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Aug 10, 2022·edited Aug 10, 2022

The way the Republicans consistently play this game is to explode with outrage without an iota of curiosity about the facts. It's like watching a really bad movie over and over again. If we learn that the FBI agents found evidence of a serious crime, the GOP lackeys will claim it was either planted or create a charade of lies about some other issue to deflect.

It's very intriguing if the 10 boxes contain material not returned to the National Archives, and it includes classified documents. Even more intriguing is if the Department of Justice has evidence that Trump has used any of them for nefarious purposes. One can dream.

I do wonder if any of the GOP, in their heart of hearts, regret being drawn into this endless cycle of lies and hypocrisy — all while accomplishing nothing of substance for their constituents. Why wonder about things for which I already know the answer?

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Thank you Heather. So heartening. So very heartening. You never left the fire line. Never. You always faced the flames with one foot in the black. They way forward is still steep and smoky but your sense of justice is clear and brilliant. A long time ago someone asked me who my hero was. I said no hero’s here. Over the coarse of my life I have finally been blessed beyond my wildest expectations to know and have lived in the same time in the same atmosphere as this heroic heroine who has upstaged the world and made herself known. My hero HCR.

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Evil lurks in the hearts of some men, virtue rules in others. Americans are learning which is which. There’s no doubt about Donald Trump, all see this. Will a single Republican in 2022 demonstrate what Republicans led by Sen. Howard Baker and John Dean showed in Watergate?

Cassidy Hutchinson showed that some young women have what it takes. She saved the One Six Committee with the truth.

What Republican man has what it takes tonight?

Is there not one Republican that will tell the truth?

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I believe Trump has stashed all of the valuable information that he can hold in his fat little fingers. He probably has and will commit espionage. Just waiting for the highest bidder or maybe the best safe haven. He is a Traitor

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Gym Jordan for the judiciary committee? He can’t even tell the truth about how short he is.

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Would someone please do a video of all the instances in which Trump and appointed minions illegally weaponized the federal government (Ukrainian shake down, military mobilization for BLM protests on public property, DOJ hijacking attempts, IRS audits of former FBI directors, Census scam-lies, Secret Service missing phone data...endless ENDLESS) against his 'enemies' and at the end remind people that as for the search warrant; GIVEN that 15 boxes of stolen classified materials Trump should not have had (including letter from Kim Jong-Un) were already recovered from his Club...errr....'home'...GIVEN that his own aids said he was illegally flushing documents down the toilet...GIVEN the HUGE gaps in missing records especially on Jan. 6th like call and visitation logs...the idea that there might be more illegally obtained missing documents in Trump's possession sorts sounds pretty reasonable! HUH!?!? So stop whining right wing hypocrites and liars.

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Why does DT call them witch hunts? Seems it would be proper to call them warlock hunts or has DT had a sex change? ... I'm sick of hearing about DT. At least the news people are showing Mar-o-Lago and we don't have to see his ugly face or listen to his voice.

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I know the journalistic clout of the WSJ provides Rupert with his bona fides as a newsman, but it also gives him cover for Fox propaganda network. It is really worth it, America? Other countries have said no. Next time anybody wonders why we are so divided, just tune in to one of their “opinion” spewers, all masters of the art of lying with conviction. No mystery, no where. Overcoming that is Joe and Dems biggest challenge…

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The news these days is a mix of accomplishment and hope by Biden and the Dems, along with pure horror from the ( once loyal) opposition. What a roller coaster ride we are on.

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As I’ve implied here, Mussolini’s Knock Off will be investigated, charged, convicted and sentenced.. But will NOT serve much time in a US prison protected by Secret Service - which may also be charged - but he may well suffer a fate not unlike the King II of Belgium following his behavior in rubber in The Congo - see Mark Twain - it’s true.

I’d say the same fate will be dealt to Putin if they don’t kill him first. And I prefer the second.

Humans are the most disgraced and disgraceful of all God’s creatures in the animal kingdom. If we don’t clean it up, we will certainly destroy all life on the green planet Earth, blessed by photosynthesis, the Hand of God; we may be alone in the universe, we have not found another green planet, not one.

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Aug 10, 2022·edited Aug 10, 2022

Thank you, Professor for bringing us another big news day that gives us a picture of the future. In the coming elections Voters can decide if they want real progress, equality, environmental and climate change policies and laws, a possibility of Truth and Justice and how to get there. Or More years of trumpy repub drama, lies, corruption, and a road to Autocracy. Of those two choices: “[D]ecades from now, people are going to look back at this week, with all we’ve passed and all we’ve moved on, that we met the moment at this inflection point in history—a moment when we bet on ourselves, believed in ourselves, and recaptured the story, the spirit, and the soul of this nation.” President Joe Biden.

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President Biden's speech writer is cut from "plain cloth", a big step down from Kennedy and Obama... but that is a nice contrast to the "baffle-gab" of McCarthy, and Leslie Graham...

Those repubs who pledged, today, fealty to Trump...are saying, in effect, "we would back Hitler or Mussolini if they were living Americans.....They are the antithesis of Liz Cheney, I imagine that if she loses her upcoming election... we will soon see a New Centrist Party, which will shepherd the funeral of the formerly principled GOP.

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Thank you Heather.

The executed search warrant has created a monster. While running errands yesterday, I drove through a Walmart parking lot in Upstate NY to get to the main road. In the rear of the parking lot were 4 pick up trucks gathered together. All 4 had Trump flags on poles extending to the rear of the bed of the trucks. The drivers were huddled together talking. All were the typical 40 something thug Trumpers. Black teeshirts with vulgar slogans , headbands and leather vests. They were what you would see at any Trump rally or demonstration.

So, these people or cult members are prepared to fight back. Maybe this legally procured and executed search warrant of their saviors property was just enough to trigger their thought process that a Civil War is their rightful revenge.

What will they do, probably what they have done before, drive around with Lee Greenwoods song Proud to be an American blaring from a speaker in the back of their pick ups and a "caravan" as they call it and harass other drivers. Will they amp up their show? Who knows. I do know that the sorely understaffed Syracuse Police Department will do nothing, just like did last time. Likely leave it up to the NY State police as they sit back and watch these clowns exercise their 1st Amendment Rights even when they cross the line, the police look away.

Be safe. Be well. Watch your back.

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Every time Lardo gets a "Put up or shut up," he always reponds "fold."

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Person. Woman. Man. Camera. Prison. The end.

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Disclose the supoena and inventory. If not, nothing but hot air.

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