No wonder they love torture so much and cheer for it even when it doesn\u2019t work.<\/a> \u00a0It\u2019s the same impulse, dialed up to 11.<\/p>\nMindless cruelty: What the \u201cprolife\u201d Trumpkin stands for.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u2026that they continue to insist on doing it even when it is a total and huge waste of time and money. Facts do not matter to these people. Proven waste and stupidity is unimportant. \u00a0What matters is the satisfaction of the itch to inflict pointless cruelty on the weak. \u00a0No wonder they love torture so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[780,775],"class_list":["post-95646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cruelty-to-the-weak-is-a-conservative-value-in-the-age-of-trump","tag-never-trump"],"yoast_head":"\n
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