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You ok with Trump saying he’d suspend the US Constitution?

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Hyperbole.

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I witnessed the insurrection on live television. It may be comforting to pretend Trump is all hyperbole all the time, but he is a twisted, evil man.

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You watched a riot.

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From Oxford Dictionary: insurrection- a violent uprising against an authority or government.

I witnessed a violent attempt to prevent the official transfer of governmental authority from one president to the next. And PS - Trump is an evil, twisted man.

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No you didn’t. You watched a riot, in many respects a goofy one.

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I know exactly what I saw. Ask the men and women who were injured how goofy it was. And Trump is a horrible man for many reasons. He cheated on all three wives. He paid a porn star for sex. (Ick). He lies. He cheats his contractors. He separated children from their parents with no plan to reunite them. He made sexually perverted comments about his own daughter. A jury found him liable for sexual assault. He called American citizens vermin. His Christmas message this year finished up with: … MAY THEY ROT IN HELL. AGAIN MERRY CHRISTMAS. (His caps). This is the guy you want for president of the United States of America?

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I will support him happily. Along with roughly half the country.

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And that's a huge problem. Standards have really slipped if anyone is willing to support Trump especially devout Catholics. But traditional standards aside, it is impossible for a patriots to support Trump given his agenda. It will do you no good to pretend it is all empty rhetoric and hyperbole. That ship sailed in 2017 when the country learned he had no intention of ever being "presidential." All patriots oppose Trump.

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I have to think your reference to "his agenda" has to do with bringing the federal bureaucracy under control. I fully support that. As someone who has worked in and around Washington for nearly 30 years, I have seen how the presidential agenda is undermined by bureaucrats.

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You are deliberately not paying attention, or you are here in bad faith. He is openly promising to remake America into a right-wing authoritarian state complete with eliminating those who oppose hi as "vermin." Stop trivializing his agenda as something else.

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Not half the country, not even close. Thirty percent maybe, since a third of the electorate doesn't vote, and five or so percent of that thirty are not hard core Trump supporters.

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