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Iā€™m glad and scared at the same time. This is so messy and dangerous because of Trump. He is the worst thing that has happened to the world since Hitler.

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What an horrendous scenario looms before us should the GOP take control of Congress! While we all want to see tfg and his clan behind bars, the mayhem such a reality now portends is nothing short of disturbing -- ominous, to be more precise.

"[T]here is a twist to it: if Republicans can convince their voters that Democrats have engaged in partisan prosecutions of Trump and his allies, the Republicans can justify partisan prosecutions of Democrats as soon as they get the opportunity, just as Gingrich suggested. If this rhetoric works, Trump can undercut legitimate prosecutions, while Democrats will become fair game for partisan prosecutors.

This is indeed, ... the language of authoritarianism."

Many thanks to you, Heather, for being our truthsayer with incomparable truthsense -- no ifs nor buts.

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Feb 18, 2022Ā·edited Feb 18, 2022

You can almost smell the desperation and fear in Trump's screeds. He's not swaying new supporters to his corner but trying to stop defections. He makes Hillary Clinton sound like a female James Bond with super powers. Talk about unhinged.

The sooner the Jan. 6 committee can present a damning, easy-to-grasp narrative of his coup attempt, the better. Same for New York officials who need to publicly quantify how many millions of dollars Trump has avoided in taxes.

But the banks that loaned him hundreds of millions of dollars may be the first to bring Trump to his knees, a blow that would be far more humiliating for his eggshell psyche. It's reasonable ask whether he can emotionally and even physically withstand the accelerating cracking and ultimate crushing of that egg.

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Thank you, but this word AU THO RIT AR IAN ISM just won't do.

Six damned syllables to stick in any throat even before they fail to enter thick skulls.

This is the language of TYRANNY, the verbiage of oppressors...

This is "What dictators do / The elderly rubbish they talk".

The successors of Mussolini, of Hitler, of Stalin have risen up in another attempt to destroy democracy. And democracy lies critically ill. Now. In what claimed to be its heartland.

We -- We the People -- have to find the faith, seek the words, do whatever it may take to defend, revive, restore it.

For our children's future.

For the future of the planet we are so privileged to inhabit.

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Another step closer to getting trump and Jarvanka into the courtroom. I like it. I can't wait to see it happen.

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A NY State Supreme Court justice rules that TFG and offspring must submit to subpoenas and testify in a NY state civil trial. They intend to appeal...to whom? To the entire NY State Supreme Court panel of justices? When does one reach the end of the trail with respect to appeals?

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I can't help but think back to Trump's visits to Russia to see Putin and China to see Jinping where I assume he asked them what moves he should make to take absolute power. Because when he returned home and was asked about the visits he said they were very informative! It appears so. He has learned their methods well. I have never in my life heard a former US president sound like a Politburo apparatchik until Trump. It is uncanny.

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Feb 18, 2022Ā·edited Feb 18, 2022

As a child, I was taught that personal integrity, honesty, courage, compassion, generosity and like things constituted good and Godly character. But this - ā€œā€¦ if Republicans can convince their voters that Democrats have engaged in partisan prosecutions of Trump and his allies, the Republicans can justify partisan prosecutions of Democrats as soon as they get the opportunity, just as Gingrich suggested. - Thereā€™s no honor here - only depraved souls hellbent on the death of our society and nation.

Heatherā€™s defending our constitution and society by doing what she does. I think of us LFAA readers as firefighters in a bucket brigade - pitching in to extinguish the fires of liars.

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An ā€˜enlightenedā€™ editor posted my most recent New York Times comments:

1) ā€œTrump seems like a human Bitcoinā€”his ā€˜wealthā€™ fluctuates wildly on a whim, and there seems no way to assess his underlying assets, with emphasis placed on ā€˜lying.ā€™ā€

2) ā€œA special dinner at Trump hotels: [Al] Capone a la Trump with Mafioso sauce.ā€

3) ā€œThe Trump family is attending court testimony school, practicing ā€˜I canā€™t rememberā€™ and ā€˜Fifth Amendment.ā€™ Trump has previously done badly when testifying under oath. Soon he will be contesting facts backed by mountainous evidence with his ā€˜false facts.ā€

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Has there ever been a more desperate and caged criminal? Instead of hiding, TFG is blaming everything and everyone he can think of and threatening retribution. He never knows when to stop. Let Shakespeare have the last word, ā€œā€¦ me thinks thou dost protest too much.ā€

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I'm looking forward to the day when we've changed this world to one of equality for all -- in the law, in our respect for each other. Tonight I'm inspired by Josh Groban's song "You Raise Me Up"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czs82sDv6jg It's for all of us to stand on mountains, to walk on these stormy seas and be more than we can be. It takes all of us. We the People, all of us this time, all of us NOW!

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary

When troubles come and my heart burdened be

Then, I am still and wait here in the silence

Until You come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders

You raise me up to more than I can be

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains

You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas

I am strong, when I am on your shoulders

You raise me up to more than I can be

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Thank you Heather. Today's letter gave me a feeling of ice water in my stomach. I'm doing research for a project, and am learning about the Great Depression and how many Americans went to Russia and supported Communism. Russia was the only country to fight against the authoritarian threat of Mussolini, Hitler, and Franco. The Europeans and America could have lent support to those fighting against the fascists but didn't. This is how I'm feeling about Americans now. Where are the marches and voices decrying the evil that calls itself Republican?

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The capable legal reporter, Josh Gerstein, has article up at CNN. "Judge Orders Trump to Sit for Deposition ..." which contains a link to the Judge`s 8 page Order which lays out the procedural history of this "special proceeding". Trump(s) must produce documents in 14 days & sit for deposition(s) in 21 days. Delay has always been TFG 's main legal strategy but prospects for review of a discovery Order are very slim particularly since TFG shot himself in both feet with a self defeating public rant which was basically [paraphrasing] "Only I Know Everything".

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Trump's language is belligerent and menacing. But what's scarier is that it's been normalized. His followers support him- and every one else keeps quiet. Before Trump, this kind of name-calling and the constant threats of violence would have shocked us. One of the early defenses of Trump was that his words don't matter. But words do matter and Trump has lowered the threshold for what's politically acceptable. What used to be outrageous now gets a shrug. At the moment, I'm worried that this debasement of political discourse is beginning to spread to Canada as well.

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I am going to start calling the family of TFG, ā€œThe Whiner Familyā€. Eric took the 5th and now the rest of these thieves want to do the same. No matter, as it looks like Letitia is armed and dangerous with lots of evidence against them. Newt is a slimeball and always has been and I sure wish heā€™d go away, like 6ft. under.

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I can envision TFG escaping the deposition (after inevitable appeals are exhausted) by some kind of health stunt. Remember, he has manipulated physicians very easily in the past, including the White House physician. Commander Bone Spurs could come out of retirement.

Or a health crisis could be real, if not before a state deposition, then between now and 2024. After all, you can only deal with large quantities of cortisol for so long ā€” and his body is probably making it by the liter these days. Iā€™m not a doctor, canā€™t say for sure. Just common sense is all. He has created a rigidly small place for his mind to live, where his self-worth depends on myths that are about to be exposed, and it wouldnā€™t surprise me at all if his own body takes him to the sidelines, or worse.

How his troops might react then is anybodyā€™s guess; I am expecting things to go badly no matter what happens ā€” even if, heaven forbid, he somehow returns to the White House. But I also expect that we have bigger problems on our hands, and so, right now, does Himself.

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