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Please don’t let Harris lose by an apostrophe.

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“It’s all enough to make your head explode” 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯

The abandonment of truth and logic is horrific.

Hang in there America! 🇺🇸 💙 🙌

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My stomach has been a mess from anxiety for the past bit and only getting worse as the election gets closer. I'm more stressed this time worrying if he'll win than last 2 elections. I'm even currently living abroad and will for at least 4 more years, but I'm still scared!

Can’t wait to celebrate Madam President Kamala’s victory wearing this Harris 47 tee 👇💙

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I’m going to cry tears of happiness and relief when she wins!

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May you feel the arms of hopefulness around you. Thank you for all you and yours have done to support our country.

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JP, ditto, I have the same anxiety about the possibility that Trump might win.

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Try talking to We the Elderly. It seems all the commotion about dear President Biden's age, commotion so petty and uncalled for yet threw this man to the dogs. The gods forbid anyone should notice Biden was getting sick to his stomach and forcing himself to maintain self control, not because he was old and feebleminded. His powerful speech at the DNC was proof enough that there was no elderly crud in his brain.

Why am I bringing this up? Because it's quite obvious that Americans, politics aside, don't seem to give two shits about us old farts when we need them the most. Americans are great at neglect because they're too busy busting their asses for their greedy employers who refuse to pay them what they're worth.

Using myself as an example, in my early years when I was queer and despised by assholes who dared to call themselves Christian, despite the fact that American adults don't love children enough to put an end to gun violence for once and for all!; insist that there's some invisible being known by different names by different faiths but he's up there telling people to hate the people who are different than they, and people like Netanyahu whose bloodline isn't Jewish, Christians who use a Book called the Bible, stolen from the Jews and combined it with a smaller book about a virgin birth that even the Jews didn't believed in even though he did have the Jewish bloodline.

Even so, as clearly as Jesus made it, aside from miracles named in his honor that I cannot believe in, I sought to learn more about this wonderful man by leaving the Catholic Church to hear about him in English. Oy!

I sampled the many varieties of the teaching about Jesus. I should never have left the Catholic Church. The hypocrisy of the combined Protestant teaching and half-assed learning by the congregations made me pity the Man whose teaching somehow got twisted into how one should raise their children, how to hate people Jesus never mentioned or hated, and hate homosexuality because that invisible man in the sky told parents to throw people like me and millions of others into the streets with only the clothes on their backs.

I loathed the Southern Baptists the most. They hate everyone who isn't as narrow minded as they and their brand quickly took over the running of the US Government which quickly made LGBTQ love jailable.

Donald Trump took notice of those twisted versions of Christianity and ran with it. He was smart enough and evil enough and with his knowledge of the writings he found in "Mein Kampf" he ran with and quickly brainwashed those who became his adoring and very useful followers. His was the most twisted and violent in teaching Christian devotees to whom they should hate the most and led them to believe it is okay to physically harm or even kill anyone he felt deserved it.

I'm a Vietnam Veteran who didn't earn the titles of sucker and loser because I came home alive. Some veterans are such fucking bastards that they will gladly vote for Donald because their parents are those types of Christians who say it's all right to harm or kill anyone not like them.

My youth went beyond being hated. I rejected that hatred that was mostly practiced by shitheads who dared to call themselves Christians.

Folks, most of you white people didn't grow up with the burden of being white or any other flesh tones and a member of the LGBTQ COMMUNITY. We had to act straight or pay the consequences. The real Christians and especially Atheists were the best. They were our shelter. When we got old they were there for us until poverty and elder abuse had us homeless or living in Section 8 housing and long forgotten by the Americans from young to middle aged. Shopping and sports were far more important to fun loving Americans than worrying if we're ill or wearing leakfree underwear, have to rely on others to run our errands or drive us somewhere.

The only help I've had from being a homeless, living in my car for two years, and hospitalized with a heat stroke, was help from the Veterans Administration. What's left of my relatives are East of the Mississippi and unable to help because they're older than I.

By the way, this isn't self pity. It's sheer anger at the way a nation that dares to call itself a Christian nation is so useless when it comes to sharing Christian charitable acts to the point that millions are living on city sidewalks and voting for motherfuckers like Donald Trump and all those with their heads up his fat ass.

I feel that venting my anger in the wonderful Mary Trump's comment section will be seen by more folks likely to see and hear me than if I post on my meek little Substack page. That's just until the voting ends because I urgently want to be heard in hopes that I'll wake people up enough to vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I can't afford running off to Canada if the dirty bastard Trump wins and I've come to picturing our beautiful LGBTQ neighborhood in San Diego looking like Ukraine cities and utterly destroyed Gaza. Trump and all his Darling Authoritarians, Oligarchs, Christian Nationalists, Project 2025 authors and those politicians who've forced their way into state and federal government just itching to get started with Donnie's Fourth Reich. This time they're completely prepared to strike and steal our Democracy. Either end hatred, including by so-called Christians, or sink to the will of Fascism worldwide.

I'm tired of my lifetime of feeling guilty for being white and for hiding my hopes for the black citizens to win against the cruelty of white people and the brutality against all other races with the excuse they were taking jobs away from white people.

We stole the Jewish faith and quickly trashed it. Our ancestors stole this country from the Indigenous folks and treated them so horribly that I cried through the reading of it. And Donald and friends have the insane claim that he and his own this country and it's okay to beat the fuck out of or murder us who disagree.

I got by the bigotry of the 1950s right up until good ol' President Obama set my people free. I'll be goddamned if I'll be going back into hiding to save my old ass from being beaten and dragged to a death camp or outright murdered by Donald's so-called Good People Army. Have at it.

Lastly, the way to stop Trump and friends from going Fascist on us is right at hand. It's called Treason. The Constitution protects us from that but who the fuck pays any attention to the Constitution in America? Not our government. Not the demands of We the People. We get what we deserve.

Thank you for reading.

Richard La France

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As an 81 year survivor of a multiple disabled veteran, I must cry about how our veterans are treated. You see, I did nothing to be treated so good. I wish every veteran and their families would be treated with the same respect the government has shown me. You are a true warrior. My husband was a true warrior. I think it has something to do with his Native American heritage. May your experiences soon change.

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Empires Fall when they can no longer Rule, and Sustain themselves... Political Chaos is usually the First Sign... The MAGAs are Good Examples of Impervious Minds...

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OVERpopulation also contributes.

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It has speculated that due to Projected Climate Change, there will be 1-2 Billion Climate Migrants from the Parched Regions, to Cooler Wetter Regions within the next 50 Years... That will TEST ALL Human Systems.... It Will Test Our Humanity...

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Humans have always adapted to external circumstances and will continue to do so.

Or have people fled from Arizona, where it can get pretty hot, to the other states and Arizona is now a deserted area? Certainly not.

In any case, this rural exodus is not due to climatic changes, but quite simply to the fact that they are doing very badly economically in the first place.

If the big multinationals were not so greedy for money, there could be an industry in other poor countries, which would considerably increase prosperity for everyone there. But that is exactly what the big corporations are preventing.

That's where humanity begins!

But capitalism does not allow such a thing, because not everyone can be rich. If one is rich, others must have less. It's like the lottery, where millions of people buy tickets and hope to win something, but very few can win at all because it depends on the amount of money available for the winnings. And it's similar with the economy.

In addition, there is widespread corruption in the refugees' home countries, which is also openly visible and many describe as normal.

If corruption does not disappear, more and more people will come to the rich industrialized countries.

You don't need climate change for that!

Climate change is blamed for so much these days that I sometimes have to smile, because strangely enough, productions are still not allowed to be optimized in this regard. And because it is too expensive for the industry – or rather, they don't want to lose their profits – they are subsidized by the state, which the taxpayer has to pay for. Then it would only be fair if the products produced were to become cheaper for the taxpayer, but that is not happening.

In addition, there are a lot of companies that do a great job of explaining how climate-friendly they produce, but in reality have them produced in Asia, mainly in China. Not only are the environmental regulations lax there, but workers are paid much less than a U.S. citizen in the U.S.

Apple and Nike are the best examples of the fact that they are not willing to produce in the USA.

Workers who build iPhones in China receive a starvation wage and earn about US$ 450 per month. The profit margins on these smartphones are unbelievable, because the material costs for the smartphone are also roughly in this range.

So there is not the slightest thing about Apple's products that are climate-friendly or even climate-neutral, because these phones have to get to the USA somehow. So they come by plane or by ship, because they still can't swim independently ;-)

Be that as it may, climate change, which is also a completely natural process that has been constantly bringing changes for many millions of years, because the trace gases that are said to be responsible for the warming were already many times higher. CO₂ is essential for plants, because without or very little CO₂, plants would not be able to grow vigorously and would not be able to produce large plants.

One only has to look at the history of the earth, where plants had a gigantic stature; at that time, active volcanoes in particular caused a much higher CO₂ content in the air. It was only when the activities slowly calmed down and the CO₂ content dropped that the plants no longer became so big.

So we are thinking a lot about it right now and sometimes panic because nature is doing what it has always done: it is constantly changing.

If the predictions of climate researchers from the 1970s had been confirmed, the Netherlands would be under water today and northern Germany would have the North Sea coast about 100 kilometers inland, but this is not the case. The climate researchers had set the event for the year 2000; unfortunately, nature has not adhered to it.

So-called climate researchers also predicted that by the year 2000 southern Germany and the north of Italy would be a desert. This nonsense has never happened either.

In the 1970s, it was also prophesied for Germany that due to acid rain, which was caused by the exhaust fumes of industry, there would be no more forests by the year 2000. Unfortunately, the trees did not know this and have increased the forest area by more than 30%.

And now we have huge rains in the Sahara and again they are turning it into a catastrophe; yet the Sahara used to be a rainforest.

And something else important: In the industrialized countries, the birth rate has been declining significantly for years, and society is aging at breakneck speed.

So how should the rich industrialized nations be able to continue to exist if people do not eventually go where they are practically needed?

Climate change or not, you shouldn't do anything about nature, because it only harms you.

Briefly about CO₂: In nurseries, greenhouses are fumigated to make the young plants stronger and more resistant, CO₂ is what it is for a gardener, namely a completely natural fertilizer.

It would be far more important to deal with the food that the industry offers and from which many people get sick. When I see very much what the majority of people do to themselves and what the government allows, I feel completely different.

This is a much bigger problem, but it is overshadowed.

Children and adolescents are sometimes severely overweight, cardiovascular diseases, problems with the kidneys and liver. One could almost believe that the food industry has a direct connection with the pharmaceutical industry and that with its bad food people make people sick. So anyone who seriously believes that the climate is killing us is successfully ignoring the fact that it is food that really kills us. Again, it is the greed of the companies and their shareholders who don't care at all. They have enough money to buy good food; the much larger part of the population cannot do that.

In 2021, the USA was ranked 2nd in the world ranking of countries with overweight and obese people. 67.5% of Americans are overweight or obese.

Germany was in 2nd place a few years ago, while the USA was in 1st place and was replaced by Chile, now we have gone from 2nd to 22nd place.

Be that as it may, there is no doubt that the climate is changing, but in the end, far more things matter than tiny amounts of trace gases.

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Here in Germany we have a respected climate researcher named Mojib Latif, who said in 1997 in a television program on German television that the evaluation of data over a long period of time had shown that there would definitely be no global warming; not in the next 100 years. He said that if something changes, it would be more likely to cool down.

When the Swede Greta Thunberg suddenly appeared and "Fridays for Future" was formed, Mojib Latif claimed something completely different from one day to the next, namely that CO₂ would lead to warming.

This is interesting because colleagues have already expressed the suspicion that he only changed his mind in order to get research funding from the state.

It is at least a mystery to me how a supposedly scientific opinion could turn 180° from one day to the next. Apparently, money even changes the climate, which I think is remarkable from a physical point of view.

Here in Germany we have a respected climate researcher named Mojib Latif, who said in 1997 in a television program on German television that the evaluation of data over a long period of time had shown that there would definitely be no global warming; not in the next 100 years. He said that if something changes, it would be more likely to cool down.

When the Swede Greta Thunberg suddenly appeared and "Fridays for Future" was formed, Mojib Latif claimed something completely different from one day to the next, namely that CO₂ would lead to warming.

This is interesting because colleagues have already expressed the suspicion that he only changed his mind in order to get research funding from the state.

It is at least a mystery to me how a supposedly scientific opinion could turn 180° from one day to the next. Apparently, money even changes the climate, which I think is remarkable from a physical point of view.

Here is the United Nations' definition of the term climate change again:

"United Nations • The term "climate change" refers to long-term changes in temperature and weather that are mainly caused by human activities, in particular the burning of fossil fuels."

Weather changes are something completely different from climate, because climate means that a certain precipitation and temperature structure predominates in a certain zone.

A change in the weather, which stands for a general change, is not climate change. Unfortunately, the term climate change is used incorrectly again and again, but even a few scientists seem to notice it.

It is interesting, by the way, that the climate researchers financed by the state are strangely more credible than completely independent ones who are not dependent on research funds.

Why should those who are not dependent on state funds and are therefore under a certain pressure tell something wrong? This does not give them the slightest advantage. Financially dependent researchers, however, are in a completely different position.

I found the TV report, but I couldn't find an English translation. Maybe there is someone who can do that for them.

https://youtu.be/VCFt8nBOewY

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We Shall See... To mention Phoenix, AZ, this year it was nearly 3-Months of 100+ Degree Temperatures... The 'Hot Period' has trended to starting earlier, and lasting longer... Observe the collapsing Antarctic Ice-Sheets, the disappearing Alpine Glaciers, and disappearing Greenland Ice-Sheets.... Additionally the Perma-Frost in Eurasia, and the Americas are melting... These are not the effects of Day-2-Day Weather Changes... Tropical Insects are migrating North.... Part of the reason that there is so much pressure on the Southern Border, is that Central America is in a Years Long Drought leading to a collapse of Subsistence Farming... That Collapse along with Bad Governance, and Crime, has lead to a Mass Migration that impacts the U.S. Southern Border... There are many other examples such as Supercharged Hurricanes in FL because of Record Hot Waters off Florida... We could go on... Research Stephen Hawking's Predictions.... Why Do You Think That Some Billionaires Want To Go To Mars?

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When they say temperature, they surely mean Fahrenheit and not degrees Celsius; that would be a bit strange. But when I look around, temperatures above 40 °C are nothing unusual, especially as the heat island phenomenon in cities means that in summer, when temperatures are higher at night, it doesn't cool down as it should, but practically stores the heat and prevents it from cooling down.

In addition, the huge reflective glass and mirror surfaces make the whole thing even more difficult.

If I now take a look at the temperatures for 2024, the average temperatures were anything but unusual. Take a closer look at the charts at Weather Spark.

https://de.weatherspark.com/h/y/2460/2024/Historisches-Wetter-w%C3%A4hrend-des-Jahres-2024-in-Phoenix-Arizona-Vereinigte-Staaten#Figures-Temperature

As far as the ice masses are concerned, there is also something that must not be forgotten: the earth was already ice-free, and it has changed from time to time. Today, this is particularly evident in the Antarctic, where the ice has been behaving unusually for a long time and the melting of ice is due to a much warmer current. These are scientific findings that cannot simply be brushed aside.

Here in Germany, there are some areas where you can still see the traces of where a glacier once pushed through the land. But at some point these glaciers melted; and at that time there were no people on earth with industrial plants or cars with combustion engines or heating systems powered by coal, wood, gas or oil.

So how can CO₂ be responsible for the fact that the earth is supposedly heating up and that there have supposedly been ever higher CO₂ levels since industrialization?

Humans cannot contribute that much, because natural sources of CO₂ such as volcanoes and undersea black and white smokers already blow so much CO₂ into the atmosphere that the proportion of emissions caused by humans is hardly significant.

Climate change has given rise to a veritable climate industry that is anything but climate-friendly. It's really all about money; how else can you explain that you trade emissions and can “buy your way out”? It's a bit like the Catholic Church, where you go to confession and then have to pray the “Our Father” many times and whatnot.

It's practical because there are no real consequences if you don't do something right.

Emissions trading is similar.

You get permission from the state to emit a certain amount of CO₂; if you don't reach this amount, you get X amount for the difference. Someone else who cannot make do with the specified amount can then buy permission to produce a certain amount of CO₂.

What sounds so great is nothing more than pure hypocrisy, because no less CO₂ is being emitted, it is simply a new business model to get money into the coffers.

But that's not all: there are not even uniform emission certificates, but several dozen in Europe alone.

If they were really serious, the maximum limits would be reduced further and further, but they would certainly not be equalized. This is a very lazy trick to take money out of people's pockets.

And this reduction is not possible at all, because the growing number of servers required for artificial intelligence alone means that far more electricity has to be generated. Everyone should have realized by now that wind and solar cannot do this.

Quite apart from the fact that wind turbines and solar panels leave behind a lot of hazardous waste at the end of their lives and expensive raw materials such as the silicon in solar panels cannot be recycled because it would be too energy-intensive. Silicon is therefore being mined and is already causing major damage to nature that cannot be reversed.

Composite materials such as those on the rotor blades cannot be separated, so they are disposed of in hazardous waste, where they are then incinerated. The fact that CO2 is released once again does not need to be explained.

Last but not least, there are also some things in space that we have no influence on. Regardless of whether it is massive solar winds that even shrink the Earth's magnetic field, there are still a variety of factors that play a role.

You ask why billionaires want to fly to Mars? Because they are bored! They have everything you can possibly have, so you have to do something that not everyone can do. Someone like Elon Musk can't be taken seriously at all, because what was the point of taking a Tesla into space? Elon Musk feels the need to be the center of attention everywhere, because the man is not capable of normal interactions. He also bought Twitter because he can. The owners at the time and also the experts were very surprised at the time that Musk had paid far too much for Twitter. The real purpose of the purchase was to satisfy his need for recognition, because he could tell anyone about his great life at any time and place – whether you wanted to hear it or not, it didn't matter at all.

That's also the reason why he wants to go to Mars.

He can also fly to Alpha Centurie because of me, hardly anyone will miss him.

Other billionaires will stay on earth to make a business out of everything.

Why do you think Nestlé buys water rights worldwide?

An international research team led by the University of Southampton (UK) and the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel has now published new results in the journal Nature that attribute the temperature maximum to strong volcanism in the North Atlantic.

It is interesting to note that with almost identical emissions of CO₂ 56 million years ago, the change is faster today.

Conversely, however, this means that there must be other factors that make the whole thing happen faster.

However, it must be noted that temperatures 56 million years ago were only a few degrees higher than today and there were several phases of cooling. The last cold phase, also known as the Little Ice Age, did not end until the early 18th century. Another 100–150 years have passed before the temperatures were "normal" again.

And then industrialization begins and the naturally rising temperatures are attributed to a large amount of CO₂ caused by humans. But there wasn't that much industry yet; Where should all the man-made CO₂ suddenly come from?

But no matter, we have a clear conscience with emissions trading and act as if we are actively doing something. What you can achieve with the sale of indulgences is really impressive.

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The world's fertility has decreased massively over the last few decades and is negative in nearly every country on Earth (leaving just six with positive growth as of now). China's already into steep population decline (possibly losing half a billion or more over the next century!), as is most of the rest of Asia, Europe (especially Eastern including Russia) and South America. India is following just behind the curve and Africa's will peak within the next generation and then fall precipitously.

Japan and South Korea are already trying to entice immigrants to what were once quite insular societies. Even with robotics and large payments for each birth though, it's not enough to sustain a growing elderly cohort.

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I would love to see the planets population of human species decrease by half or more, then stabilize. We are well over the carrying capacity of the earth which has long been considered 5 billion people. Hell, we only had a little over 1 billion when my grandmother was born in 1893, and 3 billion when I was born in 62. The population had increased to 3.5 billion when I was in college 1980. Now @ almost 8.5 billion, an almost 5 billion increase in only 40 years. We are imploding! Flora and fauna are in the 7th mass extinction 11 thousand years too soon. We need to drop ##'s or go extinct before we destroy life to the point the entire planet resets.

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That's my point. It's already happening. Because we don't see it day-to-day (bit like climate change) we don't really appreciate the scale - but a country like China 'losing' more than the current population of the USA in less than a century is probably the largest demographic event in human history.

As I said previously, *all* countries will experience steep fertility decline within a generation or two.

It's gonna be how we cope with a huge elderly cohort and a smaller and shrinking younger one that will be the defining question of the coming years, *not* "over-population".

I agree, for the natural world, this will be a great respite, but for humans it's an existential crisis.

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given all that has happened in only the past 40 years, I am not sure we will exist in 2 generations. We are alreasy at the tipping point for extinction events and climate change irreversability. Huhm

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Kamala is going to win. America is going to win.

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I am so hoping that Americans come through on Tuesday and reject Trump and MAGA. I would like to say I am optimistic but there are a lot of idiots out there. And with this fucking Supreme Court anything is possible.

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“I am not optimistic but I do have hope. They are not the same thing.” Cornel West

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Sending you the arms of hopefulness to surround you and yours. Wishing You and Yours Best Days.

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Whatever it legally takes, the United States can never move forward with this current, no longer supreme, corrupt court. They’re not even pretending anymore. John Roberts is and always was a jackal, just waiting for three more members of his pack.

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We all thought the pussy tape was the end. It wasn’t. Does it matter how bad this guy gets? Apparently not. Vote for Harris in undeniably record numbers. Let’s sweep the floor. Vote 🗳️ Blue 🇺🇸

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Unfortunately the tape did not matter. DJT has convinced people that he is there answer. Please hold on to the hope that Kamala will be our next President. We cannot give energy or breath to DJT winning. Wishing You and Yours Best Days

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Imho, the Harris/Walz ticket will win in a landslide. Women and the men who care about them will drive this election, and we will be voting in numbers too big to rig for women’s rights and restoration of full citizenship.

A majority of Americans are so very tired of his lies and deception, it gets old quickly. Keep the faith everyone, we are so close to the finish line, and we will triumph in the end!

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Let's end this horror show on Tuesday.

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I don't mind saying that I am really scared right now. Either way, I think it's going to get ugly in this country after next week.

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We need to be ready to take to the streets and demonstrate our support for Harris in crowds too big and too numerous to ignore.

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If there are some shenanigans going on post-election, then there needs to be an organized march on Washington

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The Biden administration, I’m sure, has foreseen the probability of GOP induced violence, and has implemented strategies to counter it. If Joe had the intelligence to build the world’s best economy, he certainly is smart enough to understand the danger coming from the right wing fanatics.

Hold tightly to hope, we will prevail, and there have been some safeguards built into the system since 2020. For example, it now takes 20% of each the House and the Senate to cause debate about a state’s election results. Prior to the last election, it was only one Senator or Representative to object.

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I agree, so let’s get on with it

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I understand everything you are feeling right now. DJT has gotten by with so much stuff. Yet at some point there has to be a reckoning . We have to believe that his is coming. May you be wrapped in the arms of hopefulness. Wishing You and Yours Best Days...

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The last time there was a miracle, a star appeared in the east and a baby laid in a manger!

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It is absolutely beyond my comprehension that this race is close!! What has happened to this country that someone of Dump’s temperament, criminality, stupidity, and utter selfishness could ever be the nominee of a major political party to be PRESIDENT??? He says people like Orban wish him luck. Of course they do!!! He’s as easily manipulated as a toddler! All I can say is, those of you who haven’t- VOTE!!!

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like I wrote: standards in America have gone in the cesspool.

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Not to mention that he was REJECTED in 2020!

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The race isn’t as close as the polls would have you believe. There are many “junk” polls that have been financed by the GOP to instill a sense of hopelessness in Democrats so we would stay home. Go vote!

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Horrifying. Stupifying. Yet we must not be overwhelmed, stunned, paralyzed. We must believe in unity, progress moving forward, not be disempowered by the patriarchal man's cape. We are intelligent, flexible, strong, resourceful in the face of brutal ignominious onslaught.

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Empires Fall when they can no longer Rule, and Sustain themselves... Political Chaos is usually the First Sign... The MAGAs are Good Examples of Impervious Minds...

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Yes, Dear Hannah... I believe that is what we must believe. Wishing You and Yours Best Days.

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Is there a way to encourage more young men to vote for VP Harris with a TV advertisement telling men they might have to pay child support to their girl friend because they can't get an abortion or is that too much of a touchy way to do it.

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I thought the same thing. Child support can keep them from affording college and/or force them into taking on 2 jobs to pay for it. Have they forgotten that paternity can be easily proven now with dna? No way to lie their way out of it. Do they really want to take on the financial responsibility of fatherhood for 18 years? Seems to me they have as much to lose as women with forced birthing. They should be voting for Harris in droves and getting abortion legalized again.

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Very good point, George!

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Too many young men don't think that far ahead. Their brains mature slowly, and social media encourages them to believe that they have a right to sex.

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You have a message there I haven't heard. If it works, good.

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I just can't help thinking that we're all living in an alternate universe and it's time to wake up. Well alternate universe or not it IS time to wake up and finally take out the trash that has been stinking up our country for the last 9 years. Hopefully we will.

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Sending you loving hugs. Keep believing. Wishing You and Yours Best Days.

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What a Long List ? I was thinking is that it ? I thought there's more? Oh my goodness, Mary, what the hell happened to our Media anyway? Had Kamala,Joe or Barrack Ever done just one of these atrocities, One, It would be reported on all month long, and their political futures Ruined. We've got until Tuesday, next week, and I just want you to know how Glad I am that your in our Life's. You've always made sense of your uncle's Senseless Behavior,as our guide. You were Great on Lawrence O'Donnell's show,Congrats and Thank You, will reStack ASAP 🌊

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Well put, Karen, and thank you, Mary!

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Elon Musk is backing DJT because Elon knows that DJT can be bought... Elon's Tesla Autonomous Driving Software is Hazardous, is under Review by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ... The Tesla Battery Packs can be Hazardous... Space-X's Starlink could have a Problematical Future as the thousands of Low-Orbit Satellites start falling out of the Sky... Elon is a Child of Internet v.1.0 where it was Gospel to Move Fast, and Break Things... Internet v.1.0 is the Gospel of NOW, and the Future is later... The Future is now arriving... If DJT wins, then these Problems Go Away.... Elon Has Said So...

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He will NOT win!

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Does anyone expect MAGA to finely differentiate the possessive versus the plural?

MAGA, like Trump, does not read. They listen to their lickspittles—like Stephen Miller (the acceptable Jew) or Fox Entertainment (paying out 3/4 billion dollars) or Steve Bannon (temporarily in mufti), nod heads wisely, and smirk.

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No mention of the obscene Arnold Palmer litany.

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Well maybe Joe didn't say it the way they wanted to hear it so I will say it ......Trumps cult are all garbage . Bad ,disguisting , foul mouthed, garbage ....and their mothers ...well lets just say they wear farm boots with worms in them .

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Well, if "bad genes" explain criminal conduct, then Donald has found his excuse for his criminality in the "bad genes" of his criminal-minded father and grandfather.

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