A Republican in Arkansas who wrote that slavery was a “blessing in disguise” compared Democrats to Nazis on Thursday. “Does all of this political propaganda being put out by Gov. Mike Beebe, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel and others remind you, even a little bit, of how Hitler took control of…
I’m beginning to suspect the Republican Party exists mainly to cause rational people to say, “The fuck?!” at least once a day. In order to accomplish this mission, they are filling the state houses across the country with dudes whose sole purpose in life appears to be seeing how low…
A Republican member of the Arkansas state senate’s self-published memoir claims that for black people in America, slavery was a “blessing in disguise,” that, if they were physically hardy enough to survive it, “someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.”…
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