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tfg's supporters have never learned the history of this country. They need to read your letters!

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With over half of the adults in the country read at a 6th grade level or below, a good portion of the MAGANAZIs don't read. Imagine HCR trying to write this wonderful newsletter at a 4th grade level.

Meanwhile, a different argument was presented to the Maine Secy. of State regarding Trump's name being on the ballot.

"While two of the three challenges in Maine focus on the 14th Amendment, the third, brought by Paul Gordon, a lawyer in Portland, argues that Mr. Trump should be found ineligible for the ballot under the 22nd Amendment, which says that “no person should be elected to the office of president more than twice.” The basis for his argument is that Mr. Trump has repeatedly claimed to have won the 2020 election.

Mr. Trump could “remove this obstacle” to qualify for the ballot, Mr. Gordon said in his complaint, by “acknowledging that he lost the 2020 election and repudiating all previous statements undermining the integrity of that election.”"

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/22/us/maine-trump-ballot.html

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Love this twisted irony!

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Excellent point!!

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Brilliant

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Like his giving up of the fiction that Obama was not truly born in Hawaii, which he did after much damage was done, he could well give up his claim to have won in 2020 later in the campaign. And thereby "silence" his critics.

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if only the MAGAts could just read

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If the MAGAs could only consider that their dogma might be flawed. That's a life skill.

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They can read! It’s the thinking they have trouble with

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Many poisons kill because they bind with some essential chemical process in the body and block the body's interaction with what it needs. Sometimes lies work that way too.

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Propaganda is master at this

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& some can only read the large print of banner headlines

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Deep in the back of their minds they might suspect it and it's scary because they can't logically defend their views. They're reduced to relying on dogma and a 'might makes right' belief system.

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Yes. They feel the need to dominate. If they "win," they will have proved the rightness of their cause.

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Lol. Sad, but true.

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Wayne, i was about to say the exact same thing as you did in your comment. You said it for me....

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Cults only hear their leader, only trust their leader, only follow their leader. To hell in the end.

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The ignorant and aggrieved are always easy prey for demagogues.

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Part of the problem is our lack of available medical care and the rule of corporations and Big Ag (bad food poisoned with Roundup).

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And Rupert keeps the aggrieved in perpetual turmoil. Wish repubs left some compunction which might lead to action

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They chose to concoct "alternative facts". As such, they somehow fail to satisfy.

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Kellyanne Conway’s latest.Twitter X-tra responded.⬇️

“ “I think Democrats wake up every morning and they look at the calendar on the iPhone and it says January 6th. The date never changes,” Conway claimed. “And then they get into an electric vehicle and go get an abortion.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kellyanne-conway-liberals-abortion_n_65835897e4b0fe4ffe31f025

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How did George put up with her so long?

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They did it for the kids :). And the kids ended up hating both of them. Oh, the irony.

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It must have been torture....for George. Who cares about her; she lives in garbage.

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Kelly Anne is like an Anne Coulter with a less manly neck.

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Who came up with that term,”alternate facts”?

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I remember that the first time I ever heard that term, Kellyanne Conway used it. But it could have been coined by someone else.

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It was Kelly on Fox News

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Disgustingly brilliant.

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And I will keep beating the same drum about Civics courses in schools being a mandatory requirement. I will never understand why they were dropped from the essentials of American education, but my cynical side thinks the ignorance that omission created in a large swath of the population has benefitted those who wish to destroy our democracy.

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Ms Wilcox, that is the frustrating part. If only they felt the “need”. If only they allowed skepticism and curiosity into their minds. Or compassion as in “there but for the Grace of ( fill in the blank) go I or my loved ones.

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But they need to feel that they are Right. It's the feels!

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Those supporters of tfp lack a basic knowledge of democracy and the sacrifices of others which have so benefitted them. They are ungrateful and are unaware of what will befall them if the are successful.

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It amazes me that tfg says if he is in the White House again, Social Security and Medicare will be gone. Why don't they see they are voting against their own best interests?

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Maybe they need to learn to read first....

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They don’t care…..

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