The Future of the Republican Party

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  1. matthunter

    matthunter Ice Bear

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    You can point to Dem primaries enforcing purity tests over allegiance to AOC, of course?

    And by "of course" I mean "of course you fucking can't, you fucking cunt".

    Whereas GOP primaries are rife with tests of willingness to swear allegiance to Trump, claim the 2020 election was rigged, or jumping down the QAnon rabbithole.

    You've shown willingness to plumb many a hole. None of which even felt it or will remember your name in the morning, but you'll need the antibiotics anyway.
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  2. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Did the motherfucker who JUST told me I see Nazis everywhere just fucking say AOC has taken over the Dems?
    Did I just fucking see that?
    I did?
    Okay, just checking to make sure I didn't have a reality bending stroke.
    :lol:
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  3. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    I said their ideology has taken over, "wokeness" if you will. You want to limit the parameters to just the leadership, but the leadership is not the entire Democratic party. Even so, Nancy, Chuck and Joe do take their cues from the radical left.
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  4. Ten Lubak

    Ten Lubak Salty Dog

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    Told ya’ll he’s gone full QAnon

    Not even living in reality
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  5. MikeH92467

    MikeH92467 RadioNinja

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    What radical policies are Nancy, Chuck and Joe adapting from the "radical left" and which ones have actually happened? :waiting:
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  6. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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  7. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    show us on the doll where "wokeness" touched you...

    also, would ya mind explaining the ideology of the squad? (also, why do you call them that anyways? I mean, I get that it's supposed to be dismissive, but...)
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  8. MikeH92467

    MikeH92467 RadioNinja

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    It's much easier than actually thinking about it. :spock:
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  9. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Which "wokeness"?

    Which "cues"?

    Not your general fear that communists are pulling all the strings, specific policies.
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  10. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    It's also very telling about your biases that you equate things like trying to overturn basic principles of democracy to a party putting forward policy ideas you disagree with.
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  11. The Original Faceman

    The Original Faceman Lasagna Artist

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    So FF is back to "both sides" and "wokeness" and "AOC" and other boogymen that he can't possibly comprehend. Great. Do I think the Republicans will improve? No. Because their base is as stupid as FF.
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  12. MikeH92467

    MikeH92467 RadioNinja

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    It wouldn't be so bad except that the number of people stupid enough to fall for that brain-dead shit is high enough to sway elections. :brood:
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  13. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Hey, let's not taint nihilism with that association.
    :nono:
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  14. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    You tipped your hand. You're obviously joking and/or trolling. But your posts these last few days have been the funniest shit I've read from you in a while, thanks for the chuckles.
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  15. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    If someone cites “wokeness” as a worrisome thing it tells me that they’re a total pussy.
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  16. Jenee

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    Weird that you’re anti trans, but you keep using this gif to show your emotions.
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    More like a nutsack. Pussies can take a pounding and come back for more, a feather falls on a nutsack in just the right way, and the person it's attached to is pretty much down for the count.
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  18. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    "People with pronouns in their Twitter bios aren’t welcome anymore, but, evidently, white nationalists and Holocaust deniers are." The dreadful legacy of a movement brought low by welcoming right-wingers as long as they were sufficiently anti-left.

    https://theunpopulist.substack.com/p/how-the-libertarian-party-became

    How the Libertarian Party Became the Reactionary Arm of Trump and Trumpism

    The takeover of the party by the Mises Caucus means election subversion has another friend in 2024
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  19. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    I’m not anti-trans.
  20. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Sexist.
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    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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    FTFY :bergman:
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  22. matthunter

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    The boy's got a new schtick. He'll tire of it soon and be back to ragging on "radical leftists".
  23. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Jennifer Lawrence is transgender? :unsure:
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    Not that I’m aware. Just thought it odd that FF identifies as male, but repeatedly uses a female gif to express emotion. Despite what he said in post #79, he is anti trans. So …, I just find it odd.
  25. Raoul the Red Shirt

    Raoul the Red Shirt Professional bullseye

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    You kind of can't blame him, though, asking Lanzman if both sides are the same is the easiest of layups.
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  26. Raoul the Red Shirt

    Raoul the Red Shirt Professional bullseye

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    In defense of FF, I think AOC and the rest coined the phrase the Squad themselves.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Squad_(United_States_Congress)

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  27. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    Eventually the right will use The Squad so much they will abandon it and then it will become the insult and the SJWs on the left will cut a bitch for using it, even if they happen to be saying it proudly. We are just in that middle time before you are no longer allowed to call them the squad in a complimentary fashion.

    Don't blame me, I am just following the progression.
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  28. Order2Chaos

    Order2Chaos Ultimate... Immortal Administrator

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    Good article. Very sad how far the LP has fallen. I mean, it was basically a joke before, but a joke that managed to field the best VP candidate of any party in ages in 2016.
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  29. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    so she used it once , then the righties latched onto it and have been beating it to death ever since like they've done with "woke"?
  30. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    I would say the progressive left also rallied around the name as a grouping for their values and to try to make them some sort of team. In honesty I would say both sides use the term for their own motives. The corporate dems have used it to try to group them and blame them for the problems of the party. Of course they are going to work together in many ways considering they value the same thing, but they do seem to have their own constituents with their own issues to deal with.

    I do find it very funny how some people try to say that is a bad thing when it is exactly what people in congress should be doing. and are doing.
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