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Is it considered torture when the GOP inflicts suffering on Americans?
The shutdown is a tactic, a diversion from the Mueller investigation.
But nearly 5 weeks into it, millions of Americans are suffering as they are basically collateral damage in the Trump/McConnell GOP shutdown.
Is this suffering considered torture?
Is the deliberate infliction of physical and psychological pain of millions of Americans torture?
Torture:
NOUN
the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.
NOUN
the action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.
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