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To be clear…
I’m not talking about every poor sap that voted for Trump.
I’m speaking of the hard core deplorable base, and I am fairly certain they only love The Hate. They wouldn’t know what to make of or do with actual ‘grief’.
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Utah schools could be required to tout "superior" U.S. capitalism
Utah high schoolers would be required to learn about the "superiority" of American free markets under new guidelines the state school board is considering this week.

Driving the news: Teachers would have to "explain why free market systems are superior and have made America the most free and prosperous country in the world" under new standards proposed for financial literacy courses.

All students are required to take the class to graduate from public high schools in Utah.
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I don't understand how people haven't picked up on the idea that hubris is a really bad pill to take daily.
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Of course it was Andrew “Normal Tourist Visit” Clyde handing out the gun pins. “LOL I TROLL U LIBURALS”

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Skinypupy wrote: Fri Feb 03, 2023 10:12 am Utah schools could be required to tout "superior" U.S. capitalism
Utah high schoolers would be required to learn about the "superiority" of American free markets under new guidelines the state school board is considering this week.

Driving the news: Teachers would have to "explain why free market systems are superior and have made America the most free and prosperous country in the world" under new standards proposed for financial literacy courses.

All students are required to take the class to graduate from public high schools in Utah.
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As long as those free markets don't choose to not carry right wing propaganda channels. That's censorship!
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The Koch brothers have dumped Trump and will actively oppose him:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/us/p ... e.amp.html
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Grifman wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 7:34 pm The Koch brothers have dumped Trump and will actively oppose him:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/05/us/p ... e.amp.html
They opposed him in the 2016 race too.
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Kids are savvy, and they all have access to alternative information sources.

They'll smell propaganda a mile away and be trading samizdat chapters of Howard Zinn before the semester is half over.
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Holman wrote: Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:29 pm trading samizdat chapters of Howard Zinn before the semester is half over.
LOL!
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2 years ago she was pulled from all committee assignments. She's indicated 9/11 was a hoax, school shootings are staged and that there's a global cabal of Satan worshiping pedophiles in elected office.

Tonight she's Speaker Pro Tempore, selected by her peers.



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Defiant wrote: Tue Feb 07, 2023 11:47 am
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How quaint and tame “You lie!” being barely shouted at Obama during one of his addresses seems today. They even made an SNL skit about it

Wouldn’t even move the needle today.
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It indeed was quaint. The Republicans were absolutely disgraceful tonight. And I think Biden did a good job goading them into being the disgraceful bastards they are. I'm all for loyal opposition but they showed tonight that they are disloyal or probably more accurately disorderly opposition.

Edit: I'm really disgusted tonight. The Republicans at least outed themselves as the traitors they are. They couldn't clap for general appeals to democracy? Or support for Ukraine? I snorted out loud when he said the State of the Union is strong. It sounded way more like a British parliamentary session than a State of the Union address and more proof that we're seeing a drastic decline in governance and comity at the moment.

Edit 2: Then Sarah Huckabee Sander gives an absolutely deplorable speech. It was reminiscent of the American carnage speech to my ears and chock full of whopper lies. Ridiculous.
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Loyal? Opposition?

No, not at all.

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I was talking to a neighbor today and the conversation turned to a "strongly opinioned" friend of his that refused to come over for the Super Bowl party because he's still bitter about the flag kneeling thing from years ago.

It's really quite amazing how the right has cultivated hot topic social issues to froth up their base and distract them from the absolutely *terrible* policies they want to enact. And the absolutely terrible and unqualified candidates they're putting in office.
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malchior wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:57 pm
If this doesn't mobilize the elderly nothing will.
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Jaymann wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:40 pm If this doesn't mobilize the elderly nothing will.
You'd think so, but I feel like there's more than a few of them that don't care because they already got theirs so screw everyone else.
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Smoove_B wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:53 pm
Jaymann wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:40 pm If this doesn't mobilize the elderly nothing will.
You'd think so, but I feel like there's more than a few of them that don't care because they already got theirs so screw everyone else.
But having it does you no good if it's not funded. It looks like the Repugnicans want to force a crisis on it every year. Not the best hill to die on.
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Every time they have tweaked SS they have generally done so without impacting current retirees.
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YellowKing wrote:I was talking to a neighbor today and the conversation turned to a "strongly opinioned" friend of his that refused to come over for the Super Bowl party because he's still bitter about the flag kneeling thing from years ago.

It's really quite amazing how the right has cultivated hot topic social issues to froth up their base and distract them from the absolutely *terrible* policies they want to enact. And the absolutely terrible and unqualified candidates they're putting in office.
Also how little people care about real patriotism supporting American ideals as opposed to performative outrage.

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Pyperkub wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:20 pm Also how little people care about real patriotism supporting American ideals as opposed to performative outrage.
They support the American ideals that they feel were betrayed in the 1960s and 70s.

You know the ones.
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Jaymann wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 3:40 pm
malchior wrote: Sun Feb 12, 2023 1:57 pm
If this doesn't mobilize the elderly nothing will.
The Democrats will be successfully blamed.
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Whatever else this thread has shown defines the 21st Century GOP, we need to ALWAYS remember teh stupidity:
But, one of the craziest bits of the hearing came from new Congressional Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who worked for Turning Point USA and PragerU before being elected. Her five minutes has garnered some extra attention for being even crazier than either Reps. Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene, both of whom had pretty crazy rants.

In particular, Rep. Luna (who has been facing some interesting news reporting of late) made some claims about there being a conspiracy between Twitter and the government to communicate via “the private cloud server”… Jira....

...Of course, as anyone with even the slightest bit of understanding about, well, anything, would tell you, it’s that Jira is an issue and project tracking software, normally used for things like bug tracking. Luna claimed this was a violation of the 1st Amendment, because she apparently hasn’t the slightest clue how the 1st Amendment actually works.

From the transcript (helpfully provided by Tech Policy Press, though we’ve corrected it based on the video), you can see former Twitter exec Yoel Roth’s confusion over all this. For anyone who understands this, you can recognize Roth’s confusion because he recognizes that she’s completely misconstruing Jira and what it does. But, to Rep. Luna, she seems to think she’s caught Roth out in a giant conspiracy.
Tho tech stupidity amongst legislators is not limited to the GOP, the willing and able-ness to use that to go straight to a conspiracy theory certainly is these days.
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Pyperkub wrote: Wed Feb 15, 2023 10:05 pm
From the transcript (helpfully provided by Tech Policy Press, though we’ve corrected it based on the video), you can see former Twitter exec Yoel Roth’s confusion over all this. For anyone who understands this, you can recognize Roth’s confusion because he recognizes that she’s completely misconstruing Jira and what it does. But, to Rep. Luna, she seems to think she’s caught Roth out in a giant conspiracy.
The modern GOP is proof positive of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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In particular, Rep. Luna (who has been facing some interesting news reporting of late) made some claims about there being a conspiracy between Twitter and the government to communicate via “the private cloud server”… Jira....
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

And they put her in office... Who is it we are trying to take the vote away from again? How many of these complete idiots have are in office making laws? It's not exactly an anomaly.
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Grifman wrote: Sat Feb 18, 2023 9:08 pm
That is one scary ass looking creature. Methinks she speaks from experience.
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What an embarrassment.
Encapsulates the MI GOP pretty well. They been embarrassingly horrible for getting on 15 years or more. And yet they still control a gerrymandered legislature and get the governorship half the time.

https://www.mlive.com/public-interest/2 ... chair.html

Weiser and Cox before her were also objectively horrible people and endorse election fraud as long as it's in support of the GOP.
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Demonic possession via sex? That explains why the Medical Community switched terms to "sexually transmitted illness" from STD's.
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MTG acting stupid - a thread:

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Freyland wrote: Sun Feb 19, 2023 1:52 pm Demonic possession via sex? That explains why the Medical Community switched terms to "sexually transmitted illness" from STD's.
Infection, isn't it?

Edit: I see, you changed it to align with your humour. Whoops on my part. :D
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Oh, for fuck’s sake.


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Blackhawk wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:06 pm ...

Do condoms work for that? Asking for a friend.
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Skinypupy wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:52 pm Oh, for fuck’s sake.


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How is that McCarthy's decision to make?
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Alefroth wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 3:42 pm
Skinypupy wrote: Mon Feb 20, 2023 12:52 pm
How is that McCarthy's decision to make?
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