Sam, those are real questions: why are you paying for groceries when you could simply fill up a cart and walk out? And don't say "because stealing is wrong" - the law in those cities has already declared stealing legal and there's no punishment for it. The store itself doesn't even care or take any steps to curtail it.
Why do you pay for things instead of just looting them?
Well, pretty much two reasons -
1. I believe in right and wrong. And KNOWING I stole would eat me alive, because I know it is wrong. Heck, I feel guilt picking up a twenty in the street and not at least TRYING to see if someone who needed it more than me dropped it.
2. Probably just as much - I know I'd get caught - and I have more to lose. When I was a kid and tried it - yeah, got caught. Got my ass busted for it.
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Underneath it all, I believe that even some of the most TDS deranged types KNOW that Trump isn't an (here it comes) - "existential threat to our democracy". For those learning challenged - existential here means, a threat to its existence. They believe he will END it. But it is JUST TALK. Or they're loonie, which is just as likely. People in 2016 told little black children that Trump would make them slaves. Deep down, they knew it was crap, but it made good scare tactics (although I don't know why anyone would say that to CHILDREN).
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On yet ANOTHER note - J6 is going to keep coming up and people want to blame Trump for it, even though nothing in his speech or anything suggests he had anything to do with it. They IMPEACHED him over it in one of the most lopsided, kangaroo court like maneuver I have ever seen. It was predicated on his words UP until that point, so that he became guilty because his issue with the election being a cheat was the spark that lit the fire.
NOW, of course, they are backpedaling on the VERY SAME LOGIC, claiming someone who tried to KILL TRUMP didn't do it because of any incitement from the left, even though it's been their daily bread for eight years.