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Seriously, dood, stop pretending that the Dems have our interests at heart.
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ineffectual, maladjusted crazy people with endless personal problems

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Seriously, dood, stop pretending that the Dems have our interests at heart.


SECOND: The Democrats look after my interests

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And if you're as rich as you insinuate that you are, and a Big Businessman like, you say, that proves my point, doesn't it.?

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SECOND: But what about your interests, Signym? The Democrats will not look after yours because you are crazy.

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They won't look after my interests bc I'm a hard-working American patriot and most of them... not!

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SECOND: TRUMP! blah blah blah... TRUMPTARDS! ... blah blah blah

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"It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." - Henry Kissinger

Loving America is like loving an addicted spouse - SIGNYM

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And if you're as rich as you insinuate that you are, and a Big Businessman like, you say, that proves my point, doesn't it.?


They won't look after my interests bc I'm a hard-working American patriot and most of them... not!

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Blah..blah...blah..

Yanno, name calling isn't going to distract from the fact that the DNC is entirely corrupt.

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When given examples of ACTUAL DNC corruption, at the individual, institutional, and policy level, you predictably try to turn the discussion to TRUMP! and TRUMPTARDS! or RUSSIA!
We're not as stupid as you are!

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When given examples of ACTUAL DNC corruption, at the individual, institutional, and policy level, you predictably try to turn the discussion to TRUMP! and TRUMPTARDS! or RUSSIA!
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You think I care about this trivia that you think is important? Hunter Biden is a crook and therefore the Democrats are crooks? I don't care. Hunter got off easy and therefore the Democrats are at fault? I don't care. All that proves is that the court system is underfunded and slow because the GOP wants it that way, forcing prosecutors to make deals rather than go to trial. It doesn't mean Democrats are bad. The IRS doesn't collect a trillion per year in taxes, but I don't blame the Democrats because it is Republicans who are under-funding the IRS. The emissions of CO2 are growing constantly, but I don't blame the Democrats because it is Republicans who want cheap gasoline, and more coal mining, and "Climate Change is a Chinese Hoax" is a strongly held Republican belief of Texas Trumptards.

Signym, you have a case of whataboutism when writing about Democratic politicians, but all Trumptards have that condition to varying degrees. I will try to simplify this for you, one more time: Every Trump defender I know, every GOP voter I know, I knew them to be unreliable and crooked long before Trump came along. Sadly, some Democrats are the same, but not all of them. I am Democrat because the people who vote for Republicans or defend Trump are all crooks in my experience. I don't know every Republican and every Trump supporter, but I know a large enough sample to decide that the entire GOP is a bunch of extremely defective people.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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"We Shouldn't Have Done It": Facebook Exec Admitted They Censored For Biden Regime

Update (1440ET): A leaked Facebook email from 2021 written by Nick Clegg, the company's president of Global Affairs, to colleagues, reads: "We were under pressure from the administration and others to do more," adding "We shouldn't have done it."
As Matt Taibbi of Racket News writes:
In yesterday’s Facebook Files release, it came out that Facebook, in its desperation to cool down these White House apes, promised to reduce traffic to Carlson’s video by 50% while it was “in the queue to be fact-checked”!

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Hunter Biden didn't order that!


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Clearly you think very highly of yourself, but for no reason. How is that working out, loser?

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Just fine, thanks!

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Just fine, thanks!

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You are not fine.

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Yeah. I'm good.

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You are diabetic,

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Me and 38 Million other Americans.

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toothless,

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My paid in cash dentures say otherwise.

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unwed,

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Now you're just joking. I'm the envy of all my friends.

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unemployed

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Retired since 32 years old.

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but a full-time Trumptard.

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Trump is awesome. Trump will be fine. Trump will be your next President.


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Authoritarians would have you think that they can do certain things better than their counterparts who have to deal with checks, balances, and public opinion.

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Trump is awesome. Trump will be fine. Trump will be your next President.

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The question of why Donald Trump manages to maintain such a grip on the Republican base, to the point where he can remain a nationally viable candidate despite all of his misdeeds and legal woes, is one of the most important issues in American politics. It’s a subject that has been explored extensively, with the best evidence converging on the same general story: Trump is the avatar of a kind of resentful reactionary politics, one uncomfortable with a changing America, that defines the worldview of a plurality (if not a majority) of the GOP faithful.

But this answer offers few easy solutions and makes some people uncomfortable, as it feels a bit too much like a judgment of Trump supporters. So we get efforts to reject the evidence, often relying on long-debunked alternative arguments.

The best evidence typically points toward identity-based explanations: Racial and cultural conflicts are far, far more important than the kind of economic alienation Brooks wants to highlight. This is true not only in the United States but in other countries facing similar challenges from far-right populist movements.

The overwhelming evidence for a cultural explanation

This story starts with the late 20th-century revolution in social values: the end of segregation, mass nonwhite immigration, feminist challenges to patriarchy, a decline in traditional Christianity, and the rise of the LGBTQ movement. This revolution has transformed America at fundamental levels: the kinds of people who hold positions of power, the ideas that command cultural respect, and even the kinds of food Americans eat and languages they speak in public.

For millions of Americans, these changes made them feel unmoored from their country— “strangers in their own land,” as the sociologist Arlie Hochschild put it. Whether because of pure bigotry or a more diffuse sense of cultural alienation from the mainstream, a large number of Americans came to believe that they are losing America. For historical reasons owing largely to the legacy of the civil rights movement, these voters became concentrated in the Republican party — forming at least a plurality of its primary electorate. The election of Barack Obama, a self-described “Black man with a funny name,” pushed their sense of social alienation to the breaking point.

This cultural anxiety created room for Trump, who rode this group’s collective resentments to control of the Republican party. We know this, primarily, because social scientists have been testing the theory since 2016 — and comparing it with Brooks’s preferred explanations rooted in resentment at a rigged economic game. Again and again, the cultural theory has won out.

For example, in 2018, a trio of scholars used survey data to compare explanations of Trump support based on racism, sexism, and a sense of economic alienation. The former two are far more powerful predictors than the latter, almost entirely explaining Trump’s surge in support among white non-college voters.

A 2018 paper by Alan Abramowitz and Jennifer McCoy, two leading political scientists, found: “After party identification, racial/ethnic resentment was by far the strongest predictor of relative ratings of Trump and Clinton — the higher the score on the racial/ethnic resentment scale, the more favorably white voters rated Trump relative to Clinton,” they write. “The impact of the racial/ethnic resentment scale was much stronger than that of any of the economic variables included in the analysis, including opinions about free trade deals and economic mobility.”

There are dozens of other papers, reports, and even entire books coming to similar conclusions.

More at https://www.vox.com/2023/8/4/23818817/trump-support-david-brooks-econo
mic-anxiety

The conclusion: "the reality is that our deep political divide is rooted, first and foremost, in profound and largely irreconcilable views of who America is for and what its social hierarchy should look like."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Bullshit pseudo-science reported on by laughably agenda driven Vox.

They will all be out of jobs soon.

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There was a time when the two major political parties in America could exhibit bipartisanship by moving across the aisle to compromise on the issues on which they were legislating. Tried and true Republicans who favored small government, lower taxes, and national security could find a middle ground with Democrats who pushed for things like universal healthcare, higher minimum wages, and progressive tax reform. The abortion issue in America has been an area of debate between the parties as they debated elements like when life begins, is a heartbeat a heartbeat, and what to do about post-birth abortions (which is murder and not actually a thing). There were largely two sides of the issue and some areas for compromise.

This is no longer possible in today’s sociopolitical climate.

Cult thinking includes ardent adherence to group thinking such as – clinically speaking, in the face of distorted thinking we ask about one’s strength of conviction by querying, ”Can you think of other ways of seeing this?” Sadly, what we are seeing publicly is ‘No’ from those who still subscribe to Trumpism/MAGA.

Here are a few examples in today’s socio-political environment in which cultism has contributed to a lack of middle ground.

There is no middle ground on treasonous, conspiratorial, fraudulent behavior – these are crimes and, arguably, the worst crimes one could commit against their own country.

There is no middle ground on slavery.

There is no middle ground on allowing Americans to die through inaction in response to natural disasters and global health crises.

There is no middle ground on gunning down school children or wearing an AR-15 rifle pin and throwing away a pin to remember a Uvalde victim.

There is no middle ground on jeopardizing national security and retaining and sharing classified documents.

There is no middle ground on breaking campaign finance (i.e., hush money schemes) laws.

There should be no middle ground on tolerance of crime, period.

And so many know this. Tim Scott, Jim Jordan, and Marco Rubio (the last two having gone to law school), all know this and are smarter than they are acting – which takes us back to cult dynamics – if you are a dyed-in-the-wool cultist or pretending to be a cultist – but the outcome is the same – harm to the Country and its people – there is no difference. Whether you actually have a personality disorder or are pretending to be a sociopathically or psychopathically disordered person – if the result is the same – harm to your constituents and your country – what’s the difference? As noted in the opening paragraphs, there is a voluntary submission to cultism – Rubio, for example, identified all of the reasons why the 45th President was not qualified when he himself was running for President in 2016. However, perhaps due to his own intolerance of uncertainties in his life, volunteered for Trumpism.

More at https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/a-neuroscientist-warns-we-re-wa
tching-the-largest-and-most-dangerous-cult-in-american-history/ar-AA1eP9mH

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Oh, get fucked.

It's easy to talk about other people being in a cult when you don't recognize that you're in one yourself.



I don't sit here quoting Donald Trump all day. YOU DO.

I don't follow anything the man is doing. I'm not on his social media. YOU ARE.

2.5 years of Joe Biden* and all you fucking do all day, every day is eat, breath and sleep Trump.

YOU ARE THE CULTIST.

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That's a sad little world you live in, boy.

Too bad for you it's coming to an end.

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That's a sad little world you live in, boy.

Too bad for you it's coming to an end.

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That's a sad little world you live in, boy.

Too bad for you it's coming to an end.

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The first step is to officially recognize that Donald Trump is a leading driver of domestic extremism.

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The first step is to officially recognize that Donald Trump is a leading driver of domestic extremism.

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Says the guy who just called for the "end" of 80+ Million Americans.

Good luck with that buddy. We've got all the testosterone and all the guns.

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The Rise and Fall of Americas middle class - Origin USA

https://communities.win/c/TheDonald/p/17r9De1J5O/the-rise-and-fall-of-
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Oh, get fucked, second.

That high horse you think you're riding on isn't nothing but a pile of glue after the constant beatings you've given it after you killed it.

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Oh, get fucked, second.

That high horse you think you're riding on isn't nothing but a pile of glue after the constant beatings you've given it after you killed it.

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You are out of work like the uncomprehending Trumptards I know in Texas who can't adapt to different jobs. They would rather die than change their minds or use a new skill:

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I don't have to work. I'm retired.

I'm learning new skills a the time.

Have fun today at work, honey.



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I don't have to work. I'm retired.

I'm learning new skills a the time.

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I don't have to work. I'm retired.

I'm learning new skills a the time.

Have fun today at work, honey.

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"Obesity, diabetes and physical inactivity all followed the same general regional pattern, with the bad outcomes concentrated in the" areas where Trump is strong.

6ix, that's from the article you won't read. You hit all three. Maybe not simultaneously but you have been or are or will be obese, diabetic and physically inactive. There is a moral behind it all: "Obesity, diabetes and physical inactivity" shorten your life to the level of impoverished third world countries.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/09/01/america-life-expecta
ncy-regions-00113369

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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There's more diabetes and obesity by people who vote Democrat in major US shithole cities run by Democrats than the rest of the world.

Get fucked, idiot.

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