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genxlib

(5,524 posts)
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:28 AM Jan 2021

This was a painful, but necessary display

Yesterday, despite increasing levels of insanity, Congress was all set to make the protest official. GOP Senators and Representatives would lend their credibility, position and reputation to put a gentile political spin over all of the conspiracy theories to give it a veneer of legitimacy.

Then the MAGAts jumped on to the table, dropped their pants and showed their assholes to the world. In one day, they did more to shock the system back into reality than four years of investigation will ever produce.

Most of you will believe I am crazy but I think that yesterday's dangerous and embarrassing spectacle will turn out to be a net positive. Sometimes a festering wound needs to boil over to let the poison out.

All along I have felt like Hilary got it right that about half of his supporters are deplorables. The others are traditional conservatives who just could not see themselves as anything else so they went along for the ride. This is a wake up call for them.

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This was a painful, but necessary display (Original Post) genxlib Jan 2021 OP
As I stated last nite, this backfired on the cultists badly. Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #1
But are they truly even deplorable? raging moderate Jan 2021 #2
Evil works. AirmensMom Jan 2021 #4
Very true. raging moderate Jan 2021 #5
The most shocking display yet of the cult. NCDem47 Jan 2021 #3
Their hatred of Dems and anything left peacebuzzard Jan 2021 #6

Ferrets are Cool

(21,106 posts)
1. As I stated last nite, this backfired on the cultists badly.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:31 AM
Jan 2021

This was that line that is occasionally overstepped.

raging moderate

(4,297 posts)
2. But are they truly even deplorable?
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:39 AM
Jan 2021

The word "deplorable" is from the French language. It implies that they are worth weeping over.

NCDem47

(2,248 posts)
3. The most shocking display yet of the cult.
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:40 AM
Jan 2021

Laid bare for all to see. There's simply no defending it on any level. And it's clear that anyone still doing that is certifibly on the fringe. It might have been the wake-up call that hypnotized (or blackmailed) Republicans and the media needed. There IS no turning back.

peacebuzzard

(5,167 posts)
6. Their hatred of Dems and anything left
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 10:57 AM
Jan 2021

is their central reason of action.
There doesn't exist a common ground apparently, after surviving these 4 years.

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