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I appreciate your New MAGA Oligarchs. Having just spent a week with old friends in Munich and hear the uneasiness when they talk of Trump and Musk, I realized this rash of greedy evil is not new. Then I spent most of a day at the Dachau concentration camp and had a lengthy tour. As they say, "this shits real." And the power to commit unfettered cruelty is the point.

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So, please, tell me how to "brace" for Kamala NOT winning. Denise

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It should be noted that Thom Tillis was on one of the Sunday shows, and even as he praised the federal response he worked in calling Trump "the president" and reminding us that Harris has spent "billions" on immigrants.

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I dunno, it seems pretty obvious the oligarchs would support someone who's threatening to reduce the CTR even further down from 21%. It was 35% just 6 years ago

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The MAGA crowd who fought the ideas and recommendations of government about a deadly Covid Pandemic and life saving protocols of masks, social distancing, shutdowns and eventually vaccines are now embracing the thought of a government who wants to control them and the country as defined in a manifesto they can purchase on Amazon or just look up on line. Of course the Oligarchs of the US are seeing how easy it is to take over. They are using this same group to crash down the doors of the very heart of what was supposed to be the purpose of our country of 'equality before the law' since that is getting in their way to running the joint.

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Bill Kristol quoting FDR, then mentioning Marx in a non-derogatory way.... I'm grinning like the damn Cheshire cat lol. Welcome, comrade!

Now, lets talk seizing the means of production from these billionaire fascists, because their greed, and world governments inability to stop them, is literally killing the only planet we have.

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Bill, I've admired and enjoyed your slightly cynical humor since graduate school, when I stepped into the world of politics, where I cut my teeth in the Chicago Democratic Party Richy Dailey.

You are an authentic, moderate Republican. So was my very politically involved mother. She was a Rockefeller Delagate for the '68 Convention. In the end, under great pressure from her delegation, she held her nose and voted for Nixon, for so-called "party unity." My Mom liked bourbon and I'm sure that she and other Rockefelians passed round the bottle!

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I Refer to JD Vance as Peter Thiel Pet ( short for Pet Project) not by his name as that is his function to be the pet of his benefactor.

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Didn't Thiel, a Nazi if I ever saw one, place Vance in so that he could claim Article 25 if Trump wins and take over from him? That is what I had read about the announcement. So, which is more chilling, the fascists at the Heritage Foundation running the country, or the Billionaire Tech Bros? I want neither. Scary, scary stuff.

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Never thought I'd live to see the day when Bill Kristol would speak enthusiastically about the role of social democrats in preserving democracy. Good for him.

I always keep my favorite Muhammad Ali quote handy: “If a man looks at the world when he is 50 the same way he looked at it when he was 20 and it hasn’t changed, then be has wasted 30 years of his life.”

The coalition to save democracy stretches from the Cheneys to the social democrats. We need them all.

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We should remember the words of James Madison in Federalist No. 10: "The latent causes of faction are those sown in the nature of man....But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property....It is in vain to say that enlightened statesman will be able to adjust these clashing interests and render them all subservient to the public good. Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm." We are on the road to kleptocracy. That is what the likes of Trump and Elon Musk plan for. That is what J.D. Vance and his technocratic billionaire financiers and advocates, like Peter Thiel, envision as the new National Conservative movement. Our democratic republic stands in their way for now, and they fully intend to dismantle it. They do not wish to be subservient to the common good. They wish, instead, for the common good, the public welfare, to kneel to them.

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That picture makes me feel bad in unmentionable places.

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Musk did an interview recently wherein he told of his unspeakable sadness at losing his son to the secular cult of the far left fringe. This cult pressures its adherents to cut off all ties with family, forsake that "dead name," and adopt a new name. The experience may have pushed Musk over the edge. I can sympathize, but his actions are counter-productive to what he really wants.

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Shouldn’t that be a flight of sociopaths? Or a slough?

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Bill Kristol: Great piece. Great FDR quote. Also, I really like: "The defense of democratic capitalism is too important to be left to the capitalists." Well done.

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I've not seen that top picture of Musk before - not the one of him jumping, the one of him bowing to kiss trump's hand.

Woah. What happened to the Elon with the shiny botox face? That one looks like he just got out of Dorian Grey's attic. Did the true Elon peek out there for a minute? Sometimes, when MAGA's say that the lizard people are taking over the world, you might begin to believe them. . .

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Some redditor pointed out that Musk's testosterone use, jawline surgery, and hairtransplant were all examples of "gender affriming care" (I mean...they aren't wrong)

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I will be voting in person this year. Dems will need to counter the GOP and only use mail in if absolutely necessary.

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