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RandySF

(59,167 posts)
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 10:57 AM Feb 2017

New York Post picks up on Gorshund 'Fascism Forever' story.

Judge Neil Gorsuch, President Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court, founded and led a student group called Fascism Forever Club while in an elite high school, according to a report.

The 49-year-old conservative Republican tapped to succeed the late Antonin Scalia launched the right-wing club as a freshman at the Jesuit all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School near Washington, DC, the Daily Mail reported.

He served as president of the group until he graduated in 1985, according to his yearbook, the paper reported.

“In political circles, our tireless President Gorsuch’s ‘Fascism Forever Club’ happily jerked its knees against the increasingly ‘left-wing’ tendencies of the faculty,” said the yearbook.

Gorsuch — the youngest Supreme Court nominee since 43-year-old Clarence Thomas in 1991 — is seen in a yearbook photo reading William F. Buckley’s 1959 conservative tome “Up from Liberalism.”


http://nypost.com/2017/02/02/neil-gorsuch-started-fascism-forever-club-in-high-school/

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New York Post picks up on Gorshund 'Fascism Forever' story. (Original Post) RandySF Feb 2017 OP
and that's a funny prank because greenman3610 Feb 2017 #1
I get confused about the making America great again thing. wildeyed Feb 2017 #2
I know NewJeffCT Feb 2017 #3
They want their fascist Russian daddy to come make it all better, I guess. wildeyed Feb 2017 #4
wasn't there a study several years back NewJeffCT Feb 2017 #6
That's why it is always GOP politicians who get caught with their diapers down wildeyed Feb 2017 #7
they act tough for their base NewJeffCT Feb 2017 #8
So what could go wrong then? BSdetect Feb 2017 #5
Snopes is saying this is false William Seger Feb 2017 #9
It is true that he wrote that in his yearbook. So joking about fascism pnwmom Feb 2017 #10

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
2. I get confused about the making America great again thing.
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 11:30 AM
Feb 2017

Trump seems to like Russia and fascists best, not America.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
4. They want their fascist Russian daddy to come make it all better, I guess.
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 11:35 AM
Feb 2017

They should read up on the history of fascism and Russian daddies to see if that is REALLY the direction they want to take.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
6. wasn't there a study several years back
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 11:48 AM
Feb 2017

Conservatives are attracted to the "stern father" types, while liberals tend to be attracted to the more nurturing types?

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
7. That's why it is always GOP politicians who get caught with their diapers down
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 12:33 PM
Feb 2017

when it comes to sex scandals. They seem to like humiliation more than Democrats.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
8. they act tough for their base
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 02:10 PM
Feb 2017

but, deep down, they have an unnatural attraction to strong, kinky women that evokes strong self loathing.

pnwmom

(108,990 posts)
10. It is true that he wrote that in his yearbook. So joking about fascism
Fri Feb 3, 2017, 03:55 AM
Feb 2017

was apparently his idea of being funny.

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