NP A Trump Theory

[jesse gooch]

Agree with Atticus’s mentality. One of Trump’s awful legacies will be making all of the bullshit his successors do seem either reasonable or “not too big a deal.”
Obama drone striking the shit out of the world and increasing the governments ability to spy on its own citizens, while being seen as a great man because he wasn’t Bush, is a good example. 

It works rather their favor to have a completely inept monster come along every now and then, it casts their dishonesty and awfulness in a better light. Comparatively.

> On Sep 17, 2017, at 7:50 PM, Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I can't make you see your blind spots. But Bill Clinton was very credibly accused of rape. Chris Hitchens covered it well. Hillary Clinton broke the law—read what Comey said. The Republicans are worse, for sure—the Bushs? (Bushes?) How many civilians needlessly died on our dime? If you believe The Lancet, it's over a million in Iraq.
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> Glad to see it surface on the ol' television. It's all bigotry. We should have better choices... why don't we?
> 
> On Sep 17, 2017, at 5:07 PM, L E Bryan <lebryan at sonic.net <mailto:lebryan at sonic.net>> wrote:
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>> The elite bubble-enthroned California and New York varieties of condescending media? Let’s poke fun at those yokels with their hilarious accents; Jon Stewart’s characterization of turtle McConnell, for example. The far side of Hochschild's empathy wall. Don’t we all feel superior to those ignoramuses too dumb to see that a vote for any Republican is against their own interests? That women should have a right to control their own bodies? That their religion is a silly mythology that only the intellectually challenged could possibly believe? Is that the bigotry Atticus is referring to?
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>> Lawrence
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>>> On Sep 17, 2017, at 1:35 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>>> Please remind me of the "other candidates extreme bigotry," other than the Republicans.  I'd like to remember that.
>>> 
>>> David Morris
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>>> On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 3:08 PM Atticus Pinecone <atticuspinecone at gmail.com <mailto:atticuspinecone at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>> Let's remember the other candidates' extreme bigotry as well. All of which would typically be normalized, yet this time were shouted out. The situation was really, really bad.
>>> 
>>> At least both parties are severely damaged now.  
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