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      I sure remember Moscow Mitch the Bitch getting upset about being called Moscow Mitch after that but being proud of being called ‘Reaper’ for denying any bills brought forward to get anything done around that timeframe, yeah.

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        He got called Moscow Mitch before that - it was when he threatened to throw the government into lockdown if Obama revealed the extent of russian hacking and interference in the 2016 election.

        He traded his duty to the Constitution in for a drunk rapist and an evangelical nut to sit on the Supreme Court.

        Moscow Mitch.

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      If someone wrote a story with Republicans doing that prior to 2016 no editor would ever publish it because it’s so ham-fisted. Like a political plot laid out in a comic for actual elementary school children.

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    Can we fucking stop pretending that republicans do not explicitly and blatantly work in Russia’s interests? They’re fucking traitors.

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      Media: Best I can do is some vague headlines that tip-toe the idea while also donating to republicans.

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      Just FYI, it’s part of Russian propaganda to create political division in the US. Labelling everyone in the party a traitor is playing right into their hands. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they help push this in left wing circles and you are inadvertently pushing Russian propaganda.

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        If they weren’t all in collusion to overthrow democracy they wouldn’t get labeled as traitors together. Like I would say Liz Cheney isn’t a traitor, she’s just a regular piece of shit.

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    “I think Russian propaganda has made its way into the United States, unfortunately, and it’s infected a good chunk of my party’s base,” House Foreign Affairs Committee chair and Texas Republican, Michael McCaul, told Puck News.

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      This goes in the (no shit sherlock) pile. Those of us who have been paying attention and saw the instant flip from red scare to licking putins asshole have known this for a good couple of decades now.

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        That’s the frustrating thing, it’s so blatantly obvious and out in the open. You’d never know it watching literally any conservative news source.

        I’m all for free speech, but wish we had ways to label things as BS because a lot of ignorant people don’t know any better or care to know any better. So disappointing.

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    It is a misnomer calling a rotting corpse “infected”, it’s just rotting. If foreign powers like Russia join in on scavenging on the rotting flesh of the Republican Party they aren’t “infecting it”.

    These foreign agents are only distinguishable from the internal forces of rot by virtue of having originated from outside the body, but in behavior and function they behave identically to the organisms waiting within that had been begun feeding the moment the surrounding entity died.

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    Wow, no kidding.

    Now if we only get many more of them to start conveying what is obvious, and in addition, get certain leftists to stop talking about “Russiagate” as if it is some kind of “hoax” that duped the “liberal media”.

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    Not only the base. Or does he just differentiate between “swayed by propaganda” for the plebs and “blackmailed or bribed” for the party officials?

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    What’s important about this is not that the public knows about it, but that someone from the party actually said the quiet part allowed.

    We should be cheering for this person speaking out against not only a government party, but a party they themselves were in.

    Here’s to a more brave and intelligent America.

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      I mean, yeah you’re absolutely right, but until he comes right out in the open and says “Vote for Democrats instead”, it’s all just a fucking shell game. The difference in moral fortitude required to say, “hey guys this is some messed up shit” versus “I’m leaving the room until you clean your mess up” is HUGE. He doesn’t have to switch parties, but as long as he sits at their table and votes in lockstep with every stupid partisan game they play, he doesn’t get my gratitude.

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    Can we just turn the Red Scare against them again? Just go all out and yell at them that they’re Commies and un-American.

    It worked in the 1950s.

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      It doesn’t work that way because, for instance, the congressmen that celebrated the 4th of July in Moscow belong to a political party that weakened campaign finance law and allowed the potential for foreign influence while nominating a man who they themselves claim is paid by Vladimir Putin; a political party whose voters fly the confederate flag, threaten fellow citizens with “2nd amendment solutions”, who say they want to drown the federal government and constantly argue for states like Texas to secede…

      You know REAL AMERICANS.

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        Traitors should’ve been purged after the civil war and the land given to newly freed peoples; Reconstruction was a mistake.

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        REDUX: let Texas secede; watch conservatives move there, start a war, conquer it, reclaim it as a US territory with no voting rights or citizenship. Build the wall.

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      Or… I’m just throwing out ideas here… what if we ship them and their lifted trucks to russia so they can totally be in such a conservative utopia?