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Terrorists gonna terrorize
Republicans would burn the country to the ground if only to rule the ashes >

Reign of Fire (2002) would be a good example of this. Dragons scorch the earth because their diet is ashes. Main protagonist is George Santos. >

The supporting actor, Anthony Devolder, was really good too! >

GOP is becoming the abusive partner we all need to run away from. >

This thread from QAnonCasualties from half a year ago has one very telling turn of phrase from someone that got out of the madness, that describes what kind of relationship it is...

After watching the entire hearing, I wanted to get the ‘highlights and opinions’ from numerous media outlets. And of course, I had to start with my Qults number one media source Fox News. Watching Fox News is the reason I am writing this today. I have watched every 5-minute summary and 2-hour coverage posted by Fox News I could find on YouTube. If I described this to my past abusers, they would ask me, “If it bothered you and affected you so negatively, why did you keep watching?” The answer, because it is the most efficient way to deprogram the brainwashing.
I was in those trenches. I helped dig those trenches, not only for myself but for others at my side. I pulled individuals, trying to get out, back in. If anyone succeeded in getting out, I treated them like the enemy I was convinced they were. I have done a lot of work and healing regarding my abusive upbringing, and the most difficult fact to accept is that I have been groomed to be a mindless follower of these extremists since I was a toddler.

That's what this is. It has been beyond politics for decades now - it's abuse. Their policies (let the police harass minorities, cut aid to everyone and damn the economy if we can't, make their talking points about picking on trans athletes in schools into laws) are all about abuse. When one Trump supporter said the quiet part out loud about how they fully recognize who Trump is and what the plan is - He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting - it told you EVERYTHING you need to know about their hollow and rotten cores. They WANT to hurt people. They WANT to abuse.
The right-wing knows they've lost Millennials and Get Z after abusing them. After making fun of them and blaming them for everything. This is how Millennials voted in 2016 - they would have given Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party a super-majority to reshape America into a more sane version of itself if it were just up to them. Gen Z is even more progressive than the Millennials. They're beginning to vote more as they get older and see that's how you get change, and natural attrition means they outnumber the Boomers and their Reagan worshiping politics. Republicans are looking at forty years of being in the national minority, and we've already seen that they can't get over losing. So all the abusers have is their eight steps of abuse, crafted to treat their followers mean and to keep them keen.
Here are those eight steps. They apply to any abusive relationship, but here I'll put them into political terms. As you saw from the post in QAnonCasualties; abuse can be in personal relationships, workplace relationships, asymmetrical power relationships (teacher and student, priest and child, parent and child), transactional relationships between a company and customers ...and political relationships between the leaders and the followers (which looks like the abuse in a cult). If you're a Republican or QAnon, this is how you've been treated. Groomed. Abused.
1 - You've been told that nobody else understands you like they do. For years. "Those other people, they just don't get it. Their liberal ways are different and that's just not you. They don't understand, but we know where you're coming from..."
2 - Now that they've established that they're one of your kind of people in your mind, everyone else gets badmouthed. Everyone. It's just the two of you literally against the entire world. And they'll do it so much that things that aren't epithets get used as words to hate everyone else by. Anything can become a word to say in a hateful, sneering, spiteful way. Your circle of experiences starts to shrink.
3 - They'll tell you that, if you left them, things would be simultaneously the worst thing possible AND that all other relationships are just the same as the one you're in (even though you can see other people online talking about how what you're in is the only bad relationship relationship like this and all you have to do is leave them). “Both sides are the same but I’m better” - eventually, you don’t know up from down in what constitutes a healthy or a toxic relationship. Hell, they'll even show examples of the shit you're in now to say, "if you leave me and go for the other guy, it'll be like this [very bad scenario that's happening RIGHT NOW] so be scared and shit." They will even invent scenarios of how things would be worse if you left them (caravan of Mexicans coming for your job, trans people in every school bathroom, people handing free drugs to your kids). The circle shrinks further.
4 - You're told outright what to cut out of your life. Direct instruction for you to get that circle of experiences down to a dot. Music, interests, TV shows, certain movies, even frothy coffee gets badmouthed and cut out because "you don't want to be a 'latte drinker' do you?" (there's one of those things I mentioned in #2, using things that aren't epithets as one to control you).
5 - They take your money, claim they'll be great with it, and then spend it on their friends and run up the bills. They'll give you crumbs once in a while. Maybe every few years they'll treat you to a little something nice (that's worth a fraction of what they spent when they were out with their friends). And while they're terrible with the finances, for years, they'll be saying how everything is hunky-dory financially with them at the reins. You will be told you've never had it so good but the fear of one bad bill wiping you out financially will be like the Sword Of Damocles over your head 24/7/365.
6 - every problem gets kicked down the road. Promises made and never ever kept. A problem crops up in the New Year 2020, a disease, but it wasn't even mentioned in January because the head of the household didn't mention it. "It's going to go away" in February, and anyone that mentions it is just saying fake stuff, baby. Still nothing done in March, but any mention of it is "you're just finding faults with me". Then when April comes and it's clear what the shit storm looks like, they blame everyone else for saying it wasn't going to be a big deal. As the months and years roll on it becomes a shell game where ignoring the problem / blaming others for the problem / trying to draw attention from the problem gets switched around without stop. Even if it comes out that they knew the problem could literally kill other people, tear them apart because of gross negligence, they will not stray from this strategy.
7 - like in any abusive relationship, you're beaten down. You've been told it'll all be your fault if things don't go as they want, and you've seen others be on the end of their random outbursts of wrath. So you stay safe. You repeat the words in the way they taught you. You repeat the answers. You repeat the words you're told are insults. Even though you know of situations where you've come out worse for the way the relationship is, you defend the abuser. First with a fake air of calm, then with a seething rage. And when people offer you a way out, you go right back to the abuse. You will even drag others that were offered a way out back into the bucket of crabs.
8 - the relationship is so twisted, you so believe everything you're told about what's real and what's not, they will literally put you in situations that could kill you. And you say you're doing it willingly, proudly, but the fact is you're a shell of the idealistic person you used to be. You just got in with the wrong crowd, but it's too late to get out now because people might think less of you. Going along with how they do it becomes how you do it too. Which reinforces what you were told in #1. Only they understand you... >

What this guy did was absolutely psychotic. A poor child woke up to bullet holes in her room. Wtf is going on with the Republican party anymore? It's complete insanity >

And we have people right here insisting he was a low nut job despite the fact that he was working with a group of people to do this. 
There is no limit to the lengths these people will go to in order to get Democrats all slaughtered. Every single fucking one of us. >


There is no limit to the lengths these people will go to in order to get Democrats all slaughtered.

It's extremely scary. All of my family are also Democrats. These nut jobs need to be locked up for along time. >

The attacks will continue until everyone loves them. >

Reminds me of an old joke.  
*Knock Knock*
Whose there?
It's me, Jesus, let me in.
Why?
So I can save you!
Save me from what?
From what I'm going to do to you if you don't let me in! >

republicans hiring "deprogrammers" to kidnap and stop their kids being "woke"?
republicans are looking at iran's morality police, and touching themselves >

What do you have to say for yourselves, republicans?  How come you guys are not around for these type of threads? How much more right-wing violence do you have to see before you address the other side, hat in hand, and admit you're wrong about everything?
Conservatism sucks. Your religion sucks. And your brand of capitalism sucks. 
You're a bunch of incompetent losers, who don't know how to run the world, think you do, and instead end up dismantling civilization in favor of Fascism.
Sit the f down and shut the f up.
And f this sub policy of no up voting comments so it looks like each side is supported evenly. We all know that's about preserving the illusion that conservatism  is just as popular among the youth demographic when it isn't. 
And F social media for pushing a right-wing agenda down our throats. We see you. >

I like the cut of your jib >

I'm just sick of this shit >

This is a hallmark of malignant narcissism. The GOP is extremely attractive to this kind of power-hungry, violent-minded individual. >

Very very unpopular >

They were always the unpopular kids in school