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Zorro

(15,740 posts)
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 08:58 PM Jul 2020

If you aren't filled with rage at Trump, you aren't paying attention

Let me take you for a moment to a fantasy land. In this place, the coronavirus pandemic was bad for a couple of months but now it is largely under control. If you lived there you’d still be a little uncertain about going to a concert or a movie, but your life would have largely returned to normal.

You wouldn’t have lost your job; the government would have had a comprehensive support program that kept unemployment low. You’d be able to see your family and friends without fear. Your children would be returning to school in September. There would be some precautions to take for a while longer, but there would be no doubt that the pandemic was on its way to being defeated.

To us here in the United States, this picture seems magical, like a dispatch from the far future. But it isn’t. It’s the situation that exists right now in many of our peer countries around the world. And the fact that our situation is so different? That shouldn’t just make you feel disappointed, or anxious, or upset.

It should make you enraged. That is the proper response to where we find ourselves today.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/14/if-you-arent-filled-with-rage-trump-you-arent-paying-attention/

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If you aren't filled with rage at Trump, you aren't paying attention (Original Post) Zorro Jul 2020 OP
Just had someone here admonish older folks for allowing Lincoln Project help us defeat traitor Eliot Rosewater Jul 2020 #1
Rage doesn't even begin to describe what I feel about OrangeAnus. Ferrets are Cool Jul 2020 #2

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. Just had someone here admonish older folks for allowing Lincoln Project help us defeat traitor
Tue Jul 14, 2020, 08:59 PM
Jul 2020

I sure hope they are JUST as ENRAGED as I am and that those younger folks actually fucking vote!

Otherwise, see ya...I will be dead for sure.

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