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But think of how NOBLY the Dems have lost the Republic! Completely polite and norm-abiding as what remains of our democracy is torn to shreds and pissed on!
They didn't lose the republic ..... they gave it away.
You lose something of you trying to fight to hold onto it. When you weren't fighting to hold onto something, then you just give it away.
At one point looking at all this political stupidity, it makes you think that the US is only run and controlled by one party, a single party united by money and wealth
They fought, they just fought according to the 'rules' of the game. They were playing baseball while the GOP was playing "Beat the ref and crowd to death and take their wallets".
They're so goddamn certain that the newspapers tomorrow will praise their sportsmanship against such a terrible foe, and talk about how they 'deserved' to win, since that's how it worked in the Good Ol' Days(tm).
In reality, what newspapers aren't themselves intimidated by the thugs with aluminum bats will be lambasting the Dems for playing stupid fucking games while a massacre went on.
To the Dem thinking, everyone will lock arms and sing kumbaya and the next game will be totally aboveboard because people will be watching extra close for unsportsmanlike behavior. And hell - if it doesn't work out like that, it's not like the Dem players will be beaten to death - isn't the GOP just going after refs and the crowd? The Dem reps feel safe enough to gamble with our lives as many times as it suits their civility obsession to do so.
Knowing that the GOP is both stupid enough and malicious enough to target these oh-so-civil-Dems in the coming years is scant comfort, but at least I'll have plenty of folk to spit on when everyone is waiting in line for the gas chambers.
What I don't understand about the whole thing is that targeting the Dem representatives already has happened. Not just Jan 6th, one idiot tried to murder Pelosi, and bashed her husband's head in with a hammer.
I just can't see Pelosi as human after not going after the fascists and sitting in the lukewarm shit for a bit more. I don't know how the hell didn't she make it her life's mission to see at least some justice for that.
The stocks would go down, can't have that.
Because they're so goddamn certain they can just wait it out and everything will return to normal. The newspapers will praise them. The Republicans will be contrite. They'll be at the head of a new mythology of suffering-martyrs who made it out the other side to be the shining beacons of civility for the next era of statesmen. "Even when I was attacked, I didn't strike back out of wrath or vengeance ^.^" they imagine themselves saying, to a crowd waving their photo and naming awards for peaceful and cooperative success after them - or at least selling absurd numbers of their memoirs.
They can't imagine that they'll be remembered like those who appointed Petain in Bordeaux.
Hell, maybe they're too dull to even imagine that anything that hasn't already and literally happened to them will happen to them, I don't know; I've known plenty of voters like that, so why not reps too? "I didn't die last time so it won't happen next time either!" Like people whose cancer goes into remission and take up smoking again.