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This site has been around since 2012 and has a kaleidoscope of oddities. Reptilians and Ascended Masters and Hollow Earth. (no flat earthers though. A flat hollow earth would be absurd.) And they are Trumpistas.

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New to me is what I meant.

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The 2016 platform was pretty much the country is a hellhole and it's all the sitting President's fault.

So, yeah, they could use that easily.

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to convey every sense of the word, simply use "dDemocratic", I'm suggesting.

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I'm trying to buy some fireworks for the celebration, responsibly. I live in CA <sigh>

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I forgot to mention, FUCK YOU Jeff Flake. That's for Ady.

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Has Mittens come out for Biden?

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The gardening is a dead giveaway.

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'Kay. Let's make it multiple choice. Are you contending the Dems are alreadya)embracing preferential voting?b) eating deep-fried shit on a stickc)developing ideas rather than denigrating opponentsd)allying with opponents

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Then how do you shave?

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Even when I was a kid in CA I remember our "big" fireworks went, like, 6 feet in the air, max. I now live in an unincorporated area in the Pacific NW and HOLY SHIT, our windows literally SHAKE on 4th of July. May you vigorously wave many a sparkler when this monster is voted out.

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Thank you. I try.

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Well, that explains that!

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"Organic equals satanic!"

Wingnuts, probably.

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"Brought to heel." LOL

Either that or... was reminded that progressives neither own nor dominate the Democratic party, and that our role is - and always has been - to urge the party to the left, not drive it there willy-nilly above shrieking demands to "bend the knee."

But, you know... potato potahto.

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No, that's exactly what it was, the kind of public, self-humiliation ritual last seen during China's Cultural Counter Revolution under Mao designed to crush the 'deviaitonist tendency' from the Party. I kind of feel sorry for Bernie, who's pretty much a victim of his own conflict-adverse personality (probably resulting from the untreated childhood trauma of living in a family that wasn't abusive but more dysfuctional than he's ever let on).

As for this election, i suspect most "leftists" will fall into line and vote for Biden as is demanded of us, without any enthusiasm or hope, knowing full well that if he loses, we'll be blamed, and if he wins, we'll be ignored. It's only been the DNC's M.O. since 1968. When not deliberately sabotaging a nominee they didn't want (see McGovern, 1972; or at the state level, Barbara Buono in NJ in 2013).

Win, lose or draw, i also suspect this is the last straw for most "leftists', who will cut their ties to the DP and not look back (except in contempt). Which is, ironically, just what the GOP and the DNC want, albeit for different reasons.

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