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I have such a friend who once had a great heart for children in bad situations that when I questioned her support for child immigrant separations told me I didnt know what she was capable of. Broke my heart

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I live with one...The same lines, the same fears, the same delusions. Almost point for point...All from the Breitbart/NewsMax/WarRoom/QAnon InfoFeed. They've created an obedient set of parrots who mouth The Company Line...virtually word for word...And in typical Cult Fashion...There are no discussions: Only pronouncements. They speak their peace; They are right and what you may or may not say is irrelevant. It's spectacular in its own way. Just incredible what fear and insecurity can do to warp the human consciousness.

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WHY are you “living with one???”

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Long story...Not 'involved'...a long-time friendship and she now needs my help as she is no longer very mobile. There sometimes are bigger things in life than politics...but it does help that I live in another part of the house.

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Well that was pretty damn depressing but the truth often hurts. Lucian Truscott channeled the inner thoughts of half the population of this country. I agree that a higher power may not exist to help us.

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I’ve lost a good friend to this crap. As you say, they counter all reason, all evidence, with another load of it. Nothing to be done, I guess, and that is the scariest fact of all.

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This reminds me of a guy that used to have his van parked in front of LaVal’s on Durant in Berkeley during the 1980s. His van was festooned with all sorts of highlighted copies and reprints of articles from all sorts of normal, mainstream publications that, he asserted, proved that John Lennon was assassinated by a cabal consisting of Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, and Stephen King (yes, that Stephen King). Were you to ask, he would gladly go through as much of his evidence that you could stand (and he had a shitload). None of it, of course, made any consistent sense at all. But he was absolutely convinced.🤔😉😊

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Sad times, Trump enrolled his racist birther mob with the Obama birth certificate lie..

Roger Ailes will be the author of this horrid series of events..

Thank God Trump is not very bright, a genius might have destroyed this country...not safe yet.

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Hard to fathom so many people so unhinged.

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Was the quoted text REALLY written by one of the nut cases who believe all that horseshit??? Or was it you paraphrasing those concerns? It seemed much too literate to be the work of anyone from the Legions of the Brain-dead!

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Described to me as a former leftie.

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