@MidnightRider Trump transcends party. Trusting him is suicidal willful ignorance, I don’t care what else you believe. He’s done more damage to this country than all the past presidents combined.

@MidnightRider but as far as believing in Rumpy, that is only one party and not even all of them. That headline speaks for about 35% of the voting population. The only way Trump could win a general election is if they can cheat enough to get him the votes he needs. He’s not that popular, just to a very vocal minority that always seems to get access to the media. Probably for the shock content of what they say and do.

@cjcrew IMO, it's alarming he's adored at all. He's an unabashed criminal. I sincerely doubt he will ever face justice because 30% is a LOT of people.

@MidnightRider Unfortunately I agree. Elections have been won with a lot less. It’s disheartening that 30% of the population in this country is that ignorant and/cruel. And let’s call it what it is, support of a man like Trump only comes from the power hungry, the cruel and the willfully ignorant. Because he will turn on whomever supports him to save his own sorry ass. He is ultimately the only one he cares about.

@cjcrew The malignancy is broadcast to those who want to keep feeding their own churn and loathing. I lost a family member over it recently. Certainly, sad but I want the rest of my life to shine my own light and be my own observer and participant as I see fit. Impossible to achieve when you have anti science, anti-intellectuals who the next day ask you to tap your friends for medical advice.

@cjcrew @MidnightRider

The good news is that trump is finishing off the Republican Party.

Actually he is neither party.

He is the party of trump.

#politics

@LnzyHou @cjcrew The group left behind are not going to simply stand down or listen to reason, we are stuck with the fringes on both sides; it's why the middle has to speak up and govern.

@MidnightRider @cjcrew

As a lifelong voter in the left fringe, I have to agree with you. Moderates will have to prevail or the America experiment is over.

@LnzyHou @cjcrew I think it's bananas that some episodes of Laugh In would anger people. today. Springsteen was right, one step forward two steps back.

@MidnightRider @cjcrew

Absolutely

@LnzyHou @MidnightRider Republicans are foolish enough to think a win for Rumpy is a win for them but really, it’s only a win for Rumpy.

@MidnightRider Certainly not just the one party but let’s be honest, one party is a lot more willfully ignorant than the other.

@cjcrew Like most of you I have a preference for party but I dislike the extremes of both sides. You want an example? NY property taxes are an obscenity and that state via a new program paid children to behave, $200 a week. I don't think that's a great idea at all.

@cjcrew @MidnightRider

I believe in a 2 party system.
True; Both have issues.
But one isn’t just chosen ignorant; they’re a cult.

@MrsDanaD @cjcrew I'm not enamored with their contention that nobody liking their platform means changing all the rules to foist it upon us anyway.

@MidnightRider @cjcrew

Agreed.
The hypochristianity mindset of the whole party, politicians and constituents, that we all must live their way or else is completely unacceptable and intolerable.
This from the “law and order” but pick & choose from the Constitution ilk.
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#Politics

@MrsDanaD @cjcrew Worse yet? They aren't living that way, it's a ruse they perpetrate upon naive Christians and ill-informed MAGA's. My neighbor in NY is a total right-wing guy, he's trying to sell illegal cannabis for extra cash this year. They never see their own hypocrisy.

@MidnightRider @cjcrew

I get it.
Have family members that are lost in it.
Actions definitely do not match the words.

Ignorance is a choice.

@MrsDanaD @cjcrew Don't castigate others and replicate the same actions in your own lives.

@MidnightRider @cjcrew

Without hypocrisy and their so called “Christianity”, they’ve got nothing.

@MrsDanaD @cjcrew Their book says Jesus died because man could not be perfect, why not leave it right there? They should concentrate on civility and lawlessness. Leave all others alone to explore their own uniqueness and personal pathways to growth and evolution.

@MidnightRider @cjcrew

100% agree.
Freedom of religion also means freedom from religion.

@MrsDanaD @MidnightRider @cjcrew
I will give the founding fathers much credit for this one. To bad its on the chopping block

@Idissent @MidnightRider @cjcrew

Sort of a huge one; there’s a reason it’s in the very first amendment.

Deplorable was always far too kind.
😡

@MrsDanaD @MidnightRider @cjcrew
Oh, you ain't lying

@Idissent @MidnightRider @cjcrew

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@MrsDanaD @MidnightRider @cjcrew They are empty vessels. So are the members of the klan. They latch onto anything respectable in an attempt to make themselves respectable. They are not Christian. They just hide behind the cross. It will not end well for them.

@danielbsmith @MrsDanaD @cjcrew Well Daniel in the meantime they aren't making the short time I have left peaceful or enjoyable, so their future reckoning isn't soothing for me.

@MidnightRider @MrsDanaD @cjcrew Fair point but I think the reckoning is happening now. In the end Trump will be imprisoned. When he's behind bars watch the wind disappear from their sails as they scurry back to their holes.

@danielbsmith @MidnightRider @MrsDanaD I will believe it when I see it happen, but I’ve seen too many like him just create their chaos and walk away without an ounce of punishment.

We don’t punish rich, white, males in this country.

@MidnightRider @MrsDanaD @cjcrew

NAILED it @MidnightRider !!!

@MrsDanaD @MidnightRider I’ve been a Christian since I was 5. I chose it, it wasn’t forced on me, my parents didn’t believe in religion. Those people are not Christians. They are false prophets. They are the ones we were warned not to believe or follow. You shall know a tree by the fruit it yields, those trees yield poisonous fruit.

@cjcrew @MrsDanaD I understand, but too many proclaiming to be Christians have blurred the lines and made their own rules. You shouldn't need advanced skills of discernment to see the current crop of charlatans we all know. yet these church members are failing to recognize the ruse and the rest of us suffer for their ignorance.

@MidnightRider @MrsDanaD I agree, the church is too concerned about being in the money which opens the doors to assholes who want to steal from the poor to give to the rich and still pompously call themselves “Christian’s”, but they still aren’t. I doubt they’ve even read the gospels, they’re too busy stealing and pointing fingers at poor people claiming they want too much.

@cjcrew @MidnightRider

That’s why I call them hypochristians.
Complete fakes.

@MrsDanaD @MidnightRider Hood name! I like it!

@MrsDanaD @MidnightRider We might not be perfect but they’re criminally insane.

@danielbsmith Rich Trump supporters, the only people who almost got something back from that self centered bastard.

@danielbsmith Well that wouldn’t be hard for an Illinois newspaper, they’d just have to ignore the people of Chicago and Peoria, and I’m not sure about Peoria.

Illinois is really only known for Chicago but we have a lot of farming communities here, Chicago is a large blue dot in a redder than red state.