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So Many Questions's avatar

Wow! Great article and agree with everything you said - and I mean everything.

Matt - welcome to MAGA world. It ain't pretty and there is a lot to be skeptical of, but what choice is there?

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flyoverdriver's avatar

I love Matt because of how fiercely independent he is, and his willingness to call BS (usually in a way that makes me laugh rather than my blood boil) on all deserving targets regardless of party or status. I hope Matt never identifies as (or is thought of as) MAGA. No disrespect at all for the MAGA movement, but I won’t fence Matt in with that kind of label. He needs the free range.

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Bagehot's avatar

I can't like your comment enough. It's people who want to pin labels on him that have a problem accepting Matt's commitment to the truth. If he happens to side more with the right these days than with the left, it's because the mainstream left has abandoned principles and sanity.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Hear! Hear!

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Marie Silvani's avatar

Hey, even Gretchen Whitmore…

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Patrick's avatar

Nah, she still sucks.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

Best Comment Of The Day

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Michael's avatar

I have long respected Matt for that fierce independence.

But it is gone.

Whether the attacks from gormless Dems, the IRS and the faux-left in online spaces have driven him to abandon reason and go whole MAGA hogbrain or whether it is just the money he'd lose if he pissed off enough of his mouthbreathers, it doesn't matter.

Matt is sucking right wing dick now.

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Heidi Kulcheski's avatar

Congrats, your not only ignorant but vulgar too. Try a few sentences without the disgusting references. Dictionaries are free and they're full of useful words!

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Michael's avatar

Those words are useless in the face of the Humpty-Dumptyism of Americans who think Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are "socialists".

So vulgarity it is, Heidi. I have this horrible proclivity for finding mass murder obscene and the occasional "dick sucker" funny.

But middle class morality has never been my thing.

EDIT: And you mean "you're" not "your", dumbass.

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Michael's avatar

Yeah.

Liberals always do the "TROLL" thing when they have nothing to offer but their platitudes and someone frankly tells them to fuck off.

You're the troll, fuckwit.

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Marie Silvani's avatar

Michael, at least these so called MAGA dxxk suckers come to the table with substance and debate. You only add vitriol and very immature nastiness. You stand out for sure, but you stand out alone. I’m sure Matt is getting a good chuckle.

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Michael's avatar

This is a joke, right?

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JaidenWalnut's avatar

You’re way to the left of the Overton window if you think Matt is a bootlicker for the right.

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Michael's avatar

lol... The Overton window in American "politics" is the windshield of that stretch limo that Robert Pattison lives in in Cosmopolis.

And it only looks in.

The current iteration of the American right is cloaked in the faux-populism that allows once-genuine critics like Matt to gabble on about the evils of "capitalism" as long as no one mentions capitalism and there is a strong flavor of bad chinks and bad gubmint sellouts.

That way, the gormless fatties that make up the MAGA hordes can fulminate against the chinks and the gubmint while capital fucks them in their fat asses.

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justamom's avatar

"The gormless fatties that make up the MAGA hordes can fulminate against the chinks and the gubmint while capital fucks them in their fat asses." as opposed to the blue haired, infinity pierced, triple gender, violent pyschpaths, and the limo liberals of the left?

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Michael's avatar

Precisely my good friend.

Americans on either side of the divide are so ideologically stupefied that they can't even name capitalism as the source of the malaise.

It has to be immigrants or transphobes, China or racists (sic).

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Mike's avatar

You sound bummed he's not sucking yours.

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GJ's avatar

Well, let's face it: He's MAGA. He's been supporting anything Trumpian for so long (with minor hedges here and there) that they can adopt him as one of their own.

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Lawyers Guns & Money's avatar

I wouldn’t characterize Matt as having entered MAGA world. He did write a book about Trump called Insane Clown President.

And don’t give any more ammo to the Democrats who used to be liberal until they decided to support forever war, censorship, and spying on our own citizens. And killing some of them with robot planes. They loved Matt when he was making fun of Bush (as was appropriate), and now call him a traitor, often in these pages. Dumbasses. He hasn’t changed. They have.

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KenTanker0us's avatar

This.

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