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JBeez's avatar

So, so, frightening and heart-wrenching, as well as disgustingly wrong for a country like ours to allow this treachery to happen in FULL VIEW! We MUST stop this horrible regime.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

Spot on and it seems the press might, maybe, possibly be getting it. Something you said on your show is something I have been noticing is how quickly the minds of MAGAs can be changed and how issues they declare as absolutely essential like gas and food prices disappear as soon as Trump says they are no longer important, and it shows how frightening the level of control that they have over their base is. I spend some time monitoring the deplorables on Yahoo and I had a commenter who raged about egg prices now giving me a tutorial on how eggs aren't that expensive if you break it down to the cost of an omelet. Trying to nail them down by what they said in the past is like nailing Jello to the wall. Accusations of hypocrisy are meaningless if they don't acknowledge what they have stated before and this extends to MAGA politicians as well.

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Steward Beckham's avatar

America's original sin continues to haunt it and allow for the squandering of one of the biggest national come-ups in human history. The irony of deep-seated systemic racism whether people want to see it or not.

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Holly Cochran's avatar

It's straight from the playbook of the rise of Spain's Franco fascist dictatorship, which Hitler used as a test run for Nazi Germany. Trump et al aren't even bothering to skip steps.

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James A Clark Jr's avatar

Michael,

on point as always! suppressing the truth was his goal in the first term. making it stick meaning suppressing the truth is his goal in this term. he will sell propaganda and only those who are really with trump will listen to it

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Yossarian's avatar

The whitewashing of history by the worst racist in the Oval Office since Woodrow Wilson is an abomination! Trump is a fascist , racist and the worst President in the history of the USA!

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Stacey Jenkins's avatar

Sure seems like it yet we have many Americans not caring enough to do something about it

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James Parker's avatar

Are they going to remove the statue based on that photo from Arlington too?

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Sharon Harmon's avatar

Oh, such a Brave New World we live in.

EAT THE RICH

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Tom Winter's avatar

No. That is what the Leftist Bolsheviks have been doing for most of my life, prominently did so the last eight years.

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Karen Starr's avatar

It is for every authoritarian regime. Russian dictators airbrushed images of persons out of favor with the state from photographs. The modern origins of archival practice evolved in the wake of the French Revolution. The practices of history and archival management, questions of what will and will not be remembered, have always been political. However, that in no way should be read as excuse for the recent bigoted attacks on the record by the fascists currently wrecking and plundering the country.

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Dennis Patterson's avatar

FRump can’t stand being aware of real men, real heroes. Cadet Bone Spurs are not nor ever will be those things. Problem is practically everyone is better than him. He’s a fT shit pants mediocre golfer and fake president.

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Nancy Perry's avatar

This is insane! Surely there’s something important they could be doing! Like firing federal workers!

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Wanda's avatar

America can never be erased!!

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Joan Dworetzky's avatar

History is not easy to erase. You may drive it underground but yelled or whispered History remains.

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Ted Niceley's avatar

You guys wind each other up so much !

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Kevin K. Clark's avatar

Did you read his article? Is it meant to wind up or inform?

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Ted Niceley's avatar

The biggest mistake everybody made is thinking he's not capable of anything and everything that's demented.

I don't include myself in that crowd because I hated him from day one.

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Kevin K. Clark's avatar

I knew he was a broken, dangerous horror-show in the 80s when he publicly, proudly cheated on wife 1 with wife 2; the second I walked into Taj Mahal in Atlantic City and almost yacked. When he mocked a disabled reporter, etc etc …. but THE “MEDIA” is NOT reporting this stuff! This stuff that Michael and so many are bringing out for all to look at … THE ONLY place I’ve read this info, such as removing names and photos that feature anything not male, not straight or with any noticeable ethnicity is in resources like this … (and I read a lot of sources daily). This is scary sh!t ….

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Ted Niceley's avatar

The worst thing about substack is the endless reiteration of all this.

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