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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    Democrat party's early Social Justice Warriors



    Democrats are the party of Lincoln
    Big Pooch, you are right, that before the civil right moment of the the 1960s the South was solid Democrats (Dixiecrat), but after the 1960s the White Supremacist and the KKK switched party, because the Republican party was more welcoming to their sense of bigotry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    I guess that's how desperate things are for Trump's GOP. Vote for us - Democrats were racist in the 19th century.

    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    That's Pelousy's goal...erase the history of Democrats' association with slavery and racism.

    ***************

    Nine of 11 statues of Confederate leaders Pelosi wants removed from Capitol were Democrats

    Two of the Confederate leaders who were not Democrats did not have a historically documented political party affiliation

    House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is calling for the removal of 11 statues of Confederate leaders from the Capitol building, nine of which were members of the Democratic Party.

    The other two Confederates, Edmund Kirby Smith and Robert E. Lee, did not have a documented political affiliation, according to historical accounts. Lee reportedly joined Democrats in opposition to Republicans who “demanded punitive measures against the South” during reconstruction.

    “The American people know, these names have to go. These names are white supremacists that said terrible things about our country,” Pelosi said during a press conference on Thursday.

    McCarthy, a California Republican, said the statues that concern Pelosi are a problem within her own party.

    "They were voted upon in the legislature and brought here under Democrat majorities from Mississippi to the other states that she speaks about,” he said.

    The statues that Pelosi wants removed include:

    Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America and former Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi
    James Zachariah George, former Democratic U.S. senator from Mississippi and member of the Confederacy as well as the Mississippi Secession Convention
    Wade Hampton, lieutenant general for the Confederacy and former Democratic governor of South Carolina
    John E. Kenna, member of the Confederate States Army, former Democratic congressman and U.S. senator from West Virginia
    Uriah Milton Rose, chairman of the Resolutions Committee of the Arkansas Democratic Party
    Edmund Kirby Smith, general for the Confederate States Army with no recorded political party affiliation
    Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederate States who served as a Democratic congressman from Georgia and governor of Georgia
    Zebulon Baird Vance, member of the Confederate Army and former Democratic governor of North Carolina
    Joseph Wheeler, commander in the Confederate Army and former Democratic congressman from Alabama
    Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate States Army
    Edward Douglass White, member of Confederate Army, former Louisiana Democratic senator and associate justice of the Supreme Court
    https://justthenews.com/government/c...d-capitol-were
    Wonder why Robert Byrd is not in there? Hmmmmm.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    Big Pooch, you are right, that before the civil right moment of the the 1960s the South was solid Democrats (Dixiecrat), but after the 1960s the White Supremacist and the KKK switched party, because the Republican party was more welcoming to their sense of bigotry.
    One of the biggest liberal myths ever told.

    Even LBJ knew racism was dying in the South, and he won the South running on a Civil Rights Act platform.

    "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
    — Joe Biden on Obama.

    Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.

    D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.

    Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Wonder why Robert Byrd is not in there? Hmmmmm.
    Good question



    Many of our national heroes echoed the ethnic attitudes of their times, but the Left leaves yesterday’s liberal bigots untouched.

    If those on the left sincerely wish to address America’s historical injustices, rather than simply pursue partisan advantage, they should advocate the removal and purification of the hundreds of tributes to Democrats who oppressed blacks and other minorities.

    • They should start by being honest when they resist statues of P. G. T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and other luminaries of the slave-owning South. These were not Republicans, as the Trump-hating Left hopes to convince people who don’t know much about history. Rather, these Confederates were all Democrats.

    Also, liberals accuse Republicans of using “dog whistles” to elicit canine-like loyalty among allegedly racist whites. But it was Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, Alabama’s Democratic National Committeeman and Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, who deployed dogs against civil-rights activists in May 1963.

    • As former governor Mike Huckabee (R., Ark.) suggested on Fox News Channel, Democrats should stop holding Jefferson-Jackson dinners. These honor President Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and slaveholder, and President Andrew Jackson, victorious defender of New Orleans against the British in the War of 1812, slaveowner, and tormentor of American Indians along the Trail of Tears. Hillary Clinton headlined the Virginia Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on June 26, 2015, one of several that Democrats organized in recent years. Huckabee suggested that blacks boycott these gatherings until Democrats rename them.

    • If you’re an American woman, or happen to know one, give thanks for Susan B. Anthony (who had some Republican leanings, but was not formally affiliated with either party). She was the most prominent advocate for securing women the right to vote. If David Bowie’s Suffragette City were a real destination, Susan B. Anthony would be its mayor. Last Election Day, hundreds of women who cast their presidential ballots for Hillary Clinton covered Anthony’s tombstone in Rochester, N.Y., with “I Voted” stickers. Most of these females would be startled to learn that Anthony’s fervent support for suffrage covered women, but did not extend to blacks. She once said: “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.” In an 1872 speech, Anthony rejected “an oligarchy . . . which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects,” but accepted that “an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured.” As for the timing of gaining voting rights, Anthony wrote in 1869, “If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last.” Why aren’t Democrats leading the charge to remove Susan B. Anthony’s bust from the Portrait Monument in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and scrape her visage from the one-dollar coin?

    • Democratic president Woodrow Wilson headed Princeton University, signed the Federal Reserve Act, commanded U.S. forces in World War I, and pioneered multilateralism through the League of Nations. These were momentous achievements, like them or not. Wilson also was a raving bigot who resegregated the bathrooms in the federal building beside the White House. He hosted a 1915 screening of D. W. Griffith’s pro-KKK epic Birth of a Nation at the Executive Mansion. Wilson said: “It’s like writing history with lightning.” Wilson also said: “Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit.” Why have Democrats not already pried this man’s name from Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge?

    • Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt piloted the New Deal, pioneered Social Security, and orchestrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan — enormous accomplishments, no doubt. But during World War II, whose satisfying conclusion he nearly lived to enjoy, FDR locked up roughly 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in 10 internment centers, including California’s Manzanar camp, solely due to their heritage. Also, as Woodrow Wilson’s assistant secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt signed the August 8, 1916, order to resegregate the bathrooms in the State, War, and Navy Departments Building “for the use of women, white men and Colored.” Thus, Democrats should be thrilled to dismantle Washington, D.C.’s FDR Monument and sandblast his face from the dime.

    • The Russell Senate Office Building is named after the late senator Richard Russell. The Democrat represented Georgia for 38 years and sponsored the National School Lunch Program in 1946. He also was a major segregationist who railed against civil rights. Russell considered whites superior to blacks. As he once said: “I am willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to preserve and insure white supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state as any man who lives within her borders.” Why do Senate Democrats and their staffers allow Richard Russell’s shadow to dim their workplace? It should be renamed after Senator Hiram Revels. The Mississippi Republican was seated in February 1870, the first black American to serve in the Senate. Blanche Bruce, another black Mississippi Republican, was seated in 1875, but Democrats soon sank Reconstruction, dooming black political prospects in the South. No other black American reached the Senate from the South until South Carolina’s then-governor Nikki Haley named fellow Republican Tim Scott to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy in January 2013. Senator Scott subsequently has won that seat.

    In contrast, the Dirksen Senate Office Building is named after Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Illinois Republican who rallied 26 (among 32 other) GOP senators, stymied a Democratic filibuster, and clinched passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — the cornerstone of U.S. civil-rights law.

    • Former president Bill Clinton remembered his fellow Democrat, Arkansan, and Rhodes Scholar in The American Oxonian as “the great Senator, my mentor.” Clinton praised Senator Fulbright as “the heir to Jefferson in our time.” Clinton added: “It gave us tremendous hope to know that we had a Senator in Washington who could double the I.Q. of any room he walked into.” Fulbright is best known as the father of the Fulbright Scholarship, a federally funded student-exchange program that has assisted some 360,000 students from the U.S. and 140 foreign nations. Fulbright also edited and signed the segregationist Southern Manifesto, battled key civil-rights legislation, and decried “Jewish influence” in Congress in 1973. Clinton’s encomium ignored his mentor’s segregationism. Clinton did not mention it in passing, nor even as something that Fulbright grew to regret, or about which he eventually whispered his misgivings to his protégé. Democrats should insist that the $125 million Fulbright Scholarship be rechristened the Everett McKinley Dirksen Scholarship program.

    Sen. Robert Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, for which he recruited some 150 fresh Klansmen in the 1940s.

    • A statue of the late U.S. senator Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) stands in the U.S. Capitol. Some 55 bridges, highways, dams, and other facilities in Byrd’s state carry his name. These honor Byrd’s 51 years in the Senate, including 12 as Democratic leader, as recently as 1989. Byrd told the late Fox News anchor Tony Snow this about race relations in March 2001: “There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time; I’m going to use that word.” Byrd led the 83-day Democratic filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and spoke nonstop for its defeat for 14 hours on the Senate floor. Senators Byrd, Russell, Fulbright, and Albert Gore Sr. were among the segregationist Democrats who filibustered to keep Jim Crow alive. The Left breathlessly claims that these and other prominent racist Dixiecrats became Republicans, but with the notable exception of the late Senator Strom Thurmond (R., S.C.), they all died as Democrats. Byrd also was an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, for which he recruited some 150 fresh Klansmen in the 1940s. Byrd wrote the KKK’s Imperial Wizard in 1946: “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Why have Democrats not cleansed the Capitol of this former Klansman’s image, and urged West Virginians to do likewise?

    The Right can pursue these facts along one of two paths:

    Republicans and conservatives could hammer Democrats and liberals pitilessly as grotesque hypocrites who fail to repudiate and erase those on their side of the aisle who spent time, energy, and even government resources to abuse and terrorize blacks and other minorities. The very least the Left should do is refer to Democrat Robert E. Lee, Democrat Jefferson Davis, and Democrat Stonewall Jackson before they haul down their statues and catapult them onto the ash heap of history.

    Alternatively, Republicans and conservatives could remind Democrats and the Left that their heroes, like nearly all human beings, blend good and bad, triumphs and tribulations, talents and shortcomings, though some display these contrasts more starkly than others. Americans could dislodge virtually every statue ever sculpted. JFK, LBJ, and MLK were unfaithful husbands. Winston Churchill drank his way through World War II and screamed at his staff. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Every critic today should beware of presentism: judging people from 50, 150, or 500 years ago based on 2017’s fragile sensitivities. Put another way, come 2217, some things taken for granted now will make savages of today’s sophisticates.

    Before the tributes to Jefferson, Lee, or even Roosevelt crash down into chunks of stone and hunks of steel, the time is now for a cease-fire in the War on Statues. Instead, Americans should leave these works of art in peace, erect new statues of admirable people, and install bronze plaques to outline the good, the bad, and the ugly about those preserved in metal and marble. Every American would learn from that approach — not least, an urgent reminder about the angels and demons wrestling within each of us.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/...s-predominate/
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    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bigdog View Post
    One of the biggest liberal myths ever told.

    Even LBJ knew racism was dying in the South, and he won the South running on a Civil Rights Act platform.

    The scary thing is Trumpet thinks he is an educated liberal.

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    Byrd!

    The one guy....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Trumpet View Post
    Big Pooch, you are right, that before the civil right moment of the the 1960s the South was solid Democrats (Dixiecrat), but after the 1960s the White Supremacist and the KKK switched party, because the Republican party was more welcoming to their sense of bigotry.
    Why would the KKK join the party of Lincoln? Why would they join the party instrumental in passing Civil Rights legislation when the democrat party stayed steadfast in their segregation?

    And what is the date of this supposed switch you guys always talk about?

    If you can't answer, I will understand

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    Byrd!

    The one guy....
    Not even close.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    Good question



    Many of our national heroes echoed the ethnic attitudes of their times, but the Left leaves yesterday’s liberal bigots untouched.

    If those on the left sincerely wish to address America’s historical injustices, rather than simply pursue partisan advantage, they should advocate the removal and purification of the hundreds of tributes to Democrats who oppressed blacks and other minorities.

    • They should start by being honest when they resist statues of P. G. T. Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, and other luminaries of the slave-owning South. These were not Republicans, as the Trump-hating Left hopes to convince people who don’t know much about history. Rather, these Confederates were all Democrats.

    Also, liberals accuse Republicans of using “dog whistles” to elicit canine-like loyalty among allegedly racist whites. But it was Theophilus Eugene “Bull” Connor, Alabama’s Democratic National Committeeman and Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, who deployed dogs against civil-rights activists in May 1963.

    • As former governor Mike Huckabee (R., Ark.) suggested on Fox News Channel, Democrats should stop holding Jefferson-Jackson dinners. These honor President Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence and slaveholder, and President Andrew Jackson, victorious defender of New Orleans against the British in the War of 1812, slaveowner, and tormentor of American Indians along the Trail of Tears. Hillary Clinton headlined the Virginia Democrats’ Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner on June 26, 2015, one of several that Democrats organized in recent years. Huckabee suggested that blacks boycott these gatherings until Democrats rename them.

    • If you’re an American woman, or happen to know one, give thanks for Susan B. Anthony (who had some Republican leanings, but was not formally affiliated with either party). She was the most prominent advocate for securing women the right to vote. If David Bowie’s Suffragette City were a real destination, Susan B. Anthony would be its mayor. Last Election Day, hundreds of women who cast their presidential ballots for Hillary Clinton covered Anthony’s tombstone in Rochester, N.Y., with “I Voted” stickers. Most of these females would be startled to learn that Anthony’s fervent support for suffrage covered women, but did not extend to blacks. She once said: “I will cut off this right arm of mine before I will ever work or demand the ballot for the Negro and not the woman.” In an 1872 speech, Anthony rejected “an oligarchy . . . which ordains all men sovereigns, all women subjects,” but accepted that “an oligarchy of race, where the Saxon rules the African, might be endured.” As for the timing of gaining voting rights, Anthony wrote in 1869, “If intelligence, justice, and morality are to have precedence in the government, let the question of the woman be brought up first and that of the negro last.” Why aren’t Democrats leading the charge to remove Susan B. Anthony’s bust from the Portrait Monument in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and scrape her visage from the one-dollar coin?

    • Democratic president Woodrow Wilson headed Princeton University, signed the Federal Reserve Act, commanded U.S. forces in World War I, and pioneered multilateralism through the League of Nations. These were momentous achievements, like them or not. Wilson also was a raving bigot who resegregated the bathrooms in the federal building beside the White House. He hosted a 1915 screening of D. W. Griffith’s pro-KKK epic Birth of a Nation at the Executive Mansion. Wilson said: “It’s like writing history with lightning.” Wilson also said: “Segregation is not a humiliation but a benefit.” Why have Democrats not already pried this man’s name from Washington, D.C.’s Woodrow Wilson Bridge?

    • Democratic president Franklin Delano Roosevelt piloted the New Deal, pioneered Social Security, and orchestrated the defeat of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan — enormous accomplishments, no doubt. But during World War II, whose satisfying conclusion he nearly lived to enjoy, FDR locked up roughly 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry in 10 internment centers, including California’s Manzanar camp, solely due to their heritage. Also, as Woodrow Wilson’s assistant secretary of the Navy, Roosevelt signed the August 8, 1916, order to resegregate the bathrooms in the State, War, and Navy Departments Building “for the use of women, white men and Colored.” Thus, Democrats should be thrilled to dismantle Washington, D.C.’s FDR Monument and sandblast his face from the dime.

    • The Russell Senate Office Building is named after the late senator Richard Russell. The Democrat represented Georgia for 38 years and sponsored the National School Lunch Program in 1946. He also was a major segregationist who railed against civil rights. Russell considered whites superior to blacks. As he once said: “I am willing to go as far and make as great a sacrifice to preserve and insure white supremacy in the social, economic, and political life of our state as any man who lives within her borders.” Why do Senate Democrats and their staffers allow Richard Russell’s shadow to dim their workplace? It should be renamed after Senator Hiram Revels. The Mississippi Republican was seated in February 1870, the first black American to serve in the Senate. Blanche Bruce, another black Mississippi Republican, was seated in 1875, but Democrats soon sank Reconstruction, dooming black political prospects in the South. No other black American reached the Senate from the South until South Carolina’s then-governor Nikki Haley named fellow Republican Tim Scott to fill a U.S. Senate vacancy in January 2013. Senator Scott subsequently has won that seat.

    In contrast, the Dirksen Senate Office Building is named after Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, the Illinois Republican who rallied 26 (among 32 other) GOP senators, stymied a Democratic filibuster, and clinched passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act — the cornerstone of U.S. civil-rights law.

    • Former president Bill Clinton remembered his fellow Democrat, Arkansan, and Rhodes Scholar in The American Oxonian as “the great Senator, my mentor.” Clinton praised Senator Fulbright as “the heir to Jefferson in our time.” Clinton added: “It gave us tremendous hope to know that we had a Senator in Washington who could double the I.Q. of any room he walked into.” Fulbright is best known as the father of the Fulbright Scholarship, a federally funded student-exchange program that has assisted some 360,000 students from the U.S. and 140 foreign nations. Fulbright also edited and signed the segregationist Southern Manifesto, battled key civil-rights legislation, and decried “Jewish influence” in Congress in 1973. Clinton’s encomium ignored his mentor’s segregationism. Clinton did not mention it in passing, nor even as something that Fulbright grew to regret, or about which he eventually whispered his misgivings to his protégé. Democrats should insist that the $125 million Fulbright Scholarship be rechristened the Everett McKinley Dirksen Scholarship program.

    Sen. Robert Byrd was an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, for which he recruited some 150 fresh Klansmen in the 1940s.

    • A statue of the late U.S. senator Robert Byrd (D., W.Va.) stands in the U.S. Capitol. Some 55 bridges, highways, dams, and other facilities in Byrd’s state carry his name. These honor Byrd’s 51 years in the Senate, including 12 as Democratic leader, as recently as 1989. Byrd told the late Fox News anchor Tony Snow this about race relations in March 2001: “There are white niggers. I’ve seen a lot of white niggers in my time; I’m going to use that word.” Byrd led the 83-day Democratic filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act and spoke nonstop for its defeat for 14 hours on the Senate floor. Senators Byrd, Russell, Fulbright, and Albert Gore Sr. were among the segregationist Democrats who filibustered to keep Jim Crow alive. The Left breathlessly claims that these and other prominent racist Dixiecrats became Republicans, but with the notable exception of the late Senator Strom Thurmond (R., S.C.), they all died as Democrats. Byrd also was an Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan, for which he recruited some 150 fresh Klansmen in the 1940s. Byrd wrote the KKK’s Imperial Wizard in 1946: “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.” Why have Democrats not cleansed the Capitol of this former Klansman’s image, and urged West Virginians to do likewise?

    The Right can pursue these facts along one of two paths:

    Republicans and conservatives could hammer Democrats and liberals pitilessly as grotesque hypocrites who fail to repudiate and erase those on their side of the aisle who spent time, energy, and even government resources to abuse and terrorize blacks and other minorities. The very least the Left should do is refer to Democrat Robert E. Lee, Democrat Jefferson Davis, and Democrat Stonewall Jackson before they haul down their statues and catapult them onto the ash heap of history.

    Alternatively, Republicans and conservatives could remind Democrats and the Left that their heroes, like nearly all human beings, blend good and bad, triumphs and tribulations, talents and shortcomings, though some display these contrasts more starkly than others. Americans could dislodge virtually every statue ever sculpted. JFK, LBJ, and MLK were unfaithful husbands. Winston Churchill drank his way through World War II and screamed at his staff. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. Every critic today should beware of presentism: judging people from 50, 150, or 500 years ago based on 2017’s fragile sensitivities. Put another way, come 2217, some things taken for granted now will make savages of today’s sophisticates.

    Before the tributes to Jefferson, Lee, or even Roosevelt crash down into chunks of stone and hunks of steel, the time is now for a cease-fire in the War on Statues. Instead, Americans should leave these works of art in peace, erect new statues of admirable people, and install bronze plaques to outline the good, the bad, and the ugly about those preserved in metal and marble. Every American would learn from that approach — not least, an urgent reminder about the angels and demons wrestling within each of us.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2017/...s-predominate/
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Not even close.
    Popeye, did you bring your knee pads???????????????

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    Trumpet must want me to send him those pictures. Democrat porn. Sick bastard.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post
    Why would the KKK join the party of Lincoln? Why would they join the party instrumental in passing Civil Rights legislation when the democrat party stayed steadfast in their segregation?

    And what is the date of this supposed switch you guys always talk about?

    If you can't answer, I will understand
    Considering today, the White Supremacist, the KKK, and the Neo-Nazis are all Republicans, are they not?????????????

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Yup. There ya have it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Trumpet must want me to send him those pictures. Democrat porn. Sick bastard.
    Popeye=porn man.

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