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whywesteppin whywesteppin your argument is sound and admirable.

However, being intentionally poor at grammar has its merits in cetain circumstances. A man of sound grammar would not be able to escape with his pride as seen below.

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All Punctuation Matters!

These leftist mobs will have you believe we can live in a society filled with poets, but when anarchy breaks out because "****, you ok?" is no different from "**** you! ok?" you'll come running back to us begging for help.
 
I'm a lawyer, I understand what can be done. It’s not about “what he can do”. This country is absolutely in dangerous territory. Think someone already posted it, but the Ezra Klein pod with Anne Applebaum, but it highlights how the Republican Party is actively destroying our democracy. They’re creating a base of the electorate who truly believes that this election was stolen from them and that the evil Democrats were the ones who did it. This isn’t going to blow over and the party is playing into it. We’ve also seen how susceptible our democracy is to an authoritarian government, even though Trump was too dumb to pull it off successfully. She cited that 20% of Americans said that they’d be willing to live under a military dictatorship. We are absolutely in dangerous territory, whether people want to believe it or not. The democracy doesn’t work for the majority of the country, and the shrinking minority is grabbing ahold to power and not letting go.

while I don't disagree with anything you said, I wonder if that 20% of Americans is even less than past eras? that % doesn't surprise me all too much considering this country has always been enamored with the military and guns. this is strictly conjecture but I'm willing to bet that most of trump's base would feel comfortable with this happening.
 
I just find it hard to believe that trump would be able to actually steal this election or set up a dictatorship...These are the same guys that held a press conference at four seasons landscaping...

Plus I think there is way too much at stake for that to actually happen. I feel like this is just another con he's doing to get his followers riled up and start his news network and take their money.
 
Only a matter of time before the head of CISA, Chris Krebs, gets fired now. CISA's Assistant Director handed in his resignation at the request of the WH earlier today. It looks like they decided to use their remaining time in office to publicly dismiss all of Trump's election/voter fraud claims, which obviously wasn't well received at the WH.


https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN27S2RW?
Senior U.S. cybersecurity official asked to resign amid Trump transition tumult
Bryan Ware, the Assistant Director for Cybersecurity for the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), confirmed to Reuters that he had handed in his resignation on Thursday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN27S2WB?
Senior U.S. cybersecurity official tells associates he expects to be fired: sources
Top U.S. cybersecurity official Christopher Krebs has told associates he expects to be fired by the White House, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
 
This has happened in the past already until the civil rights movement took place. Politics are predictable. It’s all reactionary. Trump isn’t breaking new ground on any fronts. His openness to being an idiot is the only thing he’s got over anybody.

what the republicans are doing now is what they’ve been doing for generations.
Here's the thing: Applebaum draws comparisons between here (right now) and the hard right in Poland (happening now too).
The thing is about all dictatorships is that you don't need to have a majority of the people by your side to take over a country; you only need a band of enablers in all branches of government and a sizeable, visible, and willing minority. Unlike other eras, where only the legislative body was on some BS, we now have an executive (president + DOJ) and a judicial bench who are explicitly willing to usurp power.

On top of all of this, nobody on the Republican side has called Trump out for cleaning up the Pentagon and putting in place loyalists. That's ominous.
 
Here's the thing: Applebaum draws comparisons between here (right now) and the hard right in Poland (happening now too).
The thing is about all dictatorships is that you don't need to have a majority of the people by your side to take over a country; you only need a band of enablers in all branches of government and a sizeable, visible, and willing minority. Unlike other eras, where only the legislative body was on some BS, we now have an executive (president + DOJ) and a judicial bench who are explicitly willing to usurp power.

On top of all of this, nobody on the Republican side has called Trump out for cleaning up the Pentagon and putting in place loyalists. That's ominous.

I feel like anybody who doesn´t see something is cooking might be willfully blind on this.

there is zero legitmate reason to replace the Secretary of Defense for 2.5 months.

I just find it hard to believe that trump would be able to actually steal this election or set up a dictatorship...These are the same guys that held a press conference at four seasons landscaping...

Plus I think there is way too much at stake for that to actually happen. I feel like this is just another con he's doing to get his followers riled up and start his news network and take their money.

it´s not even about guy any more...question is how deep are his followers willing to dive into their delusions?

how far are folks on his team willing to let this go? Kayleigh MAGAnanny should have shot this down on sight.

I have a feeling we will find out this weekend.
 
I feel like anybody who doesn´t see something is cooking might be willfully blind on this.

there is zero legitmate reason to replace the Secretary of Defense for 2.5 months.



it´s not even about guy any more...question is how deep are his followers willing to dive into their delusions?

how far are folks on his team willing to let this go? Kayleigh MAGAnanny should have shot this down on sight.

I have a feeling we will find out this weekend.

What’s this weekend?
 
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