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Post by Seabass » Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:28 am

I like the mascot.

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Post by Seabass » Tue Jun 19, 2018 7:34 am

Poll: Kim Jong Un has higher approval among Republicans than Pelosi
More Republicans view North Korean leader Kim Jong Un favorably than do House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), according to a poll released Monday.

The Ipsos survey conducted for the Daily Beast found that among Republicans, 19 percent indicated they hold a favorable opinion of Kim, while 17 percent said they have a favorable opinion of Pelosi.

Sixty-eight percent of Republicans said they held an unfavorable opinion of Kim, while 72 percent said they had an unfavorable view of Pelosi.

“On a daily basis, President Trump praises this dictator and thug so it only makes sense that his party is following his lead like lemmings over a cliff," Pelosi spokesman Drew Hammill wrote in an email to The Hill responding to the poll findings.
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Re: Republicans

Post by Forty Two » Tue Jun 19, 2018 5:29 pm

I wonder if Democrats would have a similar reaction when comparing Trump with Kim Jong Un?

Anyway, Kim has an 80% approval rating among South Koreans. http://time.com/5262898/kim-jong-un-approval-rating/ meanwhile Pelosi has a 28% approval rating among Americans....
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Post by Brian Peacock » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:04 pm

Putin has a 100% approval rating.
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Re: Republicans

Post by JimC » Tue Jun 19, 2018 10:15 pm

Shit, mine is only 99%... :nono:
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Post by Hermit » Tue Jun 19, 2018 11:58 pm

JimC wrote:
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Shit, mine is only 99%... :nono:
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Re: Republicans

Post by L'Emmerdeur » Thu Jun 21, 2018 9:59 am

The Heritage Foundation has helped Republicans do their thinking for decades. An unmitigated conspiracy theory fruit-loop was invited to speak at an event there yesterday.

'Jerome Corsi Just Spoke At DC’s Most Powerful Think Tank'
Infowars Washington bureau chief Jerome Corsi spoke this afternoon before a crowd at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank that has poured staffers into positions in the Trump administration. Corsi’s appearance at Heritage, which has also had a hand in picking Trump’s judicial nominees, is further evidence that whatever line may have once separated the conservative establishment from the far-right fringe has been steadily erased in the Trump era.

Despite the fact that Corsi is an off-the-wall conspiracy theorist, he is somehow still treated seriously by some who travel in mainstream conservative circles, allowing him to get columns in publications like USA Today and book interviews on C-SPAN and Newsmax. Today, he was hosted by one of the most powerful conservative organizations in the nation.

Corsi was introduced by Nancy Schulze, founder of Republican Congressional Wives Speakers, as well as a “Women for Trump” bus tour in North Carolina. She is in town to address the “Tea for Trump” event at the Trump International Hotel in Washington this weekend, where a member of the president’s family is expected to attend. Schulze introduced him as “master truth-teller, Jerome Corsi.”

Corsi’s “truth-telling” has included devoting countless hours to promoting a conspiracy theory known as “The Storm,” which centers around the assertion that President Trump personally ordered a high-level administration official with top-level security clearance to post riddles on 4chan and 8chan as a coded message to right-wing conspiracy theorists that Trump is secretly taking down a vast network of satanic pedophiles, including many Democrats. Corsi’s book “Killing the Deep State,” was waved by attendees at an April march of “The Storm” believers. During his “research,” Corsi has baselessly accused various people of being pedophiles, promised that video will be released showing elites butchering children, and challenged multiple federal officials to fight him behind the Department of Justice.

Corsi is also a chief proponent of the “birther” conspiracy theory suggesting that Barack Obama was not born in the United States and wrote a book in 2004 promoting unfounded “Swift Boat” claims that John Kerry lied about his time in the military.

During his talk, Corsi told attendees that former FBI Director James Comey and Special Counsel Rob Mueller had laundered billions of dollars per day for drug cartels and terrorists, and reasserted his claims that information about a global satanic pedophile network would soon be revealed.

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Post by Woodbutcher » Thu Jun 21, 2018 1:59 pm

I think it's Hermitage, not Heritage Foundation. The conduct is dictated from Moscow.
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Post by Tero » Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:53 pm

It's all Koch brothers funded. They also publish "science" which is only reviewed by Heritage Foundation.
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Post by Seabass » Sat Jun 23, 2018 12:34 am

Republicans are definitely not racist!

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GOP lawmaker calls detained children ‘prime MS-13 gang material’
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) on Friday tweeted that a group of detained migrant children look like "prime MS-13 gang material."

King made the statement in response to lawyer Michael Avenatti's picture of a group of detained boys he said were being transported out of McAllen, Texas, on Thursday. Avenatti, the attorney representing adult-film actress Stormy Daniels in her lawsuit against President Trump, said he did not know where the boys were being taken and that separating them from their parents was a "disgrace."

King said the boys look much older than children.

“'Young boys' all old enough to be tried as adults or serve in the military and are prime MS-13 gang material & certainly grew up in the culture of one of the top 10 most violent countries in the world," King tweeted.

His tweet came two days after Trump signed an executive order ending the practice of separating families at the U.S.-Mexico border. However, it remains unclear how the thousands of families that have already been divided will be reunited.

King has been criticized before for making comments opposed to diversity and immigration. His remarks on Friday came about a week after he retweeted a prominent British neo-Nazi.

“Europe is waking up...Will America...in time?” King wrote in a quote tweet of Mark Collett, former chairman of the youth division of the British National Party.

That tweet came in response to a a screenshot of a Breitbart article that said 65 percent "of Italians under the age of 35 now oppose mass immigration."
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Post by Joe » Sat Jun 23, 2018 5:51 pm

I think it's safe to say conservative columnist George WIll is no longer a Republican:
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Amid the carnage of Republican misrule in Washington, there is this glimmer of good news: The family-shredding policy along the southern border, the most telegenic recent example of misrule, clarified something. Occurring less than 140 days before elections that can reshape Congress, the policy has given independents and temperate Republicans — these are probably expanding and contracting cohorts, respectively — fresh if redundant evidence for the principle by which they should vote.

The principle: The congressional Republican caucuses must be substantially reduced. So substantially that their remnants, reduced to minorities, will be stripped of the Constitution’s Article I powers that they have been too invertebrate to use against the current wielder of Article II powers. They will then have leisure time to wonder why they worked so hard to achieve membership in a legislature whose unexercised muscles have atrophied because of people like them.
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In today’s GOP, which is the president’s plaything, he is the mainstream. So, to vote against his party’s cowering congressional caucuses is to affirm the nation’s honor while quarantining him. A Democratic-controlled Congress would be a basket of deplorables, but there would be enough Republicans to gum up the Senate’s machinery, keeping the institution as peripheral as it has been under their control and asphyxiating mischief from a Democratic House. And to those who say, “But the judges, the judges!” the answer is: Article III institutions are not more important than those of Articles I and II combined.
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Post by Tero » Thu Jun 28, 2018 12:57 am

Kennedy retirement jolts 2018 Senate races
Red-state Republicans hammered Democratic senators as obstacles to adding another conservative judge to the Supreme Court.

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06/27/2018 06:41 PM EDT

Republican Senate candidates lashed out at Democratic incumbents after Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement Wednesday, arguing that the Democrats have stood in the way of conservative judges backed by President Donald Trump and their constituents.

Kennedy’s decision has roiled the midterm election landscape, two years after a Supreme Court vacancy played a critical role in Trump’s successful presidential campaign. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said he intends to confirm Kennedy’s replacement this fall, and conservative groups quickly signaled they would spend heavily on the confirmation fight.
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Re: Republicans

Post by Svartalf » Thu Jun 28, 2018 5:29 pm

You know what? when I remember that Kennedy was on the Majority side for Kelo v new london, I'm not so sure thathis seat is the last liberal swing seat...
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Re: Republicans

Post by Seabass » Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:48 pm

It's good to know that Republicans are concerned about the issues that really matter.

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Re: Republicans

Post by Sean Hayden » Fri Jun 29, 2018 5:57 pm

It's the gateway mentality. First you're swearin' like it's nothing, then you're actually ****ing, and then what, abortion?

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