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It really still blows my mind how bad the left is at combating Trump. They seem to be led by idiots. They make him into a sympathetic character to people that don't even agree with him or like him. They expose their insane thirst for control. Instead of being even handed and challenging him on the many angles they could, they take cheap easy shots their side loves but people who are neutral see right through.
You've done this to yourselves establishment.
Biden won't end the US if he wins. Neither will Trump. But some powerful people's lives will be negatively effected. That's the impression I get at least and we all need to be deeply afraid and do something! Vote! LOL
The other impression I get is about a third of the country hates another third. Why? Control. They want us to all have the same moral belief system. And the group they hate wants to take us back to a fictional time that never existed by using politics. Its all so absurd. It exposes the flaws in our culture and politics. It demonstrates the true gods America worships. State power(violence) and politics.
I am hopeful future generations will learn from our mistakes. This system is falling apart before our eyes.
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I don't think the left, or even the "establishment", is all one monolithic agent. I think there are different streams that all converged to the point where we're at.
One stream is the deep state, controlled by Washington DC insiders. This is the Hilary Clinton / Liz Cheney / MIC faction. They were threatened by Trump because A) he won when he shouldn't have; B) they weren't able to control him. This is the stream that is most able to carry out conspiratorial state-level actions against Trump, like the Russia Collusion Hoax.
The other stream I believe is the Obama / Silicon Valley/ Hollywood types. Let's call this stream the cultural elites. They are not necessarily DC insiders with great control over the state apparatus. But they have money and cultural power. They are primarily social liberals who are afraid of religious boogeymen, but more than anything they are just virtue signalers whose ultimate agenda is to A) have prestige among their peers and B) to influence policy favorably to their business interests. These people hate Trump mostly because it's cool to hate Trump, and saying anything good about Trump is a sure way to lose social prestige.
The third stream is the mainstream media, which itself has a lot of social, political, and economic connections to the other two streams. Because of these connections, the MSM was more than happy to take an activist stance against Trump, rather than simply report the truth. The MSM does have one dynamic not present in the above two, which is the need for ratings. Fearmongering begets ratings, so there was even more incentive to ratchet up the hysteria against Trump. Of course, the deep state and the cultural elite were more than happy to let the media do this, because it played to their interests.
But combine this together and you got a toxic brew of absolute Trump derangement syndrome, which likely is what led to the events of today. But I don't think it was all planned from the beginning. It's basically each of these streams doing what's convenient and good for themselves, which is culminating into the situation we're in now. Which may not actually be good for the Left because people are waking up to their toxic nonsense.
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Yeah, pretty much agree with you. But I'm still surprised at how bad all these factions are at fighting Trump
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If you pretty much agree with him why do (did) you make your statement about a monolothic Left? Emotion? You say you see the factions. I assume you intellectually understand those factions will be in disagreement, but you still found the need to lump them together.
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Thanks for the great discussion!
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You will read a lot of stupid statements from the left in the upcoming hours… that is the despicable part.
But don’t assume this is a democrat operation… come on!
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Ha! I'm not suggesting it is an anyone operation. There are always nut jobs out there.
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I wouldn't rule it out though...
At this point I wouldn't rule anything out.
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God save the Trump!

Why did the bullet miss?

Because:
Nobody knows where to shoot him; he's clearly got no heart, his head obviously has no brain in it (and even if its in his arse its too fat to get a bullet through), and his dick (like his baby hands) is obviously too small to hit.
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With how crazy the left is against him I’m surprised this hadn’t happened before.
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