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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
but today, that magazine stands for little more ... offering pseudo-intellectual cover for tax cuts.
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Fixed that for you.
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I know a ton of people for whom the calculation is, "Anything other than 100% repudiation of Trump, and the desire to see him removed from office as soon as possible, is unacceptable."
The same thing applied to Bush and Obama, however.
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I think often about whether the current outrage over Russia (and everything else) from everyone left of 45's 38% approval rating and whether it's the same as all the "scandals" Fox News pushed during the Obama era.
And I keep deciding it's not. First of all, no one but the rubes actually believed that stuff. Elected republicans, for the most part, didn't think Obama is a Muslim from Kenya. They did tend to portray that ACA as illegitimate, but I think they mostly knew that was for the sake of argument, not actually an offense to the process.
As far as I can tell, very little of the Russia stuff, or the Turkey stuff, at least as it's coming from inside Washington, is strategic (not commenting on Mensch conspiracy theories here). Comey, Yates and Brennan and the like aren't raising these questions to motivate a political base or push a political agenda.
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It may be against fake news, but it's not against bad data and debunked ideas. Embattled "job creators," "trickle down economics," unions as the cause of all of our economic ills, the case for "religious freedom"... This shit's pretty dusty stuff.
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One day yer all "I don't owe anyone empathy" and the next ya say stuff that makes me think we'll make a liberal out of you yet.
