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Not All Republicans Are Treasonous Criminals

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In Key States, Republicans Were Critical in Resisting Trump’s Election Narrative
But in the end, the system stood firm against the most intense assault from an aggrieved president in the nation’s history because of a Republican city clerk in Michigan, a Republican secretary of state in Georgia, a Republican county supervisor in Arizona and Republican-appointed judges in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.​
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They refuted conspiracy theories, certified results, dismissed lawsuits and repudiated a president of their own party, leaving him to thunder about a supposed plot that would have had to include people who had voted for him, donated to him or even been appointed by him. The desperate effort to hang onto office over the will of the people effectively ended when his own director of the General Services Administration determined that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the president-elect and a judge Mr. Trump put on the bench chastised him for ludicrous litigation.​
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“But now we have to go back and rebuild voter trust and let people realize that our elections are not rigged,” she said. “We have to step back and say how do we restore public confidence in a system that is completely torn down.”​

These people never should have been put in the position of defending our democracy in the first place, but fortunately they performed jobs we've been taking for granted our entire lives.
 
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jpn said:
In Key States, Republicans Were Critical in Resisting Trump’s Election Narrative
But in the end, the system stood firm against the most intense assault from an aggrieved president in the nation’s history because of a Republican city clerk in Michigan, a Republican secretary of state in Georgia, a Republican county supervisor in Arizona and Republican-appointed judges in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.​
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They refuted conspiracy theories, certified results, dismissed lawsuits and repudiated a president of their own party, leaving him to thunder about a supposed plot that would have had to include people who had voted for him, donated to him or even been appointed by him. The desperate effort to hang onto office over the will of the people effectively ended when his own director of the General Services Administration determined that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the president-elect and a judge Mr. Trump put on the bench chastised him for ludicrous litigation.​

These people never should have been put in the position of defending our democracy in the first place, but fortunately they performed jobs we've been taking for granted our entire lives.
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Not all Republicans are criminals, but we need to prosecute the ones who are
 
Rudy said:
I don't know if any president will be able to heal the wounds and break the divide in this country. Trump has caused so much harm with his lies and undermining our democracy.
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It will take a lot more than a President, that's for sure. We have all become too alienated from each other. As time goes on, it is becoming harder and harder to find empathy. I really do try, but it has become much harder and some days it's just impossible for me.

Millions of people are now getting their entire worldview manufactured by a number of dishonest and dangerous websites with zero accountability. The real kicker is that the very media coverage needed to show that these people are lying is re-purposed as evidence that the media is in on THE CONSPIRACY and the targets just go further and further down the rabbit hole becoming more isolated and vulnerable to propaganda.
 
exoplanet said:
It will take a lot more than a President, that's for sure. We have all become too alienated from each other. As time goes on, it is becoming harder and harder to find empathy. I really do try, but it has become much harder and some days it's just impossible for me.

Millions of people are now getting their entire worldview manufactured by a number of dishonest and dangerous websites with zero accountability. The real kicker is that the very media coverage needed to show that these people are lying is re-purposed as evidence that the media is in on THE CONSPIRACY and the targets just go further and further down the rabbit hole becoming more isolated and vulnerable to propaganda.
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I have friends that went full on Trump Retard and I just don't know if I can relate to them ever again.
 
jpn said:
In Key States, Republicans Were Critical in Resisting Trump’s Election Narrative
But in the end, the system stood firm against the most intense assault from an aggrieved president in the nation’s history because of a Republican city clerk in Michigan, a Republican secretary of state in Georgia, a Republican county supervisor in Arizona and Republican-appointed judges in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.​
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They refuted conspiracy theories, certified results, dismissed lawsuits and repudiated a president of their own party, leaving him to thunder about a supposed plot that would have had to include people who had voted for him, donated to him or even been appointed by him. The desperate effort to hang onto office over the will of the people effectively ended when his own director of the General Services Administration determined that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the president-elect and a judge Mr. Trump put on the bench chastised him for ludicrous litigation.​
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“But now we have to go back and rebuild voter trust and let people realize that our elections are not rigged,” she said. “We have to step back and say how do we restore public confidence in a system that is completely torn down.”​

These people never should have been put in the position of defending our democracy in the first place, but fortunately they performed jobs we've been taking for granted our entire lives.
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There are plenty of Republicans who are smart, educated, sane and rational.
And the current Republican Party has very little or no use for them.
In fact, most of them are being labeled TRAITORS or RINOS and they are being either dismissed or they've left the party in disgust.
That does not mean that they automatically become liberals, it just means that they didn't leave the party, the party left them.
 
Conservatives MUST be split off from the right wingers. FOREVER. The cons can take back their party, but the right wing MUST be castrated. And made an example of, so we never again, have to endure such a criminal again. Trump tried to MURDER as many libs as possible.
 
A good number of Republicans were just voting party lines, I think that a good number don't really even like Trump but Trump had the R. Silly, perhaps, but I don't think the majority of Republicans are bad folk. The hardcore Cultists, the ones who push to their deaths this "Biden stole the election" nonsense, they are treasonous commie lovers. But I think that is but a fraction of Republicans overall.
 
“Not All Republicans Are Treasonous Criminals”

Gee, I am sure I speak for so many conservatives and Republicans when I say thank you for damning us with such faint praise.
 
jpn said:
In Key States, Republicans Were Critical in Resisting Trump’s Election Narrative
But in the end, the system stood firm against the most intense assault from an aggrieved president in the nation’s history because of a Republican city clerk in Michigan, a Republican secretary of state in Georgia, a Republican county supervisor in Arizona and Republican-appointed judges in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.​
​
They refuted conspiracy theories, certified results, dismissed lawsuits and repudiated a president of their own party, leaving him to thunder about a supposed plot that would have had to include people who had voted for him, donated to him or even been appointed by him. The desperate effort to hang onto office over the will of the people effectively ended when his own director of the General Services Administration determined that Joseph R. Biden Jr. is the president-elect and a judge Mr. Trump put on the bench chastised him for ludicrous litigation.​
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“But now we have to go back and rebuild voter trust and let people realize that our elections are not rigged,” she said. “We have to step back and say how do we restore public confidence in a system that is completely torn down.”​

These people never should have been put in the position of defending our democracy in the first place, but fortunately they performed jobs we've been taking for granted our entire lives.
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So what you’re really saying is you don’t know what the word ‘treasonous’ means. Would you like some help with that, or are you just planning to continue to flounder?
 
Why does it seem that those Rs in the upper bands of power became the orange man's bootlickers so quickly?
 
Felis Leo said:
“Not All Republicans Are Treasonous Criminals”

Gee, I am sure I speak for so many conservatives and Republicans when I say thank you for damning us with such faint praise.
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Sorry, but your party has kind of been maybe misbehaving a little bit lately?
 
Ikari said:
A good number of Republicans were just voting party lines, I think that a good number don't really even like Trump but Trump had the R. Silly, perhaps, but I don't think the majority of Republicans are bad folk. The hardcore Cultists, the ones who push to their deaths this "Biden stole the election" nonsense, they are treasonous commie lovers. But I think that is but a fraction of Republicans overall.
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That fraction appears to be about 7/10.
www.theguardian.com

70% of Republicans say election wasn't 'free and fair' despite no evidence of fraud – study

78% of Republicans who alleged unfairness said mail-in ballots spurred fraud, while 72% believed ballot tampering occurred
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
Felis Leo said:
“Not All Republicans Are Treasonous Criminals”

Gee, I am sure I speak for so many conservatives and Republicans when I say thank you for damning us with such faint praise.
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Well, it's hard to play the victim here, isn't it?

For four years the Republican Party absolutely served Trump and proved entirely petrified of holding Him accountable. The GOP is still doing it and will until Trump no longer matters to the conservative collective. If it wasn't already just a right-wing party before, it certainly abandoned all sense of conservatism under Trump. There was never an outcry from the conservative collective over what Trump said and did in their names. Never any criticism that didn't earn massive scorn from the rest for betraying the Party. The conservative collective shrugged at the neo-Nazis and white supremacists in their midst. They defended Trump when he publicly defended Putin against American Intelligence agencies. They applauded his special bond with the most brutal dictator on the planet in North Korea. They shrugged at his consistent attacks on democratic institutions and the military. They defended Trump when he tried to collude with Ukraine to help him win an American election. And they saw nothing wrong with Trump declaring to the world that America is more corrupt than Russia, China, and North Korea on election day. So, where was the great conservative outcry of protest throughout any of this? From what the rest of the world saw, there was none. Only blind support and denial. Even right here on this site, those conservatives who may have been disgusted, were largely silent and let the fanatics speak for them.

But the real problem is that the conservative collective allowed themselves to become this because of their irrational hatred and venom towards liberals. This began before Trump. More than half of Republicans in 2017 still believed that Obama was born in Africa. How in hell was this possible? And tomato paste? How about the Benghazi delusions? Or the Pizza Gate crap? Environmental, health, and even medical science denials? QAnon? Some 70% of Republicans actually believe that Democrats pulled off the greatest election heist in American history, without leaving a shred of evidence? Clearly, conspiracies have long replaced broken conservative ideologies.

It is this irrational hatred for liberals that has usurped all common sense, reason, and logic. Ask them why they hate Democrats and liberals and the answer is always about some rhetorical nonsense about "commies or socialists," even after supporting a man who boldly cozied up to and pandered communist Putin and created a special bond with communist Kim Jung-un. There's just nothing really there anymore. And this is why a man like Donald Trump could so easily come along, fill the void, and manipulate the conservative collective into following Him down paths where they overlooked and even supported his treachery, criminality, and even treason.
 
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"Not All Republicans Are Treasonous Criminals"

Could probably say the same about some Democrats as well.
 
Ikari said:
A good number of Republicans were just voting party lines, I think that a good number don't really even like Trump but Trump had the R. Silly, perhaps, but I don't think the majority of Republicans are bad folk. The hardcore Cultists, the ones who push to their deaths this "Biden stole the election" nonsense, they are treasonous commie lovers. But I think that is but a fraction of Republicans overall.
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A) I agree, but that is not necessarily forgivable. B) I hope you are right. I have no tolerance for "my party right or wrong", and that is what gave us Trump. That is going to take a lot of forgiveness.
 
Felis Leo said:
“Not All Republicans Are Treasonous Criminals”

Gee, I am sure I speak for so many conservatives and Republicans when I say thank you for damning us with such faint praise.
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You are most welcome. Faint is the best that can be hoped for, given the circumstances. ;)
 
NWRatCon said:
A) I agree, but that is not necessarily forgivable. B) I hope you are right. I have no tolerance for "my party right or wrong", and that is what gave us Trump. That is going to take a lot of forgiveness.
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It is, but honestly both the Republicans and the Democrats do the "my party right or wrong". There does seem to be cracks in the Democrats with the progressives who won't support just anyone with a D, the R's do seem a bit more lock-stepped at this point. But the extreme partisanship infects both sides as well. But the Republicans really have shown how far down the road they will go to support Party over Republic. It IS a lot to forgive. people should be voting LP instead of GOP. But as annoying as the Party Voters are, they aren't the worst in the Republican Party right now. That dishonor, I truly believe, goes to the hardcore Cultists who are still pushing election disinformation and actively arguing/working against the foundations of the Republic, of our Democracy, of our Elections. These folk should be ashamed of themselves, but I don't think they can feel shame any longer. But they clearly hate America, they are nothing more than commie wannabes pushing the glory of their Dear Leader and trying to uphold his power against democratic elections. ****ing communists, man.
 
Guyzilla said:
Conservatives MUST be split off from the right wingers. FOREVER. The cons can take back their party, but the right wing MUST be castrated. And made an example of, so we never again, have to endure such a criminal again. Trump tried to MURDER as many libs as possible.
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It was, in point of fact, actual White House policy according to Jared.
Kushner reasoned that the pandemic would only hurt blue states and pit governors against each other.
"Hey! Let's you and him fight!" (to the death!)
 
And the policy of endorsing RACE WAR continues.

Nielsen was engulfed in controversy before he even became chairman. He won the job in March, but as he prepared to take office this summer, he faced widespread condemnation for posting a Facebook graphic juxtaposing a Martin Luther King Jr. quote with a banana, which could be read as an allusion to equating Black people with monkeys.

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Somehow we Democrats are supposed to REACH OUT and let bygones be bygones.
And if we don't, WE are the bad guys.
 
Rudy said:
I don't know if any president will be able to heal the wounds and break the divide in this country. Trump has caused so much harm with his lies and undermining our democracy.
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In short, he has almost succeeded in "Russian-izing" society and by that I mean, if you were to visit Russia today, you would meet a fairly large subset of the Russian population who, if you tell them the sky is blue, they would ask who said so, and depending on who it is, they would reject it as fake news.

We have never had a society divided that way, not to such an extent that there is a burgeoning and lucrative market for fairy tales and conspiracy theories marketed as "news".
We didn't begin to have a society like that until the 1980's, but what did exist on that line was fringe back then.
NOW IT IS MAINSTREAM.
And that used to be the difference between us and the Russians once upon a time.
Not anymore. Trump and his Russian buddies have managed to recreate a blueprint of Russian society right here in America, only seasoned with ketchup instead of borscht.
 
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