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Of course his idiot dumbshit supporters all assume they won’t be the ones suffering, it’ll just be everyone else, and that makes it okay to them.

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49 points

They don’t understand that rooting for them, doesn’t make them part of the team.

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30 points

They don’t understand that Donald Trump loathes them

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If Kamala wins, her Dept. of Education should really make a push to make sure that we are teaching fascism and WW2 in schools so people can recognize this shit and stop falling for it.

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As a German, I have to sadly tell you that that’s not enough.

It’s important to teach media literacy and critical thinking too.

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6 points

I thought critical thinking was communism?

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Yeah, the red states already hamstring k-12 to the point they can’t function.

Feds never should have let that happen.

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26 points

Every single church that made a political endorsement needs to be stripped of its tax exempt status. And audited by the IRS.

Domestic terrorism is being fomented at the ground level in “religious centers,” and we’ve gotta start calling things what they are.

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5 points

Just frame it as “Muslim” and the right will get it done for you. They do love voting against their own interests.

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28 points

“The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe, for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was one of them.”

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don’t be silly, of course the leopards will only eat other people’s faces.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/trump-shutdown-voter-florida

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They’ll just be told to blame everyone else for their suffering, just like they have been for decades now. It’s all going to be heaped on the same old tired bogeymen: illegals, libs, the nebulous educated elite, etc.

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8 points

It is far more than okay with them when the right people are suffering hardships. They would elect the most overtly corrupt person to ever exist and destroy the country just to make sure the right people get hurt.

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3 points

They just did elect that person

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1 point

Red_October

Hey, dude. People are looking for you.

I FOUND HIM GUYS! We can call off the hunt, now!

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121 points

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Says the war dodging, low IQ (the true low IQ individual), balding denier, sexual assaulting, multi-time felon.

Trump is like 1985’s alternate timeline Biff Tannen only worse because he’s real.

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We ARE aware that alternate timeline Biff WAS Trump right?

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3 points

Marty needs to fix this!

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10 points

Plenty of them already died, by eating horsepaste during a respiratory virus pandemic. The survivors didn’t care.

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3 points

Speaking of which, WTF happened to that effect on the vote?

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5 points

Alabama went from +28 Trump to +25 or something.

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And this fucker is about to win… I can’t believe this… And my state denied women abortion rights.

I hope every woman that voted for this isnt raped and forced to carry that baby.

And Rick Scott, the leader of the largest Medicare fraud, is re elected again.

My state is filled with idiots who won’t even vote for their own best interests

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57 percent voted for reproductive choice. But the measure required 60% supermajority.

And to make things worse - abortion being its own separate item on the ballot may have been what cost us Florida, since pro-choice voters who leaned right could vote both ways.

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Have to agree, FL is looking more and more like a lost cause. The upside is after drill baby drill does into effect, it will speed up the timeline of the Florida Isles becoming a thing. Might want to invest in boat stocks, its gonna be waterworld down there, sans Kevin Costner.

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Florida confuses the shit out of me. How did it become this way? And so quickly! With the major metros I don’t understand how it’s so red! Even Texas races are getting closer and closer, and I think it’s because of the major cities.

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Florida in the last 20-30 years has been a representative sample of retiree vote in the country. The boomers and Gen X that retiring now to Florida are just not progressively minded. The people that moved to Florida during the pandemic were also very hostile to blue state politics which is why they moved to Florida, which was perceived as a red state during that time period. Now we’re just living in that reality after all the dust has settled.

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During the last few years and specifically during 2020 covid the majority of people moving out of my blue state went to Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee, or Texas. Everyone that I knew of that leaned that way basically moved to a swing state.

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70 points

I think I speak for most of the world right now when I say this:

Fuck.

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