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      I love that his biggest criticism of Biden was that he doesn’t fire anyone. Firing someone means you failed to pick the right candidate. Biden didn’t fire anyone because he made good choices. Trump always has to fire people because he has no judgement of character. He just goes with whoever compliments him in that moment.

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        as a non american in America I’ve come to find that’s an American egregore: that firing people means you’re a good leader.

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    I was hoping the Never Trumpers, those scorned by Trump, and the Democrats could come together and say “We can’t let Trump or anyone like him happen again.”

    But that would have made sense…

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    What’s also crazy is that there are people lining up saying “Surely that won’t also happen to me.”

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      actually the people coming back know that he demands loyalty. they might have to sell part of their soul to be loyal, but they know that up front and are committed to doing it.

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    It’s crazy that most of the country looked at that and said either “I want that” or “That’s fine, I don’t care”.

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      A large chunk of the population gets their info from Fox News and News Max etc. Many of my extended family unfortunately. They think that is reliable information and can’t be convinced otherwise. When I try to bring up facts they give me this look like I’m the crazy one spreading the lies. It’s a really sad state of affairs, they are genuinely good people otherwise. I think there are too many assumptions that people just wanted what we’re about to get.

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      They didn’t look at that. This is the frustrating truth we have to come to terms with. People are fucking oblivious. They vote for a single issue at most, and don’t understand what they signed up for.

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        It’s almost like someone has been systematically dismantling your education system for 50 or so years so they could reach this point.

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        Yeah, oblivious sums it up. Despite all the stuff that’s happened, and all the information and video evidence that’s readily available to anybody who cares enough to look at it, their team is their team. If you fancy yourself a smart responsible Christian, especially a white one, your ignorant ass is just a Republican.

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          The amount of people who are horrified now that they’ve had tariffs explained to them is… depressingly high.

          They didn’t wanna look up what a tarrif was before voting for Mr. Tariffs?

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            They just thought that was the magic word he was going to use to set gasoline prices back to what they were in 2016!

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        This may sound controversial and no I don’t have a way to implement it, but we should probably have a means to screen the knowledge of voters over the things they’re voting on before they can access a ballot box.

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          Consider that the MAGAs would be in charge of administering and scoring such a test and you’ll immediately see why that’s a bad idea.

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    Stephen fucking Miller is tapped to return. The administration is shaping up to be more detestable than I could imagine. I’m waiting to see where the bottom goes from Betsy DeVoes as secretary of edu

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      You know how there is that meme of “Epstein didn’t kill himself?”

      I’m 99% sure Trump had a hand in it due to him being held in a federal prison and having plenty of dirt on him.

      And the other was Pence on Jan. 6th when refusing to get into the secret service car until the results were certified.

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          The reason I can’t forget that is because there were three reasons he didn’t get in the car.

          1. He took his position seriously and would certify the vote.
          2. One of his secret service personnel told him directly “Do not get in that car, Mr. Vice President.”
          3. The secret service that showed up with the car wasn’t Pence’s detail, it was Trump’s.
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      No so much directly as encouraged his supporters to.

      Rhymes with “bang my fence”