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Brie McReynolds's avatar

George, this might sound crazy, but you could just show up with your own sources instead of asking 5 questions and expecting someone to do your work for you. You're commenting on my well-sourced posts; show up with facts to refute it, make peace with half-assed responses, or kindly shut up. It's one thing to be arrogant, unpleasant and insulting 98% of the time, but you're gonna lose me if you expect me to do all the work too.

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

Bluntly stated, the United States Republic has fallen.

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David A Henry's avatar

Brie I very much agree with your puzzlement. I thought with all the checks and balances we would have never been able to watch a dumbass like drumpf have his way with our government, our resources, our freedoms and our future. But the fight isn’t over. It may even get worse before we can start the process of getting our country moving forward again. Butt we will not go back. We are not alone and all of us together will peacefully take our country back. We will find those American values again, my daughter won’t let me lose hope and I will share that influence with you. Solidarity my friend. We will all be beside you as we trudge the road back to future that is beautiful and fair for everyone.

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Brie McReynolds's avatar

It's clear your daughter had a good role model growing up! I'm glad she sustaina you 😊 For me, it's a constant internal reminder; we know they're hurting at least one person, unfairly, right now. That's enough to get moving. I'm choosing my protest sign now 😐

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David A Henry's avatar

Sounds good! We will be out there on Saturday✊🏼as well. Take care and keep on writing. The pen is mightier than the sword!!!!

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George Shay's avatar

Chill out, Brie. Your Trump Derangement Syndrome is metastatizing. Trump is trying to bring back the American Dream. You're too young to remember the America Trump and I grew up in. Even a high school dropout could get a good-paying job, good enough to afford a house and a car, and raise a family on ONE salary. Gangs didn't control the streets as MS-13 does today. Anti semites didn't roam our campuses. The population was growing organically, not through illegal immigration.

That's the real United States of America. What you have known is a pale imitation, a hollowed-out shell of its former self. What was a great nation that bestrode the world like a colossus degenerated into a self-loathing debtor.

Trump is trying to, as the slogan goes, make America great again. But it’s been so long since we were that young people don't even recognize it, and many old people have either forgotten or their thinking has become so twisted that they think greatness is a vice.

I don't know that Trump will succeed, or that he is using the best means to that noble end. But I do know that his vision is clear—to envision our best future, we must look to the past.

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Brie McReynolds's avatar

Just want to confirm, you agree with my assertion that Trump Deraangement Syndrome means 'absolutely correct'?

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GS-z-14-1's avatar

I’d ignore the Socialist Traumatization Disorder sufferers. Your work is too important.

Puerile perpetual problem postulation is why Quora.

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George Shay's avatar

Just the opposite, my dear. It’s a hybrid of hate and fear that blinds the sufferer to reason.

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Brie McReynolds's avatar

George, a significant portion of your beliefs are based on lies. I'm not sure what else to tell you. Your claims are never supported with fact, and you call me deranged while the president lies to your face again and again and again. There comes a point where there's not much further point in engaging.

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George Shay's avatar

You can’t handle or even perhaps recognize the truth.

Is it a lie that manufacturing has shrunk from 40% to 10% of GDP?

Is it a lie that working-class folks who once would have had those lost manufacturing jobs are working McJobs, engaging in drug dealing and other black market economy jobs, or subsisting in entitlements and fentanyl?

Is it a lie that we are thus dependent on China, a genuinely evil, adversarial regime where human rights and free speech are nonexistent, for manufactured goods we are falsely told we can no longer make for ourselves?

Is it a lie that academia and the left are in thrall of anti-Semitic propaganda of communist origin?

Is it a lie that MS-13 gangbangers are terrorizing law-abiding citizens?

Name one lie I've written. I know you can't, but feel free to try.

Are any of the above facts good? I can't anyone with a scintilla of common sense would think so.

If you can't handle the truth, you may be better suited for the BlueSky echo chamber.

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Brie McReynolds's avatar

George, this might sound crazy, but you could just show up with your own sources instead of asking 5 questions and expecting someone to do your work for you. You're commenting on my well-sourced posts; show up with facts to refute it, make peace with half-assed responses, or kindly shut up. It's one thing to be arrogant, unpleasant and insulting 98% of the time, but you're gonna lose me if you expect me to do all the work too.

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George Shay's avatar

Those are facts. Indisputable. You call me a liar then you fail to cite one alleged lie. I called your bluff and you have nothing in your hand.

All I can tell you is you’re a typical TDS sufferer: Paranoid, blinded by rage, unable to come to grips with the reality of the situation. I would work on that if I were you.

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David A Henry's avatar

Yo George! You’re a piece of shit incel that has a warped sense of history and your ideal for the united states is so far from reality that I really doubt that you have any honest compassion for humanity. The country/government that your piece of shit leader is destroying had policies, departments and entitlements established by the experiences that proffered the necessity that a world of humans caring for other humans through support and shared opportunity is the best world we can succeed through. Nothing is perfect, all manmade systems tend toward entropy and fail. But we are reborn again and prosper just so long as what we are doing is out of love and respect for justice, fairness and reason. Your leader is a tyrant, your maga friends are shit that only want to destroy. You attack people who voice legitimate concerns about your leaders decisions and this only justifies that you are only an impotent tool with no hope for the world. Go back to truth social and choke on your tongue shit bird.

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George Shay's avatar

You're a crude, rude, delusional mystic. I haven't got the slightest interest in what you “think”.

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Erin Leigh | WitchySelfHealer's avatar

Supporting Trump makes you a traitor. Plain and simple. There’s NOTHING more unAmerican than supporting the man destroying democracy. We’re not too young to remember shit. You’re too evil and brainwashed to bother reasoning with. Karma’s got you, boo.

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