18 thoughts on “Wednesday Open Thread”

1. Would there be a value in creating a false republican identity to sway opinion to a losing venture?

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   1. Can you say, “Tina Peters”?

      Or did I misunderstand the question?

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2. Giving the Republican Party a Wedgie. Heather Cox-Rischardson:

   After decades of playing defense, the Democrats are going on offense.

   Today, President Joe Biden visited Virginia Beach, Virginia, where he talked about protecting Medicare and Medicaid. He was careful—as he always is—to differentiate between “an awful lot of really good Republicans” and the “MAGA Republicans.” “There’s kind of like, in my view, sort of two Republican Parties.” 

   The MAGA Republicans, he said, “want to eliminate a lot of healthcare coverage,… increase costs for millions of Americans, and make deep cuts in programs that families and seniors depend on.” He spelled out that these cuts would mean that more than 100 million Americans with pre-existing conditions would lose coverage, and millions could lose basic services like maternity care, which the Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover. Up to 3 million young adults would get kicked off their parents’ insurance, and the cost of premiums in general would go up. 

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3. Those of you poor souls who have Twitter might get a giggle out of this. Pictures of American Presidents, but altered so they're cool and they have mullets:

   https://twitter.com/hamcarless/status/1630765933768724483

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   1. Okay, Kennedy was swoon-worthy.

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      1. Right?

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   2. Nixon looked like a used car salesman, or maybe moreso than he actually did. 

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      1. LBJ = Rush's Geddy Lee in his late 70s

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         1. But Nixon Echoes like the sound  OOOOOOOFFFFFF SAAAALLLESSSMEN!!!!!!

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            1. Whoa, brilliant! And now the song is stuck in my head. Thanks?

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         1. I've been to worse dealers than "Tricky Dicky's I Am Not A Crook Autos," but no, I would not buy a used car from that man.

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4. Who says there can't be bipartisanship in the Colorado legislature?  CPR clarifies an area of agreement.

   According to state figures, about 40,000 vehicles were stolen in 2021. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and mayors from some of the state’s largest cities argued Senate bill 97 might begin to reverse that trend. It cleared the hearing with a unanimous vote of 5 to 0.

   Under the bipartisan bill, all auto thefts would qualify as felonies (the sponsors did put in an exception for short term thefts intended, they said, to protect youth who steal cars for joyriding from permanent consequences.).

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5. Boebert and Ultra MAGA Banana REPUBLICans get owned by Raskin.  

   https://youtu.be/akUQ3xWdM1M

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   1. In all fairness to Boezo does anyone have actual proof she attained her GED? 
       

      #showusthecertificate

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      1. Hey Michael shes the MAGA OLIVER TWIST to Trump wealth.  Both wanker pickpockets in the digital media scumbag streets.

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         1. Who’d have thunk (in the way-back time machine) we’d one day have politicians that made Sarah Palin look like an Oxford graduate?!?

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            1. In fairness, the band DEVO knew we were de-evolving several decades ago.

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