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[–] Master_Foo 3 points -1 points 2 points (+2|-3) ago
Nah, Republicans have been doing this for decades.
Wes Goodman, Troy King, Roy Ashburn, Richard Curtis, Ed Schrock, Jim Kolbe, Jim West, Paul Babeau, Robert Bauman, Mark Foley, Bob Allen, Chris Myers, Phil Hinkle, Bruce Barclay, Larry Craig, Steve Wiles, Randy Boehning, Mike Yenni, Ralph Shortey.
Republicans are just mad that a Democrat is trying to get into their club of degenerates.
[–] 8butternut 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
That is an impressive list.
How long have you wanted to drop all the names, I've never heard of?
That is not saying to much. I just became concerned in the last 10 yrs.
[–] TruthSemen ago
LOL I literally don't recognize a single name on that list. And this fucking a list. lol
[–] Master_Foo ago
I've been dropping names just about each time a politician does something like this. So, about every Tuesday or so.
[–] arsefaggot ago (edited ago)
So I picked one at random and it completely had nothing to do with your argument, so I'm not going to bother verifying any of the other ones.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Boehning
Randy Beohning was outed as being on Grindr, so he came out as bi. Grindr is full of degenerate faggots but it's nowhere near the same as having a meth party with a male hooker and having the police turn up due to ODs. The wiki page doesn't say anything about him being married with children either, so he was basically just a single faggot looking for dicks which is apparently ok now in this current year.
Also it was apparently a problem because he voted against ND Senate bill 2279 which would have made it illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation.
https://votesmart.org/bill/19411/51012/104811/john-grabinger-sponsored-sb-2279-prohibits-discrimination-based-on-sexual-orientation
It's entirely consistent for a Republican (or libertarian) faggot to be against the government criminalizing discrimination, even against their own group. Your inability to understand this makes me think you're on the left.
[–] Master_Foo 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
I'm Libertarianish in my political leaning, just to satisfy your curiosity. A "Jeffersonian Republican" if you will.
As a Libertarianish guy, I'm perfectly willing to call a spade a spade and a degenerate a degenerate. I'm not claiming all instances in that list are equal in level of hypocrisy. But it's not honest to simply ignore a degenerate politician just because he is playing on my/your particular team.
[–] Logansrun 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Don’t forget the longest running republican speaker of the house, Denis Haster https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/us/dennis-hastert-released.html
that said the dems have this depravity locked up
[–] Master_Foo 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago (edited ago)
The list goes on and on. On both sides. My point is, let's not make this a Republican VS Democrat debate, because they are all degenerates.
The only thing that makes the Republicans worse than the Democrats in this regard is, the Republicans are hypocritical about it. The only thing worse than a degenerate is a hypocritical degenerate.
Sing, Oh Goddess, the ballad of Ted Haggard.