dholliday
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one of my favourite comedy rock bands
Current Affairs Donald Trump POS: Judgement cometh and that right soon
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one of my favourite comedy rock bands
rascal
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Live shows are second to none
dholliday
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we could've should've seen them this summer in berlin, but €170 for a pair of tickets was just too steep at the time...ffs
abelard
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it's too much even for some conservatives
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-north-carolina-semi-coup/
"Look, I am genuinely sorry Pat McCrory lost, but reacting this way to stop an opposition candidate who won a free and fair election is dirty. It may well be legal, but it’s shockingly dirty, and the state’s GOP lawmakers ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Where do they think this kind of thing will go? Forget about North Carolina itself. This is going to be a national thing.
What makes me despair is the same reason the NC GOP’s behavior makes me despair: all of this is ultimately going to destroy our democracy.
Where did it start? With the Senate Democrats in the 1980s going all-out to destroy Robert Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court? Maybe. If you’re a liberal, you no doubt have in mind a moment when the GOP started it. It doesn’t really matter. The truth is that there is no incentive on either side to stop. It’s not about fair play, respect for one’s opponents, or even the rule of law. It’s all about power: exercising it harshly, or preventing the other side from exercising it, no matter what.
Where does it stop? How does it stop? I’m serious. I write a lot in this space about the Jacobins on college campuses who demonize their opponents, silence them, and claim that extremism in the pursuit of social justice is no vice. Those people are not prepared to play by the rules of liberal democracy. Tell me, though: how does the NC GOP’s move differ in principle? The Other is such a monstrous enemy that they must be beaten down no matter what it takes. Just win. To be fair is to be weak.
And just what do these North Carolina Republicans think the Democrats are going to do when they take power again, as they are bound to sooner or later? What do any of these factionalists on the left or the right think is going to happen to them when they are once again on the bottom rung? Or do they think about it at all?
Dark days ahead for our country."
absolute madness. And these late night special sessions are the same way McCrory passed the HB2 bill.
Hope the voters will reward them in future elections the same way as they did McCrory with the HB2....
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whenever I start to give up hope with the election of Trump and NC going red again.. I remember than McCrory went from a comfortable 500k majority to a loss in 4 years. Just shows that a good number of republicans were willing to vote against their party to oust this bigot.
Cheeto Benito can say any old rubbish as long as it's contrary to Obama's position and his worshippers will lap it up.
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Stupid Americans can't even elect a proper president.
TheFinnFan
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Go back to your cellar Bry
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