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Hortensis

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26. Yes. Some never cross, some occupy both ends, some are changeable.

Reply to NurseJackie (Reply #25)

Fri Sep 3, 2021, 01:41 PM

Sep 2021

What I don't understand is why so many decent and sincere people didn't clue in that many of the more aggressively hostile and/or dishonest types among the LW and RW populist movements of 2016, and still now in 2021, had and have so much in common.

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A Southwest passenger was filmed punching a flight attendant. She was charged with two felonies. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 OP

You have to wonder WTF has happened to this country. Why on earth would anyone think of Vinca Sep 2021 #1

What happened to this country? TFG happened. George II Sep 2021 #8

VERY TRUE! I'd like to add here bluestarone Sep 2021 #12

My daughter is a nurse practitioner, works in an ER, has been kicked, punched, slapped, urine thrown Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #14

I work in a similar environment, but those things have never happened to me. Aristus Sep 2021 #18

Luckily in an ER there is staff around all the time, including big males who do fly to the rescue Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #21

Trump happened. Ushered-in by Sarandon, Turner, Moore, West and Stein. NurseJackie Sep 2021 #15

Could she really not have known it would be a far-right revolution? Hortensis Sep 2021 #20

She didn't care. She wanted revenge against the Democratic party (and candidate) at ANY cost! NurseJackie Sep 2021 #22

Oh, sure. Being wired to distrust and rejection of the liberal majority Hortensis Sep 2021 #23

The ends of that political horseshoe are almost touching... NurseJackie Sep 2021 #25

Yes. Some never cross, some occupy both ends, some are changeable. Hortensis Sep 2021 #26

The GOP has encouraged Americans to fight each over issues, even small ones. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #17

A terrorist by any other name . . . . . no_hypocrisy Sep 2021 #2

The self-entitlement of these people is one of them most depressing things to me. hlthe2b Sep 2021 #3

You're probably right Vogon_Glory Sep 2021 #4

Airtravel is much worse now than it was twenty or thirty years ago. Act_of_Reparation Sep 2021 #19

Chipped teeth? Bruising from a vise grip? What would this badass TreasonousBastard Sep 2021 #5

Hopefully something that rhymed with... ret5hd Sep 2021 #6

Off to prison for this piece of shit malaise Sep 2021 #7

30 years, please. lagomorph777 Sep 2021 #10

Link goes to paywall Mysterian Sep 2021 #9

Do you have a library card? mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2021 #11

Stupid thug belongs in prison dalton99a Sep 2021 #13

Captains should start making an announcement at the beginning of each flight. Irish_Dem Sep 2021 #16

Lock her up ... Lock her up ... Lock her up ... lpbk2713 Sep 2021 #24