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Botany

(70,481 posts) Sun May 22, 2022, 11:18 AM May 2022

Maya Angelou, "When people show you who they are the first time believe them."

In what world do you pal around w/the likes of Viktor Orban and anybody outside of neo nazis,
racists, and Christo Fascists still have any respect for you?

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Maya Angelou, "When people show you who they are the first time believe them." (Original Post) Botany May 2022 OP

Wise words. Eliminates the halo effect. SheltieLover May 2022 #1

Both of them sell hate and blaming "the other guy" for any problems Botany May 2022 #3

IT is who they HAVE been for many years, some of us tried to SCREAM About it, we still are Eliot Rosewater May 2022 #2

CPAC being held in Turkey and worshiping Orban is the equivalent... brush May 2022 #4

SheltieLover

(57,073 posts)

1. Wise words. Eliminates the halo effect.

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2022, 11:28 AM

May 2022

Botany

(70,481 posts)

3. Both of them sell hate and blaming "the other guy" for any problems

Reply to SheltieLover (Reply #1)

Sun May 22, 2022, 11:30 AM

May 2022

And i think Hungary is still buying oil and gas from Russia.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,109 posts)

2. IT is who they HAVE been for many years, some of us tried to SCREAM About it, we still are

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2022, 11:30 AM

May 2022

yet there seems to STILL be resistance to the need to do DRASTIC THINGS to prevent the violence they have planned.

brush

(53,759 posts)

4. CPAC being held in Turkey and worshiping Orban is the equivalent...

Reply to Botany (Original post)

Sun May 22, 2022, 12:38 PM

May 2022

of CPAC being held in Berlin 80 years ago and worshiping Hitler.

Let's face it, the republican party base, with this move, is openly declaring they want a fascist government with a dictator in charge. This leaves no doubt.

The nation's future is hanging in the balance this November.

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