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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:36:48 AM EDT
 "Most Terrifying Poll Result I’ve Ever Seen": Scott Rasmussen Surveys America’s Elite 1% When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it’s OK to win an election by cheating. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, compared to his 40% average from the rest of Americans. Rasmussen asked these liberal voters: “Suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught. Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?” Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. But that number rose to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day. “I’ve been polling for a very long time and the last finding is the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen,” Rasmussen told The Daily Signal. Rasmussen spoke to “The Daily Signal Podcast” about his findings and his upcoming plans for a weekly TV show. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:40:14 AM EDT
[#1]
Over $150,000 a year is the elite?
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:40:25 AM EDT
[#2]
Originally Posted By DaGoose:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qng4jqdgfDwWhen veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it’s OK to win an election by cheating. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, compared to his 40% average from the rest of Americans. Rasmussen asked these liberal voters: “Suppose that your favorite candidate loses a close election. However, people on the campaign know that they can win by cheating without being caught. Would you rather have your candidate win by cheating or lose by playing fair?” Among all Americans, just 7% said they would want their candidate to win by cheating. But that number rose to 35% among the elite 1% and skyrocketed to 69% among those who are part of the politically obsessed 1%, meaning they talk about politics every day. “I’ve been polling for a very long time and the last finding is the most terrifying poll result I’ve ever seen,” Rasmussen told The Daily Signal. Rasmussen spoke to “The Daily Signal Podcast” about his findings and his upcoming plans for a weekly TV show. the 40% number is more concerning. thats 40% who approve it, and when you add that to the number who refuse to acknowledge it when it happens - due to normalcy bias, fear of reality, or whatever - thats all it takes for a stolen election to slide by. i'm looking at you 2020 |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:42:52 AM EDT
[Last Edit: jerrwhy01]
[#3]
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MI, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:43:04 AM EDT
[#4]
Nothing has changed, it's just that the veil is lifting so it's becoming more obvious how things really work.
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USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:44:28 AM EDT
[#5]
Sounds to me like that 1% is just honest.
Nobody thinks the other team is anything but bad for them and politics generally has tangible downstream effects on everyone. Looking out for your own interests is natural and normal, and wanting to win something like that is hardly unusual- people don't just shrug their shoulders and go away when they lose contentious elections. Besides, nobody believes our government bureaucracy or elections are on the level anyway. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:45:17 AM EDT
[#6]
I do not believe I’m the only conservative who still believes that taking the high road, playing by the “rules”, trusting the process and moral victory is still a victory (even though it means nothing).
I’m coming around to fight fire with fire mentality. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:47:11 AM EDT
[#7]
I'm surprised $150K is all it takes to be a 1%er. I'm also surprised only 7% of 99%ers would cheat to win.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:47:37 AM EDT
[#8]
Considering that it’s elitists that own and set up the mechanisms for cheating, that write the books on coups and “regime change” why is anyone surprised or “terrified “?
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:48:58 AM EDT
[#9]
It is liberals that are fine with it, has nothing to do with income.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:49:05 AM EDT
[Last Edit: tsg68]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Echd: Sounds to me like that 1% is just honest. Nobody thinks the other team is anything but bad for them and politics generally has tangible downstream effects on everyone. Looking out for your own interests is natural and normal, and wanting to win something like that is hardly unusual- people don't just shrug their shoulders and go away when they lose contentious elections. Besides, nobody believes our government bureaucracy or elections are on the level anyway. Except they vote for those that hurt their own interests. People here vote for Democrats then complain that their taxes went up… |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:49:24 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Steamedliver: I do not believe I’m the only conservative who still believes that taking the high road, playing by the “rules”, trusting the process and moral victory is still a victory (even though it means nothing). I’m coming around to fight fire with fire mentality. Ditto. I continue to fight off "coming around", but it is more and more tempting all the time. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:51:47 AM EDT
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High income urban college educated people are the “ elite “ 1% ? So , if you only meet 1 of the criteria does that mean you still get to call yourself “ elite “ ? Asking for a friend…
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TX, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:51:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? Op is referring to idiots with college degrees that are highly paid .. my plumber makes 250k + a year .. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:54:11 AM EDT
[#14]
Link to the poll results from Rasmussen.
https://www.rmgresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Elite-One-Percent.pdf |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:55:28 AM EDT
[#15]
I guess I fall onto the 1% except for the urban and liberal part. Cheating is flatly wrong. An honest process is more important than who wins.
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:56:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Malhass: Op is referring to idiots with college degrees that are highly paid .. my plumber makes 250k + a year .. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Malhass: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? Op is referring to idiots with college degrees that are highly paid .. my plumber makes 250k + a year .. The definition was in the first post. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees |
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SC, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 7:59:14 AM EDT
[#17]
I'm far from elite, by any definition.
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:01:33 AM EDT
[#18]
Originally Posted By DaGoose: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qng4jqdgfDwThe elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give President Joe Biden an 82% approval rating, Right here shows you the liberal indoctrination is working.  These are the people you would think are smart and educated, and as such would see through the smokescreen that FJB has been an objectively terrible president. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:02:02 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Buckshot4U: Ditto. I continue to fight off "coming around", but it is more and more tempting all the time. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Buckshot4U: Originally Posted By Steamedliver: I do not believe I’m the only conservative who still believes that taking the high road, playing by the “rules”, trusting the process and moral victory is still a victory (even though it means nothing). I’m coming around to fight fire with fire mentality. Ditto. I continue to fight off "coming around", but it is more and more tempting all the time. I got SLAMMED here about ten years ago for saying the Repubs needed to get in the ditches and fight dirtier than the Dems. They didn't and here we are. |
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NC, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:08:01 AM EDT
[Last Edit: JustDaniel]
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:09:32 AM EDT
[#21]
The PDF results has a lot more crazy results.
For example. 
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:10:08 AM EDT
[Last Edit: Crazyascanbe]
[#22]
I would reply to this but I don't reply back to the peasants of this site with me being one of the elite.
Bow before me BRB, have to go to work now |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:11:16 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuote HistoryOriginally Posted By JustDaniel: Originally Posted By DaGoose: The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, /media/mediaFiles/sharedAlbum/n725075089_288918_2774-532.jpg You cut off the rest of the definition. |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:13:22 AM EDT
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My brother in law is jut like this. He makes a little over a million a year and says he has no problem with ballot stuffing and other means of cheating at elections as long as it keeps Trump and other conservatives out of office. He also freely admits he sees nothing wrong with using lawfare against trump and his supporters.
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:13:31 AM EDT
[#25]
Doubt.
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KS, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:14:06 AM EDT
[#26]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Buckshot4U: I'm surprised $150K is all it takes to be a 1%er. I'm also surprised only 7% of 99%ers would cheat to win. Yea when people talk about they 1% what they are actually telling you is they’re retarded. Any sort of extraordinary level of influence is probably occurring more at the .0001% or something. |
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USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:14:46 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By SoonerBorn: It is liberals that are fine with it, has nothing to do with income. This is the truth. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:19:10 AM EDT
[#28]
In a functional republic cheating would bother me.
In our current system I’m bothered enough by the existence of millions of communists that *how* they win doesn’t matter much relative to the mere fact that they’re allowed to play the game. *shrug* |
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USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:20:22 AM EDT
[#29]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? Sure, in Rwanda. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:22:51 AM EDT
[#30]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Echd: Sounds to me like that 1% is just honest. Nobody thinks the other team is anything but bad for them and politics generally has tangible downstream effects on everyone. Looking out for your own interests is natural and normal, and wanting to win something like that is hardly unusual- people don't just shrug their shoulders and go away when they lose contentious elections. Besides, nobody believes our government bureaucracy or elections are on the level anyway. Thread title and your first line are off 180 degrees. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:26:10 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Gator: Right here shows you the liberal indoctrination is working. These are the people you would think are smart and educated, and as such would see through the smokescreen that FJB has been an objectively terrible president. I believe almost all of them know he is incompetent, but they support Party over Country. Single issue people are just as idiotic, regardless of how many degrees, if any. |
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USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:28:07 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ACEB36TC: I got SLAMMED here about ten years ago for saying the Repubs needed to get in the ditches and fight dirtier than the Dems. They didn't and here we are. We are at War. You fight wars to win. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:31:00 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Steamedliver: I do not believe I’m the only conservative who still believes that taking the high road, playing by the “rules”, trusting the process and moral victory is still a victory (even though it means nothing). I’m coming around to fight fire with fire mentality. Your coming around? I am already there! respect 
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:33:23 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DaGoose: The PDF results has a lot more crazy results. For example. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/231492/Capture_PNG-3170725.png You call this crazy but, it's not. Banning all of those things won't have any affect at all on the truly elite. They don't go to the grocery store. They don't visit the urgent care clinic. They don't stand in line at the DMV for the car tag, etc. Their rules are different. The world of the elite vs. the average working person are so different it's not worth comparing. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:34:40 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? "Math is Racist".
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PA, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:35:45 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? They polled the average member of GD. They were all really good looking and in great physical condition, too. |
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UT, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:37:37 AM EDT
[#37]
Not surprising. And the more I see from America's wealthy elite nowadays the more I understand why French peasants sent rich people to the guillotines.
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UT, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:38:59 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macros73: They polled the average member of GD. They were all really good looking and in great physical condition, too. |
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MI, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:39:52 AM EDT
[#39]
In a communist country, the ruling elites tear each other apart - now if we can just get those communist elites to tear each other apart, whilst leaving the rest of us, and our freedoms, alone…
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NH, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:40:35 AM EDT
[Last Edit: jb1001]
[#40]
I have to imagine that anyone who is "elite" isn't participating in a stupid survey like this.
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:40:39 AM EDT
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macros73: They polled the average member of GD. They were all really good looking and in great physical condition, too. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By macros73: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? They polled the average member of GD. They were all really good looking and in great physical condition, too. It aint easy … actually it is . |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:40:52 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DaGoose: The PDF results has a lot more crazy results. For example. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/231492/Capture_PNG-3170725.png But, the “Elites” have control of the Administrative State and are eliminating all those things via unconstitutional (IMO) regulatory lawmaking. It matters not what the 99% think. They have no power. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:42:33 AM EDT
[#43]
150k/year is not the top 1%.
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MD, USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:42:49 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? What do you think the median household income is in America? Hint: about $75,000. So typically in these households two such earners puts the household at ~$300,000. That is at the right hand of the bell curve, so "elite". |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:43:06 AM EDT
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The democrat party is where the 1% live, thrive, breed and generally go about their dastardly deeds which mostly involve enriching themselves and their friends and fucking the rest of us over.
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:43:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GarandM1: Not surprising. And the more I see from America's wealthy elite nowadays the more I understand why French peasants sent rich people to the guillotines. This. Make guillotines great again! 
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:44:10 AM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:46:27 AM EDT
[#48]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By new_RRA_user: What do you think the median household income is in America? Hint: about $75,000. So typically in these households two such earners puts the household at ~$300,000. That is at the right hand of the bell curve, so "elite". Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By new_RRA_user: Originally Posted By sitdwnandhngon: Over $150,000 a year is the elite? What do you think the median household income is in America? Hint: about $75,000. So typically in these households two such earners puts the household at ~$300,000. That is at the right hand of the bell curve, so "elite". Now do dense urban areas. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:46:29 AM EDT
[#49]
"Elite 1%" make over $150k/yr?
I'm like a comfortable upper middle class with two family incomes making that. Most of my neighbors have household incomes of 250-350k/yr. I don't think the folks driving Hondas, Toyota, and the odd Acura/Lexus are going to be claiming elite status. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 8:53:28 AM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DaGoose: The PDF results has a lot more crazy results. For example. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/231492/Capture_PNG-3170725.png Only banning these things for the poors. They will pay the Kerry carbon tax to continue their lifestyle. |
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