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Debbie E's avatar

I want to go back to the time when terroristic threats were illegal and investigated. You know, before we had a president who makes them on the daily and encourages his supporters to do the same. Back to a time when morals, values and integrity meant something. SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION ANYMORE. The majority of us still carry values, integrity and morals with us. BE LOUD, RISE UP, RESIST.

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Lona Shields's avatar

I do hope that every one of these threats are investigated and the person is held responsible. This is NOT acceptable!

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debra's avatar

If it were against Trump, the perpetrator would already be in custody or on a plane to El Salvadore.

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Tammy  Scott's avatar

Investigated by Bondi not a chance.

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Barbara Nicholson's avatar

And be careful.

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Debbie E's avatar

Peacefully make our voices heard, is what I should have said.

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Deb Albright's avatar

I feel like I’m in a Star Wars movie and we are the resistance! Yes it’s a dark time but together we will overcome this dark force. We are the true patriots and I just thank all you at MTN for everything you are doing! May the force of light be with us all. At 71 never thought this would be how I spend my “golden years” . To be out with all who care at peaceful protests and supporting people and organizations like you gives me hope!

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Marlene Shepard's avatar

You are right about the alligators and pythons and more! This will be a death sentence for every immigrant that is put into this nightmare.

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Daphne Kontanis's avatar

I would die just from the heat and humidity!!! HOW CAN WE BE IN SUCH AN INCREDIBLE SITUATION!?!?!? IS THERE NO HELP FOR OUR NATION? OH, LORD, HAVE MERCY ON THE SUFFERING INNOCENTS!!!!

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Enlightenment's avatar

Obviously hoping for mercy won’t work…devils don’t know what that is and they are in charge…a cruel and sadistic and corrupt mob.

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Faith Buss's avatar

They will come in the tents at night & I wouldn’t put it past some of these radical “guards” to leave bait for them

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David A Pitock's avatar

It is Florida I expect worse behavior than that.

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Daphne Kontanis's avatar

SOMEBODY HAS TO PUT A STOP TO THIS HEINIOUS PROPOSITION!!!! MAYBE PEOPLE COULD BURN THE TENTS DOWN BEFORE ANYONE IS BROUGHT THERE!!!

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Kamm's avatar

Hopefully the immigrants will stand guard each night, taking shifts.

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Kelly Eggers's avatar

Well said Debbie♥️🇺🇸

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Lee Hierlihy's avatar

Great post Debbie! If only Trump the Skunk would have something tragic happen to him and I don't wish I'll will on very if any people, but Trump is all about Trump and what he can gain for himself. He promised in his Campaign to lower grocery prices which of course he never did etc etc. This man is destroying the country you once knew. I am Canadian and fully support the American people in their wish to have him gone and for your Country to return to normal.

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Mrs. S's avatar

I Resist, I Insist, I Persist

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Marlene Shepard's avatar

Lee, thank you for wishing us (Americans) well. But you are right. We need Trump gone to get our country back! Love Canada! My father’s family were from Nova Scotia. So I got to visit relatives twice when I was growing up. When I worked at Clark University I also went to Montreal for a conference but also was able to explore on a tour. Beautiful! I we were not so old with family here I would think about moving because America is not the same because of Trump and his MAGA supporters!

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Joan Earle's avatar

I want to go farther back than that. I agree.

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Sandra Reese's avatar

AMEN!

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Angie's avatar

It’s supposed to hold 5,000, but I’m betting they’ll put at least twice that many there 😔

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Ginger's avatar

or based on who they have grabbed off the streets , so far, it'll be a third of that... they are bumbling fools ....Obama & Biden removed more, properly & legally, than these idiots can do in their masks, strong arming innocent people... interesting they do not want to be identified so they hide their faces...they are cowards as well...maybe the plane will get stuck there and orangeaid will have a fit

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Cindy Cull's avatar

You are right, Biden & Obama were lawful, without all this terrible drama & still allowed the deported their dignity.

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Catherine Voight's avatar

And good luck finding wardens and guards. Working there would be like being in prison.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Yes Catherine you're right. However, their are J6ers who owe DJT favors. That's how he works. Some are already serving him as agents posing as law enforcement. Hopefully, more will self deport to avoid the cruelty. I never imagined such an ugly America.

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Pat Robinson's avatar

I honestly never expected such delight in cruelty from people who go to church, praise God and call themselves Christians. Although considering the history of the Southern Baptist Convention not considering persons of color as equal and the total support of slavery and Jim Crow laws in the church going south I should have never been surprised. Hate is in their culture and is passed down from generation to generation (as is the disdain for education). I don't think anyone knows how all this deportation works (does trump just wait for Ecuador to build more prisons? Are any folks who have never committed a crime but don't have up to date paperwork literally dumped off a plan in their native country? Are there ways we can help those non criminals who are returned to somewhere to be safe and have a better life? do other nations besides the US have worker shortages and if so can we help these displaced outstanding workers get there to help fill the voids there?

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Asarra's avatar

They can always send in the National Guard, it seems. 😈 It's Florida. An incredible amount of armed Trumpers would probably volunteer.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Armed Trumpers in the near future should be met by the counter pro-democracy fighters with everything Maggots have.........let the real games begin

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DJT Luvsputin's avatar

The losers that will be being paid good money to work there will not have the same conditions as the prisoners. The holding area will be monitored by plenty of cameras. Regardless of how they advertise this place there will no doubt be escape attempts.

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Wendymae's avatar

There's a/c for the jailers, at this time I think exclusively NG.

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Barbara Fusco's avatar

He sent the Marines I bet they can’t get anybody to work there so he hast to bring in service men who do as they are told, but for how long????? different cracks in the way, the military has been responding to issues here in their home country. I don’t believe all of them are following Trump blindly.

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Wendymae's avatar

That's who is working there now.

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MaryAnnP's avatar

It's like a wet dream for Tom Homan and his ilk.

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Henry Kramer's avatar

It will also feel like working in a steam room!

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Susan Raquel's avatar

Probably hire illegals in simulation to what the Nazi concentration camps did.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Pardoned MAGAs

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Susan Rohner's avatar

NO air conditioning? Pure Hell.

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Kerry Beatty's avatar

The rest of the world needs to address this. Normally we would be leading the pack against a country doing this. We are not in normal times. We are blinking twice.

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Toni's avatar

I kind of wish we would be invaded by some other country/countries who could institute 'regime change" here.

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Adam Knight's avatar

Military Coup Please?

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elliemae.padme66's avatar

Since this administration fired all the top Generals, not sure can count on military in being on the side of Democracy.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Hoping they resist.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

We might see that. Democracy is teetering on a cliff's edge.

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Adam Knight's avatar

It's either by impeachment or 2nd Amendment!

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Wayne RN's avatar

Canada 🇨🇦

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Robyn Chauvin's avatar

What will happen when a major hurricane comes?

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Barbara Fusco's avatar

That was my first reaction because this prison is they’re just glorified trailers from the pictures that I’ve seen

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Susan Raquel's avatar

One report said tents and trailers. Wonder if they'll serve rotten bologna like that sheriff did. Where is Stephan King's gypsy?

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Gypsy or not, the will all be thinner. The detainees in Texas are fighting over water. I can't believe it. Americans throw out food like crazy. We have even dumped.food into ocean that sat too long in a container. Why can't we hydrate and feed prisoners?

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Susan Raquel's avatar

I was thinking of the revenge Gypsy creating sores all over the staff. But, yes thinner for sure. Not only are huge amounts of food thrown out. I read about a study that showed just average families throw out lots of food. Not sure if it was Texas or Florida that whole fields of tomatoes were being plowed under as they said there was no one to pick them.

Plums and peaches are ripening up here. A few years back the farmer across the road from me replaced the prune trees with peaches. I'll be watching to see when they start picking. There's been a lot of farm machinery on the road so there are at least some workers.

I was told that ICE was primarily going after businesses here. I haven't seen any sign of them, so far, in my rural area.

There is no logical reason why water and decent food can't be provided to prisoners. The president of Mexico said Mexicans would be welcomed back. I think the prisoners might be better off getting deported right away than having to live like animals. Shoot, they'd have air conditioned igloos if they housed animals.

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Barbara Fusco's avatar

There is no plumbing there no septic systems no running water and people are complaining about them polluting the Everglades

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Susan Raquel's avatar

They will have to use portable toilets. Since trump doesn't believe in environmental protection they probably won't use the compostable toilets.

So with 5,000 people how many toilets will they need? How much to empty them on a regular basis? Gonna need a lot of toilet paper.

How much to bring in tankards of water? How long will a tankard last?

It will only cost 40 some million a year to run plus the loss of the taxes, etc., that the migrants would be paying if free.

trump sure knows how to save money!

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

But, but, but, he's a brilliant business man, right? That's what MAGA says.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Where is the human waste going? Detainees are only fed once a day. Is that a strategic policy to manage waste? The Everglade invasion is a disaster. Trump is lusting for Nazi Germany. He would absolutely approve gas and ovens. Don't even doubt that!

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Kamm's avatar

Tents for the immigrants, trailers for toilets. I'm sure the guards will have a/c though. I don't think there will be any sinks or showers because inhumanity seems to be the name of DOJ's game here.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Are cruel conditions supposed to be a deterrent for future immigrants, or just bargain basement accommodations?

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Kamm's avatar

It seems to be cruelty just for the sake of cruelty. My opinion.

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Sylvia Sewell's avatar

Glorified? I doubt it.

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Marlene Shepard's avatar

Robin, you are right. One major hurricane could take it all down.

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Robyn's avatar

And kill every human being, trapped in this abomination. Only a monster would put people in those kind of conditions.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Monster is the right word. Trump is a monster.

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Susan Wellwood-Nehez's avatar

Trump is just a figurehead with 10 digits to sign anything put in front of him by the Project 2025 creeps, plus Steven Miller. They're the ones who are running this country.

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Sandra's avatar

Exactly!

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Robyn's avatar

And kill every human being, trapped in this abomination. Only a monster would put people in those kind of conditions.

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Barbara Fusco's avatar

😢

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David A Pitock's avatar

Desatin doesn't care about any of it they have term limits in Florida and he is talking about a senate run , he is why we moved my father out of there just before the pandemic hit. No action desatin killed a lot of people by doing nothing.

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Faith Buss's avatar

They don’t care

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WJB Motown's avatar

Stephen (Goebells) Miller plays with his Nazi death camp action set every night in his Wolfs Lair home........You can be sure he has plans for crematoriums......mass burial sites.......the future expansion plans at Alligator Alcatraz.......

Load up.......keep your gunpowder dry..........stock up.......darker days are ahead unless NO KINGS protests grow to the multi-multi millions

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Sylvia Sewell's avatar

No need for crematoriums. They will throw them to the gators and/or pythons.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

Yep, and lie about it while we watch the video.

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Sylvia Salazar's avatar

You have described it right. Eventutualy someone will fight back with violence. You can't continue to push people. Some of them have nothing to lose. Once you take their job and then their family; what happens next?

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Vivian Fletcher's avatar

Truth!😭

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BB1961's avatar

Ben, Take this guy to court for death threats. I'll bet the "Meidas Mighty" would support a "go fund me" for the sheer joy of making a faceless, nameless MAGA dope experience the hassle of defending himself for his shameful action... forcing them to have skin in the game. It's not freedom of speech when you threaten someone with bodily harm.

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Barb O's avatar

Except there has to be a specific action or plan in the text. Just wishes don't count. In any case, it's so wrong.

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Wayne RN's avatar

Yes. I would happily pay for that. Plus all the updates on court cases and results. It could be its own channel.

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Adam Knight's avatar

He's probably a Putin bot based in Moscow !!

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jenn's avatar

Thank you. I am so grateful to MTN for "controlling the narrative with the truth". Keep it up! We need you.

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Bobbie's avatar

But, please, please do not use anything close to that phrase so often used by Trumpf…”we did something nobody ever thought was possible” even if it is true. I appreciate Meidas’ work but please stay away from anything that remotely sounds like the endless repetitive drivel he spews. Sorry that might seem petty but it grates on my last nerve.

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AAA M's avatar

We WILL NOT shut up!

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

These supporters of trump are as batshit crazy as he is. That's why he's their "daddy" I never understood why people "follow" others over a cliff, as in drinking poisoned koolaide now I'm seeing it writ large! Take care! It can't be easy when they threaten your family as well. If I lived near you and had a weapon I would try to protect you because you are doing something nobody would want to do given the risks. You are all hero's at' Medias.

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Adam Knight's avatar

They've been radicalised!!

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

I understand that too Adam. Yet it feels like there's something else coming down the pipeline. If trump decided to stop all this bullshit the MAGA's won't quit. Trump gave them permission to do what they always wanted to do. I'm afraid there is going to be more "radicalisation" down the road. With or without trump. He's just the dummy in power that they needed to incite the base to ACT! They won't stop now. This is a culmination of what they've wanted since they lost the civil war. The nazi persona is still alive and well in these groups.

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I Am Canadian's avatar

Trump and his cronies should be charged with crimes against humanity. They are all sick psychos. The amount of deaths will be enormous. Case in point, children are dying because of them. I loath the 🍊 turd

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

I agree, but they, the "justice department" has fired anybody who could do that. Now they say they don't recognise the courts that don't play their game! They may only be beaten at the ballot box so if you have friends, even disillusioned trump voters help them to vote in the midterms AND for ANY election coming up. Sheriff's office, School boards, city counsellors everyone that wants your vote and they are republican say NO! You still have a card to play and trumps deck is haemorrhaging by the hour because of his latest boondoggle The Big BB. He can be beaten legally because the people in his "justice" department don't know s**t! They are there simply to OBEY him. More people like you that care CAN make a difference. Also PROTEST in every protest in your area. Voices and numbers count!

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David Andersen's avatar

We all need to stay focused and united. Watch each other’s backs and back up each other!

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

Please ask all your friends to check out the latest restack of the MeidasTouch today. 2nd July. Trump has gone too far people! Stand up, stop waiting for courts, politicians and those other useless bodies to help! This is Germany 1930’s. It’s not stopping until YOU stop it! If not you’ll be next on his list of “undesirables”, you thought not having committed a crime made you safe, it didn’t did it? You thought being a “Naturalised American” made you safe, it didn’t did it? You’re next, I’m serious! Trump and Miller are Nazis you now know what your future holds.

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Adam Knight's avatar

After DONvict MAGA needs to classed as a Domestic Terrorists & treated accordingly

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

That won’t work because a cult is a mental health issue. I needs to be dealt with by police and they should be working beside the mental health officials otherwise you’re just going to throw people in the clink and trump is just going to pardon them. You know that!

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SUZANNE KNABLE's avatar

I think Meidas should have a “donation pool” to raise money for people who want but can’t afford subscriptions.

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Kezia Sorensen's avatar

You can donate gift subscriptions

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Neil Gregory's avatar

Does anyone else think that the “Alligator Alcatraz” might be a good place to put Trump's MAGA maggots?

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Kathy Price's avatar

We could put all the Republican Congress people in there. Expose them to what it's like and maybe they would learn a little empathy. Considering the genocide that Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians, though, having the experience doesn't necessarily translate into empathy.

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Toni's avatar

I know, right? George Orwell really nailed HUMAN nature when he wrote Animal House. The cycle of abuse. And absolute power corrupts absolutely.

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uRNangel423's avatar

And don’t forget his novel “1984” only it started in “2024”!

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Adam Knight's avatar

MAKE REPUBLICANS EXTINCT THEIR CRUELTY & TRULY EVIL!!!

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Susan Raquel's avatar

How is the puppy shooter going to dress up? Alligator shoes and purse?

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

I’ll even say put them in solitary confinement when they get there. Because I’m a human being and cannot condone them being ripped apart limb from limb by the people THEY HAVE SENT THERE FOR DOING NOTHING WRONG!

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David Andersen's avatar

Definitely

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TSmale's avatar

Consider the source. What a cruel hateful bunch they are. Thank you for your courage!

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

We the people need exposure re: our NATIONWIDE STRIKE

Meidastouch can you help us by writing or video about it. We are willing but not organized.

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David Andersen's avatar

Let go let’s get er done. I’m all in.

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

https://generalstrikeus.com/

See how many have committed but we need more, please share share share

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VEE LAVALLEE's avatar

Talk to TLawrence also. She’s on the track to do just that!

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Kirsten's avatar

I checked out your website because I think a general strike is a great idea. I strongly recommend a short summary of your purpose and plan, with a link to About Us, on the first page of the site. Right now, you’re asking people to sign on to something before telling them what they’re signing. Good luck!

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

The website explains everything

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Suzanne Karbowska-Hayes's avatar

My dream would be for Trumpolini to be eaten by an alligator or a python I don’t mind which but they would find him hard to digest!

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Neil Gregory's avatar

What did any alligator or python ever do to you that you would wish them to get such a case in indigestion as Trump would give them. It might even count as cruelty to animals.

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Carlette's avatar

That’s great 😂

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Barb O's avatar

Probably spit him out.

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Susan Raquel's avatar

Most animals don't like artificial flavoring.

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Brenda's avatar

These cowards that hide behind made up names are just big old cry babies that have no independent thoughts or know how to research and see different points of view! These folks are just evil!!! I’m so sorry you and your family have to endure this abhorrent behavior!!! Thank you for your courage and sacrifice!

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Daphne Kontanis's avatar

May GOD PROTECT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!!!!

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Terri P Williams's avatar

This is absolutely horrifying—and heartbreaking. No one should ever be subjected to death threats, especially in the wake of reporting on such a tragic and deeply human event as the funeral of Melissa Hortman and her husband. The cruelty displayed by these radicalized Trump supporters isn't just political—it's dehumanizing and dangerous.

The fact that MAGA rhetoric has descended into open celebration of death and pain is chilling. It goes beyond policy differences or party affiliations. This is a moral crisis. Empathy, basic decency, and humanity are being gutted by a movement that thrives on fear, hatred, and dominance.

Ben and the MeidasTouch team are doing essential work by calling this out directly and refusing to flinch. Democracy doesn’t survive without truth-tellers who are willing to endure the worst to defend it. But none of this should be normal. That people are now targeted just for standing up for what’s right shows how broken things have become under this toxic, cult-like leadership.

What Trump and his followers are doing—whether it's mocking death, building concentration-style camps, or turning violence into a meme—is not just political extremism. It is moral rot. It must be confronted without euphemism or fear.

To Ben, the MeidasTouch team, and anyone standing up against this cruelty: You are not alone. The fight you are waging is more than journalism—it's a stand for human dignity.

We will fight back. And we will win.

Always together. ✊

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Karen Cornelius's avatar

Thank you for so concisely stating factual horrific happenings. I too am heartily sick of how far this regime has advanced. I wish Meidas would ask for a donation most can afford, such as 25$, and the millions who support Meidas would donate less/more .Some people can't spare 100$, and this way a larger group may be reached. I too fear a war among our own Nation, and I refuse to use the word civil, because war is NOT civil. I see the huge gap for people of color facing anything resembling justice , and liberty. They are treated as a number, numbers to be "removed". This is what Germany did. This is what third world countries are doing with genocide. The U.S. pledge of ONE Nation Under God, " is sheer heresy.

What my mind refuses to understand :

.....how can such a huge portion of U.S. lack EMPATHY ,LOVE? Were they all "un-nurtured as rump was in childhood???? By sociopathic parents????

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Daphne Kontanis's avatar

I AGREE WITH YOU FULLY!!!!

MY HEART IS TORN!!!! I FEEL HELPLESS!!! NO MATTER HOW MUCH WE WRITE HERE, THE PEOPLE WHO SHOULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE, HAVE BEEN DISPLACED!!!

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Daphne Kontanis's avatar

What tRUMP and MAGGOTS ARE supporting is like THE ASSASINATION OF POLITICAL CANDIDATES IN MEXICO, AND OTHER COUNTRIES

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D Kitterman's avatar

Everyone, please stay safe, but alert and vigilant. Be aware of your surroundings and what's going on in your neighborhood and town. Keep your phone camera ready. Protect others that you see in danger as we now live in a state of war.

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

"These are truly sick people." Absolutely. Sorry you are treated so badly. Thank you for your heroic work.

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ABNER522's avatar

These MAGA degenerates are a dime a dozen. And would more than likely wet themselves if someone confronted them face to face. It is also a sign of just how scared they really are.

Keep up the great work MTN. We will always have your back!!

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