 06:03 PM

#3897

ScreaminAsian

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12-15-2017 , 06:22 PM

#3898

zikzak

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Ominous

12-15-2017 , 06:34 PM

#3899

wheatrich

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Quote:

Originally Posted by goofyballer

Assuming Ohio doesn't lack for abortion providers, seems easy enough to get around:

Go to a new doctor and don't tell them about the condition, ez game. (not that this excuses it or makes it any less idiotic)

fwiw, I figured it'd go the other way around, doctors refuse b/c of fear of getting thrown in jail/losing license even if the girl didn't tell him the courts won't give a ****.