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Dorian Gray

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12. THIS

Reply to dalton99a (Original post)

Sat Aug 13, 2022, 08:01 AM

Aug 2022

"The absurdity and maliciousness of the cause for which these people have died only compounds the horror of their deaths. How is it that no one, no institution, could offer something more substantive than the manifest hollowness of Trump and Trumpism? "

I've been saying this over and over since Jan 6th. I have bored my family and my friends with this. I've said it this week in threads here. To do this for that ridiculous man is something I don't quite understand, and it borders on absurdity. (And horror bc people are dying for him.)

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The horror of people willing to die for Donald Trump [View all] dalton99a Aug 2022 OP

"horror" doesn't strike me as the correct word. "insanity" seems more fitting nt orleans Aug 2022 #1

As bad as Trump has been, Ron DeSantis worries me more Jarqui Aug 2022 #2

+1 Jade Fox Aug 2022 #5

✔️ live love laugh Aug 2022 #8

I don't think DeSantis would get the cult following that Trump has JI7 Aug 2022 #10

He'd offset a bunch of that by picking up the Republicans turned off by Trump Jarqui Aug 2022 #13

Desantis Dorian Gray Aug 2022 #14

Don't say gay, Mickey Mouse and Pluto. Funtatlaguy Aug 2022 #11

Don't say 'wear a mask' in school or teach 'critical race theory' and Jarqui Aug 2022 #16

Did he think he was single-handedly going to take out several or dozens of trained and armed agents? LonePirate Aug 2022 #3

He was hoping to get killed and become a MAGA martyr......... Jade Fox Aug 2022 #6

I think calling him a false flagger is just ... Whiskeytide Aug 2022 #17

Trumpers can all die for their beliefs for all I care. Solly Mack Aug 2022 #4

As radical as the ones on 9/11- except domestic. live love laugh Aug 2022 #7

I wish MAGAts the best dying for their Der orange Fuhrer KS Toronado Aug 2022 #9

THIS Dorian Gray Aug 2022 #12

Okay vercetti2021 Aug 2022 #15

It's very bizarre to most of us, but... Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2022 #18

Meh. It's like that Napoleon Bonaparte quote... SKKY Aug 2022 #19