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Sally Devoe's avatar

As a concerned 🇨🇦 I am proud of my 🇺🇸 neighbours waking up and protesting before that’s illegal too 👏🥳😇😎

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Mark Shriner's avatar

Ok. Let’s just say that George Soros did pay every protester since Trump took office, as they claim. Show me the paystubs. Let’s assume 5 million people have protested in various protests since Jan 20., Times what do they say “we” are getting paid for these “fake” protests. I’m going to be conservative and say we would charge $20. So that’s $100,000,000 out of his pocket. Not likely. Does he get to deduct that on his taxes? What are the real people that are ripping money out of our pockets getting paid? What do they get paid to lie, cheat, steal, and wreck our economy? Make decisions we don’t ask for. Are they short selling stocks knowing ahead they are going to tank? How many bribes are they taking for favorable treatment from people and other countries?

Where’s the line in the budget for prisons in El Salvador? I mean this is just silliness. Why is relying on your government for services a bad thing? No matter income level, all people benefit from a structured and engaged government. All we have are people in charge that would rather take your hard earned money and wipe their asses with it than let you have any, because they can. We need some smart people to figure out how we say, “no more you can’t” and enforce it. We have a few voters in Wisconsin to thank for doing their democratic duty and voting in a judge that at least gives hope to the idea that some people are still just and decent people that accept the framework our forefathers built and believe in democracy. Not these lunatics wanting to pay people to be on their side long enough to get their vote. Only to fuck their ass right after. Wake up! I’m trying as well. 🙏🏼

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Trent C.'s avatar

Bravo Mark, keep it coming.

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Carin Froehlich's avatar

Excellent Mr.Shriner Ben Franklin would had pat you on the back for this essay

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Dr. Gemma F. Conlu's avatar

This is a powerful, well written depiction of the state we are in right now!!!

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Carin Froehlich's avatar

Excellent my husband’s family has farmed in Pennsylvania for generations (1840) all marriages during those times were arranged for more land I was the first marriage that came with no land in 1977. I hailed from Philadelphia “ City Girl” couldn’t do anything right that’s another story. In 1967 “ The Welfare Act” took roots every farmer lost their help overnight hence this is why you see nationwide ALL FARMERS ARE REPUBLICAN I’m glad to say I lived to see the day that right now they are all scratching their heads they just lost of their help again with this Trump immigration laws overnight I would also like to point out that every farm I have been on from East to West farmers struggle daily “ Their help never works FOR them they work WITH them” They form friendships through out the generations raise their children share ceremonies from life to death with them Mother Nature has been a major problem for farmers everywhere since1970 every farmer keeps personal journals later on I can show you factual information that will blow your minds like my husband always said”YOU DO NOT OWN THE LAND THE LAND OWNS YOU”

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DK Brooklyn's avatar

Please connect all the things that are happening - tariffs, firing cybersecurity, demonizing universities, mistaken arrests, deportations, Russian alliances, cuts to Medicaid, all the healthcare ending things that RFK is doing, etc.

none of this is in a vacuum and it is naive to think this isn’t part of an overall plan. Project 2025 is a key.

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MoonDancer's avatar

The Plan to destroy the US you mean? The gop maga, gop fascist coporate billionaires, millionaires living on gov susidies pd for by US working class & some dems; my entire boomer activist life? Just more insanely greedy, fat on our wages & emboldened now. Change MUST come & it takes ALL of 150 million of US.

Time to RESIST is NOW: Stand up, Speak Out & Get Busy with Actions to STOP it.

S Korea, Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, Ukraine Uganda, Palestine are just few resent examples of how RESISTING is done!

STAY SAFE, PROTEST & POST WISELY

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VLM's avatar

Thank you Michael, for all the insight you have into trump and his world. One question Michael, you know Trump so well, what will stop him? What will hit him hard enough to realize people are pissed off and he is the reason? What can we do as voters to make him scared enough to leave? I know we can all boycott Musks companies and get people in to vote out his contracts. But its trump we need to scare

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Ted Parry's avatar

Let's go old style and leave a hard copy of this at every chair in the capitol.

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Leigh Gernert's avatar

I'm so tired of them throwing George Soros into our faces. It is just getting terribly old. They are 10 times as guilty of anything Soros has ever done - and since when did it become illegal or an issue to throw money into any political campaign??? Talk about hypocrites. Million $ jackpots to swing an election? That's about as illegal as it gets. And aren't you the ones who wanted to pass Citizen's United? Please don't ever belly-ache to me about anything financial when it comes to politics - you have already skinned that monkey 1000 times over. Find something new and original to lie about - or have you already lied about anything there is to lie about?

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SLMontgo's avatar

George Soros sounds like a concerned citizen to me. A patriot. If he's funding these thousands of protests, I thank him. I have yet to see a Soros nickel but I don't need to. I wonder how many of us need to be top 1% rich? I was comfortable up until 11/5/2024, happy that I had enough to enjoy my retirement and donate to people in need. I like giving things to others and have them enjoy that, whether it's my local public radio station, an opera company here or there, a friend who can use my accumulated frequent flyer miles to visit family - Hey! I'm your huckleberry, ya know? I'm an introvert forcing myself into protest crowds like I did in the '60s. I'm still working on my sign for the next one: INTROVERTS UNITE 🤩 WE WANT OUR PRIVACY BACK.

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Patrick Balfour's avatar

That sign sounds great, I would love to get one.

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SLMontgo's avatar

Thank you. I am encouraged to make this and skip taking photos next time. Maybe I'll end up IN a photo, eh? 😁

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Stephen Basile's avatar

Preach on, Michael Cohen!

Like you, I don't need to be paid by Soros to express my opinion of the Orange Buffoon in the White House!

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Paul Schwartz's avatar

MICHAEL, WELL STATED TODAY, JUST LIKE THEY STILL HARP ON RUSSIAN COLLUSION AND THE STEEL DOSSIER

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Janice Mac's avatar

Canada is ready to fill the void of farm related products that Trump has opened up for us. Thanks orange turd. We are quickly arranging new trade partners for grain and feed, soybeans, corn, dairy, beef and pork. Once these relationships are built, they will never return to the US. We need to increase our cotton crops as there is a big opportunity with that. Trump has pushed countries together that are not normally working together like China, Japan and South Korea that have had talks. I am so glad to see our American friends and neighbours saying enough is enough and standing up to the hideous trump regime. Canada stands with you and we held protests here as well yesterday in solidarity. ELBOWS UP!

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SLMontgo's avatar

The deck chairs are just fine where they are. If Trump's bass-ackward definition of what a tariff is doesn't prove why he's a fraudulent "bidnessman," nothing ever will. He thinks "money is pouring in." We know it's already here because it's our money that pays these taxes. This is how Trump bankrupts a casino. People bring their own money and walk out with house money. Clearly unsustainable and crashing hard.

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Donna's avatar

Thank you, Michael. Like so many appreciate what you are doing, so do I. Those who know potus, such as Lev, Mary, yourself and others, provide insight to the man's behavior and loathing, so we make sense of it.

I'm happy I found your voices here! Keep up the good work, we need you all of you!

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MoonDancer's avatar

Excellent - Just getting started!!

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Trent C.'s avatar

Michael, I love the way you tell the truth. You drive the point home better than anyone. Thank you for every word.

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