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Musk has also fired the workers who work for the USDA that catch and relocate birds in and around airports. The Indian Air plane that went down 2 months ago had two ducks sucked into their engines. Killing 176 people. They also protect cities by cutting down on car deer crashes, by eliminating a number that coincides with car deer crashes. The deer go to poor families within those cities. Most people are unaware that these jobs even exist; they just quietly keep you safer. We are less safe every day while these mass firings are allowed to continue.

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Well so long as MAGA travellers are content with their planes landing upside down...

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I feel like we have hit a tipping point and that all is in freefall. I may be over-reacting, but that is where I am at. Family are concerned, but still going on as normal. I fell that a giant collapse and bad things are just around the corner and will be devastating.

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What can we expect from a demented felon, a hillbilly, and a maniac on the spectrum?

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I think the average hillbilly, felon, and person on the spectrum would be a thousand times better than the idiots we've got. Felons might tend towards moral ineptitude, hillbillies and those of us in the spectrum do not.

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It's clear that this country is being run by a bunch of immature nutbars. Musk needs to go and shouldn't be in charge of anything, including his own companies. Yet, Americans don't know what to do about the mess we are in. I am a Democrat, but that doesn't mean I am happy about my own party right now. Democrats sat on their hands for two decades while I watched our lawmakers put their own careers ahead of the people while more and more nutbars got elected to the House and Congress. Our Constitution seriously needs updating, yet no one seems to be able to take it on ror get rid of laws like Citizen's United which gave so much power to the rich. I have a popular anti-Trump FB page and Zuckerberg has been regularly making it disappear for days and weeks at a time for no apparent reason. None of it has stuck so far but I'm just waiting for the next time being the last time.

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Agree. Zuck is still censoring, just censoring anti-Trump statements.

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Republican House managers are advising members either not to hold town hall meetings with constituents at all or to ensure that attendees are vetted to avoid the meetings going viral. Robert Reich says that in total there are around 1,000 elections this year, so there's every opportunity for a significant protest vote even before the mid-terms. Democrats need to be working hard to see that this is what happens and not to listen to James Carville - https://www.foxnews.com/media/ragin-cajun-james-carville-insists-trump-collapse-underway-tells-democrats-sit-back?msockid=1b3548f3f3dd6fe401c45a95f23d6ef7

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Is there some way to get a transcript of this instead of just the audio? I'm hard of hearing, and even on the app I only seem to get an audio option, despite that this post has a "read in app" option - it only has the audio,

Disappointed.

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The print version is on her substack email for 2/27/25.

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Under the box that houses the video, find the link that says "transcript" It's that easy.

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she posts first the text version and later in the day her audio of same. Please access your preferred version. Subscribe and you will receive the text version first. I love the audio because some of my family members are not literate.

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Our nation was founded by people who, enacting treason against King George, deliberately put their lives on the line. How low we've fallen: today most members of Congress are too frightened of losing their jobs to speak up against King Donald's ongoing coup. Congress is a coward's paradise. This “land of the free and home of the brave” is now only—at least for the time being—the land of the free.

What with Trump reversing support for Ukraine and then ambushing (with Vance) Zelensky in the White House today, I'm ashamed for my country, and convinced more than ever that Trump is a Russian asset.

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Yesterday's debacle in the White House confirms that the US government has switched sides during a war for the first time in its history.

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Putin's Puppet

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Why is no one talking about Vance’s comment about Zelensky supporting Kamala Harris during presidential campaigns in today’s conference?

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Perhaps because it was a worthless jibe by a creep.

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What if, for the sake of hypotheticals, an organization—say Indivisible, Red, Wine, and Blue, or League of Women Voters, leverage the dismay Republican voters are expressing at town halls by supporting their dismay and confirming their realities? What can GOP voters do now? Tell their GOP reps: Impeachment STAT or lose our vote. The downside would be?

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I think the dems are going about fighting the Trump administration wrong in this way: constantly asking every supporter for money. What they should do instead is ask only the well endowed supporters for money while asking all the other supporters for help in a physical manner such as phone calls, rallies, protests, whatever they can persuade them to do that would help. How about this for help: setting up groups to “de-program” people related to supporters. We need to help others find and realize the truth.

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I think the EU and England need to expel All USA Military ships and planes from their harbors and air-force bases immediately and prepare to do battle with the PUTIN / TRUMP regime and take over missile sites at same time. Putin can't be trusted, Trump can't be trusted.

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This may be a naive question, but the country seems to be in this massive contortion right now based on the presidential election outcome, certainly, but also to a very great extent on the Senate 218/215 majority. Did the country's architects really intend for us to abide by "majority wins" to this extent? That two random Senate seats (that could be flipped tomorrow if the seats happen to be vacated) could provide for as much tumult as this does not seem rational.

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The Senate has 100 members, the house has 435 members, you are speaking of the house not the senate.

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Thank you! 53/47 for the Senate, correct? And no matter the actual member composition, "majority wins"? Be it a minor budget issue or declaration of war (example for emphasis only) - no qualifications?

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