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Maybe it is not about what they expected but about how they think, literally. I believe there really is a difference between republican-oriented and democratic-oriented brains. It's a matter of what part of your brain takes over and how it does or doesn't connect to other areas. It is similar to a default setting on a computer.

Thom's history on even one point is alarming, but as a whole they are shocking. It is a pathology.  More evidence is they had the perfect opportunity to dump Trump (a known sociopath and grifter). Yet when they reached that fork in the road, their "default setting" took over.

We must move into the future by getting the non-affiliated voters to join us. The Earth itself is hanging in the balance. I have some compassion for really young Republicans, but the old ones witnessed each event Thom spoke about. This column is a great explanation of why the chickens have come home to roost. It is not about retribution, it's about contribution. Our default setting will point us toward that new day.

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I did not expect 73 million to believe them!

Off subject but I have experience at this. In the early 80's I worked on a project near Suez City, Egypt. Use to commute from Heliopolis ( a suburb of Cairo near the airport). We use to go to the beach on a mine cleared beach just north of Ismailiyah. Best shrimp ever could be bought in Ismailiyah. First a little history. Jimmy Carter wanted peace in the middle east. He brought together Sadat and Begin to the Camp David accords. Egypt needed the canal open. It was full of sunken vessels and silt. Also the banks were covered with broken tanks etc. Carter agreed that we would clean up the canal if Egypt would clean up the banks. Everybody agreed. Egypt cleaned up the banks by pushing all of the debris into the canal. This ship that is stuck in the canal. My bet is it is poor maintenance of the canal and the biggest ship with the deepest draft bottomed out on wind blown silt.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-container-crunch-deepens-boxships-143401707.html

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