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The week's question
In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: bighairymike ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: To Be clear
Date: 09/26/24 11:15 AM
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>>No, it was not legitimate political discourse. However, the belief that we were close to losing our democracy to these so-called "insurrectionists", even if they did manage to kill Mike Pence, is pure nonsense.<<

Mike,

In 2020, 139 out of 221 House Republicans refused to certify the results of the Electoral College. In addition, 8 out of 51 Republican Senators openly supported the House Representatives to refuse to certify the results of the Electoral college.

While there have been small protest votes in the past, this is unprecedented in American history.

What is “pure nonsense” is the fact that so many Republicans still don’t see the facts that are right before their very eyes.

If you support Trump you are supporting a traitor to American democracy who fomented a violent insurrection against our country. - AW


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You are responding about J6 elements that I never mentioned in my post and never called nonsense. Maybe you are doing that on purpose to change the subject or maybe you did not understand what I was calling nonsense. Here is the belief that I called nonsense and I stand by it. "Literally", absolutely delusional.

We were literally one Mike Pence away from the plan being successful. Had the mob of insurrectionists scared Pence into giving in to the plan, our system of governing would have been overthrown.

Lapsody at least stated clearly he did not have this belief. The rest of you apparently do believe we were that close since your "rebuttal' concerned a different topic, one that I did not mention.

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