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Writer/Editor. Native New Yorker, West Coast transplant. Extremely fortunate. Good weird. Healthcare(for all), politics, birds, hockey, travel, music and books. Opinions my own.
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Growing threat? My dudes. Where have you been and where should we start? Salem Witch Trials? Fundamentalist LDS. Orthodox Jewish men who refuse to grant their wives divorces and instead harass them and essentially hold them hostage, often for years?
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It’s a valid question, but lets people off the hook. If you were 18 or younger and Fox was invented and you became indoctrinated, ok. There was lots of time and history before Trump 1. Were these people just hatched and so innocent they were totally vulnerable to the misinformation machine?
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I hope you are right, but the unfortunate truth is that Idahoans (and voters in many other states) have allowed their governments to be taken hostage by the most extreme right wingers. It’s nice to care deeply, but you also have to vote responsibly.
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Idaho has made it clear that it does not care.
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If they hung Lee when they had the chance none of this would be happening.
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Only if you were a Nazi eugenicist.
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Not to be unserious, but boys with this speech cadence plus a lisp have been a red flag since grammar school.
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This is the way!
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WOW. The NYT CAN write an accurate headline!
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This is the way. Priorities!
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It’s not self-segregating when a white supremacist buys the platform. You are not that dumb. Maybe that intellectually dishonest, but not that dumb.
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Every time a MAGA talks a brain cell gets its wings.
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Would also like to add, “…and I knew and did nothing as not to jeopardize my personal interests.”
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No cult like the Drumpf cult.
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Unlikely, but I like your optimism.
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Why are we listening to these two inveterate liars argue?
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He’s still a Log Cabin Republican. I don’t care what he’s registered as. And anyone who talks like that about “abundance” is a charlatan.