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@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 "8 years of prosperity under Obama and we didn’t have to suck Putin’s ass, laud white supremacy or destroy our environment for the privilege."

Do we really "have to" do any of these things, now?

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 Personallty, I do none of these things, and I have yet to get a knock on the door in the middle of the night from Homeland Security. 🤣

This seems to me to be an American tradition: make the president into the scapegoat-in-chief.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 Don't get me wrong. I loathe Mr. Trump. I'm horrified by the thought that somebody got into the White House by pitching his own ignorance as a virtue. But if somebody is a racist, today, was he really anything else before Trump got elected? Or was he just hiding it?

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 The fault, when it is there to be found, isn't in the stars or the Oval Office. It is in ourselves.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 What Donald Trump did, either deliberately or cluelessly, was turn over the world's biggest rock and let us all see what has been crawling under it for ages.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 It was and is an ugly sight. But if we start thinking it's there because the Donald put it there, we might fool ourselves into thinking that it's gone when he leaves office in 4-8 years.

If we don't let ourselves see it, we're not going to confront it.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 We got literal neo-Nazis this time around. That should scare the Hell out of us. Picture a latter day Hitler holding the nuclear football. Think of what could happen, not just to us, but to the whole world.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 The time for soul searching is now, before we get a real police state presided over by a real monster who will really turn the world into a slag heap.

Soul searching is hard work. It doesn't make us feel good.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 When people take the buffoon-in-chief and say that he's the reason America headed down this dark path, one is giving one's fellow man an easy, respectable alternative to the unpleasant work of self-examination.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 "That's just the way the country was under Trump" becomes the non-answer that makes people comfortable with the idea of not asking themselves why they said and did the things they did.

@InMedioSitu @DrSMDHdaily @PWM62 @sander1957 @realeftypickit @immigrantdfndr @khimmelfarts @sprig_no @DexCMacB1 @Edrouant @RickyCa69392149 @Narc_Problems @cherylwillie @yeahunoeme @para82nd_1 @nipperdawg @The37thRealm @dogthecat3 @JeffHarperArt @thisisntnorma1 @APGsMom @chibearfan74_jr @Suzettemorgand1 @Forest_Lawn1937 @mark777day @ice_nikki @DonnieDoWrong @BlaineBershad @EyesofSilver @Cwedding1 @Mary__LG @petunia_peddler @AmeliaHouchins @tymanmayo @CoffeeMart @CapitaLiszt @chriswhiz4u @Becky91663 @SpyGateDown @RationalCalm @therealscooter6 @runaluck @dammit_rick @Judy577599 @katstails @abodon_5 @_centrist_ @_centrists_ @LMason1611 That's not a sort of comfort we can afford.

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