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DFW

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11. Perhaps not. I still don't let them off the hook. Same way I used to in the Cheney days.

Reply to JHB (Reply #9)

Mon Feb 17, 2020, 04:31 PM

Feb 2020

I used to rant on about how awful it was about an incompetent, juvenile, useless head of state playing at dangerous military games just because his dad was a leader before him.

Republicans used to get all in a huff about me criticizing their sacred W. I would explain that I was talking about Kim Jong Il of North Korea, but then admitted they were quite right, the parallels were unmistakable. Then I would thank them for pointing it out. They didn't appreciate it.

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Needs to be said how conservatives are all for "law and order" until they are on the wrong end of it [View all] ck4829 Feb 2020 OP

They bray about "Rule of Law" until they are on the business end of it .. DemoTex Feb 2020 #1

Only see Republicans on that list DFW Feb 2020 #2

I don't want to hear that from you, I want to hear conservatives say that ck4829 Feb 2020 #4

It's the old definition game DFW Feb 2020 #5

That may be the case, but they redrew the borders of "Scotland" to include themselves... JHB Feb 2020 #9

Perhaps not. I still don't let them off the hook. Same way I used to in the Cheney days. DFW Feb 2020 #11

They're nasty conservative right wing radicals who are where they are now... JHB Feb 2020 #6

Buckley was a master of semantics DFW Feb 2020 #7

Perhaps, but in public discourse they successfully shifted the definition their way... JHB Feb 2020 #8

Imagine the giant sucking sound. czarjak Feb 2020 #12

It's because I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2020 #3

Congratulations on being last to be lynched, Dinish, heck of a job. czarjak Feb 2020 #10

Dinesh D'Souza... lonely bird Feb 2020 #13

"Conservatives" my ass. Lying thieves is more accurate.nt live love laugh Feb 2020 #14