Middle Age Riot tweet:

[tblue37]

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I'm old enough to remember when Republican politicians could denounce violent insurrections without alienating their base.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Ain't that the truth....

this isn't my mom's Republican Party anymore and hasn't been for 25 years.

[leftieNanner]

2. Nor My Late Dad's

He was a pretty regular donor to the Republican Party back in the day. At one point he had a photo of Dubya on his desk. But after the disastrous Iraq war (having been a WWII vet himself) he got rid of that picture! I am quite sure that he would have been beyond disgusted by #45.

[mr_lebowski]

3. My mom and stepdad were Republicans when I was growing up ...

Not anymore. Esp. not my mom. I'd like to think I played some part in that over the years

They were pretty much only concerned with lower taxes though, which they thought the GOP would give them. They were never super-'conservative', again esp. not my mom.

What's kinda funny though is my stepdad was more 'conservative' (he's an Annapolis grad, as was his father), but I've known he was an atheist since I was a child. My mom's more agnostic, then and now.

[bottomofthehill]

4. Not any more.....

[BobTheSubgenius]

5. True, and grimly comical. But you really have to be a fan of gallows humour to like it.

[Rhiannon12866]

6. Twitter reply :

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[calimary]

7. Hah! No kidding!

[dchill]

8. "We have met the enemy and he is us."

[mjvpi]

9. I'm glad that he didn't try to convince us he was old enough to remember....

....... when the Republicans were for equal rights for African Americans.

[czarjak]

10. Old enough to remember poor Southern Democrats switching parties because of The Civil Rights Act.