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    Conor Friedersdorf: The Justin Amash Test

    Republicans are spreading flagrant lies and corrupting the Freedom Caucus to serve Donald Trump.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...aceful/590059/



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    Quote Originally Posted by Warlord View Post
    Republicans are spreading flagrant lies and corrupting the Freedom Caucus to serve Donald Trump.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...aceful/590059/
    Good write.
    On Trump:
    How conservative Republicans can continue to support this arrogant imposter—the man who brags about inflicting the world with the Covid mark of the beast; the man who said, “Take the guns first, go through due process second”; and the man who deliberately played and then set up Stewart Rhodes (of course, Stewart was all too eager to be Trump’s patsy) for an 18-year prison sentence—is truly beyond my comprehension.” Chuck Baldwin

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    It is interesting how brain-damaged people like Kevin McCarthy are. If Amash has a tough primary challenge, it is very possible he would run LP and cost Trump a close election.

    The best way to handle people like Amash is like how Newt handled Ron Paul. Just ignore them and let them do their thing. When you start condemning, things escalate and you create new problems.

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    I just read the other day that Amash rarely attends any more, presumably because they didn't stand up to Trump when Trump went after Sanford.

    And Trump threatened them all when they refused to sign on to his Obamacare 2.0.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    I just read the other day that Amash rarely attends any more, presumably because they didn't stand up to Trump when Trump went after Sanford.

    And Trump threatened them all when they refused to sign on to his Obamacare 2.0.
    Hi Angela... thanks for the rep. The irony with Sanford is the Trump replacement lost to the Dem in that district for the first time in 40 years. I wonder if Mark will come back.. Probably not.

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    Amash is spreading flagrant lies and corrupting the Freedom Caucus to attack Donald Trump.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Amash is spreading flagrant lies and corrupting the Freedom Caucus to attack Donald Trump.

    Two flagrant lies in one sentence. -rep
    Last edited by RonZeplin; 05-24-2019 at 04:06 PM.
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    You only show up to attack Trump when he is wrong
    Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonZeplin View Post
    Two flagrant lies in one sentence. -rep
    Since you didn't -rep me it seems you are the one who put two flagrant lies in one sentence.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Since you didn't -rep me it seems you are the one who put two flagrant lies in one sentence.
    Are you complaining that you're not getting all the -reps that you deserve?

    How much do the Clinton Foundation & Sheldon Adelson pay you per -rep?
    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    You only show up to attack Trump when he is wrong
    Make America the Land of the Free & the Home of the Brave again

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    Quote Originally Posted by RonZeplin View Post
    Are you complaining that you're not getting all the -reps that you deserve?

    How much do the Clinton Foundation & Sheldon Adelson pay you per -rep?
    Just pointing out your compulsion to lie.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

    A Zero Hedge comment

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warlord View Post
    Hi Angela... thanks for the rep. The irony with Sanford is the Trump replacement lost to the Dem in that district for the first time in 40 years. I wonder if Mark will come back.. Probably not.
    *Mouth drops open** I don't think I knew, or at least I didn't remember, that they lost the Sanford seat to a Democrat. That's what will probably happen if they primary Amash here. And it's their own fault - the GOP intentionally gerrymandered his district so he would lose in the general. He didn't, but they tried.

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    Quote Originally Posted by angelatc View Post
    *Mouth drops open** I don't think I knew, or at least I didn't remember, that they lost the Sanford seat to a Democrat. That's what will probably happen if they primary Amash here. And it's their own fault - the GOP intentionally gerrymandered his district so he would lose in the general. He didn't, but they tried.
    See this angela:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katie_Arrington

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warlord View Post
    Republicans are spreading flagrant lies and corrupting the Freedom Caucus to serve Donald Trump.

    https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/ar...aceful/590059/
    That was an excellent article. Wish he was my Rep, but instead I get the neoconservative Hoekstra representing me in the congressional district just West of Amash’s.

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    Even the other members of the House Freedom Caucus, the most freedom-loving, freedom-supporting members of Congress, have sided against one of their own to please an erratic big-government authoritarian.
    ??

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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEF View Post
    That was an excellent article. Wish he was my Rep, but instead I get the neoconservative Hoekstra representing me in the congressional district just West of Amash’s.
    I have a Kildee. Same beast, different party.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KEEF View Post
    That was an excellent article. Wish he was my Rep, but instead I get the neoconservative Hoekstra representing me in the congressional district just West of Amash’s.

    I had to double take on that one. Hoekstra hasn't been a House Rep since 2010. I remember he went all out to criticize Amash when Amash had his last primary challenge. But Hoekstra has mostly just bounced around with failed office runs and is apparently a Trump appointee as Ambassador to the Netherlands.



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