There are days when I’ll do almost anything to avoid doing the stuff I know I should be doing. I’m telling you this to explain why I decided to once again visit the fever swamps of FreeRepublic. I used to do this once a week in order to have some idea what current topic had enraged extreme right-wing nutjobs. Over time, however, I found it increasingly difficult to stomach the irrational hate. Now I peek in on FreeRepublic many once a month. Maybe.
This morning there was a lot of…oh, let’s call it ‘discussion’ about an editorial in the NY Post. The editorial (and no, I’m not going to provide a link to it) was entitled:
Biden is a disaster — which is why we need someone better than Trump to beat him.
I figured that whole ‘someone better than Trump’ bit would get a lot of Freep readers up on their hind legs. And I was right. Here’s a representative sample of comments:
- Trump or no one.
by kenmcg - If Trump isn’t the nominee, there is no GOP.
by anton - “January 6 was a national travesty…”
No, it wasn’t. It was just a start on righting the egregious theft of an election.
by Fester Chugabrew - I’ll write in Trump if I have to. No one else.
by ClearCase_guy - Trump neither tried to overturn the stolen election nor did he take any classified documents.
by escapefromboston - January 6 was a national travesty, and [Trump] is to blame for it.
What happened at the capitol on Jan 6 was orchestrated and executed by the leftist deep-state FBI. The only thing Trump has to do with it is that deep state idiots like you are trying to blame him.
by nagant - I am not voting Republican.
I am voting Trump.
by aMorePerfectUnion - “Trump tried to overturn an election” – what BS. The election was STOLEN from him…Biden overturned an election and got away with it with help from people like Murdoch,
“He took classified documents”. Do they really think we’re so uneducated that we don’t know about the Presidential Records Act and the fact that Trump along with previous POTUS as well as FJB, and apparently even Pence kept records – the last 2 who weren’t even POTUS?
What a bunch of CRAP!
by Aria - Such ignorance. If there were one better than Trump, Trump would not be leading the field.
by Lou Foxwell - EVIL women will vote to KILL MORE BABIES BEFORE they would vote for someone who will make it cheaper to feed the ones they don’t kill!
by Ann Archy - Other than DJT Repubs want to act nice and follow the rules. We need to Annihilate the dems. The are worthy of the death they want to impose on others.
by Singermom - I’ll just write Trump in, go Independent or just stay home.
I long since have had it these lying phony Republicans and their fraudulent charade. They’ve hoodwinked millions.
And whatever happens, when the Trump era comes to an end, so will the Republican party.
by dragnet2
These people have drunk deep from the Trump potion; they’ve become spider-brained. They are somehow convinced–absolutely certain–that everybody but Trump is corrupt. They are completely confident that the only thing keeping Trump from being a phenomenally successful president is a global conspiracy involving every national and international security agency, all of whom are coordinating to…do something…in order to prevent Trump from…also something.
But I’m inclined to agree with dragnet2. When the Trump era ends, so will the Republican Party. In fact, I’m inclined to argue there IS NO Republican Party anymore, and hasn’t been since Trump was first nominated to run for president. There is no general ideological center; no commonly agreed-upon political principle, no unifying doctrine. There is only Trump.
Editorial Note: A reminder that we need to destroy the patriarchy. Smash it into a thousand pieces, then gather those pieces and set them on fire. Sweep up the ashes, dump them in a pit, piss on them, then bury it all. Cover the pit with asphalt, cover the asphalt with concrete, on which we should build a library. A privately-owned library that’s open to the entire public, so nobody can ban any books. A library with a coffee shop.
gregfallis.com 
” Do they really think we’re so uneducated that we don’t know about the Presidential Records Act… ?”
Argh – (pronounced aaaarhg) this one is starting to give me a pain in the peeves wherever I see it on the level of the blatant misunderstanding of tax brackets.
Straight outta Wikipedia – “The Presidential Records Act ( PRA) of 1978, 44 U.S.C. §§ 2201 – 2209, [3] is an Act of the United States Congress governing the official records of Presidents and Vice Presidents created or received after January 20, 1981, and mandating the preservation of all presidential records.”
Nowhere does it say what these koalas seem to think it does. Apparently they think it means “Our president, Trump, gets to keep any records he had access to during his time in the White House and can do anything he wants to with them.”
His aides reportedly tried to explain to him that he wasn’t to throw any records away but had to resort to fishing them out of the toilet and taping them back together.
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Also – “A library with a coffee shop.” Do you have these around your place? I know there are some in Seattle, no surprise since that’s the birthplace of Starbucks. It’s almost a requirement for major bookstores to have, at a minimum, free access to an attached coffee shop.
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Please don’t associate these dimwits with koalas. Koalas are nice.
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Let’s say that’s up for debate.
From what I’ve read (not personally knowing any koalas) I’ll also concede they don’t seem to have any desire to formulate a plan to retain control of the government.
They aren’t bright but this is said to be an evolutionary trait that helped them survive a resource poor environment. They don’t waste resources learning new things – they found something that worked for them as a species. I also hope it continues to work for them. They look adorable and fuzzy and huggable.
But, have you seen those claws? Yikes.
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Well… they’re brighter than most people seem to think, and have no trouble learning new ideas about their environment. Rangers I know say they’re quite canny if they need to be. It’s also not recommended that you hug them. The main thing here is that they don’t harm anybody via either their action or their inaction.
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I wasn’t aware they are, as you say, brighter than you think.
When I went searching (for my comment) on koalas I got back a list that included things I could immediately discount. One item was that koalas take care of their young in ways we wouldn’t. Big deal, squeamish lister! You ever find a too-young kitten, you’d better find someone else to take care of them until they can manage the basics on their own.
And that’s what I get for not pursuing more details on the internet stuff I find. I probably got distracted by wondering who paints fake eucalyptus trees for the zoo koala enclosures or something before I came across debunking.
(They did have a video of a koala chasing an ATV while the driver was freaking out. She couldn’t get away from it. All it did when she was eventually stopped by a herd of some sort of llama-like beasts was climb on up and hug one of her tires)
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First…no, wait. Second. Yes, we have a coffee shop in our public library. Not in the library section itself, but in the same building as the library. And yes, you can bring your coffee and muffin into the library.
Now, first. These fuckwits think the Presidential Records Act is somehow related because Trump TELLS them it’s related. If he told them he could legally keep TS/SCIF files on his desk because the NCAA rules for Field Hockey permitted it, they’d believe him.
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Crud. You’re right.
They probably thought that trump drawing on a weather map with a Sharpie™️ actually changed the forecast.
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The coffee thing is nice, though. I remember when Starbucks was younger and everyone told me that it was really good coffee but it tasted burnt to me. It started tasting better but I’m not really sure if the coffee changed or the repetition of “this is really good, have a drink” changed me. I’d rather drink Peet’s now, so it’s moot.
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The coffee thing is nice, though.
There’s a coffee shop in the same building as the library, there’s a Starbucks around the corner, and cross the street on the other side is an indy coffee shop that (last time I visited) catered mostly to Midwest pagans (but had no wifi).
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Buffalo & Erie County Library, the main branch on Lafayette Square in downtown Buffalo, has a coffee shop on the first floor. As soon as you walk in the doors, you smell the coffee.
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Seriously, is there anything better than coffee and books?
Well, okay, almost anything and books is pretty damned good, isn’t it. Chocolate, wine, foot rubs, cats, a warm bath, Trump in prison.
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