45 % of Republican voters welcome a coup
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politic ... trump-poll
45 % of all Republican voters believe that it was OK to attempt a coup against Congress.
45 % of all Republican voters believe that it was OK to attempt a coup against Congress.
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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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".
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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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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... 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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