• PlasticExistence@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Imagine how different this world would be if only the USA had laws requiring news channels to report factual information. Instead they’re classified as entertainment and being allowed to destroy our democracy one lie, one “spin” at a time.

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    Actions like this create such a huge problem when trying to convince conservatives that Donald Trump is a unique and unprecedented danger.

    It’s one thing when I, a progressive, say that I did not like the most recent Republican president. My conservative neighbors expect me to say that, and therefore ignore the criticism. But it’s not just me saying that; it’s also Mike Pence, John Bolton, John Kelly, Bill Barr, and Chris Christie. That is a unique level of criticism leveled at their own party’s president. But my conservative neighbors don’t know that.

    Trump has been called “dangerous” by his own:

    • Vice President,
    • Secretary of Defense,
    • Chief of Staff,
    • Attorney General,
    • and other advisors,

    yet your typical Republican voter will insist that it’s just people on the left disliking a Republican president, just like any other Republican president.

    Someone may comment that we all live in our own echo chambers, but the damn near impenetrable conservative bubble has no equivalence on the left. If conservative media doesn’t want their audience to know something, conservatives will not know it.

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      If they’re anything like the people in my town, they will just say that those advisors are all RINOs and not real Republicans

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        This, and as far as I can tell, the only way to avoid being called a RINO is to completely eschew any kind of critical thinking and absolutely toe the party line regardless of how asinine or nonsensical.

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    This dude was a few police away from becoming the ultimate poster child for Leopards Eating Faces. If anyone believes he would endorse the man who had a mob calling for his head, point them in my direction I got some subscription services to sell them.

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      Maybe even one cop. I’m not sure exactly where Pence was when Eugene Goodman led the mob away from the still unsecured chamber door to the Senate chambers, or how many armed officers were inside the room, but if Pence was still in the Chambers, it would have been very ugly. At minimum, there would have been at least a few more bullet-riddled traitors at the end of the day.

      According to this CNN article, Goodman led the mob away at 2:14 PM and Pence was evacuated from the Senate at 2:30 PM. This PBS article notes that Pence was evacuated from the Senate chamber to a secure location in the building at 2:12 PM. As incompetent as we all may like to think Trump is, his mob came within a minute or two and about a hundred feet of achieving his goal. Because if the mob had gotten their hands on Pence or even one member of congress, Trump would have declared martial law and would very likely still be in office.

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    Well, I wonder how much they report on Trump being unable to get that bond until Monday…