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matedog wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 6:56pm
Holy fuck, Rubio's twitter photo is so shitty:
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I can't get over it. His 15% smile, shitty t shirt. He looks haggard. Where is he that he thought, "gotta take a new photo now."
That's running-for-town-council-on-a-dare quality, not I-should-be-president quality.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 7:08pm
matedog wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 6:56pm
Holy fuck, Rubio's twitter photo is so shitty:
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I can't get over it. His 15% smile, shitty t shirt. He looks haggard. Where is he that he thought, "gotta take a new photo now."
That's running-for-town-council-on-a-dare quality, not I-should-be-president quality.
I looked a lot like this when I was unemployed and mid-divorce after a good night's sleep in my broken down car.

Edit: I had a nicer shirt.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 11:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 7:08pm
matedog wrote:
30 Sep 2021, 6:56pm
Holy fuck, Rubio's twitter photo is so shitty:
Image

I can't get over it. His 15% smile, shitty t shirt. He looks haggard. Where is he that he thought, "gotta take a new photo now."
That's running-for-town-council-on-a-dare quality, not I-should-be-president quality.
I looked a lot like this when I was unemployed and mid-divorce after a good night's sleep in my broken down car.

Edit: I had a nicer shirt.
Note: You also are not president.
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Only took just over a year to figure this one out, not the sharpest tool in the shed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/rnc-cha ... ks-2021-11
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ce/620746/

Worthwhile piece by David Brooks on where the American right is going. He doesn't use the word fascist, but it's what he's describing.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ce/620746/

Worthwhile piece by David Brooks on where the American right is going. He doesn't use the word fascist, but it's what he's describing.
Good article although I think it unintentionally (?) damns the author anh his peers. Brooks still admits to agreeing with 1/3rd of what was said at the conference and he acts palsy and normalizing with all involved (they're fun people to have a beer with, honest!) The line about Kristol getting all these fascists tells it all: this is a movement Brooks et al nurtured , developed, and platformed. Maybe a few of them are getting squeamish at the 11th hour, but Brooks and his cretenous ilk birthed this movement and are STILL providing them cover even in ostensibly critical pieces like this one.
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Flex wrote:
22 Nov 2021, 2:48pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
22 Nov 2021, 8:19am
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... ce/620746/

Worthwhile piece by David Brooks on where the American right is going. He doesn't use the word fascist, but it's what he's describing.
Good article although I think it unintentionally (?) damns the author anh his peers. Brooks still admits to agreeing with 1/3rd of what was said at the conference and he acts palsy and normalizing with all involved (they're fun people to have a beer with, honest!) The line about Kristol getting all these fascists tells it all: this is a movement Brooks et al nurtured , developed, and platformed. Maybe a few of them are getting squeamish at the 11th hour, but Brooks and his cretenous ilk birthed this movement and are STILL providing them cover even in ostensibly critical pieces like this one.
I wondered whether this was, in part, an unconscious mea culpa on Brooks' behalf, dragging along some of the "respectable" conservative thinkers along. Brooks knows that these people are his descendants—he recognizes the lines to conservatives in the 00s, 90s, and 80s—but hasn't come all the way to realizing responsibility. I listened to Anne Applebaum's semi-recent book last year and it had a similar confusion, an awareness of a lineal connection but not realizing, let alone accepting responsibility. This is the mourning stage for Reaganites; some will figure out that there's a logical conclusion to what they created decades ago, while other will continue to look the other way.
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Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

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Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

Blonde lady front right looks like her rifle is pointed to the dbag behind her.

Note none are hunting rifles either.

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Sparky wrote:
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Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

Turn that into a family of Muslims and Tucker Carlson's got a week of subject matter to cover.
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revbob wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 9:57am
Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 9:42am
Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

Blonde lady front right looks like her rifle is pointed to the dbag behind her.

Note none are hunting rifles either.
I hadn't noticed that, good catch. Did I mention they're from Kentucky? :mrgreen:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 10:09am
Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 9:42am
Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

Turn that into a family of Muslims and Tucker Carlson's got a week of subject matter to cover.
So true!
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Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 11:51am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 10:09am
Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 9:42am
Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

Turn that into a family of Muslims and Tucker Carlson's got a week of subject matter to cover.
So true!
Shit even a family of African Americans would elicit a horrified response from your average racist.

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revbob wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 11:55am
Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 11:51am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 10:09am
Sparky wrote:
05 Dec 2021, 9:42am
Rep. Thomas Massie from Kentucky.

Turn that into a family of Muslims and Tucker Carlson's got a week of subject matter to cover.
So true!
Shit even a family of African Americans would elicit a horrified response from your average racist.
Somebody needs to photoshop some bib overalls, straw hats & corn cob pipes on this and repost it.
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