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Lynch mobs barely needed the approval of the orange toddler and his maladministration to crawl back out of the woodwork. It terrifies me how many people seem to fail the basic human decency test and how quickly they find each other.

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Lynch mobs in North Carolina (where Art Pope's dirty Republican machine is clinging to power by its bloody fingernails) and in Brian Kemp's Georgia. Ugly stuff boiling just under the surface in Florida and Mississippi.

Something hellacious being cooked up by the DeVos Republican machine up in Michigan, including increasingly seriously death threats against the governor. Paging Erik Prince. This is Blackwater levels of dirty and violent.

Meanwhile the Trump administration works with Team Rupert to amp up a 21st century version of the Yellow Peril (Rupert Murdoch has promised Donald that Fox can turn China into something bigger than The Caravan and The Wall rolled into one---Xi Jinping as Ming the Merciless, and our Donald as Flash Gordon).

This is going to blow up before the summer campaign. Almost certainly by design.

Not to worry, though. Our press will "both sides" it, every step of the way.

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Mr. Chief Justice Roberts already gave the civil rights rollback a big thumbs up. This is just the inevitable result.

If Trump can seize total power, he'll be able to nullify even honest local law enforcement like D.A. Ben David.

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It physically sickens me that this country allows armed white lunatics to roam free and descend on any person they please with virtually no ramifications. Every person in that mob should have been charged with attempted murder--it's certainly what they were aiming for.

I don't think I can live in this country anymore. I'm sure other countries have their share of assholes and racists but at least they're not allowed to be armed.

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Maybe this roving mob of "law abiding" gun humpers just got lost on their way to overthrow a Democratic governor and stopped to ask for directions? Hmmmm? Did you even think of that?

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Vicious insanity.

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FFS. Vote out every R everywhere, every district, every municipality. Don't want to have to nuke it from orbit; I love this planet.

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Indeed. The world changed quickly from my perspective.

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The NRA's going to get their wish, and gun manufacturers are going to jizz in their pants. Every American is going to be forced to arm themselves to protect themselves from the Republicans.

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🤮

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I did. Then my eyes rolled so hard they fell out and I had to chase them across the floor

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We can confidently wait for the local wingnuts to announce that the mob did nothing wrong, because "Josiah is no angel," and they have hearsay slander invention to show that Dameon isn't either.It'd be "was", not "is", if the mob had its desire. The man who said you find the intelligence of a mob by taking the lowest individual I.Q. present and dividing by the number of people in the mob was dead right.

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Just because you don't believe in the war doesn't mean you should get caught in the crossfire. That's how I view actions like you describe. Stay safe if you can.

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While terrified, Dameon remained relatively calm given the situation.

and people wonder why heart attacks at an early age are so high among black men in America.

stabbiness level over 9000

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I prefer poison.

Or just let them keep exposing themselves to COVID.

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That depends on what other white people are up to. trump, for example.

Though it could be argued that he's orange.

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