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Michelle Landa's avatar

This is so overwhelming. What is the country waiting for? How is it that they are so delusional that they don’t see him for what he is and what he is doing?

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Marycat2021's avatar

Most people absorb 10 minutes a day of news, that's why.

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Dr. Gemma F. Conlu's avatar

I applaud your tenacity in keeping the fight for our democracy alive. Keep it up Michael! We stand with you!!!

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Mary Hale's avatar

His base will defend him regardless of what he is doing. I have determined that many of his base are selfish, have no empathy and are low information people. Until the changes impact them directly, they will spin the same old defenses.

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Judy Steiner's avatar

It is a cult and tyranny. They are blinded by the nonsense Trump feeds them. Ignore everyone - listen only to him. Trump is going after the media and educational institutions for his petty grudges. DEI is not illegal, though cases exist. He does not understand the ramifications of his actions.

Right now, a security company owned by his buddy Peter Thiel is assembling a database of all Americans and immigrants searching for criminal records to speed up deportation. Talk about fraud, waste, and abuse, our tax dollars are paying $25M to El Salvador to accept deportees. Trump is frustrated with Putin since he now has the Middle East to back him up.

Norway is collaborating with Israel and China to develop technology for regulating electric vehicles (EVs) while driving. They are already testing a bus. The rest of the world does not need us.

I could go on and on.

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Candace Crocker's avatar

This is exactly what I see my way, too.

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Maggie Boyd's avatar

The far right wing media helps to feed the frenzied cultists and fuel their misguided loyalty. Fox and OAN will spin this and the lemmings will believe the lies. A better education system is what we need. One that teaches critical thinking and actual history.

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Angie's avatar

Where I live in MS I think it’s a mix of complete oblivion, selfishness, and deep rooted racism (search MS goon squad- that’s our sheriff’s department). Where I imagine the magnet on my car which reads “Only caring about your own rights is exactly how you lose them” is seen as radical. Where I got the side eye from several other white women last week while wearing a “If you’ve ever wondered what you’d have done in 1930’s Germany you’re doing it right now” t-shirt.

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George's avatar

Mainstream TV is to blame. If it's on TV, it must be true, even if it's one-sided. (Thanks, Ronald Reagan) You used a term I need to revisit. You used it on one of your "Political Beatdowns" the other day. It's a spin on sanity and normalization: "Sanenalization." I forgot.

Sadly, until this community somehow gets on TV, the general public will not see it. Social media requires active browsing and interaction from the viewer, and that doesn't funnel the message effectively to the greater public. Until we counter "FOX," the leader of that pack. America is doomed.

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skayen's avatar

In part, I respectfully disagree. If it's on Fox or OAN, it's one sided, no question. However, I think social media are equally, if not more, culpable. Facebook, X, YouTube and TikTok are responsible for countless lies that a significant percentage of people actually believe. The lion's share of tRump's supporters/believers is largely uneducated, mentally lazy, gullible and/or easily deceived. They should all be deported to a country that would welcome them with open arms. Mr. Putin, can you hear me?

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Lizbeth Schmidt's avatar

I am a subscriber. I am frustrated at the amount of people that support him. I just don't get it

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PegsReilledUp's avatar

It's stunningly disturbing--this war on intellectualism. Don't think, just listen. Don't read, just believe and repeat, Don't question, just do as you're told. I literally had a 30 year old Republican mother of two young boys say to me recently: "Why do my kids have to know all that stuff anyway"? SERIOUSLY? She was referring to things like the Holocaust, and slavery, and all that Trump and Co. want to erase from our history books. YEAH, that happened. Honestly, it did, and I know it's how so many think now. Too many young people cannot be bothered with learning--truths. Too much work, it appears.

Where will this country, this world be when the most dangerous and dumbest one continues to, and permanently becomes, the one calling the shots? Teach your children well--PLEASE. Pay attention to what they are learning in school. Check their homework. Attend school board meetings. VOTE in all local elections--school boards, library boards, and local judges. KNOW YOUR POWER. Do it for your kids--even if they don't understand why--YET.

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Soso's avatar

HH$^<=^=%&$($&!!!!

NO WORDS. WTF AMERICA. 😳

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Carolyn Young's avatar

This shows the ignorance and cruelty of the cult members. But remember…it’s all fun and games until the police show up. In this case, it’s ICE creeps!

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skayen's avatar

Michael, you deserve a Pulitzer Prize. You are a brilliant writer. The images you create with words are unmatched. And the content of your columns is always on the mark. Precise. Explicit. Perfect.

Thanks a million for your tireless dedication to the truth.

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Dawn Stagman-Tyrer's avatar

It’s beyond my comprehension that people with any brain cells can continue to support this maniac; I find myself often being stagnant because of this disbelief; your strength, tenacity, and unrelenting determination to build a community founded in truth and action helps me to dig out of the hopelessness and make my own voice heard and to do what I can do to save our country. Thank you ❤️

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Blueheart22's avatar

It is the Art of the Steal!

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Fred's avatar

These poll numbers are amazing. And not in a good way. Do people really want chaos in their life every day? People need to wake up because when they do, they’ll have an America they never imagined. Unless they all want a white, persecute everyone else society. Words can’t describe how frustrated and disappointed I am over how people seem to like the way things are going.

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Mian Fisher's avatar

It's hard work to parent and Trump and his band of miscreants need parenting. People are scared of the temper tantrums and what damage he might do until we can get him out of the store, so when he is still seriously misbehaving throwing cans off the shelf at people, they are excited when he is hitting less people and they give him a sucker and avoid eye contact with everyone around them

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JZKsCoreHop's avatar

Real brigade.

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