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Semi-Fascists
HockeyDad Offline
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That’s where we are at today. Republicans are semi-fascists.

Let’s recap:

Clinging to their guns and Bibles
Misogynists
Racists
Basket of Deplorables
Semi-fascists

I’ll just leave this here for the left leaning members to apologize for their leadership and distance themselves from what the DNC has become.
DrafterX Offline
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they're still bitter over the Hillary thing... Mellow
rfenst Offline
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fas·​cism | \ ˈfa-ˌshi-zəm also ˈfa-ˌsi- \
Definition of fascism
1often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascist) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition

2: a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control
early instances of army fascism and brutality

Merriam-Webster



I think some on both sides have used the term to refer to the other side and its leader(s).
RayR Offline
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Robert.,your dictionary definition although simplistic sounds much like the Biden regime

HD, you forgot Homophobic and Islamaphobic!
HockeyDad Offline
#5 Posted:
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RayR wrote:
Robert.,your dictionary definition although simplistic sounds much like the Biden regime

HD, you forgot Homophobic and Islamaphobic!


I can’t keep track of all the phobics.

We’re having a heat wave. I’m heatphobic.
RayR Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
I can’t keep track of all the phobics.

We’re having a heat wave. I’m heatphobic.


That's too bad.
I'm Wokeaphobic
HockeyDad Offline
#7 Posted:
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Wokephobic is illegal in California.
Gene363 Offline
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No "semi" anything here, I hate both political parties, politicians and most people. That said, people should be free to idiots.
Sunoverbeach Offline
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Oh, chit! Webster's is apparently lefty lizard people now.

What did the left eye say to the right eye?
Between you and me, something smells
ZRX1200 Offline
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I thought Left Eye lit Right Eye on fire for touching her man back in 1998?

Right leaning people here have criticized R POTUS actions, senators, Congress critters….it doesn’t count though unless you criticize the current thing that’s approved to be criticized.

I remember when context was discussed here.
ZRX1200 Offline
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I would find it dishonest at a minimum to compare Cheeto calling the lying media the enemy of the people to that 💩 Pedo Joe just said in Philly.

But the posts I’ve been reading lately I don’t expect much.
RayR Offline
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Ya, the Philly thing has caused quite a stir out there and LEFTY is lying low. 🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗

O'Bidey tried to back peddle today on what he said in Philly, which was “There’s no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans. And that is a threat to this country.” He now told Peter Doocy, "I don’t consider any Trump supporters a threat to the country,”

I heard the chitshow was paid for by the taxpayers even though it was a blatantly political campaign event.

Some people, even on the left are mad because they used 2 Marines as props behind him onstage.

Speaking of props, people are comparing the design of the scene behind Joey with the dark, predominantly red background with the dicktator speaking scene in V for Vendetta.


JOE BIDEN SPEECH COMPARED TO V FOR VENDETTA SCENE AS ‘SATANIC BIDEN’ TRENDS ON TWITTER

by Arpita Adhya

Quote:
Joe Biden‘s latest prime-time speech is now being compared to the famous ‘V for Vendetta’ speech due to the lighting and his posture evoked similar imageries. Some netizens have gone further ahead and called the setting ‘satanic.’

For the unversed, USA’s 46th president Joe Biden addressed the nation from Philadelphia on Thursday where he made a number of bold promises including his aim to “come together as a nation to secure democracy” and to restore the soul of the nation.

But along with his emotional speech, some have pointed out that the lighting of the stage was eerily red, including the presence of two marines standing behind the president.

Right after Joe Biden’s passionate speech in Philadelphia, onlookers started sharing snaps from the V for Vendetta movie including the president’s posture side by side which showcased how similar they look.

A Twitter user shared two photos and asked, “I knew this image looked familiar. Has anyone seen V for Vendetta?”

Another user quipped, “Joe Biden just watched v for vendetta the day before the speech and liked Sutler a little too much.”

More...

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2022/09/02/joe-biden-speech-compared-to-v-for-vendetta-scene-as-satanic-biden-trends-on-twitter/






frankj1 Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I thought Left Eye lit Right Eye on fire for touching her man back in 1998?

Right leaning people here have criticized R POTUS actions, senators, Congress critters….it doesn’t count though unless you criticize the current thing that’s approved to be criticized.

I remember when context was discussed here.

Bad Moon Rison!
thought she lit up his mansion though...

thanks Jamie.
ZRX1200 Offline
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Let it be known that though often annoying to some I will always randomly interject a hidden joke just for you.
frankj1 Offline
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I'm starting to feel sharp again...been a long time.
RayR Offline
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OK Frank congrats on feeling sharp again, the drugs work then?

Now back to a relevant subject to the thread.

Dr. Naomi Wolf is no RIGHTY, but here is her analysis of the LEFTY FASCIST imagery.

https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/naomi-wolf-on-the-imagery-of-bidens-speech/



Brewha Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
That’s where we are at today. Republicans are semi-fascists.

Let’s recap:

Clinging to their guns and Bibles
Misogynists
Racists
Basket of Deplorables
Semi-fascists

I’ll just leave this here for the left leaning members to apologize for their leadership and distance themselves from what the DNC has become.

You will have a long wait.


Oh, and it’s the MAGA Republicans are the problem.
We on the left can tolerate the rest of you.
JadeRose Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I thought Left Eye lit Right Eye on fire for touching her man back in 1998?




Now you're just chasing waterfalls
Dg west deptford Offline
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Pedo Joe wishes i was semi flaccid, or whatever bumblefuss said

I'm an ULTRA !

& yes, we will crush the satanic cult aka the democrats
HockeyDad Offline
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This thread is oddly quiet.
ZRX1200 Offline
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Yup. It’ll stay that way.

It’s all fun till it’s pointed at you, that’s what keeps em circling the fascist/technocrat wagons.
rfenst Offline
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Dear Insurrectionists and Fascists: I’m sorry I offended you


WAPO Opinion

Who knew strongmen were so fragile?

The insurrectionists of Jan. 6 busted into the Capitol, hit police with fire extinguishers, flagpoles, bats, stun guns and pepper spray; they threatened to kill the vice president and tried to overthrow the 2020 election. And now, they want an apology.

MAGA Republican leaders have fomented violence, attacked the rule of law and deceived tens of millions of people into rejecting the outcome of free and fair elections. And now, they, too, want an apology.

I’m sorry, but these authoritarians have some terribly tender egos. They need to pull themselves up by their own jackboot-straps.

On Thursday, the very day President Biden spoke from Philadelphia’s Independence Hall pleading with Americans to “stop the assault on American democracy,” former president Donald Trump called for reparations for those who assaulted democracy on Jan. 6, 2021. Trump told a right-wing radio host that, if he returns to power, he plans “full pardons with an apology to many” who attacked the Capitol.

He also claimed he is “financially supporting” some of those charged in the insurrection to defend them from “sick” prosecutors and “nasty” judges. Oath Keepers? Proud Boys? Unclear. He didn’t say which insurrectionists he’s bankrolling.

Hours later, Kevin McCarthy, in Scranton, Pa., gave a prebuttal of Biden’s democracy speech in which the House Republican leader demanded that Biden apologize to MAGA Republicans for calling their ideology “semi-fascism.” “The first lines out of his mouth should be to apologize for slandering tens of millions of Americans as fascists,” McCarthy said.

Of course, Biden’s semi-fascism remark was directed at MAGA leaders such as Trump and McCarthy — not the masses they’ve hornswoggled with their anti-democratic lies. But McCarthy used a classic fascist tool: casting the powerful in-group as the persecuted.

McCarthy has tried this move before. After House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called McCarthy a “moron” last year over his objections to pandemic mask-wearing, he tried to sell T-shirts that said “Moron” in big letters and (falsely) claimed Pelosi had applied the label to all “freedom loving Americans.”

Is there no limit to the authoritarians’ hurt feelings? Insurrectionists are victims. Fascists are victims. Even right-wing fashion victims are victims. A new outlet calling itself “The Conservateur” just published an equine-themed fashion spread of Lara Trump, showing her atop a horse, barefoot, wearing a "gauze gown belted with clustered pearls.” Complains the Conservateur: “Despite her beauty and accomplishments ... Lara was never interviewed by Vanity Fair, Elle, Marie Claire or any of the other fashion and lifestyle magazines.”

As the unauthorized spokesman for fashion magazines, I humbly and unreservedly apologize to the former president’s daughter-in-law for this unforgivable oversight.

While I’m apologizing, let me offer one to the insurrectionists, as Trump demanded:

I regret that the heads and bodies of police officers got in the way of your truncheons and flagpoles while you were engaging in Legitimate Political Discourse at the Capitol. I hope that you didn’t hurt your fingers while gouging their eyes, and that their blood didn’t stain your tactical assault gear; if it did, please send me the dry-cleaning bill! I am so sorry that, on your Normal Tourist Visit, you didn’t get to use your noose or all the guns stockpiled at the Comfort Inn in Alexandria. Please forgive me for previously quibbling with your plan to “hang Mike Pence” and your use of the Confederate flag in the halls of Congress. I apologize that you had to break windows and doors, climb scaffolding and rappel into the Senate chamber. My bad! Next time you want to overthrow an American election, just knock.

And here’s an apology to the semi-fascists, as McCarthy demanded:

I’m so sorry you’ve convinced millions of people to believe the egregious lie that the 2020 election was stolen. I’m sorry you are making heroes of the criminals who attacked our seat of government. I’m sorry you’re currently fomenting violence against the FBI and the IRS. I’m sorry you’re passing laws giving yourselves more power to overthrow the 2024 election results if you lose, and I’m sorry you’re nominating candidates committed to doing so. I’m sorry you don’t like it when the Justice Department enforces the law and protects national security. I’m sorry you’ve lionized Hungarian strongman Viktor Orban, and I’m sorry you say that the Democratic Party, not Vladimir Putin’s Russia, is the real enemy. I regret that you’ve taken away women’s rights. I regret that you’re banning books and censoring history lessons. I regret that you are shunning science, expertise and the truth. Above all, I’m truly sorry that, because of such things, Biden called you semi-fascists.

There’s really nothing “semi” about it.
bgz Offline
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That's what I've been saying.. this new breed Republican mentality... they act all hard, talking the talk, walking the walk, talking free speech as they raise their guns and move to safe spaces where they can hear only what they want to hear (that's free speech now apparently)... start cancelling people in places they can't (like cbid lmfao)... Hypocrite much? I guess it's only America if it's the America they want... with people that think like them.

Soft.
RayR Offline
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I'm sorry Robert you didn't credit the op-ed to Dana Milbank. That's just plain rude. You've got to give LEFTY credit where credit is due you know.
It's such a nicely crafted WAPO propaganda piece. It so blatantly projects "fascism" onto everything RIGHTY like scattershot without even defining what the word means.
C'mon Man, where's the critique of the actual fascist policies of the LEFTY Biden regime?

I'm sorry but the meaning of words matters to me.

Does The Definition Of ‘Fascism’ Apply To The Biden Administration?

BY: BEN CARSON
AUGUST 20, 2021

Quote:
Here is a challenge: Define fascism without reference to a historical event or proper noun.

It’s harder than it seems. Most people associate fascism with European dictatorships of the 1920s and ’30s. That is with good reason: those were the first fascist regimes.

The term itself originated in Italy to describe the political philosophy of Benito Mussolini, who borrowed from the Italian word fascio, literally meaning “bundle” (usually of rods or sticks). Mussolini used the term to mean a group of people who are stronger together than individually, such as how a bundle of sticks bound together is much more difficult to snap than any individual stick.

While most fascist regimes had racial or nationalist elements, it was not racism or nationalism that defined them; there have been plenty of racist or nationalist governing structures that do not merit the label “fascism.” Rather, the necessary ingredient for fascism is the state’s total domination of all aspects of life, including economic life.

More...

https://thefederalist.com/2021/08/20/does-the-definition-of-fascism-apply-to-the-biden-administration/
Brewha Offline
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bgz wrote:
That's what I've been saying.. this new breed Republican mentality... they act all hard, talking the talk, walking the walk, talking free speech as they raise their guns and move to safe spaces where they can hear only what they want to hear (that's free speech now apparently)... start cancelling people in places they can't (like cbid lmfao)... Hypocrite much? I guess it's only America if it's the America they want... with people that think like them.

Soft.

You Should check out Truth Social. It’s the liars club on steroids.

What a bunch knuckle draggers….
HockeyDad Offline
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Y’all still got your pink pus$y hats in case Trump wins again?
Brewha Offline
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Wait - can he win for a THIRD time?

Cause he said he already won twice….
HockeyDad Offline
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With the supply chain issues I gotta get my orders in:

1. MAGA hat, torch, and pitchfork set.
2. Pink pus$y hat, torch, and pitchfork set.

Whatever I don’t sell I’ll donate to Africa for the tax write-off just like those Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champions shirts.

(Ima get some bumper stickers too: “it’s a Tesla, go around!”)
RayR Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
Y’all still got your pink pus$y hats in case Trump wins again?


LOL Sure LEFTY still has those pink pus$y hats with cat-like ears and their vagina hats too.
bgz Offline
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Good afternoon RayR, how is your day?
Brewha Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
With the supply chain issues I gotta get my orders in:

1. MAGA hat, torch, and pitchfork set.
2. Pink pus$y hat, torch, and pitchfork set.

Whatever I don’t sell I’ll donate to Africa for the tax write-off just like those Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl Champions shirts.

(Ima get some bumper stickers too: “it’s a Tesla, go around!”)

Your peasant envy is noted.
Brewha Offline
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bgz wrote:
Good afternoon RayR, how is your day?

His pants are full….you take him…
ZRX1200 Offline
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Rfenster does your link mirror your feelings?

Do you associate people who assaulted police with everyone there? If the feds had plants and encouraged illegal acts how do you feel? What about people that got let in to the capital building? You know the guy who literally moved a lectern 20 yards to give a mock speech got 5 years probation?

May I ask how a group of people were going to occupy a building and take over the government? Acting logistics here how does that work functionally….I’d really love to know that. We’ve already established that not all federal buildings are equal when attacked.
bgz Offline
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You win RayR...

I surrender...

Spam till your little heart is content.
RayR Offline
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bgz wrote:
You win RayR...

I surrender...

Spam till your little heart is content.


See how you are. I give you my original thoughts and you're not happy.
I give you LINKS and you're not happy.
You are just miserable!

But I accept your surrender. Dancing
MACS Offline
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The favorite smear of the leftist... "fascist!"

Every republican president in the last few decades has been called that. Fascism is not a political phenomenon of the right, just because some retard white-supremacists embrace the label.

Who is the philosopher of fascism? Bueller? Anyone?

Historians, most on the left, erased him from history to avoid confronting fascism's actual beliefs. Giovanni Gentile.

He was pretty influential in the first half of the 20th century. He believed there were 2 opposing types of democracy. Liberal democracy, such as the United States, which he dismissed as egocentric - too centered on freedom and personal rights and therefore selfish. The one he recommended was "true democracy", in which individuals willingly subordinate themselves to the state.

Guess who his philosophy mentor was? Karl Marx. Gentile was a committed socialist, and fascism was it's most workable form to him. Socialism divides people by class. Fascism does it by national identity and class. Fascists are socialists with a national identity. Know why in 1930's some Germans were called Nazi's? It's a contraction of National socialist.

Gentile believed all private actions should be to serve society. No difference between private and public interest. And who administers these interests? The government. So to submit to society is to submit to the government. Not just in economic stuff... but all stuff. Everything is political... so the state gets to tell you what to think and what to do.

Mussolini turned Gentile's ideas into action. Turned out pretty bad.

Lefties can't acknowledge this guy, because it would ruin their attempt to tie fascism to conservatives when in fact... it is directly tied to the left.
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Many sources attribute the creation of Manhattan clam chowder to Giovanni Gentile who was known both for his traditional tomato-based stews and for their frequent travels to New York City's Fulton Fish Market during the mid-1800s.
HockeyDad Offline
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Manhattan clam chowder traces to Portugal.

Giovanni sounds like the kinda guy you could sit down with and have a bottle of Chianti and some tortellini. Then he starts in on this whole state this and state that and you’re like “Dude, enough with the state stuff. Try the cannoli.”
RayR Offline
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HockeyDad wrote:
Manhattan clam chowder traces to Portugal.

Giovanni sounds like the kinda guy you could sit down with and have a bottle of Chianti and some tortellini. Then he starts in on this whole state this and state that and you’re like “Dude, enough with the state stuff. Try the cannoli.”


I could go for a bottle of Chianti and some tortellini right now.
Ya, I hate the STATE.
When that Lyin' Dicktator Biden says you are a ‘clear and present danger’ to duhmacracy, he really means you are a ‘clear and present danger to the state, his regime, the soul of the nation.
Brewha Offline
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I think the MAGA Rats are still fascists - whether they eat clam chowder or not.
Gene363 Offline
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Brewha wrote:
I think the MAGA Rats are still fascists - whether they eat clam chowder or not.


Interesting history: Nazies depicted Jews as rats.
rfenst Offline
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Gene363 wrote:
Interesting history: Nazies (sic) depicted Jews as rats.

And, they exterminated them and others too. But, I don't see that happening to anyone in America here and now.
MACS Offline
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rfenst wrote:
And, they exterminated them and others too. But, I don't see that happening to anyone in America here and now.


We still have guns. Won't be so easy to exterminate anyone while they're armed. Why you think Pedo Joe is trying to disarm the populace?
RayR Offline
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rfenst wrote:
And, they exterminated them and others too. But, I don't see that happening to anyone in America here and now.


Don't be so sure. Underneath all the lies he told, your LEFTY dicktator used some pretty forceful fascist rhetoric the other night to match his fascist-looking stage. That's how it always starts.
Like "MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic", “But there is no question that the Republican Party today is dominated, driven, and intimidated by Donald Trump and the MAGA Republicans, and that is a threat to this country.", MAGA forces are determined to take this country backwards -- backwards to an America where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love" and “They promote authoritarian leaders, and they fan the flames of political violence that are a threat to our personal rights, to the pursuit of justice, to the rule of law, to the very soul of this country"

Like fascist dicktators of the past, he demonizes his opposition with inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations, he projects his own demented authoritarian tendencies on anyone that is against his regime. There's a fine line between now and the grand opening of FEMA concentration camps. I know you'll probably say I'm being hyperbolic and it can't happen here, but so did the victims of 20th European fascism.


ZRX1200 Offline
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Like there isn’t an effort socially, culturally and politically over the last 20 years. Every which way but physically.
rfenst Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
Rfenster does your link mirror your feelings? Some yes, some no. Just a good article worthy of discussion of alternate points of view. Do you associate people who assaulted police with everyone there? No. If the feds had plants and encouraged illegal acts how do you feel? If that is true, I would not like it at all. What about people that got let in to the capital building? They still knew they had no business being part of the mob after they crossed a barrier or police line. And "got let in" mostly appears to me to be a euphemism for cops who were retreating or didn't want the risk of further angering the crowds. If you want to lawfully visit congress, there is a way to do it that doesn't involve injuries and damage. You know the guy who literally moved a lectern 20 yards to give a mock speech got 5 years probation? No sympathy.

May I ask how a group of people were going to occupy a building and take over the government? I don't think they were trying to take over the entire government, just keep Cheeto as president or at least impair the electoral college. Acting logistics here how does that work functionally….I’d really love to know that. We’ve already established that not all federal buildings are equal when attacked.
ZRX1200 Offline
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How was that going to overturn the election? And there is video of police opening doors, a judge let multiply people go and removed charges because of this video.
rfenst Offline
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ZRX1200 wrote:
How was that going to overturn the election? Do not know each person's exact plans that day, but I believe they were there to do that if they could. And there is video of police opening doors, a judge let multiply people go and removed charges because of this video. I am OK with that if they did not cross a barrier or police line. Not everyone there was a bad actor, IMO, but many, many, many were, IMO

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Did Trump actually say Biden was an “enemy to the state”?

Doesn’t sound like him. He’d end the sentence with “Fatherland”.

He should write a book about his last two years. Not sure what he’d title it. Maybe something like My Struggle.
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Poor trump…..
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