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  “Chaotic?” Seriously? The entire planet has PTSD after the chaos trump & the GOP wrought upon our world. “Nasty,” just isn’t a strong enough term about how most of us feel about them. I’m going to go with VILE.
context: Maybe someone should point out his party to him.  Cruz, Boebert, Green and others. >
  
  ...Lee, Gohmert, Tuberville, Biggs, Hawley, Jordan... >
  
  ...Mitch.... >
  
  This is the right answer.  Mitch could and should have made a difference, but he played the game like everyone else. >
  
  Common Mitch, if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, squawks like a duck...it probably is....you are who you hang with.... >
  
  Man, maybe if republicans weren’t so nasty and chaotic, people wouldn’t think that >
  
  True; Trump just let us see that with no self-censorship. >
  
  Old Republicans have always been pretty nasty, chaotic, and bitchtastic.
  Since the Reagan times, they have been the stuffy kick poor people in the face group.  I never understood why so many of my fellow poors lined up to be punched in the jaw. >
  
  People lined up to support the republicans because the democrats abandoned the unions and the working class with policies like globalization (NAFTA) and tax cuts for the rich. Plus they got the racism side perk which gave them an “other” to blame over the white men creating their problems. >
  
  To be fair- despite democrats being significantly better and more supportive of unions. Union members in large numbers decided to abandon the party because of culture war bullshit and racism. >
  
  In northern Minnesota’s Iron range forever we’re conservative democrats.  All the union members.  Really only democrat mainly because of unions. But the combo of environmentalists “against” new mines like the proposed copper mine near BWCA and Trump, never before democrat strong holds voted republican.  And it looks like they won’t return anytime soon.  
  Now I know democrats are the supporters of unions, but up in iron mine country it’s more than that.  Most of them think democrats are anti-mining and so that’s their lively hood.   That is the iron range all along northern/northeast Minnesota. >
  
  I know this is going to suck to hear but a lot of union jobs simply don’t make sense anymore economically like coal mining. It’s funny to hear coal miners bitching and complaining about immigrants and bitching and complaining their shitty podunk mining town is dying. It was their great great grandfathers who moved from their home/country to find work in these mining towns and they can’t see that these immigrants they hate so much are doing the same to provide for their families, while they sit there too lazy to move, to dumb to read the tea leaves and expecting that the modern equivalent to alchemy coming back. >
  
  I Agree with ya.  I see it all the time.                       My Grandpa, was a little kid when his family came over from Poland through Ellis island.  Became a navy man and when he came back after ww2 he worked in the iron mines in northern mn.  In their hay day.  Mining towns are boom or bust.   Their argument to what you just said is, “Come here legally! Like my grand parents and their parents did!”   (Not my family, they don’t say these things).   But the iron range has become 60% MAGA country. >
  
  Uh. No. The platform of bigotry, misogyny, racism, and greed existed decades before Trump even ran. Republicans, especially McConnell, fully supported Trump in pushing policies that are killing women, stealing people's right to vote, facilitating the continued transfer of property and wealth to corporations. Trump made the inevitable outcome of conservative thinking plainly visible to millions who insisted it couldn't happen here. >
  
  Exactly. And Mitch skated past every opportunity to pull it out of the ditch. He traded the chaos and lies for power to stack the judiciary, enabling all of it. >
  
  Trump only brought out the inherent nastiness in already nasty Republican electorate. >
  
  yea. you don't turn into a racist mysognist just because one guy got elected president. it's more like they finally got a guy who said the things that they want to say out loud >
  
  Nah, Mitch. It was when you held a US Supreme Court seat hostage. Probably before that, too. >
  
  Newt Gingrich in the 90s is usually referenced as the beginning of the "soulless/evil" stage of the republican party.  Though you could make a case for Reagan in the 80s.  They've been evil for a long time really, they've just been slow to reveal themselves behind their masks >
  
  Newt "the Contract on America" Gingrich
  Tom Delay was another one >
  
  Reminder that Tom DeLay was taking “donations” from Russian oil execs way back in the 90s. >
  
  Huh, I didn't know that - I just knew he was a corrupt POS. >
  
  So much to ridicule here:
  1) He made them "think" they're nasty and chaotic? They are nasty and chaotic.
  2) Trump's influence has waned? Maybe, but the Republican base still loves him. No one who opposes him is actually going to win a primary.
  McConnell is living in cloud cuckoo land. >
  
  A lot of us thought that about your party, regardless of Trump. >
  
  but they are.... >
  
  No that was the behavior of the republican party that did that. >
  
  Moscow Mitch did a pretty good job of it too. >
  
  Haha.   Come on Mitch Boebert, Green. Gaetz ,  I could go on.  It isn’t just Trump that makes the party look bad.?    Blame yourself. >
  
  Oh I don't know Mitch. Maybe you been running that type of platform for over 40 years and maybe you really didn't know what you were doing with stacking the Supreme Court. Because your in-laws think like the 1930s and you never told these conspiracy people: "Would you shut up! If people thought your way when we were all kids we all be dead by now." But nope, had to be: "But making Trump and MAGA responsible will destroy the GOP. I can't do that!" Now he is: "Shit! What did I do!?" >
  
  Does the Turtleman own a mirror? >
  
  Are we positive he’s not Zuckerberg from the future? >
  
  Still in denial about the character of his Party. >
  
  More about trying to put a positive spin on his party.  Like “Seriously we’re not the party of Trump or out of touch, sexist, racist supremacists, we like rich people and ‘conservatives’ too!”  Despite, all the video evidence showing mostly the contrary.  
  If W’s 8 years and Trump’s everything in 4 didn’t show you what this party does when in power then either you have a short memory or just don’t care. >
  
  “If we nominate Trump we will be destroyed…and we will deserve it” 
  -American Traitor Senator Lindsey Graham >
  
  Republicans did that.
  Trump is a symptom, not the cause. >
  
  Mitch is right. Before Trump I only thought Republicans were greedy, cynical, sociopathic and cruel. >
  
  
  Trump Made Voters ~~Think~~ Realize Republicans 'Nasty'
  
  FTFY >
  
  Well, come on now. I mean, every time is see 'Former White House Advisor Ivanka Trump' ...I just have to laugh a little.
  It's like we're living in a Mel Brooks movie >
  
  Trump held up a mirror. Some Americans loved the reflection. Some hated what theysaw. >
  
  I mean maybe we think that way because of how they are?