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    The GOP is becoming increasingly brazen in showing its dark side.

    Last Wednesday, on the eve of his election to the House of Representatives, Montana Republican Greg Gianforte beat up Ben Jacobs, a reporter for the “Guardian" newspaper.

    What prompted the violence? Jacobs had asked Gianforte for his reaction to the Congressional Budget Office’s report showing that the House Republican substitute for the Affordable Care Act would result in 23 million Americans losing their health insurance.

    Then, in the words of a Fox News team who witnessed the brutal attack: “Gianforte grabbed Jacobs by the neck with both hands and slammed him into the ground behind him. … Gianforte then began punching the reporter. As Gianforte moved on top of Jacobs, he began yelling something to the effect of, ‘I’m sick and tired of this!’ Jacobs scrambled to his knees and said something about his glasses being broken…. To be clear, at no point did any of us who witnessed this assault see Jacobs show any form of physical aggression toward Gianforte, who left the area after giving statements to local sheriff’s deputies.”

    After the attack, Jacobs was evaluated in an ambulance at the scene and taken to Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital. Several hours later he left the hospital wearing a sling around his arm. Gianforte was charged with misdemeanor assault. Donald Trump’s reaction? He praised Greg Gianforte’s election as a “great win in Montana.”

    For years, conservatives warned that liberals were “defining deviancy down” by tolerating bad social behavior.

    Donald Trump is actively defining deviancy down in American politics. He’s also making America meaner.

    Last year, Trump said of a protester at one of his campaign rallies: “I’d like to punch him in the face.” He added “in the old days, protesters would be carried out on stretchers.“

    In a different era, when decency was the norm, the members of the U.S. House of Representatives would not seat a thug like Gianforte in the chamber. But House Republicans seem eager to have another kindred spirit.

    Charlie Sykes, a conservative former talk-show host in Wisconsin, says “every time something like Montana happens, Republicans … normalize and accept previously unacceptable behavior.”

    Gianforte’s attack on Jacobs was shameful enough. Almost as shameful was Gianforte’s press release about what occurred, which blamed Jacobs. “It’s unfortunate that this aggressive behavior from a liberal journalist created this scene at our campaign volunteer BBQ.”

    It was a blatant lie, as evinced by the Fox News team and the charge against Gianforte. But under Trump, blatant lying is the new normal. And a “liberal journalist” is the enemy.

    Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, says Donald Trump “has contributed to a climate of discourse consistent with assaulting a reporter for asking an inconvenient question.”

    It used to be that candidates and elected officials were supposed to answer reporters’ questions. We thought democracy depended on it. But we’re now in the era of Donald Trump, who calls the press the “enemy of the American people.”

    In America, candidates or officials didn’t beat up reporters who posed questions they didn’t like. That kind of thing occurred in dictatorships.

    More generally and menacingly, Trump has licensed the dark side of the American psyche. His hatefulness and vindictiveness have normalized a new meanness in America.

    Since Trump came on the scene, hate crimes have soared. America has become even more polarized. Average Americans say and do things to people they disagree with that in a different time would have been unthinkable.

    “I’d submit that the president has unearthed some demons,” says Rep. Mark Sanford, a Republican Representative from South Carolina. “I’ve talked to a number of people about it back home. They say, ‘Well, look, if the president can say whatever, why can’t I say whatever?’ He’s given them license.”

    The new meanness is also finding its way into public policy, where Trump wants unprecedented cuts in Medicaid, Social Security disability, and food stamps, and to shove 23 million Americans off health insurance – all so the rich and corporations can get big tax cuts.

    I recall a time in America where this kind of proposal would be considered an affront to decency. Now it’s the baseline for negotiations.

    A president contributes to the norms of our society. He sets the moral tone. Trump is setting them at a new low.

    By Robert B. Reich


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    That's right. It's good you finally see it. America must be meaner than it's foes. That's how you win.

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    Don't fuck with us

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    From my perspective, this is good for this nation.

    It's good that republicans have come out of the closet.

    Show thyself for the evil and danger to democracy that you truly are.

    Americans are taking sides, taking a stand .. and from where I sit, it's not looking good for republicans.

    Many republicans know this truth themselves.
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    From my perspective, this is good for this nation.

    It's good that republicans have come out of the closet.

    Show thyself for the evil and danger to democracy that you truly are.

    Americans are taking sides, taking a stand .. and from where I sit, it's not looking good for republicans.

    Many republicans know this truth themselves.
    Yes, sides have already been decided. Two big cities against the rest of the country. I wonder what the strategies will be.

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    USFREEDOM911 Expresses one of his homosexual prison rape fantasies;
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    he may be getting several boners, they just won't be his.
    "You got shot in the balls and you're still walking!! Then this probably won't hurt you at all (as he unzips his pants)."




    Quote Originally Posted by USFREEDOM911 View Post
    I would kill someone who didn't pay me, after I give them a blowjob.
    Does that make me insane?

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    You created "us" when you attacked our freedom of speech.

    You created "us" when you attacked our right to bear arms.

    You created "us" when you attacked our Christian beliefs.

    You created "us" when you constantly referred to us as racists.

    You created "us" when you constantly called us xenophobic.

    You created "us" when you told us to get on board or get out of the way.

    You created "us" when you attacked our flag

    You created "us" when you took God out of our schools.

    You created "us" when you confused women's rights with feminism.

    You created "us" when you began to emasculate men.

    You created "us" when you decided to make our children soft.

    You created "us" when you decided to vote for progressive ideals.

    You created "us" when you attacked our way of life.

    You created "us" when you decided to let our government get out of control.

    You created "us" the silent majority

    You created "us" when you began murdering innocent law enforcement officers.

    You created "us" when you lied and said we could keep our insurance plans and our doctors.

    You created "us" when you allowed our jobs to continue to leave our country.

    You created "us" when you took a knee, or stayed seated or didn't remove your hat during our National Anthem.

    You created "us" when you forced us to buy health care and then financially penalized us for not participating.

    And we became fed up and we pushed back and spoke up.

    And we did it with ballots, not bullets.
    With ballots, not riots.
    With ballots, not looting.
    With ballots, not blocking traffic.
    With ballots, not fires, except the one you started inside of "us"

    "YOU" created "US".
    Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
    empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
    pain in abortion.

    Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
    which has begun. To abort life is to end it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Stretch View Post
    You created "us" when you attacked our freedom of speech.

    You created "us" when you attacked our right to bear arms.

    You created "us" when you attacked our Christian beliefs.

    You created "us" when you constantly referred to us as racists.

    You created "us" when you constantly called us xenophobic.

    You created "us" when you told us to get on board or get out of the way.

    You created "us" when you attacked our flag

    You created "us" when you took God out of our schools.

    You created "us" when you confused women's rights with feminism.

    You created "us" when you began to emasculate men.

    You created "us" when you decided to make our children soft.

    You created "us" when you decided to vote for progressive ideals.

    You created "us" when you attacked our way of life.

    You created "us" when you decided to let our government get out of control.

    You created "us" the silent majority

    You created "us" when you began murdering innocent law enforcement officers.

    You created "us" when you lied and said we could keep our insurance plans and our doctors.

    You created "us" when you allowed our jobs to continue to leave our country.

    You created "us" when you took a knee, or stayed seated or didn't remove your hat during our National Anthem.

    You created "us" when you forced us to buy health care and then financially penalized us for not participating.

    And we became fed up and we pushed back and spoke up.

    And we did it with ballots, not bullets.
    With ballots, not riots.
    With ballots, not looting.
    With ballots, not blocking traffic.
    With ballots, not fires, except the one you started inside of "us"

    "YOU" created "US".
    :0) Don't look now, but your traitorous 'us' is shrinking.

    That's why your 'flag' and confederate symbols are ending up in the garbage.
    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    Nice chain e-mail you've got there, Stretch.

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    You created us...

    LOL
    OMG that was funny. I only made past the first couple before an extreme eye-roll caused me to black out, but when I came to, I burst into laughter and the blood supply to my brain was completely restored. I immediately composed this post. I need a bong hit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    The GOP is becoming increasingly brazen in showing its dark side.
    No love for the Dems here? I think you might be really dumb.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    From my perspective, this is good for this nation.

    It's good that republicans have come out of the closet.

    Show thyself for the evil and danger to democracy that you truly are.

    Americans are taking sides, taking a stand .. and from where I sit, it's not looking good for republicans.

    Many republicans know this truth themselves.
    hey, I just checked the scoreboard for you

    Trump 305
    Liberals 226

    lolololo
    This just In::: Trump indicted for living in liberals heads and not paying RENT

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    Trump Is Coming back to a White House Near you

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    Quote Originally Posted by blackascoal View Post
    :0) Don't look now, but your traitorous 'us' is shrinking.

    That's why your 'flag' and confederate symbols are ending up in the garbage.
    you are so desperate for any little victory that it really doesn't matter to you whether or not it makes any sense huh?, you sad little man
    This just In::: Trump indicted for living in liberals heads and not paying RENT

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    Quote Originally Posted by tinfoil View Post
    You created us...

    LOL
    OMG that was funny. I only made past the first couple before an extreme eye-roll caused me to black out, but when I came to, I burst into laughter and the blood supply to my brain was completely restored. I immediately composed this post. I need a bong hit.
    Hilarious. :0)

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    AMERICAN HISTORY ITSELF IS A TESTAMENT TO THE STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE OF AFRICAN PEOPLE. WE, ALONG WITH THE COURGE AND SACRIFICES OF CONSCIOUS WHITE AMERICANS, LIKE VIOLA LIUZZO, EVERETT DIRKSEN, AND MANY OTHERS, HAVE FOUGHT AND DIED TOGETHER FOR OUR FREEDOM, AND FOR OUR SURVIVAL.

    In America, rights are are not determined by what is just, fair, equitable, honest, nor by what Jesus would do. Rights are determined ONLY by what you can DEMAND.

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    A bunch of weekenders kicked the tar out of your organized and uniformed crack front line units at The Battle of Berkeley. Doesn't look they they even need a majority.

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