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“What was he convicted of?” someone asked.

“He had tattoos on his body,” she replied triumphantly.

“Hey, smartass!” shouted a woman in her sixties, jumping to her feet. “You want to see my tattoo?”

“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

“Yes I do, I’ve got one!” the woman shouted, tapping her chest.

The Trump supporter dismissed her with a wave of one hand. “I’ve had enough of you Democrats,” she said.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The leopard’s are gonna be obese by the summer.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (9 children)

This will only escalate.. And, across the country...

And I'm here for it.

(How is it possible to have a "Food and Drink" emoji section that has no popcorn emoji*) 🤷‍♂️ 🤡

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

🌽 + 🔥= 🍿

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope they rip each other apart trying to justify their own ignorance and his madness.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Unfortunately their disproportionately overvalued federal representation and votes due to the electoral college they are dragging the rest of us down with them

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He had tattoos on his body? I keep mine in a drawer in the shed.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Ok, hear me out.
David Beckham has tattoos on his body AND is an immigrant. Therefore he must be a part of the ms13 gang and should be deported. It's the only thing that makes sense!!!!!

I've also heard Dolly Parton has tattoos...

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

They stopped liking Dolly Parton after they found out that she's gives books to kids.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How many cops have gang tattoos in 'murica? The internet tells me a good deal of them do.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

“Lady,” the Trump supporter said. “You don’t know what a tattoo is.”

^ That line baffles me

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The conservative mindset is kind of like a reversed No True Scotsman sometimes. In an inherently hierarchical world where you are OBVIOUSLY at the A, #1, top, “Made in the image of white Jesus” tier, it is a serious insult to question the realness of another. Getting “othered” when you’re one of the Real Americans, one of the Chosen Ones, is a tragedy!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Going to the midwest sounds like going to the zoo.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's fucking insane here. I live in a city where people's opinions seem relatively reality-based, but if you get out into the rural areas, the effects of brain drain and media balkanization are on full display.

I don't suggest actually doing this, but you would be absolutely fucking shocked by the overwhelming ignorance of the general population if you were to, say, stop at a bar in rural Iowa.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Eventually one of these rallies will turn into that church scene from Kingsman

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Someone needs to bring these people a holocaust surviver to show them their tattoo and explain why fascism should never rise again

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (12 children)

Lived in Iowa for a few years, nothing but idiots.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago

I know some very smart people from Iowa. They left.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

The US is overdue for balkanization. I think the USA will split some time before 2060.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not fully, but in practice to benefit from no trade barriers. And it'll be done by 2040.

I think what we'll get is no more singular head of state because the Unitary Executive model is a flawed premise that highlights the fragility of having only one person as the chief executive. It's a poison pill. Suggesting it is to suggest inevitable death of the Republic.

What we'll end up with our scaled up Switzerland. An Executive Council of 5/7/9 regionally elected members, with a rotation of who is the ceremonial head of state for functions. I like 7, with more of the East Coast and Midwest consolidated.

But whew...the constitution will need a major overhaul for that to work.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Unitary executive model is a bullshit right wing theory that ignores the entire basis of how our system was designed.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

This might be both one of the funniest and saddest things I've read since the last time I read about Trump in the news.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I thought that was their only form of communication

And I feel like this would be a great area for David Attenborough to do a nature documentary on

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't feel bad for anyone that voted for trump. Nothing he is doing is a surprise. So far it has been everything he said he wanted to do. Fucking morons got exactly what they voted for.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm trying to fathom this being an actual conversation and not some horribly, awfully scripted sitcom. How the hell is it this bad good lord.

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