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Diana Kimball's avatar

Thanks Michael, not all of us have the funds to pay to listen!

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GL's avatar

thank you, Michael, for not putting these behind a paywall. You certainly get that such important information you are generously sharing with us should be open to us all. We need your voice. I do.

I hit the silly heart. Sure hope it helps.

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Marlo's avatar

I would LOVE to see Trump, Vance, Johnson, Musk, Hegseth, Waltz & Gubbard shaved, shackled and frog-walked to the El Salvador prison. That’s an idea - do a prison swap and send the innocent home! They have earned their place in prison for TREASON (Musk has aleady told us).

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Victoria's avatar

But to me, no human being should be treated like that. What kind of a nation have we become to be OK with such cruelty? And even worse, not to let free innocent people that they mistakenly apprehended? Arresting and kidnapping people in the streets?

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Lynda Frerker's avatar

I JUST WISH THEY WERE ALL OUT OF POWER

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Marlo's avatar

We have to act, wishing won’t work. Put pressure on the Republicans & Senators. And Mike Johnson. Call every day.

202-224-3121

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Lynda Frerker's avatar

INNUDATING THEM WITH PHONE CALLS IS A START. THINGS WILL UNRAVEL AND HOPEFULLY THE DEMS WILL TAKE BACK THE HOUSE IN 2026. THE SENATE IS ANOTHER STORY.🤞🤞🤞

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Sl's avatar

Playing golf instead of honoring the soldiers returning from Lithuania in caskets

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Renee's avatar

I appreciate you letting us none subscribers to interact. I can't afford everyone I'd love to follow. Thank you

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SLMontgo's avatar

Thank you, Michael. I don't believe, in all the years I have been following you, that you have ever expressed your anguish as clearly as you just did. I hope you can last and stay well (all of us need to stay well). Substack is superior to YouTube in that we can have a genuine personal connection to each other and through each other. You are a mensch.

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Grace S Pearson's avatar

Thank you Michael, from a concerned & interested Brit from across the pond.

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Nancy's avatar

Thanks for doing this

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ALLISON J STOUT's avatar

All gratitude Michael.

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World's avatar

Its talking a REAL toll on mental health 🙏

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David Maceira's avatar

Thank you Michael. We all know that if the GQP and t-Rump stopped lying the coup would end immediately.

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SLMontgo's avatar

These alleged championships would merely be participation trophies in real life. I'm worried but not terrified for myself and my spouse. We're old and we will get by. I am terrified for everyone younger than we, more vulnerable than we. Sure, we don't want to lose our Medicare and SSA. But we want all of you to have those things in due time, when you retire and that you CAN retire. I am sad, sorry, scared, and still hopeful that for all of you far younger than we, that you will come out OK, not irreparably damaged. Please that it turns out so.

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Molly Kennedy's avatar

Thanks. You and all of us sane and sensible folks have aged tenfold with his creep and his enablers. If we could get rid of Fox it might be a start.

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nona young's avatar

i agree fox is fooling people with their lies

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Nancy's avatar

I like your talks with Jim Acosta

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La Corua's avatar

As always, Michael, thank you for your passion. I am coming to the conclusion that we need a new political party in this country: a Constitution Party. We must take it from Republicans. They are shredding it. We must take it from Democrats. They don’t have the balls to defend it. We, the people must stand for the Constitution. If we do not, we die.

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Nancy's avatar

How do we stop him.

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Marlo's avatar

CONTACT Mike Johnson and tell him to let the Republicans and Democrats VOTE on the tariffs and let the VOTE be CONFIDENTIAL. Let it come to the floor for a VOTE! This is STILL a democracy! Congress represents ALL the people, NOT just one person or party. It’s called

the “Trade Review Act of 2025 .”

202-224-3121

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republicans-weigh-using-power-congress-rein-trump-tariffs-rcna199555

“Malignant Stupidity”

“The Trump formula is apparently what you get if you ask ChatGPT and other AI models to make tariff policy:

Elon Musk’s Dunning-Kruger kids might be responsible for those tariff numbers. That now looks like a distinct possibility.”

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/will-careless-stupidity-kill-the

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Friedrike Merck's avatar

Excelkent

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