We’re already in the first throes of the Second American Civil War, we just haven’t started calling it that yet
Edit: throws to throes because I’m a dumb southern hillbilly
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January 6th, 2021
Election Day, 1994, when Newt Gingrich and the Republicans took control of Congress with the Contract With America, and started the polarization that led to the Tea Party, and then to MAGA.
The tea party was my wakeup call, before that I was a Republican because I was Christian, my dad was Republican and I didn't pay too much attention. The more attention I paid the further left I became. The tea party was so obviously dumb and racist it forced me to evaluate my political beliefs.
August 3rd, 1980 when Ronald Reagan announced his candidacy for President in Philadelphia MS, near the site of the 1964 murders of Civil Rights Movement activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. The day psychopathic murderous racism was incorporated as a fundamental plank in the Republican platform.
*Throes
Thank you
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Last month, Goodstein had temporarily blocked the state’s election commission from releasing its voter files to the Department of Justice, a decision that was openly criticized by Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon and later reversed by the state Supreme Court. The DOJ had sought the information, including names, addresses, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers, of over three million registered voters as part of President Donald Trump’s March executive order restricting non-citizens from registering to vote. (Non-citizens are already not allowed to vote in federal and state elections.)
This whole entire thing is fucked yep. Even more so now that Trump is deploying national guard troops everywhere.
They must not have criticized Trump hard enough, you know, violent left and all. /s
Hey, at least it's not a war zone and a rubble pile like Portland. Where you can go out and enjoy a latte in this beautiful fall weather. At least if you can avoid the swarms of fascists.
well what do you know???? the violence is STILL maga, just like it always has been!
B-b-but the radical leftists!
Let me guess, trans people with writings on lighters?
Scented candles with ANTIFA designs in the wax...
Historians will say this was part of the civil war
The words “I’m a Black trans communist immigrant that is woke” were found engraved on the lighters.
No no, they were engraved in the matches before they were burned to ash.
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But it's the left that does political violence. 🙃
Still being investigated as to whether it's arson or not. Time begging for clicks these days apparently.
I'm sure this was political violence perpetrated by someone who also disagrees with trump right?
Right?
Huh.
"set"? But " Law enforcement have not disclosed whether the fire is being investigated as an arson attack."
Nothing to see here, just normal MAGA head behavior.
...had to be rescued via kayak.
What?! Can someone explain to me (a verified idiot) how a person is rescued from a house fire by kayak?
Looks like the house was right on the water. It's possible their only escape from the house was onto the beach or into the water.
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Easy, just have to throw it hard enough.
It was declared an accident. I still haven't heard a cause of said accident. But that's a helluva blaze to be accidental considering two people were home at the time.
Edit: Article says there was an explosion. Doesn't say what flavor of explosion.
Still waiting for the radical leftists!
Trump's Willing Executioners
The word “could” is doing heavily lifting there.
Remember at this moment we have no idea why this home caught fire. We might later but at this point this is all clickbait.
What's funny about that is if a judge's house caught fire during the Biden administration, this kind of speculation wouldn't even happen because Biden didn't run a mafia State like the Trump regime.
Whether it's true or not at this point is irrelevant. The point is that under a mafia State, it's more likely and believable, tells you everything you need to know about living in Trump's Amerika.
Biden didn't run a mafia State
You're right, but I couldn't tell you how many times I heard "Biden crime family" in the past 5 years. They're deluded into thinking that Biden did run a Mafia state, so even if they understood what trump is doing as Mafia shit, they'd excuse it as "just doing what the other side does".
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House of a judge who is receiving death threats from MAGA mysteriously burns down.
House of a judge who is receiving death threats from MAGA is set on fire by crazed MAGA lunatic.
Its fucking obvious what has happened here
No, it isn’t. The cause could be faulty wiring and it could be a coincidence.
There’s zero reason to conclude anything when we have no evidence to support anything.
Pity we don't get this level of skepticism and calls to wait for a full explanation from MAGA
We aren’t getting it here. The fact is many people have poor critical thinking skills.
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