• @[email protected]
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      Honestly, they might. A lone wolf might attempt it, but it will be worse if Trump wins.

      If Trump wins the presidency, he will kill or jail anyone he doesn’t like. The Republicans plan to take control of the federal government without congressional support, and Trump openly tells us his intentions. Even if Romney didn’t say this, Trump would still target him, so of course he would vote against him.

      It’s not a joke. Trump became more dangerous and more driven to become a dictator by losing in 2020. He was always going to try to overturn the constitution to become president for life by 2024, but now there are no neoliberal conservatives to hold him back. It’s total fascism time for Republicans.

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        Isn’t it amazing there are so many “lone” wolves in the GOP? Almost like their very actions create them.

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          It’s legal plausible deniability. They tell the lone wolves what to do with coded language on social media, but don’t directly communicate with individual terrorists.

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    (To the tune of ‘The Eensy Weensy Spider’)

    The melty little snowflakes went off the rails again,

    “Why won’t fuckin’ Romney stay on the Trumpie Train?”

    A zombie’d surely starve there, tryin’ to find a brain,

    As the melty little snowflakes go off the rails again.

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    Sounds like some people need to learn to lift themselves up by their own MAGAstraps

    • jayrhacker
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      “Your Boos Mean Nothing, I’ve Seen What Makes You Cheer”

    • @[email protected]
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      That’s because black people could get the same healthcare as them or read about their mistreatment in the past. Can’t have that.

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        If things aren’t bad, then the religion they tend to have in common is false, because it promises a depraved and lawless world that needs their religion in order to survive.

        Can’t even begin to countenance that people are happy and altruistic in spite of their religion.

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          It’s especially hilarious when you see how antithetical it is to their holy book. Chronically angry and infuriated is not how I would describe the depiction of Jesus. When he did get angry, it was against people being hypocrites or selling things in the temple or mistreating the poor & foreigners.

          They’ve created a religion that is antithetical to their holy book, and they’re told to rage against the very things their figurehead would support. It’s no wonder evangelicals want kids to be illiterate.

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    In Mitt Romney’s defence, if I had to choose between four more years of Joe Biden and Donald Trump potentially forming the Fourth Reich, I’d choose Sleepy Joe any day of the week.

    I don’t like Biden but he needs our energy. The opposition is so much worse.

    Almost like Romney is one of the few Republicans with some actual fucking integrity.

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      It’s kind of funny how McCain and Romney were/are the voice of reason in the GOP. We didn’t know how good we had it. Or rather how much worse it could get.

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        I remember being mad at him for the 48% comment. Good times.

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        We took for granted basic decency and respect, and didn’t think Republicans would just toss them out completely.

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        He was a kind person with conservative values, the type of person the asshole conservatives would hide behind to conceal their real goals. When the open racists and sexists became less popular, they needed to present themselves as reasonable individuals that just value traditional American values. In many ways they did, but McCain, like George HW Bush, still had some liberal values. They believed in winning democratically, unregulated capitalism, and the liberal world order.

        While these more principled conservatives wanted to make a weak liberal democracy, they still wanted liberal democracy. They still wanted consent of the governed, but they also wanted a socially darwinian society. They believed in human rights, but only the negative ones. They didn’t think people had a duty to help up their fellow humans, only a duty to not let others push them down directly. For them, small government and neoliberalism was their goal, but they had a naive view of what other conservatives wanted.

        Trump era fascists are conservatives who don’t care about any liberal values whatsoever. They want free markets, but only when it benefits them. They will allow democracy when it helps them win, but abandon it when they lose. They don’t want a liberal world order, partially because they don’t grasp how well it benefits the wealthy, but also because the rules of the world order limit their preferred methods of unprovoked violence and hard imperialism. Trump will invade any country if he can benefit from it, only avoiding countries that also have fascist aligned leaders, and not wanting to directly fight countries that can fight back.

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        McCain was usually pretty classy. I disagreed with him on many, many issues, but always respected him.

        This is some classy shit. Man was willing to be booed at his own rallies to defend decency.

        I think he also would have been a good President overall - much better than any Republican in my lifetime. 2008 was my favorite election ever because both parties put their best candidate forward and they ran a campaign centered on respect (Palin’s antics notwithstanding).

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          Sure, he was all class, all of the time! What a funny guy, not at all an absolute psycho who shouldn’t have been anywhere close to power.

          He was a war mongering cunt, and he can rest in piss.

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            Obama went nuts with drone assassinations. FDR set up detention camps for American citizens. Washington owned slaves. Churchill helped set up a Zionist state leading to much of our current woes. Bernie supported the NRA until he ran for President. Clinton signed DADT.

            They all did way worse things than sing a stupid song to make the crowd chuckle.

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      Romney is no saint. Just because he is being pragmatic now doesn’t make me trust him.

      I can say the same for Joe Biden though. I don’t like his history or his politics but a vote not for him is a vote for Trump next November.

      I hate this fucking reality.

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    they always say stuff like this once they’re out, since they aren’t playing the game of willfully obtuse anymore.

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      Sure. When a cop murders an unarmed black person. In the immediate aftermath of a school shooting. Any time a lgbtqia+ person commits suicide. Imagining an 11 year old being forced to carry a rapist’s offspring to term. Burning books. Any time they see a confederate flag. Most time spent watching Jeff Dunham.

      • Phoenixz
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        Is Jeff Dunham somehow a favorite for conservatives?

        • @[email protected]
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          Achmed the dead terrorist and jose jalapeño are GREAT bits for crowds that hate specific demographics. You do the puppet math.

    • partial_accumen
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      MAGA usually seem pretty happy when they are limiting or taking away the rights of women, people of color, or people that love someone besides the their opposite sex. Another time they are happy is when they are instilling their christian religious beliefs in law while at the same time repressing non-christian beliefs.

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    MAGA furious in much the same way my 1 year old neice was furious that I wouldn’t let her drink paint last weekend.

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    Can we talk about the weird painting/photo of Mitt and his seven kids?