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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Beautifully done, Stephen.

I wonder if workhouses and debtors’ prisons will once again become fashionable?

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SethTriggs's avatar

It's too depressing to think that hell, we're back to the Gilded Age where Scrooges were all the rage.

Also let's remind ourselves; Rep. Gill is able to do this because of Murc's Law. As a newly minted, proud member of the unreconstructed party, he knows that because of that winning party ethos, violent excision of the 'undesirables' is the way to go. Only lefty outfits will call him out for this; performative cruelty is the law of the land.

Just as an instructive example, compare when Maxine Waters once said that people need to get in Republicans' faces.

We're getting in a very awful direction. And Murc's Law makes this okay.

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