• WhatDoYouMeanPodcast [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    In true Democrat fashion, the actual policy was hard to come by and not particularly useful.

    “For a lot of my colleagues, the argument has been, ‘well, we don’t support defund the police or open borders, and we don’t say we do,’” Frank said. “But my point is, no, it’s not enough … to be silent. We have to explicitly repudiate it.”

    Its tiresome

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    At 86, I’ve made it longer than I thought,” Frank said. “At some point, my heart’s just going to give out, and it’s reaching that stage.

    I guess the saying is false. You actually don’t have a heart if you’re not a socialist at 80.

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    I’m thinking of the battle of Agincourt? Was it Crecy? One of those battles from the Hundred Years War where the longbow earned its reputation and a lot of French knights died.

    Anyways, one of those guys was some old prince who was blind so two knights tied their horses to his horse (you’re not wrong for wondering how this worked: it didn’t) and the three all died together. Legend has it they found the dead horses still lashed together. Imagine that fucking luck. Those poor horses.

    That blind guy making some lackeys die so he can charge out one last time? That’s this guy. Prince Barney of Frankhemia. The guys dying with him? I dunno. Liberal Zionists in this case? I’m not a hundred on that part of the metaphor yet. But I’m pretty sure the Democratic Party is the horses.

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    flippant mention of self harm

    Hey Barney, you should kill yourself. You are old and infirm, you are capable of nothing but vitriol. Barney Frank should kill himself. An old and Alzheimer’s riddled Michael Parenti had far more to contribute to the world than this demon. He should just kill himself.

  • I don’t like to look-shame, but I have seen month old, mouldy dog turds with more color than this ambulatory corpse.

    He looks like one of the Nazis who opened the Arc of the Covenant at the end of Raiders.

    I haven’t thought of this talking cadaver in 10 years, but I had a positive impression (leftover from my Bush-Era radlib days). If he hadn’t opened his mouth, when he died, I would have remembered that early 2000s opposition to Bush and probably thought it was a shame that he passed away. But no. That isn’t good enough. He can’t just let those upstart 60-70 year olds run the country without the benefit of his experience.

    He saw what little legacy he still had, and he decided to slowly pull down his pants, call for the nurse, eat 3 lb of miralax, and take a feeble s*** on whatever was left of his reputation.

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      “When I decided, finally, to come out in ’87, it just struck me when I did that … the American people are a lot less homophobic than they thought they were supposed to be,” he said. “More racist, unfortunately, but less homophobic.”

      Okay mister Frank what the fuck is the “correct amount” of homophobia and racism. What a fucking insane thing to say.