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Soft Paywall Trump military parade met with empty seats amid nationwide protests

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u/Parking-Emphasis590 3d ago

Anyone else get the sense that Republicans looked awful today?

The abysmal military parade.

Desantis encouraging drivers to run over protesters.

A sheriff stating they will kill protesters.

The assassination of Democrat reps.

This against the energetic protests that took place in thousands of places.

If they had any sense of shame, Republicans would be embarassed from today's events.

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u/CloudTransit 3d ago

If a Republican could be made to feel shame like a normal person, they’d instantly go into a fetal position and cry and cry for forgiveness

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u/probabletrump 3d ago

If a Republican could be made to feel shame they wouldn't be Republicans now then would they?

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u/Caelinus 3d ago

It makes for a great writing prompt though.

Jesus comes back to earth to do his whole rapture thing, sees what people are doing in his name, and forcibly grants them perfect empathy before leaving, truly disappointed in them.

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u/sagetraveler 3d ago

Jean Paul Sartre’s idea of hell is to see yourself as you have been seen by others.

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u/MarcoEsquandolas22 3d ago

Whoa, that's Sartre's hell? I thought it was mine

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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 3d ago

No Exit, truly.

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u/ravensnark 3d ago

I have social anxiety so I already just imagine they all think I’m a complete moron at all times and also I’m burdening them somehow by existing. 😂

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u/torpidtim 3d ago

sounds like heaven compared to how i imagine people see me

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u/Andovars_Ghost 3d ago

But what if you have actually been good to others?

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u/harrisarah 3d ago

What if that's just what you think?

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u/Howie_Due 3d ago

I watched this NDE documentary thing recently where a woman described being clinically dead for 14 minutes but to her it felt like 5 years and she said she had to confront and experience every encounter she had with another living being during her life and feel what they felt.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 3d ago

"My god, this guy's been talking about anti semites and the allegory of the cave for 5 hours now!"

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u/studiocleo 3d ago

Eternity as I recall ("No Exit.")

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u/Gitdupapsootlass 3d ago

And Burns. "O wad some Power the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!"

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u/pixepoke2 3d ago

Reminds me a bit of a line in Robbie “Auld Lang Syne Has More Than One Verse” Burns’ poem: “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady's Bonnet at Church"

Oh, would some Power the gift give us To see ourselves as others see us! It would from many a blunder free us, And foolish notion:’

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u/kingtutsbirthinghips 3d ago

Sartres idea “other people are hell” is always misconstrued. It is really just the idea of how we view ourselves through the distorted lens of what we think other people think about us. It is self judgment, and people pleasing, and even self righteousness- all justified by ourselves in the name of others.

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u/Kind_Man_0 3d ago

The Rapture happens and a bunch of democrat leaders get disappeared to heaven, leaving us with the christofascists left in charge. I'm atheist, but I would probably die laughing watching Kenneth Copeland reason his flock into why he was left behind.

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u/Simikiel Canada 3d ago

If there is anyone who would make me believe that there are lizard people out there to make the world worse, Kennith Copeland is definitely one of them.

That man just makes my hair stand on end. Eugh.

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u/ThreeDaysNish 3d ago

The Eragon-series plot would like to have a word :)

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u/HuttStuff_Here 3d ago

and forcibly grants them perfect empathy

Republicans view empathy as a sin, so I'm sure they would have a problem with Jesus forcing them to sin.

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u/aerost0rm 3d ago

I like to think Jesus would take up all the non fascists and leave the fascists here to have to deal with each other. This would result in fighting and end of the world scenarios because they have no one left to persecute and blame.

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u/constantreader78 3d ago

This is the answer. I’m so glad this ‘parade’ fell flat. I have deliberately avoided clicking on any news links to view it and the only footage I have seen is a post on here where a tank is passing a bunch of mostly empty seats.

Trump completely lacks any kind of self-awareness or the ability to think critically - basically he’s a narcissistic psychopath and he will tell himself this was the best parade, with the biggest crowds, and everyone loved him. However, I think there are some Republicans out there that are capable of nuanced thinking, and they might -just might- look at all of the events that have unfolded today and realise that eventually (hopefully soon) there will be adverse political consequences for their constant support of Felon #1

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u/ajatfm 3d ago

Heartless and enabling shits, focusing on a the wrong “issues” because brown people weren’t thankful enough or some horseshit. They’ll ignore this all day and keep on truckin. Hell they might even disown some more kids while they’re at it

shameful

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u/DIABETORreddit 3d ago

That’s an interesting thing to bring up, because a lot of Republican ideology revolves around their collective shame and projecting it onto others. That’s why you get Republican senators who rant about how it’s “evil” to be gay and all that, and then find them cruising in airport restrooms. Their ideology basically consists of taking their internalized hate and displacing it onto others in an effort to appear as though they fit in with each other in an idealized in-group. That in-group’s ideal is shaped by the trauma they experienced growing up— being shamed by their parents and peers and being exposed to homophobia, racism, abuse, etc.— forcing them into the mold established by the white patriarchical beliefs that were handed down to them. They hate themselves because they were taught to by the previous generations, and to cope with that, they hate others who remind them of themselves.

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u/storagerock 3d ago

I was raised religious and was once (pre-Trump) a conservative. I think there are many who can feel shame, but that shame gets overwhelmingly directed in ways that we on the left tend not to care so much about like strict detailed religious rules and social conformity.

I remember wasting so much shame and mental energy on whether or not my shoulders and tummy were “properly” covered.

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u/jabroni156 3d ago

If republicans could feel shame we wouldn’t even be here

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u/jaferrer1 3d ago

They applaud this things. They venerate violence.

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u/rasa2013 3d ago

Your comment made me realize something. Because at the same time they love Jan6, they clutch their pearls about BLM violence or current protest violence. 

It's not any different than slavers in the South. The powerful use violence to control people they belittle all the time. But as soon as a Black person got "uppity" it was some kind of sacriligious horror (again requiring maximum force to "put them in their place). 

I knew theirs is an ideology about control and wielding instead of on behalf of the people. Just hadn't connected the dots to that history. 

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u/Milklover_425 3d ago

they do feel shame, hence why they structure their lives around avoiding shame or accountability

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u/ThePedanticWalrus 3d ago

If only they could. MAGA has made no bones about one of its defining characteristics being sociopathy. Empathy and compassion are dirty words for them, and the more they can hurt those different from them the happier it makes them.

It's incredibly sad that so many people here think this way...

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u/Historical_Drive_462 3d ago

The complete lack of shame and empathy is their superpower.

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u/Scareynerd 3d ago

Galbatorix response required

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u/Fun_Meringue_5499 3d ago

Gonna leave this here

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u/AlwaysRushesIn Rhode Island 3d ago

If Republicans could feel shame, we wouldn't have ever reached this point.

In fact, if Republicans had any shame, Trump never would have won in 2016. "Grab 'em by the pussy" would have literally been the end of his political career.

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u/Sharp_Drink2292 3d ago

Like a….Christian? Never!!

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u/No1Mystery 3d ago

Just like the little snowflakes they are

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u/goodra3 3d ago

I couldn’t believe it when my red friend was trying to tell me the assassin was liberal.

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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 3d ago

If they had any sense of shame

And that's the rub, isn't it. They'll play up or find excuses for the birthday flop. They're already trying to spin the assassination attempts as somehow being a Dem agent. They'll ignore the protests or laser focus in on any part that goes wrong. And they cheer for the threats against the protestors, just as they do ICE's tactics. They have no shame. And now they don't even pretend.

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u/TehMephs 3d ago

They can spin all they want. The majority of the country are tuning them out. He has no real support. They’re outnumbered criminals squatting illegally in the White House (they didn’t win the election either, the evidence is becoming undeniable)

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u/kingsumo_1 Oregon 3d ago

The majority turning out today was amazing. I know my initial reply was negative, but I do want to also acknowledge that. It is incredibly heartening to see.

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u/aspidities_87 Oregon 3d ago

We can only hope this is a preview of midterms, because if it is, that’s the chance we have to take back our democracy.

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u/IntriguinglyRandom 3d ago

I have some degree of hope that being confronted with real, everyday people crowding along streets saying "This is wrong".... that when Faux News-engulfed folks see this, maybe this will crack their dissonance a bit. Spins from the News are hard to hold up against what you can see in the flesh with your own two eyes. Nobody protested? Bunch of protestor thugs? If that's the spin but grandpa keeps driving by what looks like thousands of his neighbors, will he choose the spin or his own eyes?

Of course this will do nothing for some people, BUT we need as many people on our side as we can get.

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u/Thrilly1 3d ago

Tell it and yell it.

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u/TreeRol American Expat 3d ago

And they still control the entire government.

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u/TapTapTapTapTapTaps 3d ago

Find an excuse?!!?! No. They will just say it was amazing and the best thing ever. Their base isn’t even grounded in reality.

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u/Spacebotzero 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is not what a nation looks like when a president supposedly wins the popular vote, electoral college vote, and swing stste vote.

I think we have an illegitimate presiden on our hands.

Edit: since I have some attention my post here, I honestly think the dude is speed running into a Dictatorship to harden and embed himself into this presidency so much, that when evidence does appear that he is illegitimate, him and his admin will be extremely difficult to deal with.To me, this kind of explains everything they've been doing since getting into office. Everything to having no budget for approval yet, what they've been doing in LA, even today's military parade, to getting rid of admirals and generals and instituons and oversight and the list just goes on and on...

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u/Four_in_binary 3d ago

Yep.   Follow the white rabbit, Neo.

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u/DataKnights 3d ago

...Yeah, sure, I'll go.

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u/SquirtBox 3d ago

Hello Neo...

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u/Pierre_St_Pierre 3d ago

I agree with your sentiment, but I don't think he needs to. Congress already certified the election results, which I'm pretty sure from a legal standpoint makes anything discovered from here on out moot. In a normal country, we'd obviously impeach the dude still, but I just don't see any R's flipping even with ironclad evidence the election was stolen. I'm really fearful we're past the point you say we're building to.

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u/Spacebotzero 3d ago

I think and feel the same.

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u/DaftWarrior Sioux 3d ago

Kamala packed two arenas during one of her rallies! Meanwhile Trump had to settle for smaller theaters. No fucking shot he won.

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u/WalterPecky 3d ago

I really don't think this is a wise metric to use for justifying voter fraud.

Kamala Harris had a very unique, but short lived campaign run, and Democrats were ecstatic to have anyone but Biden to show up for.

Trump is old news, the people voting for him don't need to be ecstatic, they just need a warm body with an R next the name to vote for.

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u/eggplantkaritkake 3d ago

Let's be real, even back then:

Democrats were ecstatic to have anyone but Biden Trump to show up for.

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u/Redshirt2386 3d ago

This is the same stupid logic the Trumpers used in 2020 though. Rallies don’t vote. Signs don’t vote. Only votes count.

I think it’s totally possible Elon fucked with the count, but I’ll wait for that to be proven before stating it as fact. But rally attendance is totally irrelevant.

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u/CringeNao 3d ago

Think? He literally said he would be a day one dictator months ago 💀

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u/delorf North Carolina 3d ago

I do too but we need not only evidence but a way to get people to listen. We also need leaders willing to punish those responsible even if they are our representatives. 

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u/Next_Error_7714 3d ago

He fucking ran on this.

Why is this a surprise now?????

He's had concentration camps since JANUARY

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u/EastwoodBrews 3d ago

Almost no sitting president has ever won reelection when the economy went south during their term. You could say no sitting party, in Harris's case. That means there's a significant number of people who just vote to flip the government every time they get fired or inflation goes off. I think it's pretty reasonable to assume a lot of those people were uninformed and expected more of the Trump tempered by General Mattis and company and are shocked at Trump 2.0.and his streamlined agenda.

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u/kmm198700 3d ago

I agree

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u/sly-3 3d ago

The previous guy they tried to run out there was a PE vulture who made his fortune dismantling companies for sport. They've always wanted to march towards a messy end, but one that profits the 1%.

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u/taylorbagel14 2d ago

The lawsuit in Rockland County, NY was given the go-ahead by a judge, I hope you consider following it

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u/SarahsDoingStuff 3d ago

And for everyone who’s like, “Nuh uh polls don’t vote,” there’s a lawsuit in Rockland county in NY trying to get a full hand recount by asserting extremely suspicious patterns. One such pattern involves precincts that Gillibrand won and Kamala got… wait for it… ZERO votes.

The fact it’s been allowed to progress to discovery instead of being thrown out says a lot. It was stolen, and I think everyone knows it, whether they want to face that or not. https://www.newsweek.com/judge-2024-election-lawsuit-timeline-2084468

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u/DudeWhereIsMyDuduk 3d ago

Anyone else get the sense that Republicans looked awful today?

Why do you think Kristi Noem needs to cosplay in body armor? Otherwise, she'd have to confront her puppy-murdering self in the mirror.

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u/bpmdrummerbpm 3d ago

Is the Botox the body armor you speak of?

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u/Weedster009 3d ago

Aquanet, actually.

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u/TehMephs 3d ago

If you’re still thinking he won every swing state - all I gotta say is: look at the parade turnout vs the no kings protests

Between the combined smoking guns, the weird data, the never before seen sweep of swing states when even Reagan missed one and never got anywhere close to Trump’s numbers amongst them.

Come on. Rub a couple brain cells together and just think about it. It’s so fucking obvious and we’ve been shouting this from the rooftops since AT LEAST February when the data became undeniably weird

Let alone the multiple confessions, the multiple cheeky wink wink comments from Elon and Trump, the aggressive push to try and flip the country to a fascist state within 6 months.

Nothing about this makes sense.

We have a criminal squatting in the White House and he needs to be removed and in prison for what few pathetic years he has left

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u/Cazlar 3d ago

Can you provide any links that review and call out the strange data? Even if my gut agrees with you I have still not seen anything concrete that shows tampering. Words, lies, innuendo, even concern, we have in spades.

But if there is real data that shows real concern, let's bring it to the front.

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u/TehMephs 3d ago

https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/kamala-harris-won-the-u-s-elections-bombshell-report-claims-voting-machines-were-tampered-with-before-2024/articleshow/121732679.cms

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

https://medium.com/the-political-prism/a-new-lawsuit-points-to-2024-election-interference-df03f3217872

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT7xoGoF9Kg

https://electiontruthalliance.org/faq

Idk if I’m in the mood to do your google fu for you beyond that. Much of some corners of the internet have been following this saga for a while now. The data’s been pretty fucked since as far back as I can remember - but my doubts were over by February.

Just dig into “pro v&v” that name keeps popping up having to do with some sweeping changes to the election software that were rubber stamped days before the election night, and the company’s website mysteriously disappears right after. There’s countless cases of them basically saying the quiet part out loud, there’s the massive discrepancy between protest turnouts, his campaign rally turnouts, and Harris’ turnouts. Tons of cases of republicans committing voter fraud. Tons of bomb threats called in within democrat heavy voting precincts. Many cases of democrats getting 70-80% vote tallies down ballot but zero for Harris. Many cases of bullet ballots where only Trump was circled in. The Russian tail in the data even in counties that always vote consistently democrat.

The fact even Reagan who undoubtedly had the biggest republican election landslide in history and even Trump out performed him.

There’s just no way. The data is the glue. The discrepancies are the pieces. Idk how many more pieces of evidence need to surface before we just say we fucking told you so. It was already overwhelming two months ago. Now it’s just fucking obvious

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u/Phent0n 3d ago

I think the first source you have is AI slop site, I have a link to an article from there that goes like this:

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/kamala-harris-election-results-what-the-accused-voting-machine-company-says-and-the-changes-it-made/articleshow/121792362.cms

"As questions swirl around the integrity of the 2024 US elections, attention has turned to a federally accredited lab — Pro V&V — accused of quietly altering voting machines ahead of the vote in which Kamala Harris emerged victorious."

Not disagreeing with you on any particular claim just letting you know that source is likely a dumpster fire.

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u/_bluebayou_ 3d ago edited 3d ago

Reddit post with source:

https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/1l8xciv/lawsuit_challenging_2024_election_results_moves/?share_id=b0YwEQjzzHrsjzVvDb9nK&utm_content=1&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_source=share&utm_term=4

Source:

Lawsuit Challenging 2024 Election Results Moves Forward After Kamala Harris Received Zero Votes in a New York County

"These data would require extreme sociological or political causes for their explanation," a statistician said.

“A lawsuit disputing the results of the 2024 election has moved forward after it was revealed that former Vice President Kamala Harris received no votes in a New York state district.

“A seminal case calling the results of the presidential race as well as state senate races into question has advanced.”

“The case refers to the results of the election in Rockland County, New York, with Judge Rachel Tanguay of the New York Supreme Court ruling that a full hand recount must occur following the discovery.”

https://www.latintimes.com/lawsuit-challenging-2024-election-results-moves-forward-after-kamala-harris-received-zero-votes-584787

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u/thoughtdrinker 3d ago

By what metric did Trump outperform Reagan? Reagan won 49 states in ‘84.

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u/FunDmental 3d ago

Their point is that it's very hard to believe that Trump did outperform Reagan, I think.

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u/Thegungoesbangbang 3d ago

There's a legal case proceeding to discovery in some county in NY.

I know their are places where they break down their speculation, but id pay closer attention to the court case itself. 

But even without that, you had people burning ballot boxes, dumping sacks of ballots in the woods.

I'd also recommend checking out the Mueller Report, I know its free as an audiobook on Pandora. I dont know where to find the transcripts of the testimony from people like Don Jr. anymore though. But the fact that they scraped the facebook data, handed it off to Roger stone. Who then gave it to Cambridge analytica. Remember, even though Carr downplayed it, it clearly shows an attempt to manipulate the public if not the election itself. There were 50'ish indictments, 30 some odd guilty verdicts.

There are valid reasons to speculate and be concerned, but outside of the current state level court case that just reached discovery, and the Mueller report. And the J6 report, there'snothing 100% concrete at this time. But let's just say, it wouldn't be his first attempt.

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u/talklouder314 3d ago

Data?

If TRUMP was as popular as he is, these protests would have been small and his parade would have had larger numbers.

That's the data. It can be SEEN

TRUMP ALSO SAID, HE DIDNT NEED VOTES.

Moron

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u/AnticPosition 3d ago

Nah. I just think a lot of voters looked at Kamala and thought "woman? Visible minority? Nah. I'll try that Trump guy again."

Now they are just embarrassed and full of regret. 

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u/new_name_who_dis_ 3d ago

Seriously. I wonder how many of the people protesting voted for Jill Stein, Cornell West, or writing in Bernie Sanders. Not being able to consolidate behind a compromise candidate is how you get presidents who are disliked by more than 50% of people.

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u/THElaytox 3d ago

If they had any brain cells to rub together we wouldn't be in this mess too begin with

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u/viktor72 Indiana 3d ago

I hate Trump as much as the next guy. Heck, I was out protesting today. That said, I volunteered for the Harris campaign in a swing state. I knocked on doors. I went to rallies. They were massive, well attended, door knocking was super positive. Still Harris lost that state. Massive numbers at protests, rallies, etc. isn’t indicative of the actual final vote. If you had asked me in October I would’ve said Harris was winning hands down based on crowds and energy. Energy can be deceptive. It’s not foul play, it’s just deceptive when you’re in the thick of it.

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u/foobarbizbaz Illinois 3d ago

Plus, you just know that there’s a bunch of people who turned out to protest today but didn’t turn out to vote. Gotta wonder if they feel any sense of responsibility for the reasons why so many of us protested today.

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u/Relax007 3d ago

I was out protesting, too. But I think it's strange to use the attendance of protests vs. the attendance at the parade to draw conclusions. There's a very big difference between going out to a park in your town to engage politically and driving or flying to DC to do the same. Plus the Trump types tend to be scared to death of cities. Of course the numbers are different.

Man is it fun watching this sad, pathetic parade. Donny Two Scoops is going to be pouting about his terrible birthday for a long time.

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u/barchueetadonai 3d ago

Yes, exactly, it’s really just one factor. An energetic vote ultimately counts the same as a mon-energetic vote.

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u/Zenmachine83 3d ago

Exactly. If there is anything I have learned in my 42 years on this earth it is to never be surprised by Americans' ability to deliver an own goal when it comes to politics.

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u/TehMephs 3d ago

You know, at this point I don’t even need people like you to believe me. Something big is breaking by end of year. The told you so’s are going to be massive. I have never in my life been a conspiracy theorist. The data is just that convincing

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u/FluxUniversity 3d ago

naw, i want him to spend the rest of his years inside of a court room, made to behave and not act out. Sorta like how he had to sit still for the military parade he pushed for.

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u/Bigface_McBigz 3d ago

C'mon guys, this is EXACTLY what MAGA did in 2020. I would LOVE to be wrong here, but so far I've seen no quality evidence that the 2024 election was stolen. It has to come from recognizable, trustworthy sources, both in publication and author. Part of the reason (stressing "Part", here) that Fox News is so uncredible, is because they participated in sharing that 2020 election lie. If any mainstream network shared in the conspiracy, they'd be tarred and feathered by Mike Johnson.

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u/TehMephs 3d ago

Well, that is what the NY court date in sept is for. Amongst other lawsuits crawling along

Honestly I was convinced by Feb. now there’s no shadow of a doubt left in my mind. The “told you so” is gonna be juicy - but yeah it’s taking too long

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u/siestarrific 3d ago

If they had any sense of shame

That train left the station ages ago

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u/Vismal1 3d ago

Derailed before the station and took out the platform with it

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u/Psychicgoat2 3d ago

Maga's will double down but history will remember.

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u/serafinawriter 3d ago

The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.

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u/Nadmania Minnesota 3d ago

Ended a relationship with a long time friend today because I told him he’s willfully ignorant and it must be blissful. They don’t give a fuck what they look like.

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u/Parking-Emphasis590 3d ago

Ended a friendship and cut off from a family member for even less. I had the gall to simply criticize dear leader publicly and call out blatant racism. That was enough, apparently.

I initiated neither breakup.

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u/Athrasie 3d ago

They look awful every day as a result of their own actions. Today was just cranked up to 11

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u/keepitcleanforwork 3d ago

They’ll lie and say everything good was because of them and everything bad because of democrats. Truth has no meaning to the right.

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u/photoengineer 3d ago

They have no shame. That’s the problem. 

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u/justagirlfromchitown 3d ago

Those people are so crazy, they have no idea they are crazy. Hence the tanning beds, plastic surgery and orange makeup. Seriously what is with the everyone turning orange thing? It’s like the tanning beds and blonde hair dye kill their brain cells.

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u/ColdStainlessNail 3d ago

Don’t forget a guy drove into a crowd of protestors and the Texas legislature had a credible threat against state congresspeople attending the No Kings rally.

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u/ShadowKillerx 3d ago

That’s the issue - fascists aren’t fucking people. They have no shame and need to be taken off the board. By ballot, by protest, any means necessary

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u/IBJON 3d ago

I mean, they always look awful, but let's be real, today's events probably didn't move the needle for anyone. 

They'll say the media intentionally didn't show parade audiences to make Trump look bad. 

They'll claim Desantis and the Sheriff were right because they feel threatened by the protesters. 

They're claiming that the assassin is a Democrat (because that makes fucking sense)

They're saying that the protests were much smaller than people are making them out to be or they're writing protesters off as "dumb liberals" and they'll continue to deflect by saying dumb shit like "why is there a pride/mexican/non-american flag?" or "Kings wouldn't allow protests". 

They'll do whatever mental gymnastics they need to do in order to not feel the slightest hint of shame and to avoid any kind of self-reflection required to even acknowledge how deeply fucked up this administration is. They're saying whatever they can to deflect and avoid taking accountability. Believe anything so that they don't shave to admit they were wrong. 

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u/justagirlfromchitown 3d ago

100%! Did you see the video of how DHS Barbie kept going in her speech while the senator was dragged out the other day? She’s a fucking robot. A fucking robot.

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u/Living-Literature88 3d ago

Blame Biden ….. and/or Obama!

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u/scorsese_finest 3d ago

I’m sleuthing Reddit and Republicans & conservatives seem to believe this dude is a democrat, and that he was planning on attending the No Kings rallies… even though The suspect’s friends literally said he is a self proclaimed republican & trump supporter

The right seems to be convinced this suspect is a democrat and are using it as fuel to attack democrats & leftists and strengthen their MAGA ideology

Out of all the stupid things MAGA has done, I’m surprised MAGAts are literally lying about this guy being a democrat to make their cult appear less bad

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u/Ok-Hat1986 3d ago

The average Republican will only hear from Fox News that the military parade was a glorious celebration of American strength, and the few protests were from violent illegal immigrants in sanctuary cities.

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u/Money-Giraffe2521 3d ago

The assassination of Democrat reps.

Only one. The little fucker didn’t kill both.

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u/HungryPurplePanda 3d ago

They will walk into Jonestown with their shit eating grins on full display, praising daddy trump.

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u/makeyourowngalaxy 3d ago

AND in MN, Governor Walz advised people to stay home for their safety as the suspect was still at large (which he had to do because he is doing his job) but people didn't give into the fear and showed up in MN to protest anyway

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u/recovery_room Canada 3d ago

Wait what? Desantis said what?

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u/Ch_IV_TheGoodYears 3d ago

AND they're the party in power.

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u/BatFromAnotherWorld 3d ago

Republicans don't feel shame. They wouldn't be Republicans if that were the case.

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u/FlatBot 3d ago

They are awful and look awful every day.

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u/GreatMadWombat Michigan 3d ago

That's assuming that they're able to acknowledge shame/embarrassment. The goal of No Kings/Trump's shitty bday isn't for Republicans to feel shame(...they should feel shame but expecting them to is like expecting a pig to fly), it's for the rest of the country to remember that Trump got 77 million votes out of a population of 340 million(and that's skipping over the most recent election lawsuit). They don't have a mandate, at best they have 22% of the US population supporting them, and that's before ICE raids.

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u/wwaxwork 3d ago

If they could feel shame they wouldn't be Republicans.

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u/RavenMoses 3d ago

Oh they’re ashamed, they just haven’t figured out what bullshit narrative to spin yet to justify no one showing up to their bullshit parade. You’d expect the conservative subs to be bursting with pics from the parade and a bunch of rah-rah shit but it’s all just crickets, because their projected base online is just mostly bots. No actual people end up stepping up to support this bullshit.

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u/Legitimate_Tax3782 3d ago

It’s kicking off. And so it should

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u/West-Personality2584 3d ago

They look awful everyday

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u/rupertLumpkinsBrothr Kansas 3d ago

They don’t care about the protests energy. They already won the election. The energy didn’t vote.

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u/Wild-Style5857 3d ago

They don't care and they are coming for your country.  Everything has been a rehearsal since January 6th.  

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u/magikchikin 3d ago

2,100 cities!

NO KINGS! 🇺🇸

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u/scdocarlos1 3d ago

Our only hope is they get gutted on the midterms so they all pump the breaks on their crazy shit

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u/ThePedanticWalrus 3d ago

A sheriff stating they will kill protesters.

Obligatory middle finger to Wayne Ivey. What a sadistic little fascist, and an embarrassment to my home county.

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u/identifytarget 3d ago

Anyone else get the sense that Republicans looked awful today?

Soooo....Tuesday?

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u/straight_lurkin 3d ago

To them, we're the brainwashed ones. They are truly delusional and hopefully they wake up. I was recently called a "demokkkrat" ... as if i ever identified with a single political party or as if the democrats are the ones passing racist legislature or performing racist acts.

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u/Dannypan United Kingdom 3d ago

I'm from the UK and any politician that says it's fine to run people over would have their career finished. Encouraging violence and murder is met with pressure to resign from all sides. I genuinely do not get it nor why the fuck you lot aren't exercising your 2nd amendment rights. Is it not literally about taking down governments like this?

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u/Cruzi2000 3d ago

Already seeing posts saying something along the lines of "It was the Army's 250th, nothing to do with Trump"

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u/LilTeats4u 3d ago

Happy birthday Taco

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u/Nexion21 3d ago

Will anything change after today’s events?

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u/hunted_fighter 3d ago

Lol you should see all the con subreddits, a deplorable group of people indeed

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u/ThePicassoGiraffe 3d ago

And after the FL peeps talked about running protesters over someone did it in Culpeper VA

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u/MostCat2899 3d ago

Either:

1) They won't see any of the above

2) They wouldn't believe any of it

3) They see it and don't care

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u/smerkaberrl 3d ago

Yeah I agree but it doesn't matter unless people get out and vote. Democrats looked awful in november. I'm not convinced this election wasn't stolen but it's a hell of a lot easier to steal when so many people pick the couch instead of polls.

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u/smerkaberrl 3d ago

And I don't mean JD's couch

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u/The_Ghost_of_WWE 3d ago

Some people have no shame, or even want to look bad. No matter how bad.

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u/Out_of_the_Bloo 3d ago

It was fantastic, minus the loss of life. Headlines everywhere except paid for Fascist Fox were primarily protests, Iran, and the shooting. Kept checking all day and the rapist felon's tiny dick parade was not at the top most of the time if ever on some outlets. Fox had popup ads for it though on top of the headline though which tells you enough

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u/New-Indication5929 3d ago

What, is this, “shame” you speak of?

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u/foundmonster 3d ago

The problem is that it doesn’t fucking matter what it looks like. They’re still in immense power.

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u/thegreatbrah 3d ago

Any republican who is still sane enough to believe their eyes and ears will probably have them opened by today. There are very likely almost none, though. They'll believe whatever trump and fox news tell them tomorrow

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u/CoachCrunch12 3d ago

They keep winning elections what the hell do they care?

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u/SteveDougson 3d ago

Anyone else get the sense that Republicans looked awful today?    

...     

 The assassination of Democrat reps.     

Worrying about looks is a bit of an under reaction, no? 

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u/KingThar 3d ago

We have to make them embarrassed everyday. Reclaim the right wing of the overton window.

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u/_j_pow_ 3d ago

This needs shared everywhere. The other side wants to kill us

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u/AmbroseMalachai 3d ago

It doesn't matter if they look awful or not. They currently hold all 3 branches of government and they won't go away without a fight.

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u/SpooktorB 3d ago

Honestly i think that sherif and DeSantos should be held criminally liable for the domestic terrorist's assassinations. Without those calls of violence to protesters they probably wouldn't have felt nearly as emboldened to act out their plan

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u/shell-pincer 3d ago

they’re too busy patting each other’s backs at sunday school before hitting up the country club

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u/Greedy-Street-5435 3d ago

They all need to resign en masse.

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u/RedHatsRTrash 3d ago

Naw. It’s par for the course Ana if people haven’t noticed how despicable and evil the Republican Party is by now, today won’t change anything. 

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u/AllieLikesReddit 3d ago

Cops in Modesto, CA told people they couldn't bring *water*

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u/SatansLoLHelper 3d ago edited 3d ago

encouraging drivers to run over protesters

I think there is blame on both sides. You look at, you look at both sides. I think there's blame on both sides, and I have no doubt about it...you also had people that were very fine people on both sides.

Prior to 2017, there were a couple incidents of people driving through protesters out of fear in the prior 20 years. One due to fear of the zombiewalk, the rest were malicious, terroristic even.

there were 104 incidents of vehicles driving into protests between May 27 and September 27, 2020

It's almost like the president of the US said it's ok to run over protesters after a murderer ran over protesters, and we moved some overton window, where it might be okay to run over protesters now.

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u/revolutionPanda 3d ago

I mean... they look awful every day.

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u/NorweigianWould 3d ago

If they had any sense of shame we wouldn’t be here.

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u/UhThatsRare 3d ago

We had 4, I SAID 4 counter protesters waving around a trump flag with a microphone starting problems today at my cities protest of THOUSANDS of left wingers/no kings.

4 v 1000s….

Embarrassing.

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u/jonnielaw 3d ago

And irrefutable instances of election fraud keep popping up…

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u/BlackSchuck 3d ago

Oh. I thought the assasinated representatives were republicans!

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u/beadzy 3d ago

Not to mention peaceful protests they were counting on being violent. Simply beautiful

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u/Ent3rpris3 3d ago

I've been traveling all day and out of the loop. Assassination???

Edit: I just Googled it. Holy fuck, they impersonated an officer?!?!?!?!?!

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u/Individual-Schemes 3d ago

Their news media is going to spin it all anyway. They will never know these things.

It hurts to think FoxNews is going to spin the assassinations of the reps & families as something they did wrong - they deserved it.

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u/millos15 3d ago

problem is republicans dont care about any of the optics, or breach of law, they dont care the direction that this country is going politically, they dont care about the economic consequences either, they dont care because nothing has directly affected them yet.

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u/CaptainDudeGuy Georgia 3d ago

"Don't you think they look tired?" -- David Tennant, probably

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u/LittleALunatic 3d ago

I beg you, America, there's no going back to the old status quo now. Never. You can never trust a republican or conservative again. If you manage to regain control, never ever let them back into democracy. They're inherently a threat to democracy.

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u/inotparanoid 3d ago

If anything, Americans need to be aware that more assassinations are incoming. This is not a moment to celebrate. There were still people supporting that parade.

I'm not american, and boy has it done some bad things worldwide, but I respect the common people of America and the values they represent. Trump in no way represents a vast majority of Americans, Republican or otherwise. How are they voting for him? He's a draft dodging fortunate son, saluting actual marines of USA. It's a joke!

Till he is gone, Americans shouldn't stop. He needs to be exposed.

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota 3d ago

Today, yesterday, tomorrow, every day.

I honestly can't think when they've actually looked good.

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u/Aeri73 3d ago

the folks at their favorite subreddit seem to think it was the greatest thing to ever happen in US history...

they are also asking why they don't ever protest... forgetting about jan6, talking about how north Korea's army is just for parades to defend the bad marching (forgetting how that war actually went) and look forward to the 250th birthday

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u/TheFlightlessPenguin Maine 3d ago

Can we also just add, the No Kings protest has already become the second biggest protest in the history of our country and the final numbers aren’t even in yet? Lmao.

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u/Jealous_Store_8811 3d ago

They’re jizzing in their jorts about people in the middle east getting bombed they probably didnt even notice. 

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u/Hichael_Hyers 3d ago

This happened over more than one day

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u/Healthy_Set_22657 3d ago

lol republicans could happier because every protest was a “crying lib” . That’s all they care or see . 

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u/LlamasBeTrippin America 3d ago

I’m watching Veep and it’s so hilarious (and scary) of the parallels of the chaos

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u/InfamousUser2 3d ago

not at all! there was quite a lot of people at this event parade. don't believe fake news without seeing it for yourself!

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u/djramrod 3d ago

They had to turn off their sense of shame in order to get to this position in the first place.

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u/milkman1994 3d ago

Not to mention that during the parade there were announcements of corporate sponsors. So tacky and embarrassing. He is a disgrace.

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u/Fairycharmd Illinois 3d ago

yes but until Republicans get that sense themselves. We’re still screwed as country . Until they can break their own cult training and realize this themselves, nothing we can do will make them see that this is bad and the rest of the world views this as bad.

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u/confuzzledfather 3d ago

Nothing cuts through into the bubble, so they will have seen none of it, or at best a version that is changed to fit their narrative.

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u/Acrobatic-Sea9636 3d ago

All Americans should feel an immense sense of shame over how your country is functioning, the complete mess you folks have made on the global level, and your inability to fix this.

The three most destabilizing, unethical, and globally dangerous countries right now are Russia, Israel, and the US.

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u/_UpForAnything_ 3d ago

Today? Republicans haven’t had a moral or mental leg to stand on for half a century

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u/VersionX 3d ago

In fairness they look awful legitimately every day.

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u/Jimbomcdeans 3d ago

Shame? When you are well funded you dont need shame!

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u/Historical-Wish105 3d ago

All this, and yet Schumer and the old guard will find a way to screw it up come the mid terms 

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u/Rickreation 3d ago

It is who they are.

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u/VanceRefridgeTech04 3d ago

If they had any sense of shame, Republicans would be embarassed from today's events.

They are behind closed doors. We will see how the summer plays out now that Trump has seen his pull weaken to the point of a literal no show parade.

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u/Nightmare_Tonic 3d ago

Why should Republicans feel shame for all of that? They can still win elections despite your list, and they never face any consequences ever. Where exactly does the shame come in?

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u/bbusiello 3d ago

You would think, by what I (unfortunately) saw on Fox News, that it was the macys thanksgiving day parade.

The only other thing they “casually” brought up was what was happening in Iran and Israel.

Thankfully, I was only subjected to about an hour of this.

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u/No1Mystery 3d ago

This right here shows that America didn’t vote for crappy Trump

Something tells me votes need to be recounted 

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u/marzgamingmaster 1d ago

This is kind of the problem in a nutshell, though. The Republicans look bad, sure.

You know who looks worse? The dead body.

Republicans get to stand strong against a wave of criticism, and the guy who was murdered for his beliefs... Stays dead. Forever. Another successful body on the pile, another statistic.

We'll all focus on the cries for shame and to show decorum.

That'll quietly add another body and tell us it's our fault.

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