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Are we seeing the beginning of a blue wave, not of Democratic voters, but of Republicans who are starting to prefer voting for a decent human being rather than an immoral (maybe amoral is a better descriptor) alleged criminal?

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Cassidy Hutchinson said it, in that clear voice of hers. She's looking for moral standards and statesmanship.

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A few months ago, when being interviewed by Jen Psaki or Rachel Maddow, Hutchinson said she would not vote for T💩p, but wouldn’t commit to voting for Biden. She’s seen the light. Let’s hope she becomes more vocal about this because she is an exemplar to others.

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Well, the light's grown even stronger since she said that. I hope so too.

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I am thinking she saw the light after her experience working with the outstanding Democrats on the J6 committee and saw how they focused, worked, and debated among themselves and then realized that her window to history in the Whitehouse was filled with boobs and children pretending to play government.

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Thank you for “boobs and children.” I want to add James Clyburn’s “groupies of Putin”thinking that covers the crowd who will vote for a child for president and go to Congress quite incapable of thinking or behaving as internationally informed adults. Then there is climate change, which adds that science hasn’t impressed them either.

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Read 'Enough'. I think it shows what her motives were. She was very much afraid to testify, until she spent some time talking with Liz Cheney.

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I read her book as well. It was very interesting and I was a bit sad for her by the end. She is very young to have already had so many hard lessons. And that father - egads!

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Since 1996, character is my first criterion since a President is as likely as not to face an off-the-wall crisis for which a world view and political ideas have no ready solution. Then the country must rely upon what that President has on the inside.

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Let’s hope so. Even if they decide not to vote, it will help Biden.

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@Betsy. We can't rely on Republicans. We have the capacity to expand our base. To protect American democracy, reach out to millions of unregistered likely Democrats using a dedicated database using every outreach method possible (phone and text, postcard, email and targeted ad, and in-person too), where new Democratic voters will make the most impact – in the most flippable states and districts.

https://www.fieldteam6.org/actions

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Been there, doing that, Daniel!

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I think that another strategy is to simply get already registered Democrats to the polls to vote. I don't remember the exact percentages...but in Texas' last election, the number of registered Democrats who didn't vote was closer to 50% than 25%.

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We have seen what both Trump and Biden can do. Biden ‘s hands are tied by the DNC. He didn’t do enough to stop the corporations from taking over our government.He censored RFkJR his first week in office and demonstrated that he doesn’t recognize democracy is rooted in free speech. RFKJR is a greater champion of democracy than either Biden or HCR.

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Biden censored RFKJR? RFK Jr. seems able to air his viewpoints in profusion and at great length in multiple forums. As David Freedlander pointed out in Politico: "There really is no government censorship as commonly defined — that the government neither really coerces nor threatens private citizens or businesses. As for his (RFK Jr.) complaint that the government sometimes flags information on social media platforms as incorrect, after which those platforms remove certain posts, I suggested that presumably the government has as much right to flag suspect content as any other entity, that no one was being killed or imprisoned for their statements or their views and that in fact there were more avenues to reach more people now than ever before."

RFK Jr. says that this supposed censorship is a much greater threat to democracy than the Jan. 6 riot/insurrection and prospective mischief this fall hinted at strongly by MAGA world. Utter nonsense, as is most of his platform as "articulated" online.

My hope is that RFK Jr will siphon some of the wackadoodle vote from Trump; don't really see him as a threat from the left at all.

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He said he could make the argument that Biden’s censorship is a greater threat. I take that to mean government censorship is a big deal like the J6 uprising was.He was just rightfully pointing out that Biden isn’t as strong on democracy as he claims to be.Censorship is a slippery slope to authoritarian government. Not nonsense to me bro!

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RFKJr "could make the argument"? Is he making the argument or just hinting, Trump-style, that there's some argument to be made, based on a story of Gummint censorship. From what I've seen the Government hasn't censored anyone in the classic sense of authoritarian censorship. Flagging BS/paranoid notions about vaccine, frinstance, is not censorship. The media platform can make the decision to remove bogus, even dangerous, misinformation, without violating First Amendment rights. RFK himself hasn't been silenced, or jailed, or assaulted by Federal agents. Nor have any print publications that might repeat these canards been shut down.

There's more than one "slippery slope", by the way. Another that comes to mind is the one where there's no such thing as objective factual information, alternate realities about large Inauguration crowds and nano-sensors being injected into our bodies; hell, Jewish space lasers. Against that, there are government public health agencies trying to get valid info out there while a pandemic is on. Yes, that information evolved as we learned more week by week about COVID19; so too did the guidance on offer.

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Just read your comment about government censoring. Have you listened to anything Doctor Peter McCullough has said?Do you think it’s true that the Covid vaccines have presented risks to our immune system and elevated myocarditis ? Why would RFKJR want to say such things and write a book denouncing Faucci?I for one regret taking the vaccine because COVID was unlikely to kill me and the vaccine weakened my immune system.I’m not convinced the vaccine was the prime cause for declining COVID deaths. I think it was the herd immunity and weakened strain as time went on that did that.

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Perhaps a few (hopefully increasing) number of Republicans are thinking the wacky Wanabee Dictator is more than they bargained for .

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yep

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Copy that, J.L.

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I am hoping that even if they are signaling that that they will write in or just not vote, their better character will vote for Biden once in the secrecy of the voting booth. Biden will need a decisive win to break this MAGA mind virus.

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I hope so, too, as a hedge against R.F.K., Jr. Though I suspect, Bobby K. will woo away more voters from Trump's base, filled as it is with those feeling 'unheard' (with some legitimacy) but voting against their interests, one can not be too sure.

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Yes. I'm starting to think that perhaps the Republican fever has broken.

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Amoral. TFG has no morals; none.

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In 2020, Georgia Republicans voted for Biden on the presidential ticket, but for other Republicans in down-ballot races. This trend is continuing. What is coming is not a red blue wave, it is an anti Trump/MAGA wave.

NH was ground zero for the alpha test of this tactic (he lost to Clinton by 0.3% of the vote), where he alleged thousands of MA liberals were bussed into NH to vote - no proof, just bluster. Now, the MAGAs are trying this on a national scale, this time alleging that non-citizens are voting for Democrats in large numbers, again based on nothing. We need to call out this 'tactic' for what it is - cynical, anti-American BS, targeting those least able to defend themselves. i agree - character DOES matter.

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Dr Richardson predicted the big lie in July or August of 2020, arguing that Trump was laying the ground-work to unveil it in his stump speeches. I felt she was pre-mature; boy, oh boy, was the good professor right on that one. We can not be cocky about Trump.

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I certainty hope so.

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I certainly hope that a blue wave of Republicans is coming but I won't hold my breath. Like someone on here said earlier that if even just a small portion of Rs vote for Biden or sit out, it will make a difference. A good friend of mine texted me that she truly believes that the higher gas prices that we are seeing is a trick to get Trump back in the WH. She thinks Big Business is jerking our chain and controlling elections. Something to think about.

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Interesting, as I remember reading (Bulwark?) sometime back that the “October Surprise” could be a sharp increase in gas’s prices by OPEC in order to affect the election.

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Maybe this is how Big Oil is going to raise the 1$ billion donation to Trumps campaign that he is proposing they put up for him? He told them if they give1$ billion to his campaign that he will rescind the regulations that Biden has put on them.Said he would do it” starting on day one” of his new presidency.Hmmmm

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Transactional government is Trump's m.o., but reneging on his part of a deal is also his m.o. Big Oil may have written up their agenda for him to sign, but if he's elected, he's going to be awfully busy on Day 1 rounding up and deporting millions of folks, making abortion illegal everywhere, and who knows what else.

And my question for the polluters is always: don't they have kids and grandkids? Why do they prefer profits over people, including their own family?

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Yes, I agree with you. He rarely ever does what he says he will do. He's mainly all talk and very little action. All of these people helping to pollute the planet have family and friends that I guess don't mean as much to them as the immediate$$ from destroying the earth.smh

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Or the Saudis putting their finger on the scale.

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Agreed. The big lie comes with a BIG BRIBE.

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The oil companies may be jerking our chain, but I have faith in the American people. (Truth be told: I have that faith because I have to have it lest I slide into despair.) Hopefully, we can hear a message: first came the big lie and now comes the GREAT BIG BRIBE.

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I sure hope so, Betsy.

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How kind, amoral vs immoral and alleged criminal?

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Kindness, understatement...I prefer them to gratuitous name calling.

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I don't see why we need say Trump is an "alleged criminal". After all, it's "Crooked Joe Biden", not "Allegedly Crooked Joe Biden".

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We don't need to say anything. But my comment to Harvey Kravetz fits here: Kindness, understatement...I prefer them to gratuitous name calling.

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Yes but the blue wave is turning for RFKJR not the old man

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Is it really you Sméagol ?

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Why do you have to call me that? Why can’t you address the issues?

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Why do you have to call the President "the old man." Why don't you just use his name or his title, or both?

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He is an old man in reality. Actually it would be more fitting for you to call me Tom Bombadill and yourself a black rider!

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