Terrific post. Just catching up, but so much fun to read!

Doggett and Hatley agreed to the use of their picture on the condition that it not be used on Match.com.

Because they already get so many request for sex as it is.

Do THEY have any favorite Bible verses? (SPOILER: nope.)

Wow that's Trump's favorite too, talk about a sign from god!

Don't get me started on Freedonia. We can't let that threat continue to exist. We've got to bomb the fuckers back to the stone age, salt the land so nothing ever grows there again, and scatter the few remaining remnants of their population to the four winds, never to be heard from again.

After that, we need to get medieval on their asses.

Bashing TV? Isn't Trump a TV phenomenon himself, with that awful celebrity ass-kissing show? Don't tell me they all read his book (or any book).

Stephen Hopkins has some valid points though.

Is there another candidate in recent times that had protesters show up at their events? I mean this isn't a good sign for someone that is running for office. There are a lot of people that hate the Repubs from the couch but you have done some special shit if they are willing to come and protest your very existence.

sigh....this is my town.

If it makes you feel any better, I think most RVA folks there were just taking in the freak show. Lots of people came in from all around the commonwealth.

I make fun of these people all the time, but let's face it: The WaPo Trump Hat Generator is endless fun for me, so I'm a pretty simple soul myself. I'm like a kitten with some string, only less photogenic.

So these stupid fascists represent what, less than one half of one percent of the population of the greater Richmond area? I'll stay with the 99% thanks.

Most of these dumb fucks don't actually live in Richmond. There's too many non-white types that live within Richmond's city limits for their taste now. Their parents or grandparents started moving out of the city during the civil rights movement/desegregation era because they couldn't stand the thought of living next door to "those people".

I know that not everyone from Virginia can be an inbred asshole, but you couldn't tell it by looking at them.

Virginia is a beautiful state with an ugly history. That history (for me) becomes more apparent travelling south from DC. I go on alert almost at the exact moment we cross the Fairfax boundary line. I'm ultra alert arriving at Richmond. You'll see more and more American flags, Gadsden flags, and even Confederate flags (as of July-August '15) Confederate flags still proudly flying from people's porches, rooftops, and yes! truck beds. I'm on edge until reaching Wilmington, NC's Wrightsville Beach.

The state's ugly history seems to have an ugly affect on some of the residents. As I said, I personally feel it and see it most about 45 minutes south from DC. But DC is not the great Democratic city it claims to be. Not only are there way more republicans than anyone cares to admit (mostly all live west of Connecticut Ave in NW, DC). But the democrats living here tend to be ultra-conservative and kind of Libertarian. The best way to see how more southern DC is than northern is that DC residents are taxed by the Fed but did not have the right to vote in presidentential elections until the mid-60's. AND as of 2015 we do not have an autonomous gov't. DC local gov't has to get approval from congress on passing bills and just about everything else. Also too, residents are still taxed by fed gov't but do not have representation in congress.

All things which to my liberal soul are clearly against the U.S. Constitution and should not be tolerated but are because of something Pres Washington said, and regardless of what Washington said and envisioned for the new capital, it's still the south.

:k

I really am starting to loathe my fellow countryfolk. And if they manage to hork any of these fascists in to office, I'm going to loathe them from afar.

I have old college friends, well educated, upper middle class/rich and they are saying fawning things on facebook about Trump. I ask them if they are serious and they attack. These were what used to be moderate to liberal Republicans. I believe Charles Pierce is right. There is a prion disorder affecting all of them.

Same here. A guy I know who is intelligent, educated with a liberal arts degree, fairly worldly, and used to be a moderate conservative (although he's gone off the deep end over the past few years) has posted on his blog convoluted defenses of things like Trump's anti-immigrant statements and Carson's statements abut Muslims. I keep telling myself that it's the same reason some Republicans are rallying around Bernie - people are just so sick of the status quo - but that doesn't begin to explain all of it.

Pie goes in the pie hole and crazy things come out of the pie hole. Who can explain it.

I'm getting to that point myself. I can't stay here and watch the country be run by morons who don't believe in science, economics, evolution, reality, common sense, etc...

I'm just going to take a wild guess and say an asshole drives that Jeep

Oooh favorite Bible verses, I have one.
Matthew 6:5-6 "And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. 6:6 But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly."
I guess American Jesus™ didn't get that memo...

Trump + Tea Party = End of GOP.
Congress is becoming so dysfunctional, this country will need some kind of institutional reform to keep the Union running with 50 union members, unionized. In practical terms, during the next two weeks, the widows and widowers of Michel Bachmann will have to pass a debt ceiling extension or..shutdown the federal government, nice perspective, with four or five seemingly unrelated wars running simultaneously...I wanna move to Mars, or with Bruno Mars.

Way better responses would have been:
- I know you are but what am I?
- I'm rubber and you're glue, everything you say bounces off me & sticks to you

Took him that long to come up with that, huh?

4 USC Chapter 1 §8(d) says, in part: "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery." and §8(j) says, in part:"(j) No part of the flag should ever be used as a costume or athletic uniform."

So those guys with the ties and suspenders are violating federal law with regard to respect for the flag.

As for ol' Fitz, Jr, well, while it is legal to display replicas of obsolete versions of the flag if they are historically accurate (I remember that my next door neighbor flew a 48-star flag throughout the 1960s), 4 USC Chapter 1 §8(g) says: "The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature". Sorry, Fitz.

Finally, 4 USC Chapter 1 §8(i) says: "The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever. It should not be embroidered on such articles as cushions or handkerchiefs and the like, printed or otherwise impressed on paper napkins or boxes or anything that is designed for temporary use and discard. Advertising signs should not be fastened to a staff or halyard from which the flag is flown." This last provision, especially the part about "temporary use and discard", means that, technically, postage stamps imprinted with the flag are illegal.

The only problem with all this is that violations of the flag law carries no penalties. Some provisions are enforced locally (I know the District of Columbia has local laws imposing fines for some violations of 4 USC Chapter 1). Too bad. I'd like to see politicians get arrested for autographing flags.

I know it was a stretch and pretty lame joke, but I was referring the "m" in "Welcome" on Dave from Prince George's abomination of a sign, which is clearly an upside down "W"

The entire GOP and the country music industry would collapse if they couldn't drape flags on everything.

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Television has been a detriment to our society

TV really started going downhill when they started putting all those minorities on, like Ethel Waters and Rochester...

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Seriously- follow the links re: the "White Power, Bitch!" skank in the video...her name is Kaozz Veidt, and her Faceplacepage seems to imply that she is some type of Aryan Nations rapper. That's cutting meth with cognitive dissonance, about 50/50.

lol, I've never rapped in my life. That's a disgusting, trashy style of music made by and for untermenschen. I am not affiliated with AN, but I am a National Socialist. That means I'm anti-drug, by the way, since you obviously know nothing about NS. Next time, you may want to educate yourself before making assumptions.

You do know Adler is a Jewish name, right?

I can smell the sudafed onya, so no use trying to deny it. Stay classy.....

"Television has been a detriment to our
society, with its alien ideas. I mean the people behind television, they
had a different outlook than the average Mr. and Mrs. America, and they
have just destroyed the country through imposing their views because if
you own the media, you basically control the population. You implant
ideas, and you know, people jump on board with them."

He means the Jews. Unlike some people who might think the Hollywood Gay Liberals or the Lizard People are "the people behind TV", this turn of phrase is straight from old-fashioned antisemitic propaganda. Such people often refer to TV as "the Electric Jew" or "JewTube", brainwashing fine upstanding Aryan boys and girls into getting hot over Beyoncé and suchlike.

The guy is a full on Neo Nazi White Supremacist who hosted a hate radio program, so yeah. Odd that "the Jews" control TV but not radio.

You sure he doesn't mean the little people behind his teevee who do the actin in the box?

Obama's teleprompter and we've come full circle.

'Surprisingly, most said they’re not particularly religious.'

Why surprisingly? Trumpy's constituency is the racists, not the theocrats (an intersecting but not overlapping group).

So Virginia really is for lovers. These folks are sex machines, I tell you what.

If TV is so bad, why do so many people watch it?

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So much stupid, so much xenophobia, so much cluelessness...

Add "dumb ties and ridiculous suspenders" and you've got it covered. Where are the jackbooted Fashion Police when you need 'em?

all that's missing are the brown shirts

They're being shipped from Trump's sweatshops in China as we speak.

Doggett isn’t 100 percent sure he’ll be supporting Trump...

Well, no. The Republican Party hasn't told the 'Rugged Individualists' who they're going to be voting for yet...

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Here is a serious journalism type question: Why for does Trump consistently say he has twice as many people attend as actually attend? Is that like a thing?

Oh, and a word about the snake plate, for the deleted commentors; you do realize you are paying extra money to the government in order to have a vanity plate that states you do not want to pay money to the government....right?

Trump has always inflated all his numbers: how much money he has, how many people love his architecture, etc. There's a formula: Actual number x3 = Yooge.

Except the number of bankruptcies. He downplays that.