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In December 2024, in the thread "Re: BRK: Why Not XOM?", BreckHutHigh asked the members: "What about the long road trips with kids?" 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: Umm 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Jan 6 picnicker gets 5 years
Date: 01/20/24 4:50 AM
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"What I have been mocking, consistently, is the liberal fantasy about our democracy being at risk that day."

There is nothing funnier than laughing at people who think they are mocking others but are really just playing the ignorant fool themselves.

However, it isn't really that funny considering how serious the subject is.

In order to think democracy wasn't at risk that day a person would have to willfully ignore a whole bunch of inconvenient facts. Willful ignorance may work when talking to other members of the Cult who also want to ignore facts they find inconvenient, but it doesn't work with non-cultists.

Besides, Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Mitt Romney, Micheal Luttig, Joe Walsh, Lisa Murkowski, Jim Mathis, Rex Tillerson, John Kelly, Mark Esper, John Bolton, Dick Cheney, Mike Pence, and a whole host of other people that range from moderately conservative to very conservative have all said similar things about January 6th. Only an idiot would think any of them liberal.

The difference of course is that they are not members of the Willful Ignorance Cult.
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