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Deb Christie's avatar

This needs to keep happening. Vance and Trump show their colors around the world and make fools of themselves.

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Randog2025's avatar

I don't want the world to think of me as a fool.

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

I wouldn’t worry about that. I have international friends who are constantly telling me that they know most Americans are not like that, and it’s just the loudest people that make it seem like that.

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Donna Shelton's avatar

Ditto. I have family in the UK. They are horrified by what is happening with Trump and this administration, but they know it doesn’t represent all Americans. Their support is overwhelming.

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Skepticat's avatar

I have international friends who know and are grateful I'm not like that, but they'd be happy to slap upside the head those who are. My family has been in what became the U.S. since 1640, and I hate to think I'll see the end of what they saw at the beginning.

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virginia arthur's avatar

I have international friends as well and they know that I am not like trump & co and that most Americans are not.

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Robin E Ervin's avatar

Good to know

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Randog2025's avatar

The international friends are the ones who get through to then. A trumpster I know told me a Canadian friend who never swears , used the f word 6 times in a short conversation about trump

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virginia arthur's avatar

Then speak up for what is right. I do not feel like a fool because I did not support them, and I am doing the best that I can to resist.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

The world doesn't think of you at all.

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Shame On ‘em's avatar

They don’t need to do much for that.

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MGLady's avatar

You are correct.

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Tammy  Scott's avatar

Lying to get elected is no badge of honor. Russia propaganda had a desasterious effect on US politics

Trump has neutered consertive voices in Europe and Canada more effectively than any liberal or progressive ever could. Other democratic countries are seeing what Trump has done to this country and they don't want it to happen in thier own.

Trump's crappy leadership has influenced the citizens of other countries to abondon thier version of right wing politics and return to a more progressive centerlist approach to governance

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Tammy  Scott's avatar

Try to lay off the MAGA koolaide will ya? No one in the US ,is running away from the democratic party If anything the size and scope of the US democratic party is increasing. Those identifying as independent is increasing. What has shrunk is those identifying as Republicans. I know first hand.

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Tammy  Scott's avatar

What a pathetic weak response. Pretty refective of MAGA minion.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

It would be helpful if you would provide an article(s) supporting your claim. I was able to find multiple money laundering information in 2024 re banks; but, none re the government.

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Deb Christie's avatar

Because there is none. These maggats post shot all day that they repeat in a cycle of disinformation and they call everyone else retards.

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Oliver's avatar

here in the German press: no more future with USA, our goverment (and all Europe countrys) are very angry

your president destroys your country and Nato better than Putin or China could do

Democrats in USA: stay together

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Jean Conley's avatar

You are absolutely right, Oliver. I've never been ashamed to be an American until The Dictator Criminal Orange Buffoon Loon Goon Psycho came on the scene--actually back in 2015 or so. The Idiot's first four years was frightening and terrifying. That was bad enough. Now it's 100 times worse (maybe 1,000?). I apologize to ALL of our allies on behalf of us (Democrats) Americans who knew better than to vote for this despicable s..head. Please pray for us--that we don't become a dictatorship lead by the creep we now have in the Oval Office. Hopefully--somehow--this won't last forever. Unfortunately, the Psycho and the muskRAT (and the republoiCRAPS who are scared to death of the Dump) have quite a grip on us. Don't know if WE will ever be free. The USA is now just like Germany was from the 1930's through 1945. Dump is just as bad as that guy was. History repeats itself. Hopefully, THAT history won't happen now.

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Oliver's avatar

for historians, this part of US history will be very interesting.

What Trump and his followers forget (yes, our press calls them religious followers): everything changes.

So far, every dictatorship has collapsed.

The followers and yes-men are psychologically very interesting.

Encourage the whistleblowers.

People are getting restless all over the country...

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Oliver's avatar

Jean, one more comment:

The fact is: the power of Trump and his entourage is big.

They are following a plan (Project 2025) and that involves taking over the country at breakneck speed.

They want to provoke an uprising and then tie the country down with military action.

So: be smart, use Meidas and the many other video bloggers cleverly.

Use the international network with Europe, Mexico, Canada.

Stay relaxed and observe closely, prepare yourself for a long, rocky road,

don't panic.

Time is working for you.

Trump is sick in mind and body, his days are numbered.

edit again :-)

They are unprofessional and amateurish, they make more mistakes than progress.

Use that.

They have errors in their thinking in their plan/analysis, they underestimate the power and longing for freedom.

Use that.

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Oaktown's avatar

Thank you for your wise advice yet again, Oliver. The German response to Vance's recent outrageous and hypocritical speech is even more gratifying than when they laughed at his speech to the UN the first time he was president. Nobody I know in America likes or supports any of these tech Nazis, but there are plenty of idol worshipers who do.

Peter Thiel, Elon Musk and David Sachs are all from South Africa and resent the demise of their white privileges under aparthied. They are on a mission to take over ALL western democracies to restore that privilege and rule the world.

If you can translate this recent Ezra Klein interview of Kara Swisher, who has known Elon since the beginning of her career reporting on Silicon Valley, it provides excellent insight into their motives, weaknesses, and how Musk has impacted the Silicon Valley tech culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXLycFv5Gc

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Oliver's avatar

Hello Oaktown, thank you very much for this very (!) interesting answer!

Yes, i understand english (if i dont understand a word i use dictionary).

This video will be very intersting, i will watch it later. I mark the video and your comment so i find it later again.

Yes, the Nazis from South Africa, a very central point! Our press have made interessting analises about it.

How South Africa dont want the Starlink and Musk is angry about that. He spreads lies about South Africa and Trump will make tariffs etc

This Nazi subject (Hegseth!) is crucial, observing the conflict with South Africa is important.

And thats the reason why they support the Nazis in Europe, you mentioned it precise.

Our press and goverment monitoring that precise and they do their homework.

Thanks again for your infos and the movie!

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Oaktown's avatar

Peter Thiel rescued Vance's run for the Senate seat he now holds; Vance was at the bottom of the polls until Thiel injected millions into his campaign, so Vance is now a puppet of Thiel, Musk and our orange monkey president.

Hegseth is a nightmare: a drunk, Nazi, and pathetic ignoramus. So very sorry for our government and its Orwellian hypocrisy. Apologies to your government and all democracy loving Germans.

Only 77 million Americans voted for King Tyrant out of 244.7 million eligible voters. About 75 million voted for Kamala Harris. That leaves about 92.7 million people who didn't vote for the orange monkey, far more than voted for him. He has no mandate.

You might also be interested in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC629l-wZBQ

"For years, Silicon Valley elites like Curtis Yarvin have been pushing a blueprint to dismantle American democracy and consolidate power under a Dictator-CEO model. Now, with the 2024 election behind us, this plan is unfolding step by step."

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Sue Sanders's avatar

Laughing publicly is the best weapon against these tyrants. Their egos are more fragile than they look.

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Oaktown's avatar

Kara Swisher addresses your astute observation and much more in the Ezra Klein interview referenced earlier. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xXLycFv5Gc)

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

You mean they really think, plan, and analyze? they are just plain stupid.

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Cindy Schneider's avatar

Curtis Yarvin is their brain trust, yikes, what a pompous a$$.

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Margaret's avatar

Oliver, many of us are protesting, calling and writing our Representatives, and donating to anti-autocracy causes. I will be marching in 3 days. We need more participants.

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Donna Shelton's avatar

Don’t be ashamed to be an American. Be ashamed of Americans like Trump. We need to remain proud of the American democratic values, and continue to fight for them. Be ashamed of SCOTUS. Be ashamed of Aileen Cannon. Be ashamed of Elon Musk, Mitch McConnell, and Lindsay Graham.

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VAH's avatar

I am no longer flying my flag…….Army Veteran 😔

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Kelly Hartnagel's avatar

I know. Me either. I took it down on Inauguration Day. I had been flying that proudly for well over 25 years. So many tears. Husband is an Army Veteran.

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virginia arthur's avatar

I don’t blame you. Trump and his MAGA party have sullied it, but it will be clean one day again and you will be proud to fly it once again. My father was a Lt in the Army Corps of Engineers in WW2 and fought in Europe. He would be so ashamed about what is happening now.

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C Giza's avatar

My Dad too. He was in the Big Red One, very proud to be fighting for our freedom in Europe in WWII.

I have friends who are married to men who served in Viet Nam. They are very upset with the Orange Turd and his minions as well.

I agree with Oaktown. Most of us in the USA DO NOT Support this facist regime.

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Robin D's avatar

My father too. First Lt. Navigator in the "Mighty Eighth" AAC (no seperate Air Force then. He always said he was in the "army") based in England. He would be devastated. I'm glad he didn't live to see this.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Fly the flag upside down.........USA is majorly stressed

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Sue Sanders's avatar

I’m putting a “Sad Dictators Day” sign in front yard. Wouldn’t mind having Mexican, Canadian, Panamanian, Palestinian flags as well.

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WJB Motown's avatar

.......I just received my NO TRUMP SUPPORTES ZONE sign. (Multi-flag stickers.....flags....everything). Will NEVER touch Amazon........still go to Ebay for the used stuff.

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Barb O's avatar

This is one time I wish I could have a flagpole. So I could fly mine upside down.

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virginia arthur's avatar

I am very ashamed of all of them. I hope that we can have our own version of the Nuremberg Trials.

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Tammy  Scott's avatar

The Supreme Corrupt court needs to be aborted and replaced with people whose behavior is subject to ethical standards and thar will be punished for crimes like accepting bribes

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Robin D's avatar

Me too!!!!!

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Kris10's avatar

Mute Mitch & his girlfriend Lyndsay too!!

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Kris10's avatar

🎯‼️ This sc is so guilty of putting ole Stinky in office, its disgusting!

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Nancy N's avatar

Amen to that! The world should know that more Americans than not despise President Felon. But he always plays up how everyone loves him. NOT! He’s a born liar. Election was rigged. Possible that Musk-rat used his techno kids to change votes in the 7 swing states, or so I’ve heard.

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Steven's avatar

I truly believe that the RAT , rigged the election and will continue his regime indefinitely. He has the technology to rig every election

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Nancy N's avatar

Absolutely!

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Nancy N's avatar

And that’s really scary!!

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Joan  Boling's avatar

So sad but your quite right, but what can we do, My state glows red, I send 10 emails to a senator with no guts, what to do.

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Dee Ay's avatar

Please keep PHONING your red state reps and senator. People who do public advocacy say that this is the most effective high impact way to contact them because every single call is separately logged.

In general, all they care about is getting reelected. When they get a lot of calls day after day, telling them that you are disappointed in them and will not be voting for them unless they do XY or Z, they get worried and they do change their behavior.

Download the free, non profit app 5calls.org to make the whole thing easy and quick. After you put in your zip code, it automatically locates numbers for your elected representatives. It will dial them for you, one after another. You will generally get a voicemail. One woman said that between the time she started to set it up, and finished the 5th call, only 6 minutes had elapsed.

5calls also has scripts and talking points about key issues. Or you can say whatever you choose, or take advice from a pro-democracy group you join with.

If you are from a blue state, or if your reps are doing a good job, it's still important to call. They will be getting flack for it and so they need to know their constituents back them up. And we can also be saying " Great job on the __ vote today, but We need you to __ on this [other issue]."

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Oaktown's avatar

Thank you for sending emails. You can have a critical impact because your senator sounds like one of the Nazis who have ceded their legislative powers to a known tyrant. I've been advised that the best way to contact elected representatives is to call, and do it every day on a different, specific topic (i.e., do NOT confirm Kash Patel to head the FBI. If he's approved, free speech, a free press, and our national security will be destroyed.) It seems a small thing, but if many do the same it becomes huge. Also recommended to me: go to their office with a group of people if possible, record the visit on your phone, and post it on social media.

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WJB Motown's avatar

JDHitler pulled that speech out of Gobbels garbage can............that was worse than the smell of Diaper Dons bucket full of full/overflowing used Depends!!!!

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Jeff Urdank's avatar

Yes. The whole thing was a total shitshow. Then Hegseth sounded like a crazed warmonger with what he said. My jaw hit the floor. ✊🇺🇸😎

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

Keep emailing your senator. I live in Ohio, and sadly all three members of congress are republicons, (including a newly-elected one who used to be a used car salesman who won by following Dumpster in spewing hate and fear against transgender people and immigrants). (Now we have a new lieutenant governor, a washed up former OSU football coach, who probably will end up as the next governor because people in Ohio are stupid with Buckeye fever.)

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Kris10's avatar

Start running for those PUBLIC SEATS! We have too many "career politicians" which is NOT how its supposed to be! "We the people" need to be more involved!

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AnnaMarie's avatar

And the Independents like myself, that was once a Republican but that party is unrecognizable and left me long ago!

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virginia arthur's avatar

It left me, too, after 45 years. I voted for Hillary and became a registered Democrat.

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Colleen McGloughlin's avatar

So are we. Thank you for discerning that we’re all not corrupt, lying racists.

I’m so sorry. And angry. And scared.

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Oliver's avatar

Hello Colleen, we in Germany know that Americans are great, creative, interesting people with broad horizons and courageous thinking.

Yes, the panic. I understand.

What helps me: turn off the news, breathe, go for a walk, pet the dog, meditate, do yoga.

Be happy.

Because they want to strangle joy.

Therefore: joy in your life is the most important thing, protect it.

Look at it all like a film, a nightmare that no crime writer could think up.

All the villains in the film have bodies that get sick, marriages that fall apart, children who become drug addicts, fraud and violence in their political job.

They will personally break down because of it.

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Colleen McGloughlin's avatar

Thank you. What a generous response. It’s hard to find the balance right now. We know that no one is coming to save us, so we’re doing what we can to save our fragile democracy. And figuring out as we go. Thanks again.

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Oliver's avatar

Yes, balance is important.

I noticed that if I don't watch the news for a few hours, a day, I feel much better. And then there are 20 new sad, worrying topics. I may have missed 5 topics, but that doesn't matter at all.

Yes, nobody can save you, that is your job and you will become stronger because of it.

We can't save you, but we can build up pressure.

The boycotts in Canada are crucial, they will cause the Trump villains unimaginable problems.

Here in Germany, the calls for a boycott are getting louder.

You have to organize it, network it, make it public, encourage people around the world to tell you about the boycott in their country.

There are large pages/groups on Facebook that show how the boycott in Canada is progressing: very impressive!

And if you want to flee: thousands of doors are immediately open for you in Germany :-)

Yesterday here in Meidas, someone in Canada offered you refugee accommodation.

That's how it works.

We all stick together :-)

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Kelly Hartnagel's avatar

My husband was in Germany in the 80's when he was in the Army. He loved Germany. Thank you for your kind words. Many Americans are so heartbroken, afraid, embarrassed, and angry. But we also have a lot of resolve.

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Oliver's avatar

Hello Kelly, thanks for your words!

And thanks for your husband that he was here, what a important job!

Please visit us again when ever you want, we love americans.

Yes, America has big problems...and i know you fill find good solution.

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virginia arthur's avatar

That is humbling. If we can bring him down, I hope trump and his crew are sent to Guantanamo Bay where the terrorists were kept and now he has sent those poor immigrants. Boycott the USA!

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virginia arthur's avatar

Thank you for that advice. I am resisting in the ways that I am able. I am 75. I never thought we would come to this. It breaks my heart. Glory to Ukraine. I hope you all will help them to keep fighting and prevail.

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Sue Sanders's avatar

I love the “look at it like a film” and “protect your joy” statements. Lovely!

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AnnaMarie's avatar

Me too! The Angry part is difficult and frustrating!

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Jane's avatar

So AnnaMarie, reread what Oliver wrote… switch off the news and do other things to distract yourself and find your joy. That’ll fuel your fighting power when you have joy to defend. Being angry only makes a physical and mental difference to you and probably your family. That’s not helping anyone. Please don’t think I’m scolding you, but, my husband is often on his phone for what seems like 24/7 and I have to try to distract him with walks in the countryside otherwise he’s a right pain in the doodah to live with. Completely obsessed with politics both here in the UK and USA.

I admit we have entered a very dodgy era, and I don’t want to ignore it because it’s definitely important to be informed of the world as it changes. We have to keep a balance. Take care 🕊️🕊️🕊️

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AnnaMarie's avatar

I hear you! I do ride my bike, walk, do yoga and Pilates, spend time with friends and family, then, I pick up my phone, see the latest b s from that orange Mussolini and I see red! I often have to put that phone right back down. It really has a negative effect on my good moods. I have always been an easy going happy person. This administration changes that for me every single day and you are right, we have to pace ourselves with it!

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Tracey McDaniel's avatar

We're trying 😌

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virginia arthur's avatar

trump has said he was going to pull the US out of NATO. I have been horrified about that, but maybe it would be better for all of you. Then you could bring Ukraine in as a member. Hopefully when we get rid of trump and his fascist Republicans and get our Democracy back, you will let us rejoin.

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Margaret's avatar

Thank you, Oliver and all the wonderful Europeans who forgive us for this horrible President.

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virginia arthur's avatar

We are trying. Please don’t forget those of us who are resisting.

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Nancy N's avatar

We are trying to!

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Ducky Duck's avatar

Know that so many of us here feel the same. We are deeply ashamed. BUT we blame no other country for doing what needs to be done. In fact, we welcome it. This regime must be stopped.

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Sandy W's avatar

You and yours have every right to be angry with our President and VP. His admiration for Putin and Orban make me wonder if he even cares about our country. Putin is a thug and evil person. There are MAGA people that believe conspiracy that Navalny was a CIA asset - ridiculousness. Please pray for us - this is embarrassing and scary.

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Kris's avatar

We trying - please boycott American products - we need your help - we’re fucked

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Jane's avatar

I doubt many of those waiting for a tax cut would actually qualify to enjoy one. It seems to me that the tax benefits are for a slim slice of your ultra rich, not regular folk, working or otherwise.

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Oliver's avatar

Hello neighbor :-) albeit around a few corners :-)

yes, we know how wonderful Americans are.

We make a clear distinction between the government and the citizens.

We are so grateful to America for everything you have done for us,

our history books are precise.

You must have a high voter turnout next time!

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virginia arthur's avatar

Many of my ancestors were German. My father was half German as his mother was German. I have never been there, but my youngest daughter and granddaughter visited two years ago with a school trip that I paid for. Beautiful country.

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Nancy N's avatar

Hi Oliver. Thank you for not throwing all Americans under the bus along with felon 47. We appreciate that. Yes…We need more voters but It’s also about voter suppression. felon 47 and his cronies are making sure that we do NOT have free and fair elections. They threaten and scare people at some of the polls when voting. No way he won ALL 7 swing states. Muskrat had something to do with him winning, in my opinion. I don’t know how to fix this. As an American, I’m embarrassed for our country. I hope we can get out from under this train wreck, and SOON!

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(i put the following also at the beginning of the comments, because it is crucial)

A suggestion if you are overwhelmed by the flood of sad information.

If you don't know what topic you should be concerned with, what topic you should be involved in.

Observe what the military is doing in all the noise.

Look at the steps Trump is taking with the military:

How he is firing indomitable people, black people and women, taking out DEI.

How he will build a loyal military, because that will be crucial after the uprising.

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Nancy N's avatar

Yes, that’s another thing we’re afraid of

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

I don't think the 77 Million cretins have realized yet they made the wrong choice. They all are devoted to Faux news. How would they realize our democracy is being dismantled? They don't have a basic understanding of civics or they don't care because they want the tax cut$.

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virginia arthur's avatar

The only ones who will be getting tax cuts are the billionaires. Those cretins will realize it when there are no college loans for their children and when food and goods are almost too expensive to buy. Also when unemployment goes higher that it has since the Great Depression.

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They won't feel the hurt until it hits them directly in the pocketbooks. A little bit too early for that, but wait. It is coming. Tariffs on aluminum will raise the price of anything that comes in a can, i.e., soup, vegetables, fruit, beans, dog food, cat food,spaghetti sauce, sodas, beer. Sooner or later the republicons will come after social security, medicare, medicaid, and the affordable care act.

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Bambi Vargo's avatar

You are absolutely right about SNAP. How could I forget that one?

That is one of the favorite ones to cut first. Deprive families living in poverty of food.

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SueU's avatar

Never have I seen such brown nosing in my life!!! And obviously his wife is the same! Shame on her, an ex democrat and from immigrant parents!

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Susan Bender's avatar

I hope the divorce is overwhelmingly expensive because I hate to think that she is so POS who would live and breed such a person. Hillbilly Elegy exposed him as an asshole in the making.

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JoAnn Duffy's avatar

I even liked I’d character in the movie.

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Usha must be cut from the same cheesy cloth as JD. A true marriage made in Hades

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Debbie DeMott's avatar

Or an abused woman who has that mentality that she has to stay because he has threatened her.

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Kris10's avatar

So is DonCon! He has been a Democrat his entire miserable life! Right up to 2015!

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Joe Casey's avatar

Yeah ! When He In New York ! The Village ! They Called Him The Village Idiot..!!..??

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virginia arthur's avatar

Her parents must be so ashamed.

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Lorraine Marshall's avatar

And didn’t she work for a legal firm who leaned left?

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JoAnn Duffy's avatar

Somehow, I haven’t been able to shake the feeling that she is wiser than him. Who knows? Maybe she did drink the Kool-Aid. Maybe she doesn’t even mind Patel’s hatred for Indians.

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Are you fucking retarded

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SueU's avatar

Are you asking me if I’m “ retarded”?

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Phisto Sobanii's avatar

Fucking retarded.

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SueU's avatar

Thank you for your classy comment .

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Here for History's avatar

Grateful to world leaders who put this autocratic amateur on blast! He’s a disgrace to an already disgraced nation. They need to keep doing it until this country — and only if this country — gets its s*it together. Pretty big lift right now but we will keep fighting.

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Charlotte Daniels's avatar

Good . I am glad he understands how half of America and most of the world feel about this administration …. And the republicans

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Skepticat's avatar

Sadly, I don't think he understands that or anything else.

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Stacie Carlson's avatar

Yeah, dude's pigheaded. He's been bumped back to third place by Musk, and Trump seems to barely notice J.D. is even there anymore.

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Skepticat's avatar

I'd be very happy to forget and ignore all of them.

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Stacie Carlson's avatar

Wouldn't we all? I've got better things to do than be glued to the news 24/7, I know you do, too. Problem is, what they're doing is going to affect all of us, so none of us can afford to look away!

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Cat Dad's avatar

Oh more than half of America. He does not have a mandate. Didn’t even get a majority of the votes.

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Dennis W.'s avatar

Total crap from JD Vance. I'm completely embarrassed about his speech. Man, we are in deep crap with Trump,Vance, Musk and all their cronies. Resistance is a necessity... NOW!

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Elisa's avatar

We know Musk rigged the election here. Trump and Vance are afraid that we do the same as Europe.

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Europe Together's avatar

I had the very same thoughts, how he came on the scene very quickly when shit hit the fan.

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Skepticat's avatar

Perhaps not "know," but I am beginning to suspect.

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Paula Leach's avatar

Epic fail. The stupidity to think they would be on board with America’s failure.

USA 0

JDV -50

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Jen's avatar

They should have all stood up and left.

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Stacy Brown's avatar

They need to let him hang himself with his disgusting words he projects to them. Same projection they use on us here in America. Trying to convince the citizens it’s the Democrats that are doing this evil. Straight out of Hitler’s book. People must see what words spill out of his evil, conniving, fascist mouth. Parroting the same rhetoric as Trump, Musk and POS Republicans.

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Kathleen's avatar

Why are we not going after JD Vance as well as Trump? With all the stuff that JD Vance is spewing, he actually sounds more dangerous than Trump, who simply sounds demented and cognitively impaired. And even though Trump does not view hyphen according to his own words - Vance as his heir apparent, if something happens to Trump, Vance steps right in.

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Deborah Keenan Gleason's avatar

I’ve been saying this for a while - the felon needs to go but so does Vance. The whole “administration” should be purged so we can begin cleaning up this mess.

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Robin E Ervin's avatar

Amen!!! And arrest Musk

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Deborah Keenan Gleason's avatar

Yes! I can’t believe I didn’t add him to the list of undesirables.

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Robin D's avatar

Anybody here watch Game of Thrones? The character Arya had a list of all the people she hated who hurt her and her family that she was going to assassinate. I have my own "to die" list 📃 that sadly seems to get updated daily.

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Deborah Keenan Gleason's avatar

Yes! She’d recite their names over & over.

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Robin D's avatar

🙏

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virginia arthur's avatar

Arrest all of those tech billionaires and send them back to South Africa.

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AnnaMarie's avatar

Plus all that were involved in 2020 stop the steal that are still sitting in Congress must be removed!

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Susan Klemetsen's avatar

Vance is very dangerous. He has a cabal of rich technocrats like Thiel backing him and they have a distorted view of democracy. There is no place for progressive thinking in their worldview.

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Deborah Keenan Gleason's avatar

Absolutely. The Heritage Foundation needs to be disbanded or somehow rendered powerless. If the felon, their useful idiot, hadn’t been put back in the WH by Musk & Russia they might still be dormant.

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Jane's avatar

Yep, it’s the ‘back room boys,’ so many are unaware of. They’re the greedy ones who are over excited about how much influence they have actually achieved. All done in plain sight.

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Donna Shelton's avatar

I totally agree. Vance is Trump by a different name. We must had a strong Democratic representation in Congress and an outstanding presidential candidate in 2028.

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virginia arthur's avatar

Musk will remain the power behind the throne.

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Jane's avatar

Trump is his puppet

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Robin D's avatar

Your post is right on the money. He is smarter, younger and therefore the most dangerous, and another Christian hypocrite which is why I think he was the plan all along funded by these Nazi fascists...Thiel who bought his Senate seat and Musk who bought himself the shadow presidency. As much as I despise the Tangerine Tyrant and wake up every morning hoping to see his obit, he has the carnival-barker charisma like Hitler and Mussolini which none of the others do and why they used him like a Trojan horse to get into our gov't. Trump is the puppet. We are an uneducated mess addicted to TikTok and G-d and guns. These evangelical Christians who follow this G-dless creature do it because they want to turn us into a Christian theocracy. Don't get me wrong. Trump is evil to the core, but to paraphrase Kamala " Putin would eat you for lunch. They laugh at you behind your back and know all they have to do is flatter you and you will do anything they want" as he signs all of these EO with his sharpie like my 5 yr old niece with her crayons. Don't lose sight of the fact VANCE is the danger. If Trump dies and Vance gets in control it is truly over. They have NO intention of leaving which terrifies me to no end 😭 The fact they keep him hidden away means he is in the background up to no good and I want to SCREAM at the Dems... Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries for doing nothing to try and stop them. If we have another election those 2 need to go pronto. They are Neville Chamberlain who appeased Hitler. Look at Vance's eyes. They are dead. He is evil and right now he is feeling the power like he never dreamt of in his life. That's what they are after. After your first few billions how much do you need? It's the power and control they lust for.

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Jane's avatar

I agree. I’m scared for Americans, it’s starting to rock world order in the way no one is going to enjoy rocking.

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Robin D's avatar

Yes. He is destroying the world order. And even if all of these leaders Putin-Xi-the Ayatollah, etc were to pop off tomorrow, who is waiting in the.wings to take their place? I really can't imagine.

If this is the future, plug me into The Matrix now.

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virginia arthur's avatar

You are absolutely correct. God help us because no one else will.

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MGLady's avatar

That’s what I fear as well!

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Jay Scott's avatar

Germany built back from Nazism into a functioning democracy. It’s not like they don’t know a thing or two more than idiot Trump and Vance.

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pika81chu's avatar

The world doesn't seem to accept these clowns’ delusions. Unfortunately, it's time for the US to get a serious purging and restart, which is going to take many years to repair this damage. The US will be on its own if and when we get attacked, and our so-called leaders are likely to just run away

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flancynancy's avatar

off to their island bunkers!

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Teach_4_change's avatar

He said his European friends? Is he going to have any left?…

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Romaine Voigt's avatar

. off from under the barrewlr dA. Traitor Trump’s thugs are humiliating our country. They are clueless , dangerous cult fanatics. Take their passports, put them on a barge with the Ukrainian flag and a case of Ensure and sail them toward Moscow

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

Did he have any friends to begin with, much less European ones?

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bitchybitchybitchy's avatar

Inauppose Thiel and Musk can buy some "friends " for JD...

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Barb O's avatar

They don't have friends. Only acquaintances.

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Marsha Hammond,PhD's avatar

DEPORT THE (F)ELON

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Peaches's avatar

Fantastic, he got exactly what he GAVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DeAnna Stoll's avatar

My Canadian born grandfather with German heritage didn’t go fight in WWII for the US to have this embarrassment of a government dictate their puppet ideologies fed from Putin to the European community who knows and does not want to repeat history.

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Jean Conley's avatar

God bless him for serving....my Dad didn't go fight for this country in WWII for this idiot in the Oval Office to take away not only our (American) freedoms, but for al our allies (in WWII) for him and the muskRAT and the VP to take it all away. He'd be appalled (as would all Americans who served in WWII) to have this Goon as president of our country. At the rate the Psycho is going--what did the Greatest Generation (to quote Tom Brokaw) fight for?

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Jane's avatar

I agree. My husband grew up without a father who was killed defending democracy. There were millions more who died. It must not be repeated.

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