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We’re watching the self-immolation of the leading world power on a level unprecedented in human history.

When I was faster i was always behind.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

People are complicated. Love is not.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

How stupid are these people?

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Let me file that under fuck it.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Giving in to doom is how authoritarians win.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Museums are not America’s attic for its racist shit.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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    dmsilev

    Wonderful.

    I eagerly await learning just how a WWII Army vet and retired judge will be declared unAmerican. I imagine we’ll find out by Tuesday at the latest.

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    Shelton Lankford

    Now, someone want to start a donation drive to put that on every TV screen in the USA? I have a couple bucks rattling around in my wallet.

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    beltane

    I just heard some old women screaming in my living room. My mother and one of her friends have come over for a visit and they seem to have seen a scary person called Paul Ryan on the TV. They apparently do not care for him.

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    Shawn in ShowMe

    All you folks with gigantic mailing lists, get to work. This magnificent soliloquy needs to go viral.

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    hoodie

    Judge Maxwell was in the same place as my Dad when WWII started and, like Dad, probably served through the entire war (not exactly missionary work in France). If he were still around, I’m pretty sure Dad also would have detested Romney. My recently deceased uncle (35 missions over Japan) certainly did. Romney is an insult to their memory.

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    Nutella

    “Wherefore art thou, Romney-o?”

    Back in Utah next January, I hope. Or La Joya, or Winnepesaukee, or Belmont. As long as it’s not Washington.

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    Ash Can

    Almost every Saturday afternoon, I tune in to a four-hour-long program on a west-suburban public radio station (WDCB, out of the College of DuPage, if you’re keeping score at home) that features recordings of old “golden-age” radio programs (1930s through early 50s). Especially since WWII falls smack in the middle of that period, and especially since a great deal of radio recording was done during the war years so that US radio programs could be rebroadcast to the troops abroad, this WDCB program often features old recordings of programs and their accompanying ads that were decidedly patriotic and pep-talky. And what’s striking about this material is how today’s Republicans/right-wingers would surely recoil in horror from it.

    This cheesy patriotic stuff mentions such things as the multi-cultural nature of America — in positive terms. It extols the prowess of our great scientists, working tirelessly to ensure that the USA remains in the forefront of world technology. And the actual wartime recordings are rife with ads and placements for war bonds, victory gardens, and cheerful encouragements to “all you housewives out there” to return rendered fat to their butchers, be thrifty with their use of precious wartime resources, and buy such-and-such a product because it helps their rations go further. And always, above all, there’s the underlying message of all Americans working and sacrificing together to win the war. Can you imagine the reaction, especially from Republicans/right-wingers to messages — let alone government policies — like this?

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    13th Generation

    C’mon ABL, you haven’t had an overtly race baiting column in days, what’s the problem? I think you’re starting to lose your touch, or did you decide it wasn’t worth all the smackdowns?

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    Publius39

    @13th Generation:

    Amazing. You complain about all of ABL’s perceived “race baiting columns,” and then bitch because she isn’t producing alleged columns? Is this snark, or is this some low-level trolling?

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    gbear

    That makes me proud to be from MN. 716 views when I saw it, someone in the comments was hoping for 1000’s of views, but I didn’t want to read too far down the comments. I wonder if they’ll have to close them once the teatards find the video?

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    Mike

    Sweet, gent fills out his dress uniform nicely after all these years and knows how to present. Some fire there too.

  33. 33.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    Absolutely wonderful. I want to be his daughter. Posted this to my FB page. Thank you so much, Imani.

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    Patricia Kayden

    Loved it, and yes, let’s give Obama four more years! Four more years! Four more years!

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    satby

    Added to mt FB page too. Balloon-Juicers can help get those views stats up! What a grand old man!

    Edited to add: hope someone on the Obama team sees this and has this gentleman meet the President.

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    SBJules

    I loved Robert Maxwell. I Delivered a tax return(he got an extension) to my 92 year old client. He is very sharp too and fun to be around. Long may they both wave!!

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    Charlie Dodgson

    By the way, Judge Maxwell didn’t always look quite this trim. He says he was a flabby couch potato at age 74, and decided to whip himself into shape. It seems to have worked. He now holds multiple world records in men’s 90+ track and field, including 80-meter hurdles, pole vault, and combined score in the decathlon. (If you have to ask, don’t try it. You’re certain to sprain something, at the very least.)

    news.menshealth.com/fitness-inspiration-for-men/2012/03/01/

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    decitect

    had to share this on my Facebook, it’s simply a great poem with a heaping dose of righteousness. What a guy…

  42. 42.

    Emily

    My dad was a WWII vet. He died a couple of weeks after the 2008 election, but he got to see Obama win. He also got to see the Phillies win. Both those wins made him very happy.

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    Trakker

    Thanks, I really needed that. Seems like every time I turn on the TV it is awash with the right’s ads spouting anti-Obama lies. Cruel lies, but they far outnumber the Obama ads, and it’s becoming depressing because as a normal American trying to make ends meet my voice is being swamped by those with more rights (i.e., money) than me.

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    Dwane Powell

    My dad was in the Aleutians too, with the 206th Coastal Artillery from Arkansas. How about your Dad? This was a great video. @hoodie:

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