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NanceGreggs

(27,816 posts)
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 11:20 AM Apr 2022

As much as I hate Republicans ...

... and everything they've done, and everything they stand for, it has never occurred to me to accuse them of running a child sex-trafficking ring out of the basement of a pizza place that has no basement.

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OhNo-Really

(3,985 posts)
20. People see in others what they see.
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 02:25 PM
Apr 2022

Most of us see the goodness & community spirit potential in the world.

And are aware of being bombarded with the heinous mental pictures being foisted on us by Right Wing media and disinformation campaigns like pizzagate.

Only the mind(s) of a child abuser could imagine such crimes.

Not a professional, just an opinion.

However, it doesn’t escape the reality that most high profile offenders lean to the right. Perhaps hate opens the door to perversion?

Something snaps in the minds of these people. The area of the mind that informs the majority of people to not harm another in any manner!

It is truly distressing.

Ocelot II

(115,781 posts)
2. See, that's a problem. As Democrats we're kind of hung up on stuff like
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 11:25 AM
Apr 2022

truth, accuracy and reality. Another problem might be that if we did accuse them of running a child sex-trafficking ring out of the basement of a pizza place that has no basement, they'd say, so what's the big deal?

Emile

(22,827 posts)
4. Republicans remind me of Putin telling the people that Ukraine
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 11:28 AM
Apr 2022

has a Nazi led government killing the children.

grumpyduck

(6,241 posts)
5. The more I see of their behavior
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 11:31 AM
Apr 2022

the more I think of spoiled three-year-olds whining and calling other people names.

My Mom did not let me do any of that as far back as i can remember.

2naSalit

(86,685 posts)
6. We didn't have that either...
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 11:41 AM
Apr 2022

At least we kids. My parents, all four of them, that's a very different story but WE weren't allowed to do that.

uponit7771

(90,347 posts)
10. +1, much of the same is going on in Russia vs Ukraine. Seems like Russians were the social ...
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 12:18 PM
Apr 2022

... rulers Ukraine until Ukraine rejected all things Russian in name of nationality.

People will make crap up to keep their mental world together

ForgedCrank

(1,782 posts)
8. I don't
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 12:09 PM
Apr 2022

hate people. I disagree with them at varying levels, but hate is a cancerous thing that eats away at the person afflicted with it, so I do my best to avoid that. I'm far from perfect, but I do my best.

LakeArenal

(28,829 posts)
9. And yet.... Whom would be more likely to be the real perverts...?
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 12:17 PM
Apr 2022

Rhetorical question.

As in……He who smelt it dealt it. I

PurgedVoter

(2,218 posts)
12. I suppose it may be too late to investigate Papa Johns
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 01:54 PM
Apr 2022

Seriously, John Schnatter decided to call his place Papa Johns. Someone check for basements.

Leith

(7,813 posts)
16. And mature and responsible
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 02:18 PM
Apr 2022

Remember the movie Adventures in Babysitting: when Elizabeth Shue's character says that she won't make a scene in the restaurant because she's better than that, one of the kids says "I'm not!" and throws the table over the cheating boyfriend and his date.

I want to be like that kid.

KS Toronado

(17,282 posts)
14. Truth be known
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 02:13 PM
Apr 2022

Matt Gaetz is running a child sex-trafficking ring out of his basement.
Rs have projection down to an art form.

PatrickforB

(14,585 posts)
15. And yet, levelling this accusation at Republicans holds more water than it ever
Sun Apr 10, 2022, 02:17 PM
Apr 2022

did for Clinton.

The GOP ranks seem to be full of pedophiles and sex traffickers.

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