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Stephen Colbert Analyzes the Testimony of Rick Gates in His Special Way: Confessions, Infidelity, and 'WTF'

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🐈 Crush White Christian Nationalism 🐈8/08/2018 1:32:36 pm PDT

re: #172 Blind Frog Belly White

This reminds me of when, back in the first Obama Administration, I found myself increasingly besieged by idiots and racists on the political subforum of an archery/bowhunting forum. When I started posting there, there were a couple other liberal and moderate posters, and with some few exceptions the discussions were amicable, with both sides making fun of the extremists. Over the Bush Administration, the arguments became more strident, the moderates and liberals less welcome, and the extremists more numerous.

Then Obama was elected, and they totally lost their shit. Guys who had always been reasonable started posting Birther shit, and ‘Bathhouse Barry’ shit, and ‘Moochelle’ shit. I stayed on another year or so, getting more and more frustrated with the place, but feeling like I needed to fight for it, because it had been worthwhile at one point.

Eventually, I gave up, and wished I’d given up sooner. Now, the place is full of Trumpkins and QAnon followers, and open racists.

Kristol needs to realize that the GOP was never, in his lifetime, what he thought it was. And it can never again become what he imagines. It’s gone. It’s fascists, all the way down.

A forum dedicated to hunting is almost always going to go wingnut these days. City people get their food at the supermarket for the most part, so hunting is majority-Conservative.