Everyone I knew that spent time over there including myself are livid. But I knew lost that war the second we went into Iraq as that was the moment the people played both sides knowing that they didn’t have out full attention. By 2011 it was clear the local were never going to step up. Because at that point “you all are here why do we need to?”.
Weekendgunnit closed itself on Reddit and the site here is a shell of its shit posting self. First few days were active then it really fell off. The hundreds of active posters and thousands of lurkers dwindled to dozens of us.
Someone I knew in college that was even more conservative as I was at the time drank the flavor-aid. Mentioned on a comment one time "Oh anytime I hear Soros first thing I think is that the person making the comment is an anti-semite".
My response was: "Anytime I hear or see the word Soros the first thing to mind is 'admitted actual fucking Nazi'. As in armband wearing sieg heiling actual fucking Nazi".
If there's something there the best that could be done is if the Senate races are in question are to decertify and recall those two senators until such time as new elections can be held giving the Senate a 50 - 48 majority and allowing McConnell to do what he's best at: being a roadblock.