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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(128,483 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:50 PM Aug 29

Will America Leave her Abuser?

Why didn’t she just leave? We’ve all heard the question asked. We might have even wondered ourselves when we learn that a person endured years of abuse, or, worse still, when we see another news report about a woman killed by her husband or partner.

Why didn’t she just leave?

What kind of person voluntarily subjects themselves to abuse? Could it really have been as bad as she claims if she chose to stay? She was free to come and go, and she chose to stay. Most who have never been in an abusive relationship believe they would leave; they’d never allow someone to treat them that way, and, moreover, if they knew someone who was being abused, they would try to help. They would do something.

Now is your chance. This is your moment because America is in an abusive relationship with Donald Trump, and although we mustered the collective strength to leave him once, America went back to him. And like a typical abuser, Trump is making us pay for leaving him and taking every step he can to make sure we’re never capable of doing it again.

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Will America Leave her Abuser? (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 29 OP
The grifter and his take over team have mastered the gaslighting yellow dahlia Aug 29 #1
OK but some of us NEVER fell for his garbage Skittles Aug 30 #2
Newsom is already DOING THIS! We should support his effort in any way possible! CTyankee Aug 31 #3

yellow dahlia

(2,988 posts)
1. The grifter and his take over team have mastered the gaslighting
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 03:44 PM
Aug 29

of an abuser.

They also turn the reality upside down and flip the script.

Skittles

(167,304 posts)
2. OK but some of us NEVER fell for his garbage
Sat Aug 30, 2025, 05:50 AM
Aug 30

I've always found JUST HIS HAIR ALONE utterly fucking ridiculous

CTyankee

(67,032 posts)
3. Newsom is already DOING THIS! We should support his effort in any way possible!
Sun Aug 31, 2025, 11:19 AM
Aug 31

His trolling tsf is our best weapon just now. Newsom knows how to do this and is doing it very well! He is getting under tsf's skin and that's a GOOD THING!

I want every repuke I know to always feel vaguely uncomfortable around me when tsf burps out another one of his all caps bullshit.

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