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MTG insists Trump win proves she’s not a fringe extremist: ‘I am ‘mainstream America’
(www.independent.co.uk)
I'm terrified that she's right. And I think she's right.
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I still believe the sane people are the majority. However, they have clearly failed in their civic duties to show up to vote.
If you claim that sane people are the majority yet insane things happen, then everyone is insane.
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After Tuesday, I must conclude she is right.
I've never been so embarrassed about my country. The fear hasn't even hit me yet.
Somehow even as a minority, it's actually kind of cathartic to finally know what America is officially.
And they want to make education worse...
She's wrong and right at the same time...
not a right-wing extremist ❌
mainstream American ✅
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“Think about how stupid the average American is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
-George Carlin
They should install a turbine onto Carlin's grave because he's spinning so fast right now that he could power a small city.
That’s clean energy, the incoming government won’t care until he turns to oil.
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I love that we have data to back that up now.
I don’t :/
Sorry but it's absolutely true and she's absolutely right after this election.
America is a racist nation.
This election has shown me that my values aren’t compatible with most other Americans, and that is very hard to understand. I’m looking for the best alternative.
I've come to the conclusion that there is no best alternative.
Republicans are full on racist, fascist, crazy people.
Greens are all the above with the rotted veneer of liking the environment.
Libertarians are all the above plus more racist and crazy minus the environment.
Democrats are incompetent, won't let go of being Republican-lite, and are unreliable allies like MLK warned about.
Progressives are petulant, instant gratification demanding, iPhone attention span, unreliable allies that MLK warned about.
Right now, I'm just going to go full independent and stop trying to fix any of this shit show and concentrate on just surviving and making sure my kids have an out. I've got no confidence in anything in this nation that isn't better than this so fix it yourselves, I'm out.
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Through all of this, this has more or less been the toughest pill to swallow. It's not a vocal minority, it's all of them. I had hopes that enough of them would be turned off by the rhetoric and rape, but I've been proven wrong. Absolute zero empathy for humanity. I can only hope that these worthless people are hurt first and hurt worst by the upcoming administration.
They will. The ACA is gonna be destroyed, FEMA is going to be destroyed, shit they are even going to take away the NOAA weather alerts because it will "promote climate change." They won't even have warnings before they hit and no money after.
Fuck them all. Especially the motherfuckers in Georgia who decided to sit this election out.
May the seas swallow them all.
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She's 100% the mainstream in the south.
She's 100% right across the country as a whole. You don't have 15 million people missing from voting and condoning racism wholesale and not admit your a racist country.
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Yes, yes she is. I'm sorry to tell you that an obscene amount of americans could only be dumber if they were born as a stone. And another stupidly high part are also as evil as it comes.
Magic: The Gathering is a collectable trading card game. Not a politician.
I too cannot read "MTG" as anything other than Magic: The Gathering
I hate to say it... But yeah. She is.
I hate this timeline.
Yep, this is what caused me the most grief about the election. These people are everywhere.
Democrats are already seeking her endorsement for 2028.
I'm willing to bet a significant amount of American dollars that if she would have endorsed Harris, Harris would have accepted it.
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She is apparently not wrong, and I hate that.
She kinda, sorta, has a point...
Maybe if she becomes part of Trump's cabinet, she can finally get control of that sweet hurricane generating tech she said exists.
She's right.
That's the problem.
The average American is dumb, so she's calling herself dumb, which she is. Gotta give it to her, she has some self reflection.
Which is exactly why everyone is disappointed with this election.
It's not disappointment with what the dems did or didn't do.
It's the disappointment now knowing that America is dumber than initially expected and more out of touch of what's actually happening around them.
At this point, she's right. she is mainstream America as mainstream America voted trump in too
Yeah, America IS FUCKED
Nothing more normal than screaming "I'm Normal! I'm Normal! I'm Normal!" to everyone you can possibly victimize with your shrill not un-harpy-like voice.
I read that as "Magic the Gathering" and was very confused
If she is the mainstream then we have all gone Hollow.
That's not how that works.
The average mainstream American likes Christmas.
The average mainstream American doesn't own 90 ugly Christmas Sweaters so they can wear a different one every day for 2 months.
You are the latter.
I wonder what portion of her "support" is thinking "stfu already and gtf back to the kitchen and let the men handle this shit".
Great.
oh great, she's back... It was nice not seeing stories about here on here / in the news for a while
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