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Trump boasts he ordered DOJ to sue Alaska to get election result tossed out if they lose
(www.independent.co.uk)
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OP isn't talking shit about you. Their comment is nothing but the truth. Dunno why you're so sensitive about this. We are all stuck in the same boat right now.
...they're calling everyone still stuck in the US who hasn't gone out in a blaze of glory a bootlicker from whatever comfy bolthole they've been blessed with. Not an option for the vast majority of us, especially those who actually need it. They aren't stuck in the same boat, they're very clear (and smug, and self-righteous) about that. It's exactly what irritated me. Dunno why you felt the need to involve yourself, or what truth you're finding so resonant
No they’re not? You’re putting words in their mouth and then getting mad at them over something they never said.
As the least confrontational person to say this, can you help me find my way to a better interpretation of that comment? I genuinely cannot see another way to parse it, and I've gone back and tried more than once today. Who are "they" that failed to do shit after J6? The only way I can parse it is as a pretty clear statement everyone with a gun who didn't respond by going out and blowing a maga hat off someone's head is a "bootlicker" for failing to do so, and they're pretty obviously speaking from a comfortable remove