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barbtries

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3. I've been trying to convince my friend of this.

Reply to Atticus (Original post)

Wed Dec 7, 2022, 09:56 AM

Dec 2022

She clings to the fiction that there are reasonable republicans. I told her if they're out there they're cowards. Useless either way, whether they're idiotic true believers or cynical hypocrites. Either way they do not govern, they do not serve, they hold us back and they hurt us. the whole party should collapse and disappear, and something better replace it.

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It's called "hypocrisy" folks. [View all] Atticus Dec 2022 OP

It just occurred to me that at the root of all the hypocrisy, you will always find cowardice Walleye Dec 2022 #1

I call them fascists Meowmee Dec 2022 #2

I've been trying to convince my friend of this. barbtries Dec 2022 #3

The thing is, it's still a HUGE percentage of the country that is influenced by the crazy ones. TigressDem Dec 2022 #5

True, but I think you are over estimating the percentage who worship tRUMP. TigressDem Dec 2022 #4

More than whether they are pleasing to tfg, I think what they care about is whether they Scrivener7 Dec 2022 #6

Is it any wonder the GOP has had no real platform to benefit anyone except Backseat Driver Dec 2022 #7