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newmanian's avatar

Can we put to rest any question, any argument that we currently have the least competent, least intelligent President and Vice President combination in the history of our country? This is not even close. And we're well past just mumbling to your friends, "It's an embarrassment.". Well...yes, of course it is. The entire world just cringes, shakes it's collective head, and walks away muttering to itself about the once great USA and the understanding that there is no world leader at the moment. And don't kid yourself. We're in a country where we cannot even say out loud what a woman is. Do you think the world, at large, is looking to us for leadership? Please.

For all of you who think Trump was the worst thing to ever happen to America, I ask you to check your premises at the door and research your cost of living in December of 2019, our energy production and exporting back then, the number of Arab states standing in line to sign onto the Abraham Accords, the percentages of Black and Hispanics in the workforce, hell...the size of the US workforce, inflation numbers, and on and on. Now, look around you today. Look at the crime in your cities. Look at what you are spoonfed from the media to keep you believing that you are better off than you would have been if...

Honestly, if there isn't a tsunami in November, I'd say we're finished as a nation. It would tell me that more people care about Lizzie (whatever that is) playing a crystal flute they do their own lives.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

Unfortunately, in the minds of far too many on the Left, nationwide fiat abortion outweighs ALL of that. And in the minds of many others, the idea of voting Red is simply anathema.

It's a near-religious belief--reinforced daily by the media--that all Republicans are fascists who want to enslave all women and force them (by rape) to have babies. An astonishing number of people on the Left genuinely believe that Gilead (from Handmaid's Tale) is what all conservatives genuinely what the U.S. to be.

Nothing is capable of changing their minds.

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Just an observer's avatar

OMG. My coworker literally said, when Biden became president, that we were so close to becoming Gilead, and Biden saved us from it. But she and many others like her do not realize that we have become Gilead in so many other ways.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

People who genuinely think that there is any risk of us becoming some kind of Far-Right dystopia are either idiots or they are not paying any attention to the real world around them. Even if Republicans WANTED that (which they don't), with the Left in control of Academia, the Media, Law, Medicine, and (increasingly) the Military brass, how do they think Republicans would manage it? Magic?

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Just an observer's avatar

Celia, everybody comrades on the left fear or dislike is far-right now. It replaced previous labels of white suprematists, racists, a threat to democracy and fascists. They will run out of labels one day and will have to recycle them. My point is that they have already created the dystopia they claim to fear from far-right: we have hypocrisy; censorship; families and members of communities are encourage to spy and report on each other; and labels they use to define people and movements are the opposite of what they are. We don’t have bodies hanging for the public observation as in Handmaid’s Tale, but we do have people hounded and ostracized for not conforming to the message of the ruling party who lost jobs and have books and performances cancelled. Those who steal and throw Molotov cocktails are not criminals but those who walked into Capitol and took pics are kept in solitary confinement for over a year followed by prison sentences. No doubt these people were idiots and what they did was unlawful. The law enforcement authorities should have told them they are morons, but was it a high crime that merits a prison sentence if they were not violent and did not harm anyone? All I am saying is : welcome to Gilead.

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Anthony's avatar

Getting women to hate American men is the whole purpose of propaganda alike The Handmaiden's Tale.

But look at The Boys or Celestials and you'll find a pervasive narrative now of "the BIPOC heroes vs the evil white man (who is insanely powerful)

It's racist hate mongering, and they know it full well.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

Then the only remedy is a one-way ticket to a mental institution.

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Leslie's avatar

Yes, and especially not the Gilead called Iran.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

That is entirely too rational to receive widespread acceptance.

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Anthony's avatar

NO THR EMPEROR'S CLOTHES ARE GORGEOUS

THEY AS SO SO BEAUTIFUL

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Bruce Miller's avatar

And who installed these imbeciles?

The progressive Democrat Party.

What else do you need to know?

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Jeff Cunningham's avatar

They were installed by our voters. The party is their manifestation.

It's like watching a slow-motion train wreck.

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Forheremenaremen's avatar

C'mon man, Newmanian.

These facts you cite are wayyyy too logical.

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NCMaureen's avatar

Oh, but his tweets! 🙄

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BradK (Afuera!)'s avatar

Trump tweeted that Rosie O'Donnell is fat, which she is. The media screeched it's tiny heads off.

Joe Biden tweeted that Kyle Rittenhouse was a White Supremacist, which he is clearly not. The media cheered.

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BigT's avatar

The tweets that saved hundreds of Latino lives by keeping them from being swindled by coyotes or dying in the desert? Those tweets?

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NCMaureen's avatar

Big T, c’mon now, it’s Latinx.

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

Evidently, Salon has decided that the fact that Latinx is mainly being used by White Leftists and is rejected by actual Latinos means that a new neologism needs to be imposed in its place: Latine.

At least it has the ability to be pronounced.

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milllionthmonkeytyping's avatar

Latine looks too much like latrine. Typical of the wordsmiths on the left. They follow one fail with another. You’d think they’d stop trying.

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Larz's avatar

Now it's Latin-eh. (I wish I was joking)

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milllionthmonkeytyping's avatar

Latin-eh? Latino-Canadian?

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MEbner's avatar

Lol, to paraphrase from The McKenzie Brothers, “Take off you Jose’s”.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

Latinx was not adopted, so now there is some discussion about "Latine" which is non-gendered

Think of the children!

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