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Botany

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6. Because they are childish dicks
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 04:58 PM
Feb 2021

Last edited Sun Feb 28, 2021, 08:30 AM - Edit history (1)

They can't win the war of ideas and so they have to be assholes.

The party of Rush, Fox, and so on.

Yeah, rethugs, here's to unity and bipartisanship. Right. I'm waiting. Biophilic Feb 2021 #1
The GOP is the party of juvenile nonsense C_U_L8R Feb 2021 #2
democrat party lapfog_1 Feb 2021 #3
I say they use it wrong because they are 50% stupid and 50% assholes. LakeArenal Feb 2021 #4
How about thiis. everyonematters Feb 2021 #5
Because they are childish dicks Botany Feb 2021 #6
We should refer to the Republicans as Miguelito Loveless Feb 2021 #7
They are a confederacy of... 3catwoman3 Feb 2021 #11
Anyone remember that Bush ad in 2000 that subliminally left the RAT in Democrat on screen? Drunken Irishman Feb 2021 #8
Yes, absolutely Lord Ludd Feb 2021 #16
The GOP is the Party of Stunts. It is all they have. Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #9
They feel so clever when they think they "own" liberals. Grade school stuff. Martin68 Feb 2021 #13
I thought it was the extra syllable scaring them off Shermann Feb 2021 #10
I think an issue should be made of this slur every time it occurs. The conversation stops and the Martin68 Feb 2021 #12
What does BillyBobBrilliant Feb 2021 #14
Didn't Rushbo cleverly coin that? So he thought. czarjak Feb 2021 #15
Nah, as the article notes, it goes back to the 1950s and Joseph McCarthy. nt SunSeeker Feb 2021 #17
I stand corrected. Thanks. Rushbo just updated it? czarjak Feb 2021 #18
Rushbo repopularized it, resurrecting the legacy of McCarthy. nt SunSeeker Feb 2021 #19
Start calling repubs "republicrats" nt lamp_shade Feb 2021 #20
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