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AdrianB's avatar

The concern that ALL of us should have is the high security & corruption risk that a second term Trump presidency would activate. This man would misuse his presidential power and would be vulnerable to other countries influence, and their ability to use his draining wealth to corrupt him for their own ends. We would ALL suffer the consequences of a second Trump presidency.

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Paul's avatar

this is going to be a study in psychology to understand how people allowed themselves to be hoodwinked by this orange menace to society!! I don't understand how they aren't tired of same ole same ole, its a witch hunt, I was framed, the judge is corrupt, the deep state is out to get me, when there is absolutely no evidence to support any of that. how many court cases does he have to go through and lose before they realize they have hitched their wagons to a god damned criminal loser!!! I have to agree with a caller you had on weeks ago who said "I think at least 50% of the country is inherently stupid and I have to agree!!! And then today I was watching the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and I was nervous because he hasn't exactly been kind of Joe Biden and his guest was Ken Buck. I thought, uh oh, but Jon Stewart laid into to him and called him on the carpet. What really irked me was when Buck said we some one to descent to unite the country, but neither candidate is it. No, because as descent as Joe Biden is, he will never get the respect for anything he does when a media keeps painting him as some feeble old man who can barely stand up straight and completely ignores all of the good things he has been doing, and then normalized the piece of shit Trump who I hope goes to jail, not unheard of in his case, and BTW Martha Steward went to jail so it can happen!! Personally, I hope mother nature takes care of Trump. I think he is a stain on this nation!! He is smug son-of-a bitch. The whole family wreaks of privilege but lacks class!!

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ArnieB's avatar

PT Barnum descendants, the lot of them...

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Larry's avatar

Well said Paul. Btw not sure what to make of Buck bc he disdains Drumpf but still won’t say President Biden is the better man and the ONLY choice. Geoff Duncan said it; he needs to also.

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Thomas Lowe's avatar

I heard some of those calls on your show. I find them almost painful to listen to sometimes. I still marvel at them for actually listening to your show--which is probably a cool thing--but they probably just want to show you how you're wrong, though they tend to embarrass themselves when they call in. I always wonder what they hope to accomplish by calling in. Do they think they're going to change your and your other listeners' minds? Or are they secretly hoping that you'll change THEIR minds? Who knows?

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Michelangelo Signorile's avatar

I’m not quite sure.

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Hi Mike, this is the second time I’ve listened to these MAGAS callers.. All I can say these people are ignorant concerning the judicial system, the political environment, and science. They really don’t care if they are ignorant, they want to defend their golden calf, defend his right to crime, defend his pursuit of a dictatorship… they worship their lord and savior much like the Red Guards during the Chinese Cultural Revolution worshipping Mao… fucking insane… thanks Mike.

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Richard Anderson's avatar

I think Jackson might have reached an option of at least not voting. I think calling him what you did was unnecessary and part of our problem.

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Michelangelo Signorile's avatar

That’s fair.

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AdrianB's avatar

I think we all need to forget the niceties in dealing with these Trumpists…. enough is enough. It was always polite to not discuss Politics & Religion, but now that that they actually negatively impact our lives , we need to fight back and expose these anti-freedom fascists for they really are.

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Daya Curley's avatar

"Maybe I've just been brainwashed..." 😂😅

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Daya Curley's avatar

I don't know, Jackson..... MAYBE 😐

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Kimberlee Avery Wilkins's avatar

I seriously think that dumpster still has oodles of money hidden somewhere and claim he has none to get his rich cronies to pay for everything along with his Maga cult! Dumpster always say " why use my own money ". It is unbelievable that anyone would vote , lie and cheat to have such a grifter and con man in the most important job , the presidency ! He will ruin the country for his own personal vendetta and bankrupt the country, destroy all the programs that actually help Americans and give it to his already rich douchebags! But hey , we will have religion as long as it is Christian Nationalists, and no other ! Won't the American citizens love this !

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Joey Jobaa's avatar

Yes, I think Michelangelo could have handled Tim’s call more respectfully. He’s so used to Magats calling and not having an open mind that when someone calls asking a specific question he doesn’t allow them to speak after giving them facts. In this case, after playing the clip of what Blanche said and explaining how witness testimony works, Tim was trying to respond. I think he understood the facts, but Michelangelo just talked over him and disrespected him.

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Michelangelo Signorile's avatar

Ok, I respect that, as I said. In real time, in the heat of the show, I wasn’t grasping that he was getting it. Mea culpa to Tim.

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DeeDee's avatar

One down 73,000,000 to go 😂🥳

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ArnieB's avatar

I was hoping you could have gotten them to admit to belonging to a cult. Just the breaking of the commandment regarding no other idols or gods before me should be enough if they are even marginally religious. I was a republican exiting high school but Raygun put the kibosh on that once the research was done. The party on my voting card was not who I ultimately voted for. Maggots, er, Maga's ponied up more money for a perceived wealthy guy should tell you all you need to know regarding low information voters. mtg showed her paucity of intelligence yesterday regarding Dr. Fauci. Her audience of one got the good Doctor more death threats and additional security. Leads me to think that her district must think they're in the Antebellum south where no time has passed. What happens when even college fails to crack cemented minds...

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Larry's avatar

MTG (let’s call her Empty G instead) is the definition of the term white trash. To say she’d call Dr. Fauci “Mr.” bc he should be “referred for crimes against humanity” and “put in prison” should make anyone who belongs to the same political party as she does humiliated and ashamed. Maliotakis’s suggestion that Dr. Fauci earned $700,000,000 from the pandemic when the actual total was zero was another disrespectful and embarrassing commentary on maga cultism.

Any of us with sane and rational people in our lives who are eligible to vote need to keep calling these misanthropes out.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

All the folks concerned about African American entertainers being arrested sending the wrong message to our kids now have to deal with America's most celebrated convicted felon. Donald Trump. It's weird how he identified with African Americans having trouble with the law and now he is becoming what the right has always feared. A bad example for white kids.

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Marc Paige's avatar

I'm not surprised by the number of folks who are outraged by the 34 charges and convictions. If all you watch is Foxnews and similar outlets, you have no idea of Trumps crimes, bad behavior, or reality.

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Larry's avatar

And therein lies the major problem.

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Pamela S.'s avatar

I think we who fact-check and educate and inform ourselves miscalculate the degree to which MAGA voters engage with current events. There seem to be lot of hearsay and snap judgments going on with no factual backup. There isn’t much critical thinking to be found among them. It’s as though the name trump ( sorry, cannot legitimize by capitalizing) is all they need to conclude, “trump good, Biden bad.”No facts, just name recognition. “He is a billionaire and he said he loves us, so that’s good enough for me!”

They don’t know or care about the intricacies of the government/the press/religion/ the information age. So there is no reasoning with them.

We are always incredulous that they don’t “get it;” but they never will. Their effort toward understanding goes only about a millimeter deep.

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Nella DeCesare's avatar

It is truly mind-blowing listening to these callers. I actually heard the call from Jackson and, at first, I thought he was yet another maga troll attempting unsuccessfully to trip up Michelangelo, but then it occured to me .... this guy really is misinformed and just that ignorant, which is crazy to me! I ALMOST felt sorry for him. I say 'almost' because many of these people are not really looking for the truth, right? It's like they jumped on this crazy train, sacrificed their morality and their common sense to support a cult and a felon, who frankly, has been a criminal for decades and operates like a uneducated mob boss. LOL, right? Full disclosure - it TICKLES me to hear Michelangelo shut them down! It is so delicious!!! LOL Don't EVER stop!

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serghiy's avatar

…huh ?! …”hilarious”?! …what exactly changed after his conviction ? …please tell me ?

…save it for your self gratification after orange psychopath will finalize his coup which was in progress for all four years, but this time it will be massive and much better organized and he never even kept it a secret and what democrats did to stop him…? 

…you can’t just live in democracy from elections to elections you need to sustain its progress

…i’ve been waiting for justice since fucking Mueller report, then impeachments, then his coup, which is still in full swing, with all its organizers are in our congress presiding over committees dismantling what’s left from our democracy and orange psychopath IS A FRONT RUNNER FOR PRESIDENT of US  NAZI  party and i do not believe he’ll ever will spend a fucking day in prison

…two party system is one step to autocracy, there’s two cults in our country one is aggressive belligerent and taking our country state by state and school district by school district without any resistance and another worship an old washington horse who’s running business as usual expecting change WITHIN A VERY SAME SUSTEM that brought us here, its called arrested development or doing same thing over and over and expecting different results in a politically impaired country 

…if country allow a dictator to become a dictator after he said he will be a dictator, then country deserve a dictator 

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/beer-hall-putsch-what-hitler-learnt

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