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Mike Hammer's avatar

I don’t think many republicans that are currently in power will survive the backlash from the American people once it’s fully revealed how they abandoned their oath only to protect Trump.

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Candace Lucas's avatar

i agree. except for the truly brainwashed, the rest of American will not forget how they've been lied to and betrayed. It's highly unlikely that most of the herd will be able to migrate fast enough to convince their voters.

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Heather.B's avatar

Only the most culty of the MAGA cult are strongly behind him. That can't be more than 15% of the population. Another 15% probably have mixed emotion, but I think the nation can't stand him right now as a whole!

The diehard MAGA base is just too ignorant to be swayed by reality... They will stay dumb, they'd still vote for Trump. They will forgive him EVERYTHING.

It's wild how they want to ignore real issues while pushing their cult agenda.

That's why you will trigger them if you wear these kinds of shirts 👇

https://libtees.dashery.com/t-shirts

Hey MAGA, how do feel about Trump's 300 million dollar tacky golden ballroom? But he cares about you and your suffering... Are We Great Yet? Time to wake up. The cult ain't worth it!

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Candace Lucas's avatar

yes, sadly, you are right. I've seen comments like, "I still support pres. trump but i don't like what he's doing right now." They rationalize it in their minds. They can't seem to absorb the fact that he's an evil person who doesn't care about them in the slightest.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

One thing that does seem to change their minds is diddling minors. Once the files and the alleged photos of him surrounded by topless minors come out, eeuww, even diehard MAGA's will think of their grand-daughters and move away. They are puritans at heart, and no one likes a pedophile.

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Candace Lucas's avatar

yes, and I'm willing to bet that there is absolute proof in the Epstein files that he's diddled minors. Look at how he bragged about barging into the dressing room of Miss USA Jr where minor girls were half naked.

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

Grab them by the pussy should have been enough for everyone but oh no that was silly locker room talk

BS

That is sexual misconduct plain and simple

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

Those people have a single track brain.

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Leah Baum's avatar

I have a neighbor who will never regret her vote. She’s deep in the MAGA cult. In her eyes he can do no wrong. If I say something critical giving her the truth she gives the look of death. She believes everyone on SNAP is cheating the system. Her husband tried to get hired by ICE which shows me they’re racism. He was rejected bcuz he’s 41. I’m happy we’re leaving this red rural town next month for a blue city in a purple state. MAGA is a mental illness.

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Sky Blue's avatar

The maga cult will give the poisonous Kool-Aid to their own children and then take it themselves.

The diehard maga WILL go down with the trumptanic!

Good the fuck riddance!!!

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Heather.B's avatar

There’s no point in trying to reach the segment of the MAGA base that’s jumping for joy over their own pain. They’re beyond saving!

I remember when Trump on the campaign trail said: “I care about your vote, I don’t care about you, I care about your vote” and they CHEERED 🤦‍♀️

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Robin's avatar

BUT, if their kids are being given the poisonous trumpism... what if those kids age in VOTERS by 2026? or 2028? Repub party is not going away. They live on anger & retribution.

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Sky Blue's avatar

And anger is exhausting!

They're finding that out now!

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Suse's avatar

I think DOJ scrubbed the files and redacted his name, not sure how it will play out, but the true believers won’t budge and will believe any lie —- conspiratorial lies especially. Why do they hang on even in the face of reality? They get their kicks hating and flipping off the Libs, the Party they believe is evil incarnate, that’s their bottom line, their reward, their satisfaction, it nourishes them. Thankfully, yes, these bottom feeders are probably not even equal to, maybe half of the 30% of his MAGA base and are a dying breed just like their chosen one. Tuesday taught us a lot, we the People vote, and we will keep doing so until this unholy alliance between a cruel and incompetent madman, and all his sycophants are gone. Yes we will, because yes we can. Enough is enough.

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Sky Blue's avatar

If they're smart they'll have made copies before any files are scrubbed!

trump KNOWS that the Epstein files are NEVER EVER going away!

Someone will hold those files over his head the rest of his life!

I think that's why he looks so close to death now! Gawd he looks bad!!!

Hallelujah!

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Suse's avatar

I think it’s already happened, but hope like you someone, somewhere has the originals.

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

NASTY describes him in my mind

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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Only 15%? I realize polls aren't oracles, but Trump's approval rating is still consistently above 35%.

The "diehard MAGA base" didn't come out of nowhere. We've been heading in this direction at least since the white backlash to the civil rights advances of the 1960s and the anti-feminist backlash to Roe v. Wade. And Christian nationalism is very much a thing.

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Janis  DAnnunzio's avatar

It's called the Epstein Ballroom!

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

Kennedy Center attendance is down 47% since he took over and donations are failing.

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Marianne Royle's avatar

The ballroom will be a little harder to dismantle than the tacky gold(?) leaf crap in the Oval Office.

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Suse's avatar

It won’t be left behind, he’ll scrape and pack and cart it away just like he did with those hundreds of classified files tucked into one of his Mara Largo bathrooms.

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

About as great as cow pies in the field

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Bmandiego's avatar

I hope that people are as fed up with their self serving bs as I am, and that they will see these sudden pleas of reasonality for the dung that is is. Trump is selling Trump-branded wine on military bases ffs. How is that ok?.

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Kay Fitzgerald's avatar

Can you imagine that swill!

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Bmandiego's avatar

I'm sure it's rebranded stuff, but eww, no thank you. The label alone would turn it to vinegar in one's mouth. Like Oz's term "Trump Babies" Ewww.. total turnoff, instant infertility.

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Teach84's avatar

I hope you’re right.

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Julia's avatar

Yeah once they try to take over our country and deport & kill people because of skin color, they can say goodbye to politics.

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Sharon Siba's avatar

I hope you're correct. I see big cracks in the Fascist foundation of the ReTrumplican castle. It would be delightful to see every one of Trump's people lose their power, every last appointee fired and publicly disgraced, ICE goons fired and never get more than a fast food joint job again.

As for Trump, I hope he actually does go to jail for his previous crimes like it should have been before he was allowed to run for president again. I hope he is tried for the murders of the people in every single boat bombed without knowing who the people really are. I hope he's found guilty of crimes against humanity for sanctioning all what ICE has done. Lastly, I hope Trump and the Trump name is forever steeped in shame and laughter by Americans and the rest of the world.

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Pam Russell's avatar

I couldn't agree more with that statement. Voters are very unforgiving when it affects kitchen table issues. We don't like to suffer especially when it was all unnecessary.

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Judy Sherwood's avatar

It would be cause for celebration if all 4 of the MN R's got their come-uppance in the next election. Emmer, in particular, has been a dyed-in-the-wool tRump toadie for years. Emmer is the poster-child for sycophancy to Dear Larder, er Leader. BE GONE!

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laura oshea's avatar

Let’s hope so!!!!

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Stephanie Marsh's avatar

Everyone is tired of kissing his ass. I hope it falls like a house of cards

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Jill's avatar

I hope it’s nuclear, and dust will be all that is left of MAGA

Ne’r do wells. The Forefathers were so much brighter (intelligent) than you all! Read it again like it’s your first time. Now go directly to article 14 or 25 and grow some BALLS. (Conscience)

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

I don't think the Forefathers were any more intelligent than we are today - but they were certainly better educated and better read. Even the one's who didn't get much of a formal education worked hard to school themselves. That's what inspired the Carnegie Libraries. Now the education system is totally degraded, educators earn less than garbage men, and the uneducated are distracted by social media. Also, the cult of Anti- intellectualism is running amok.

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Eddie Spaghetti's avatar

Anti-intellectualism in American Life...always been strong here, in grade school I was very shy, playground insult I feared most was "egghead"...

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

See the very popular "Malcolm in the Middle" - although brainy Malcolm WAS the "Hero" all the bright kids in his class were either overweight, disabled or nerdy. They actually called them "krelboynes" after the main character in "The Little Shop of Horrors". America will do a lot better when the term "egghead" is seen a term of approval, not disgrace.

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Jill's avatar

Love the Handle!!! 🤣🎶

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Jill's avatar

Judging by the split in The House; I’d say YES the Forefathers were light years ahead of the worshipers of Trump-a-Nob-Ickes, when it comes to INTELLIGENCE. bar none

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Geoffrey Fox's avatar

If charged with treason and found guilty the whole administration can be removed

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Jill's avatar

Yes! and not soon enough. Do they even realize their complicity in the illegality of it. Everyday. Every hour.

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Rhona's avatar

YEAHHH AND RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILESSSSS.!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Jill's avatar
Nov 8Edited

Make it a documentary to play endlessly on the web for everrrrrr.

“The Pedofile Papers”

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Debi Willis's avatar

The big question people need to be asking is what was DOGE really foing? They were supposedly in these programs to find all the waste!? Instead they were compiling a database for palantier and global surveillance...we all need to be shouting about this also...somebody out there has every person information all accounts numbers phones...they can do anything with it...we need accountability NOW!!!

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Renée Stout's avatar

Funny how people seem to have forgotten that all of our personal information has been completely breached and exposed to only God knows who. I haven’t forgot about it at all and I’m glad you haven’t either.

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Christine Ford's avatar

Musk just made a Trillion dollars. Let's not forget about him. 😡

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Renée Stout's avatar

Believe me, I haven’t.

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seal's avatar

Why does Congress get paid? They don’t show up but expect air traffic controllers to show up without pay

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Rachel C's avatar

That’s another law that needs to be written: if the government is shut down, no legislators get paid. However, staff members making less than a certain amount would. 👹

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Donna's avatar

I left my worthless senator, Ron Johnson, a voicemail and email asking him how his taxpayer-funded 39 day vacation was going?? I pointed out that this sounded like (gasp) "welfare" to me as well as "waste, fraud and abuse." Ron Johnson, welfare queen! It's fun to use his haggard welfare queen narrative against him.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Good for you. Donna! He's my worthless senator too and sounds like a good idea for me to email him also.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Just FYI just sent my email. Said alot of the same things you did. At least we let him know we aren't buying GOP bullshit!

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Jean Conley's avatar

Don't get me started. They DEFINITELY should NOT be paid until the republiCRAPS stop being stupid, egotistical, and selfish. I wouldn't show up to work if I were an air traffic controller.......... just imagine if ALL OF THEM DIDN'T.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

I agree, Jean.

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Jean Conley's avatar

Thanks, Joanne. Actually, let's hope the air traffic controllers DON'T show up. Don't get me wrong--I feel for the travelers (and of course, the air traffic controllers), but just maybe the Pukes will wake up. (Doubt it, but it's worth a try.). If I were one of them, I would NOT show up. OK--fire me.

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LK WOODRUFF's avatar

REPS in Congress, you mean.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Exactly, seal!

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Mary Merrill's avatar

When MTG started speaking out, you could tell "the reckoning" was starting. Thank you for your insight on what's happening.

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Christine Ford's avatar

Still doing trust MTG. Look up Jasmine Crockett's take on her speaking out.

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Laurie Ryan's avatar

She is speaking out but at the same time, she states she still loves Trump and would vote for him again, regardless.

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Suse's avatar

Of course, that’s her safety net. But, guess what? He’s a lame duck and she won’t have to. She’s definitely a survivalist though; will be interesting to see if her voters will go along with the obvious dichotomy.

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Lynette's avatar

She MTG wants a Senate Seat in GA I bet.

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Suse's avatar

She wants something, what it is not exactly clear, other than to save her ass as the worm turns.

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Jean Conley's avatar

I'm still stunned by what's she said but glad she said it. It's too bad she didn't "wake up" earlier than now.

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Mary Merrill's avatar

Yes, I agree. Hopefully, she is seeing the light, but I am also skeptical of her motives. She has shown her cruel side like so many others and is now trying to save her own skin, but the cruelty is most likely still there.

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Tonya Johnson's avatar

Yup, very skeptical!!

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KPB's avatar

We voted for competence and compassion on Tuesday. We voted for people with courage and integrity.

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Skitealwedrop's avatar

Like Joe Biden.

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Tonya Johnson's avatar

Why didn't people vote like this in November??!!

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Marina Hart's avatar

He pushes, we the people push back harder. The blue tidal wave has begun!

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Bmandiego's avatar

The GOP have been performative for too long. Their credibility is imagined. They 'Susan Collin-ed' every decision and have used deceptive rhetoric for the last decade. I WILL NOT believe their sudden conversion to sanity until they prove it with solid votes supporting the American people, which will not happen. They would need to unrig most everything they have done-including Citizen's United, and the slanted Supreme court. So far everything they have said and done has been performative-not substantive- and their only motive is to cover their own pampered asses in order doublespeak their way into the midterms.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Right, Bmandiego!

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MPT's avatar
Nov 7Edited

The carnival barker no longer has tigers jumping through flaming hoops, or trapeze artists flying through the air. He now only has the clowns and they are starting to throw rocks at each other instead of water balloons. The kids are crying, the parents are in shock and the horrified crowd begins to run for the exits before the big, ugly tent collapses. trump and maga might have thought they were the greatest show on earth, but the elephants are gone and the seats are emptying. The carnival barker and the few demented and deranged clowns that remain will relocate to FL to try and sell more twitcoins. As the rube pit runs dry they will scream at clouds, since those will be the only things listening to them. It can't happen soon enough...

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Sky Blue's avatar

Four of the largest airports on all coasts of Florida are tagged to close operations down by 10% this week.

All those snowbirds heading down to Florida before Thanksgiving for their winter home are going to be really pissed when they can't get on a plane that they already have a ticket for!

And they're going to want to know why and ultimately they're going to blame trump.

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MPT's avatar

And a large percentage of Canadians are selling their Snowbird homes and relocating to friendlier confines such as Mexico. FL tourism is in the dumps along the sleazy governor and legislature. Spring break will be trump broken.

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Kate's avatar

GREAT POST! AND SO TRUE!! ROCK ON!!

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John Lucken's avatar

Great post today Michael.

I’d like to mention one thing that I’ve been thinking about. As republicans try to run from trump, they’ve really got nowhere to go. Trump has bought up the republican party lock, stock & barrel. He took over the RNC, installed his daughter in law as its leader and he runs their major super PACs. He controls it all and he is loyal to no one but demands blind loyalty. Republicans that are done with trump have a choice: start a new party or join the Democrats. They deserve this predicament of their own making. Meanwhile there needs to be a law that bars an individual from taking over a party and creating a Cult of Personality. We don’t do Kings here. We need two strong, independent, HONEST parties to keep each other in check.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Start with toothy campaign finance laws. No more big money buying politicians.

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Sky Blue's avatar

The Republicans are finally finding out what we already know!!

What DECADES of HISTORY have shown us ALL... trump has NO LOYALTY to ANYONE ELSE EVER!!

Chumps gonna be Chumps!

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Brian Collins's avatar

Facts, Bare, unadulterated facts. Fine work as always Michael.

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Bruce Koppert's avatar

Until Schumer just gave all the Dem power from the last days right back to Republicans. Why does Schumer always hand the ball back to Republicans every time Dems get the ball?!

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Cindy Myers's avatar

Schumer needs to hit the road already !

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arne link's avatar

Absolutely. He is way past his sell by date. Let one of the fierce women lead. Pelosi did a Hell of a job for many, many years.

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Karen Lumb's avatar

Schumer only agreed to meet with republicans if they teleased the sanctions on healthcare and Trump

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Janet Wilson's avatar

"Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain." Liz Cheney.

I don't think Republicans in Congress will get absolution from their constituents any time soon. Not only did they support a monster to keep their seats, they stood silent while he did monstrous things. And they all endorsed a cabinet of monsters, then sat on top of the Epstein files, replete with alleged photographs of old Donald surrounded by topless minors.

Rapes. Selling your personal info. Taking bribes. Extortion. Threatening war on (former) allies. Causing economic mayhem and ruin with trading partners. Demonizing non-white Americans. Terrorizing the populace with ICE thugs. Suborning the Supreme Court. Plundering the Treasury. Using office to engineer stock market manipulations, and crypto manipulations. Lauding dictators. Closing the Department of Education. Reducing medical coverage and health care accessibility. Tax breaks for decades for billionaires. Senseless destruction of the historic and beloved East Wing.

All these things elected Republicans endorsed with their silence. They need to be voted out of office. They are untrustworthy, open to any compromise to keep their seats, they have dishonoured themselves and their offices. Vote them out. Clean the slate and drain the swamp.

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Joanne Steacie's avatar

Every word stated is true, Janet!

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ABNER522's avatar

I hope with the backlash from the American people there will also be plenty of orange jumpsuits for the traitors to our country. Great post. Thank you Michael.

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Concerned Citizen's avatar

I’m trying to give MTG the benefit of the doubt, however I can’t help feeling it’s like Lucy holding the football waiting for Charlie Brown to kick it and pulling it out from under them at the last minute. You’re absolutely right about them protecting themselves. They don’t care about Americans

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Sky Blue's avatar

mtg is just REALLY PISSED that trump DIDN'T give her a position in his administration after she sucked up to him all those years!! Now she's got to save face and fight back!

Seems mtg was even TOO CRAZY and unpredictable for even trump!!

Just think.... even trump didn't want her around.

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Janet Wilson's avatar

Even a broken clock is right twice a day. MTG is not reliable or predictable, and failed to act when she could have spared others harm and pain. She's only acting now because she's taking damage. Not good enough.

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Concerned Citizen's avatar

I totally agree with you, Janet. She’s only looking out for herself as far as I’m concerned because she’s up for reelection next year.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

I just started reading a book that talks about how people view the world due to their upbringing, where they grow up, etc. One thing that is made very clear is how RARE it is for someone to change their world view.

How does someone go from a conspiracy nut job to a "normal" human being? Is she on meds? I don't know; but, I agree with the poster that if she truly has changed we should see her voting record reflect her new beliefs.

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