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''Writer Peter Wehner, who worked for presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, wrote: “Bret Baier has rarely looked as bad (or tendentious) as he did in his interview with Kamala Harris. On the flip side, this was one of her best interviews. She dominated Bret. All in all it was quite a bad day for MAGA world's most important media outlet.”''

Democracy wins in November!

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I saw the clip...she was on fire and brilliant...Bret looked like a deer in the headlights. The conversations around Fox after that session should have been rich.

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I watched it - with satisfaction. Nothing unsure - or ingratiating - about that leader.

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Kam was on fire yesterday; she was brilliant smashing through the Faux News maga Agit-Prop after uniting with truly bi-partisan citizens not just Liz near Philadelphia.

That was a memorable American-to-the core campaign day for Kamala Harris! In a word: "Presidential".

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She was truly herself. So good to watch.

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In exchanges with two high school buddies yesterday (Class of 1958) I learned that they can't handle the truth about Donald Trump. One is an atheist and one a Southern Baptist and both are MAGA. Is is impossible to question them about anything to do with Trump. They are committed to Trump, one of the most flawed humans ever to walk the stage of American politics.

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Pitiful, isn't it?

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Bizarre. Terrifying. We have a huge population of brain washed citizens who think up is down.

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One's an atheist, huh? Wow ... he's figured out the specious nature of religion, one would think he could see through the demagoguery of a despicable human being.

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Half of my family are MAGA. They live in rural North Carolina. They have 8th grade educations, live off social security and don't pay taxes. They buy new cars every year on credit, generally wreck it in some road rage incident and wave that TRUMP flag proudly over the roof of a house that my husband and I purchased for them to live in. They are truly simple minded and brain-washed. P.S. They aren't even church going folks and aren't looking at Donald Trump to save them but be like them. In many ways (narcissism included), they are a perfect match. Very frustrating.

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You can't fix stupid!

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Wonder if they truly feel that way or are just 1. Fearful of saying anything derogatory about him because he is a person of retribution or 2. That would mean admitting they wear duped and wrong about him. You will never really know if behind the curtain of the secret ballot if they vote otherwise. Let’s hope they do.

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You must utilize social psychology to understand this. That ole blame game that white people are privileged and to blame and folks are peed off trust me on this.

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I doubt that an atheist could support a tRump. Just a thought - MHO.

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I suggest we begin flooding Fox News stories with our pro Harris comments. I do every day and so do other.

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A fine idea!

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How nice it would be if we could do the same on truth social! Too bad you have to become a member.

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👏 yes Kamala

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I was initially skeptical of Kamala Harris. I thought she was vein, self-serving and not very in depth thinker. I was wrong. It’s not the first time I misjudged someone. My gut tells me know ( hoping I’m not wrong) that she will be a transformative president. She will understand the need to bring us back to the center and if I were to spell it out, my critics here would disparage me. And you know who you are, lol. I know you swore not to respond and that’s cool. We are all on the same side, don’t forget.

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Bill, speaking as one of your occasional critics and one who has stated that I'll no longer engage with you, well, here I am. I'm glad we agree on Kamala Harris. However, we will likely never agree on what the "center" is. I choose to believe it's what any issue a majority of Americans support (climate change, taxation, women's rights, LGBTQ+, gun control, Ukraine, education, democracy, immigration vs the need for border security, etc. etc.) These are all issues that a majority of the American public sides with Harris and the Democratic Party. That, to me, constitutes the "center". You and I have had this discussion before, and I'll say no more about it nor will likely respond to your reply, but I'm curious to hear how you (or truly any other reader here) would define the "center".

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Doug, as Americans become more enlightened, (civil rights, women’s rights, environment) I believe “the center” is fluid. That’s really the issue, conservatives holding ego-centric values sense that they’re on the wrong side of history and they don’t like the shift

The world has shifted quite a bit since the Dark Ages and the Medieval Lord ancestors are still railing about it

Labels like “center” actually masks individual issues. They’re kinda like polls

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Dave, conservative is not a viable descriptor for MAGA. They are far right radicals who are also cultists and are backing a fascist monster. I consider my next door neighbor, a former R pol, to be conservative. He has two Harris/Walz signs in his yard and another for a local D pol. He also has one for a R who we consider smarmy, but OK. He is registered as an I and he can't stand death star and his minions. The behavior of the people at the top has not shifted much at all throughout history. They usually have been concerned about power and wealth in nearly all places and times. And they have used the peons, the hoipolloi, the peasants, the serfs, the slaves, the immigrants, and the poor to serve them. That is the reason that they wanted sons and complete control of women as male members of the family were everything. I doubt all those R women in GA know how late women have been able to vote, to get credit cards, to have control of their children, etc. I bet most, if not all of them are against abortion. Personally, I do not understand how any woman can vote for that creep.

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Excellent point. If we can get back to where "the center" was in, say, the early '60s, only with people of color and women of all colors included this time, we can start moving forward again.

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That's why I define the center as the majority, Dave, using the bell curve as a model. There will always be 15% at each extreme end, and the big 70% lump is in the middle. I would guess that the feudalists today are at one of the extreme ends, and the woke idealists at the other.

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I agree, Dave.

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"Back to the center"? The gutless "center" helped get us into this mess. Denying the urgency of climate change, calling anyone who called for economic justice "far left" . . . Thanks to the "center," the country kept sliding farther and farther to the right, to the point where fascism really is on the ballot and we've barely started to deal with climate change (which we knew plenty about several decades ago).

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I don't think the center is as you describe it, Susanna. In all the statistical analysis I've seen, the majority of Americans support economic justice, renewable energy, female autonomy, and everyone's right to love as they will. I think the slide to the right has occurred because of corrupt politicians who put their pockets and/or power over the will of their constituents.

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I can't agree that "the centre" is solely responsible for the slide into fascism. The centre to me is the place of common decency, of judicious thought but also of knowing the value of truth and honour. That includes centre right as well as centre left. It's also the place of moderation. My late sainted mother the minister's wife used to say she was "extremely moderate". To me a centrist can see the honest arguement of both sides.

Trumpism is just whack a doodle narcissism and is not a political view but a psychiatric condition.

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Insights, knowledge and understanding grow with experience and time, certainties get chipped away by the tools we bring to our struggles for truth. The centre is not a battleground, it’s a process rooted in goodwill and humility, even humour, in the service of the common good and the overriding desire to do no harm.

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I like your phrase, "certainties get chipped away," RJ. I believe that critical thought is enabled by a flexible mentality, that new discoveries bring shifts of opinion. I equate what I call critical thought with what you call "...process rooted in goodwill..."

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RJ, so to distill that, it's “live and let live”, or do I misinterpret you? (I happen to like that philosophy, although there is a point at which it can become extreme.)

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I believe that everything you list here is the center: let people be who they want to be. Target danger in our society, like weapons used to kill masses of innocent children and others. Keep your guns to protect your home and to hunt. Just a few ‘for instances.’

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Jennifer: indeed. Treat *every* person the same. Allow all to be free to be who they want to be, with few necessary limitations dealing with protections of individual rights to live safely and happily (to the greatest extent possible); the common good, etc.

And this is *not* Libertarian thinking, as I see the news to protect members of society from those who would threaten us either passively or not -- your comment suggesting reasonable gun control comes to mind.

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"Bill, speaking as one of your occasional critics and one who has stated that I'll no longer engage with you, well, here I am." Doug, I salute you for being a big man.

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Gosh Ned, I believe you're overstating things!

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If we look at any bell curve, Doug, by definition the majority=the center. I, too, often disagree with Bill. In many ways the Harris campaign stands for our ability as a nation to agree on broad issues and sustain diverse opinions on causality and solutions. I locate my disagreements with Bill in that space.

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I like your definition! But I think others would define it as being much farther right of these issues which are dear to us.

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Doug,

Sometimes the “center” is Truely undefinable. And sometimes it’s not even issues. Because of so much diverse literature on race for example, and I believe this is the great unspoken and non-discussed argument, those of us who are Caucasian are often so sick and tired of being called privileged. I know I am and yet, it doesn’t move me needle to the right. But with many, it does. So I say stop the blame game. It only serves those who wish to cause an ugly backlash.

Again, a matter of perspectives on issues instead of “center.” The Ukraine Russian war never needed to be fought. This war shou,d be called the Joe Biden War because he didn’t state emphatically no NATO to Ukraine. Ukraine was never a good candidate for NATO in the first place and this of course, can be argued. Half of the country the eastern half was a good deal Russian anyway. But American leaders often forget how quick we are to encourage war of actually invade. We never learn. So this is a “center” issue but one nevertheless important.

I have thought of and read some on the topic of urban inequality. That poverty remains through generations. No matter how much government helps so I need to ask why. I’m reminded of a conversation I witness as a freshman high school student in an urban high school. Our your homeroom teacher had recently given birth without the help of a partner. This she revealed and she engaged a 14 or 15 year old Black girl in class in a discussion about motherhood. The girl had recently also given birth. Communities cannot thrive when today (written in a Black journal) up to 72% of Black children are born out of wedlock. Poverty and all that accompanies it will continue for hundreds of years until family planning is ingrained in the community. I expressed this one in my writing and I was thoroughly trashed so I generally don’t go there anymore. And so the natural response is how dare I tell a Black girl what she should and shouldn’t do with her body. And I agree I don’t. This issue is for Black leadership to address not I.

My issues are less center but more talking points that should be considered by democratic leaders. Or we are setting ourselves up for a future less bright even if we emerge from this one with the greatest political monster ever to walk to the stage.

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"The Ukraine Russian war never needed to be fought"?! Tell that to Putin, who is fully responsible.

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I’ll go with your center, particularly climate change. Unfortunately too many are incapable, for a variety of excuses, to accept the reality.

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Anyone who knew she braved the winter storms of Montreal, Quebec to get to high school.......took in an abused friend to live..........made Kavenaugh look like a drooling baby during the cross........knew long ago that Kamala is an American hero in waiting.........now is her time to shine bright

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To your beliefs that Kamala was vain, self-serving, and not a very in-depth thinker, I will say that I have a friend whose cousin has been good friends with Kamala for a while. And she has said that everytime you speak to Kamala, she is sincerely focused on YOU and your feelings and thoughts. She is not vain, or self-serving, and she is certainly not a shallow thinker.

I've seen her respond to people who have expressed loss and sorrow, and her reaction is real, not fake like someone else we know.

I'm glad you realize you misjudged.🙂

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As a conservative by temperament, I greeted Vice President Harris with skepticism as a plodder, career politician, and a smug lib. I was dead-wrong, too. Thank you, Bill, for being a big man; you inspire me.

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OK Bill. I hear ya.

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Mike, Kamala is always "on fire and brilliant" in my opinion.

How anyone thought that Trump would "win" the debate against her is just funny to me.

Trump calls her dumb, slow, of low IQ. What??

I knew she would rip him apart at the debate.

Her words in Pennsylvania yesterday reminded me somewhat of Lincoln's words and sentiments.

Such disrespect for her abounds.

People around me still refuse to pronounce her name correctly. When I remind them what it is, they either laugh or repeat their incorrect pronunciation with jeering voice and expressions.

Thank goodness there are decent people across our nation to counter the insanity of Trump and HIS Republican party.

May there be enough of these decent folks to save us from the vileness and danger of another Trump

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“Trump calls her dumb, slow, of low IQ. What??”

- Projection. Projection. Projection. What he has done all his life (and what seems to be the basis of most of the GOP leadership at this point).

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The vileness and danger of another Trump AND idiots who bow to him.

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Deport Magats NOW!

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Much better than deporting immigrants. Immigrants come here for what the MAGAts want to destroy. Always have, even before they were called MAGAts.

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Pam, while I agree with your sentiments, the mispronunciation of Kamala's name doesn't bother me, and I doubt it bothers her, because pretty soon they'll be addressing her as "Madame President" or "President Harris".

I believe that our side does the same by calling the convicted felon (see?) "DonOld" or other such things. And I have no problem with that, either 😉.

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But women candidates are often referred to on a first-name basis, far more than men. It's disrespectful.

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Ellen, I'm not so sure I agree. I've always thought using someone's first name suggests familiarity or informality, and calling someone by their last name (unless an athlete, or long-decwqawd person, etc.r) is disrespectful unless preceded by Mr, Mrs., Ms. or Miss (or the like.) However, in this case I think the objective is disrespect, as her first name is uncommon, hence easy to make fun of.

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"pretty soon they'll be addressing her as "Madame President" or "President Harris".

Uh, no. These kind of people will call her President Kamala and continue to mispronounce it.

MAGA=Misogyny and Racism

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Perhaps, Diane. But I know I have disrespected the last several Rep presidents in one way or another., whether by name or adjective.

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But are you in government? A public speaker?

As a woman in medicine, I have very often been called by my first name, by mostly men, when they refer to male Drs as Dr Last Name. It's pervasive in our culture & the more we call it out, the fewer people will feel free to disrespect women.

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My personal issue is that I know three "KAM-a-la" people. It is hard to translate for me sometimes. I mean no disrespect, and know what it is like to have an uncommon first name that is spelled differently that 99% of the other "Allison"'s.

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The best ad I saw was a picture of a comma followed by LA. That image fixes it: , + LA

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I saw one that had a music staff with a breath mark (looks like a comma) and in the key of C had an "F" half note in the staff. (reference: solfège, or as Maria would say: Do, a deer, a female deer, etc.)

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I love that❣️ Grew up playing classical music and hadn't thought of that one.

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Thanks to Ally (of whom I think as “ally”) and Trevy for the fun. “The Sound of Music” like the revival of “Our Town” gives us a bit of the unbearable lightness of being to survive the next few(?) months.

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Yes, Virginia, but remember the underlying theme to The Sound of Music. Ultimately, the von Trapp family had to leave to escape the Nazis. I loved that movie as a kid, but once I understood the background story, I am no longer able to watch it. Sad and frightening.

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They're not used to having guests on who challenge their story

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THAT'S about the size of it! Fox is a propaganda network.

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And then there's the Murdoch owned Sky News Australia. A big investment in

disinformation about Democrats in general and Harris in particular.

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I thought the Rupert offspring that runs the Australia network was more honest than Lachlan. Not so, it seems…

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Yep. I delete it, day after day.

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just unsubscribe!

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From day one, I watched at a bff’s house where it was on literally 24/7. I was shocked and they were entranced.

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JDH, one of our local radio stations (back in the day when we had them) was an AM station that broadcast the U of O men's sports and had originally (at least as I knew it in the 70's) played pop music. When the department finally started letting am/fm radios in the patrol cars (early 90's; it was too expensive to "special order" them without commercial radios) I was working nights, and listened to a lot of talk radio; Art Bell to be precise. I had the opportunity to tune in early one evening (I was on overtime) and I heard a news broadcast that ended with "We report, you decide". As I listened a few more times, I realized this was the station that broadcast Rush Limbaugh during the day, and Fox was its "news" carrier. What utter garbage. At least I knew Art Bell was a wing nut... and very entertaining as I patrolled the empty roadways of Lane County.

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I have to admit I stayed in a really bad marriage as I listened to “Dr. Laura” everyday on the way to work. That repeated drumbeat can take a toll.

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Yep, am radio was noted for being nut crazy. One b-I-l was always complaining about it and the other one was always quoting Rush. It was vicious toward Dems with the “libtard” crap. I just called it fringe and ignored. So many found a home.

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Trevy they do get push back, but hers was so right on target, indignant and so well focused it was a pleasure to watch. Bret did a stupid thing by playing a much edited clip that she was familiar with to respond to. He set himself up and found out who this woman is. Fox has been editing to their agenda for years...playing the "wag the dog" game....and they got called out big time...this mistake will haunt them.

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And it's long overdue

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But with who? It certainly won't harm them with their loyal base who love Trump. And elsewhere, who matters? Are there really any undecideds who might go "Harris" as a result? I doubt it. So I really fail to see how their idiocies will actually "haunt" them in any way, sigh.

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No. This was all pre-arranged by Harris&Waltz, and part of their agreement with FNB, who stood to make millions from Harris being on their screen. FNB shareholders aren't dumb. Harris&Waltz told them to "take it or leave it". FNB seeing $$ signs agreed to their terms. "Bret" is a paid employee of FNB, he had his marching orders. He's getting abonus.. for throwing himself under the bus. Faux is not owned by numb-skull#45. He's just a tool for FNB,and he's getting 'duller-by-the-minute! IMHO.

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I believe Pete B has also been on the network (?)

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Regularly, Pete takes them down.

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C'mon Trevy.., no way that was some impromptu getogether. The Harris/Waltz team spelled it out the "rules" for Faux noose, or Faux WOULD NOT get to make a whole-helluva-lot of money hosting it. And you better bet Faux saw the $$$'s jingling into their coffers from all the dedicated Faux noose fans with their pre-programed TV sets. No doubt (in my military-mind) that FNB made money, but I'll bet Harris/Waltz didn't fork over a dime. Numb-skull #45.., is becoming bad juju for FNB advertisers.

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Well Trevy absolutely:-) Kamala out foxed Fox. Let’s rename it? Any ideas?

The Trash network? Or HWCUB (howwrongcanyoube).

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I suspect (hope!) he was actually internally applauding her comments! He can’t/wont speak the truth. It seemed like that was the only time he didn’t interrupt her! He really let her run with it, and she was fabulous!!

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As a video editor myself the producer/editor who created that clip for broadcast should be ashamed of themselves. It was total manipulation and propaganda. If there is an editing award of shame...they should get it. Actually folks on here should reach out to Fox with that message.

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I saw that comment made elsewhere too; you’re not alone in that. I’m happy she had the chance to show she’s NOT “retarded”, and she’s not going to put up with BS from anyone.

I literally pray that our country is granted enough wisdom to finally dispense with Donald Trump

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On air, Fox commentators incl Baier himself tried to spin the interview very hard, casting aspersions on Kamala and complimenting Baier on a "good interview". He also stated that he had 4 people talking in his ear. They must have stressed him out, and clearly they pushed him to push the narrative. He said later that the time for the interview had been cut short too, adding to his "inability to get through all the questions he had prepared (paraphrased)." He then blamed Kamala for a 15 minute late arrival. Who plans these things? They never plan around late arrivals for the busiest people in the world? When Trump is routinely an hour late?

I was very disappointed and even angry at his constant interruption and overtalking of her....because he wanted more talking time for his "questions" (aka rightwing disinformation vectors ). He barely gave her 3 seconds to answer before cutting her off. It was the classic male dominance shtick. Kamala wasn't having it; she rightly pointed that out, held her ground and her right as the Presidental Nominee to have the larger speaking role. The audience is, after all, listening to what the candidate is saying, not the moderator. They have always been so willing to let Trump ramble on about nothing!

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Baier constantly interrupting Harris and not giving her time to respond to questions annoyed the &%*@ out of me!

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I watched the interview plus Sean Insanity's commentary about his ridicule of Vice President Harris's "covering up" (sic) for President Biden's mental impairment (sick). Here is an analysis which I trust far more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn-Dw2JUVmo (Yeah . . . ¡Jimmy Kimmel!) 🥳

Of course, the M.A.G.A.-types focused on her not answering the question, willfully oblivious to the compelling non-verbal message. Prior to contesting the premise of Brat Boor's gotcha, Vice President Harris's face exhibited a pained expression. 😢

She knew the question was a trap, though, to be explained, that was not the reason for her brazen exhibition of humanity.

> Admitting that President Biden was impaired (sic) would admit to participating in a deception of the American people. 😥

> Contesting the assertion that President Biden was impaired, which he was not, would only open her up to petty snipes about her unassailable intelligence. 😯

BUT THAT SET-UP WAS NOT THE REASON FOR THE PAIN. 💔

Vice President Harris was not about to make her mentor, her manager, her President, her friend some political football for the bread-&-circus bitchorama that is Fox News. 🤢

So her anguished non-answer said everything to those with even a smidgeon of empathy. 🙏

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VP Kamala Harris is on track go down in history as one of the greatest, fearless, tireless, formidable,heroic, intelligent, brilliant, literal, humorous, tactful,cool, calm, collected,...............heros in the entire history of the United States of America

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I'm so impressed with how this woman has handled the past few months. How many people would be capable of what she's done and how she's doing it? Joe Biden choose wisely when he asked her to be his running mate...and thank the gods of politics & history that he saw the light and made the hand off. This has been an historic ride...we all now need to finish this job together and "turn the page."

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It was so satisfying!! She talked over him until he had to stop talking. I have seen Trump do this over and over. It was a great moment to watch Harris take charge.

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I know Conservatives typically argue in bad faith, but pulling an edited video up during an interview to try and get her in a gotcha moment is the height of bad journalism, dishonest and straight up gaslighting. Insane

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Philly, Kamala says “ I see what you did there, now I’m going to explain you did to your fawning audience

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Here is a seven-minute clip from the Univision town hall. Candidate Trump remained coherent; the only catch being that he was . . . ¡fool of scheiße! 🤢

https://youtu.be/L4FqJJW7WUE

Needless to say, el Sr. González was underwhelmed. 😊

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Surprise.

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Bret and his gang did what they do and they got handed their hat in the court of public opinion by someone who knows how to prosecute folks who are used to having it their way. A lot of crooks go too far and end up facing the music. Now we just have to help the jury come in with the right verdict.

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Kamala is also starting to distance Herself from Biden... If elected, she has stated that she will chart her own course, this is Good Politics... Joe Biden is a Good, Compassionate Man, but his Administration was never Popular... The Dark Siths are more Powerful than Ever, i.e. Elon Musk, and the General Populace are more UnHappy...

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Another pulled quote, the grand finale:

" let us together stand up for the rule of law, for our democratic ideals, and for the Constitution of the United States. And in twenty days, we have the power to chart a New Way Forward, one that is worthy of this magnificent country that we are all blessed to call home.”

Cue the skyrockets.

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lol. By chance I am reading Alan Taylor's American Revolutions. It's a very good dose of history on the origins and follow through to the founding of the USA up to about 1800. Racism based on slavery is documented well enough to get the idea, and puts the biggest tell on the idea of the "imperfect union" , fits right in with Heather's own historical telling. Of course, Kamala in her inspirational was not there to rub that side in her audience's faces. How did the Beatles put it, "long and winding road"....

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I like it when presidents give us a little dose of history in their speeches occasionally. As we know with HCR, we Americans need that perspective.

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Right? I teared up READING it!

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Joe was hammered non stop from day one by money and dark forces of absolute evil. There is nothing free about this election, and it’s anything but fair, with Fox and clones (clowns) lying with unabated fervor from day one (started the day he was inaugurated.). Free and fair election has been an anomaly since Fox took to the air.

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I agree...When Rupert Murdoch showed up in the U.S. he should have been grabbed by his collar and seat of his pants and "escorted" to the nearest seaport and placed forthwith on a slow boat to Australia and prohibited from ever setting foot in the US again.

I hold Murdoch responsible for much of the damage that has been done to the fabric of this country. I keep hoping the universe's arc of moral justice lands him a blow that sends his media empire right into bankruptcy.

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Let’s not forget Rush Limbaugh, who brainwashed countless (now old) men, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the dumpster fire.

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A travesty by any measure

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Rush was the first of the brain-washing marketing "geniuses" who managed to convince so many Americans that he "was on their side" even as he lived it up down in Palm Beach. The deception was breathtaking (and seemingly too stupid to believe in) then, and the results....a cult worshipping MAGA, terrifying now.

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Let's get real. People don't believe lies unless they want to.

Always.

It's the anger America has been feeling since the 60s:

Aka racism and misogyny.

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And the senators and representatives who continued to push the lies from Faux News (what a bad joke!).

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He took Rush’s ball and kept it rolling. Sort of like an avalanche

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I right-wing Platform, drudge, headlined "Cat ate Fox".

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I love that! Or another one could be "Harris Lays Baier Fox News' Bias"

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LOL

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That is rich, Counsellor.

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👏👏👏

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For sure, JD, Biden has been a "red meat" target for Maga et al since day one, as you put it.

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But he has endured. Back straight.

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Truth

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They have crowed about every speech anomaly and completely ignored every achievement. Instead, they have lied about the economy, employment, immigration, inflation, Ukraine, NATO, and the integrity of our elections.

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The TV ads I've been seeing for Republican candidates repeat all the usual lies. There's one ad that uses the word "illegals" multiple times, and it makes me want to throw a brick through the TV set. Immigrants aren't people, they're "illegals" who are blamed for every little thing. 😠

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The lies in Texas are blatant and constant. Don’t know why Allred didn’t say to Lying Cruz “you are the biggest liar in Texas.” Stop the toxic lies.

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You got that right, JDH.

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Sadly so

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And, to be honest, imo, Biden has been unduly trashed by not just the Maga crowd. I laughed when Bret Baier tried to get her to admit she had noticed him slipping "cognitively" during the last year or so of his administration. Even if there was a tincture, even a little more, no way was she going to give him anyway roadway on that.

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Frank,

"Biden unduly trashed"....yes!!! President Biden has served this country with his whole life. He has been a man of faith....that means he knows he needs faith in a power greater than himself and he was willing to humbly receive this love by faith (because I am a person of faith, I understand this amazing , living, forgiving, present love. I know about this triune God who answers prayer in amazing ways...not always as we would choose.)

With successes, he has experienced great loss...his first wife and daughter killed in a car accident...His beloved Beau dying due to cancer from exposure working near burn pits as he served our country over seas. Joe and Jill, as have many of us have also have overcome other family struggles. They are real...they are open, they understand American citizens as regular human beings.

He and Jill have renewed friendships that had been destroyed by a previous President. President Joe Biden renewed a sense of trust amongst our international leaders and renewed respect within leaders of our military.

Jill, as a teacher at a Community College, has encouraged the use of an excellent two year education in order for students to find jobs with pay that can support the graduates without the higher cost of a 4-year degree.

Joe and Jill Biden have and continue to work to improve the lives of regular Americans. They have lived to serve this country and each and all of its people.

Kamala has proven she too is a great American. As a lawyer, she has fought against dangerous criminals fearlessly and WON!!! She is for all of us. She is a true leader...truly a great American!!!!

We know Joe Biden stands for Democracy....we know he works for the people of the United States of America, NOT FOR HIMSELF!!!!

Kamala has proven she too is a great American. She also knows many of our world leaders and they know her! She is ready to serve as the next President of the great United States of America....for everyone!!!!

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Great write up, Emily!

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Sorry for as much as you acclaim Biden, I still to this day can not forgive him for his complicity in foisting Clarence Thomas upon us and upon the Supreme Court by his denigration of Anita Hill's accusations of misconduct. We can lay at his doorstep many of the outrageous decisions that have been made by the court since 2020 when the majority of the court finally turned dark MAGA "red".

That one Biden disaster may out weigh every other good thing he has ever done, because it's effects will live on long after he is gone.

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The real atrocity for me was that that lackwit, Thomas, was conceived of as being an adequate replacement for Thurgood Marshall.

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Indeed but as I noted above Biden was instrumental in making it happen. At the time the Democrats held the majority in the Senate and could have easily bounced him (as they did with Bork) but Biden supported him and as chairman of the Judiciary committee, he held the keys to the court. Probably the worst thing Biden ever did in his political life but has never really said "Boy did I screw THAT up!"

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Bret looked especially weak when following a line of questions designed to please MAGA instead of his usually better journalistic sense. Harris was genius is csll8ng him a "serious journalist", making him slide off his track.

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Trump was after Biden before Biden was even a candidate. He got the Hillary treatment, just not 20 years long

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She handled that exceptionally well, though again was interrupted.

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in the repartif she managed out run him over a few times lol, and how he complained

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Let’s curb the actions and appetite of the Opus Dei ! Please 🙏 let’s wake up.

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Religious fanatics are the worst kind, has always been true. Hell is full of them, if there is any justice

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Hardly just "religious" fanatics, JD, check your history books.

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Ooh, "JDH" now. No JDs here.

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I've noticed that.

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Had my identity hijacked

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Not meant to be all inclusive.

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Always knew “of” them, but am reading Garett Gore’s new book. Less than halfway through and I am appalled.

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Thanks, MLMinET for the reference for more enlightenment about Opus Dei.

Garett Gore’s latest book: Opus: Dark Money, a Secretive Cult, and the It’s Mission to Remake Our World

Another book on my list. As always, follow the money…the root of all evil, yep!

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That would be Gareth Gore.

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You’re right. I typed it correctly but didn’t go back to check autocorrect.

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Biden may not have sold his agenda effectively but I think history will rate him highly.

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As I note elsewhere, there will never (for me) be any way to rate Biden "highly". No matter how much credit you can give him for many things he had done in his career, for me in the end the true tipping point was his cooperation in putting Clarence Thomas on the Supreme Court. That one thing for me almost completely outweighs whatever good he has done for this country because Thomas on the Court will have far reaching effects for decades. That for me is Biden's personal Watergate moment and in many ways I think it is as bad or worse than NIxon's actual Watergate. Watergate's effects were long but Thomas on the court (which would never have happened without Biden's complicity) will last longer.

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Far as I can see, the Biden Administration is beyond criticism. The past four years have been de-railed, stumped, impeded by the (R)ss-holes in the Senate, Congress, and many judge-ships, as to be almost incapacitated. The border fracas being blown right out of proportion. Our unfettered/unadulterated support of Israel's policies that some people are more equal than others, with thanks to its proponents having decision-makers right by the balls, has been with us for some time. Don't tell me Netanyahu (IDF) didn't know Hamas was arming and tunneling the entire town. C'mon. Just an excuse to finally be "justified" to blow the crap out of non-believer ragtag countries surrounding them, not to mention taking over the countryside for personal development (hello J. Kushner). So, now we have short-sighted Americans who would threaten non-support of Harris/Waltz? Really. What planet would they like to move to? Let us move on.. Please.

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MadRussian12A,

Netanyahu, is playing us so well...it is shameful!!! He could care less about the hostages. He is keeping himself out of prison.

Putin is enjoying the game. We are being "set up" to bomb Iran.

BRING THE HOSTAGES HOME!!!!...THAT IS THE REASON FOR OUR BEING THERE!!!

Netanyahu just wants us to be involved with our military "fire power". He is distracting us from saving the lives of the hostages....if any are still alive!!!!

There are persons in Israel who want to take over Gaza. It is a dream to expand Israel's boundaries. I believe this because of expansion beliefs among some Jewish citizens of Israel, which I have read. Also for years, Jewish families have been slowly occupying land that is legally a part of Gaza.

I cannot bear as a human being to see more babies, women and children and the elderly human beings in Gaza slaughtered. Those citizens have done nothing wrong!!!! Their blood is ON US!!!! Netanyahu must be stopped!!!!

NOTE: I am NOT prejudice against Jewish people.

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Well said, Emily. If I was a relative of one of those hostages, I'd be outraged by what Netanyahu has done, because he certainly hasn't focused on bringing them home safely.

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MadRussian, I love (R)ssholes!! Junior High brain is fully engaged!

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The remarkable epilogue to Bob Woodward's WAR, out today: He says "many of the news-making scenes in my prior books are stories of failures, mismanagement, dishonesty and the corruption of executive power," but in the Biden White House he found "steady and purposeful leadership." [Copied from Robert Scott Horton]

Biden, in his genuine "good faith efforts", created a coherent national security team who over 4 years combined "decades of experience and basic human decency." Together, they pursued "intelligence driven foreign policy" "to wield the levers of executive power responsibly and in the national interest. At the center of good governance is teamwork. "

Even though "there were failures and mistakes", Woodward believes that "the Biden administration will be remembered in history as one of steady and purposeful leadership."

[Paraphrased and quoted from Bob Woodward's epilogue]

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Sorry but there is no way I could ever honor Joe Biden. In the end all of his good deeds are out weighed by his catastrophic failure in letting Clarence Thomas waltz on to the SCOTUS while denigrating Anita Hill. He will be lucky to go down in history as a "mixed bag" leader, one who did many things good but made one of the most grevious mistakes in political history, in many ways more devastating than Watergate.

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Joe Biden has admitted his mistakes. He has done way more good than anything wrong. The guy is only human, after all!

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Mr Biden reminded that his administration charted a course of its own, different from that of the Obama administration and expects Ms Harris to also do so. Said, that is the normal thing every administration does.

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Apache. Kamala’s speech game me chills. So proud of the Woman/Candidate for President she is. She has the knowledge, passion and dedication to keep our Home safe, hopeful and moving forward.

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This proves to me that Kamala should do a Fox News interview EVERY DAY - even after she wins the Presidency and after she takes office. Perhaps Rupert could install a little Fox Hole right next to the Oval Office????

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Great idea, Paul! And thanks for a good laugh...something I need more and more these days.

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It is doubtful Fox will invite her back to be interviewed. LOL

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Yup, I’m sure you are correct, Sharon: No more invites from Fox, but I’d love to hear Kamala say - day after day, how she’d love to give Brett another chance to “mansplain” some more stuff to her.

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" And in twenty days, we have the power to chart a New Way, one that is worthy of this magnificent country that we are all blessed to call home.” We are must include T5rump supporters who have felt that the democracy has wronged them. I agree with their concern when I see less than one percent of citizens enjoy more than 95 of the wealth of a country that produces 25% of the world GDP.

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Yes, democracy wins, we all sincerely hope. But I regret that Kamala Harris' success and demonstrated integrity and suitability for the Office of President of the United States is lauded in terms of dominance. Why celebrate Harris' greater knowledge and experience and understanding of American ideals of democracy as dominance? Why join Trump in reducing the election to a wrestling match? There is too much dominance in today's world. Look what dominance as an ideal has done to men over the centuries. It has created a culture that exalts men over women because of domination, imposing one's will on another. Women are just emerging from millennia of male dominance and it hasn't been pretty. Trump is all about dominance as we all know well. Is that what we now call success? Valuing dominance as the highest form of success has brought the world to the climate precipice on which we all teeter over the abyss of extinction of all life on earth.

Harris has the greater understanding of what is at stake. She was savvy to Baier's chicanery in editing out Trump's references to using America's military against Americans who oppose his ambition of dominance - Trump's idea of Americans who oppose him as "the enemy within". Harris called Baier out on his unethical representation of Trump and won by speaking truth to the corrupted power of Fox News. Baier was utterly flummoxed by the truth. That's not Trumpian "dominance" - that's being honest and true and Baier clearly didn't know what to do with honesty and truth because he wields dishonesty and lies to gain his power.

Harris is not going to win because she dominates. She's going to win because she lives by the standards of honour and truthfulness that are foundational to the ideals of her country and people who support her recognize that here, at last, is a leader that is not going to shuck and jive her way to power for power's sake. That is the power of Harris-Walz. Not dominance.

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You're absolutely right to highlight the problem with framing Kamala Harris' success in terms of dominance. Reducing leadership to dominance perpetuates a damaging narrative that has historically exalted power over others rather than power to serve. Harris' strength lies in her commitment to truth, integrity, and democratic principles, not in dominating opponents. Her confrontation with Fox News wasn’t a display of brute force but a triumph of transparency and accountability over deception. True leadership should be measured by one's ability to uplift and inspire rather than overpower, and Harris embodies that distinction perfectly. It's a critical reminder that genuine success, especially in leadership, is grounded in ethics, not domination.

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After disagreeing with her yesterday about candidate Trump's performance in Chicago, Dr Cox Richardson uncorked one of her best essays today. What is most heart-warming is the paucity of foot-notes, indicating that we behold her substance and what a profoundly passionate, poignantly patriotic substance that is. 🤝

¡Bravò, Dr Cox Richardson! ¡Bravò! ✌🏽

Were I a participant on Truth (sic) Social (sick), I would write: ¡I LOVE PRESIDENT HARRIS! ❤️

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5137210/user-clip-vice-president-opens-bi-partisan-umbrella-sunny-day (Vice President Harris's most lucid speech of those I have watched.) 🖖

Below is a clip of the opening remarks by two Republicans that really touched me, deeply. The citation below that excerpt, snipped from Dr Cox Richardson's inspiring essay, brought me almost to tears. 😇

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5137206/user-clip-whats-bad-felling-good (¿What's so bad about feelin' good?) 🥳

“'[O]ur campaign is not a fight against something', she said. 'It is a fight for something. It is a fight for the fundamental principles upon which we were founded . . . [W]e are all here together this beautiful afternoon because we love our country . . . .'" ⚖️

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My belief as well…

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