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The GQP Thread: I'm even sick of that fuck's number and, anyway, he's gone (for now)

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French Rage said:
I know she want to business school and worked for JPMorgan and to you both of those are awful because she didn't have to memorize Plutarch and therefore is not smart.
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That isn't the point of a liberal arts education. Please tell me that was part of the joke (which TBF was otherwise very good and got me twice because I don't know any Plutarch).

A Spartan woman, whose son deserted, seeing he was unworthy of his country, declared, “No offspring of mine!” and dispatched him. This is her epigram:
Bad seed—off to the darkness where Broad River
Begrudges its flow to timid deer that shiver.
Worthless whelp, short straw, slink off to Hades!
No son of Sparta—nor of one of her ladies.​

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Another, hearing her son had fallen in the line of duty, said:

Mourning is for cowards. I shed no tear for you,
My child. I am a Spartan; you are too.

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Another, hearing her son was safe and sound having deserted the fighting, wrote to him: “A bad rumor besmirches you. Expunge it, or yourself.”

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Another, when her sons had slipped away from battle and returned to her, said, “Where do you think you’re fleeing to, you sorry runaways? Trying to slink back here where you came from?” and yanked up her robe and showed them.

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Another, seeing her son approaching from battle, asked, “How fares Sparta?” He replied, “All are dead!” Picking up a roof tile, she brained him, saying, “And I suppose they sent you to give us the bad news?”

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When a man detailed his brother’s brave death to his mother, she replied, “Isn’t it a shame you failed to join him on such a glorious journey?”

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A woman who had sent her five sons to war waited anxiously outside the city and asked a man approaching which way the battle was going. When he replied that her sons had all perished, she retorted, “You sorry slave, that’s not what I asked.” When he said Sparta was winning, she said, “In that case, I gladly accept the death of my sons.”

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Another, sending her lame son to the front line, said, “Think valor with every step.”

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Another, when her son limped back from battle wounded in the foot and in a world of pain, said, “Remember courage and you’ll forget to hurt.”

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A Spartan so badly wounded he had to struggle on all fours was embarrassed to look so ridiculous. His mother told him, “Isn’t it better to exult in your courage than blush at the laughter of fools?”

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Another Spartan woman handed her son a shield and encouraged him with: “As a shield or a stretcher.”

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Another gave her son a shield as he set out for war, saying, “Your father always saved this for you. Keep it safe, not yourself.”

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Another, when her son complained his sword was too short, said, “Step forward: add a foot to it.”

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A go-between asked a Spartan matron if she was open to an affair. She replied, “As a girl I learned to obey my father; as a woman, my husband. If this man’s proposal is on the up-and-up, let him ask my husband first.”

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A penniless Spartan maiden, when asked what dowry she would bring her bridegroom, replied, “My native...wit.”

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When a Spartan girl was asked if she had been free with a man, she said, “No, but he was with me.”

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An unmarried girl, who secretly fell pregnant, performed her own abortion and was so disciplined she didn’t make a peep, so neither her father nor her neighbors had any idea: by beautifully confronting her ugly deed, she mastered her agony.

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A captive Spartan woman up for auction, when asked what tasks she could be entrusted with, said, “to be trustworthy.”

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Another, asked the same question, said, “to be mistress of a house.”

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A third, asked by someone if she would be a good girl if he bought her, retorted, “Yes, and if you don’t.”

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A fourth, asked what she knew how to do, replied, “Be free.” And when her buyer made her perform tasks unbefitting a free woman, she said, “I’ll give you buyer’s remorse!” and killed herself.
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rufus said:
I'm in the amoral camp. All that matters is money and power, and they'll get that any way they can.

The concept of right and wrong, good and evil, never even enters their minds. Not even part of the equation. The equation is: Is it good for me? Is it bad for me?
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I agree. Ann Coulter for example. She doesn't believe anything she says but she knows what she says makes her a ton of moola.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
I agree. Ann Coulter for example. She doesn't believe anything she says but she knows what she says makes her a ton of moola.
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She did have as-shole righty parents, though, so this may be one of those keening Earn Daddy's Respect spectacles like Tucker Carlson.
 
Senator Braun from Indiana today questioned interracial marriage and said it should be up to states so…what a week.

contraception, gay marriage, interracial marriage- all on docket to be taken away by SC
 
So Dumbass Donnie has rescinded his endorsement of Mo Brooks. In response, MAGA Mo has issued a statement, which included this little bit:

"President Trump asked me to rescind the 2020 elections, immediately remove Joe Biden from the White House, immediately put President Trump back in the White House, and hold a new special election for the presidency. As a lawyer, I've repeatedly advised President Trump that January 6 was the final election contest verdict and neither the U.S. Constitution nor the U.S. Code permit what President Trump asks."
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Sounds.....................seditious.
 
Tell me something we didn't know.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/new-research-on-trump-voters-they-re-not-the-sharpest-tools-in-the-box/ar-AAVoNEA?ocid=msedgntp
As part of his research, Sherkat evaluated the political decision-making and cognition of Trump's voters, using a 10-point vocabulary exam. In a guest essay at the website Down with Tyranny, he explains what this vocabulary test revealed about white Trump voters:
Overall, the model predicts that almost 73% of respondents who missed all 10 questions would vote for Trump (remember, that is controlling for education and the other factors), while about 51% who were average on the exam are expected to vote for Trump. Only 35% of people who had a perfect score on the exam are predicted to be Trump supporters.

Notably, this very strong, significant effect of verbal ability can be identified within educational groups. While non-college whites certainly turned out more heavily for Trump, the smart ones did not — only 38% of those with perfect scores are expected to go for Trump, and only 46% of non-college graduates who scored a standard deviation above the mean. The same is true for college graduates — low cognition college graduates were more likely to vote for Trump. ...

What is really depressing isn't just the poles of the vocabulary exam, it's the average. The mean and median of the scale is 6 — so half of white Americans missed 4 of the easy vocabulary questions.​
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...est-tools-in-the-box/ar-AAVoNEA?ocid=msedgntp
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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opin...est-tools-in-the-box/ar-AAVoNEA?ocid=msedgntp
 
Republicans not even hiding it anymore:

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