Says President Nero while attempting to grab a nearby fiddle with his tiny, tiny bruised hands.

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    “If Obama wins, the country will burn and be lost to communism” Obama serves two terms, still waiting for “communism”

    “If Biden wins, the country will burn and be lost to communism” Biden wins, still no “communism”

    “If Kamala wins the country will burn and be lost to communism”

    “Trump warns…”

    Do republicuck magatards ever learn?

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    If it must burn to be renewed then it must burn. No different than a sick redwood. I don’t think it’ll burn or it quite needs to, but it needs to be renewed even if it takes burning to do it

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    This America isn’t worth preserving, if it is a reflection of Trump and his kindred. I do not wish to live the rest of my life in a nation that has been consumed by evil.

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      I like to imagine Trump’s behavior has opened the door to sweeping changes across the board. I feel like administrations opted for smaller, less impactful in the near term changes, and Trump, to his very limited credit, made sweeping changes rapidly. So let’s see that in the other direction. He’s had SCOTUS support some of his orders, so let’s use them as examples for changes in the opposite direction.

      Then let’s close all the loopholes.

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        Even in the ideal liberal world where Republicans show up and take advantage of loopholes, and then Democrats take power and patch them all, fundamentally this allows a ratcheting effect if Democrats only ever fix and never utilize the power themselves. I’d like to see a truth and reconciliation period similar to South Africa where we take a hard look at ourselves as a nation and address the bigotry that leads us to become such a pariah, both to each other and globally. We can then address the shared goals of bringing back American jobs from a standpoint of honesty at what took them in the first place, and many of the other things that supposedly fueled the collapse of our moral framework. Unfortunately I don’t see a world where any party leaders would engage in this behavior, because moving on is all their donors ever want to do. You don’t need to dig for long to find billionaires meddling, and their favorite time to meddle is in democratic primaries, something the leadership very much wants them to keep doing.

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    Someone asked, “Why do some British people not like Trump?” An articulate and witty writer wrote the following response: “A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace. So, the stark contrast does throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief. Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty, or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I do not say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it is a fact. He does not even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he does not just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and automatic nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance, or depth. It is all surface. Some might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we do not. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He is not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He is more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege. And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully and racist. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down. So, the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a few of us– of look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that: You do not need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man. This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty hard to miss. After all, it is impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump. And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumps of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created? If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

    Nate Whight

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    So he’s warning the dumpster fire is going to burn if he can’t continue the dumpster fire he created? And people still doubt his dementia? What’s his next threat, he’s going to drown the gulf of Mexico?

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    Probably because that asshat Vought is laying plans to deny Democrats a win. And like his affiliate said, it will be bloodless if the Democrats allow it.

    Voting asshat conservatives out means Vought just says “no” and then stuff may get very spicy.

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      Vought is the epitome of the hated “deep state”. The guy is a lifelong bureaucract pulling the strings from behind the scenes. Most Americans don’t even know OMB exists.

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    They’re desperate in NYS. Offering to ignore income tax before 50k and 100k and increase shale drilling and fracking. What worries me is these dumb boomers will fall for it.

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    Trump Warns America Will Burn if Republicans Lose This Election

    That’s not a warning, it’s a threat.