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Your wife is smart! Mine looked like that when I was with a rescue and did senior sanctuary cats. At one point I had 15 seniors that were too old to be adopted out. The rescue closed but I still have 3 with me. One is 16, one 15 and 1 is 14.

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The federal smash and grab by the Mudslinger in Chief and the one-man sperm bank has now targeted 80,000 employees of the VA for deployment to the unemployment line, many of them veterans. A few years ago a story surfaced that Don Jr. was threatened with losing his inheritance by both of his parents if he enlisted in the U.S. military. Today Alina Habba said this effort was to eliminate those who weren't up to the job or who weren't doing the work at all. Hmmm..... does that include the Commander in Chief who thinks golfing for hours out of every day is "doing his job?"

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If you want to please Putin, you should start a trade war with your traditional allies.

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I’d love to see Al Franken become a spokesperson for the resistance!

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Thanks for the heads-up on our Supreme Court race! Insidious and evil.

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IF the USA falls, as it is now looks trump has blocked (project 2025 ) all civil recourse - then it will FALL....and then the Free World/ Globe falls into putin/trump(temporary in my opinion, till he passes an open window !) and xi control. BUT IF the USA again, is the hero of it's own destiny, as it has been in History...then it regains it's country , it's freedom , it's democracy and it releases the entire free world from this tyranny ......... I think it its that simple and that monumental

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I will also add that the Schimel ads being run on YouTube locally are disturbing and fill your screen with creepy music while a narrator details the sxual assault of a child.

The way the ad uses a horrible incident to make a political point is grotesque and enough all on its own to make me vote Crawford.

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Two quotes that seem to mirror one another:

"The Shining City Goes Dark" - Charlie Sykes

Democracy died in darkness - Jeff Bezos?

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It is terrible, but it is a snapshot in time

Next Up — Americans of all stripes get pissed off and react as they did not sign up to this. Most maga will be included when they are damaged by these policies

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Please don't apologise for being 'dour', Charlie. We need voices like yours to tell it like it is. Otherwise people will be shielded from the truth and continue to be enthralled by the notion of American 'exceptionalism' which has lead to a catastrophic complacency and profound failure to imagine that 'Yes, it can actually happen here!'. The composite photograph of his warm embracing handshakes with some of the most heinous malevolent dictators alive should be texted to every American. It says it all. And it MUST be said. We must not retreat into or be seduced by our desire to be comforted. This is NOT comfortable. We must be buoyed and energised by the fight for our values and its righteousness, (and of course for the dogs). That must be our comfort.

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Who knew how easy it could be to defeat the United States without shooting a single bullet?

The Putin Potemkin Village is complete with the Village Idiot in charge wearing no clothes.

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We cannot underestimate the significance of this shift. It is stunning and dangerous, and I am appalled that so many people still seem indifferent. But I am working on Susan Crawford’s campaign, attempting to stress the fact that Elon just bought and paid for Schimmel. If people don’t like Musk, I’m hoping this will be a deterrent. As for your wife’s idea of dogs…she is a smart woman!

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Charlie.Thankyou for your great work which is both informative and entertaining..

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I'm an Australian teacher. Here's what one of my senior students said in class yesterday, just casually and without bitterness: "God I'm sick of America right now. I wonder if they are?"

For the first time in my life, "American" is a pejorative. The resentment is palpable.

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Tell your student that many, many millions of Americans are also sick of it all right now. The leaders of our country are just plain bad people, and that's putting it politely.

Speaking for myself, I'm not just sick of it all, but embarrassed and ashamed.

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I think you are safe to say you’re speaking for over 70 million of us

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We have met the enemy, and he is us

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To those who say our malignant moron is not a Russian asset I ask this: If he were what exactly would he be doing differently?

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