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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 48507 
Subject: A good description of Trump...
Date: 08/20/2023 3:16 PM
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...and the MAGA cult.

'Talented and well-practiced in every vice, a stranger to compassion or empathy, a liar and a cheat so complete in perfidy that he has elevated his dishonesty to hold it up as an ersatz moral principle, violent, so long as he can order someone else to do the dirty work, grotesque in body, graceless in action, in possession of a wounded self-regard so colossal as to smother any spark of grace, treasonous, not only to country, but to every ally he has ever had, the poisoned fruit and rankest flower of racism and contempt for women, and utterly devoid of shame for his moral and spiritual bankruptcy.

That is your leader. That is to whom you give your money. That is who you follow and laud. That is whose banner you willingly carry. Why? Because he is a mirror, not a lighthouse. You see yourselves in him. He is what you would be, if you had inherited money and could shed the last vestiges of conscience and shame.

No, I do not 'respect your choices,' nor do I admire your loyalty and dedication to this miserific, demoniac vision. You have demonstrated not only a lack of civic virtue, loyalty to the Republic and to the rule of law, but a willingness to engage in violence and sedition at his slightest expressed wish. And you will never, ever admit you were wrong.

Because you see your dark, twisted, resentful dreams in him. And to renounce him is to renounce yourselves.'

~ Advocatus Peregrini
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Author: LurkerMom   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A good description of Trump...
Date: 08/20/2023 3:47 PM
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A poster replies..

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'Advocatus Peregrini is the name of a l*****t rabble rouser who posts on RawStory, Salon, Mother Jones, and so forth. Peregrini was a catchall term for non-Romans in the days of the Roman Empire after the demise of the Republic. Advocatus means lawyer, which you may have known. In short, Advocatus Peregrini is a typical l*****t bedwetter who thinks hiding behind an obscure nom de plume gives them an air of erudition and mystery.'

LOL@ges
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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 48507 
Subject: Re: A good description of Trump...
Date: 08/20/2023 3:56 PM
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I think that describes Trump quite well, though I don't think it describes most of his followers. Mostly they are good people, but deluded.
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Author: LurkerMom   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A good description of Trump...
Date: 08/20/2023 4:16 PM
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I think that describes Trump quite well, though I don't think it describes most of his followers. Mostly they are good people, but deluded.

Advocatus Peregrini is just another rabid left wing poster who posts at multiple blogs and hates Trump....So shrug.

LM, good people, not deluded. 😇
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