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Republicans will spend time and treasure, likely years and millions of dollars, for consultants and experts and pundits to find out what went wrong and how this happened. Save your money and don’t waste your time. The answer came 10 years ago by a Senator from South Carolina who didn’t live to see his prophetic words come to pass. “If we nominate Donald Trump we will get destroyed…and we will deserve it.” Republicans blew up their party, their values, their dignity and decency for a man who wasn’t even a Republican. Unilateral tariffs on our allies by executive orders isn’t conservative. Siding with Vladimir Putin’s murderous war in Ukraine isn’t conservative. Accepting a bribe from a foreign country in the form of an airplane that costs hundreds of millions of dollars isn’t conservative. Turning untrained thugs in masks loose in our communities to murder American citizens in cold blood isn’t conservative. Threatening to invade and conquer a sovereign country, an ally, isn’t conservative. Pardoning people who assaulted law enforcement officers isn’t conservative. The list is too long and too exhausting to contemplate. Republican law makers lit themselves on fire for a thrice married, sociopathic, mentally unstable reality tv personality who bragged about acing a test to check for dementia and spoke about the asses of male candidates for the US Senate. There was a time when I believed we should welcome any of them who finally spoke up back into polite society. But that ship has sailed. These people should live in shame for the rest of their days, shunned and repudiated in history books, never to hold a position that requires the public trust ever again.

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@gtconway3d This is truly unbelievable. I don’t think the Democratic leadership are prepared to battle with the thuggish MAGA’s who have nothing to lose. Not a good start, to say the least. Coming off the heals of the Impeachment debacle yesterday.

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I sure hope someone at the Pentagon is looking out for the young man who rightfully called out Pete Hegseth and his goons at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier today. The Defense Secretary’s ego is already bruised, so he’ll “Warrior Ethos” this guy to Antarctica somewhere, knowing him.

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@Poeslawisalive At what point do the people around d him become liable for pretending like everything is ok here? I mean, sheesh.

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How ridiculous is it that the sitting United States President thinks that when someone is “seeking asylum” means they’re coming from mental institutions, and exactly zero people around him has the guts to tell him how batshit crazy that is?

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@PeteHegseth @POTUS Pathetic Pete…shaking in his boots (inside of his makeup chair). What an absolute disgrace to the brave men and women who defend this country every day. Imagine having to work for this guy? He can’t go soon enough.

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@CalltoActivism I wonder if there’s ever been a time in our nation’s history where someone would be literally embarrassed to have to stand next to the President of the United States? What an absolute cluster.

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@bennyjohnson Oh, right. Because the “Christian” thing to do, Benjamin, is to cry about the election being rigged, sabotage the incoming Senator taking his place and to pledge all loyalty and fealty to the almighty Trump, right? Which part of this is wrong, I’m genuinely curious.

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@CBSNews @nancycordes @60Minutes He literally makes up numbers in his head as he goes. “11,888 murderers, we’ve gotten most of them out.” Make it make sense.

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@CalltoActivism The man cannot even pronounce the word “recruitment.” He tries on multiple occasions and the last time he just abandons it altogether and says, “look…lie, lie, lie, loser, loser, lie, lie. Just sad and humiliating to watch this absolute clown.

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The man lies as he breathes. There is a zero chance that I could interview this clown because I would shut his lies down immediately. Give some credit, though, to the reporter, he does push back, albeit gently. Trump creates his own reality and actually begins to believe the make believe fantasy world he’s created with his lies.

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It’s like the stages of Trump’s grief. First there’s the pity party, then comes the lashing out/blame game, and now we’ve arrived at the “fraud” stage. We all know it was inevitable this is where he’d end up. His ego won’t allow him to accept rational outcomes that don’t make him the hero.

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This is just the chef’s kiss for what took place Tuesday night. Republican/Democrat, doesn’t matter, if you’re a terrible human being like Lauren Boebert is, you have no place in our government or public discourse. This is one of the most unserious people who has ever been in Congress. Good riddance.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Democrat Eileen Laubacher defeats Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

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Hey, MAGA Christians, explain this one away. I’ll help, I know it’s hard to wrap your brain around. The person you have worshipped as God’s chosen vessel to save the country can’t even understand the concept of forgiveness - while at the same time insisting he’s done plenty to secure his spot in heaven. Look, God can use anyone if they’re willing to surrender to His will. But Donald Trump can’t understand the concept of submitting to God because he feels like he’s on par with God, himself.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

In a jaw-dropping interview on 60 Minutes, Donald Trump was asked if he could forgive his enemies for the chance to enter heaven.

And when Trump looked into eternity, all he could see was his own hate.

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I have an identical twin brother, who, like me has been a life long Conservative Republican. We both held our noses and voted for Donald Trump in 2016 but that is where our paths took extremely different turns. It became apparent to me, very early on, that I’d made a mistake. It was a daily barrage of embarrassing, illegal and jaw dropping actions from Trump that I just could not get behind.

Something I would have thought impossible began to happen. Every time I would call/text to say, “this is insane,” the response was the same every time. “Dude, I’m just glad it’s not Hillary.” As things went from bad to worse to dangerous, I thought surely the “next thing,” would be the thing that was finally too much for his conscience to justify. I’ve never been more wrong about anything in my life.

I’m convinced that, at this point, I could call and say, “He did it, he finally did it! He just shot someone on 5th Avenue!” and that same, almost reflexive response would be cocked and ready. “I mean, the Dem’s want to trans my kid. They want to tax me 80%. I don’t have to agree with everything he does, it doesn’t impact my life.” For those who think this example is an extreme almost metaphorical circumstance to prove my point, I’m sad to say that it’s not. I’m convinced that there is no line, no act, so egregious to finally break the spell that most MAGA Republicans have been under for the better part of a decade now.

Have you ever tried talking to a person who says they have to vote for Donald Trump to save us from a socialist government and agenda and asked them what about these $5,000 checks he promised everyone they’d get from the government as long as they voted for his party’s candidates? The mental gymnastics they are willing to stretch to in order to justify a socialist policy from Trump is astonishing. Or how about asking them what about their lives right now, today, is better because Trump & “Republicans” have controlled every branch of government for two years? “That’s not a fair question because just IMAGINE how bad it would be if Kamala Harris and Democrats were in control,” they’ll say.

Even for the one issue voters who make every election about abortion. Ask them if they realize that abortion rates over the last two years have actually gone UP. “Fake news,” is usually the only thing they can come back at that with. These are usually the people who treat politics like a zero sum game, for every policy they feel works to their favor, then there must be a policy somewhere just waiting to be implemented to work against them.

Thankfully, for my brother and I, we haven’t let this destroy our relationship like so many families across this country have experienced. I’ll never be able to understand how he’s been able to support Donald Trump after he came within a Vice President with some decency and respect for the constitution and the rule of law from overthrowing our almost 250 years of democracy. Nor do I choose to believe that a small faction within the Democratic Party will somehow turn our country into something akin to the Soviet Union that he’s absolutely convinced we’ll now be headed for.

People are absolutely fed up. They’re fed up with living paycheck to paycheck while their President brags about a half billion ball room vanity project and an arch full of drones and snipers, apparently . They’re fed up with being told that “stupid presidents” start wars in the Middle East, except for when Donald Trump unilaterally decided to wage war there without Congress’ consent. They’re fed up with his “most beautiful word in the English language,” tariffs, that have caused prices on almost every commodity imaginable when he promised to “lower prices on day 1. Fed up with $4 gas and $7 diesel. Fed up with the blatant and gross corruption that is obvious for anyone paying even a little bit of attention.

In my gut, I’ve always known that we are better than Donald Trump. And Tuesday night was proof.

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@RpsAgainstTrump Couldn’t have happened to a better guy…just an absolute beacon of truth and moral character.

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@JoJoFromJerz The tell is the, “you ready?” response from Trump when he doesn’t quite know how to answer a question, especially questions about corruption. It’s almost as if you can see his dementia-rattled brain going into a mode that stores the craziest lies.

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@DividedStatesO4 This right here is exactly what I’m talking about. What separates America from countries just like you mentioned is that our mission is noble, led by people who believe that our cause is just and worthy. What you describe is just a thug vs thug cage match.

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Why is common human decency viewed as such an invaluable, almost irrelevant quality in our leaders and elected officials by the MAGA movement? Because their leader for the past decade is void of any, making it the only explainable position to take.

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@AdamKinzinger You can see the defeat on his face, hear it in his voice, and he’s only waking up on a Sunday morning to do a cable news hit because he has to codify his boss’ hurt feelings. These people know the next 2 years is going to be a reckoning.

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It’s like the “dumb” and “dum” thing he’s constantly rambling about. The “tell” with Trump, when he says, “nobody ever knew,” that the “nobody” is him. I have no doubt in my mind whatsoever that someone put this woman’s name forward and they didn’t have the guts to tell him. You just really can’t make this stuff up.