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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

You’re amazing. Every piece you’ve written has had the level of vitriol we’ve come to expect from your beloved and yet there isn’t stylistic overlap. Your work is always so detailed and lucid and grownup and sane. Thank you. Thank you.

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Joseph Gonzales's avatar

We need to do more than flood the "switchboards" of our elected officials and others; we need to flood the public spaces - like the National Mall, federal parks and monuments, federal buildings and properties, military facilities, etc.; i.e., all the properties that the American public owns! A tax revolt or series of holidays needs to be in the mix and a series of national labor strikes and work stoppages. There are more of us than there are of the Nazis, toy soldier militias, and true-believer mouth breathers!

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Tina's avatar

I do think we all take to the streets!

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Ward Massner's avatar

BFFs. W the best of both. W the w wd and. I love

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Raelou's avatar

Wholely agree. Hit them in the pocketbook, that's the language they understand.

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Yes, yes. Definitely keep spreading the news. The medical profession relies on the weekly MMWR which tracks incipient viruses among other things. How dare he halt the flow of information. Has he forgotten being rushed to the hospital with COVID?

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Mary Vandemark's avatar

And I still believe his "COVID" was fake, just like his assassination attempts were.

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Katharine Hill's avatar

I also think the assassination attempts were staged. But the hospitalization and treatment for COVID is well documented.

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Joseph Gonzales's avatar

Nothing about the assassination attempt is documented - including evidence that there was such an attempt. Where are the medical reports from the doctors and Secret Service; where's the after-action report; what happened to the shooter's body - his weapon? 1 man was killed and 2 men were wounded - both with multiple body shots, including the torso; both hit with 223 caliber ar-15 bullets, with a muzzle velocity of 3300 ft/s; one victim is an ex-marine who started a gofundme page to pay for medical expenses - which should be paid for by the VA, the campaign, or the federal government! Bonus question: how does a mutilated ear grow back, in its entirety, in less than a week?

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Exactly right, Joseph. A very suspicious event indeed. And the second event with a shooter in hiding who never acted was probably completely fabricated to bolster the first occurrence.

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Edie Sadowski's avatar

Some elephants DO forget

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Diane BF78's avatar

I just did an Orwell post, and love your approach!

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PJ Adk's avatar

Thank you! I’m beginning to feel just a little bit of hope 💙

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

The first time, we were roused out of our general complacence and assumption that those running the place knew what they were doing; and we entered a state of disbelief that this carnival could be happening here.

This time, we know the depths that are possible for them to reach; and we must form ranks and stand against the evil hordes at every possible turn. Hey--it'll be fun!

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SPW's avatar

Good one Mrs Spouse 💙.

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Karen Livolsi's avatar

Teach and remind. My children had grandparents who came to America after WWII from Poland. Both born into solid upper middle class, college educated, their grandfather, a design engineer and their grandmother, a lawyer in her father’s firm, were taken as POW’s. My mother in law was taken from her home in the middle of the night, all male family members shot including her father and younger brother. She and her sisters were carted off to a work camp for 7 years building roads for the German Army. My father in law, an officer in the Polish Army was captured but never brought to trial for helping Jews escape to England.

The ONLY reason my mother in law came to American is that she was so near death when the American soldiers came to liberate them from the camps, she was sent to a hospital in London. They met on the ship to America heading to friends in Chicago.

My children grew up knowing this about their grandparents. Now their children know.

We teach and remind.

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Mary Beth Horsington's avatar

Great column. Thank you!

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Tina's avatar

Why don't these agencies Say "FUCK NO"!?

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Mary Vandemark's avatar

I feel more hopeless the sicker I become.

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Joanna Weinberger's avatar

American Samoa is an important reservoir of brave US military enlistees. In the war in Afghanistan, American Samoan troops served and were injured or killed in active duty in vast disproportion to other American demographics. We owe them a debt of gratitude, not Bobby Kennedy Junior.

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Tina's avatar

I don't think that it's "merrily" that we go down the memory hole!

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