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Archer's build up and subsequent fall has caused a shockwave throughout the editorials of the Miami Herald. Schadenfreude is fun!

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Aug 1, 2023Liked by TCinLA

Someone in the House GOP needs to grow a pair and push back against the orange menace and his lies.

Laughed out loud at the Grateful Dead reference! There are many deadheads in the Republican party though, and I do not mean rock music aficionados.

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Magnificent rant, TC. Love watching the "Trump Toads 'pop to'" and make bigger morons of themselves in their zeal to kiss the orange ass of the man Paul Street calls "the biggest asshole in the history of the world." The whole situation is so absurd you know it's a clown show deliberately set up by the billionaire fascist kleptocrats to distract the public from thinking about the serious business of governing for the common good. Makes me think of Ken Kesey's Jail Journal. America has become like the San Mateo County Jail where Kesey served time for possessing pot back in the day. "This is crazier here than the nuthouse ever was," Kesey famously said, which accurately describes the insanity of American politics in the Age of Trump. Kesey's other memorable phrase from the book is also appropriate to apply now in regard to the MAGA morons poisoning our democracy; in the upcoming 2024 election, we the people have got to "cut the motherfuckers loose!"

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Exactly right!

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It's counter to current campaign strategy wisdom, but I think that the "I voted against the Infrastructure and Build Better Acts, but took the money and am running" caucus is worth a bit of 1/2" hemp and a tree. One reason districts are "safe" is that consultants have given up on them. If every tradesperson who is working on one of those projects that gets defunded gets a notice that their Congresscritter voted to cut off their money that will get even the dumbest dummy's attention. Might not be enough to flip a district, but the GOP shouldn't get an easy ride anywhere.

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Good idea. The morons are already rejecting projects in the IRA because "solar panels will ruin my view. And besides, we don't take no help from Dimmycrats."

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It's worth a try. Consultants are overrated and overpaid anyway.

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Do you think there is a democrat who has thought of that. Sometimes I wonder if they don’t think or don’t have enough outlets…

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Hard to say, the Democratic Party in both Indiana where I lived and the part of St. Louis where I am now is very low profile. The public focus in the national picture is all about PACs, fundraising, and the "battleground states" with no time for an overall strategy to encompass all 435 Congressional districts, let alone down ballot races. An off-shoot of the move away from "smoke-filled rooms" and party bosses. Might be more democratic, it's definitely less organized and impactful.

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Repubs have no such problem, even the sane ones are all on board for chump’s insanity. Dems have 40 years of catching up to do.

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Aug 1, 2023·edited Aug 1, 2023Liked by TCinLA

And then I read that a new poll shows Biden and Trump in a dead heat for 2024..... I know such polls are useless, but WTF!! Cannot people even read? I think Trump will be the downfall of the GOP in 2024. They literally cannot win - he will not beat Biden in the election, and this push to impeach Smokin' Joe will lose the House for Quiverin' Qevin. The best thing that might happen is that Jack Smith or Georgia have their way with the Mango Mussolini and he is in jail. If Trump is not the candidate for the GOP in 2024, I suspect a lot of the MAGAs will stay home and not vote. The "Trump" card is, who knows what legal atrocity the Supreme Court will visit upon us before the next election? The possibilities are almost endless, as they do their masters' bidding.....

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If polls 18 months out actually meant anything, the history books would talk about how President McCain dealt with the 2008 meltdown and how President Romney solved the Middle East Crisis.

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The value of the early polls is that they spur the campaigns to do more and do better. I didn't think Trump could win in 2016 so I'm being quite cautious this go round because I don't want to live in a perpetual Benghazi! Benghazi! and have to listen to this morally and mentally defunct fathead rave on as he hopes we don't notice his autocraticerotic attraction to Putin.

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If chump gets back in, I will be a hermit til the end.

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That is the saving grace, isn't it - that the early polls are always so completely wrong.....

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Don’t assume anything. The cheating at the state level cannot be ignored. Repubs are not ignoring ANY way to cheat or make their machinations legal.

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Aug 1, 2023Liked by TCinLA

Oh baby I love your way, with words. Case in point, your descriptor for what I've often considered a puckered pouting sphincter: "that anus masquerading as a mouth beneath his nose."

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The whole party leadership cadre should be treated like the rabid dogs they are.

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Exactly.

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Don Bacon's position as a "moderate" is a reminder that there is no such thing as a moderate republican. There are the following kinds of republicans:

1. Those who are registered republican but have long since quit voting that way.

2. Those who are republicans and claim not to like Orange Hitler, but have neither the guts nor the loyalty to the United States to leave the party (hiya, Mittens).

3. MAGA republicans who are guilty of treason and should be indicted for it.

That's it.

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Aug 2, 2023Liked by TCinLA

I was waiting until I had the time to read this article. I’m glad I did.

Thank you

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