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I'm still amazed at the cult following Trump still has. People willing to die for Trump??? For Donald Frickin' Trump???

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I’m still wondering why it took a year and half to get these nuclear documents!!!

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I am growing less worried.

Now and then, I shoot over to newsmax.com and read the comments: they are raging in madness.

(Like Ghandi, I believe madness accomplishes nothing; however, anger is good.)

I see the Trumpers as devolving into madness; and the normal people, angry.

This madness will turn on itself, and exhaust itself -- it will enable the undecided (how can there possibly be undecided? But there are) to see the madness.

At this time, the Democrats need only four states to keep the Senate; and it is likely to be Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Wisconsin (New Hampshire could be the icing on the cake).

And they are gaining in the Governor polls and the House (I now have hope for the House).

It will be brutal and I fear some will go totally insane and kill, but I think it will work out.

I check this site every morning: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/

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It appears to me that the attack on the FBI clearly demonstrates that Trump is promoting the use of threats as the means to intimidate authorities, law enforcement, and bureaucrats into submission and to cause them to become too scared to execute their legally mandated duties. As evil is represented by the snake eating itself, beginning with its tail, Trump and his allocates will surely fail by choking on itself. Nonetheless, as the Tulsa Race massacre in the early summer of 1921 showed, if Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were Black along with Trump, I seriously doubt that authorities, mainstream media, and the public would be so "careful." If said using current events: if the Black Lives Movement members did just 1% of what white militia and nationalist groups and elected officials are doing now, we would see 99% of lash back by authorities and main press media by any means necessary-yet we must realize that the pen is mightier than the sword. I believe in time that more middle-stream and even far-right white folks will soon not be able to deny the criminal facts about Trump. However, some will still be committed to the insane choices of pushing for a senseless civil war that will be impossible for them to win. Yet, it could change the political landscape of this Republic to become a Gilead-Pro-White State, with Trump as their Hitler. Could this be their ultimate aim and the desired outcome: kick all the brutes out by any means necessary (see Raoul Peck, "Exterminate all the Brutes," an HBO documentary)?

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People should know by now that AG MG has an ax to grind regarding the Moscow Mitch engineered snub of years gone by. That play to clue in the rest of former usa on the contents of the raid was a masterstroke. It exposed the gop for the grifters and intellectually deficient beings they really are. On the fence voters can truly rescue democracy if they are remotely interested in doing so.

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I'm not going to get too excited, but was so relieved after listening to Garland yesterday. Then, this morning, the hapless GOP Congressrats tried to turn the shit they've stepped in into Shinola. It was hilarious. They all had such dumbstruck, "get me outta here" looks on their faces. Priceless!

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My money is still on Tish James...END the Orange person.

Mike, I saw the touring group of HAMILTON here in Seattle last night; as you can imagine it was a superb blast of everything we should know about revolution, and how the faces in those colonial clothes COULD have been black or brown. It reminded me of the great African American Artist who is transposing Black faces and Black bodies onto formerly white paintings and changing how we look at those moments. Most of his early work was in NYC.

Beautiful day here, so got to run. Tomorrow Dems here are scheming on how to keep control of our Legislature (in my district), and find out what the state party is going to do about the MAGA candidate that has raised his head in SW Wash.

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Have joined a health subcommittee of the Seattle/King County League of Women Voters. I've been amazed at how, just in the last two months, the Committee's tiny, exhausted looking membership has started grow, as women search for places to become active. We need to immediately take on the reproductive rights question (and get a Washington State abortion rights rule in the state constitution). We will also be fighting the signficant amount of "Catholic" health care in Wash, which has been damaging people with uteruses or LGBTQ folks or folks terminally ill (without our Right to Die) for over 10 years now.. It feels like sort of like the Chuch sex abuse scandals world-wide, and indigenous peoples' boarding schools horrors all over North America. It will be another disaster that The Church is visiting on the unaware and the vulnerable. We've already had a decade of US Bishop Conference-manipulated health care in Washington State.

Later taking on the ACO Reach (Medicare) privatization scheme) program, which is scheduled to start taking effect on 1/1/23, and many other issues.

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And the Repugnican party is following right along in lockstep (goosestep?!?). What I don't get is what do they value more than anything else? Money,right? I hope they are completely invested in hidden offshore accounts or in their favorite military armaments companies because I don't get how they are gonna shield that once a civil war starts. Their greed is surely gonna lead them to some pain. The military is going to defend the US constitution, no?!?

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The Maggot is a clear and present danger to this country. He is pure evil who is deranged. He must be stopped once and for all. In general I am against the death penalty but in the case of the Maggot I fully support ending his ugly life.

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Any other country would have imprisoned trump by now. He is constantly raising his fist and encouraging his cult to fight, be strong, et al. They need to lock this creep up. He is public enemy #1. He's activated his white supremacist fans on his Truth Social media site and they are armed and ready to "take back the country", whatever these idiots mean by that.

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