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break down your door and say, all right, your family's been here for four generations, but Trump has decided to deport you somewhere to a country you've never had any association with? Apparently Democrats believe that's real. So they think that citizens will be deported. What? So they think that their health care will go away even if they deserve it, which is not true. And they think that the de…

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t and whatever women work out, you know, I'll go along with that. Because if the situation were reversed and I were a female, I wouldn't want men to have an opinion on abortion. I'd say stay out of it. You just stay out of it. Let the women figure it out. So I apply the same standard as a man. I say, oh, okay. If I were you, I'd want me to stay out of the argument. So I do. I have nothing to add to the argument.

But if we're looking at the funding alone, I do feel like Planned Parenthood will eventually find enough voluntary funding. Probably they'll just get more donations because they'll say, hey, mean old Trump took our funding, so why don't you donate to us? So I suspect that their business won't be that much affected in the long run, but we'll see. But I guess that would be part of the Democrat hellscape. To which I say, how many people needed an abortion today?

Anyway, so when I asked the question about the hellscape, I'm kind of fascinated by the troll activity because if I say anything about policy that is sort of anti-Democrat, I'll get at least one and usually just one comment from somebody who looks like an AI troll or maybe just a paid troll. But they have some stuff in common that doesn't make them look like regular commenters.

So to my question about where exactly is this hellscape people are living, Richard Anguin, who I don't know if is a real person or not, replied, "Scott Adams' smug dismissal of legitimate fears about Trump's authoritarian tendencies is a dangerous oversimplification that ignores the real trauma inflicted on marginalized communities by

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his policies." To which I say that is a perfect Democrat response. It did the two things that Democrats do. The first thing is they don't address the point. They insult you personally. So was the thing that you needed to talk about my smug dismissal of legitimate fears? Was this really about me? Why would you make it about me? That's not a reasonable question to ask. If half of the country believ…

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