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    They said Easterday was homeschooled and “everything he knew was filtered through the lens of his parents” when he came to the Capitol. Easterday, they said, “plainly did not fully understand what the Confederate flag signified” and even Googled “what does the rebel flag represent” on the afternoon of Jan. 6.

    Awesome parenting.

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      So can we run the neglect lawsuits here like the Michigan parents? /s kinda

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    It’s going to be so surreal looking back at this in a few decades:

    A crowd of phone-waving overweight cosplay nitwits from the internet taking over the headquarters of the most powerful nation on earth…

    It makes me think of the vast numbers of brutal and battle-hardened rebels with AKs and rocket launchers, who have failed to storm their respective third-world governments, and the look that must have been on their faces when they saw this.

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      Took it over just as the vote counts were being ratified by the senate (right place, right time), and all went down some time after Trump had asked Pence to go along with his phony elector counts plan (and Pence had said no).

      Word has it they got just a few hallways away from where the votes were being transported.

      Seems like it was a sort of back up plan to bring the chain of custody of the votes into question before they could be officially recorded by the senate.

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      The Afghanistani Government was overtaken by the Taliban in less than a week after the US left. So, that was a success for their own gain. The United States looked at that and thought ‘hold my beer’.

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    Still makes me sick to think people idolize donald. I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

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      As a kid I I remember naively wondering how anyone could possibly be proud to be of house Slytherin; that it was kind of unrealistic. Boy was I wrong…

      Yeah there are a lot of Trump supporters who may be good people at heart but are utterly uneducated, uninformed, misinformed, and overall just lack the critical-thinking to see the end-result.

      … But there are a lot of people who are plenty smart enough to know better and support him just the same. These people sicken me the most. But you know, the Putins and Bundys of the world walk among us. Sometimes they’re leaders; sometimes they’re just shitty used car salesmen posting comments on youtube.

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        Trump isn’t the first wannabe dictator. There are many dictators all over the world. It’s unfortunate our would be dictator is such a fucking clown but well suited for how America warps everything to some bizarre extreme.

        Yes, there are shitty people everywhere you go but to come out for donald is really telling how ugly they are on the inside.

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          I’ve said before but I gotta hand it to Trump and GOP for making a modern dunce gap to identify these people. It has been a great filter.

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      I feel ya, take some time, then continue the fight to make things better for the next generations.

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    before he temporarily blinded two officers with chemical spray

    Oh, those poor, poor piggies… enduring what they themselves regularly perpetrate on people with complete impunity! Oh, the humanity!

    Hold on while I dig out the world’s smallest violin for them!