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Beth Gallagher
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Sometimes I really can't believe this is the reality that we are living in now. Has the entire world gone crazy?
It's being drug in that general direction. There is a Newsmax interview with AOC (a potential Presidential candidate) who claims that the US Senate was "founded on, uh, you know, Jim Crow." (Jim Crow came along 174 years after the Senate.)
Don Alaska
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AOC is so stupid she makes the demented Joe Biden seem cognizant.
Hedi Mitchell
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I meant in General not subject specific....
Hedi Mitchell
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TMI..
Marie Miller
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I would not refer to her as stupid. She has a goal and is a follower. Give her a line and she will sing the song. Shiny!
She thinks there are only 2 branches to the Federal government...and she sits in the halls of Congress. She's stupid.
Here in Maine, a lot of us would like to have the opportunity to vote for Ashley Webb. In fact, that whole panel sort of made Platner look good.
Ed Delabama
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Good afternoon to all-
The person in question- AOC- does not have the market on stupid cornered in Washington. There are a great many stupid people in government from the very highest positions on down.
And it seems that the stupider the politician, the more noise he/she makes. Funny how that works.
It's enough to get a person down, it is.
you all be safe and keep well- and confusion to the republicans
Ed
The person in question- AOC- does not have the market on stupid cornered in Washington. There are a great many stupid people in government from the very highest positions on down.
And it seems that the stupider the politician, the more noise he/she makes. Funny how that works.
It's enough to get a person down, it is.
you all be safe and keep well- and confusion to the republicans
Ed
Jacob Petersheim
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Random, but anyhoo...
I'm becoming unhappy with a certain element on the right that seems to be a lot larger than I had imagined.
Almost a caricature of Hillary's "deplorables." Cash-economy tax evaders, welfare cheats, disability whores, and sleazy "operators" running scammy "businesses." I'm not taking a whiz on "the poor" but most do seem to emanate from trailer parks and suburban ghettos, at least pf those I am encountering. Yes, some have served in branches of the military but they also seem to be washouts who could not cut it.
I've seen this most often around local coin shops and in two curiosity visits dropping in to a small town gun shop. The gun store owner even brought this topic up to me, admitting that he has a lot of "scary" customers but he also has to be careful in his reporting to authorities to avoid retribution. Many seem to have serious substance abuse going on along with mental/behavioral issues.
Somehow in recent decades I'd begun to assume most of the insanity was on the left, but no more.
This is a huge disappointment, but at my age I should have known better. There are drug-addled mental-midget marginals with f-ed up financials and rock bottom morals everywhere today. I'm even finding it among "educated" people who can speak in complete sentences. People like that might seem to have held life together, but then you find clues or clear demonstrations that they are not healthy whole people.
Politically... these seem just as likely as some purple-haired bull-ringed lesbian to be co-opted into violent mob movements.
I'm becoming unhappy with a certain element on the right that seems to be a lot larger than I had imagined.
Almost a caricature of Hillary's "deplorables." Cash-economy tax evaders, welfare cheats, disability whores, and sleazy "operators" running scammy "businesses." I'm not taking a whiz on "the poor" but most do seem to emanate from trailer parks and suburban ghettos, at least pf those I am encountering. Yes, some have served in branches of the military but they also seem to be washouts who could not cut it.
I've seen this most often around local coin shops and in two curiosity visits dropping in to a small town gun shop. The gun store owner even brought this topic up to me, admitting that he has a lot of "scary" customers but he also has to be careful in his reporting to authorities to avoid retribution. Many seem to have serious substance abuse going on along with mental/behavioral issues.
Somehow in recent decades I'd begun to assume most of the insanity was on the left, but no more.
This is a huge disappointment, but at my age I should have known better. There are drug-addled mental-midget marginals with f-ed up financials and rock bottom morals everywhere today. I'm even finding it among "educated" people who can speak in complete sentences. People like that might seem to have held life together, but then you find clues or clear demonstrations that they are not healthy whole people.
Politically... these seem just as likely as some purple-haired bull-ringed lesbian to be co-opted into violent mob movements.
The people you describe might vote Republican, but they don't seem to be representative of people on the right. Perhaps they vote Republican because they believe that Republicans are less likely to take away their guns.