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BarbN's avatar

Insane and dangerous! I hope we are able to survive him.

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Public Servant's avatar

We will survive him! If Senator Spartacus can deliver a record setting filibuster, we can defend democracy too! Hope this poem inspires you: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/cory-booker-is-senator-spartacus

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

The probem is we are a minority party. WE NEED REPUBLICANS TO OUST HIM. Talk is cheap.

https://jerryweiss.substack.com/

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Sharon Bouchard's avatar

You're correct, the GOP must be moved. To start with that it will help if people avoid the false dichotomy that everyone is left/right and has any allegiance to a political party.

I'm an independent who has always voted and kept up to speed on issues, but there are plenty like me who sit on their hands because for decades they don't think they've gotten much of use from the Dems either, as they went corporate. The great harm that is coming is waking those people up. Making this a shirts vs skins thing will not help with them. Thats why I appreciate MTN being pro-democracy and not feeding into the false dichotomy.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Jerry Weiss, Feathers of Hope, identified several Republicans who say they want to talk. Although the House members voted with MAGA Mike on the budget, many are upset, and some, like mine represent majority Dem districts and have complained about Trump policies.

I don't think they'll; have an epiphany and become Democrats, but they can be pressured to stop most of the Trump agenda.

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Sharon Bouchard's avatar

My regret is my Rep and Senators are Dems, so I have no GOP to contact as a constituent at the federal level. I still contact them, because some Dems have stupidly caved.

But yes, with pressure and time, some members of the GOP will find their spine, just as I watched them do during Watergate. But I don't see we have a lot of time me to play with. I'm one of those older people out in the streets. We have to figure out how to get a broader base than that. I know better than to ask black folks to show up - they have good reasons. But the youth need encouragement to show. I'm not out there for the 401k I don't have. I'm out there to preserve democracy. People my age remember that it can be normal and useful to have a functional government.

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Darlene OHara's avatar

Pressure the Dems. anyway. Some of them need to grow a spine as well and they all need to stand up against this administration no matter what their party. I continue to keep contacting mine, who are Dems, as well, and I sign every petition to counter the cuts to our programs that I am handed or emailed or receive online.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Waste of energy. It hurts when their DONORS tell them to stop. Republican donors like car dealers, car manufactiurers, local chambers of commerce, farm suppliers, and large swaths of Republican voters like MAGATS losing thier benefits.

My personal favorite is CANF, the Cuban American National Foundation. Where I live 3 MAGAT Cuban American House members, all who object to parts of the immigration policy and object to Cubans being considered as DEI by the Trump administration.

2 of the 3 once were Dem. Switched due to Cuba policy.

We also have many Canadian Americans, many with dual citizenship, wo pay Florida real estate taxes and employ 54,000 Floridians.

Even my MAGAT senator, Rikck Scott, sent me a letter saying how Trump is wrong, lied on Ukraine. Maybe if a ferw million Cuban and Canadian Americans -- mostly Republicans- pressure him and the other senator Ashley Moody? And the 3 amigos?

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Fraser's avatar

NOTHING IS BETTER THAN SMALL AND MASSIVE PROTESTS!

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WJB Motown's avatar

Massive protest NOW before the fascist ban it....provoke a violent incident.......create a false situation

Also start to prepare for underground resistance......study the ww2 resistance movements.....the pro-Trump fasist militas have been doing this. They are waiting for the Orange Order to move out......MAGA has declared war on the United States of America.

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tina jones's avatar

At the Hands Off rally at the Washington Monument, 4/5 in WDC there were a couple of guys wearing DOGE gear agitating/provoking/ engaging people with aggressive posture and language.

We told US Park Police who responded.

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WJB Motown's avatar

Good work.......Happy to hear that the Park Service has not bent over or kissed the ring..........36 thousand people today for Bernie/OAC in California.....Neil Young showed up and jammed with Joan Baez.......MTN broadcast it all!!

Amazing!!!

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Scott Bump's avatar

Ha ha. I nope.they we're shown like.most.any ! Police.officer.that their.buddy lost.an eye or.died.from a stroke.after.bear spray.in their.face!! Oh would.I love.to brake the jack ass.nose!!

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Fraser's avatar

No violence from our side, though!!

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WJB Motown's avatar

Just be prepared......They have been planning this takeover for a long time.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

When it comes to this issue NO DEMS HAVE CAVED. NONE.

The key issue IMHO is national security. Musk and tariffs are gaining strength. Congress is off two weeks. These Congressional Republicans are affected by their donors and constituents. Only takes a few.

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Sharon Bouchard's avatar

They caved in the Senate and allowed that budget bill to move forward. Four of them voted for the SAVE Act in the House. My own Rep has voted well enough, but his response to DOGE has been to send me a frigging POLL. If he can't fight he needs to get out of the way. This crap is exactly why Dems lose. Learn to fight for soemthing. They used to do that. I'm old enough to remember.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

NOT TRUE. All dems voted against it + Rand Paul.

Reconciliation. Hopefully will go issue by issue.

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Sharon Bouchard's avatar

I don't think we're talking about the same thing. Schumer and ithers, where that budget bill is concerned, had the power to stop it in its tracks, because the GOP didn't have 60 votes. But a handful of Dems decided these were normal times, and they voted to let it go forward to a vote. That is caving, and it is true.

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

I was a federal employee and I know exactly why Schumer did it. You don't know what you don't know.

I don't want to lay out the downside to give anyone ideas but I experienced shutdowns and in 2013 when the Obama administration had a budget shortfall chose "sequestration" and I was personally involved. I sill have resentment for what happened.

Apparently 99% of the public is unaware what happens...including MSM....

Schumer was in a lose-lose situation.

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ramona j's avatar

4 dems voted for it. I saw their names . Cant find article.will look

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Fraser's avatar

EXACTLY!!

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Merry's avatar

I have always been a registered independent. And I’ve voted 3rd party on 4-5 occasions. I listen to what people say AND then I watch what they actually DO. And I expect those two behaviors to align.

Unfortunately the chasm between the two has widened, particularly with the impact of MAGA trumpism over the past 10 years. Now anything goes. Grabbing women by their genitals and making fun of disabled, lying, cheating, stealing, breaking the law, have all somehow become, not only acceptable, but expected, and even celebrated!

Politicians are held less accountable now than they’ve ever been before. A big part of the problem is campaign finance, citizens united, gerrymandering, electoral college, which have all been compromised and manipulated to created a system that relies a vote votes in specific districts in a few states, and which often reflects the will of the MINORITY rather than the majority.

So politicians now spend most of their time securing big donors instead of focusing on writing proper legislation that reflects their constituents as well as their VALUES, which they likely ran on and won.

The system is broken. Do we collectively have the desire, the stamina, the will to stand up and demand change?

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Daniel Solomon's avatar

Read Feathers of Hope.

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Merry's avatar

Thanks. The situation certainly feels dire. (And I was 13 when JFK was assassinated. I witnessed the atrocities of Viet, Nam, the draft, young friends coming home in body bags, the vast and diverse social unrest, mass protests, Kent State, minorities and women struggling for equal rights. (And of course the MUSIC, the arts, the youth cultural movements, both reflecting and demanding better.) And here we are again, dealing with the same issues.

Yet I’m also a certified, card-carrying optimist, an idealist, who will ALWAYS believe in the IDEA, the IDEALS of America, worth fighting for.

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EUWDTB's avatar

Any concrete example of "Dems went corporate"... ?

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Sharon Bouchard's avatar

Yeah about half of a century of me watching them increasingly do so. Try your Google Fu for shits sake. People have talked about this for decades now. I'm not spoonfeeding you.

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EUWDTB's avatar

Are you pro-democracy or not? If yes, cultivating the willingness to engage in real, respectful debates with fellow citizens is VITAL. As Aristotle already showed, without thriving public debate, no democracy can ever thrive - or survive.

And this is exactly what's wrong with so many "pro-democracy voters in name only" in this country. All you have to offer is cynicism.

A democracy is a government that works only FOR the people when it is BY the people. And that starts with engaging in real discussions, where no one indulges in vague "must be true because others told me" arguments...

So with that, any concrete example, at least?

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ramona j's avatar

Not happening. Lying is the new trumpublican law

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ramona j's avatar

And they don't debate or engage as we should . It's all revenge , crimes, cons , worshipping ONE MAN . Not normal times. Need better solutions.

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EUWDTB's avatar

I was actually just talking about you and me here. We can't outsource engaging in real discussions and backing up our own claims, or wait until everyone else starts doing so too. This IS what being a citizen means, regardless of what others do.

So again, any concrete example of what you meant when you said "Dems went corporate"?

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Fraser's avatar

Well, the Trump team being smart as a bag full of hammers, will continue to confound their base, upsetting elected zombie Republicans, who just by sheer odds of luck, will manage to resuscitate 5 of them with signs of a stirring in the cemetery already!!

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WJB Motown's avatar

The Orange Diaper Cult will drink the Orange Kool-Aid anytime..anywhere---any place. There is no hope for them......

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Patricia Anne Boone's avatar

Does this work??

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Robin Elizabeth Simpson Scott's avatar

I hope my grandkids survive him! ✌🏽

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Lynnie's avatar

My granddaughter deserves to reach for her dreams, I will always fight for her.

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Sarah Bagg's avatar

I am going to! Concentrate! We won’t let this happen, I am a great grandma and won’t leave this world to the young generation this way! Come on everyone!

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Ed Garland's avatar

The Resistance is alive and growing. We are surviving him and the proof is the growth in MTN daily.

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Gleann Donnchaidh's avatar

If Trump & MAGA aren't stopped in the next few years the resistance is going to move from protests & online communities to an actual civil war. They're doing everything they can to stay in power indefinitely, from voter suppression, removing all checks & balances & from what we can make out election fraud with the help of Musk.

Let's hope & pray they can be removed peacefully, but if not, like any other country being oppressed whether its here in the North of Ireland or in Gaza the people will resist and take arms.

"And you dare to call me a terrorist, while you look down your guns"

https://youtu.be/ouEXxK8VLhM?si=OJw2Q1qOiGQC1x_a

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Ed Garland's avatar

Yes, MAGA is “doing everything they can” however, they are facing strong (and increasing) pushback. Had JAN6 turned out the way Tramp and Lying Michael Flynn (among others) they wanted it to the orange idiot would have declared martial law.

His thugs failed the mission and he hit the curb. This reign of terror isn’t going to lead to civil war because the trusting souls who voted [for] him are feeling the sting of betrayal amidst the threat of losing jobs, savings and hope they may have had for retirement.

No civil war but what is happening is Project 2025 is faltering. When his insiders see him crumble and begin accusing them of being “disloyal” the tide will turn. All indicators are in favor of the Resistance.

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Sarah Bagg's avatar

Hooray! Do everything we can!

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Johnny 🇨🇦's avatar

I just hope HE is not able to survive

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Sandra Blessman's avatar

If you want to survive you have to fight for your freedom. Protest keep doing it. Resist the lies stand tall. Be proud of who you are the orange blob can’t take that away from you. We the people for the people

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BC's avatar

Donald can’t survive ME. The mere idea is ludicrous. Snitch has one foot in the grave ⚰️ & depends on MY CRUMBS to President.

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John Delphy🐬Takao's avatar

“Snitch”! That’s a good one! That describes the kind of dick, I mean, DUCK <<quack!>> that MAGA Mussolini is.

Agent Krasnov “Snitch”(whose Grandpa dodged the 19th Century Bavarian Draft) over the course of his first four years of slow rolling soft coup when King Trump stole legal box after legal box of classified top secret documents available only to members of the Federal Government with the Mount DENALI highest security clearance that we can only assume at best he stole in order to have a library of trophies to show off to his ex-KGB handlers from the Kremlin at worst to offer up as souvenirs in a men’s bathroom lounge at Maro Lago for their leisurely perusal and to take pictures of for the entertainment and pleasure of his Bro’ Vladimir Putin and “The Guys” over there in Red Square, all of this SNITCHING in the spirit of the other SNITCH, the Federal insider of CIA legacy, Eddie “Snitch” Snowflake, I mean, Snowden!!)

🎵Ohhhh… (Canada!)

🎵The weather outside is frightful!

But the 🔥FIRE🔥(of Impeachment) is so delightful!

And since we’ve no place to go… 👂🤚

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BC's avatar

🎙️💯 … and let it be known.

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UniDig's avatar

Trump is insane

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Barbara Nicholson's avatar

Yep. Malignant narcissist was the diagnosis in 2015.

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Lisa59's avatar

Malignant narcissistic psychopath. Psychopaths are charming and calculating. They're sadistic.

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Steve Doll's avatar

Malignant narcissistic sociopaths are ones who care nothing for anyone but themselves and getting their way, and don't care who they hurt to do it. That's the sociopathic part. This fits rump to a T.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

That fits Trump except that he's not charming, ever. You can't be charming if you're totally moronic. He also has no sense of humor. What he does have is an innate sense of how to manipulate stupid and gullible people.

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Lisa59's avatar

His 'charm' is a tool for manipulating others. We know he's a ratfucker. In his maga world, he tells people what they want to hear, while he sticks a knife in their backs. His malignant narcissism is seen as confidence. Over 60 million people in this country suffer from Narcissist abuse. Most don't recognize it. Because they become the victims and feel like it's their fault. That's what thugs do. Masters of projections. They leave collateral damage for generations. This shit runs in my family. It's a living nightmare. They beat the victim hood drum with both fists.

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ViaMeredith's avatar

A “malignant narcissist” is a character trait but not an official diagnosis.

It is a characteristic, however, of many cluster B personality disorders, in particular the “dark triad” disordered individuals.

Within these Cluster B’s are: antisocial personality disorder (which includes what we know as psychopaths and sociopaths), narcissistic personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, borderline personality disorder…they are not mutually exclusive and often coexist. Donald Trump has had more books written about him by historians, expert political analysts, and mental health experts including > 50 psychiatrists who signed a DUTY TO WARN. A duty to warn the public is a serious matter and should be acknowledged with the care and respect it deserves. These experts did not come forward lightly.

Are we really going to continue to ignore these early signs of impending doom to a free society and democratic nation? We are on the precipice of an authoritarian regime. We have already transitioned from a democracy into an anocracy since Trump took office. We are now a hybrid (half democracy/half autocracy) due to the rule of law being ignored by Trump’s administration.

If immediate accountability of this administration isn’t taken, and he continues to be allowed to violate the Constitution, in 1-4 weeks we can easily become a full autocratic dictatorship. Not even the most extreme authoritarian citizens will enjoy that. They just don’t care today, by the time they do, it will be too late.

Our constitutional liberties are on the line.

What can you do? Use the 5 Calls app to directly connect with you local representatives and use the guidance in the app to assist you with upcoming legislative actions. Pick which ones are meaningful to you and follow the script if you like. It’s quick and easy, and costs less than 6 minutes of your day. Remember you have a duty to keep your freedom. With rights come responsibilities. We’ve all enjoyed our freedoms without engaging in our political system. Time is now. 🇺🇸

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patti smith's avatar

He absolutely is! That's why I blame his supporters as much as, or more than, I blame him. He's a monster-yes- but the sane people who prop him up are even more guilty because they still have working brains. They just choose to use them to encourage this jackass because he has the followers and the framework to continue this fracturing of our government.

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Lisa59's avatar

Yep! 👏👏👏 The bigoted functionally illiterate crowd. I've interacted with many maga. After ten years, I still see them the same way.

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Noly Garland's avatar

He is.

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Andrea Brecker's avatar

Maybe due to my age, 74, 2026 seems far in the future. I hope that there is an election that reflects the voice of voters, not subject to manipulation.

As a young child, to answer my question, my mother explained why Freddy the Grocer and his wife have blue numbers on their arm. From that point I promised to not be silent when I saw injustice.

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Sharon Bouchard's avatar

I'm 66, so I understand what you mean, although in my case it's just sadness understanding how long it takes to rebuild after a crisis. But I have to do what I can even if I don't get to see the result.

I grew up as the white kid watching how my black neighbors got treated in the 60s. I have not stood down during my life either, and I'm not about to now. Fwiw, my uncle was one of the troops that liberated a camp, and he would never speak of it. He was traumatized just by seeing what others had suffered. I won't disgrace his memory by failing now either. We've already started down the path of evil by having an offshore concentration camp. I refuse to call it a "prison".

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PinkyLee80569's avatar

Yes..my ex husband's uncle was in Auschwitz when he was a kid. Saw his tattoo too 😞

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Dottie Fanning's avatar

Thank you for all the hard work you and your team do to fight for democracy!

I'm proud to be part of the Meidas Mighty!

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Mary Kay's avatar

Agreed! GRATITUDE for keeping us all in the LOOP of RE'SISTANCE! Your relentless reporting is vital; your inspiring words reassure and regroup... Our Beloved Country is at stake: ONWARD MEIDAS MIGHTY💪🙆‍♀️👍

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BluPeople Forever's avatar

So PROUD OF MEIDAS 🇺🇸 💙

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Andrea Madden's avatar

He is so unstable and only the Mighty Meidas Guys are the only ones reporting the truth! Thank you for helping to keep us same!!

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Ezsmilin’'s avatar

I’m a fan here but Heather, Cox Richardson, and Joyce Vance write and speak about his cognitive decline as well. It’s sad that we don’t see much about it in the mainstream but hey…! That’s why we’re here!💯👍💙🇺🇸

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Defending democracy unites Meidas Touch Network with the Meidas Mighty. Together we’ll fight the darkness of fascism, for a brighter tomorrow.

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olderwoman's avatar

Leslie, you are right, this iS Fascism, we have a Fascist President.

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Marcia's avatar

This message helped lift my spirit and jump out of bed this morning. Keep it up Meidas team

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Lisa Marie's avatar

Thank you! Keep doing what you’re doing ✊🏼💙

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Thomas Wampfler's avatar

Keep up the pressure. It's working. Keep the resistance going

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Trina Mason's avatar

Speaking truth to power + humor is the reason MTN is my favorite for news💙✊🏽

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Lilli Ann Snow's avatar

Thank goodness for you all. Thank goodness.

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Marilyn Campbell's avatar

I couldn't hide if I wanted to. Having retired 9 years ago, social security is my main source of income. What he is doing to soc sec it just plain criminal. Each and every senior receiving benefits, earned those benefits over the course of 3/4 of their lives. Took money out of paycheck every week, in my case, 47 years. I'm supposed to just sit back and let kazillionaires put my money in their pockets. NEVER! Marching next Saturday, calling my senators and congressmen, signing petitions and never taking my eyes off the criminal mob in our white house. I rely on Midas Touch as my source for the truth. Never stop‼️

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Sandra Kelly's avatar

Words I needed to hear today!

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An Mcgreevy's avatar

No Fear - We, the people…

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Jorge Rodriguez's avatar

Thank you for being there for us and for being an inspiration.

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