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Great news, Frederick! I’m so happy that you’ll be getting out of the red hellhole that is now Florida.

Honestly, I don’t know how decent people can live in these benighted areas of the country. At this moment, I am watching a discussion on TV about how the red states are trying to legally bowdlerize their education systems so that children only hear Republican propaganda about American history. The red hordes are not only ignorant themselves, but they are determined to make everyone as stupid as themselves.

I suppose they really think that they can achieve 1984 levels of Newspeak, that if they just control the language, people will never have thoughts that Republicans don’t like. More stupidity. People won’t be controlled that way unless they are already controlled that way.

Sooner or later, we’ve got to extinguish these people, at least as a force in a our politics. I can’t stand to be around them—and I don’t have to get closer to them then sever hundred miles. I really fell sorrry for those who have to live surrounded by them.

Good luck in Massachusetts, Frederick!

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Yes, Michael. The type of the hypocritical super-religious Republican has been with us since the "moral majority" rose up in the 1980s. But Pence honed the type to a Uriah-Heep-like unctuousness and pompous self-righteousness that makes decent Americans puke. Fortunately, he has no chance of remaining in politics, since everybody hates him now.

Thanks for reading and responding!

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Glad you liked it!

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He sure didn't waste any time flipping again. I have always despised the man and his milk-toast Christianity.

Scott, I have treasured your commentary ever time. I got great news this morning. I live in ruby red Florida at the moment, but I was born in Massachusetts. I've been on a waiting list for a subsidized senior apartment in Mass - the only way I could afford to live there. This morning, I reached the top of the list. So I'll be able to live in a reliably blue state. We are still in peril nationally and will have to endure expensive, execrable, and ludicrous investigations from the fear-based idiots on the right. Imagine Jim Jordan at the top of the Judiciary Committee - what a farce.

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Two words…”oleaginous,” “smarmy.” Anybody with a good bullshit detector can look at him and see that he’s lying, disgusting, and reprehensible.

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You hit the jackpot with this analysis Scott. We watched the CNN show last night and felt like you. What a fake Christian he is. I could hardly listen to him and watch him on this stage. But we stayed on to take it all in. I never liked him and now even worse. Do not trust man ever!

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Very interesting insight into Pence's character. Thanks, Scott.

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