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Characterizing O'Donnell as white hot is dead on! I was particularly facinated by O'Donnell's choice to read Trump's words re. mifepristone. It was a brilliant choice! Hearing O'Donnell - 72, cognitively intact, and at the top of his game - read those words and use the precise inflections used by Trump really drove home how unhinged Donald Trump has become! We all need more of these choices!

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Lawrence is my favorite pundit, not because we are the same age and grew up in the same state (Massachusetts) but because he has depth, he has skills, and he is simply a good man.

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Mine too!

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Yesterday’s event was not a press conference. It was a staged reality TV event in which the media who covered it were props and/or complicit in this ongoing false narrative of this being news. The real news is that more citizens are now seeing it for what it truly is.

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It’s worse this time because he’s running full fascist and he’s still being treated by the press as a normal candidate.

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100%.

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Take a look at which candidate the various CEO's of our major media outlets have contributed to and you'll see the conflict clear eyed. Biden, Harris, and now Walz are seriously taking on the corporate greed we've experienced in the last 40 years, and here we are watching them fight back. Time for the Fairness Doctrine to return which R. Reagan killed. That episode of unreality tv played out on Thursday was so pathetic I strain to find adequate words to describe the utter stupidity of the "journalists" present at this farce. Just acceptance, no pushback or attempts to correct the ridiculous ramblings of a psychopathic narcissist - voted most likely to be a dictator by anyone being honest. Dictator for a day? Oh sure, like all dictators - they just stop magically after day 1 - uh huh. I can only hope the FCC would step in and actually put the license of some of these media outlets on the line if they don't start sharpening their pencils and do some actual fact checking. Free speech is one thing person to person, it is quite another when your bullhorn reaches millions - there must be accountability to coincide with responsibility to tell the truth and call out blatant lies meant to cause harm.

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and that is the real news

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Lawrence O'Donnell's critique of that so called news conference is perhaps the best thing I have ever viewed on TV.

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That moment when he slammed his papers on the desk in his rage at the press.

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Thank you, Mary.

Done, DONE with corporate media. What a shameful bunch. Much gratitude to folks like Lawrence O'Donnell and many here on Substack who expose corporate media's refusal to be balanced and to call out the lies.

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Waaaay back in 2015/16 there was a guest on msnbc who was PLEADING with press and media to beware of ‘normalization’ of Trump. And then they spent the rest of the run up to the election doing just that!🤬

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Thank you, Mary. And many thanks to Lawrence, as well.

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Thank you, Mary, 💙 for including Kamala's UAW comments in your post.

I am glad yesterday that I did not watch Donald's "press conference".

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Here is the link to my Threads last night thanking Lawrence O'Donnell.

It has more than 500 "Hearts". 😀

https://www.threads.net/@introvertedcaroline/post/C-bpw0XMAm1?xmt=AQGzz8VygLOWY8jvpzk6wU6DqGM9I7RlvmdmyOvk3aumIg

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''But Lawrence O’Donnell is right—yesterday felt like 2016 all over again. And that is not a good thing.''

It isn't but again what we have to worry about is this: Another 'Stop the Steal' movement on the state certification level that ends up in SCOTUS. Donald did say "I don't need your votes."

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Agree! I’ve been so worried and full of anxiety feeling that there is no plan for what will be done when Insurrection 2.0 starts happening.😩

Is there a plan???

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The only benefit is that people can see for themselves how decrepit he has become. Otherwise, I am in principle against giving him any coverage to lie.

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I think he should keep spewing his craziness, so sane people will not vote that criminal

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"Trump Spews Lies, Disparages Harris’s Intelligence, Insults Jews, and Rambles About “Insane Asylums” in Unhinged Press Conference

He did little to quell reports that he is melting down over Harris’s poll numbers."

---Vanity Fair Headline after the press conference yesterday

Now this is the kind of headline we need more of since 2016. Thank you Mary for always telling it like it is. and reminding us this is not a normal election. The MSM sure does love to watch a car crash more than boring topics like saving our Republic.

P.S. My humble suggestion when covering live events is to pause and fact check the stream to be sure points are made at the proper intervals before resuming. That's how people watch TV at home so why not do the same with news events. Thank you.

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With Donald the networks should simply use their robust digital delay capabilities. Donald lies: hit pause and counter the lie. Once countered, hit play and immediately pause, to counter the next lie. Better still, edit out each lie Donald utters / stammers.Then play only demonstrably factual statements -- assuming there are any.

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I think they should have a big red horn and blast the sound every time he lies.

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The differences between today and 2016 is 1) we recognize this dysfunction in MSM this time around and are much more aggressive in calling them out and 2) it won’t result in a don-old election BECAUSE we’re so aggressive in our efforts to highlight this inequity in MSM reporting about the election.

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I wish VP Harris had only agreed to one debate. That’s all it will take to show Democrats that, yes, we will reject Trump. Anything more is just giving him free publicity.

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So far she’s agreed only to September 10th.

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Bafoon, bafoonery, bafoonist - are you f...ing kidding me? ARE YOU F-ING KIDDING??? We have watched this idiocracy play out in front of our eyes, and swallowed enough of this pig sh*t to know long ago this is not normal in any way. It is dangerous propaganda played out by pigs at the trough wannabe oligarchs. Their craven piggishness and insatiable greed know no bounds. Stupidity on steroids as members of congress play the hits they know their base-turds will reward them for. Who can be the most obnoxious, callous, and self-serving? VOTE THEM OUT - ALL OF THEM - NOW. As Joe Biden said: "We're gonna shove DJT off the stage once and for all"

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Good for Rolling Stone. You certainly won’t see that in the Post and the Times.

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Mary, I don’t know how you are keeping this pace with your writing, pod casts and authoring, but you are so appreciated. Canada reads and listens to you too!

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