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A Social Progressive Republican--progressively destroying the social safety net in the name of fiscal responsibility. For as Jesus said, "Give unto the rich all that you have, then die quickly that you may not burden him."

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Is anyone enough of a sap to buy this act? Oh just reporters I guess, because that is what they are, because it is what is required of them. I wonder what the going price is for souls these days? It can't be a lot because it looks like the market is flooded.

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I wonder what the going price is for souls these days?

5 bucks, just like in town

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Do you think we'll have to wait until 2024 for the glorious resurgence of the "reasonable" Republicans with the Haley/Flake campaign?

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Please allow me to add some superficiality to the conversation. She looks nice - no, really, in a "Please honey, just get the damn photo taken" way. I wonder where she works. He looks exuberantly happy. The beagle looks like he's sizing up Bekesha, assessing his weight and calculating how many meals he'd be good for. And I didn't know what Navy Yard apartments were: I imagined some retrofitted barracks. But after looking them up, I see that they seem like very fine places where one could expect to live a decent life with all the darn amenities, so am I supposed to give points for "doesn't own a mansion - yet"? Mutant Republicans: has their time come?

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"he’s running as a different kind of Republican". Hey we've got one of those in the NY Region, too. Bob Hugin, who made $20+ million/year as CEO of Celgene by tripling the price of a cancer drug and successfully blocking all attempts at a generic, also claims to be "a different kind of Republican." (The company also paid a $280 million settlement for marketing fraud of this and other cancer drugs. This hasn't stopped Hugin from running ads featuring cancer patients thanking him for personally saving their lives.) At this point, I think I've seen all $20 million worth of negative ads he's run against Bob Menendez, some of which are doozies*. What do they mean by "different kind" of Republican? Do they shit standing up or something?

*See: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/17/theres-still-no-evidence-bob-menendez-slept-with-underage-prostitutes-new-attack-ad-says-it-anyway/

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I'm seeing the yard signs for that chud who wants to replace the other chud but never will

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I was curious about the Democratic wife, Holly, so I looked her up. She works as an analyst at the Albright Stonebridge Group and is "proficient in Arabic". That's Madeleine Albright's group. Interesting.

https://www.albrightstonebridge.com/team/holly-bekesha

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There's your permanent government!

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Love this one. I've been aware of Judicial Watch for many years. Pathetic mainstream media not pointing out how partisan that organization is. Only Democrats can apparently be partisan in a way that can be criticized. Wasn't Judicial Watch also tied to David Horowitz at some point? Or am I mixing up my right wing "think" tanks?

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Judicial Watch was most famous as the legal fig leaf of Larry Klayman, who spent the 90s nuisance-suing the Clintons in the belief it would rattle them so much that the documents they coughed up in discovery might accidentally include a murder confession. In the late 2000s he moved on to Birtherism, suing the Department of Homeland Security to initiate deportation proceedings against Obama, and tried, until literally the last days of the Administration, to impeach the president for declaring himself a "Muslim King" and trying to start a race war, but I'm sure Bekesha's a level-headed moderate who routinely pulls a muscle reaching across the aisle: http://www.worldocrap.com/2016/07/give-impeachment-chance.html

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Hi Scott! Huge fan of World'o'Crap. How are the cats? I am really grateful to you guys for keeping all these nutcases straight so I don't have to.

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Thanks, Anna! The cats are Disapproving, but Wry. And I'm grateful to find that the time I spent reading Larry Klayman's many columns at WorldNetDaily (or, more accurately, the one column he wrote many times) is finally starting to pay dividends.

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Wow, bonus on bonus.Way to dissect guys.

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Wow, bonus on bonus.Way to dissect guys.

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That's the goods, there, Scott. Didn't Klayman sue JW after they canned him?

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Yes, Larry left the fold to run for Senate in Florida, but didn't make it past the primary, finishing 7th out of 8 contenders. When Judicial Watch wouldn't have him back, he picked up his marbles and formed Freedom Watch, and sued JW in 2012 for defamation: "Klayman argued that a Judicial Watch employee falsely told Orly Taitz that Klayman had been convicted of not paying child support. In reality, Klayman had been indicted of failing to pay child support, but the charges were later dismissed. Taitz published the Judicial Watch employee's comment on her website. Klayman sued Judicial Watch for defamation, and in 2014, a federal jury awarded Klayman $156,000 in compensatory damages and $25,000 in punitive damages." Orly Taitz! Speaking of deep album cuts... So while Larry loses most of his lawsuits, and spends a fair amount of time suspended from the practice of law, he can honestly say he beat the Moldovan Dentist-Attorney.

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I think that's how I confused Klayman with Horowitz, who runs the David Horowitz Freedom Center, once the Center for Study of Popular Culture.

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And they trade in common themes, such as Five Alarm Islamophobia.

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What? No images? I was thinking of Lionel Hutz's Shoe repair business

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We need a new Charles Dickens. Our time is full of characters and crimes enough to keep him or her busy for two dozen 600-page epics. Roy, maybe it's you. This Bekesha profile is a great start -- just expand it by another 80,000 words, and stick in someone comparatively decent to root for, like an orphan or a ship rat.

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