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Thanks guys of the Bulwark for A) Tim and Sarah’s brilliant way of communicating the truth and nailing, repeatedly, the important points WITHOUT using words that people need to think about like “authoritarianism” etc etc - I think those have become words abstracted away, and THIS was the PRIME example (unfortunately, and so-far) of just thug-like, jack-booted, bullshit suppression of a US Senator WITH VIOLENCE.

EVERYONE needs to watch that video 3 or 4 times to let it really sink in what was happening within a matter of seconds. Noem was nowhere heard calling for a stop. Padilla was NOT being violent or threatening. THIS is what we can expect from ANYONE who steps over the moving line of what “acceptable” is at any moment. And THIS IS NOT WHAT A DEMOCRACY DOES. This is not how we act. This is something way different.

I am emotionally white hot and have been so since your first podcast where I heard of this yesterday. I am not out of control, however - I want people to hear this wide and far here and abroad that this is what America is quickly becoming, and Trump’s later confusing word-salad tweet showing some bizarre ???? I don’t know what to call it about immigrants working in the fields does NOTHING to make it better.

MOREOVER MIKE JOHNSON, the little twat, should apologize for his ridiculous, stunning, stupid words of his calling for Padilla to be “censured”. What a load of shit.

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