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Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:41 PM Nov 2020

This election aside, even if we win, we have systemic problems.

How are we going to survive as a nation where nearly half of the people will not differentiate the value of a truth and a lie?

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apnu

(8,790 posts)
3. This. We've always had these people among us
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:50 PM
Nov 2020

From the very beginning to now. Donnie small hands riled them up. They'll go back to whatever hole they were in before. The risks they represent will still be with us, as it has always been with us, but hopefully some other people are woke enough to remember these dangerous clowns live among us.

Cha

(316,138 posts)
13. Especially if his absence is in prison.. the
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:46 PM
Nov 2020

cult can bake him cookies & chant outside the gates.. "lock him up!"

Ooops.. wrong chant for trump.

doc03

(38,734 posts)
4. Trump needs to be prosecuted for his crimes. Democrats
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:50 PM
Nov 2020

have make it an all out campaign to discredit everything he has done. Never shut up about his record trade deficit, his national debt, his doubling unemployment, how he has mishandled CIVID 19. In other words do like the Republicans with Hillary and Obama.

doc03

(38,734 posts)
5. Trump needs to be prosecuted for his crimes. Democrats
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 03:52 PM
Nov 2020

have make it an all out campaign to discredit everything he has done. Never shut up about his record trade deficit, his national debt, his doubling unemployment, how he has mishandled CIVID 19. In other words do like the Republicans with Hillary and Obama. He has to go down as the worst president in history.

Binkie The Clown

(7,911 posts)
6. Clearly the first step is to prosecute the guilty.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:16 PM
Nov 2020

Set the precedent that treason and sedition are not tolerated in this country.

littlemissmartypants

(31,066 posts)
7. Good God, Chainfire!
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:29 PM
Nov 2020

Can we not get on with the stress eating, the nail biting and the vote counting and leave these deep philosophical questions until Thursday. Wednesday is for hangover recovery. Today's just not the day.

❤lmsp

 

Chainfire

(17,757 posts)
11. I beg your pardon, I have sinned!
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:43 PM
Nov 2020

Wait until tomorrow, I plan to start drinking at sunrise and only stop when the election is called. We may go over the top, if my fingers still work. I quit drinking over 20 years ago, I hope I still have a high tolerance!

littlemissmartypants

(31,066 posts)
15. I want to be awake and aware for the whole shebang.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:55 PM
Nov 2020

I may have a celebratory shot of Absolut Citron that's been in the pantry a few years now. There's also the chocolate liqueur over vanilla ice cream option but it might be too cold to enjoy. Either way, I'm hanging with you and the rest of my DU buds. I may have to wear my life preserver on account of the blue wave but it's a little inconvenience compared to the last four hellish years.

One Hail Mary and some salt over your left shoulder and we're good.




❤lmsp

Best_man23

(5,267 posts)
8. One step is to institute a new Fairness Doctrine
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:29 PM
Nov 2020

With strong penalties for news organizations that engage in spreading misinformation, mal-information, and unsubstantiated conspiracy theories.

The FCC also needs to take a critical look at OAN's backers (Kremlin), Sputnik, and RT.

abqtommy

(14,118 posts)
9. I have confidence that Joe, Kamala and The Dynamic Dems are capable of prioritizing
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:33 PM
Nov 2020

and delegating the responsibility for cleaning up the mess that predated tRUMP. By all
means, prosecution/conviction/incarceration for tRUMP/reTHUGS/cultists has to be at the top of the list. Maybe we should start a lottery to see who can guess the exact date that Gitmo
reaches maximum capacity for the number of prisoners there.

I have thought recently that the same media (social and otherwise) that has led to our
current mess can also be used to convince people of the truth and lead them willingly to the light of reason. If not, lock them up!

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
10. Get some billionaires to buy Fux and flip the message.
Mon Nov 2, 2020, 04:37 PM
Nov 2020

Also shut down Falsebook and Twit for acting as undeclared agents of Russia.

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