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The old gaffer in the video is the result of when you only get your information from Fox news and Breitbart. It's always easier when you don't have to think for yourself. That's why so many righties are also religious nuts.

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"I can explain it to them, but I can't understand it for them."

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Obvs you are “dOiNg YoUr OwN rEsEaRcH” rong then eh?

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that's why i said it like i did . . . you can explain all day at them or at rocks . . . neither has any understanding.

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It seems like all my life I have mostly "not fit in." Now, I'm an "older white man," 70s, and I guess I don't fit in that demographic either (politically and culturally). Nothing changes. Nothing.

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Good for you. 44 years ago I saw an ad in the paper for a "Divorce Support Group" and went to a meeting, at somebody's house. It was me and about ten women! I kept my trap shut and just listened. I'll say this -- they were all really nice to me, kind of like a puppy.

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I'm white and it's the white people I'm afraid of. The Floriduh crackers.

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Can't be Floriduh -- only Florida Men do shit like that.

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He could run himself with that line and he'd get quite the support from his group.

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His name is Legion

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Agree 100%. Stop with the nuance! Just pick a popular message, and hammer it over and over. Save the aspirational stuff for some other time. Tell them over and over what's in it for them.

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And stop sending AOC to talk to Dixiecrats! She is a WONDERFUL rep for the Bronx... but "don't try to NY my Dixie". Jay-Z ain't gonna get you one fucking Texan you ain't already got!

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egads, you're right.It's a horrible realization.

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Yep, he was the “victim,” not the dead people, who didn’t get the chance to testify. On cross, I’d start by asking how far he had to drive, with his assault rifle, to get himself into a spot where he’d be so afraid he’d have to start shooting.

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ah, The Beforetimes™ when life was simpler.

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