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Bettie

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96. You shouldn't

Thu Oct 23, 2025, 08:22 AM

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none of us should.

As I've said. This is how we got here...we were tolerant of their views and they doubled down over and over on the hate and bigotry. In tolerating it, we tacitly told them that it was OK to be monsters.

I'm done with it. I'm not going to pretend that any of this is okay.

I'm no longer going to try to pretend that MAGAts are the same as the rest of us. They have shown us who they are, who and what they have always been deep inside, and we should believe them.

We should also treat them as they treat, well, everyone else. Maybe that will hold up a mirror for them to see...I doubt it, but we can give it a shot.

Some of them are lost at this point.

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