ch33zw1z
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ivwshane
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It’s a thing that has as much brain power as he does.
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imported_tajmahal
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I don't know that I agree with that (though it mainly depends what mood I'm in).
For one thing, if you take that line, you could so easily extend it with 'never trust a liberal'. That's certainly the belief I was raised with - liberals are just a sub-type of conservative who wants to appear 'nice'. Still very much the enemy.
On balance it seems to me the truth is there are many different forms of self-interest, for different demographic groups, reflected in many slightly-different political stances, and you have to carefully pick-and-choose who you co-operate with, or trust, based on the specific issue, circumstances and era.
Insisting the enemy are an undifferentiated mass and refusing to co-operate with any of them is surely a huge part of what went wrong in Wiemar Germany?
hal2kilo
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Fox says they weren't sure what the crowd was yelling. Yea, riiiiiiight.
pauldun170
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Grey_Beard
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You can see in this video that he is very unsteady. The chants were great. Maybe he should understand that when you go full fascist on the election, you will get push back from “the people.”
imported_tajmahal
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So "full fascist" is duly exercising a legal Constitutional power to nominate a new Justice?
An interesting example of etymology.
An interesting example of etymology.
HomerJS
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Full fascist is stealing the pick of a duly elected President for close to a year.
Jaskalas
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So... the Senate Majority leader instead?
But it is the Senate's legal duty to advise and consent. Mitch clearly did not consent. Only thing foul about it - no hearings, and no vote. Is that "full" fascism?
HomerJS
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MrSquished
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A lot of things have been legal but wrong. Like slavery. Like killing Jews. Like women not being able to vote. and so on and so forth.
You have zero integrity. I would wager a majority of Trump's cult would have made fantastic Nazis.
Grey_Beard
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Do you even know what that word means? Here is what Merriam-Webster says, you decide.
What other languages are you referring to? Is redneck one of them? Is garbled, mispronounced wanna be tinpot fascist dictator one of them? Are ramblings of a dementia riddled sitting President one of them? Are enabled liar one of them?
Definition of etymology
1 : the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
2 : a branch of linguistics concerned with etymologies
Paratus
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Exactly. As @imported_tajmahal so helpfully contrasted, unlike today where there is no legal reason why a new justice cannot be appointed by the President with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, Mconnells actions were very much out of the norm in 2016.
Per Article II the President with the advice and consent of the senate may approve a new justice. In 2016 the Senate neither consented nor dissented. McConnell could be said to have dissented but he is the senate majority leader not the senate, thereby shirking his duty as senate majority leader.
imported_tajmahal
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Full fascist is doing something the left doesn't like, just as full racist is doing something the left doesn't like. The words have lost all meaning.
Grey_Beard
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So, let me get this straight. The person who uses words incorrectly feels words have lost all meaning. Okay.
If you do not consider police with military grade weapons, tanks and body armor, police using police brutality to put down protests about police brutality, a President who cleared peaceful protests so he can have a photo shoot with an upside down bible at church he does not attend, a President who constant claims voter fraud without proof, a President who just said he will not have a peaceful transitional power if he loses, a President who also just said if the “ballots” are thrown out that would be good because he would be re-elected, a group of Senators who have claimed fiscal responsibility, balanced budgets and law and order while not saying a word about a President who ran up the debt, spends money designated for other purposes as he wishes and have the most corrupt administration in history is not “full fascism” then maybe for you it’s “fool fascism.” Also what in my list I mentioned has anything to do with racism or something that a “reasonable” person, regardless of political ideology, would not like?
DaaQ
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That is the whole point, there was no hearing, let alone vote. NOTHING. Because it was complete obstruction for 6 years.
zinfamous
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zinfamous
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as a racist fascist, it's really lazy of you to defend yourself by just projecting your own worst characteristics on other people. Or simply, explain it away as "people just disagree with me!"
HomerJS
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Notice how you avoided the real Constitutional topic and diverted to hyperbole.
Racist is always assuming the black person is guilty. Sound familiar, David Duke?
BTW - that was a mix of fact and hyperbole. Like it?
kage69
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I said the same thing earlier today, then I heard it from like 6 other people before the end of the day. I think most of the country is on the same page, sans cult members of course. Pretty much every female I know wants the guy to fall into a woodchipper.
The previous smile inducer was me getting to see a well used, dirty pickup being driven by a guy who looked like he just built a barn. Gun rack, John Deere and Browning stickers, the whole nine. And on the side of his door, in those black on white adhesive letters you put on a mailbox, was the handmade message of "TRUMP SUCKS ASS."
Hell I'm still smiling over that one. I'm used to Trump getting laughed at and booed. Rural blue collar folks throwing that Koolaid back in dipshits face? Much less common.
HomerJS
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Republicans are just the slimiest of the slime
Ted Cruz blocks resolution honoring Ginsburg after Tucker Carlson pushes conspiracy theory about her
Ted Cruz blocks resolution honoring Ginsburg after Tucker Carlson pushes conspiracy theory about her
Jaskalas
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That they will.
However, given the scale and importance of mail in voting this year, with little over a month before the election, the SCOTUS will have many legal challenges to rule on very soon. Challenges that determine the POTUS and transfer of power in the United States. A very critical moment in history where we need all 9 Justices.
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