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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022

Biden's remarks today about the insurrection are right on, but please much more — every day. Hammer the messages into the minds of the American people. Push Democratic Party leaders to do the same, as well as its prominent party supporters in the entertainment industry. The J6 committee has delivered the ammunition, now use it before it's too late. The blaring alarm has never been louder.

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Just seems like GOP Presidents do their best to destroy the country and economy and the next Dem is left to clean up the mess, like the guy trailing the circus elephant sweeping up paddies. Sure would be nice to break this cycle. Biden, Obama and Clinton were far superior to their predecessors.

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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022

A suggestion. Everyone here go to the twitter of each of those Florida law makers and post this: Thank you President Biden for the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law which every Florida law maker voted AGAINST yet now takes credit for because of the money President Biden has brought to the state.

It's easy to find them. Just type in their name and the word twitter. You can then go to their twitter and highlight their twitter name.

Marco Rubio @marcorubio

Rick Scott @SenRickScott

Matt Gaetz @mattgaetz

Dr. Neil Dunn @DrNealDunnFL2

Kat Cammack @RepKatCammack

John Rutherford @RepRutherfordFL

Al Lawson @RepAlLawsonJr

Mike Waltz @michaelgwaltz

Stephenie Murphy @RepStephMurphy

Mike Posey @congbillposey

Darren Soto @RepDarrenSoto

Val Demings @RepValDemings

Daniel Webster @RepWebster

Gus Bilirakis @Bilirakis

Charles Crist @CharlieCrist

Kathy Castor @USRepKCastor

Scott Franklin @RepFranklin

Vern Buchanan @VernBuchanan

Greg Steube @RepGregSteube

Brian Mast @RepBrianMast

Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick @CongresswomanSC

21st district: Lois Frankel (D) (since 2010)

22nd district: Ted Deutch (D) (since 2013)

23rd district: Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) (since 2005Frederica Wilson (D) (since 2011)

25th district: Mario Díaz-Balart (R) (since 2003)

26th district: Carlos A. Giménez (R) (since 2021)

27th district: Maria Elvira Salazar (R) (since 2021)

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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022

Let's stop for a moment and think about DeSantis and other Florida Republicans presenting checks for infrastructure projects as if they're the font of generosity — the ones who are helping to modernize the state. But as Heather reminds us, Biden was the driving force behind the mega federal infrastructure bill that Republicans vehemently opposed.

Grotesque hypocrisy and dishonesty are guiding principles of the GOP. That is, the party with an increasing number of leaders who are calling themselves Christian Nationalists.

Will atheists and Jews, for example, be able to drive on these new bridges and highways?

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Bad news for Trump and Republicans is Good News for America.

Every morning, I wake up hoping I'm going to read my newsfeed and find out he snarfed his final chizzbugga and had his massive fatal myocardial infarction and died screaming in agony.

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I am addicted to your wonderful, well thought out and well researched column. I hope you will soon write about what has happened to Kamala Harris. We almost never see her. I don't hear about Biden giving her important tasks. And I don't hear about him grooming her to move into the Presidency should anything happen to him -- as many presidents before him have done. He's no spring chicken and having someone on hand who could fluidly move into the task of being president in case something should happen seems only smart to me. Why isn't he doing that?

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Morning, all!! Morning, Dr. R!!

The other day one of our readers reminded me that the Atlantic is only accessible to paid subscribers. I notice they don't even allow a paid subscriber to gift one of their articles, at least I haven't found where you can do that. Someone else pointed out that the right-wing messaging is provided for free. That is disturbing, to say the least.

Having said all that, these two articles by Tom Nichols (A Republican) complement today's Letter IMO. The first was written in January 2022. He states, in part, "Democracy is in danger and we have about a year to save it. What do we do? We could, I suppose, keep bickering about policies and legislation. This would be reassuring and make us feel normal, as if we had survived our authoritarian moment. It would also be pointless, because if Americans elect a Republican House—and maybe even return the Senate to the GOP—the stage will be set for the accelerated collapse of American democracy." https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/61d483f2d4168200210ce491/a-coalition-strategy-for-2022/

He states in the second, "A conservative who cares about the future of the constitutional order must face the reality that the Republican Party has become a menace to the Constitution and our system of government."

https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/peacefield/62d74c4e30d04800225b7346/republican-party-trump-conservatism/

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Rep Vance needs educating on domestic violence. Witnesses to it are also victims of it. Have the brains in the rust belt turned to rust?

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This is wonderful so many facts that we don’t see reported by our media So many truths we all need to know Thank you again Professor for all the work you do to teach and inform us👏👏👏

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Jul 26, 2022·edited Jul 26, 2022

Thank you Heather.

I read and consider every word you write, trusting your scholarship and your soul.

In this current contentious contest for our nation’s future, I have chosen the pro people and pro planet side, the all persons are created equal side, the liberty and justice for all side. Damn the torpedoes!

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So Heather, do you mean to say we can be a bit hopeful that democracy will remain intact? I just think of my dad who would fall straight out of his chair, no he was walking fine until 3 days before he died. I mean he would have never, ever believed such a thing could come to pass in the country his mother came to at age 20 for a better life.

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Thank you Heather.

President Biden should be speaking about what the January 6th Committee has uncovered 24/7. Republicans are doubling down on their contrary stand toward the Committee. "It's a sham. It's a witch hunt" and more seems to be their rebuttal to the Committee. The comments appear to be a rehash of the Mueller Report and Impeachment mantra. It worked last time.

While driving in the country this weekend, I saw a large handwritten sign infront of a Trumpers house that read "Stop Democrats from spreading the lies on the witch hunt TV trial. "

Who wants to tell them?

Be safe. Be well.

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Just a side note: AOC tweeted out a way to access floor debates on bills that are introduced in the House. For example, she says to google "cspan debate contraception." There you can find who said what about the bill. That one is for the contraception bill which has since passed.

I was thinking, though, for future bills we could do the same by googling "cspan debate..." then type in whatever the bill is that is being proposed.

https://twitter.com/cspanJeremy/status/1550266287758213121?s=20&t=MvCubk9nhh2z818B0azmUg

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Meanwhile in Europe, fall of Italy's national unity government under Mario Draghi and a very real threat of resurgent fascism, in the shape of Fratelli d'Italia, the latest avatar of the National Fascist Party.

Naturally enough, party to Putin's nascent Neo-Fascist International which, as we have been seeing in the US, is more like a global mafia web.

Apparently, the FDI have formed a new overseas chapter in Orlando FL... Local links?

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Love. Just sending love.

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And wife beating was legal until sometime in the 1920s. Nothing on the books about husband beating...

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