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    “I promise you this, with me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one will lay a finger on your firearms — just as took place for four years when I was your president,”

    Trump banned bump stocks, which laid the basis for the pistol brace ban, both of which conservative 2a meisters absolutely love, right? And this was at a NRA conference? I don’t get how people know he did that and hate him for it, but will immediately forget their hatred in order to defend him on any other ground. MAGA is a cult.

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      He was worse for guns than Biden. How the fuck do these people reconcile this shit with their beliefs?

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        “HEYY! That’s a blatant foul! Doesn’t the umpire see this? Is he blind?! Wait- what did you say? That’s one of ours? WOOOO GOO TEAM, NO FOUL, USA USA USA!”

        The state of politics since ca 300 BCE. Now with nukes!

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        Being a member of the pro-gun community already requires living in a fantasy. A few more lies and hollow promises shouldn’t be a problem for them.

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          Turnip: “KJMBNFLDKSJBLAAAARGHHHHH”

          News: “60% of Americans now in support of Trumps statement that KJMBNFLDKSJBLAAAARGHHHHH. And this news channel agrees. This is Kent Brockman, Channel 6, signing off, with a KJMBNFLDKSJBLAAAARGHHHHH you, Biden.”

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            You’re joking, but the covfefe thing was almost more ridiculous, given they pretended it was intentional and claimed that an inside group knew exactly what he meant.

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              Like, how can you even combat that level of stupidity? You’d need crocodiles to get through to them.

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    Biden really needed Trump to set a new water mark after the last couple days, and he came through.

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    well, this is an escalation. like, this is a big step up from hamberders and Nikki Haley at Jan 6.

    When thy change his diaper, they should check for blood.

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    just referring to pennsylvania as a ‘state’ instead of a ‘commonwealth’ is gonna lose it for ya, dinglebutt.

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    My god, the man is insane. And people are talking about how unfit Biden is because he mixes up world leaders and dates?

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      He is very vaguely suggesting the Dems will purge all connections to the past. It’s a calculated talking point. He isn’t insane or stupid; he is evil.

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          You couldn’t be more off base. The worst thing to do is to keep dismissing Trump as “stupid.” What possible reason could you have for underestimating him and the rest of the conservative party, especially in their capacity for evil?

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          It sounds scary, because it’s ridiculous, and yet people believe it anyway. They will believe anything he tells them, and that is very very scary.

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      Interesting to learn so much about how Fascism works, because of Trump. Making crazy statements, as a type of blind loyalty test is instinctual for fascist leaders. Alienates his followers from normal people, forces them to believe in even crazier things.

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      Meanwhile Trump has never even heard of these people or what happened on those dates…

      Instead we get classics like this from the certified genius …

      “Person, Woman, Man, Camera, TV. See how smart I am, not many people can remember 5 things…”

      and

      “that dementia test was quite challenging but I passed it, not many other people would be smart enough to pass it”

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      They’re both unfit, and it’s a disgrace that you’re basically stuck choosing between these 2. There’s a reasonable chance one of them keels over and dies before the election as well.

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          I mean, sure, but there’s like 300 million other people they could’ve picked instead.

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            There is surely a very large set of people who could be a better president but the conjunction of that set and the set of people who can become president is empty.

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        I guess I am unfit for office because I forget everyone’s name about 3 minutes after they tell me. If I haven’t met you several times I am just never remembering your name.

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          My wife took me to a going away party for one of her co-workers where I literally only knew her (obviously) and the neurosurgeon she works for. She introduced me to like 30 people over the course of the evening then would ask days/weeks later “do you remember so and so?” I forgot their names they moment we moved on, lol.

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          Literally reason #1 why I haven’t run for (local) political office, despite seriously considering it.

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        Facebook just recommended some idiot claiming Taylor Swift is a dude. I don’t even want to imagine what’s happening over at truth.

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          He’s just telegraphing that she is okay to kill.

          They started at pedophiles, because functionally nobody will defend them, even as people openly advocate their murder.

          They’d like to be able to use the same rhetoric with the LGBT community, but they’d lose all their plausible deniabilty. So instead, everyone on their list of undesirables is suddenly a pedophile and therefore okay to kill. It’s why suddenly drag queens, teachers, Biden and anyone else they don’t like is somehow a “groomer”, even as their own ranks get arrested for fucking kids.

          This is just another step on the same path. Taylor Swift is a threat to Trump so now she is secretly trans and all her young fans have been groomed.

          And somewhere out there is a Republican-voting, unmedicated schizophrenic conspiracy theorist with an AR-15 who knows exactly what to do with a groomer.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Former President Donald Trump bizarrely claimed that if he loses Pennsylvania, “they” will change the state’s name.

    Trump made the claim in a speech to thousands of members of the National Rifle Association (NRA) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Friday night.

    Trump says if he doesn’t win the election, Pennsylvania will cease to exist because ‘they’ will change the name pic.twitter.com/eGyY5GiEMF

    In recent years, there have been moves across the United States to address the country’s racist past by renaming places named after controversial historical figures, particularly those with ties to slavery and the Confederacy.

    “I promise you this, with me at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, no one will lay a finger on your firearms — just as took place for four years when I was your president,” he said.

    President Joe Biden was born in Pennsylvania and won the state against Trump in the 2020 election.


    The original article contains 343 words, the summary contains 145 words. Saved 58%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    “They will ban pencils from Pennsylvania!!! It will be renamed ‘Pensvania’ and you’ll only be allowed to use a pen!!!”

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    Me thinks this man has a few bats in his belfry… a few sandwiches short of a picnic… his elevator doesn’t go to the top … not playing with a full deck

    You get the idea.

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    The evil libs are gonna rename it Pedovania and kick out all the straight white christians and turn the state into an adrenochrome harvesting child sex facility!

    and because we live in a post-poe world, I have to emphasize, emphatically, that this is sarcasm.