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Kay G's avatar

We as a country, have never witnessed this kind of disrespect for our elected Leaders (President and Vice President), as we have since Trump arrived on the scene.

People may not have liked a President’s or VP’s policies or agenda but there has never been this degrading cat calling of our elected officials as there has since Trump.

Donald Trump likes Vladimir Putin.

Vladimir Putin and Russia/ The Soviet Union have long been the opposition to the US.

Degrading our elected leaders as Trump and his followers do is playing to the opposition of the United States.

If the United States were a dictatorship and Biden was the head - ( or if Biden even used the immunity that SCOTUS gave him) these callers would be rounded up and sent to those camps Trump is proposing as they would be classified as “enemies of the State”.

That’s how the Soviet’s played - and Putin’s opponent’s have a habit of falling -out of windows - etc.

And that’s how Trump will play - he is already telling us. He is being coached by his friend, Vladimir.

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judith fahey's avatar

💯

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Arrogance and stupidity… well Mike…that’s MAGA, so fucking proud of their ignorance. My wife and I listened to that creature for the entire call and she was yelling at you.. Mike cut that ass off the air… I think you handled this guy very well… me? After a couple of minutes I would have my whistle out and blown into the phone..but thats just me… thanks Mike.

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Paul's avatar

people are just idiots, if you correct them once, its a mistake ... if they continue it is intentional. I know I sometimes do it, but then I remember what her little grand-nieces did during the DNC with Kerri Washington, I also have the shirt ,la ... see its easy!!

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Kate's avatar

I would go as far as to say Harris may well be the most qualified and talented person EVER to run for president!

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Wonne's avatar

After Hillary :-)

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Sakina's avatar

The former guy has given the worst among us the permission structure to be as horrible as possible. We know that they will not change. Republicans like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are attempting to give some in the party the permission structure to vote for VP Harris/Gov Walz and other Democrats like Rep. Colin Allred in order to save democracy. As all of us know who listen to Michelangelo, the mainstream media is complicit in keeping the race frighteningly close due to years of both-sidesism. Who needs Fox when CNN and the NYT are also helping to destroy democracy?

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Larry's avatar

So well stated Sakina.

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Randy Slovacek's avatar

I've been listening, and the mispronouncing of Harris' name is - of course - done on purpose just to disrespect her. It's so childish. #smh

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Chris C's avatar

I heard Paul live and just about lost it, he was so bad.

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Paul's avatar

I heard it too and I wanted to smack him!!

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Wonne's avatar

Good work Michelangelo shutting them down (as per usual, they can't put anything over you!). As I've said before, Kah malah was my DA in San Francisco, then I voted for her as AG of California, then she ran for the Senate and won (I had moved East so I couldn't vote for her), then she ran as VP and I voted for Biden/Harris. Other than Hillary Clinton, I can think of NO ONE more qualified currently. Methinks the racism and misogyny is showing with these people and I am REALLY TIRED of their false narratives. I am voting here in NYS next Monday and I bet you know who I am NOT voting for!!

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Valeri in SoCal's avatar

Women are pissed about the overturning of Roe and the resultant Trump abortion bans. We all hear the women’s horror stories of being denied medical care, winding up in the ICU and needlessly suffering. Doctors are trained and know what to do — it’s not wait and watch while blood poisoning spreads through a woman’s body.

So Republicans hear the same horror stories we all hear. Do the Republicans try to fix it? No. They try saying the women are lying. When that doesn’t work, they say the women are exaggerating. When the 10 yo rape victim in Ohio had to flee the state for an abortion, Republicans falsely claimed she was too young to get pregnant. (She became pregnant at 9 yo. What she was was too young TO STAY pregnant, her body was immature.) When denying she had been pregnant didn’t work, Republicans went after the woman doctor who provided the abortion. The AG trash-talked the OB/GYN and she wound up for several hours in front of a medical board hearing. The board fined her for privacy violations — she had talked generically about her 10 yo patient and for THAT they fined her. It was nonsense and harassment, intended to put fear into any OB/GYN who would dare participate in an abortion.

The Republicans say they have a messaging problem. They say they just need to explain better their “pro-life” (translation: LET THE WOMEN SUFFER & DIE) stance. The Republicans are delusional if they think they have a MESSAGING problem around abortion. The problem are the bans. The problem is women needlessly suffering and dying.

Personally, I trust women. We sure as hell can’t trust Republicans when they do not listen to medical experts or women. All of this is so much worst because the lawmakers were warned what would happen, how women would be harmed but they forged ahead and restricted abortion access without regard to the impact on women and girls.

Our laws do not require us to donate blood or bone marrow or a kidney to save the life of another, not even if it’s to save the life of a family member. Yet, abortion bans require the women to put her fetus first. Before her own life. The bans don’t even make allowance for when the fetus isn’t viable or has a catastrophic fatal abnormally (like no brain, no lungs, iow cannot live) — abortions denied even then.

Abortion bans don’t allow women to save their own lives. Oh maybe some of the bans allow an abortion if the woman first suffers, risks permanent impairment, and death. Women have suffered. Women have died. But even when the fetus cannot survive or is not viable, bans still deny women an abortion until she nearly dies. This is what happened to Amanda and so many other brave women who shared their private horror stories.

The abortion bans, restrictions, or whatever you want to call the laws that deny women life-saving abortion care are a threat to women’s well being, to our lives.

The current laws don’t work. You know what works: ABORTION ON DEMAND, WITHOUT APOLOGY.

Women don’t want anything special. We want to control our bodies and make life-saving medical decisions. And stay alive. You know the same rights men have.

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SojournerT2's avatar

It's racism. I know magats are stupid, but their hate is the reason for mispronouncing Kamala Harris' name. Thanks for always checking these bigots, Mike! We Black people in AmeriKKKa are well acquainted with this lame tactic. If they can't pronounce her name, then get ready to call her Madam President.

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David Pickering's avatar

The Republican base was carefully built by decades of right-wing hate radio (Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, etc.), Fox News, and corrupt hate-spewing politicians like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum. No matter how big the lie--from "tax cuts for the rich will cause money to 'trickle down' to average Americans" to "Saddam Hussein was behind the Sept. 11 attacks and he has WMD's"--the Republican base was ready to swallow it all.

Donald Trump didn't create the Republican base, the Republican base were carefully groomed to fully embrace a lying, hate-filled, amoral con-man like Donald Trump.

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Larry's avatar

Exactly.

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natoma764's avatar

☠️that Horrid candace owens is one of them🤮

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Ray B Gyton's avatar

Michael YOU are AWESOME, I just had to tell YOU that; YOU keep up the excellent job you are DOING !!!

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Karen Scofield's avatar

You've got a lot more Patience than I have, Michaelangelo 😉 will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊🌊

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Fastball Fredo's avatar

Thanks for doing the work of Democracy… as to your counterparts? They are arrogant and ignorant, but that’s MAGA.

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William Farrar's avatar

You may have to placate these fools and tools, because you have your own radio show. I don't. I mainly post on Thom Hartmann and Robert Reich and call them out in the gutter language they are accustomed to.

There is no reasoning with them. Try to convert a Muslim to Christianity or worse Judaism, and vice versa.

There is no discourse, no conversation with these people, so why delude your self. I should know I was a right wing extremist even voted for Goldwater, and it wasn't information or discourse that changed me, it was a change in my life, my setting, my acquaintances at work and socially.

I had discounted everything contrary to my beliefs, as commie propaganda.

My efforts have been rewarded, the right thinks that we are a bunch of pussies, that all they have to do is attack and they back us into the corner, even with links. I don't play that game. I play their game. I don't defend, I don't even bother to acknowledge their lies and charges, but go viciously on the attack, and eventually they leave.

As we grow closer to November 6th, the cockroaches will be coming out of their holes in greater numbers

Here is one piece of info I hit them with , especially those that claim they are Jill Stein supporters (she is a Putin asset, like Trump)

Jill Stein, Mike Flynn, Putin and his coterie of thugs at dinner: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/guess-who-came-dinner-flynn-putin-n742696

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donnab's avatar

I was a poll greeter this morning here in Fascist Florida. I was passing out the Democratic slate cards to voters. MAGAts were there with flags and signs, doing the same. One voter called me a pedophile, another said Kamala was evil from hell, of course, I was a baby killer. The Repubs had megaphones and were so nasty and obnoxious, yet we waved and smiled and handed out slate cards and were nice to people. I was also told Kamala will never win by a nasty woman and given the middle finger multiple times. There is such a HUGE difference in behavior between Dems and Repukes. They are as nasty as their orange felonious freak!

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Derrick's avatar

DonnaB, what you said speaks VOLUMES about “character”. And on a national scale. Frump loves the faux wrestling down in the gutter stuff WWE style, or whatever their initials currently are, I have zero interest in fake wrestling. In the GUTTER is the key thing of that whole cultural shift. The 🍊 has spent most of his life rolling around in the filth of gutters then spent the last 9 years smearing gutter sewage filth all over the USA. WHO is making WHICH country a “s-hole” nation? We are closing in to under 300 hours before long to decide a major correction in our culture, discourse, temperament. Comma-La Harris and Tim Walz rock ! Remember it’s like a “comma” in a sentence, that makes pronunciation easy. Wingers are doing it intentionally to own the Libs.

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William Farrar's avatar

Good for you Donna. Hats off, you are what America should be.Those MAGAts are sick, sick people, just like their lord and savior. You can't reason with these people anymore than convert a Muslim into a Jew.

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Sakina's avatar

Donnab, I just posted my comment before I read yours. I totally agree.

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