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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 16, 2024 at 7:59 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 6:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Floridians can't afford to live on the florida coast. Developers and financial firms own that - they'll expect bailouts and they'll get them, all at taxpayer expense. The maga faithful will be wiped out - further proof, in their minds and lived experience, that the us has become a dystopian hellhole.
Florida having become maga mecca..that's the rosetta stone.
But they vote too, Floridian or no. When they're ass-deep in salt-water and no help's available because of laws, that will get them off their asses, I bet.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 16, 2024 at 9:50 pm
That isn't a new situation for floridians. What's happened is how they respond - just food for thought.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 16, 2024 at 10:01 pm
(May 16, 2024 at 9:50 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: What's happened is how they respond - just food for thought.
And also how they will respond. Retirees especially don't like pocketbook hits, and they're a lot of the Crusties.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 16, 2024 at 10:13 pm
The good thing is they die after you con them into voting for you once, and there's always a new crop in from new york.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 17, 2024 at 10:03 am
So, Gov. Greg Abbott just pardoned Daniel Perry, a Texas man who drove his car into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protestors—before shooting and killing one point blank.
Is this normal?
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 17, 2024 at 10:18 am
(May 17, 2024 at 10:03 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: So, Gov. Greg Abbott just pardoned Daniel Perry, a Texas man who drove his car into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protestors—before shooting and killing one point blank.
Is this normal?
For Abbott, absolutely bone-stock normal.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 17, 2024 at 12:26 pm
(May 17, 2024 at 10:03 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: So, Gov. Greg Abbott just pardoned Daniel Perry, a Texas man who drove his car into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protestors—before shooting and killing one point blank.
Is this normal?
It needs to not be normal. Rioting, IMHO, is justified by this sort of blatant abuse.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 17, 2024 at 2:09 pm
-and that's the real victim of jan6, right there.
In this timeline, rioting is reserved for people who support elected officials right to abuse their office and ruined for everyone else.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 17, 2024 at 2:58 pm
(May 17, 2024 at 2:09 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and that's the real victim of jan6, right there.
In this timeline, rioting is reserved for people who support elected officials right to abuse their office and ruined for everyone else.
Time to take it back, then.
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RE: The Absurd GOP
May 17, 2024 at 3:35 pm
(May 17, 2024 at 10:03 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: So, Gov. Greg Abbott just pardoned Daniel Perry, a Texas man who drove his car into a crowd of Black Lives Matter protestors—before shooting and killing one point blank.
Is this normal?
Apparently it is now.
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