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Danny Huckabee's avatar

Another RINO out of the Senate, though not soon enough. Good riddance.

Danny Huckabee

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

What ho, I say ! ( the old expression not the new urban “ho” version ) You don’t like Pierre Delecto? You don’t like the poster child for everything wrong in the GOP and Washington establishments? You should have your ascot and spats wearing privileges rescinded along with your membership at the country club, Bray.

I hope your yacht sinks off the Turks and Caicos during high season. Indeed.

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Chris Bray's avatar

I tried to enter an all-white private club in Rhode Island today, and Sheldon Whitehouse personally stood in the doorway to tell me I was too common to be admitted.

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

Egads! He’s not to be found in the Social Register!

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Randy Farnum's avatar

Whitehouse, perfect name. Screams racist.

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Sharon Garvin's avatar

Well I hope they disinfected the steps after you left.

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mileytheduchess's avatar

Mitt Romney could be the poster child for why I'm an independent who doesn't "identify" closer to the Rs than the Ds (YouGov polling). As far as I'm concerned. DC could be nuked and it might actually benefit the American people. Isn't that terrible? (not that I'm saying it, but because it's true)

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Lilia Rosales's avatar

😂 I love this comment so much.

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mileytheduchess's avatar

He was literally Hitler when he was running against Homobama.

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Chris Bray's avatar

HE'S GONNA PUT Y'ALL BACK IN CHAI-- uh, I mean, what a wonderful man.

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mileytheduchess's avatar

Now he'll be free to strap his pup to the roof of the SUV and drive away.

And give people cancer because he's a mean venture capitalist.

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YYR's avatar

I hope someone let those ladies out of Mitt's binders before they suffocated.

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K2's avatar

Oh my, ROFL - at first I thought you meant something else….

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John Geis's avatar

OIL cancer!

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mileytheduchess's avatar

That too!

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YYR's avatar

Pierre lost gracefully, like McStain. Hence, they are rehabilitated.

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Crash Pile's avatar

Oh we love those “maveRicks” so, so much. especially when they vote like Democrats.

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Beezy Steder's avatar

He’s not actually celebrated. That’s just more media gaslighting. This dude is hated. Big time. That’s why he sits in airports with a baseball cap pulled down, and a mask on. He’s not a baseball fan who’s worried about spreading a respiratory virus. He’s a hated psychopath who doesn’t want to be recognized and then have his lights punched out by an angry impromptu mob of disgruntled constituents.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Weirdly, unless the polls are bullshit -- which is IMPOSSIBLE, of course -- Romney has an approval rating over 50% among Utah Republicans. I welcome the opinion of actual Utah Republicans on this question.

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Meri-Lyn Stark's avatar

My husband and I and a lot of our friends and family are UT republicans and of the 30 or so I’ve talked to since his announcement not one supports him. We all think he’s the worst carpetbagger since the 1870s. There was a group of 5 of us who pledged to each other we would go door to door campaigning against him until we each had over 100 promises not to re-elect him. That’s very ambitious for a bunch of septuagenarians who never participate in active campaigning. He’s not supported by 50% of republicans at all. More like 50% democrats. And it’s super easy to change party affiliation online here in Utah right up to the week of each election. So lots of primary crossing over happens.

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

You guys should fix that.

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Lisa G's avatar

I can’t stand the man and ALL our friends think he’s a weasel! But we’re just a bunch of hillbillies out in the hicks🤠

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Fukitol's avatar

Ugh, I wish my liberty affected his health.

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Tanto Minchiata's avatar

Is Fukitol available over the counter or do you still need a prescription?

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Chris Bray's avatar

I make my own in the kitchen sink.

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Fukitol's avatar

This is the way.

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YYR's avatar

Toilet Fukitol works too.

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Fukitol's avatar

When you're in prison you do what you gotta do.

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Palamambron's avatar

If you use it the right way it might.

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Greg's avatar

I predict Pierre Delecto’s - sorry, Mitt Romney’s - retirement will last only as long as he can’t find another state to carpetbag to. He thinks way too highly of his alleged political talents to just go away quietly.

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Arne's avatar

He's a governor's son, and I'd say that is the main priority for Mitt. He believes in government.

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Meri-Lyn Stark's avatar

Look for him to run another Olympic committee if Utah gets the bid they are desperately striving for. They are already spending millions or even billions revamping Olympic venues and I live right by the bobsled, luge, ski jumping hills. It’s a dirty little secret that taxpayers aren’t paying attention to.

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Ben Boychuk's avatar

He can retire to his actual residence in La Jolla. Good riddance.

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TOB's avatar

A few thoughts: Romney looks like Newsom in that last (duck-bill mask) photo. Romney was Literally Hitler with his "binders of women" back when he ran against Obama. Romney is actually Biedermann from Frisch's *The Arsonists,* which I read on the recommendation of someone on Substack, possibly you, Chris (or maybe eugyppius). I don't actually care what Ron Johnson's motivations are--it's hardly Jefferson and Lincoln in DC anymore--but I will rejoice if he ever gets anything to change through his hearings. I have been working really hard (professionally) on a story about state anti-molester statutes being weaponized against parents, and I am more convinced than ever that nothing ever changes for the better in government, so although Romney is being a d*ck about Johnson, it's hard for me to get too excited about hearings that will end up not changing a damned thing. I'd get a tiny thrill if I stopped paying for people's nineteenth corona "booster," honestly.

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Mark Marshall's avatar

I'm not Mormon but I do believe when Romney dies, he'll get his own planet . . . in Hell.

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Will Tuttle's avatar

Thanks so much Chris - yes, Romney epitomizes the mask of "decency" that evil, enslaving plutocratic globalists love to parade around in - and The Atlantic is the epitome of journalistic deception similarly masked. Satanists love masks...

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Stephen Ungar's avatar

Romney is evidence for the proposition that the political divide in America is no longer between Democrats and Republicans, but between those who I’ll call Limited Government Constitutionalists and those I’ll call Big Government Establishmentarians. The first group believes that US citizens should be free to run their lives and choose their leaders, who will pursue policies that the citizens support. The second group believes that the government does and should make all decisions, with very limited space for personal freedom. Romney is in the latter group. I plan to vote only for candidates in the former group.

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JW's avatar

He’s a turd all right, he got that much right. But punch bowl? Please. He fits right in with the DC cesspool.

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The Ungovernable's avatar

Goodbye Pierre Delecto!

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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

New word: Mittpulsive. Anyone care to define it?

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David Cashion's avatar

Isn't that a self inducing regurgitation drug.

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Rascal Nick Of's avatar

As in “I had a muttpulsive in my mouth after listening to Biden speak”?

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Kevin Krause's avatar

I honestly wish as voters, we had an opportunity to vote on whether a “retiring” politician should receive a government pension. Quite possibly, it could force them to respect the wishes of their constituents. To be clear Mitt wouldn’t receive a government pension for my vote and in fact I’d claw back his salary for 6 years of failing to represent the people that elected him.

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pj's avatar

human centipede..center segment.

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Chris Bray's avatar

He proudly sewed himself in.

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