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    I was wondering when he would pop his Rational Self-Interest head up. He’s been uncharacteristically silent for a while, not performing his usual contrarian stunts for attention. He was smart enough to keep his head down for this insanity.

    But when something threatens his money, he’ll be there.

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    Don’t threaten us with a good time, you POS russian hack. Can’t believe I liked your dad at one point.

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    The Republican party deserves to die for allowing Donald Trump to rise to power. The Democrat party deserves to die for being useless to stop them. America needs a whole new fresh start with new parties

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      or better yet, no parties at all and force some of our morons to actually learn their candidates beyond just party lines.

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      See, they thought they could control him, like they did Reagan, and Bush Jr. Bush Sr. went along willingly.

      But Trump is an overgrown 5 year old, and needs to feel he’s in charge. Like any typical narcissist.

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      We were within 2% of stopping them. If you bastards had got on board, we wouldn’t be in this mess.

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        Let’s blame the voters instead of our shit policy and campaign that promises them nothing much more than republican lite

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          No fuck yes. Blame them.

          Are you saying that trump won because his policy and campaign was stellar.

          Trump won because his base acted instead of passively watching. They took over everything and all the left could say was “don’t roll with them something something pigs”

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          I blame the owners of news and social media. How can people make good decisions if they can’t perceive reality?

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              I don’t understand what you could possibly mean by this comment. We, as in the American electorate, directly chose fascism. What the fuck do you mean that we will see it soon enough? We didn’t take the path you say also leads there eventually, the only way to tell where it leads is theory. We are never going to see the real world impacts of the choice we did not make.

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          The voters and especially the non-voters are to blame along with the politicians. Why shouldn’t they be responsible for voting against their own interests or sitting it out after having seen a Trump presidency?

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    Hopefully the republicans can go the way of the whigs, the democratic party can become the conservative party they so desperately want to be, and we can create an actual party on the left.

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      I’ve wanted this for ages. And it’s represented so well in Republicans having only one platform: “Oppose Democrats. If it makes a Democrat angry, do it.”

      Cleanse - and I mean CLEANSE - the opposition party. No one here can claim the Democrats never have good ideas. And yet, we can definitely do better than them. A better party means having better ideas - not just “Stop them libruls”. Bernie just toured the States with a message of exactly what that would look like.

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    Man if only he could like vote to get rid of them or something. too bad he’s literally powerless and can’t do a thing to stop this. /s

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    Don’t worry Rand Paul, your masters control the news and social media so it won’t happen. They’ll just keep a majority of people in an illusionary dream world.

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    It’s insane to think that the same two partys remain in control in the US. Yet they call it democracy.

    • I’m referring to the voters, and their lack of action when their main party ha proven useless. The ‘swing voters’ never seem to swing between anything other than those two.
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    Don’t trust anyone whose name is Rand, first or last.

    Or Paul for that matter, but that’s an entirely different issue. Paul knows what he did.

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        I did, and I feel the need to remind you Rand Al’Thor had espisodes of insanity and a disembodied homicidal voice in his head. Sure he saved the world, but I wouldn’t want to be there during one of his fits trusting him not to accidently explode me.

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          Fair, but that voice wasn’t something wrong with him, it was an external actor. Rand himself was a stand-up guy

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      If the 1920s really are repeating then, if we survive the Trump administration, we’ve got a modern version of the New Deal on the way.

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      They’ll give the rest of the world a breather which will allow us to finish forming a new economic and strategic structure where the United States plays a substantially diminished role. After that it won’t matter whether the Republicans or Democrats are in power; at least not to most of the world.

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        Clearly you didn’t read the headline. Or reading comprehension isn’t your strong suit