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07 Aug 2022, 4:53 am

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How would prosecuting Trump be political suicide for the Dems?


Because freeing Donald Trump from the clutches of the liberals would unite the Republican party in a way nothing else could, even those that don't like him would turn out, and given the current mood of the country, the suicide might not be solely political either.


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07 Aug 2022, 10:11 am



Yawn, "The Mood of the Country;"

Listen, Or Do Not; i LiVE iN The Creme of the Crop
Of Republican Support for Trump in the Panhandle
Of Florida And It Bears Out Well for the Median Age
Group Demographic Who Watches Fox News at Age 68;

Now It's True, These Dudes are my Peers, i Get Along With them
Fine, and Interact With Them All through the Week IN REAL LIFE;

TRUE, MOST ALL OF THEM ARE SO-CALLED EVANGELICAL PROTESTANT
CHRISTIANS and many of them are Retired Military As Well; Yet What Most

All of them have in Common is

Not Only Do they Live in Nice Homes,

And Have Big Four Wheel Drives and A Super
Nice Collection of Big Guns; On Average What i Observe

Day-in And Day-Out is Most of them Get Winded From the
Trip From Their Four Wheel Drives into Walmart Or Even to

Their Frigging Mail Box in the Heat of the Day And Night;

Metabolic Syndrome is Common in Their (Our) Demographic too;

And A Big Reason as Well Likely That After the So-Called 'Big Steal'

Of the Last Presidential Election All the Big Promised Protests Other than
The Fringe Element of January 6th at the Capital Got No Further Than Fox News
on the Big Screen And 'Big Man Talk' on Facebook and at the Hardee's Breakfast Club, Etcetera...

Yet As Far as any Big Protests
Across the Nation that takes more
Wind than the Trip to the Mail Box Each Day: NO.

Other than That 'The Texas Best' as Far As Law Enforcement
Goes Now Shows the Condition of the Condition of Modern Day
Heroes Weaponized and Shielded to the Hilt Where 376 of the
Best In Texas Were too Cowardly to Overcome one Little Wimpy

Dude in A Classroom
Slaughtering Children

With A 'Big Man AR-15 Gun;'

Likely too Afraid to Even Open
the Frigging Door; There is A Lot of
Talk Yes; Yet the Reality IS VERY LITTLE ACTION;

Unless Much Younger So-Called Liberals With Courage
Enough to Take it to the Streets of Peaceful Protests as
Assessed in 93 Percent of the Peaceful BLM Protests in study as well...

There are 36 Million Registered Republicans in 2022, and 49 Million Registered
Democrats; And Now the Democrats Have a Wedge Issue of Women's Reproductive
Rights and Freedom to Health Care Taken Away; Yes, PEOPLE GET REALLY PISSED
WHEN THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS ARE TAKEN AWAY; AND YES,

Additionally, the Democrats at least Got something Done for the Country and Not Just
Welfare For the Rich; in Terms of Infrastructure, in Terms of Expanding Health Subsidies
For the Common Man and or Woman for Another 3 Years, And In Terms of a Most Pressing

Issue of All for the
Survival of the Species
that is Human and Many
More; Yes, Addressing Climate
Change And actually Doing Something About it;

And Oh Yeah, For that Older Demographic That Actually
Reliably Votes; Lower Drug Prices In Medicare for them as Well;

And on Top of that Sure Gas is $3.55 a Gallon in the Creme of
the Crop of Trump Town USA Support in the Panhandle of Florida;

And It's True 'They'

Are Still Pissed
off About that

As 'They' Were
Fool Enough; Yes,
Many of them to Finance

an 80,000 Dollar Pick-Up
at 0 Percent Interest for 72
Months, Soaking Up The Rest of their
Second Job to Support the Big Camper
And Boat in the Back Yard Collecting Dust
And Bird Droppings And Such as Where is the

Time to Do Anything
When Everything
is About the
'Protestant
Work Ethic '
to Buy Stuff
Till Death Do Ya Part...

It's True, Their So-Called Hero
Jesus Said Go With Empty Pockets;

They Do It, Yet Many, Because They Owe So Much God Damned Money

in General of Course, as There are Outliers Who Are Conservative that
Way for
Real Like

me Who Do Not
Have to Pretend
to be a Millionaire
By the Measure of Stuff, hehe...

Yawn, 'the Political Suicide' Was More
Likely Wishing for Roe Versus Wade to
Go Away So the Democrats Get to Inherit that

Wedge issue
to Bring out
the Vote Until
That Returns to
Sanity in All States for
Women's Reproductive Rights
And Access to 'Rational Health Care' too...

Other than that Happy NATioNaL FRiEnDSHiP Day,
mY FRiEnD in Toronto Who is Still Making Her Hero
Journey out of the Dark of India All the Way through
Many Other Countries to Achieve Her American Dream of

Freedom
Reminded
Me of that Today...

Yes, The American Dream;

One of Freedom in Unity Of Truth Now;

Not One In Strife of Division Over Lies;

She's Already the Most Patriotic American i Know

And She
Hasn't Even
Arrived, Spending

10 Years of Her Life
Coming From Nothing
to Several MBA's, Etc., Top of
the Class In India and all that Jazz

For A Big Four Accounting Firm Now

to Make Her American Dream Come True
Through Desert Summers Through Frozen Winters

And Meanwhile People b***h and Complain Out of Breath Making it to

Their Mail Box,

Perhaps

one more
Day Forgotten
For What it Even
Means to Be An American;

Freedom For All, Not Just One
Religion or One Cause or Caste Below the Eyes of An Eagle in Flight...

Anyway, Gotta Get my Butt Off This Ice Cold Computer Box and Get to
Catholic Church to Sing 'The Lord's Prayers' With all my Retired Military

Buddies Who
Vote Trump
Till They Die

In One form or another...

Any Form Will Do; Trump
is Just Another Stone, Ripple in A Pond;

He Will Be as Forgotten Soon As George W Bush;

Yet of Course Written into the Stones of Darkness of HiSToRY Books...

And Always
A 'Fun Dark
Meme' Who
Might Even Replace

'Adolf Hitler' as Darkness Incarnate...

Who Knows Perhaps Even A 'REAL DEvil'
In A New Religion Remembering His 'Kind' of Human...

And Making Sure They Don't Come Again to Threaten
Representative
Democracies

Yes a True
Religion New Now of

Will Under Love For All...

Christianity Gave it a 'Good' 'Shot'
Yet it Continues to Change into the

Color 'Orange'....

And Running
STiLL Streams of
Blood in Ignorance
That Still Harms, Rapes,
Maims, And Kills Most;

Fortunately, Though, Now,

Much of it is Running Out of Wind...

For WHere An Eagle Still Flies FREE FOR REAL
AND EVEN FLOATS ON TERRESTRIAL LAND FRiEnDS

with gravity
for real too...

Just Inhaling
Peace Exhaling
Love in Balance With Nature Free..:)



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07 Aug 2022, 10:50 am

Gosh America and Britain are the same. Our left wing 'opposition' party is also not providing much opposition to our increasingly right wing party, who are still in government in our case.

The world is going right wing.


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07 Aug 2022, 11:08 am

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The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.


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07 Aug 2022, 1:16 pm

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KitLily wrote:
The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.


Exactly! They need to f*****g step up! I could shake our opposition leader. DO SOMETHING! Don't just make bland statements. Jeez.


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07 Aug 2022, 1:26 pm

Dox47 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:

How would prosecuting Trump be political suicide for the Dems?


Because freeing Donald Trump from the clutches of the liberals would unite the Republican party in a way nothing else could, even those that don't like him would turn out, and given the current mood of the country, the suicide might not be solely political either.


Am I missing something here? Why and how would Trump be released? Do you think right wing whackos are going to rescue him?
As for, "the suicide might not be solely political either:" What? There's going to be violence by the right? How is that in any shape or form acceptable?


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07 Aug 2022, 1:55 pm

Raptor wrote:
KitLily wrote:
The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.

The left went too left too fast.



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07 Aug 2022, 4:20 pm

KitLily wrote:
Raptor wrote:
KitLily wrote:
The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.


Exactly! They need to f*****g step up! I could shake our opposition leader. DO SOMETHING! Don't just make bland statements. Jeez.


Just to be clear, I AM a right winger and awfully proud of it. :D


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07 Aug 2022, 6:24 pm

Matrix Glitch wrote:
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KitLily wrote:
The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.

The left went too left too fast.

And when they lose they'll act as if they weren't the cause.
Well, I'll put it this way; if we don't see windfall republican gains in the next few years it will be all the proof needed that the elections are being rigged. It won't matter if it's true if enough people believe it and act upon their beliefs. It will get ugly.


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07 Aug 2022, 6:45 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
Dox47 wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:

How would prosecuting Trump be political suicide for the Dems?


Because freeing Donald Trump from the clutches of the liberals would unite the Republican party in a way nothing else could, even those that don't like him would turn out, and given the current mood of the country, the suicide might not be solely political either.


Some prominent politico made the observation many years ago “Might makes right.”

Frankly, I gave up on both parties over 50 years ago, when Watergate broke. I further lost all respect when “Sick Willie” Clinton had his way with Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. I’m not even going to mention the peccadillos of JFK.

We no longer live in the USA. Rather, we now live in a dystopian universe described by Bertolt Brecht
Called Mahagonny, where everything is legal except being poor. Being poor is an automatic death sentence, to be carried out immediately.
Am I missing something here? Why and how would Trump be released? Do you think right wing whackos are going to rescue him?
As for, "the suicide might not be solely political either:" What? There's going to be violence by the right? How is that in any shape or form acceptable?



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08 Aug 2022, 12:51 am

Kraichgauer wrote:

Am I missing something here? Why and how would Trump be released? Do you think right wing whackos are going to rescue him?


He'd be pardoned by President DeSantis.

Kraichgauer wrote:
As for, "the suicide might not be solely political either:" What? There's going to be violence by the right? How is that in any shape or form acceptable?


I didn't say it would be right or acceptable, I said it's possible.


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08 Aug 2022, 8:37 am

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Just to be clear, I AM a right winger and awfully proud of it. :D


And I'm a left winger and proud of it 8)

But really, the opposition party needs to be an opposition party. Not side with the government. This applies both ways.


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08 Aug 2022, 8:38 am

Matrix Glitch wrote:
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KitLily wrote:
The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.

The left went too left too fast.


Do you mean America? I don't think this happened in Britain.


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09 Aug 2022, 2:14 am

Raptor wrote:
Matrix Glitch wrote:
Raptor wrote:
KitLily wrote:
The world is going right wing.

The left had their chance.

The left went too left too fast.

And when they lose they'll act as if they weren't the cause.
Well, I'll put it this way; if we don't see windfall republican gains in the next few years it will be all the proof needed that the elections are being rigged. It won't matter if it's true if enough people believe it and act upon their beliefs. It will get ugly.


Skipping the fact that we can expect control of the legislative branch to flip this year because it always flips to create balance against the sitting president ...

Actually, windfall Republican gains are the proof elections are rigged - by Republicans, via gerrymandering and legislation that increases their control over final vote tallies. You forget that in all these claims of elections rigged to favor Democrats, the volume of voters selecting Democratic candidates has consistently been far larger than the volume of voters selecting Republican candidates. Even when Democrats lose (Gore, Hilary, the Senate, various state houses), they have more actual individual votes.

I don't know if I'm remembering the number correctly, but in the 50/50 Senate, the 50 Democrats represent 40 MILLION more votes than the 50 Republicans.

In many red state houses the Republican majority will run at, say, 70% while the individual vote counts (if you ignore districting) run only at, say, 49%.

Whether or not anyone here wishes to believe it, the majority of the public likes the current Democratic party policy ideas better than the current Republican ones. Shoot, lately the Republican party hasn't done much more in the way of policy than say screw the liberals.

I'm not saying this to suggest we chuck our systems. Even though I clearly lean liberal, I don't feel that unchecked liberalism works well; it requires a strong counterpoint, some balance, to keep it in check. But the grief and complaining coming from Republicans about election integrity has no basis in reality. The purpose, honestly, is to provide a cover for more efforts at voter suppression. Because the best way for current Republican candidates to win is to keep the public away from the polls. It's a documented historical pattern (remember when looking at the history the parties have not consistently represented the same ideals over the past 150 years. In some periods it is the Republicans representing the progressive ideas and the Democrats representing the less popular stagnant ones).

Study the numbers. I'm right on this.


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09 Aug 2022, 5:18 pm

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