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Remember... Your conservative friends and family will politely wave as they watch you escorted away to be "re-educated".
Your conservative family, neighbors and co-workers do not value your life the way you value theirs. They are simply not capable of that. Empathy is not a conservative trait. It never has been.
"Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom." - Herbert Spencer
Okay, this quote may be fine, but let's not pretend Herbert Spencer wasn't an advocate of a lot of bad ideas.
We should pick one candidate to all vote for in the Republican primaries.
There's no Democratic primaries this year and we're stuck with Biden. We don't have to be stuck with Trump as his opponent. If someone else wins the Republican primary, Trump will run as a third party candidate and split the fascist vote.
And it doesn't matter which one. Any non-Trump nominee will drag down Trump and vice versa. I'd suggest whoever comes in second in Iowa, just because they're the most likely to have any momentum at all.
I agree. I think every single non-Trumper in this country should vote for Chris Christie in the primary. He is the least dangerous candidate, it will piss off Trump the most if Christie is the nominee, and you can guarantee it will mean a third party run for Trump. Seems like a net win all around.
Can you imagine the pucker and about-face the Republican party would have to do if CC were the nominee?
Edit: I'll do it. It's legal in Michigan and I'm an independent anyway, allowed to vote in either primary I choose. Why shouldn't I vote to nominate the Republican that I think would be the best to lead the country from those options?
Why shouldn’t I vote to nominate the Republican that I think would be the best to lead the country from those options?
I mean... you absolutely should! Not even just to "sabotage" Trump. That's just a good idea in general.
It would be truly glorious to watch all these ball-coddlers have to tuck tail and try to save their own asses from their knuckle-dragging constituents.
Honestly, it’s pretty fucked up that chris christie is the “sane” vote for “sane “ conservatives.
Like he’s not exactly a paragon of integrity, or good governance.
Some (many?) states have closed Republican primaries. In the states you can only participate if you are a registered republican.
Or one of the losers from the primary could run as an independent and peel off just enough fascist votes....if any of them had a speck of real patriotism, they would do it.
Maybe Liz Cheney should run...
Maybe Liz Cheney should run…
The only thing that may be standing between us and fascism may be the Cheney family political dynasty. What bleak times we inhabit.
Please Tread on Me
-Alpha Male Conservatives
Oppress me harder daddy
This is how we get Nazi 2.0.
It's so blatant it is totally wild...
This is the third time Conservatives have done this, it fails every time. Though they did get their own Confederacy once.
No, but you see, they're just "economically anxious", not literal fascists. /s
Ship them off with trump to some other land
They don't want to be ruled by him. They want him to be cruel to everyone else. Without the everyone else, they don't really have much use for him.
I'll never forget that Trump supporter complaining that "he's hurting the wrong people" during his administration
Better idea- send them to Florida or Texas and build a "big, beautiful wall" between them and the rest of the U.S.
And make them pay for it.
Trump is already in Florida. Just saying.
Also, the nicknames for the wall practically write themselves
Yeah… Hell.
Sheep often need to be led. Even if, no- especially when… it’s to the slaughterhouse.
The republican traitor filth must be held to account and brought under the heel of the law.
Have we tried talking to these people? Perhaps in a diner setting, that would be good
I volunteer you
Believe they're making a joke. It's an annual tradition for Very Important Liberal Journalists to do that in the run-up to every election year, where they write a puff piece and wax poetic about how they had waffles with some rural Republicans and they're Really Just Sensible People because They Were Nice To Me.
Obviously, this misses the fact that being nice to someone personally means jack fucking shit about what policy or politics you support. Plenty of fascists are polite to you face-to-face - that doesn't mean they're anything resembling good citizens.
As a progressive who grew up in a very conservative area, I know this way too well. Plenty of people who are sweet and kind and polite to you, but will casually drop the N-bomb in conversation and talk about how 'those people' need to be 'kicked out' or how they wish they were at the border, where they'd 'shoot all the illegals coming over, not even kidding'.
They should send a black trans journalist to do it to see how nice they are.
We need to make a list of these sycophants so when we are in the clean-up phase of this shit show we can guarantee these ideals won't rise to the surface ever again. These sick fuckers are monsters, let them have the fate of monsters.