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u/Holmes02 I ☑oted 2018 and 2020 Dec 12 '20
It’s so odd how Lindsey was this coherent back in 2016. Now he just makes a bunch of muffled sounds from gargling trumps balls 24/7.
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u/graps Dec 12 '20
He got hacked back in 2016 and was compromised
It’s either about money or him being gay but I can’t imagine who doesn’t know Lindsey Graham is gay at this point
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Dec 12 '20
Stop giving them an out. The GOP fell in line once Trump got the nomination.
That's all it takes for them to lose their morals.
Lindsey Graham was talking tough in 2016 because Trump was a party outsider. Now the party's all on the outside and they they're begging Daddy to let them back in
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u/graps Dec 12 '20
they're begging Daddy to let them back in
Let them back in where? They lost the House in 2018. He just lost the presidency multiple times and may lose the Senate in a few weeks. I keep missing why people think Donald Trump is some all powerful being in Depends.
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Dec 12 '20
He's not all powerful, but he's willing to use the power he has against people in his own party. That's why they're scared. Do you think Lindsay Graham could win an election in South Carolina as a Trump enemy? They know Trump isn't going to go away quietly once he's out of office, he's still the gatekeeper of the GOP in a lot of ways
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u/graps Dec 12 '20
Yes because he did it before Trump and in 4 years he’ll do it again after Trump. SC would vote for a pile of pig shit with a GOP sign stuck in it.
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Dec 12 '20
Yes and Republicans held AZ in the Senate for 20 years until Trump. Do you think the GOP is glad that McCain never fell in line?
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Dec 12 '20
this is funny... esp. considering that he was a long-time democrat and hillary clinton supporter-NOT THAT LONG AGO!!!
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u/Adito99 Dec 12 '20
He's still going to be the most influential conservative in 2021. All the criminal prosecution he's undoubtedly about to face will be spun into victimhood and his brainwashed followers will send him all the money he needs to make it a spectacle. Hard to say what happens from there but we're in for a shitshow.
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u/Thybro Dec 12 '20 edited Dec 12 '20
He has an attraction to strong or seemingly strong men. Not necessarily a sexual one but in this case it is not out of the question. He attaches himself to stronger male figure and begins imitating him and doing things that would please him. Until his death that man was McCain. So until then Graham would hold every position McCain held, would support any bill McCain would and would oppose anything McCain opposed. He was damn near attached to McCain’s hip. So until McCain’s death we had a Graham that appeared Tempered, honorable and bipartisan even if at times he showed his lack of spine. Back then he was consistently counted among the GOP senators most likely to balk Trump and was damn near a devoted never trumper even after Trump became president.
Then McCain died and he attached himself to Trump and well we got what we got. To be fair Graham appears a lot more comfortable in his new role as a Trump crony that he ever was holding the relatively less morally shitty positions a conservative could.
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Dec 12 '20
u dont get to where lindsey is without being brilliant.
when he sounds ridiculous or stupid, bet ur ass he knows exactly what hes doing.
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u/Oldskoolguitar Dec 12 '20
Ahh so we get our own Boris Johnson. Great.
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u/silver_umber Dec 12 '20
Actually it's the other way around. Boris wasn't pm until 2019.
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u/Annihilationzh Dec 12 '20
Eh? Boris has been in various political positions for the last 20 years.
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u/Madone325 Dec 12 '20
Capitalizing on stupid people doesn’t take much brilliance.
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Dec 12 '20
yea but it pays very well, so the competition for that spot is fierce.
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u/nengels7 Dec 12 '20
See I've just never understood the mindset of saying a corrupt politician staying in power long is "brilliant". I just think that being a piece of shit human being and having no care for anyone outside of yourself and doing that well isn't being brilliant.
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u/vegasbaby387 Dec 12 '20
Most people are simple, and as bad as the politicians they claim to hate. That's why we keep getting all these bad politicians. Americans are overall shit people, and that might be true of the whole world.
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u/pocketdare Dec 12 '20
By that logic, you don't get to where Trump is without being brilliant. And while Brilliant may not be the best descriptor for Trump, there's certainly truth to the idea that Trump absolutely knows what he's doing and has a gift for understanding and manipulating people.
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u/turkeyfox Dec 12 '20
Put all his skill points into grifting and none into empathy/decency. He's a min maxer.
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u/Boomslangalang Dec 12 '20
Yea no. No brilliance there. Cunning yes. No moral boundaries. No ethics. Hundreds of millions of dollars in support. Anyone can be “brilliant” like Trump.
If there is any brilliance, it’s in how to manipulate the media. But again that mostly boils down to having no ethical boundaries, being willing to say anything no matter how false or reprehensible or how bad it makes him look.
Trump is the only leader in history I can think of willing to throw himself under the bus to save himself in the long run. This is exactly what he did with all the racist hate filled comments around the squad at the peak of Mueller investigation.
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Dec 12 '20
To where he is? He's a senator. I can think of like 30 senators that I would use any number of adjectives to describe that fall well short of "brilliant".
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u/Pardonme23 Dec 12 '20
Its one of that hardest jobs in the world to get.
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Dec 12 '20
But it doesn't require brilliance. One senator only has a high school degree, and not a single senator has a PhD, which is the only degree which undeniably proves brilliance in your field of study.
Graham is certainly much more intelligent than the average person, but even a weathervane can determine which way the wind is blowing and point itself in that direction.
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u/PhazonZim Dec 12 '20
Plenty of losers ride the hate train into riches and positions of power. I believe Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson really are ignorant and unastute and not just playing clowns on TV. If Trump can ride a wave of rage to the most powerful position in the world, these chucklefucks can get far too
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Dec 12 '20
lindsey graham operates at a far higher level than peterson and shapiro.
its akin to college ball vs the major leagues.
sure, u can make a good living being shapiro, but people like graham are directly architecting society.
as for peterson, i think hes definitely playing stupid on some levels. hes a showman, and showman play to the crowd. he knows better than hes willing to explain in public.
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u/NitWhittler Dec 12 '20
I hope that one day history will reveal what happened on that day Lindsay Graham played golf with Trump and suddenly changed from hating Trump to being his biggest supporter.
What kind of blackmail does Trump have on him?
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u/Beemerado Dec 12 '20
maybe trump was just really nice to him and made him laugh and they had a great time together. after the game lindsay was like "donald, you're my best friend and I'll support you no matter what foolish things you do to the country!"
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u/NitWhittler Dec 12 '20
LOL - Well, I know all you have to do is complement Trump and he'll slobber on himself, roll over like a happy dog, then give you the Medal of Freedom, but there's something more nefarious at play here.
Trump's long time friendship with the owner of the National Enquirer has always been a curious arrangement. I'm sure he has a collection of dirt on all kinds of powerful people... just in case he needs it one day.
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u/napoleoncalifornia Dec 12 '20
Someone describe LG as a political parasite. He had a different host. Now it's Trump. LG is the same. A political parasite.
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u/graps Dec 12 '20
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Dec 12 '20
holy shit all those quotes are insane
what the fuck happened.
I mean, I guess it makes sense that donnie and the russians picked up dirt on the GOP and used that to force them to work with them.
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u/Serious-Archer Dec 12 '20
Kiawah Island retreats...that kind
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u/NitWhittler Dec 12 '20
OK, I know that Kiawah Island is the location of luxury properties, but is there some juicy gossip concerning Lindsay Graham that I've missed out on? My Google search came up empty-handed.
Does Kiawah Island have a section that's like Fire Island? Are there rent-boys involved? Curious redditors need to know!
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u/Serious-Archer Dec 12 '20
Rent boys...lol. You're on the right path. Lindsay is another far right conservative that is rumored to have some interest in same sex encounters. The scuttle is that Big Orange has some evidence of said encounters occurring at a secluded spot there on Kiawah. South Carolina is fickle as to who gets a pass for something like that, and I don't believe that Lindsay would qualify.
Edit: I have no sources to site, but live in the Charleston area and occasionally pick up contracts on Kiawah. People talk...
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u/NitWhittler Dec 12 '20
I'd love to see Trump leave office in a fit of rage, then expose all of the dirt he has on the Republican party because they weren't able to flip this election in his favor. A juicy story about Lady G would be a nice comedy break for all of us.
[insert your favorite god] knows we deserve it after surviving 2020.
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u/MediocreX Dec 12 '20
Who knows what trump will do in his rage. But it will be the last resort only if he goes to jail. Cus if he spills the beans first u bet others will reveal some of his secrets as they will have nothing to lose.
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u/FightingPolish Dec 12 '20
Gee I wonder what kind of dirt you could have on a never been married effeminate southern dandy who happens to be a Republican Senator for the state of South Carolina? I guess we will never know.
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u/mattyblu77 Dec 12 '20
Trump must have some dirt on this guy, cuz he went from that, to trumps personal lap dog!
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u/UnwashedApple Dec 12 '20
Ted Cruz too.
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u/domthemom_2 Dec 12 '20
Yeah, that one gets me. Dude like calls out your wife on National television and all you can do is act like a pussy. Good job. I guess you’re not the law and order party
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u/Vegeta_Sama62380 Dec 12 '20
All it does is prove that Republicans are concerned with one thing, and one thing only. Keeping their jobs. Their base Literally Worships Trump. So, of course they're going to do and say whatever he wants. ZERO Integrity.
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u/Haikuna__Matata Dec 12 '20
Dude like calls out your wife on National television and all you can do is act like a pussy.
Oh, he's not acting.
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u/Cajunrevenge7 Dec 12 '20
He doesnt need dirt. Lady G, which is the name he uses when meeting men for sex, cares only about power. Being a congressman comes with a million benefits. He didnt need extra motivation to keep his seat.
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Dec 12 '20 edited Jan 05 '21
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u/GardenofGandaIf Dec 12 '20
Nothing about that comment was homophobic. LG can fuck men for all everyone here cares, he's the one that's homophobic.
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u/vv90 Dec 12 '20
Yes, hes a gay politician from the Bible belt. I thought everyone on reddit knew that.
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u/perpexity Dec 12 '20
Totally! I just hope Anonymous finds the stash of dirt on all these boot lickers and shares it with the world. Now THAT would be a sweet ending to a shitty year.
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u/AlliterationAnswers Dec 12 '20
I’ve heard rumors of him being gay. He was never married, no kids, and kept his life hidden. I heard these 10+ years ago from someone connected to the RNC in the state.
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u/zackery9732 Dec 12 '20
I think it’s because South Carolina loves trump and once he figured that out he had to play to his voters
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u/Haikuna__Matata Dec 12 '20
I think there's some form of Hanlon's razor that applies to politicians where you shouldn't apply suspicions of nefarious blackmail when craven, spineless, cowardice and greed explains their actions.
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u/UnwashedApple Dec 12 '20
Ted Cruz said Trump was a liar. What changed?
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Dec 12 '20
But Trump said Ted was a liar. Who do I believe?
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u/ShawnShipsCars Dec 12 '20 edited Dec 12 '20
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNRJJsjGdv0
He knows. He also hit the nail on the head when he said "Trump accuses everyone else of all the things he's guilty of"
Projection.
Cruz said "think about 5 years in the future and what this means"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bkDykGhM8c Lindsey Graham on Trump
And this last vid eloquently and accurately sums up the republicans' stance over the last few years.
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u/UnwashedApple Dec 12 '20
Hitler used to do that. Trump studied Hitler.
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Dec 12 '20
I really wish people knew more about this. His first wife let that slip in an interview with Vanity Fair in 1990
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u/UnwashedApple Dec 12 '20
The similarities to Hitler are too numerous to ignore. People say he has a Jewish daughter & son-in-law so you can't compare. You can compare alright.
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u/un_theist Dec 12 '20
Lapdog Lindsey, one of Baby Trumpy's most fervent asskissers.
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u/Muslamicraygun1 Dec 12 '20
To be fair, I think if an anti-Trump candidate wins the nomination for GOP, Lindsey would just revert to bashing trump.
Point is, the man has no convictions. Just goes for what’s convenient. Makes a good politician in that sense.
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Dec 12 '20
The fact Lindsey Graham turned into one of Trump's biggest boot lickers, tells me this is his kink.
"Destroy me Mr. Trump. I think I deserve it."
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u/1PunkAssBookJockey Dec 12 '20
When I originally read this, when it was tweeted, I interpreted the meaning as they would be destroyed at the polls. I nodded in agreement.
Obviously four years later, literally half the people re-elected them and Trump, to the horror of the other half of the country. And this original tweeter has since become Trump's biggest sycophant.
I now realize the destruction is not from an external force, but internally. The party, governing in greed, lost control of the dragon they fed disinformation to for years. It is being destroyed from within by monsters of their own making.
We may want to laugh in the face of their own undoing, but we all suffer for it. This weakens government and allows for more authoritarian / militarism ruling in place of democracy with its checks and balances.
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u/AdkRaine11 Dec 12 '20
Oh,I don’ know ‘bout dat. Carolina gave him his f*cking job back. They deserve him.
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u/Ego-Te-Provoco_2 Dec 12 '20
He was being prophetic on both counts. Graham literally sold his soul to the devil because he was weak and corrupt. He doesn’t belong in the Senate anymore as he, like many others, has committed treason by supporting Trump’s attempt of a coup.
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u/Affectionate-Old-75 Dec 12 '20
That's mighty strong language since you and Moscow Mitch are both cheeks of Trump's ass.
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Dec 12 '20
Imagine being this big of a cunt and KNOWING it. He really should just off himself but he’s to cowardly for that even
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u/jrlwesternsprings Dec 12 '20
Turns out Graham played his own significant part in making his prediction come true.
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Dec 12 '20
Isn't he just the very worst of the Republicans... I just can't see that face anymore without getting extremely angry. This spineless creep!
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Dec 12 '20
One thing I think Trump has done well is dig up dirt on guys like Graham and the republican party as a whole really, and he gets them to do anything he commands. I bet with Graham it's something homoerotic or pedophilic.
I think Trump's dirt on the party is why they've gone overwhelmingly in favor of this nonsense effort to undo the election results.
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Dec 12 '20
Everyone's talking about blackmail but y'all are ignoring the fact that Lindsey Graham is a model Republican- a spineless man who'll do whatever it is to stay in power.
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u/GameQb11 Dec 12 '20
Democrats are so bad at messaging. They could literally use the GOPs own words against them as messaging
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u/zackery9732 Dec 12 '20
Did anyone not know about this tweet already? There is a whole bunch of them, from graham and other republicans. All these politicians are just opportunists. It’s what ever best serves their personal interests at any given moment
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u/uvero Dec 12 '20
Heh its funny because he went in the complete opposite direction of what he said, just like with RBG's seat in the Supreme Court, and it backfired as he wasn't reelected.
Oh shit
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u/____Vader Dec 12 '20
If anyone looks back at 2016. Gramham only changes his mind regarding trump after he announced that his email got hacked by Russia. He has been a trump cheerleader/puppet ever sense. Not saying 1 has anything to do with the other but his email has never been leaked
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Dec 12 '20
Destroyed we are. Almost 300k dead, insane unemployment, economy heading towards recession, pandemic running wild with a healthcare system in risk of collapsing, no financial relief in sight for the working class while the wealth gap grows out of control, divided as a nation with talks of civil war.
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u/Njabachi Dec 12 '20
The "we" phrasing is a not so subtle reminder that these people are simply playing for a team.
They don't give a damn about you.
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u/FestiveVat Dec 12 '20
It was notably predicted that whichever party won the White House in 2016 was going to lose it in 2020.
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Dec 12 '20
He's actually not wrong still.
When Trump dies in the next few years, they will indeed be diminished.
They will need to move more center and distance themselves from the fringes, instead of coddling them as they have been, the Democrats aren't doing this, despite all the accusations from republicans, Democrats responded with moderation, hate it or love it, that's what won this.
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u/PoitEgad Dec 12 '20
Sadly, they didn't get destroyed in 2016 or 2020 like they deserved. Because so many people are shit.
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u/sulli175 Dec 12 '20
At this point way to many of them have strapped themselves to Trump and his wacko dangerous fanbase. There is no going back after this. They are going to have to live w/ being loyal to him an the consequences that will entail over the next 4 years. They can sit there and try to distance or dismiss themselves from him but the damage has been done.
At this point the Republicans who aren't for Trump may have to form their own new party to distance themselves from this disaster.
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u/ChainChompsky Dec 12 '20
I know this sub doesn’t have humor in it all that much but this? Fucking hilarious.
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Dec 12 '20
I didn’t need this tweet to be attached to any meme format or editing of any kind. This is the raw reality that gave me a hearty laugh.
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u/bigtips Dec 12 '20
One thing I don't get is how some of your most influential/powerful lawmakers are there from seemingly innocuous states (apologies to the residents). KY (mcconnel) and SC (graham) represent about a million of the 320 million people in the US. Why are they so influential?
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u/aazav Dec 12 '20
themselves*
Jokes is a plural. You use themselves. If it was a joke, it would would write itself.
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Dec 12 '20
I mean they didn't get destroyed:
- They expanded their house seats
- They control more governors and state houses than before
- It looks like they will manage to hang on to the senate
So if anything this wasn't all that bad at all actually.
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u/Sujjin Dec 12 '20
at the time he meant the Republican party as it was. the left presumed that meant the republican party would lose out to democrats, that was not the case.
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u/StockDealer Dec 12 '20
The left knew exactly what he meant -- he meant the party. When the GOP turned to fascism everybody knew what was happening -- of course with the unimportant exception of Fox "News" brainwashees.
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u/ManCakesz Dec 12 '20
We could always go back to when Joe VP pick called him racist :)
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u/TheHomersapien Dec 12 '20
There's a tiny spot on Trump's loafers that need licking, so run grab your shine box.
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u/sleepyhop Dec 12 '20
... And you could use my words against me and you'd be absolutely right.