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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #870 on: February 04, 2012, 07:18:59 PM »
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #871 on: February 18, 2012, 04:02:28 PM »
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #872 on: March 17, 2012, 04:30:55 PM »
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #873 on: July 01, 2012, 12:23:57 PM »
Loved Bill Maher's comment about Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter failing at the box office  -- "who needs a movie to see Republicans fighting shit that doesn't really exist, when you can just ask Sean Hannity about socialism."
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #874 on: July 01, 2012, 12:27:11 PM »
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« Reply #876 on: March 02, 2013, 09:06:40 PM »
Rachel Maddow called Scalia a troll on the Daily Show.  For those of you that haven't heard the audio of him referring to the Voting Rights Act as a case of 'perpetual racial entitlement,' here's the audio:

http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/scalia-voting-rights-act-perpetuation-of-racial-entitlement
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #878 on: February 28, 2016, 09:43:29 PM »
Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, nails it again.  The Presidential contest, and especially
the Republican party nomination process, has devolved into a reality show.  Starting last summer
with his attack on John McCain and continuing through every "oh no he didn't" moment since then,
Trump has been expertly playing that game.


How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable


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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #879 on: February 29, 2016, 09:16:19 AM »
Matt Taibbi, writing for Rolling Stone, nails it again.  The Presidential contest, and especially
the Republican party nomination process, has devolved into a reality show.  Starting last summer
with his attack on John McCain and continuing through every "oh no he didn't" moment since then,
Trump has been expertly playing that game.


How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable


Taibbi is awesome. Great piece.
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #880 on: May 27, 2016, 09:27:21 AM »

The following comment from a political blog, made in response to yet another WTF moment from the
Republican klown kar, seems to sum things up perfectly:

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There are days -- and more and more of them lately -- where I feel like a minor character in somebody's extended mescaline hallucination.
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #881 on: June 06, 2016, 02:23:35 PM »
Remember when there really was a political left wing in America, before thirty years of reactionary
Republicans dragged the Overton Window far to the right?

Remember when Dennis Miller was funny, before he took a hit off of George Bush's power pipe
during a trip on Air Force One, shed his libertarian skin, and boarded the conservative gravy train?

Then I have a blog for you!


http://driftglass.blogspot.com/


The Driftglass blog is written by an unabashed liberal, AKA a Dirty Fucking Hippy (DFH) who
skewers conservatives, the corrupt political media, and "both sides do it" apologists with
intelligent literary allusions, humor, and clever writing.  The comments are well worth reading
and often equally as perspicacious.  Below is a sample of some of the bon mots from recent
weeks:

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Yes, America's most famous intercontinental chaser of tail and office abandoner, Mark Sanford, will be on CNN's "State of the Union" to explain why inbred South Carolina Republican hill folk will forgive literally anything a wingnut politician does so long as he promises to love Jebus, hate the Kenyan Usurper and use a condom if he's gonna take the goat around back for a quick round of "Firing on Fort Sumter".

And finally, if you've ever wondered what it would be like to be hit in the head with a power drill and a pillowcase full of lard at the same time. be sure to tune in to "Fox News Sunday" to hear Karl Rove and Laura Ingraham lie to you across a whole range of unpleasant audio frequencies.

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The Party of Lincoln died long, long ago.  Nixon strapped it to the gurney, Reagan administered the lethal injection and you and every other Conservative parasite here in the Home of the Free have been picnicking on its corpse for decades.

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Oh, and the Republicans lost the right to invoke Lincoln when they became the party of Confederate-flag fetishists.  Their ability to overlook the irony of this is stunningly myopic even for them.

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Not for nothing, but about a year later in 1970, Nixon's Executive Producer for Media came up with a 15-page plan to combat those "Nattering Nabobs" of Liberal Media. It was titled “A Plan for Putting the GOP on TV News,” and is in the Nixon Library in San Clemente. Among the reasons given for the presumed success if there ever was a GOP TV: "People are lazy. With television you just sit—watch—listen. The thinking is done for you.”

That Nixon staffer was none other than Roger Ailes, who went on to do precisely what he said. He just called it Fox News instead of GOP TV. Of course, other members of the media couldn't DARE call out Fox News for its Republican/conservative bias. Even though its in writing by its fucking founder/president 46 years ago and in a Presidential Library.

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[comment regarding David Brooks' musing that he needed to get out of the Acela Corridor and get in touch with the Real America]

We were somewhere around Silver Spring on the edge of the wilderness when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like "I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. ..." And suddenly there was a terrible roar all around us and the sky was full of what looked like huge orange Donald Trumps, all swooping and screeching and diving around the car, which was going about 100 miles an hour with the top down to West Virginia. And a voice was screaming: "Holy Jesus! Who nominated these goddamn animals?"

David Brooks, Fear and Loathing in Real America
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #883 on: November 10, 2016, 09:19:48 PM »
Well, is this the kind of conversation obviated by Facebook?  I'm pretty wacked out by all this darkness.
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Re: The Rant & Vent about the Right Wing thread
« Reply #884 on: November 11, 2016, 05:37:11 AM »
Well, is this the kind of conversation obviated by Facebook?  I'm pretty wacked out by all this darkness.

No doubt it is really bad news. What's missing are constructive answers as to what to do about it. I don't believe rioting in Oakland is one of them.