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Thank you. If anyone knows this monster well, it's you. I hope the US doesn't become "the land of the freaks and the home of the depraved."

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Well... I didn't understand where it was coming from, so I stopped reading pretty much after the "Love trumps hate."

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I could not believe any poll from liars, men and women I have witnessed like ma Greene and Co Just no cre

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You know the way Putin gets rid of his enemies, like he got rid of the Wagner leader today?

THAT'S WHAT TRUMP WANTS IT TO BE LIKE HERE!

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"Love Trumps, Hate" the poll of 71% of Trump voters (cultist Trumpafarins), cult of personality seems to be the closest form of reference the media uses sparingly to describe what in all actuality is a CULT, Donald J. Trump is the CULT LEADER! All this still using the word "REPUBLICAN" to further cloak the reality of what was initiated in 2015, put in place 11/03/2016, conversion to Maga publican cult begun 01/21/17. Donald was /is the preferred mix of poison for a cult leader "psychopathic liar, sociopath, malignant narcosis" not a president! The office of president however is the is the ultimate launch pad to a death star cult into orbit, using the word "republicans" allows the Maga CONFEDERATE cult on course despite the maybe unexpected "Biden" deviation of 2020. When I said "initiated in 2015" I believe the intention and conception to "take our country back" by destroying the democracy first occurred as the confederate army vs. the Union, the 1rst civil war, which the confederates looked at as a battle they lost, not the war, hence their statement " the south shall rise again". Surely by 2008 many modern-day folks who haven't been drinking "confederate coffee" every day for 2 generations think "that was so back then, supremacy? really? America had a black president for 2 terms!" Perhaps that lit the fuse of the "shall rise again" bomb in waiting. You might say, Terry that's crazy bro, I say well, how insane is what has happened since 2016? got a number? Remember the idea of America was designed by slave owners, America is really a corporation owned by the 1% club, abolishing slavery was a good for business "slogan" to ensure the cosmic streams of money continued to flow & grow for the power of "us & them" to remain. To the 1 percenters your either green or not, what $$$$$ number equals a membership today I not sure, I'm sure it orbits far north of a million, other words the for 1% is white supremacy=slavery= free labor=pure profit for the slave owner/ corporation owner/CEO/employer, investment, operation cost (facility, workers, distribution, sales, profit, loss, tax breaks, write offs ) the money generated in the high Arcay of Owner/worker, king/peasant = 1%, us & them. The framers "abolish slavery & white privilege" were both lies spoken and whispered those of their own color to pacify a present a delusion of unified white supremacy, when actually the framers knew that the white privilege was tootsie roll pop that how many licks would it before they got to the center of privilege, inherent to speed of industrialization & innovation. Today many have more money than the GPD of most countries, the 1% control 84% (?) of global wealth depends on "free labor=slavery". Ok, back to the present, cults till the Maga cult have all been containable like a private club not embedded in the political system of law & justice as well as military, although groups of sleepers over time were in place under the guise of the political words "conservative/republican party even when Donald J Trump came down the golden escalators (or lucifer on the flaming escalator up from hell lol) the relative ideology of the word conservatism was immediately absurdly irrelevant. It's almost like the remaining sane party is embarrassed to admit Donald Trump the known career conman, grifter want to be mob boss saw the "rising again, fear, grievance, and explosive desperation getting to the center of the privilege tootsie roll sucker" and gave them what they needed the great white hope and a political crazy train to rise again on. The cult of personality is a full blown, biggest, 1rst political/social cult in history effectively disabled the two-party system of constitutional function in government injecting democracy with the killer virus of mass division to kill it and replace with dictatorship aka right-wing conservatism. The Maga political /social/domestic terrorist cult has millions of programmed zealous members in positions of power politically, socially, wealthy, and privilege pissed with the power of voting, only the leader has a central location(s) Mar-a-lago the cultist everywhere, not like the people's temple, Waco, heaven's gate, localized more like corporate type scientology, latter day saints Warren Jeffs, Maga has millions which a huge historical mess & problem, that to be dealt with demands the unadulterated truth, no placating store front political circus cult debates, cult candidate campaigns like there is some ordinary political process going on as if 2016 and everything that led to Jan.th never happened that changed America, put democracy on life support, and has called on all people to whom the "truth matters" to def con 10 better be "only blue woke". Obama, Biden, Nancy, democrats, Jack Smith, Fanni Willis, Alvin Bragg, Mary Trump, Micheal Cohen is doing their part, bagging the Donald beast, we the people have got to bury him in a blue tsunami of votes powered by the truth, it's true when said "only the truth can set you free" Be absolutely clear we have no room to play with Donald J. Trump, this confederate cult ideology, 200k bond for what Donald has done and become a killer clown? A bad, deadly, joke, Rudy 150k bad, deadly joke! Thank you, Mary, you warned us, there's 2 ways Donald can be stopped, dies or in a strait jacket, muzzled and locked away in a classified skiff location till he dies! Mary, the nerds, are right we can't play into this " it's a normal political race shit" the media platforms are serving up to protect their ratings, I guess? Surely, they know the truth, see the truth, I expect the BS from all the Trump wing platforms, when the left-wing platforms try to be truthful but entertained that there is some sort of regular race for president going on is a dangerous mixed message America & democracy can't afford, It's Biden or the Maga cult in 2024 period, even if one of the wanna Be's win, Donald still wins with a pardon! What the Maga privilege starved foolish voters don't realize, understand, or comprehend is that if Maga was to win, privilege will not be restored cause it never really existed, they were lied to then by liars like they are being lied to now by a psychopathic liar, to ever make things right would require total unity of "us" we make the 1% the 1% President Obama said on his out 2 warnings "Trump is unfit for the office & you'll made Trump" he talked about the political "white backlash" social conditioning, separatism, how quickly we forget, but history does not and is a vital reminder we must pay attention to, starting with like Mary says ignore this store front political circus, see it for what it is like Donald, do what must be done to save the idea of America & democracy so it can be more than an idea!

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TL;DR... Please judiciously use paragraphs and eschew run-on sentences. Thanks.

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Polling can be freaky. I would like to see a poll about supporting Donald where his name isn't the FIRST on the list. I'm sure that would make a difference!

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I am sick of the level of airtime and energy we give to these Trump supporters. Why are the media constantly engaging and covering them?They are not the only voters in this country and it appears as if America is comprised of most of them! We need to hear more from sane voters in the media. These trumpsters are sucking the life out of me and this country. I’m exhausted.

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Too many people in New Zealand think "shaking it up" is a good thing and do not realise how precarious all our democracies are as we here in NZ approach a forgone election conclusion with a significant right to govern alone for our right and far right party's. No one remembers Jacinda Arden so I wish Americans the best especially with the consequences for the war in Europe if The USA abandons democracy and by extension it's last chance to defend the free world.

Cheers.

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We (the sane people) need to help GOTV, we need to volunteer to be election workers, we need to remind people to check to ensure their voter registration is current, we have to watch out for the people who voted twice in '20 because Donald told them to...

https://www.rawstory.com/attorney-james-saunders/

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"We shouldn’t care what anybody who continues to support Donald Trump says; we shouldn’t care about their grievances; and we shouldn’t care what they threaten."

The trouble is that their support points to an increased malaise in American society; a paradigm that suggests many ordinary citizens have lost faith in the American Dream; that they have no say in their future. That should be of great concern to all American citizens.

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Mary, I'm kind of curious. I've heard that Melania has been supportive, for the most part, of the big, orange, ape. However, today I read that she's furious over Donald involving Barron into his web of garbage. Do you have any take on this 🤔? Jay in Tucson.

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Why does EVERYONE in media say, "The frontrunner, DT" prefacing every comment about him. Couldn't they mostly id him as Mr or Former Pres? We don't need to broadcast constantly that he's the frontrunner at this point. Some people may just join the bandwagon or decide to join in on the "sick joke" not realizing how devastating that reality would be.

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He is Defendant Trump. Defendant Trump is the front runner. Period.

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Excellent, Mary! I am so annoyed at the WAPO for normalizing defendant trump as a presidential candidate (I’ve long since cancelled my NYT subscription for the same reason), that I’m still commenting about it in their comment section. I doubt anyone reads what I say, and so I will stop wasting my time.

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Well said.

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Thank you, Judith L. Hubbard.

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Thank you, Linda McCaughey.

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