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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    To emphasize; nobody jumping on this stuff about Cawthorn think the actions in question are, themselves, "bad". Well, if he got married to stay closeted and engaged in infidelity without his wife's permission, I guess, that'd be "wrong", but it's wrong because of the betrayal, not who he betrayed her for.

    He's getting jumped on because he's such a goddamned self-loathing hypocrite and he's used his anger and hatred at himself as an excuse to lash out and harm innocent people.

    If he wants to wear lingerie and suck men's cocks, that's lovely and I wish him the best with that. It's the bigoted abuse we kinda think he should fuck off about.
    This is why nobody can trust someone like this. He has two choices for a political party that he can affiliate himself with; one of them is actively against people like himself. He chooses to take active steps to cover up who he is, in order to work in a political party that effectively demands that he does so.

    If you're going to do that, how can you possibly be trustworthy in ANYTHING that you do? It speaks to a lack of good thinking, a lack of trustworthyness. It reeks of opportunism. I can see why the Republicans love it, always handy to have leverage over your politicians. But this kind of behaviour should rule people out of political life completely, if for no other reason than the potential for foreign agents blackmailing them.
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  2. #78022
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Hey, I'm not looking to get into lurid, gossipy details...though I do love me some lurid, gossipy details. I'm more just amused at how his private life increasingly seems to conflict with his public image he presents.
    It's safe to say his career is over, republicans are fine with overthrowing the government to install a dictator but being gay that's going over the line for them.

  3. #78023
    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    To emphasize; nobody jumping on this stuff about Cawthorn think the actions in question are, themselves, "bad".
    Actually, the people filing the ethics complaint are. There are house ethics about sexing up subordinates on your staff. There are no exceptions for distant cousins.
    Also there are lots of undisclosed gifts that he is giving this cousin, including free airfare and housing, which is also problematic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by solinari6 View Post
    Actually, the people filing the ethics complaint are. There are house ethics about sexing up subordinates on your staff. There are no exceptions for distant cousins.
    Also there are lots of undisclosed gifts that he is giving this cousin, including free airfare are housing, which is also problematic.
    Is that what they call it now? "Undisclosed gifts"? It sounds more professional than "My dick in his mouth" or "Fucked him up the ass" I guess.
    Guess family isn't worth a $130,000 swallowing fee.
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    Quit using other posters as levels of crazy. That is not ok


    If you look, you can see the straw man walking a red herring up a slippery slope coming to join this conversation.

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    Well, I guess if you are a democrat, joking around and pretending to grab boobs and taking a picture is bad and you should force that person to resign.

    If you are a republican, actually having staff members and a relative actually grab your junk is the crazy left just trying to destroy a guy's career!!
    Buh Byeeeeeeeeeeee !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by UnifiedDivide View Post
    The quote in the tweet does not do the full clip justice.
    I love this response, from Trevor Noah:

    It is risky making jokes these days. I mean, we all saw what happened at the Oscars. I’ve actually been a little worried about tonight. What if I make a really mean joke about Kellyanne Conway… and then her husband rushes up on the stage and thanks me?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    I love this response, from Trevor Noah:
    I read those last two words as "spanks me." Heh

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    Quote Originally Posted by UnifiedDivide View Post
    Like, this isn't "being religious". This is full-on religious extremism/cultist behaviour.

    Also, not even Satanists are hearing Satan "whisper into their ears". If you're hearing voices, Marge, see a fuckin' shrink, regardless of whether you think the voices are angels or demons. Because it means you're suffering a mental break, not that you're in touch with a higher power. As nearly every church on the planet would agree, before anyone takes that as me "attacking religion".


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    Quote Originally Posted by Endus View Post
    Because it means you're suffering a mental break
    I mean, there's evidence of that. I don't really have a problem with Greene saying the Devil tells you to have an abortion, that's just standard Westboro Batshit. Claiming that the Devil will promise you that the father of the child will marry you, that's where we get into new levels of insanity.

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    https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

    Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

    Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?
    And yet to them it's Biden who's mentally deficient, because... he stutters, or something?
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

    Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?
    He actually got confused twice, at first he couldn't even get the first part of the name right when he said J.P.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...ce-josh-mandel

    Who is J.D. Mandel? Does Trump need to take another cognitive test?
    His cognitive test came back very negative. He didn't catch the cognitive, it's fake news.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zorkuus View Post
    His cognitive test came back very negative. He didn't catch the cognitive, it's fake news.
    I hear he almost got a 100% on his IQ test!

    Not a straight 100, mind you, he's not a nerd. But very very close!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wells View Post
    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    Cognitive tests are easy you just have to remember a sequence of words

    man door hand hook car door
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    Trump proves the obvious -- sales of CyberTrump 2077 would have been supported if he'd just posted. Over the weekend he posted five or six times and it's back to #1 on the Apple Store.

    So all those months of falling stock prices, falling use, falling downloads? 100% on him.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    Trump proves the obvious -- sales of CyberTrump 2077 would have been supported if he'd just posted. Over the weekend he posted five or six times and it's back to #1 on the Apple Store.

    So all those months of falling stock prices, falling use, falling downloads? 100% on him.
    I really liked Elon Musk tweeting about it beating Twitter, the company he's apparently spending $45B to purchase, on the App Store. Galaxy brain shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    I really liked Elon Musk tweeting about it beating Twitter, the company he's apparently spending $45B to purchase, on the App Store. Galaxy brain shit.
    He might be fluffing Trump up to try and get Trump back on Twitter should musk successfully buy it and unban Trump (God help us all)

    He knows Trump will likely drive an insane amount of traffic come the midterms/2024 election season.

    ...Or should I say, "an amount of insane traffic"
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    I really liked Elon Musk tweeting about it beating Twitter
    He could afford to. Everyone already has Twitter. Trump was mayor of a ghost town until 3 days ago.

    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    He might be fluffing Trump up to try and get Trump back on Twitter
    I read the opposite. "Hey Trump, your site is sooooooo bigly, you should, you know, stay there".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Breccia View Post
    He could afford to. Everyone already has Twitter. Trump was mayor of a ghost town until 3 days ago.



    I read the opposite. "Hey Trump, your site is sooooooo bigly, you should, you know, stay there".
    Hey Donald, I bought Twitter for just over 338,461 and a half Stormy Daniels. It has all the important people on it, famous, rich and, you are not going to believe this, even the plebians. How do they even have time for that? By the way, how's Truth doing?
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    Quit using other posters as levels of crazy. That is not ok


    If you look, you can see the straw man walking a red herring up a slippery slope coming to join this conversation.

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