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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 day ago (34 children)

Republicans should be wiped out. Fools, monsters, and traitors. They've done incalculable damage to the world and all those who live here.

Every Republican that dies should be cause for celebration.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Maybe when the MAGA dorks try to convince us this is short term for long term gain; what they don't realize is ousting the republican stranglehold on the country is the long term gain.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

If they do, I'll remind them of all the times Democrats reduced the deficit for long-term gain, and then Republicans pointed only to last year's DJIA.

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[–] [email protected] 117 points 1 day ago (28 children)

The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

The optimist angle would be that Trump is secretely a Democrat agent, and that by crashing the stock market he just thinks it's over-valued and wants to return to 2018~ levels.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

Ah what a nice fantasy to cogitate on for a few moments

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It would be too soon, if we got rid of them and these Corpo Dems. We could remove citizens United and few other worthless pieces of legislation. That and stop this fucking election tampering in the name "stopping fraud" fucking clowns making voting a single day during the work week and these Red hatted goons cheer for this shit like the mouth breathing inbred ghouls they are because they hate everyone else is beyond annoying.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Citizens United wasn't legislation, it was a Supreme Court decision. The only way to fix it following the current rules is to ask the court again or to change the Constitution. Of course, if you are willing to just ignore laws then you have many options (see current Presidential administration for examples).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Hawaii was recently successful in enacting state laws to limit campaign contributions. I'd hope that other states willing to tackle the fight could do the same. The biggest chance would be if it could be done in battleground states.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Laws are fake anyway might as well

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

The court itself is beyond redemption. You and I both know there is only one way out of this

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

So, there is a silver lining?!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 23 hours ago

Notice how he worries about HIS job... he couldn't care less about the harm to the country or the people

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago

Of course that’s all he cares about. Fuck him, I hope he loses everything he holds dear.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

You put it all on orange and spun the wheel

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hopefully the republicans can go the way of the whigs, the democratic party can become the conservative party they so desperately want to be, and we can create an actual party on the left.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Good, and we should wipe out the Schumers Pelosis and Jeffries too. Maybe get rid of these goofy ass mega corps

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In a perfect world you will never again be in power. Ever.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

A proto-Mitch McConnell being born

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

"During this two-to-five-year period, asserted Bezmenov, what matters is the targeting of essential structural elements of a nation: economy, foreign relations, and defense systems. Basically, the subverter (Russia) would look to destabilize every one of those areas in the United States, considerably weakening it."

We are here: attacking Canada, Greenland, Mexico (damaging our economy & theirs, and clearly our foreign relations) Trump also offered to cut defense spending if Russia does. It's all very obvious if you're not in the cult. 

https://bigthink.com/the-present/yuri-bezmenov/

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Don't threaten me with a good time!!!

Also, it's a wheel. The Cons ruin the economy, voters get mad and vote Democrat, Democrat fixes economy, voters don't like the spending even though it's improving everything so vote Con, the Cons ruin the economy, ect ect so on and so forth

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[–] [email protected] 150 points 1 day ago (38 children)

I wish American Voters had memories longer than 4 years. But they don't.

They got pissed at Bush and the Republicans in 2006 for the war and in 2008 for crashing the economy.

And 2 years later in 2010 they voted in a red wave not seen since reconstruction.

Donald Trump tried to overthrow the government and 4 years later they gave him another chance. If Trump shot a crowd of people on 5th avenue the kids of the victims would vote for him 4 years later.

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