It wasn’t that long ago that conservatives used to take swipes at “entitlement culture.” The fact that some kids felt entitled to have success and were being sheltered from the reality of the fact we sometimes don’t get our way with “participation trophies.”

Well …
Many of those same people went on to become coddlers of the most entitled brat who ever lived, who also happens to be one of the oldest brats who ever lived. A man who can’t cope with the reality that, sometimes in life, we don’t always win. We don’t always get our way.
Some tried to soothe the screaming little big guy by telling him what he wanted to hear. Others learned that there was a booming business and political market for telling his caretakers what they wanted to hear. That he didn’t lose.

“Don’t cry, Donnie. You didn’t lose, OK? Shh!”
And the Diaper Dude has a lot of Disciples. People who think that this is THEIR country and that winner of the election should be the person THEY VOTED for. And if you tell them otherwise, they’ll threaten a Civil War (a really big temper tantrum).
It’s just funny that some of the people who spent the most time mocking entitlement culture have become those who have spent the most effort nurturing it.

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How did Trump take over the Republican Party so completely?

I often criticize Trump’s negative attributes but I am about to compliment one skill that he possesses which all bullies have. He can smell weakness and fear from a mile away.
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Trump attacks people. But he focuses his attacks on people he sees as weak. He doesn’t tend to continue attacking people who consistently stand up to him. Which is one reason he attacks Mike Lee and Lindsey Graham and not so much Mitt Romney.
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But Donald Trump is the only POTUS in history to deny and try to overturn his loss.
#TrumpLost
Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush all spent their post-Presidential careers after being voted out as respected elder statesmen. They all used their experience to help those who came to office after them in one way or another.
In contrast, Donald Trump is going to spend the rest of his sad life pathologically denying the fact that he lost while trying to overturn both his loss and dismantling democracy itself.

Getting voted out of office is not the thing that makes a former US President a “loser.”
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States with the highest number of COVID deaths per Capita over the period from 9/17/21 through 9/24/21:

Alabama (pop 5.0 mil)
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West Virginia (pop 1.8 mil)
New deaths: 210
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Georgia (pop 10.7 mil)
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Texas (pop 29.1 mil)
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Okay, #DecertifyArizona loons. You want some more truth that will make your day even worse? Here goes.

Trump lost Arizona because he lost the places where most of the people in the state live. Sand doesn’t vote. ImageImageImageImage
You guys think that Arizona is Trump country, don’t you? You think there’s no way that he could have lost, not even after a bunch of other Trump supporters confirmed that Biden got more votes. Right?

Well, why did Trump’s party lose so much in Arizona in recent years? Image
Another thing none of you guys are ever able to address or explain. Yes, Trump did worse in Arizona in 2020 than he did in 2016; he lost. But in terms of point margin, he did even worse in 2016 than Romney did in 2012.

Was the 2016 election in Arizona “rigged” too? Image
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9 have been red since 1968
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There are good people all over the world who are suffering and who deserve a better life. But that doesn’t mean that everybody in the world can just come here and stay here any time they want. And that applies to all people of any nationality and over any of our borders.
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