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    Last summer, for instance, Sapik posted a video on Facebook for a campaign fundraising golf event that said: “Let’s get rid of Democracy; everyone in favor raise your hand!”

    “It’s a joke,” Sapik responded at the time.

    It’s always a ‘joke, just kidding, what’s the matter can’t you take a joke?!’ - until the timing works out and they go ahead and do it. When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.

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        In one of Colbert’s monologue’s, he compared this to joking with your spouse about having a threesome. If you do it one time, it might be a joke. If you keep doing it over and over - specifically asking if he friend would “get the joke” - then you’re not joking. You’re being serious in trying to have a threesome.

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      That one could actually be a joke but for the person saying it and the context. Usually their “jokes” contain neither irony nor humor.

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      I call it Shrödinger’s Joke. The statement is simultaneously a joke and a serious proposal. The wave function only collapses once someone reacts to it.

      If the reaction is “that’s outrageous,” then the statement becomes a joke.

      If the reaction is “hell, yeah, I’ve got my Nazi flag ready,” then the statement was serious.

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      The other side is already doing shit like this. May as well join them since gerrymandering has made it about impossible to elect Democrats.

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      Would be stupid easy too.

      The radical woke LGBT Marxist leftist Biden wants to take away your patriotic water heaters.

      Gimme votes.

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        Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - JFK

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    It’s truly a bold move to make a clearly illegal action after voters delivered you a loss of -10%. In a swing state.

    Either Republicans accept they’ll have to run in fairer maps, or they’ll create an environment where their gerrymandering isn’t enough to stop public backlash – and then be forced to run in fairer maps anyway.

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    It’d be great if she gets impeached, she resigns and the governor appoints an ultra left judge who agrees to step down after the special election, where she runs again and wins.