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07 Jan 2021, 7:57 am

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politic ... trump-poll

45 % of all Republican voters believe that it was OK to attempt a coup against Congress.



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07 Jan 2021, 9:16 am

thinkinginpictures wrote:
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll

45 % of all Republican voters believe that it was OK to attempt a coup against Congress.
To put it in better perspective, that's roughly 28,000,000 people who voted for Trump.

Coincidentally, that's about the same number of people who live in Texas, the second largest state by population.

Which reminds me ... Texas threatened to secede from the Union if Biden got elected ... quando ... quando ... quando ...


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08 Jan 2021, 2:48 am

thinkinginpictures wrote:
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll

45 % of all Republican voters believe that it was OK to attempt a coup against Congress.


I can't say I'm surprised. The thing that almost amuses me is that the Republican voters who partook in the poll wanted them referred to as "protestors" and "looters", without a doubt a passive aggressive jab at mainstream media, who also referred to the vandals as "demonstrators". People really need to learn how journalism works before they jump out and say that there's a bias in media. However, I will have to say there's an issue I have with some polls, due to the wording. It's one thing to ask if staging a coup d'etat is okay, it's something else entirely to ask if it was okay to attempt a coup on the basis that the winner of an election is not who they want in office. I realize I'm more than likely splitting hairs, but context is important to me because it means the difference between "helping my uncle, Jack, off a horse" and "helping my uncle jack off a horse".



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08 Jan 2021, 3:56 am

That's a lot of people who had better not actually try anything, or the lot of them may as well be labeled as domestic terrorists, for all that entails.



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08 Jan 2021, 4:55 am

thinkinginpictures wrote:
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2021/01/06/US-capitol-trump-poll

45 % of all Republican voters believe that it was OK to attempt a coup against Congress.


Only 45%? :scratch:



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08 Jan 2021, 10:15 am

Here's hoping the survey was flawed and that those who supported it were more likely to respond.

Any Republican that tries to spout that crap around me is liable to get verbally pounded into the dirt.


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08 Jan 2021, 10:50 am

The guy on the right looks familiar...

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... what do you think?


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08 Jan 2021, 10:53 am

Was it an online poll or something? If so how do they collect the results?



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08 Jan 2021, 11:10 am

Fnord wrote:
The guy on the right looks familiar...

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... what do you think?


The one on the left is the perfect case for socialism or communism.


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08 Jan 2021, 11:35 am

Nades wrote:
Was it an online poll or something? If so how do they collect the results?


They list their methodology at the bottom.



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08 Jan 2021, 12:20 pm

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08 Jan 2021, 1:08 pm



Humans Go Wherever They Find A Home Hand-in-Hand
Doesn't Matter If It's Really Hell or Heaven WiTHiN NoW
Humans Go Wherever They Find A Home Hand-in-Hand

Of Course The Home
One is Born into; The
State, The Work, The Church, The Same

Makes A Huge

Difference of

Whether Life is A Piece
Of Whole Pie or the Same SOS Save
Our Ship And the Same 'Old Boat' too

As It's True, Anchors And Sails Are Required
to Sail Ships in Fair Skies And Following Winds Yet Facing Storms
Returning to Safe Harbors Anchoring With Sufficient Moor too...

And Then There
is me a Bird Naked
on A Wing Just Free...

True, i let my Wife
'The Anchor' Help
Keep me Grounding
When Storms Come too
in Safe Harbor; as Yes, i am
100 Percent Extraverted and
100 Percent Open Minded As Tested


Bar Or Church
i Fit in Fine the Same;
Excellent Purview for A Participant
Anthropology Observer; Yes, Overall Watcher,
Writer, Seeing Both Sides Now Truer at leasT hehe...

It's True, Obviously
Someone Like me is
More Welcome in the
Dance Hall of Sails More

Than the Anchors of Church;

Yet it's Worth Noting that only
About Half of the Half of Americans
Who Are Protestant are Republicans
And Half of the 20 Percent or So who
Are Catholics Are 'Bidens'; True, Yes only
About Half of Catholics Are Republican Now too...


So Yes, Half of Republicans
Are Protestants More Resistant
to Change as Conservative Propensity
Grows Born and Bred as Anchors More Than Sails...

Yet, It's Also True
Some Localities Still
Are About 75 Percent
Republican Oriented
And Coup Supporting Like

Mine; Whatever it Takes to
Keep Folks Who Look And Behave
Different From Them to Play Free in
Pursuing their Rights to Life, Liberty,
And their Personal Flavor of Pursuing Happiness True...

Oh, the Other thing,

Typically Conservative

Leaning Folks Are More

Cave Sitters Who Do Not Go

Full Sailing Nomad to Big City

Success Away from the Same 'Old

Farms' with the Same 'Little Protestant

Churches' With the Same Folks Doing what

They Have Always Done Before in Feathered

Enough Nests, Just Wanting All to remain the

Same And Nothing to Disrupt Their

Smaller World to View;

Upset For what's

In their

Caves For Change;

Even Re-Arranging Cave

Bible Chapters/Words And It's true

Ya Might Get to Hear A Bloody Coup

Even At Home, Church, School, Or Work as True

People Are Alike All Over

Catholic Republican,
Catholic Democrat,
Protestant Republican,
Protestant Democrat,
About 50/50 Through and

Through; Yet that is an Average
Of It All in the 'United States' There Are Still Rural Pockets
Of Folks Who Welcome 'Coups' at ~75 Percent Protesting
to Keep the Order the Way It Is And the Sails Among

The Anchors

Willing to Go

Out and Scale

Capitol Walls to

Break-in Established

Order to Even Kill THAT ORDER to Keep Their Order...

i've Heard it 'Ad-Naustically' Over and Over

THIS STATE WILL FAIL UNLESS IT DOES

OUR GOD RULE AS CHURCH IS STATE FOR US!

It's worth
Noting Trump
Picked Up on This
FAct (Human Art of The Deal)
And Uses it to Rule These 'Minions';
Not Much Different Than His 'Previous
Employees' Dependent On Him For Subsistence ;

Just Chose What They Hate That's Different

And Pick Their Pockets

While Ya

Champion
Their Cave Dwelling Same...

They've Just Been Waiting for a
Despicable Leader to Do It; And Trump

Gave Them What They Asked for; Yet You see

The Other Half in Church, State, Work, And School

And Even Home Desire A Freer World of Change For all

IN PROGRESS Beautiful Beyond Rainbows New Colors of Life

Just FLoWeRinG For All to 'See Freer to Be Who i Am to BE Even More

As THAT iS

More Just

THIS Nature

Of Their Animal

Beast the Breed Part

Varies according to what

Home, Church, State, and Work One Becomes as well...

Other than that 45 Percent of Republicans Supporting the Coup Still is only

Somewhere Between 10-15 Percent of the General United States Population

And Yeah, A Crowd of Folks; Extremists Out

Of That Percentage From All Around

The Country Is surely Far

Removed From those

Who Actually Have

The Ability to Scale

Capitol Walls; Burst through

Windows, And Climb Through Windows

Have You Been to Walmart Lately And Seen

'The Shape of the Republican Protestant Electorate'

Nah, For Those Watching Fox News As a Couch Potato THAT

Verily Doesn't

Prepare

One to

Survive

in Any Kind

of Civil War

as Make It no

Secret. "Custer's Last

Stand" was likely Really 1.6.2021 From

The South All Over The United States

Attempting to Rise one Last Instance

And Now

An East Indian
Jamaican Woman

Will Make the Final

Rule of Vote in the

Senate for all

They Are

Afraid

Of

Most to come Next;

Just for Folks to keep

Their Freedoms; Just So All Americans

Will Have Their Rights to Life, Liberty, and

Individual Pursuits To Happiness As Long

As They Do Least Harm For All the Rest

To Live a Life of not only Survive in Small Towns;

Yet Truly Thrive As Well in Every Personal Garden

Of Eden For Whatever Body Parts Wanna Touch What

In A Rule of Law For Justice And Liberty for

All In ALWaYS

An Art

oF A More

Perfect Union;

Not The Division

of Caves Wanting Seceding

From Light Still Outside Plato's Cave...

It's Okay; 'They' Can Have Their Cave Art

Others

of us

Will Continue

To Keep Sailing

Away to A Greater Light of Union;

Yet, 'We' Will Never Allow 'They' to

Tread on 'Our Personal Pronouns' to Play Differently....

'And The Powerful Play GoeS oN'; Some Add a New Verse;

And Some Do Not... Some Dance And Sing; Some Do Not...

Some Anchors And Sails;

Yet, Indeed

We Are All
The Boat

That Requires Anchors

For Safe Harbors Through

Stormy Seas No Different

Than Sails for Fair Winds And Following Seas...

-Pope EYe, Another Sailing Man

-Olive Oil Keeps

Me Grounded

-FRiEnDS Like 'Styx' Keep me

Sailing Away Exploring New Frontiers All Around;

i realize it almost Always come back to me BoRinG

Yet i am Both R And U; ARtistic And AUtistic too

i am both

Sail and

Anchor; Yes,

My Boat, My Fair

Skies, My Storms

And Safe Harbor True

-Just

-me

FoLLoWinG Wind

Yes, A Coup of One
Naked Remaining Wing Set Free...

"Unplugged"

As 'They' 'Dance/Sing'

In Some Ways At Least 'Zion' Free..;)


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08 Jan 2021, 7:07 pm

I guess it’s a good thing the USA isn’t afraid to have the world’s highest prison population. At least they have somewhere to stick these losers.


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08 Jan 2021, 8:18 pm

Fnord wrote:
The guy on the right looks familiar...

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... what do you think?

The above cartoon sums up what has been my impression of the Republican Party since at least the 1980's or so.


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08 Jan 2021, 8:41 pm

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the US.
On September 11, 2001, Muslim terrorists attacked the US.
On January 6, 2021, American terrorists attacked the US.



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08 Jan 2021, 8:53 pm

kokopelli wrote:
On December 7, 1941, the Japanese attacked the US.
On September 11, 2001, Muslim terrorists attacked the US.
On January 6, 2021, American terrorists attacked the US.


So you are saying we should be careful in the first year of each decade?