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South Dakota State AG hit a ‘two-legged deer’ and doesn’t think he committed a crime by leaving the scene.
Check out this article from Argus Leader:
Attorney general Jason Ravnsborg: 'I believe I have not committed any crime'
https://www.argusleader.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/16/jason-ravnsborg-south-dakota-attorney-general-joe-boever/3925505001/ | 1State Anger
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Washington had the [first reported case of COVID-19](https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/case-of-wuhan-coronavirus-detected-in-washington-state-first-in-united-states/) in the United States. Sorry guys! | 1State Anger
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Arizona now has 2 Democrat Senators. We firmly rejected the crazies like Joe Arpaio and Kelli Ward. We also passed a new tax on people making 200k or more to fund education. | 0Trait Anger
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Iowa was hit by a land hurricane, causing billions of dollars in damage and our governor and senators didn’t even do the bare minimum to address it. | 1State Anger
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[New Jersey joined 13 other states in legalizing recreational marijuana...except, they haven’t.](https://www.app.com/story/news/local/new-jersey/marijuana/2021/01/01/new-jersey-marijuana-legalization-legal-weed-vote-results-phil-murphy/4079150001/)
True to form in NJ, squabbling has stalled out any actual changes in the legislature. This leads to a peculiar situation where NJ citizens could be arrested for a constitutionally protected activity. | 1State Anger
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In Utah, protestors flipped over a police cruiser, shit on it, then a Trump supporter brandished a bow and arrow in "self defense" when he taunted protestors.
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[https://www.ksl.com/article/46761155/man-seen-brandishing-bow-and-arrow-at-salt-lake-city-protest-arrested-charged-with-aggravated-assault](https://www.ksl.com/article/46761155/man-seen-brandishing-bow-and-arrow-at-salt-lake-city-protest-arrested-charged-with-aggravated-assault) | 2Anger Expression
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Multi-month protests started because of the death of George Floyd in Minnesota and then turned into...something else that many Oregonians aren't certain about any more. These protests involved multiple cities and thousands of people, but the largest and best known were in Portland. Those protests also involved lengthy and violent clashes with the police, the appearance of federal law enforcement, and at least two deaths. They also haven't stopped, as there were protests last night.
In the November elections, we decriminalized personal amounts of most narcotics, made strides in campaign finance reform, legalized psilocybin for medicinal use, and bumped the cost of a pack of cigarettes up $2 due to a new tax.
We had the largest wildfires in state history, burning over 1 million acres, killing at least 11 people, and destroying several small towns. The fires were so intense and fast-moving that evacuation areas extended well into the suburbs of Portland, and air quality became the worst in the entire world for large areas of Oregon.
In addition to the protests against police brutality, conflicts between BLM/antifa/progressive ideology protestors and Proud Bois/MAGA/concervatives ramped up tremendously, with streets fights occuring in several cities. Some close calls happened, and there have been reports on social media of people getting badly hurt but not reporting it to authorities or the press.
Just to add insult to injuries, the Blazers go knocked out in the first round of the NBA playoffs, the Timbers got knocked out in the first round of the MLS playoffs, and the Thorns got knocked out in the NWSL semi-finals. No rings, no stars, no cups.
And I've been out of a job since March 11th, when Governor Brown shut down all public events with more than 200 people. Happy fucking new year, from all 4.2 million of us here in the Beaver State. | 1State Anger
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Our governor spent relief funds on advertising for tourism in FUCKING MISSOURI and then he and his wife got covid. Then he got fucking elected. | 1State Anger
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Mississippi Legislatures voted to remove the Confederate Battle Flag from our state flag. | 1State Anger
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North Carolina voted in a home-schooled, never had a job, dropped-out-of college representative. Smh. Edit: sorry I am runk. | 1State Anger
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For some reason we reelected Mitchell McConnell. | 0Trait Anger
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Christopher Columbus got thrown in a lake and it was awesome.
https://apnews.com/article/e99df0a4ec90e92540a2780d83cee56d | 1State Anger
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Thanks to the George Floyd protests, Virginia (or mostly Richmond) saw the decommissioning of numerous Confederate statues and street names.
Beyond that, Virginia is actually quite stable ATM COVID-wise | 1State Anger
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MASSACHUSETTS
- Governor Charlie Baker worked with Patriots owner Robert Craft to use a Patriots plane to pick up and import PPE from China after being outbid by the federal government on supplies that were supposed to come to Massachusetts.
- Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s death sentence was removed due to jurors being biased. Going to Supreme Court.
- old timer Ed Markey beat Joe Kennedy in a close state senate race
- Justice Kimberly Budd was sworn in as the first Black woman to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts
- Ranked choice voting was rejected by voters in November
- On the last day of the year Charlie Baker signed into law the police reform bill which includes (this is very simplified and of course there are loopholes) no chokeholds or firing into a fleeing vehicle, officers are required to intervene and report when a fellow officer is using excessive force, limits to no knock warrants, a new commission that includes majority civilians that certifies and decertifies police officers | 1State Anger
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So listen up. One of my harder-to-justify hobbies for a while has been maintaining Wikipedia's [Illinois Portal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Illinois), to which I have been almost the sole contributor for close to six years. I have no idea who, if anyone, ever sees it, but keeping the news section up to date helps me stay informed. I've mostly been diligent, with some gaps when I got extra busy or the news felt extra depressing. But 2020 of course defied comparison with any other. Usually I post about 40 to 50 items in a year; this year there were 116. Here are just some highlights.
* January 1: [Cannabis in Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Illinois) became legal to sell and use for recreational purposes.
* January 19: [Senate President](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Illinois_Senate) [John Cullerton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cullerton) retired in the middle of his term.
* January 24: The second case of [coronavirus in the United States](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_outbreak_in_the_United_States) was confirmed in a woman in Chicago.
* January 28: Former Senator [Martin Sandoval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sandoval) pleaded guilty to bribery.
* February 18: Ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich was released four years early from his [prison sentence for corruption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich_corruption_charges) after a presidential commutation from Donald Trump.
* February 20: George Hood of Naperville set a [world record for a front plank](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plank_(exercise)) of 8 hours, 15 minutes and 15 seconds.
* March 9: Governor J. B. Pritzker issued a disaster proclamation as the number of cases of [coronavirus in Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_coronavirus_pandemic_in_Illinois) continued to rise.
* March 14: The first coronavirus cases in Illinois outside the Chicago area were identified in three Downstate counties.
* March 17: Joe Biden won the [2020 Illinois Democratic primary election](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Illinois_Democratic_primary).
* March 17: COVID-19 caused the death of a woman in Chicago, the first in the state.
* March 20: Illinois enacted a [shelter in place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelter_in_place) order, closing nonessential businesses and restricting travel.
* April 7: Folk singer [John Prine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Prine) of Maywood died of COVID-19.
* April 17: All [Illinois schools](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_districts_in_Illinois) closed for the rest of the 2019–2020 academic year.
* May 1: [Cloth face masks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloth_face_mask) were required in all indoor public spaces in Illinois, and any other public place where social distancing cannot be maintained.
* May 5: Illinois released its [Restore Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Illinois#State_government) plan for reopening the state after the [COVID-19 pandemic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic).
* May 29: [Protests were held in several Illinois cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Illinois) following the death of George Floyd, leading to civil disorder and clashes with police in Chicago.
* May 31: Governor J.B. Pritzker deployed the [Illinois National Guard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_National_Guard) to downtown Chicago.
* June 12: The [Illinois State Fair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_State_Fair), planned for August 13–23, was canceled for the first time since 1945.
* July 1: The [minimum wage in Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_States#State) rose to $10.00 per hour across the state.
* July 1: A 2019 law went into effect requiring Illinois public schools to [teach LGBT history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_history#School_curricula) as part of their U.S. history curricula.
* July 17: [Commonwealth Edison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Edison) agreed to pay $200 million following a federal investigation into illegal lobbying and bribery.
* July 21: Fifteen people were wounded in [a mass shooting](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020) at a funeral in Auburn Gresham, Chicago.
* July 24: In response to intensifying protests, Mayor Lori Lightfoot ordered [the removal of two statues of Christopher Columbus](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_monuments_and_memorials_removed_during_the_George_Floyd_protests) from Grant Park and Little Italy.
* August 9–10: [Hundreds rioted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests_in_Chicago) along the Magnificent Mile following a police shooting in Englewood, Chicago.
* August 14: Jim Boylen was fired as head coach of the Chicago Bulls following the team's exclusion from the 2020 NBA Bubble and early end of the [2019–20 season](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%E2%80%9320_Chicago_Bulls_season).
* August 14: Four-term former Governor [James R. Thompson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_R._Thompson) died at the age of 84.
* August 26: An Antioch teenager was arrested for killing two protesters the previous night in the [Kenosha unrest](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha_riot).
* October 21: The Illinois Commerce Commission approved an expansion of the [Dakota Access Pipeline](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dakota_Access_Pipeline) in the state.
* October 22: Protests were held following the [killing of Marcellis Stinnette](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Marcellis_Stinnette) by a Waukegan police officer.
* November 3: Voters rejected the [Illinois Fair Tax](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois_Fair_Tax) referendum.
* November 4: Following the [2020 judicial elections](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Illinois_judicial_elections), Thomas Kilbride became the first Illinois Supreme Court justice to lose a retention election.
* November 12: Counting concluded for the [Congressional elections in Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Illinois); neither party gained any seats.
* November 17: Counting concluded for the [2020 Illinois House of Representatives elections](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Illinois_House_of_Representatives_election); the Republicans gained one seat, but the Democrats maintained their supermajority in both houses of the General Assembly.
* November 18: Two former executives and two consultants of [Commonwealth Edison](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Edison) were indicted for bribery to influence Speaker [Michael Madigan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Madigan).
* November 20: All of Illinois moved back to Tier 3 of the Restore Illinois plan, with some regions under Tier 2 restrictions.
* November 25: [Angela Jackson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Jackson) was named the fifth Poet Laureate of Illinois.
* December 4: [SEIU Healthcare Illinois](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Employees_International_Union) members agreed to a contract with Infinity Healthcare Management, ending a 12-day strike affecting 11 Illinois nursing homes.
* December 5: Former Senator [Martin Sandoval](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Sandoval) died of COVID-19.
* December 9: A Clarence militia leader was convicted for the 2017 bombing of [Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dar_Al-Farooq_Islamic_Center).
* December 14: Illinois's members of the Electoral College met in the State Capitol to vote for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the [election for President and Vice President](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Illinois).
* December 23: 100,000 people received the [COVID-19 vaccine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tozinameran) in Illinois, outpacing all other states.
* December 26: Three were killed and three injured at a mass shooting in a Rockford bowling alley.
* December 31: Illinois expunged nearly 500,000 [cannabis-related arrest records](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Illinois), while Governor Pritzker issued pardons for over 9,000 convictions.
The Plot Twist of the Year is Martin Sandoval being one of the first to go down in a wide-ranging year for corruption at the start of the year; and then die of COVID at the end of it.
Another takeaway is that Illinois made the news not once, but twice for exporting right-wing extremists to go do violence in neighboring states. | 1State Anger
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Missouri. It's been a roller coaster so forgive me if I don't remember what was 2020 and what wasn't. I had to be reminded earlier this week that March happened this year.
We approved Medicaid expansion.
We decided to keep our governor, who is as functional as a moldy potato, rather than elect Nicole Galloway.
Saint Louis is one of the clinical trial locations for the covid vaccine. I participated. It feels good to be a part of history.
And then most recently, fake Missouri resident, Virginian* Josh fucking Hawley emerged to do that (general hand gesture) election objection bullshit thing.
Edit: *confused my Virginias. | 1State Anger
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Nebraska District 45 decided to elect someone [who posed with Phillipines dictator Duterte](https://imgur.com/a/ZD9nnWa) and who, at her election party, [posed maskless with a large group of people, including the governor of Nebraska](https://www.reddit.com/r/Omaha/comments/jvx1pe/image_of_pete_ricketts_and_rita_sanders_and_20/).
Her qualifications? Being a do-nothing mayor for Bellevue and spending a year working in the office of [Jeff Fartenberry](https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fortenberry-googly-eyes-vandalism-professor-751618/) | 1State Anger
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Well I'm from the Minneapolis area so yall should have a pretty good idea of what went down here.
What you don't know is that when the cops bassically abandoned south Minneapolis the people came together. People cleaned up, people gave food those in need. People provided housing. People even set up fieldedical stations complete with a community ambulance and professional doctors volunteering their time. They set up their own dispatch communications network. And the entire time they did this the cops shot at them with tear gas and rubber bullets.
The community took care of each other and they brought the city back from the brink while the police themselves actively tried to make things worse for everyone.
It was fucking crazy.
In my state we saw what it looks like when the social order literally falls, and a neighborhood in a major us city is left to fend for themselves in terms of emergency services. | 1State Anger
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I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. Y'all might have seen us in the news a few times this year, but if you didn't, we had a tornado, derecho, bombing, and current center of covid. However, our state formed it's major league soccer team earlier in the year, and they've been doing really well for themselves! | 1State Anger
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Here in Illinois we showed that we really, really, really like legal marijuana, and it wasn't just a Chicago thing. We love it all over the state, even a lot of the good ol' boys. | 0Trait Anger
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A kid I went to high school with went berserk, wrote on his wall “Adam Lanza snapped, Thanos snapped, now watch what happens when I snap”, killed another kid I went to high school with, then fled to another state, cut a guys arm off with a katana, killing him, then when the cops found him he came willingly. | 1State Anger
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Breonna Taylor and David McAtee were murder. The state police were found to quote Hitler in their training slideshow. And we re-elected the turtle for the 7th time. | 0Trait Anger
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A (now former) prince william county sherrif deputy allegedly threatened a judge, and says he's innocent and claims that his account was hacked.
https://www.whsv.com/2020/12/28/deputy-is-fired-after-comments-were-posted-on-social-media/ | 1State Anger
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California voted to restore the voting rights of former felons[*](https://ballotpedia.org/California_2020_ballot_propositions), saw some mysterious public suicides[**](https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/09/us/robert-fuller-hanging-death-palmdale-california-suicide/index.html) and had ballot box shenanigans^[1](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-ballot-drop-box-fire-suspected-arson/) ^[2](https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2020/10/10/unofficial-ballot-drop-box-appears-in-front-of-baptist-church-in-castaic/) . Here's to hoping 2021 is better. | 1State Anger
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George Floyd. Say his name! | 1State Anger
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The voters disappointed the world again by electing the biggest shit sandwich for his 500th term. The governor did an amazing job regarding covid and has to be the nicest man on the planet by far yet he was still called a nazi because he asked people to wear a mask in the Save A Lot.
tl;dr the people of Kentucky continued to be morons. The decent people stuck here have eye pain from the constant rolling. | 0Trait Anger
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5 Million voted in the general election
Saving someone from looking it up | 1State Anger
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“Over 114,000 voters who didn't participate in the general election have cast ballots in the runoffs. Those voters are more racially diverse than the state's electorate as a whole — 37% Black and 43% white.” | 1State Anger
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Those who stood with Trump will be remembered as traitors against the United States, from the Senate to the trailer park.
Trump People ARE NOT and NEVER WERE "patriots."
We disown all of Trump's anti-Americans, and they treason they have committed against ALL of us and the Constitution. | 0Trait Anger
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Blurb:
*In the end, it was just another Trump show. Millions lost a week of unemployment benefits. Many more felt the anxiety of unpaid bills and facing eviction from their homes. The president again had us watching as he saved us from chaos that he created himself.*
*The past four years have taken a toll. President Trump has divided us over athletes kneeling in protest. He has proclaimed there were “very fine people on both sides” when one side included neo-Nazis. Worst of all, he has showered us with “alternative facts” that had many doubting science when it was needed most. Every president has made mistakes, some of them disastrous. Mr. Trump is the first in my memory who did it purposefully and maliciously.* | 0Trait Anger
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A ***shit*** show. | 1State Anger
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Trump is a one-man reality TV show. The guy lives in an alternate reality guided by his own grandiosity and narcissism. Too bad it will take more than 4 years to erase this blemish from history. Way more enthusiastic to see Trump go than Biden come in. | 0Trait Anger
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this country needs a enema
one side wins we may get fair taxes, healthcare, renewable energy infrastructure, living wages, sane police reform, etc etc
other side wins and its 2 years of gridlock and nothing gets done | 0Trait Anger
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Cool. It don’t mean shit though.
Part of me is glad that the GOP is pulling this bullshit because it’s going to force every single one of them to go on the record about where they really stand on trying to straight up steal an election.
Watching the GOP start to eat itself over Trump has been one of the better parts of the last month. | 1State Anger
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We're so extremely lucky the Democrats kept the House. You think the Republicans *wouldn't* overturn the results if they had both chambers? And what happens the next time they do and a Republican incumbent president loses? Our democracy is hanging on by a thread. | 0Trait Anger
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Another traitor to our democracy. I hope these people face some consequences. | 1State Anger
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Burning American democracy to the ground in service of the host of NBCs Celebrity Apprentice | 1State Anger
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It's gross how grown ups can leave their morals, ethics, principles and the very essence of right and wrong at the door. History will judge them better than todays politically catastrophic environment. | 0Trait Anger
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Well, we'll get all those actively pushing for a coup on the record then. | 1State Anger
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> John Rutherford (R-FL 4th) would like everyone to know that he doesn't believe in democracy or the rule of law | 1State Anger
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So, another traitor plotting sedition? | 0Trait Anger
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This just makes it easier to identify the traitors in our mist. | 1State Anger
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> The Northeast Florida lawmaker tweeted Friday that he would join a handful of other republicans on Jan. 6 backing President Donald Trump’s refusal to concede the November election.
Florida Man sticking by another Florida Man. | 1State Anger
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I honestly can’t believe that it’s a difficult decision to either follow the rule of law or commit sedition. | 1State Anger
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GOP torn over rule of law or fascism - news flash fascism will win for most of these American nazis . The ones that don’t object to the votes from swing states would do so in a a second if the house was a gop majority. | 0Trait Anger
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Traitors. Should be tried and hanged! This is the latest GOP attempted politically based coup of our democracy. | 1State Anger
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Stupid people are frequently confounded by factual information.
Especially when those facts are posted on the internet. | 0Trait Anger
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> “Plaintiffs’ counsel have encountered numerous technical incompatibilities in the software versions,” they wrote in a motion that can really only be described as embarrassing.
Let me guess, /r/conservative is already blaming China | 1State Anger
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Google docs is so easy to use. Elementary students use it. | 1State Anger
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"Its like a typewritter, but its in the sky? What in conflabbin hells is that black magic?" | 1State Anger
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Gohmert is the Gomer that just keeps on Gomering. | 0Trait Anger
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After decades of "smoking is good for you," "climate change is a hoax," and "seat belts are a communist plot" there was something of a crescendo of stupidity in 2006, celebrated in one of the earliest super-popular memes, where a republican [tried, and spectacularly failed, to explain what the internet was.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs&feature=emb_logo).
Back then - even with the backdrop of the lies, incompetence, and stupidity of the George W. Bush presidency - it was noteworthy event. Nowadays, it's a normal Friday. | 0Trait Anger
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Best thing I've read all day. You really can't fix stupid. | 0Trait Anger
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The only cracks i actually see is in Republican representatives the Republican voters seems to be completely behind Trump. Its why i am convinced the Republican party of the future will go even further to the right even if that equals a end to democracy and America as we know it. The voters seem to be openly and enthusiastically supporting the march towards fascism. Biden has no chance of unifying America | 0Trait Anger
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No shit.
You try living on 600 dollars for a single month, forget 8 months | 1State Anger
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"Likely" not enough. JFC.
"the new Stimulus checks was congresses version of let them eat cake"
Fix that headline. | 1State Anger
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Even a one time $2000 not enough for many... | 1State Anger
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The most powerful country in the world, and it won’t help it’s citizens. I’m embarrassed to be an American. | 0Trait Anger
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This just in: water is wet. | 1State Anger
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No shit. I wonder what the average American that needs help would actually need. Last I saw a couple weeks ago they estimate it's around $6,000 just to get current with bills. | 0Trait Anger
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Crumbs to the hungry. | 0Trait Anger
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Well, it was just enough to fix my transmission issues on my car, so I can get to my job I no longer have. | 1State Anger
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I got mine today. What originally felt like relief quickly morphed to soul-crushing depression when I realized I couldn’t even make a ding in the debt ive accumulated this past year. | 1State Anger
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$600 get me through half months rent - but bazillions tor aircraft carriers too vulnerable to go into harms way
The MIC is eating this country alive but then again what else we gonna export!? | 0Trait Anger
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Glad someone told me this or I wouldn't know that my income has been severely affected. | 1State Anger
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It needs to be a recurring monthly stimulus not one every few months. | 0Trait Anger
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I am so sorry that your politicians are that stingy and short sighted. Hugs from Canada 🍁 | 1State Anger
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$600 divided by 365 days in a year is $1.64 a day. It’s a fucking joke. We pay 1/3 of our paycheck to taxes and when a global pandemic hits and we are not ALLOWED to work the government of the ‘richest country in the world’ won’t even take care of its own citizens. It’s absolute bullshit. We should have been getting monthly allowances from out the gate. Major corporations are getting huge bailouts. What about the working people?? | 1State Anger
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"no fucking shit" | 1State Anger
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Oh, yeah, great: I'll take the six C-notes. It's better than nothing. Meanwhile I get notices from the IRS that I owe taxes from 2014, 2015, 2016...
I have no work. Fifty CVs sent out has brought in exactly no offers. My 11-year-old Honda Fit needs tires, brakes, and an oil change. My wife needs a liver biopsy, but we have no insurance.
Still, we survive. We buy cheap food in bulk--rice, potatoes, beans--and heat the house from the kitchen stove. (Life pro tip: when you cook at home you might go to bed not so cold.) We grin like idiots and love each other. What is our alternative? | 0Trait Anger
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I honestly cannot wrap my head around this, can anyone provide a serious hypothetical argument for why he pardoned them? | 1State Anger
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> I was the F.B.I. case agent who led the investigation of the Blackwater massacre in Baghdad. We originally went to Iraq thinking this shooting was some form of innocent civilians caught in the crossfire between Blackwater guards and insurgents. After only one week, we determined that this incident was not as presented by Blackwater personnel and their State Department lackeys, but it was a massacre along the lines of My Lai in Vietnam. Three of the guards were convicted of manslaughter and one of murder.
> I only recently became aware of the concerted effort for the pardons, which I understand started with a political push by members of Congress. President Trump should have had staff members review the trial evidence that led to the convictions and read the judges’ opinions and sentencing statements. God forbid they might have actually picked up the phone and called the investigators who built the case. I’m so disgusted with the president’s actions!
> Having spent many hours with the innocent Iraqi victims who are permanently maimed and crippled because of the actions of these Blackwater guards, and the heartbroken family members of those killed, I am embarrassed for our country. I believe we will pay a heavy price in our relationships with other countries as a result of these pardons.
> I’m so glad that I’m retired and will never again be asked to risk my life and those of my fellow investigators, only to have killers pardoned for purely political reasons.
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Eric Prince, Betsy Devos's brother, founded Blackwater. These evil monsters have no souls and Trump will do anything for money. | 0Trait Anger
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*Why many of us don't trust Counterpunch*
>During the 2016 presidential election, CounterPunch published a piece by "Alice Donovan", who purported to be a freelance writer but who US intelligence officials allege is pseudonymous employee of the Russian government. Donovan was tracked by the FBI for nine months. In late November 2017, after CounterPunch had published several more pieces by "Donovan", The Washington Post contacted Jeffrey St. Clair about her. The co-editor said that Donovan's pitches did not stand out amongst the pitches that CounterPunch received daily and began making inquiries. He asked Donovan to substantiate her identity by sending a photo of her driving license but she did not. On the same day The Washington Post article was published on Donovan, St. Clair and Frank published a piece stating that CounterPunch only ran one article by Alice Donovan during the 2016 election, which was on cyber-breaches of medical databases. Donovan was also exposed by the newsletter as a serial plagiarizer. In another follow-up article St. Clair and Frank exposed a network of alleged trolls that operated a site called Inside Syria Media Center promoting a pro-Bashar al-Assad and pro-Russian view of the Syrian Civil War. St. Clair and Frank speculated that the website was connected to the same network of trolls as Alice Donovan.
[Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CounterPunch) | 0Trait Anger
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Do you know who’s responsible for Trump’s election?
Trump voters.
The end. | 0Trait Anger
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TIL counterpunch is a fucking shit rag | 1State Anger
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By Howie Hawkins. lol okay. This is the green party spoiler saying if only more progressives had voted for him instead of Biden then the opposite of what would have mathematically happened would have actually happened. | 1State Anger
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On January 21st they’ll still be trying to file lawsuits to get Trump back in. | 0Trait Anger
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It just keeps getting more ridiculous. Can’t wait to see the January 6 Trump rally at the Ritz Waste Management Co. | 1State Anger
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"Mr. Gohmert, along with his colleagues and electors in Arizona, had hoped that the lawsuit, filed on Sunday, could force Mr. Pence to take on an expanded role, opening the vice president up to pressure to invalidate the election results.
But Judge Kernodle, who was appointed by Mr. Trump, dashed those hopes on Friday, though Mr. Gohmert said in an interview with Newsmax that his lawyers would appeal. " | 1State Anger
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Top Republican lawyers are now saying Pence should be arrested | 1State Anger
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Don't threaten me with a good time | 2Anger Expression
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Hawley is straight out of central casting for a re-make of Stephen King's "Dead Zone". As someone from Missouri, please America, don't even let this guy do a tourist tour of the White House | 1State Anger
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What the republicans are doing and already allowed Trump will live on as one of the darkest eras in American history. | 0Trait Anger
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It will be interesting to see how they react to him having to declare bankruptcy when Deutsche Bank calls in his loans, and getting indicted by NY state. | 2Anger Expression
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This is what happens when either a low intelligence or highly ignorant populous seeks a populist. Now they think Ivanka will somehow carry on his legacy. This isn't about political parties, its about ideologies that undermine democracy.
Populism; refers to a range of political stances that emphasise the idea of "the people" and often juxtapose this group against "the elite". ... Populist parties and social movements are often led by charismatic or dominant figures who present themselves as the "voice of the people". | 0Trait Anger
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Biden is the man. Let's flip Georgia blue to help him and our country. | 1State Anger
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Problem is, it would be horrifying for this whole $2k check issue, Loeffler campaigning with a klansmen, McConnell et al... for us to still lose on Tuesday. I hope people vote like their life depends on it!! | 1State Anger
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TLDR: Lots of dumbasses making fools of themselves. Biden will be the next president. | 2Anger Expression
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Who cares? He's just trying to bilk his sucker followers out of money.. | 0Trait Anger
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This just happened.
[Lin Wood and Jenna Ellis.](https://twitter.com/LLinWood/status/1345270980403453952)
Break out the popcorn. | 1State Anger
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Beyond the grift, he's gaslighting himself. If he keeps "fighting" and yelling "fraud", he never lost, and the other guy never "wins".
Dementia on display. | 1State Anger
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“Fight the election” = collect money from catastrophically dumb rubes while doing nothing substantial at all. | 0Trait Anger
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Hmm, not to sure his parole officer will support that. | 2Anger Expression
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The united states has driven a wedge between Europe, Asia, middle east, Austrasia, and the eastern countries (except Russia of course, but that goes without saying).
The US needs no help in this area. | 0Trait Anger
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What an absurd title.
Trump drove the wedge between Europe and the United States.
All China did was to step into the gap. | 1State Anger
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Putin/Trump/Boris drove a wedge between US/UK and Europe. | 0Trait Anger
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This Christian Nationalism shit is the biggest problem America faces, these are truly evil and dangerous psychopaths. | 0Trait Anger
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