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kpete

(72,902 posts) Sun Sep 11, 2016, 03:21 PM Sep 2016

Basket Of Deplorables: "This is how fascism comes to America"

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/775045066020753408

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Basket Of Deplorables: "This is how fascism comes to America" (Original Post) kpete Sep 2016 OP

Huge recommendation! Auggie Sep 2016 #1

What makes the jackass and his followers think that they own the country? anamandujano Sep 2016 #2

He is rotten to the fucking core. He will not "control a country." Not the US! lonestarnot Sep 2016 #3

K&R napkinz Sep 2016 #4

Auggie

(33,151 posts)

1. Huge recommendation!

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Sun Sep 11, 2016, 03:27 PM

Sep 2016

anamandujano

(7,004 posts)

2. What makes the jackass and his followers think that they own the country?

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Sep 11, 2016, 03:35 PM

Sep 2016

There is no real answer but one can speculate--anger, delusion, bigotry, incompetence, bluster, taking no responsibility for one's own life and shifting one's failure to others. I think a total lack of mooring of character plays a good part of it.

lonestarnot

(77,097 posts)

3. He is rotten to the fucking core. He will not "control a country." Not the US!

Reply to kpete (Original post)

Sun Sep 11, 2016, 03:55 PM

Sep 2016

We will not let him.

napkinz

(17,199 posts)

4. K&R

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Sun Sep 11, 2016, 06:17 PM

Sep 2016

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