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Beth's avatar

Congrats and thank you for the thoughtful discourse.

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Meg Daley Olmert WE/US's avatar

ICE IS???

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Nansu19's avatar

Does anyone have contact with the upper echelon of the military to find out how many military personnel are aware of and against being part of the coup they are part of? Will they all just go along? Do we have any underground supporters? It’s coming down to a serious confrontation and they cannot be complicit! We need powerful allies.

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Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto and Social Security Data Breach

This should be concerning to all of us, WE the People DOGE lackies in the Social Security Administration(SSA) were told not to dump into the public internet space, but they did it anyway, releasing 100’s of millions of personal data including names, addresses, Social Security numbers into the internet spaces

Now that this personal data is now in the public space, Cheeto and his Nazi allies particularly Peter Thiel with his Palantir software platform, now have public permission to use this data go after registered voters in order to disqualify these legitimate voters across the country through the Vigilante assault like they experienced in 2024 According to Greg Palast the investigative reporter who exposed this Nazi scheme According to Palast just by eliminating this influence would have given Harris the win

Again what is not being covered by Substack authors about this threat WE the People have to be prepared for this voter assault and let friends, relatives, family, and neighbors know about this to protect their right to vote

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Dick & Janet Avery's avatar

Rick, will you contact the Chairman of the Dems & suggest the following: (1) Make a list of All of the House members that voted for the "Big Shitty Bill"; (2) Cross reference that with the district they represent (3) Cross reference that list with the majority of the aspects of the bill that effect THEIR district. (Kitchen table issues ONLY, Remember the KISS principle. No esoteric subjects about economics, law, or any of the usual Dem pearl-clutching tut-tuts.) (4) get that info into the hands of a team of Dems that visit EVERY aforementioned district and inform as many people as possible of what the bill will do to THEIR SPECIFIC district). Start this program in the spring of next year so it will be fresh in the minds of people just before the mid-terms. THEN, we'll take back the House! Loving being a Square with Lincoln!

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Protect the Vote's avatar

great ideas

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P J Johnston's avatar

I have one big question...how in the world did Project 2025 interject into this whole thing. Oh wait they amassed tons of "Dark Money" and funded campaigns to get all the chaotic clowns that we now have in our government. All the sycophants and loyalist that tell "HIM" go ahead and do this crap! I hope to see all of them in jail in the future without parole! BTW I don't like the VP any better than I like the current leader. Yes TACO has DVT which is a horrible disease and him losing weight won't help anymore.

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Maxine Hunter's avatar

Watched the chap live last night. Listen to the discussion again this morning. Stop on. Always interesting to see what come up in the live chap. The chap goes fast and furious. Whew... Anyway, thanks Joe, Sturat and Rick for all you do. Take care.

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Marta's avatar

Institutional Washington is under the matress.

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Kathy  Utley's avatar

Joe Trippi. You are spot on. This is way beyond party politics. There is a strong movement against this bullshit. I am seeing a rise in the progressive Christian community to fight against Christian Nationalist movement

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Marta's avatar

The USA fought against Fascism, now we have the enemy within. The military mission is “ to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic”……I would like to hear your words about it, Lincoln Square.

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Leigh Horne's avatar

I so appreciate the fact that you're finally starting to talk about one of the more serious (and well funded!) threats to democracy: Peter Thiel and his similars, including the excreble Curtis Yarvin. The sheer entitlement and arrogance of this cabal of tech oligarchs might be unmatched in history. More, please.

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Kathy  Utley's avatar

There is an authenticity and honesty to your commentary and reporting.

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Marta's avatar

This is a small motion coup. Started on Jan 6 2021, increased on July 1 2024 .Read Stuart Stevens to know all the historic background.

Now they are trying to shut and even shoot our mouths.

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CE's avatar

Luckily JD Vance is missing the reptilian cleverness and evil charisma of Donald J Trump. Donald is one of those once-in-a generation individuals much like an Adolf, using force of personality and a complete lack of morals to bend an entire nation to his will. JD Vance is not that guy, he will not be appealing to MAGA in the way that Donald is, he does not radiate the plastic authenticity and carnival-barker aura. The MAGA “coalition “ will collapse when Donald is gone.

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Sundependence's avatar

How about focusing a show on Curtis Yarvin, Peter Thiel, et al.

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James McConnel's avatar

JD Vance is part of the Peter Thiel / Elon Musk Punch and Judy Show, you know, the part of the show where a dummy is needed to be beaten for laughs. The plot has always been to have a lopsided puppet mind in the White House, to replace the aging Thief-in-Chief, to lead the Nation to the Glorious Technical Feudal Autocracy. Think of it as Third Reich meets South African Apartheid with a different set of “threatening aliens.” The unique feature is that the forecast new Autocracy will have a CEO and will be run as a corporate state, a nod to all those howling like baboons for Government to run as a business. Every business is run to maximize profits for the CEO, Board, and shareholders cutting costs in the process. The biggest cost is generally personnel costs. Consider what this means: no benefits, lower wages, fewer hours of work, or no work at all and no safety net. Government run like a business sounds pretty dire. And, the Corporate Government will make all these decisions for you. There is still time to put up resistance. You can’t save the MAGATs (Make America Great Again Troops), but we might be able to save the future.

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