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Seditious Reprobates all. Join Ted Cruz? Losers,🤡 | 1State Anger
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12 GOP senators agree to vocalize opposition to democracy because they think it will play well politically.
That’s where we stand as a country. Not opposing ideas, but democracy itself. | 1State Anger
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A few more currently sticking their dicks out in the air trying to sense which way the wind is blowing | 1State Anger
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Question and I honestly don’t know if it would make a difference one way or another...if certain Republicans continue down this road, even though it’s a formality because of the Democratic majority in the House, can Pelosi just turn around and refuse to seat the incoming House Republicans? I know that it wouldn’t make a difference one way or another as far as this bs is concerned, but could she theoretically say “Enough of this bullshit” and refuse to seat the new Republicans? And if she went that route, what short and long term consequences could occur? | 1State Anger
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Lol "growing".
The lot of them have spent four years subserviating themselves to and working on behalf of a pants-shitting moron man-child emperor who is compromised by a hostile foreign power and whose gross incompetence has led to the death of 350,000 Americans and counting.
It's not growing. They're all fucking fascists to a man and woman, and the majority *not* supporting Ted Cruz's pathetic little coup are merely not *quite* as willing to be *quite* as publicly despised as Ted Cruz, who, being an alien from a cold and distant star, feels no human emotions. | 0Trait Anger
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I don’t know what everyone was expecting. Look at Cruz. He’s a fucking con artist. Like what the fuck is wrong with people who support him? You such a big toddler you can’t admit that some of the stuff you believe is bullshit? | 0Trait Anger
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I wonder if there is a hostile foreign power that has had western spread of anti-democratic philosophy as a policy goal for decades. Good question, me. | 0Trait Anger
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I have a strange feeling when adults take control there’s going to be some serious shit uncovered. | 2Anger Expression
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In other news, water is wet. | 1State Anger
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‘....expose conspiracy to overthrow a democracy.’ They are desperately trying to get out of the quicksand, but having watched enough Gilligan’s Island, I know struggling makes it worse. They are only making their treason more and more obvious by the hour. Not the brightest bulbs. | 1State Anger
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“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. The will reject democracy.”
― David Frum, [Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic](https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/56364271) | 0Trait Anger
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I’m starting to think this will become the new standard and we are going to have to deal with this bullshit every couple years now. Anytime the GOP doesn’t get their way, they will cry fake or fraud on any election which doesn’t benefit their party. Never mind the voice of the people, all that matters is the gain of power no matter what the cost. This is the very beginning of unraveling the very fabric which holds the principles of this country together. The very fact that the hill that so many have chosen to die on is a greasy former reality show host with a bad spray tan, is truly beyond mind boggling to me. | 0Trait Anger
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73 million “Americans” are okay with sedition. | 0Trait Anger
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If conservatives realise that they can't win through democracy they will not loose their faith in conservatism but rather democracy. | 0Trait Anger
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Growing? The author isn't familiar with the stolen 2000 election or Watergate, I guess. | 0Trait Anger
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Been 20 years since they organized a violent intimidation of vote counters to stop counting votes to get their shithead appointed president. Growing? They have yet to reach that high water mark again. | 0Trait Anger
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Headline should say "anti-American streak," not "anti-democratic" streak.
small-d-democracy is what defines America. | 1State Anger
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The GOP has wants apartheid. | 0Trait Anger
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A Beard does not a jawline make. | 2Anger Expression
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Any student of history can see the parallels- yeah, fascists seizing power to "protect us" from the socialist boogeyman that doesn't exist. Sorry GOP, you have lost me for life. | 1State Anger
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US Senators who traveled to Moscow, Russia for 4th of July (2018).
Richard Shelby (Ala.)
**Steve Daines (Mont.)**
John Hoeven (N.D.)
**John Neely Kennedy (La.)**
Jerry Moran (Kan.)
John Thune (S.D.)
**Ron Johnson (Wy)**
US Senators who are now opposing Electoral College vote are in bold. | 1State Anger
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Win in Georgia. Remove all these fucktwats from committee assignments. | 1State Anger
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Some of the worst people on the planet are our elected officials. It’s a sad time to be an American | 0Trait Anger
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Wouldn't it be fucked up if the Vice President, the President of the Senate; the guy who is as often as not presiding over his own election, could just be like "nah?"
He can't. Don't worry. Still, future coups might not be so ball-less. Be vigilant, guys. | 1State Anger
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*"You know things are a mess when America needs Georgia to save us from Kentucky."* - Randi Mayem Singer | 1State Anger
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Please vote for radical liberals Raphael Warnock and Jonathan Ossoff please guys | 0Trait Anger
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Per the constitution the Senate is to vote on Presidential appointments. A simple majority is all that's required. The Constitution even allows for a President to bypass the Senate via recess appointments. During Obama's presidency McConnell elevated his power as majority leader by refusing to holds votes and keeping the Senate in session to prevent recess appointments. The Senate was never meant to be this powerful. The Senate and House are supposed to be equal parts of the legislative branch. What McConnell has gotten away with is a pervertion of the constitution. | 0Trait Anger
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Liberal wall street elitists!
Kelly Loeffler is a billionaire. Husband is president of the NYSE | 1State Anger
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Criticises the foreign policy of Carter and Obama, yet not a word on the shortcomings and blunders of Bush and Reagan. How obviously and transparently insidious & dishonest. | 1State Anger
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Stay home Repubs. It's for you're own good. | 2Anger Expression
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The Republican Party is no more. Cruz, Hawley and other of that ilks are just Trump bootlickers. It's time that Senator Romney and others still with some principle split and form a new Conservative Party. | 1State Anger
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Mitt Romney is the most sane and stable person in the party. That is the state of Republicanism in 2021. | 0Trait Anger
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Romney just doesn't understand that his fellow GOP love America so much they're willing to destroy it to save it...just like The Confederacy. | 0Trait Anger
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The senators and congressmen who are trying to overturn a legally conducted election need to have their names plastered on billboards across the country for the next four years, so no one forgets who the seditionists are. | 2Anger Expression
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"But we can still bond over rat fucking commoners", he continued. | 2Anger Expression
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> “The egregious ploy to reject electors may enhance the political ambition of some, but dangerously threatens our Democratic Republic. The congressional power to reject electors is reserved for the most extreme and unusual circumstances. These are far from it. More Americans participated in this election than ever before, and they made their choice. President Trump’s lawyers made their case before scores of courts; in every instance, they failed. The Justice Department found no evidence of irregularity sufficient to overturn the election. The Presidential Voter Fraud Commission disbanded without finding such evidence.” | 1State Anger
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Wow, what a guy. Such intestinal fortitude in the face of no consequences. When he votes like he talks he'll have seen the light. | 2Anger Expression
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So Democracy fails when enough people decide they are willing to win at any cost. | 0Trait Anger
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Get ready for a lot of "America was never meant to be a democracy" groupthink/memes by people talking themselves into wanting a dictatorship. | 0Trait Anger
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Even to this day, media bending over backwards to find the gentlest possible terms for Republican actions. There's a word for it. Fascist. | 0Trait Anger
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These traitors need to be identified, named and expelled. | 2Anger Expression
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The GOP have exposed themselves as anti-American bad people with a lust for power and a desire to destroy our nation and replace it with a horrible GOP dictatorship | 0Trait Anger
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Republicans only care about winning and holding onto power, and “democracy” to many in the GOP is just some rules that can be bent or broken whenever that provides a competitive advantage. | 0Trait Anger
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Oh, com'n, this has been a slowly devolving political party for over 40 years. They have absolutely no coping skills when they don't have a President or majorities. They go irreversibly coo-coo. They have gone to the darkside! Their platform has been boiled down to pure HATE! | 0Trait Anger
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There’s really not too much more room for them to “grow” in this regard.
The GOP is the American Fascist Party. | 0Trait Anger
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He put himself in that weird spot. Something about leopards eating your face, etc. | 2Anger Expression
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Pence is right where he deserves to be, after years of sitting quietly while his running mate and their allies whipped up the crazies.
He is now squarely in the "sights" of people like Lin Wood and others who believe donald trump IS America, and going against him in any way is treason.
Nobody threatened Biden's life for simply doing what makes this country great, accepting the results of an election and peacefully passing the torch to the opposing party.
There were some vocal objections yes, but nobody filed formal complaints to throw out certified election results. Democratic party electors didn't forge EC documents and send them in before the official state electors could.
All for donald fucking trump, which is the real kicker here...people are reacting to a dollar store Kim Jong Un like he's Mussolini. | 0Trait Anger
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A so called Christian associated with a walking bag of sins. Yeah, it is weird. | 2Anger Expression
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He was rallying to "keep fighting" two weeks ago.
https://youtu.be/dPrDYaQHMIw
He's part of the problem. Fuck him. | 1State Anger
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Mike Pence is a weird spot. | 0Trait Anger
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The business side of the industry may miss him, but the reporters and anchors I have listened to are exhausted by him and will be happy for things to be less chaotic. | 0Trait Anger
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Democrats should strike the word bipartisan from their vocabulary for the next 10 years. No going along, no getting along, no unite this or that. Win, just fucking win.
To quote Toby "They will like us when we win". | 0Trait Anger
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Republicans don't have an agenda anymore. All they are is anti-Democrat. Its hard to be bipartisan when the other sides entire identity is being against bipartisanship. | 0Trait Anger
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Republicans: $15 aN hOur iS tOo mUcH
Americans: It’s not the 1950’s anymore you old turtles | 1State Anger
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How are you supposed to reach a "bipartisan breakthrough" when a not-insignificant number of the GOP caucus believes that a minimum wage shouldn't even exist in the first place, let alone raise it? | 0Trait Anger
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Live in a deep red state. Nobody is pushing leftist or liberal ideas here, other than the unacknowledged agreement of keeping farmers on the fed teat. The Republican the Democrats chose to run for Senate in Kansas predictably lost to a Trumpian asshat who claimined she was going to ruin the state's health system through socialism and steal all the guns, completely ignoring the state's rural health system is in crisis.
I doubt Kansas is much different than othre Plains or Midwest states in this regard. | 0Trait Anger
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It honestly feels like if a new party emerged that pushed leftist ideas without the socialist or Democrat titles it could win. The ideas of the left are popular. But people hate and mistrust the words Democrat and socialist thanks to years of brainwashing. | 0Trait Anger
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Republicans do not become Republicans because they want better lives. They become Republicans because they want to see others suffer.
Republicans delight in seeing children separated, black people killed by police officers. They might support liberal policies for themselves, but they will easily vote against it if it might benefit someone else. | 0Trait Anger
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That is a problem as even the most pro-Trump state still had 32% vote for Biden-Harris. What this does is create more independents who may not turn out to vote. That just emboldens Republicans in turn. | 0Trait Anger
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I was raised blue in a red state and currently live in a different red state now. This whole article feels disingenuous to me. He talks about how much he loves Kentucky, but only brings up how beautiful it is. He props up the rural areas, but has escaped them to live in Lexington. He is proud of the 4,8xx people who vote blue in Kim Davis' district, but voting is by definition an anonymous action. He mentions that some Democrats are labeled traitors, etc... but doesn't ever really bring up how many Kentuckians feel that way. We are not supposed to blame Kentucky for Mitch McConnell, but who else are we supposed to blame? 58% voted for Mitch. That isn't a close race. That is Kentucky stating, loud and proud: This is who we are. Trump hasn't changed the Republican party so much as revealed it. | 1State Anger
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Common Georgia...you can do it. | 1State Anger
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Already confirmed my mail in ballot has been accepted, and making sure to ask/hound all my friends, to ensure they either already voted, or have time set aside to do so on Tues. | 2Anger Expression
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I'm more feeling fear, personally | 1State Anger
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the slogan only needs to be
vote like your lives depend on it
because they do
Vote or Die indeed | 1State Anger
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Republicans trying to speak out of both sides of their mouth. "The election was rigged! Trump won!" and "Please vote for me, trust the election!" | 0Trait Anger
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trump fans consider Black voters illegitimate.
The GOP has been anti-democratic my entire life. | 0Trait Anger
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Old KKKelly's fascism is showing. | 0Trait Anger
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I'm just going to assume that the only reason she gets any votes is because of the (R) next to her name. I have no idea what she even stands for, only that she is against radical liberal Reverend Warnock. | 0Trait Anger
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It seems that She "sidesteps" every question that goes against science and compassion.
Don't know about you, but that's definitely eye opener for me | 0Trait Anger
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I just hate her. Her face. Her demeanor. Her words. I don’t hate many people but fuck let’s get her out of Congress. | 1State Anger
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"... our current “winner take all” voting system allows two parties to dominate our government, which leads to extreme candidates with extreme policies. "
Soundbites like "lock her up" win over actual plans and policies... | 0Trait Anger
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I've been beating the drum for ranked choice voting to anyone that will listen since the 2016 election. Hopefully more states start adopting it. | 2Anger Expression
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I don't think the author knows what ranked choice voting is. If Georgia had ranked choice voting then Georgia would have 2 Republicans senators right now since if you go back to the earlier election and added up all the Republicans votes together they had more votes than all of the Democrats added together had.
For some reason the author compared ranked choice against winner take all, but ranked choice is still a winner take all system. As long as you have one winner per state or district you still have a winner take all system which means a huge chunk of voters in that district have zero representation in government.
If the goal is to get more diverse ideas represented in government and to insure that minority voters still have some power when they live in districts dominated by a political party they disagree with, the only solution is multi member districts. | 2Anger Expression
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I really do love the idea of the model Alaska is going to use. Jungle primary where the top 4 vote getters across all parties advance to the general election where it is ranked choice. Ordering just 4 candidates isn't arduous and I think htat it would give us meaningful choices.
I think in Georgia as an example right now it probably would have lead to a Maga Republican, a moderate republican, a moderate Democrat, and a Libertarian. Give the voters meaningful choices and give politicians incentive to try and appeal to sides to be more electable. | 0Trait Anger
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Weirdly I read that the reason Georgia has it's current system was to knee cap black politicians. Black Politicians would get most of the black vote but multiple white politicians would get a split version of the white vote. They made it 50% plus one because they wanted to stop white's from losing due to a split vote. I'm in favor of ranked choice but it's weird that Georgia took steps to a more democratic system in an attempt to be undemocratic | 1State Anger
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As someone from a first world country, it's bizarre to me that this isn't the highest priority in American politics right now. Ranked choice or STV is the standard, and has been for a very long time, in most other first world countries (the US and UK notable exceptions). I'd estimate that 90% of American gridlocked problems could be resolved by going ranked choice nationally. It would eliminate your 2 party system and give much fairer representation to everyone. The only people that shouldn't want this is the current political-lobbyist-complex. Literally everyone from extremists to moderates get a better deal out of it. | 0Trait Anger
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25% of senate republicans are willing to throw out your vote because of a conspiracy theory with less evidence than the tv show ancient aliens. | 1State Anger
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https://twitter.com/mkraju/status/1345752275168485380
> Ted Cruz, asked on Fox about criticism he's received from Republicans and Dems over his push to challenge and probe the election results: "I think we need to tone down the rhetoric. This is already a volatile situation. It's like a tinder box and throwing lit matches into it."
Like does he honestly not realize he's the arsonist in his scenario? | 1State Anger
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It’s a coup. | 1State Anger
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The ICUs must be totally full nationwide with motorcycle victims. | 0Trait Anger
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How much longer until he declares himself fake news? | 0Trait Anger
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Trump’s future of lies and misinformation will continue to do more harm to our democracy as he continues to exist following his disgusting 4 years in office. | 0Trait Anger
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Please stop reporting what trump says he's not news anymore, he's just an old man farting into the wind. | 2Anger Expression
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The only correct response by the House is to refuse to seat those members that participate in this fascistic act.
If they want to allege the election they won was fraudulent, they should either not be seated today or they should be expelled on the 6th. | 2Anger Expression
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> All 12 Republican senators who have pledged not to ratify the electoral college results on Wednesday, and thereby refuse to confirm Joe Biden’s resounding victory over Donald Trump in the presidential election, declined to defend their move on television, a CNN host said on Sunday.
When are they not hypocrites? Lol. How do people vote for these idiots. | 1State Anger
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The Republican Party is no longer the party of Lincoln and the Union. It has now become the party of John Wilkes Booth and the Confederacy. | 0Trait Anger
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*seems* doomed? Everything they’ve tried has been doomed from the beginning. | 0Trait Anger
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The FBI and national guards can deal with the seditionists as outright criminals. Biden is right to avoid Trump. | 2Anger Expression
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Following the inauguration we must ignore all things Trump except for his prosecution and conviction; don’t even downvote, he thrives on negative attention too, simply ignore him completely, he’ll die of inattention | 0Trait Anger
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Great strategy pre Jan 20. Horrible strategy post.
The next Authoritarian to rise to the Presidency is going to be much more skillful.
Demonstrate to them now the consequence. | 1State Anger
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This guy has dealt with toddlers. | 0Trait Anger
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The problem is the press won't ignore him. Trump generates a lot of clicks. | 0Trait Anger
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thats the only way to get rid of trolls...I wish the media would learn this lesson | 2Anger Expression
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Best way. There is nothing more irritating and hurtful to a malignant narcissist than being ignored. In fact, more people should jump on that wagon. Everyone ignore Trump and he will eventually go away. | 0Trait Anger
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The democrats better not fuck this up. | 1State Anger
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How lack of m4a left Millions of people uninsured during the deadliest pandemic in recent history and dems and republicans STILL think m4a isn't the way forward is wild to me. | 0Trait Anger
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I’m so tired of this despicable imbecile. | 0Trait Anger
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I’m getting real tired of tired of this piece of shit downplaying the pandemic. | 1State Anger
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Fake? He just insulted the families of 350,000 families who have lost a loved one. What an insufferable, insensitive, and vile human being he is. | 1State Anger
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I’m floored when I hear Trump supporters disputing the COVID deaths as if this MFer’s administration isn’t the one administering policy to the CDC. | 1State Anger
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