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What will ReTHUGS and their racist supporters do (Original Post) malaise Jan 2012 OP
Hopefully a lot of them will be self-deporting.. HipChick Jan 2012 #1
Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaah - that's a freaking malaise Jan 2012 #2
I prognosticate Wise Child Jan 2012 #3
Well, the most vocal of my RW friends says things silvershadow Jan 2012 #4
forgot to add: silvershadow Jan 2012 #7
And win he surely will. lpbk2713 Jan 2012 #5
Majority of them will loose it! Obamacare Jan 2012 #6

HipChick

(25,485 posts)
1. Hopefully a lot of them will be self-deporting..
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 08:40 PM
Jan 2012

many said they would leave the US is Obama won the first time around

Wise Child

(180 posts)
3. I prognosticate
Thu Jan 26, 2012, 09:25 PM
Jan 2012

That the boneheaded meme that will catch on is "He's a 'one-term president' living on borrowed time!". They will imply, and outright state that he cheated fate.

Rumors could easily spread about voter fraud. It might become fashionable to oppose electronic voting machines with these yahoos.

Think further claims of illegitimacy.

There will be calls for his assassination on the Internet on Election Night, but a few of them will discover how hard it is harm the president in the last thirty years. I can see a few nuts trying to preform some kind of incident, resulting in pitiful failure. (or tragic success on a contingent target.)

The ones who don't express homicidal rage, will get on the Internet and proclaim that "We're Doomed!!!, Doomed!!!, Doomed!!!" Claiming a bleak end to America.
 

silvershadow

(10,336 posts)
4. Well, the most vocal of my RW friends says things
Fri Jan 27, 2012, 12:28 AM
Jan 2012

with an aggressive, almost-but-not-quite violent tone, every day. His FB posts are racist, and his posts are adamant. He is retired military (active reserves), and he is unhinged mentally. I debate him all the time trying to draw out what he's really thinking. It's sad. Once, right at the height of things last year, when Gabby was shot, I had to flat-out warn him that his posts were likely to draw the attention of authorities (under the new powers Bushco ushered in). I also posted a link on how to report threats. I don't know if that did anything or not? But I have asked him repeatedly if he's suffering mental unbalance or PTSD or something that needs to be treated...no response, just more rabid hating. Yestereday I accused him of still being on the company payroll as a professional agitator.

 

Obamacare

(277 posts)
6. Majority of them will loose it!
Fri Jan 27, 2012, 12:46 AM
Jan 2012

Seriously, they were rabid in 2008, now they just wholeheartedly believe Obama will lose. They see no other possible outcome, that is how blind they are. The rethugs in the Clinton era were more sane, nowadays they are diabolical.

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