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JP MEYER's avatar

The drum beat grows louder each day for these traitors to kill our democracy. Thank you for not shying away from calling it out loud and clear. For someone who hates crime so much, why does he love the J6 folks giving them carte Blanch to commit their violence?

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Old Dad's avatar

And remember in Germany the people stood by and watched it happen.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

And they voted for their leader. Not passively watching but voting for who they wanted. It amazes me how we did this and then act like we were forced into having Trump. Everybody who voted or not made this happen and as long as we avoid the responsibility we had as voters we will repeat it.

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Old Dad's avatar

That was the cause. We’re experiencing the effects. Now what are we going to do about it?

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Curmudgeon's avatar

Suffer from our ignorance is my guess. Don't forget we did it twice and really showed those Germans how it's done. If we don't figure out how smart Progressives could be so stupid they will do the same stupid thing.

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Sakina's avatar

I hate to say it, but until a vast majority of White people rise up against these actions by this administration, the USA will continue to decline. The 2026 midterms will tell the tale, although I am not optimistic.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

I hate to be a downer but people who won't bother to vote won't march in the streets. Just imagine a coordinated effort by liberal voters to turn out in large numbers with one goal. Stop a fucking dictator! And do the same thing every election cycle you know, to WIN!

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lauren's avatar

Thank God they’re leaving Sirius alone for now. It’s hard not to be terrified and massively depressed. Kamala, whose husband still works for one of the corrupt law firms, never talked about what Trump would do to nature and he is doing it.

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donnab's avatar

Sakina, you are correct. The midterms will tell us which way the centrists are leaning. I am very concerned.

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Sakina's avatar
3hEdited

Thanks Donnab! I'm glad that you and others here on Michelangelo's platform are on the right side of history.

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Jeff C.'s avatar

Speaking of violent groups, I believe Cpl. Vance is a member of Opus Dei. The extreme right-wing catholic fascist group whose members were most famous for torturing and killing political opponents during the Pinoche regime in Chile. The hypocrisy is never ending with these assholes!

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William Farrar's avatar

I have posted on Thom Hartmann and Robert Reich's substacks, that Charlie Kirk's murder was Trump's Reichstag Moment and Kirk is his Horst Wessel.

Despite the fact that Tyler Robinson was a Nick Fuentes groyper.

We;ve been living in a fact free environment since Murdoch bought News Corp, and Reagan gave him citizenship that he could buidl Fox news by acquiing a group of six major-market independent television stations from Metromedia in 1985. These stations, including WNEW-TV in New York City (now WNYW) and 21st Century Fox which formed the initial foundation for the Fox Television Stations and were key to building the Fox broadcasting network.

The soft underbelly of America has always been right wing hate, parading under the euphemism of conservatism, but Murdoch metastasized the hate. He has an agenda he hates democracy, he corrupted Australia, then moved to Britain, corrupted Britain and moved to America whee he has finished the job.

Religious fanaticism, racism, homophobia, xenophobia has been with us since the beginning, the King Philips war, the revenge of the Powhatans in the 1622 surprise attack on the James River settlements were the consequence of this attitude of righteous superiority and fear of the other.

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Curmudgeon's avatar

You all must know that the GOP had a plan in place with press and politicians for a coordinated message on this assassination and how to spin it. All they had to was wait for one that fits their plan to suppress left wing voices and is not some spur of the moment Idea. Democrats are all improv and the right has a script. Nobody stabs the Dems in the back like MSM but we don't have anybody else to get out message out. I am sure the Dems trust the press to do the right thing like the same idiot Dems who refused to see what the GOP had become. The press with their insistence that if only the Dems would compromise there would be bipartisanship is doing the same old thing. "If only the left weren't radical" and it works every time.

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