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mopinko

(74,002 posts) Sat Mar 4, 2023, 09:36 AM Mar 2023

i just love these 'patriots' who have no idea how things work. [View all]

they’re over on twitter trying to bully fetterman into stepping down, thinking they get a special election.
now not everyone knows that u only get a special in the house, and the senate gets a temp appointed by the gov til the next gen. but long threads w no one commenting that they’re full of it.

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i just love these 'patriots' who have no idea how things work. [View all] mopinko Mar 2023 OP

They don't understand how the world works PJMcK Mar 2023 #1

yet no one tells them they're stupid. mopinko Mar 2023 #2

Probably quit, exasperated... 2naSalit Mar 2023 #5

i wonder how long it will take them mopinko Mar 2023 #6

Some might never get it. 2naSalit Mar 2023 #7

more than half mopinko Mar 2023 #17

I would agree with that. 2naSalit Mar 2023 #19

None of THEIR OWN tell them they're being stupid JHB Mar 2023 #10

anti-intellectualism is always convenient mopinko Mar 2023 #21

They know what they're up to, seeking an election sooner 2024 than Fetterman's 6 year term 2028 bucolic_frolic Mar 2023 #3

they just dont seem to regard an election as settling shit any more. mopinko Mar 2023 #4

I think you put your finger on the real problem there. Walleye Mar 2023 #8

somehow they get away w mopinko Mar 2023 #11

And we certainly don't expect elections to be over turned by bogus audit and the loser reinstated Walleye Mar 2023 #14

they rly do think mopinko Mar 2023 #15

They have an entire RW media system egging them on, and none of the people in that... JHB Mar 2023 #13

angertainment mopinko Mar 2023 #16

Oh, yeah. Supporting radicalized beliefs tends to require Hortensis Mar 2023 #9

Civics... MissMillie Mar 2023 #12

Anyone who feels a need to run around calling themself a "patriot" is really GoodRaisin Mar 2023 #18

always a tell. mopinko Mar 2023 #20