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Because they agree he lost a free and fair election right?
Right?
Germany 1930s. VOTE against these fuckers.
Majority of republicans are religious idiots. If you believe in imaginary friends that give you sky cake, then you can believe literally anything.
Don't mistake bad faith arguments with beliefs.
They believe in acquiring power in any way necessary. For most, that means pandering to their constituents, which means saber rattling for MAGA.
Just like you can't take the religious right for their "beliefs" either. They are just exploiting a rabid easily rallied base.
Nothing tells me someone has a very specific bone to pick more than jumping to blaming the Republicans on Christianity. It's putting the cart before the horse, and taking too much of what they say at face value. Remembering, of course, they're all pathological liars.
It's kind of depressing to know even some people on the left haven't figured out yet who these fuckers actually are. Religion is not at their core, nor is conservativism, not even nationalism. Those are all just addons.
It's pure, uncut selfishness, greed, and hate. All other belief systems are erected on top of that as needed, and often interchangeably.
This is mostly true. What major bills did Republicans pass under Trump? Tax cuts for the rich. It's always tax cuts for the rich. That's their religion.
It is a core feature of most religions that
- There are hidden forces at work in the world
- The workings of these hidden forces are more important than the processes we can see, and follow a grand plan
This belief is strikingly similar to conspiratorial worldviews, and the likelihood of subscribing to QAnon and other conspiracy theories rises substantially with increasing religiosity.
They're not the same thing, but they are definitely related
Ugh. Just serve the Flavor Aid already and end this ongoing nightmare.
What it must be like to be a cult leader in broad daylight. All these other cults have to keep shit under wraps. These guys just flaunt their immorality.
What they all believe is so inconsistent across the spectrum of conservatives anyway - it was Antifa! It was the deep state! It was mostly peaceful tourists!
I've heard those contradictions spouted by single people on multiple occasions - whether they're lying, morons, or both, they're a danger.
Not sure about the country as a whole, but at least in my experience the republicans I know would never have said they thought he tried to begin with. Usually they see the capital riots as something beyond what Trump was expecting, as untrue as that has come been shown to be.
My father still thinks the insurrection was just a handful of people waving flags outside the Capitol. They never got the story because they are hooked on Fox news
~~Republicans~~ American Fascist Party
I think jailing the Orange Menace will snap a lot of them out of it. A few will probably be ballsy enough to take some kind of action, but they'll be the minority and look like thugs. It just sucks that people are probably going to get hurt over this. I say just let the justice system do its thing.
Let's hope so. Some are threatening civil war if he's convicted and sent to prison, but then again, we're also talking about Snack Team 6. So I don't assume there's any bite behind that bark. I just know that after January 6th, they're absolutely going to try again.
Meal Team [January] 6, you mean? But going by how the insurrection went, I see an attempt at repeating something like that going over like a lead balloon. On the other hand, I can absolutely see a significant spike in domestic terror happening
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This reality is absurd enough that there's a very real possibility he starts claiming the sun isn't real and we'll have actual arguments about whether the sun exists or whether it's Space Jew Democrats that are trying to confuse us...
Majority of Republicans now insist Trump never tried to overturn election
Of course they insist that- they were involved then and don't want consequences now
You're going to have to give them the benefit of the doubt on this one, it's not like most of them had a front row seat to an insurrection or something.
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