And here we have the reason I needed to simplify the already fairly simple analogy. Do you tie your own shoes?

Yes every time I read a data point from a person in authority I automatically adopt it as undeniable truth instead of using basic critical thinking skills to factor it into analysis of political dynamics.
There is certainly a lot of whiplash as I listen to democrats and republicans debate topics like abortion, I keep hoisting an american flag in one hand and an aborted fetus in the other and cheer and boo alternately.
Sure is hard going through life with all the thought process of a chess AI that can only see a 3x3 patch of squares and a recursive depth of 0

Clearly you lack basic critical thinking skills if you think "Ted Lieu is plotting to keep biden in power after he loses the next election"

Use your fuckin brain for something besides a hat rack

you mean like the failed Republican dream on Jan 6 that all of you were so hyped about? and are now downplaying as old boomers taking selfies? lol

conservatives are so easily beguiled, its like doing magic tricks for toddlers

yes. i once hit a clay pidgeon with an open sight .22 at 150 yards.

but truth be told im more handy with a shotgun on a skeet range.

not much of a hand gun guy though, other than plinking from time to time with my 8 shot .22 revolver. i'd rather clean them than shoot them.

And 12 years ago if I had said democrats would be plotting to remove the Republican candidate from the presidential ballot so they could win a rigged election, you'd say I'm spouting nonsense
The most extreme ideas percolate from the pundits and activists up to the nutwings in the house and senate before they become the party line.

If you want to stay on a ballot probably shouldn't run afoul of the 14th amendment

12 years ago if you told me that a republican president would refuse to cede a democratic election and subsequently incite an insurrection I would have laughed my head off but alas, here we are
What is worse is that Trumps rabid and corrupt extremism is shared by most of his party. you say democracy is at stake? it is, but because of the scumbags in your own fucking political party

Sometimes I think that the Democrats truly are trying their hardest to get themselves killed, as part of their climate change death cult

If you think January 6th was truly an "attack on the capital". You're an idiot. Just because MSM and democrack heads used it as propaganda doesn't make it an "attack". Everyone whose watched videos of the incident would deduce that if it were an "attack" it'd be the equivalent of throwing an "apple at a tank". Just because your political party benefited from it doesn't logically translate it to "the worst thing to happen on American soil".

More so then all of that is the fact it was used to further divide an already divided country. Both parties. Trump included. Allowed emotions to overtake logic. It made our country look weak to other nations which far outweighs the bullshit propaganda.

I've lost a lot of respect for you if you really think "January 6th" was a tragedy. It was a pawn piece the democrats used to gain a stronger foothold in DC. If you are so smart you'd be able to deduce that "initially" it looked bad on Republicans so Democrats took full advantage of it.

Then months later/years later when the trials started EVERYONE could see the LIES democrats sold in the weeks after the "attack". Video proof showed agitators like Ray Epps. Video proof showed police letting people into the capital. Video proof showed a few unruly protestors magnified under MSM's microscope. It doesn't show the tens of thousands of people who were actually just peacefully protesting. Funny how MSM never showed that part. The part where 99 percent of people were peacefully protesting.