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So according to Republicans last month, every one of the 1/6/21 terrorists were ANTIFA provocateurs except Ashlii Babbit.

Then they became FBI plantsNow they are rowdy tourists

They just can't seem to stick to one lie.

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Last summer we had a BLM protest in downtown Charleston SC that turned into a riot. It was pretty terrible, and I had not a lot of sympathy for the protestors, since we're a Democratic city in the middle of a dark red state, and it gave the goobers a chance to paint BLM as terrorists.

One guy showed up with a gun, and was randomly firing at people on the streets. I saw his picture on the news last night, because he had just been sentenced to two years in jail. I was surprised his sentence was so light. I have a weird feeling Trump's supporters will all get probation.

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Sounds like Who Framed Roger Rabbit in my head!

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If the insurrection was really just a big Trump love-fest, how can they justify saying it was antifa, BLM, or FBI plants?

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"a wonderful woman fatally shot on January 6 as she tried to climb out of a broken window."

She was trying to climb INTO a broken window. He can't even get that right.

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I keep thinking he has no intention of running and is simply teasing the possibility to raise money.

You could be right, but I sure hope he doesn't run. I'm appalled that so many people can't see anything wrong with him.

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I'm sure these "mistakes" are deliberate. Attempting to trivialize Babbitt's culpability.

"She just got lost, and when she realized her mistake, she was trying to leave through a broken window. But those evil, criminal Antifa Police shot her!!"

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One thing Trump will always have, he made his moron followers proud to be stupid. Not every president can say that.

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Trump should get more credit for creating the covid vaccine but don't take it because it'll kill you.

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Thank you for the word "Goobers".

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Up to speed? Hell, I've been up to speed since the 60s. Where's everyone else been?

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"As Josh Marshall wrote this weekend, people need to "come up to speed" on this, and quickly."

THIS is basically all everybody needs to know. As much as you and I don't want it, there IS going to be more violence and a great chance that the Repubs will take over the Congress in 2022, and that will be finis for the USA.

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Pretending that ths US is the greatest country on earth - even many alleged liberals.

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We have had no riots in my small town, but we have had a coalition of faux progressives, fake liberals, and looney leftists™ that decided with a few black professors at the local colleges that they were the leaders of the pack, essentially leaving out the local black people who have lived here for generations. There was a (non-physical) fight and thankfully the locals have most of the power now.

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But he essentially did that some years ago. He said at one point that he loves uneducated people. Now, his supporters probably thought he meant some other people, and the fact they thought that proved he was right.But I'm sure he has said much worse stuff since, likely recorded, but no-one has released it.

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"... he is WAY too toxic to get elected, no matter how many of his cultists swoon..."

said many in 2016...

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