From relatively humble beginnings, it has morphed in to this.

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  1. Lee Atwater

    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It, the normalization of aberrant, sometimes criminal behavior, began with the fundamentally racist claims about Obama's heritage referred to as birtherism.
    The admin then began its official tenure with ridiculous assertions about the size of the inaugural crowd. We should have known then it was going to be a bumpy ride.

    Bumpy ride being a forgiving euphemism for constant chaos including a record amount of top level personnel changes, hiring based on loyalty over competence, nepotism, making exceptions on policy for security clearances, the refusal to accept the conclusions of the intel community, abuses relating to emergency power declarations, Billy the Bagman's bald-faced lie of Mueller's exoneration, impeachment for both illegal acts and abuses of authority, pathological lying, giving deference to Putin, unhinged attacks on the media, culminating with the disastrous failure of policy to contain COVID. Needless to say I left out many, many other events worthy of noting.

    Now, having been bludgeoned by the aforementioned relentless disorder so that nothing is considered to be beyond the realm of possibility, the leader of the previously most reliable democracy in the world is refusing to concede an election he lost by significant margins of popular votes and future assigned electoral college electors.

    All while he has named disgraced hatchet man, and reluctant movie star, Slimy Rudy Giuliani to head his diminishing legal team. And as a 30 year old former college quarterback who was hustled out of the WH two years ago after a security clearance check turned up a prolific habit for online gambling is purging government employees seen as insufficiently loyal.

    "Over the past week, President Trump has axed his defense secretary and other top Pentagon aides, his second-in-command at the U.S. Agency for International Development, two top Homeland Security officials, a senior climate scientist and the leader of the agency that safeguards nuclear weapons."
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f12c94-25ca-11eb-8672-c281c7a2c96e_story.html

    In their defense of every single bit of this bizarre experience called Trumpery, Trumpette's fail to acknowledge just how far down the rabbit hole we have gone.
     
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    Damn the leftist will be starved for content once the orange blob is gone. Then again that may be a Godsent too ;)
     
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    With a little luck, he'll be gone soon.

    With a little more, he'll wind up in jail.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's dangerous when citizens of any country lose their capacity for outrage due to fatigue from a barrage of abnormalcy.
     
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    Agreed. What Trump has exposed is that half of our country just has no concept of what actually is, anymore. Even when an alternative movement comes up, they just smash it with what they know to be their worldview, no matter how wrong that worldview is.

    No wonder the rest of the world laughs at us. They only hush up when America ponies them dollars, and the masses are fed that our giving to the rest of the world is some virtuous signal.

    As the rest of the world prospers while we plunder, I hope they take 5 good minutes to think "Hey, maybe this 'democracy' thing and helping the rest of the world, isn't quite helping us."
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I doubt it. But the content will not be pointing out just how aberrant Trumpery has been. Hopefully, it will be about the intellectual bankruptcy of what traditional conservatism has become.
     
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    Intellectually/leftist, that's like oil and water! Sure you can shake the hell out of it and it blends for a very short while, but in the end the slow thick gelatinous substance always rises back to the top :)
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    How ironic that you make that remark and yet post an obtuse collection of thoughts resembling what is commonly referred to as word salad.
     
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    Lee Atwater Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "President Donald Trump’s continued refusal to concede 2020 elections poses a host of national security dangers. However, the most hazardous of them all won’t be found on the conventional list of threats that occupy Washington’s legion of foreign policy experts.

    That doesn’t mean there isn’t potential for increased peril across the usual list of concerns: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea or terrorism. It’s just none of them – as significant as they are – pose as existential a danger to U.S. interests at home and abroad as the growing prospect of continued domestic political polarization and growing cultural divides."
    https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/14/op-...test-obstacle-even-after-he-takes-office.html
     
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    Naw, they'll be fawning over Befuddled Joe and Kamala the Hun like teeny-boppers over the latest boy band. :couple_inlove:
     
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    ...and he'll have a new boyfriend named Bubba.

    Will trump get Secret Service protection in prison?
     
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    He'd be in one of the country club prisons they have for white collar criminals, no Bubbas.

    But that's one hell of a question. Can you imagine being assigned to protect a criminal in prison? That would definitely go to the new guy.
     
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    I would give up everything I have to be responsible for guarding his cell.
     
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    Ya, word salad, that's laughable coming from you .. If not for cut&paste your stuff/posts would be non-existent ;)
     
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    I take it you've never seen the inside of a prison.
     
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    Sure. I've never been in prison but it isn't a secret. If you have a point, make it before you annoy me.
     
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    Long time ago, one part of my job involved letting the state prison borrow some educational stuff. So I have been inside a prison, if only for a few minutes at a time.

    It's not a place anyone wants to be.
     
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    You are missing the point. I wouldn't need to be there long.
     
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    Interesting note: When I was in HS, my psych class was allowed to tour Napa Mental Hospital, where Charles Manson was kept at the time. We not only toured, we were allowed to interact and hang out with patients who weren't considered to be dangerous. We had everything from catatonic schizophrenics to a guy who thought he was a chicken.

    I saw one guy sitting alone on a bench. I sat down and said hello. He looked and seemed pretty normal compared to the rest. I asked him how he ended up in a place like this. He said he wasn't sure. He was in a park and took 30 hits of acid, and woke up here.
     
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    The show you are "narrating" was produced and directed by the democrats, and it is not only fiction, it's the factual mirror image of what they have done. THEY are the ones who have lost their moral compasses, and dug a hole that the nation will be damned lucky to survive.

    Don't forget the claims you make today, because what's going to happen now will dwarf what you now pretend is now true- but it WILL be.
     
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    No comment on the president-elect not being able to receive national security briefings because of Don's petulant denial of reality?
     
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    There is a lesson there to be learned. I doubt that the democrats will ever learn it.
     
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    You do realize he's doing them a Favor? Being fired by Trump is the only way they'll ever have a chance to work in DC again.

    As for the rest of your stream of conscious BS. Barr summed up the Mueller report concisely. There is nothing there.
     
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    Since I very much doubt you will read the article I'm providing a link to I thought the best way to show you why your opinion about what Mueller's report reveals is mistaken is by a visual aid.

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    https://www.lawfareblog.com/obstruction-justice-mueller-report-heat-map
     
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    Only a democrat would take a three hundred page report, reduce it to a one page color coded graphic and call it proof.
     
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