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One News Now, who's motto is "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Orange".

(And apparently "Daphne Moon" became unhinged by her husband Niles Crane's coming out.)

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Daphne Moon was the name of a kindly, empathetic character on the old "Frasier" sitcom. How soon until one of these heartless fucks runs with the Mr Rogers handle? A guy doing some racist trolling on Wonkette at least had enough class to post as Stuka Pilot.

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I don't wanna be petty but it's not Monday.

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It’s actually Throw-Up Thursday.

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Poor Amash. Remember when everybody was screaming about how anti-Semitic it was to accuse somebody of "dual loyalty"? Or rather to use words that Jonathan Chait could twist to make them sound that way? But as soon as this profoundly reactionary Arab American politician crosses them they're out with the insinuations.

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We live in bizarre times. You don't even have to spelunk the sewer caverns of Grampsland to find the worst conspiracy hustles. Over at the "Never Against Trump, Nosiree Not Us" National Review, Victor Davis Hanson parrots the entire Clinton-Collusion-Deep-State-Coup spew, Andrew McCarthy touts Trump as victim of an "exquisitely planned" political assault by the Comey/Clinton/FBI that subverted the very rule of law, pardonee Conrad Black rails against Democrats attempting to impeach the most provably innocent president ever in our nation's history, and Rich Lowry nominates Bill Barr for sainthood. And that's just their most current crap.

They don't seem to have gotten to the Amash Apostasy Scandal yet. See, this is why we need Jonah Goldberg to hurry up and create his new conservative media company, Scoop, which will be like Goop but with much less vagina content.

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That is a ripe subject, that Trumpism requires respectable conservatives to indulge in Erich von Däniken-cum-Paul-Krassner conspiracy theorizing. But are they doing out of careerism or because they've snapped and actually believe it?

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Conspiracies ARE their reality now. Our country will never regain sanity until we understand that, faced with reality's liberal bent, the pseudoconservatives have to rely on conspiracy thinking to impose their world view on the rest of us. Unfortunately, the press is slow to grasp this. The other day on NPR the latest cletus safarian to the deep South seamlessly sequéd from saying Southerners were like the rest of the country, with various opinions and gosh, really friendly and nice, to a story about a "breakfast club" of Texas assholes who thought a Pakistani doctor's vacation home was a Muslim terrorist training center and Sheriff Woody was being paid to deny it and also they had photos proving it but they would never show them to the lying media. The Trump Administration, the conservative pundits and all the schlemiels who believe them should be placed a comfortable but secure nursing facility - maybe one of the Southern military bases that we only need because they support the local economy of diners, gun stores and brothels - and tended to until they pass quietly into the great beyond.

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You have no idea how accurate the "conspiracies are their reality" bit is. Every conservative/Republican I know, without exception, now sees the world as nothing more or less than a vast web of conspiracies. The conspiracies are all intertwined, and the levels of complexity needed to make these things work is breathtaking.

And the best part about them is that when you start questioning how these things work, the answer ends up being that EVERYONE--including Donald Trump--is a part of the conspiracy to overthrow Donald Trump.

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I dunno. It's all so irrational it's hard to fathom that they don't know how nuts it is, Upton Sinclair and paychecks notwithstanding.

At least Krassner possessed something completely absent from these goons: a sense of humor.

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Careerism, of course. This is a deeply cynical bunch whose only real unifying belief is hating on the Libs.

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Well that was refreshing after listening to the usual cable blather.

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