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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) says that people take Pres. Trump 'too seriously'
, obviously referring to the Tweets alleging Frmr. Pres. Obama wiretapped him illegally.
Devin Nunes needs to be fired at the ballot box in 2018.
edited 7th Mar '17 6:10:56 PM by DingoWalley1
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Well, he seems to be in a safe seat
(Cook PVI of R +10), so let's hope for a huge blue wave in 2018.
edited 7th Mar '17 6:43:15 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KVLinking this more for the amusing title than anything:
Early Reports Indicate That Everyone, Literally Everyone, Hates the Republican Health Care Plan
I do hope that a lot of Representatives lose their seats to Democrats. And that isn't the most unlikely thing, because a representative is elected by majority vote in one district. And a lot of the Republican representatives are infuriating their constituents specifically by refusing to talk to them. It doesn't matter how gerrymandered your district is if the people living there despise you.
Early Reports Indicate That Everyone, Literally Everyone, Hates the Republican Health Care Plan
I actually posted something about that a couple of pages back. Even Breitbart is attacking it.
Also, not everyone hates it. Paul Ryan probably doesn't. And Trump does. Mind, he probably hasn't read it and is looking for a win.
edited 7th Mar '17 9:54:56 PM by tclittle
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."
"CNN BREAKING NEWS: Just today, Paul Ryan announced that it is an alternative fact that Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, and the American Care Act simply do not exist. Therefore, we should stop pretending that they do and go about our merry lives while they proceed to indirectly kills millions of innocent American citizens in the process of lining their own coffers, rather then start protesting and surely add enough incentive to pass that one particular bill that would allow the police to confiscate all of a citizen's property if passed, which Ryan would like to remind you does not actually exist. He'd also like to say that this broadcast never actually happened, and that ACA and its' brethren will continue to exist forevermore despite the fact that they won't. Which in and of itself is not apparently a fact."
edited 7th Mar '17 10:11:39 PM by kkhohoho
Madskillz, please stop with this "Carter was a proto-Reagan" thing after it's been handily debunked.
And for the love of all that is holy, please never use Counterpunch as a legitimate source. It is a completely wretched one, full of terrible journalism, worse scholarship and badly written articles. I've spotted a multitude of lies and falsehoods in multiple articles and they haven't gotten any better. It's utopian leftism at its worst and most toxic.
Reposting Kostya's page bottoming question
because I'm curious, too.
edited 7th Mar '17 10:27:36 PM by sgamer82
Uh, no it hasn't. Please show me where.
No one actually made a real argument to counter what I even said besides Ambar and even then it wasn't really relevant because my point was that a lot of what Reagan popularized was done by Carter not that Carter did everything Reagan did.
That's why I didn't cite it as my main article of evidence. It was an aside.I know that people here are almost as scared of left wing news sites as right wing news sites.
Utopian leftist sounds pretty good to me though.
Hey, some of you link Fox News.
edited 8th Mar '17 1:22:17 AM by MadSkillz
It's because, while horseshoe theory is bunk in politics, it works for news sources. There's approximately as much truth in Fox News as there is in Counterpunch or The Young Turks.
And approximately as much smugness about how much bettee they are at fact checking than the mainstream.
The only difference is one is run by bitter ideologically motivated old men and the other is run by bitter ideologically motivated young men.
Also, that rascal neoliberal Jimmy Carter, doubling the funding for education programmes, reinforcing safety measures in mining jobs, preventing employers from discrimonating against pregnant employees, advocated equal protection under the law for sexual minorities...
Still not embarrassing enough to stan billionaires or tech companies.See this is where you lose me because I've repeatedly acknowledged that Carter did do good things in his presidency.
I'm not accusing him of being pure evil.
The reason you're getting so much pushback is that you basically said there wasn't much difference between Jimmy Carter and the forefather (or at least foremost figurehead) of the modern reactionary, radical evangelical, anti-union, anti-minority, anti-LGBTQ, anti-women, anti-government movement that is the modern GOP. Even where those various antis disagree, almost all of them invoke Reagan's name.
Comparing people to Reagan in a liberal crowd is roughly equivalent to calling them pure evil. Or pure evil lite in this case.

edited 7th Mar '17 5:54:27 PM by IFwanderer
1 2 We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. -KV