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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Personally, I'd say let there be a Donald Trump Library, just don't draw any attention to it.
Leviticus 19:34TBH, the Rittenhouse sitch seems too damn fishy for me in every aspect.
Mean, you've got him, and then you've got the three guys who DID attack him (it's on camera from at least ten different Cellphones that they initiated), who all happened to have rap sheets for violent crimes, and three of the four were from out of State.
All of them just happening to be there that night is a bit too much of a Contrived Coincidence for me. Mean, hell, given Trump trying to get the Army deployed there BEFORE that happened makes me think the Trump Campaign actually planted some guys into the protest to try and make it turn violent. Not like it'd be the first time something like that happened, if anyone recalls the simultaneous riots in Vancouver and Boston when Boston won the Stanley Cup nearly a decade ago. There were inciters waiting to start shit regardless of who won.
I mean, I know I sound like a Conspiracy Theorist, but that night playing out like it did is WAY too convenient.
Edited by Pendrake on Nov 21st 2020 at 11:50:04 AM
Semper Fi. Semper Paratus. Vigilo Confido.Disturbing that this sounds like something he and his administration would actually do.
Edited by AngrokVa on Nov 21st 2020 at 2:55:28 PM
The electoral college wasn't foisted on the country by some outside influence.
This is a very poor argument, even if 100% of early Americans supported it that doesn't make the contemporary Americans responsible.
And the Electoral College didn't force tens of millions of voters to support Trump. Or cause non suppressed voters to stay home in 2016.
Good thing absolutely no one has argued otherwise.
They claimed that "America" chose Trump when in reality more people opposed him then supported him. Ergo their claim was false.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI think the generalization is less about broadly painting a majority of America as Trump supporters and more meant to highlight how the pillars the country is founded on, i.e. America as an identity, are ultimately the things that enabled someone like Trump to take office with the wholehearted, blind, and unflinchingly loyal support of a little under half the country.
Best analogy I can think of is that, if someone were to say "Wal-Mart sucks and deserves to plummet" that'd be referring to the corporate entity and not the elderly cashier that didn't really have a choice.
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Edited by NesClassic on Nov 21st 2020 at 12:01:27 PM
🏳️⚧️she/her | Vio Rhyse Alberia"Regardless they're not giving up and plan to reach out to voters in different ways (e.g. meeting those who voted for the new state flag and medical marijuana)."
I want to come back to this. First off, Godspeed to the Mississippi Democrats. Secondly, I was listening to Abrams in an interview earlier and she talked about how her efforts began back in 2011. Her and the works of others as well began almost a decade ago. That's the kind of effort and long term outreach people need to keep in mind if any of us join Mississippi Democrats in trying to turn out red areas blue.
I think it’s more that people canshave have political views and wishes that draw from both sides of the political spectrum. If a person has views that draw them to the Republicans or to Trump (social conservatism, or a general value for brashness and Type A personalities) and other values that draw them towards the Democrats (availability of health care and higher education, not wanting to be killed by police), but the Democrats aren’t actually offering them anything meaningful on their leftward values, then they might go for the Republicans because they’re offering something that aligns with the rightward values.
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No, I'm saying it's easier to swing people to your side if you give them things that help them. In terms of the blacks who went for Trump...I'm going to take a wild probably wrong guess and say they're Boomerang Bigots.
Edited by ScubaWolf on Nov 21st 2020 at 4:06:01 AM
"In a move surprising absolutely no one"https://www.newsweek.com/georgia-trump-supporters-destroy-gop-boycott-senate-runoffs-1549245
Trump supporters organizing boycott of Georgia Senate runoff.
Willy Wonka voice: No, please, don't. Stop.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.Democrats encourage Biden to use E Os aggressively and funding power to bypass Mc Connell.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.It would be deeply amusing if Trump's rhetoric against the election cost them the Senate. And it's not like it would be unprecedented, Trump's anti-ballot rhetoric played a major role in him losing Georgia after all.
I'm not betting on it definitely screwing the Republicans over but there is a very real possibility.
Edited by Fourthspartan56 on Nov 21st 2020 at 1:46:22 AM
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangI imagine it will cost them some fanatics. But there's many who weren't voting Republican but Trump anyway.
IIRC a supermajority of Republicans accept the voter fraud narrative, it could cost them more than a few fanatics.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang

> America deserves a Donald Trump presidential library as a reminder of what they allowed to happen.
My proposal is a replica of the White house but it's purposefully run down and there's a giant stone hand point towards it,that would get the point across I think
A literal spite house basically
Edited by Ultimatum on Nov 21st 2020 at 7:30:01 PM
have a listen and have a link to my discord server