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Mc Mike

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3. I like the pic, looks like a meeting in dRumpf's campaign H.Q.

Reply to Achilleaze (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 11:14 AM

Dec 2016

I don't think they're brilliant geniuses, or super powerful, though they are evil.

They just have a ton of free time on their hands, a media that is compliant and accepts the repug framing on the issues, and a huge amount of money that they made by stealing from taxpayers and screwing the American public. Their ideas are pablum and suck-y, fonky assed and stupid. And so are the techniques they use to relay those ideas.

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DeVos, John Birch, CNP, Mackinac, tRump Repuglinazis [View all] Mc Mike Dec 2016 OP

That Overton Window thing is some badass Black Magic Achilleaze Dec 2016 #1

I like the pic, looks like a meeting in dRumpf's campaign H.Q. Mc Mike Dec 2016 #3

OMG! Useless in FL Dec 2016 #2

Yeah. nt. Mc Mike Dec 2016 #4

Mackinac Center for Public Policy funded by DeVos, Kochs: Mc Mike Dec 2016 #5

K&R superpatriotman Dec 2016 #6

Recommend Jane Mayer's "Dark Money," which Hortensis Dec 2016 #7

Thanks for the Jane Mayer info. I'll get Dark Money. Nt. Mc Mike Dec 2016 #8

There are various people and factions, but these days they seem Hortensis Dec 2016 #9

Birch was created by the repug money people who backed Hitler. After Mc Mike Dec 2016 #10

That's a rather horrifying list. I've come to suspect Hortensis Dec 2016 #11

They're not your standard anarchists, to be sure. Their anarchy is freedom from all regulatory laws Mc Mike Dec 2016 #12

Agree. Notably, the tea-partiers were just a new iteration Hortensis Dec 2016 #13

I agree. With your last line, especially. Mc Mike Dec 2016 #14