I keep seeing my rightwing friends saying "Oh sure you want to unite now" acting like it's up to Democrats to make nice with them. Let me be clear. Get fucked.
You got four years of free Presidenting because of an antiquated electoral system designed to protect slave owners, and you got three Supreme Court seats, you got your tax cuts, and you trashed the economy,
exploded the national debt and annual deficit, destroyed our world standing, did all sorts of evil shit, killed hundreds of thousands through sheer ignorance and incompetence, and threw in a fuck load of racism just for shits and giggles.
We're not saying we're here to make nice with you. We're saying if you behave, maybe in a couple years we won't all act like you're the lowlife thugs and dimestore klansmen you've been for a while.
Maybe. I mean I won't. But maybe others will. Also, fuck your feelings.

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12 Jan
FWIW- a large element of the Republican party wanted to do all the shit they are doing now when Obama was elected. There is a reason I left the GOP in 2006. I saw who they were from the inside, which was believe it or not, uglier than the view from the outside.
It was supressed and people kept to themselves, and for the most part the elected Republicans were content to just reap the proceeds of their radicalized base, maintaining they were still in control.
It was still unacceptable to be openly racist. But social media and discussion forums changed all that, and they got together with likeminded folks, and started to think their awful views were commonplace and acceptable. "Hey, a lot of people think this, so it must be ok!"
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One of the enduring lies of the last four years is that Trump speaks for the downtrodden and disfranchised. This has never been true.
Sure, there are a lot of racist poor people who vote for him, but as the arrests are pouring in from the McRib Rebellion, you are seeing Trump's true base. Middle and Upper middle class white people with means
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I mean look- Joe Manchin can be fucking INFURIATING at times. But more often than not he gets to the right place in his own time, he’s not malicious or evil, and I have never once doubted he loves West Virginia and he stuck with the Democrats through it all.
Is he my dream Senator like Sherrod or Warren? No. Will he fail me again in the future? Yes. Is he persuadable? Yes.
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One last thing before I piss off into a netflix stupor. I am so glad that we are finally going to have a President who actually enjoys things. One of the things that drove me most insane about Trump, and I have said this before, is that the man was simply incapable of joy.
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The only way he measured things is by how he perceived it made other people envy or look up to him.

I’ll hold up a bible because other people like it and I want them to like me.

I will hang around all these bottle blondes with fake boobs because that’s what people like.
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Wanna hear a quick and funny story about karmic justice in the gaming world? I know you do.
So I play world of warcraft classic with about 20 guys I played WoW with circa 2004-2010. We play alliance on a very populated PVP server, Sulfuras. There are two main factions- alliance and horde.
today was a very big event- the opening of the gates of Ahn’Qiraj, which is big enough that if you google it you will find all sorts of coverage. At any rate, it is a week long event that involves the entire world to somewhat work together to open a new set of dungeons.
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I knew I was going to be their lifeline to the outer world before they even came home, so I started a soft isolation a week before they came home. I can’t help them if I know I am contaminated.
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