And they can fuck right off.
Signed,
South Carolina Liberal
Not televised but live streamed on FakeBook.
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Rand is afraid of being left with only “low class” Dixiecrats:
So what’s your point, Rand? If you need the vote of insurrectionists to win re-election, perhaps you don’t need to be running? You really don’t want a government and neither do they. Why don’t you join the revolution and blow up everything instead of pretending to care about America and the very real problems it is experiencing that you ignore?
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The “Red Mirage” was the plan all along …
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“Can’t satirize guys in shiny boots.”
Mel Brooks did. There should be a remake of “The Producers” with trump as the dictator in chief. Springtime in Mar-a-Lago. Trump is begging to be satirized.
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Love this 
Thank you!
Critical thinking is a learned art. And I think it is so easy to brainwash some individuals who are willing to believe what they want to believe. If I can’t believe this, it means half of Americans are evil, and I don’t want to believe that! 
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Exactly. They want to believe it so they choose to believe it. It is not brain washing in the literal sense, it is reinforcement of their belief system.
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Unless you’re an actual physicist, this is sheer open-ended nonsense, amounting to “who knows?” which is not that far from climate change denial and a typical Trump attempt at gaslighting. Seriously, it’s fixed. Only known possible way “around” it is to shorten the travel distance via wormholes, which are theoretical and technically aren’t faster than light travel.
Even that runs you into problems with causality. You really want observers at rest with respect to one another to see the same order for events that are causally related. As soon as you introduce faster than light in (almost) any form, then you have to give up being able to decide whether A kicking B caused B to say “Ouch”, unless you’re willing to allow causality to propagate backwards in observed time. (which you can also do, but a lot of other physics has to be rewritten)
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Or you just get Chris Nolan to direct.
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Prefer “My Country, Right or Wrong”.
At least it keeps all options open.
The end of the phrase is “If It’s Wrong, Make it Right”.
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Not really. Assuming it’s even possible, you’re bending space, not compressing it or moving faster than light.
There’s also those alleged “smart” and “educated” people who also fall prey to this. Some aren’t actually that smart, or only situationally smart in some professional specialty, some are so blinded by racism, anger or whatever that they’re not able to think straight, and some have mental issues or suffered some personal loss or disappointment that made them snap. But yeah, most are weak-minded and not terribly bright or educated people who just fell in with the others. This is the biggest group.
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With Trump’s approval in the low 30s and more likely to fall than rise as further details make the escapade of Jan 6 look worse and worse and the make-up dripping Rudy Giuliani takes up his defense in the Senate, the Republicans face a real dilemma. No amount of gerrymandering can win with 30%. Do they try to win back the Indies by washing the stain of Trumpism away at the cost of some of their base staying home or do they carry forward as a rump faction (pun intended)?
They are between a rock and a hard place and it’s all richly deserved…
So how does one go about forming a new party? Because the sane republicans may be wanting to do that. What assets can they strip from the crazy-occupied party they’re leaving? Is the corporate structure organized state by state?
And as the GOP registrations go down, the % of Rethugs who support insurrection goes up.
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Everything in the poll seems to indicate that Trump voters remain Trump voters, not Republican voters. If there remains a core of non-Trump Republicans, they are vanishingly small. As the GOP tries to separate itself from the angry guy leaving the room, it’s completely unclear how many of those Trump voters are ready to come back into their ranks without Big Orange at the lead. With a 11% favorable rating for McConnell, and a 20% rating for McCarthy … just who is the leader of the Republican Party going into 2021?
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