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coeur_de_lion

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3. I'm going to remind you of something Bandy Lee said recently
Thu Jun 4, 2020, 07:53 PM
Jun 2020
The ability to tolerate uncertainty is a sign of health, and what Trump supporters evidently lack: their lives are so uncertain and intolerable, they are drawn to demagogues who say, “I alone can fix it,” or “I know everything” (which, of course, no honest individual would say).


These people watch Faux News every day and scare themselves to death. That's the aim of Faux News. Then they hear an authoritarian make a promise, decide he's the tough guy they need despite all evidence to the contrary, and now we have to deal with ridding the country of rump.

Their minds are small and their fear is huge, stoked by Faux.

Fire & Rain [View all] H2O Man Jun 2020 OP
⭐️⭐️⭐️K&R ⭐️⭐️⭐️ spanone Jun 2020 #1
Thanks! H2O Man Jun 2020 #2
I'm going to remind you of something Bandy Lee said recently coeur_de_lion Jun 2020 #3
Yes. H2O Man Jun 2020 #5
That is what we need coeur_de_lion Jun 2020 #7
Living in rural PA for the past 13 years has been eye opening. livetohike Jun 2020 #4
Yep. H2O Man Jun 2020 #6
Well, reading the comments Scarsdale Jun 2020 #11
But but but malaise Jun 2020 #8
Ha-ha!!! H2O Man Jun 2020 #9
What I will never get is that they always say they hate losers malaise Jun 2020 #10
Well, let's see Scarsdale Jun 2020 #12
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah malaise Jun 2020 #13
And may he lose the election hugely! burrowowl Jun 2020 #15
I'm living for November 3 malaise Jun 2020 #16
No Smoke Rising . . . . FrankTC Jun 2020 #14
Well said! H2O Man Jun 2020 #17
I've been laughing a lot the past week. malthaussen Jun 2020 #18
Right. H2O Man Jun 2020 #19
They are terrified, but their terror is largely self inflicted and so not my problem. Warpy Jun 2020 #20
Definitely! H2O Man Jun 2020 #21
That's a prescient observation bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #22
Great questions. H2O Man Jun 2020 #23
There is a lot of mental triangulation being seeded into discussions here bucolic_frolic Jun 2020 #25
Right. H2O Man Jun 2020 #26
"I know, dear reader, that like myself, you are thinking that the word "Noble" surely applies." soldierant Jun 2020 #24
Very good! H2O Man Jun 2020 #27
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