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Truth.Matters's avatar

If they knew how to tell the truth and we’re actually doing some good for people, maybe they’d make some headway, but you’re never gonna gain anything as long as you lie every time you open your mouth. Truth matters it absolutely matters.

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

Please do not get distracted. We are in a national security crisis revealed by the inclusion of the reporter in the Signal group.

All attention needs to be on national security.

Until we are safe, deportations, tariffs, Musk, RFkJr delusion….take a back seat.

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Kamm's avatar

Deportations, tariffs, Musk, RFK Jr. tRump himself, Hegseth and all the other cabinet members ARE WHY WE ARE ALL UNSAFE. THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.

At least Goldberg had enough common sense and decency to not release the info publicly until after the attacks had taken place. He cared enough to hold back the info.

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JudiLI's avatar

Let’s show them who their lies, kidnappings and security breaches are up against. April 5th national day of peaceful protests. See 50501 for your state. Get loud, let them know their regime is up against an army of opposition.

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Susan  Coopet's avatar

Ready to hold the line in Hendersonville NC.

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Sylvia Arrowood's avatar

I am going to the one in Buffalo. I will try to find my Canadian flag.

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Ruth Duran's avatar

Going to Santa Fe NM, taking friends with me!!

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Marijane Mercer's avatar

Santa Fe is where I live and a group of us will meet you at the Capital. We will have a drum!

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Margaret's avatar

Indivisible is also a great place to find and join activities. Try Mobilize.

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

Joining the team in Geneva Illinois. SLAVA UKRAINE 🇺🇦

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

Are you confident Goldberg was the only unintended person in that text group?

We are not safe because of them.

If we make National Security the burning issue than even Republicans will need to respond.

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Shane Johns's avatar

It's worth pointing out that Signal is rather good encryption. But that only applies to the transport of the message across the internet. If the recipient phone has a virus and/or trojan on it, then that virus/trojan can potentially read those Signal messages in their unencrypted state.

Furthermore, another person who was included was physically inside Russia potentially showing his Russian contact the whole thing in real time.

So no, I am not confident that Goldberg was the only intended person able to read those Signal group messages.

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Glenn T Morgan Sr's avatar

It's well known that when you are in ANY LOCATION inside of Russia that you are under surveillance and one of the cabinet members was there probably taking orders from Little Napoleon Putin. 😉

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Helen C Strasko's avatar

Hi Kamm,

Talk about incompetent a-holes!!

Both Russia, and China have been LMAO since this debacle!! So far, these idiots pass words, email addresses and more have been accessed by these countries and heaven knows what else they were able to breach!!

Get these bums out of there, and one of the new AI programs was asked if CHUMP is a Russian asset? After examining all his posts, rants, opinions, legal cases, etc. AI actually came up with interesting results stating a "85% positive result that, YES it's obvious he is!!"

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Oaktown's avatar

You won't be safe or secure until the entire regime and cabinet are impeached. All pressure should be put on the red Nazi party who refuses to defend our Constitution.

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

Go after them where they are bleeding. National Security. Signalgate is a popped pimple. Make it bleed. Ask Tom Cotton and all the Hawks if they would want to go to war with this leadership. Force Trump to replace Hegseth and Tulsi. The steamrolling will end. .

MAKE AMERICA SECURE AGAIN.

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Dee Joy's avatar

National security was breached the day trump returned to office. His allies are Russia, China and North Korea.

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Valerie Gordon's avatar

Are you kidding?

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

No. Dead serious. Even deep loyal MAGA cares about national security and it is shown to be run by liars who are in way over their heads.

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Chuck Jann's avatar

it's not the fact that the reporter was included, it's the fact the it was an insecure chat.

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Chuck Jann's avatar

we are in a security crisis be cause everyone in this administration is unqualified, stupid, and incapable of telling the truth. The crime is NOT the inclusion of the reporter, it is the fact that they used an unsecure app that deletes chats!!!!

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peter's avatar

Bullshit

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Oaktown's avatar

You need to expand your vocabulary and stop wasting space here.

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Kenneth Boyle's avatar

They have no interest in the ordinary Americans only the rich deserve their attention!!

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Monika Saringer's avatar

I can't understand how Gabbard, Ratcliffe & Patel just blatantly lie while being grilled about Signalgate, the whole World is watching, aren't they embarrassed, the universe knows they are lying, it is just insane!

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The Rozweiler's avatar

Yes, I would be embarrassed too Monika. But they’re not because they are SO ARROGANT that they truly think NOTHING they do is wrong and they couldn’t care less what anyone outside their circle thinks. I’m waiting with bated breath for their destruction when the curtain finally falls.

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CARMEN YAZEJIAN's avatar

Exactly what are they lying about?

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Lona Shields's avatar

The question should be what aren’t they lying about? Everything they say are exaggerated lies!!

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Richard Waddell's avatar

Every time they offer a green light to the stream of exaggerations, lies, slurs and so forth from the administration is lying. Avoiding fact-checking is lying, and that is how they do what they do - others flush it down the toilet instead.

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Katrina Billings's avatar

It’s almost as if they’ve forgotten what reality is because they’ve been lying so much.

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Jeannie's avatar

Do tell us anything that Karoline Leavitt has said that isn’t a lie.

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D’Lorah Hadar's avatar

Maybe her name

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Erica's avatar

🤣🤣💀💀💀💀

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Truth.Matters's avatar

Please, Carmen, tell us what they’ve been through telling the truth about. What is it You think they are doing right we would love to know.

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CARMEN YAZEJIAN's avatar

Did I misunderstand who you are saying is lying? I thought you meant that the dems are lying. Is that correct?

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EUWDTB's avatar

No, they're saying that the GOP is lying.

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Heather Soper's avatar

You still trying to kid us?

Seems like to you up is down and down is up.

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Truth.Matters's avatar

Yes that is correct… everything they say meaning Trump and his minions are a lie and yes, it should have been “were”.

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CARMEN YAZEJIAN's avatar

I asked you first. You made a claim that the dems are lying right? So what are they lying about? Please specify.

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Deb's avatar

Hi Carmen, I think the autocorrect feature added an apostrophe in Truth Matters first post that shouldn’t be there? I believe the “we’re” in the first line was meant to be “were” and creates confusion as to meaning. Hope this helps.

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PinkyLee80569's avatar

Everything they say is a lie. That's the point, to confuse you and keep your head spinning, questioning your own gut instincts and sanity so you can't tell reality from lies. That's how they try to control and manipulate, brainwash, distract from the truth

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

What are they lying about? Everything but IMHO mainly

1. All the "savings" claimed by DOGE are BS.

2. The attacks on our national security.

3. Our membership in a new axis of evil.

4. Theft of our national treasury.

E.G. From Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 68

March 28, 2025

Olga Lautman

We Mapped DOGE’s Silicon Valley and Corporate Connections

What Happened: WIRED has mapped the backgrounds of dozens of operatives working inside unauthorized DOGE, revealing a deep network of ties to Musk, his companies, and his allies. At least 49 DOGE staffers have links to Musk’s empire—SpaceX, Tesla, xAI, Neuralink, and X—as well as to allies like Peter Thiel and firms like Palantir.

Why It Matters: This is cronyism disguised as reform. Musk’s tech allies are being embedded deep inside federal agencies, turning public institutions into tools of a private billionaire’s agenda. It’s not about efficiency—it’s a hostile takeover that blurs the line between government and corporate power.

As a lapesed lawyer (and judge) I am amazed that Trump puts his head in a noose daily in his EOs that are designed to cause pain to his political enemies. I'm hoping that even many of his donors now have come to their senses. In the legal profession consider: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/indus?cycle=2024&ind=K01

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

Can we please just focus on National Security. It is a crisis that even the most MAGA loyalist can relate to.

National Security will be blood in the water. Every Republican needs to address whether we are safe with these lying, incompetent (perhaps drunk), clueless leaders.

It isn’t a glitch that they meet on Signal, with personal phones, expose military plans. In the presence of at least one journalist. Will you be surprised if there were other people in that text group that shouldn’t have been?

They flood the zone. But we can focus on the BIG DEAL SECURITY ISSUE.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

I am always amazed at the "poor memories" that all these Trump people seem to have. Did Trump deliberately hire people with short term memory loss so he would not feel so all alone.

Also, when Trump says he had not been told about something he may well be lying or worse yet doesn't even remember that he had been told.

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Monika Saringer's avatar

It is like they have all been lobotomized, are they that scared to go against Trump or admit the truth or any wrong doing? What & or who has a hold over these Trumpers, could it be Vought?.... it's like a mega rich, religious, sect, cult, secretive thing going on here.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

Most likely fear. They have seen what he does to anyone that he thinks is not totally loyal. I don't think any of them ever imagined that they would hold the positions that they now have and they don't want to jeopardize them. Better to act dumb than deal with his wrath.

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EUWDTB's avatar

FYI: MTN sent out many Substacks about national security and Signalgate. So that's where we focus on the latest disaster. Here, we're commenting on Ben's article above. Not letting ourselves being "distracted", as you called it, sometimes also means staying with the topic of the debate ;-)

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

When the house is on fire I will ask the debate not to be about the plumbing.

Force the Republicans to help put out the fire before moving on.

That is my point. Don’t let the regime change the topic from the one they (an us) are most vulnerable at.

Finish crossing the street before stopping to tie your shoes.

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EUWDTB's avatar

False idea. Go to ALL the Substacks and YouTubes that MTN posted about Signalgate if you want to continue to work on that major issue. In the meantime, installing state media that massively spread propaganda is an equally major issue, that we HAVE to address in a separate series of Substacks at the same time. If YOU cannot focus on fighting on two fronts simultaneously, you can just limit yourself to the many MTN Signalgate articles.

It's false to assume that those who write here about the importance of having MTN's audience systematically increase and knowing just how Trump is creating state media would somehow be less concerned about Signalgate or doing less about it.

The GOP is installing fascism in the US. To do so, they need to move fast and attack many democratic institutions all at once. We HAVE to counter ALL of their moves if we want to defeat them. So having Ben write one article a day in which he informs us of what Leavitt is doing, how MTN is fighting back, and what we can do on this crucial level (the media) is absolutely FUNDAMENTAL too.

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

I respect you and I respect all of MeidasNation as a community and for having a mission of stopping facism.

And we must fight in all fronts.

Yet I believe that National Security is the one issue that the regime is now vulnerable at because of Signalgate and it is concerns all Americans

When the story broke it was a very big deal because of National Security and what it revealed about the people in charge. I had a sense that there was blood in the water and the Republican defense hawks will get into a frenzy over correcting this. It might still happen. What was revealed was so dramatic and made it scary these are the people in charge. They revealed so much of their character on video and in the texts.

Now it is a week later and to the degree it is an issue, it is about the apps and phones and whether laws were broken, etc. Not the headline: these people don’t make us safe.

The regime is following the playbook of the 1930’s. It’s not a problem for many people, but even they don’t want a World War. Especially one we aren’t going to win.

IMO we need to move National Security

to the top of mind. This is where Trump and the whole team is most vulnerable.

Now it is a

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EUWDTB's avatar

I agree that, in our conversations with Trump voters, THIS is the moment to indeed focus on Signalgate only. Polls show that two thirds among them are worried about it and seem to for once not spontaneously gobble up what state media are trying to falsely make them believe about it (also because, for once, the GOP propaganda machine is divided and not sending out the same message). So yes, whenever we're talking with them, we should absolutely focus on national security.

But MTN isn't exactly a place where many Trump voters go to. It's a place where pro-democracy citizens go to to be as informed as possible about everything that is going on, so that we can fight back on all levels at once. That's why I think it's absolutely crucial that Ben continues to write Substacks like the one above too. The attacks on the media are at least as concerning as the national security breaches, from the perspective of fighting back against fascism.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Not Trump voters. CONGRESSIONAL REPUBLICANS. Just need 3 House members.

E.G. Below is a list of ten moderate Republican Representatives who are among the most likely to consider joining the effort when the time comes. Contact one or all, as well as your own home district Representative.

Republicans

Don Bacon: (202) 225-4155 D.C. —— (402) 938-0300 District Office

2104 Rayburn House Office Building —Washington, DC 20515

District Office: 3906 Gold Circle, Suite 101 — Omaha, NE 68144

Brian Fitzpatrick: (202) 225-4276 D.C. —— (215) 579-8102 District Office

271 Canon House Office Building - Washington, DC 20515

District Office: 1717 Langhorne Newtown Rd. Suite 225 — Langhorne, PA 19047

David Joyce: (202) 225-5731 D.C. —— (440) 352-3939 District Office

2065 Rayburn House Office Building -- Washington, DC 20515

District Office: 8500 Station Street, Suite 390 — Mentor, OH 44060

Andrew Garbarino: (202) 225-7896 D.C. —— (631) 541-4225 District

2344 Rayburn House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515 — Fax: (202) 226-2279

District Office: 31 Oak St., Suite 20 — Patchogue, NY 11772

Dan Newhouse: (202) 225-5816 D.C. —— (509) 452-3243 District

504 Cannon House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515 — Fax: (202) 225-3251

District Offices: 402 E. Yakima Ave., Suite #1000 — Yakima,WA 98901 Fax: (509) 452-3438 and 3100 George Washington Way #130 — Richland,WA 99354 — (509) 713-7374

Young Kim (R-CA-40): (202) 225-4111 D.C. —— (714) 984-2440 District

2439 Rayburn House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515

District Offices: 180 N. Riverview Dr. Suite 150 — Anaheim, CA 92808 (714) 984-2440 and Mission Viejo City Hall —200 Civic Center — Mission Viejo, CA 92691— (949) 268-6706

Ashley Hinson: (202) 225-2911 D.C. —— (319) 364-2288 District

1717 Longworth House Office Building - Washington,DC 20515

District Office: 118 Third Avenue SE, Suite 206 — Cedar Rapids,IA 52401

David Valadao: (202) 225-4695 D.C. —— (661) 864-7736 District

2465 Rayburn House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515

District Offices: 2700 M Street, Suite 250B — Bakersfield, CA 93301 — Fax: (833) 284-9090 and 107 South Douty Street — Hanford, CA 93230 — (559) 460-6070 Fax: (559) 584-3564

Mike Lawler: (202) 225-6506 D.C324 - - (845) 201- 2060 District

324 Cannon House Office Building — Washington, DC 20515

District Office:: One Blue Hill Plaza, Third Floor, P.O. Box 1645 — Pearl River, NY 10965 and 60 McAlpin Ave. — Mahopac, NY 10541 — (845) 743-7130

Rob Brenahan: (202) 225-5546 D. C. -- (570) 906-6850 District

1133 Longworth House Office Building --- Washington, DC 20515

District Office: 116 North Washington Avenue, Suite 101 — Scranton,PA 18503

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

"MTN sent out many Substacks about national security and Signalgate." Not really. We have a window of opportunity. Today it turns out we compromised Israeli security via signal.

The way to handle it is to get the Congressional Republicans (we alraedy have all Democrats) who are complaining on the record and make them stick to it.

Jerry Weiss has a list. Wicker, Murkowski, Tillis, etc have called Trump a liar on Ukraine. https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/press-releases/chairman-wicker-ranking-member-reed-request-inspector-general-probe-into-signal-incident

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EUWDTB's avatar

Not really? How many articles about Signalgate (and video podcasts) would be "enough" for you? Or are you suggesting that Ben should stop writing articles like the one above and just ignore the scandalous way Trump is trying to create state media... ?

Fact is, we can focus on different topics at once. This thread is about Trump's assault on the media. There are DOZENS of threads about Signalgate.

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EUWDTB's avatar

Absurd question ;-)

Also, when I'm here - once again - it's to debate THIS article. I don't click on links added to an article by random people. Sorry.

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elizabeth lush's avatar

That Ukrainian soldiers were surrounded in Kursk, and Trump stepped them being killed . . . lies . . . that Russia is winning this war . . have to bring in NK soldiers because their own troops off battle field by death or injury . . . using camels and donkeys, scooters and golf carts to get ammo to their front lines . . . repeats the Kremlin lies . . . that Greenland wants him to annex them . . . that Canada longs to be the 51st state . . . that his imposed tariffs aren't paid by Americans . . . that his economy is & was great . . that he is good for America . . that he puts America first . . . please get better info, then get help xx thnx!

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SBMcG's avatar

Hi Carmen. They lie to try to convince all of us that what the executives orders are legal, that kidnapping legal law abiding immigrants without due process is perfectly fine, that sharing war plans on an insecure platform without any caution at all didn't happen, and much more.

Also they told the truth about what they had planned and not everyone paid attention or believed them. People voted assuming things would be different. We all know what happenes when you assume- you make an "ASS out of U and ME." But Meidas did! I am so glad I listen to MTN!

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Elaine D's avatar

Everything that matters and some that doesn't.

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The Rozweiler's avatar

Genuine request Carmen. What is it that you like and support about them?

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Lenore Sherriff's avatar

If you really want the answers to that question, you should really read the articles written by the journalists on the Meidas Touch Network. They provide accurate information on what is happening in this country right now.

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The Rozweiler's avatar

I’m a subscriber to The Meidas touch. What I’d like is a response from someone who genuinely supports MAGA as I want to understand why. What are the rest of us doing wrong that means they don’t want to work with us?

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Kathy H's avatar

Too broad of a question. State any claim they've made. Bringing prices down on day one? Not happening. Peace for Ukraine? Not happening. Migrants, not the violent criminals claimed, not eating cats & dogs...the lies have been non-stop.

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Angela Dahm's avatar

Everything! Open your eyes

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

They are lying that their exposed exchanges were not security secrets.

By their actions on Signal that they are following the law.

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Black Raven's avatar

Really? Are you living under a rock 🪨? No one should entertain you with an answer... please sit home and do not vote... with that type of thinking who needs enemies. Pfft... 🤦‍♀️

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Annominos's avatar

lol wtf

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barry richardson's avatar

Truth is a kind of anchor of strength that liars don't enjoy. Unless you know what lies other fascists are spreading, you can easily end up telling lies that contradict those of your lying friends. In contrast, honest people don't have to worry about contradicting their allies. They've all got the same "truth" as a foundation to depend on. Fascists only have shared hatred for their foundation.

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David Merritt's avatar

Right on 👍

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Marlo's avatar

I keep getting these posts sent to me. Anyone else getting these?

“Elon Musk has found evidence about you....

For you: God Heart Message”

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