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Retired Public School Teacher. U.S. Veteran. Democrat till Carter, ended there, now Bernie Progressive. Supporter of the Nation of Palestine. Fan of all things Nader, Chomsky, MLK, David Feldman, Thom Hartmann, Molly Ivins, Vonnegut.
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We pay over 2 Trillion $$s yearly in Health Insurance Premiums. Want to know how to pay for National Health Care AND no cost college? Get rid of Health Insurance Corporations.
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Exactly. This is a prime example of how Corporate Media rides shotgun for Trump. They will only go so far with him, he's just too valuable to them to replace.
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This reads like a Trump victory, just as Trump declared. Too far down in the article is it explained this is a stay, paused until the case is litigated further. There was no winner but NPR headlines it as so. They should've done better especially when fighting for their existence. We're at war here.
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Thoughts & intentions are bullets in the chamber; words are the squeezed trigger. How many read what you read in this example? Far too few & that's exactly why & how Marketers work, how Corporations work & Nations seeking validation for their aggression & inhumanity. It's always on & up to us.
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Lead pipes, lead paint, thalidomide, smog, river fires, oil slicks, lawn darts, all coming back when America Was Great.
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Trump didn't get into politics to change policy, a process he has ZERO experience at & ZERO intrest in. He got into it b\c Obama made him look stupid, then he was shocked he won & now he stayed in to stay out of prison & make money. He could not care less about the nation or the people who serve it.
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Yes, although under constant attack to be taken from us, to make it almost impossible for some to vote, we still hold the power & we still out number them. And to those who are looking for the perfect candidate, you're just lazy.
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Be specific when stating "Strengthening Public Schools" b\c you may be implying that our schools should prepare students to meet industry needs (as you say) & not their true purpose of preparing them to be citizens & evidentiary thinkers. Our Public Schools are not Trade Schools for Corporations.
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When I hear Right Wing Media commentators & MAGA use the term Trump Derangement Syndrome TDS, I read it as a real disease effecting someone who exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder akin to the one afflicting our president & I absolutely think we should embrace TDS & use it whenever Trump speaks.
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Hegseth, like his coward boss, gives us things that point out his cowardice, every single day. Use them, don't let a day go by w\o nailing him on them. That's how you fight. Stay on it, don't think Corporate Media will do it, they're riding shotgun for Trump, protecting their cash cow.
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It needs to be done, carried to conclusion, front page & for the history books. Of course, the latter 2 reasons won't happen b\c at this point in our country, we've returned to a plantation mentality by controlling Republicans where truth & history are obliterated & the poor kept poor.
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Want to scare the Hell out of a Republican, just say these out loud; Socialism, Unions, Public Education, Bernie, Woke (aka cognation). So, as they demonize that in which they can't compete, Woke had to be turned into what's wrong with America, we're too aware of things.
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Regardless, it needs to be done, carried to conclusion, front page & for the history books. Of course the latter 2 reasons won't happen b\c at this point in our country, we've returned to a plantation mentality by controlling Republicans where truth & history are obliterated & the poor kept poor.
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Now that's Republican! The difference is, she's right.
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Why is it that Corporate Media never covers the Left's Militia Groups, the ones armed with military weapons, high capacity mags, lead insurrections, plan kidnappings of Republican Govs., drive vehicles into protesters, fly NAZI flags, issue threats, etc.? Oh, wait, b\c THERE AREN'T ANY!
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Every hr. of every day Trump offers up proof of how much he's not a politician & never cared to be. He doesn't know how to speak publicly, to form policy & certainly how to lead. Yawn. What we should be doing is how the Dems use his ineptness to turn this abnormality around.
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Republicans have the Frankenstein Problem, in which you give power to someone & then lose control of your creation. They needed him to say the things they couldn't say out loud, to let loose bigotry & unabridged greed, to amass the ignorant & stupid. He's all theirs, uncontrollable & unsustainable.
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His BD Parade, after we pay the cost, may be 1 Mill, but not 1 homeless Veteran will be housed, not 1 Veteran dialing the Crisis Hotline will be helped, not 1 Veteran Clinic or Hospital will be fully staffed, not 1 Burn Pit claim will be reviewed b\c of understaffing, b\c he was Honoring the Troops.
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When the final invoices are filed, +cost overruns & DC is reimbursed for the damage the BD parade caused, it may well cost us 1,000,000$ if not more, but we'll never know b\c Corporate Media doesn't do investigative reporting anymore. Look to Mother Jones, Guardian, Intercept & Nader publications.
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Not too far off topic, but another example of how Corporate Media normalizes Trump, is how they listed his vanity parade, "Trump honors the military, today at 4."
Not, "Trump's BD Parade".
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We'll expire waiting for Musk or any wealthy person, Corporation, MAGA or Republican to sincerely apologize for the harm they do every hr. every day. They need unrest, at each other's throats, violence to mask who they are, for if ever the people listened to what they have to offer, they're done.
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I say we find a way to have a "No Kings" demonstration every year maybe 4X a yr. until the SCotUS gets the message & reopens their immunity gift to him. The DNC Inc is best suited to pick-up on the momentum b\c of their resources, if not the courage. Hammer Trump while we hammer the Dems to do it.
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Many ways are open to fighting Trump, his owners & handlers but we must be smart. To this, he should not have done this, publicly shared his views while wearing the uniform while in service. I appreciate his courage & message re the cowardly draft dodger CIC but we must fight smart. And no violence.
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Wonder if the statue has lifts in its shoes. The other needs a girdle
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From one Gennaro to another, BRAVO!
Many great seasons!
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We have, up to this point, the worst presidential cabinet ever when measured by ability to lead, to speak, experience in public service & the assigned position, executing the will of the people, intelligence & courage. They were chosen to harm the system, to make $$, to say yes & to blame others.
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The hardest thing to digest in this post from this coward is "God Bless You All". If anyone needed confirmation that this reprobate doesn't believe in a god, this is it.
This is going to eat at me, hard, for a very long time.
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The goons know they can do this w\o repercussions, in fact they're ordered to do it b\c Trump officials & supporters are cowards, want to be isolated, don't want to answer ?s, held responsible. All labor has dignity except the goon squads protecting people like Noem & carrying out Trump's agenda.
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He needed this, he had some bad weeks with Elon hitting him with the Epstein Files & the BullshitBBB.
Trump's intelligence relies on our stupidity.