Shoehorning some levity into the topic…
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WARNING: If you’re drinking something, put it down.
Really, I mean it.
Ok, any spit-takes are on the drinker at this point…
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The National Butterfly Center filed a lawsuit in 2017 after the Trump administration allegedly began construction of a wall, using chainsaws to destroy trees and other plant life, on center-owned property without permission. The 100-acre property is home to lush gardens and endangered plant life, as well as numerous nature trails that are the natural habitats of the more than 200 species of butterflies that live there.
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Separately the Republican Party censured two of its top lawmakers for investigating the Capitol riots.
The two legislators, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are the only Republicans on a congressional select committee investigating the riots. The statement by the Republican National Committee (RNC) accused the pair of helping to persecute “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse”.
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I really wonder how they think moderate conservative voters view that. Given that I no longer live in the US, I don’t have a feel for how folks on the street feel, and I don’t take the MSM or social media very seriously. But personally, I think every time they do this, it marginalizes them further. I saw the video, and I know what legitimate political discourse looks like, and Jan 6th wasn’t it.
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The people who are comfortable yet precarious and identify as “conservative” have lost their damned minds. They think they’re part of a new movement, but they’ve really just given up thinking. The rest of us are just sick of their shit.
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Most of the conservatives I knew in the US were moderate, but serious law-and-order types. They’d have been horrified at the jerks defiling the Capitol. It’s kind of a pity I’ve fallen out of communication with them, I’d love to know where their heads are at now.
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Well…
Maybe you wouldn’t.
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My cousins who are fans of 45 are ignorant and programmed to stay that way, simple as that. I pity them.
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Yeah, I actually would. I don’t ask questions that I don’t want to know the answers to.
If too many of the moderate conservatives have lost their minds and gone full Trump, the US is doomed. It may be anyway.
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I am shocked at the number of otherwise well-meaning people who can’t see his con, his grifts, and his lies. Maybe they just don’t care. Personally, I doubt he’ll make 2024 healthy and aware enough to run again, but I could be wrong. But DeSantis worries me more. He’s younger and a hell of a lot smarter than Trump, but seems cut from the same cloth. And he wants it so bad he’ll do anything to get it.
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I’m not. I don’t find them to be “otherwise well-meaning” any more - I can’t reconcile the two. To me, it means they were born vulnerable to this nonsense, maybe just a tiny bit for some. I dunno, I was lucky to be brought up by emotionally-screwed-up people who let me & my brother read anything we wanted to & who believed in learnedness and education.
I agree, I think he’s gonna croak, on stage, dramatically. Or maybe just in his sleep. Maybe he’ll fall into his soup or something. But I don’t think he’ll make it to 2024. Personally, I’m getting tired of it not ever seeming to be anything but an election year.
DeSantis may fumble somehow…I just have that kinda feeling. They are like Triffids, shedding off of the original nasty plant, aren’t they though?
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And in other Trump-related financial news…
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She still wins. Evidence of the deep state, activist judges and all that.
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I found this so bizarre. Will this accounting firm that got 10 years carried water for Trump face no consequences for certifying his financial records incorrectly???
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