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Harry Allen's avatar

Led Zeppelin!!!

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Susan Galbraith's avatar

It seems to me that “BORING” might be an effective accompaniment or successor to “WEIRD” as a characterization of Trump. How deflating!

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Ella Katel's avatar

Auggie is beautiful!💙✌🌹😏 Dog Lady for Harris-Walz

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Richard Sherry's avatar

Charlie's journalism prompts me to comment about the pathetic coverage of tRump by the mainstream media. They enforce a double-standard, letting tRump's insanity, unfitness, and lying to remain mostly cloaked. They are desperate for an old-time horse race and they won't let the threat of losing democracy get in the way of their incomplete coverage. I mean, we KNOW the Fox Propaganda channel are most-time liars; that's been proven. The complicity of silence by most of the mainstream media is the real danger heading towards November's vote.

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Erica Paul's avatar

Here's my favorite HL 'Puritanism is the fear that somewhere someone might be happy.'

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Peter dePenaloza's avatar

Ha! Monumentally boring bafflegab! I love it!!

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Lorenzo Aguilar's avatar

I struggle with my normie conservative parents who continue to fall back on "both sides are bad, or are doing this" even though the evidence is objective and overwhelming. So I'm having a hard time convincing them of the stakes. Hopefully, I can get them to read this newsletter from Charlie.

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Jan's avatar

It’s great that people are feeling so hopeful about Kamala, but we cannot be complacent. There’s still a substantial chance Trump could win. We won’t change Trump supporters, but we can try to convince anyone “on the fence” to vote Democratic. 40 million REGISTERED DEMOCRATS did not bother to vote in 2016, which is why Trump won. So we must contact people we know in swing states who are undecided, Democrats who often don’t bother to vote, or Independents. (I know people in the Mid-west (Covid deniers, SMH) who want to vote for RFK Jr. - I’m going to politely explain that could send their swing state to Trump.)

Also, if Trump does win, we’ll lose the Senate. (As the White House goes, so goes the Senate.) So it’s important to elect more Democrats to the House – the House is a protective firewall. OATH does a great job of identifying races where donations will be most effective. And if you donate thru Oath, they protect your privacy - you won’t be bombarded by subsequent messages from candidates you’ve donated to. https://app.oath.vote?ref=ZEI3HZQZ&p=f4d-house - Oath is a wonderful site, they let you specify issues near and dear to your heart – stopping Trump, abortion access, LGBTQ rights, and so on – and they show you which candidates would benefit most from your donations. They only recommend promising, yet under-funded candidates. Meaning, those who’ve already raised plenty of money won’t really benefit from your donation. This is a much more effective way to donate.

Please forward to your friends!

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

You progressive types and supporters of Harris remind me of the Manson Family. https://shorturl.at/qslVd

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Nina Gilliam's avatar

It's no wonder Trump supporters are such dim bulbs. You're constantly projecting.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

You the white folk Malcolm X described. Nice to meet one in their natural habitat, living in. A majority white neighborhood. Do stay in touch. I won't hold it against you. Honestly disagreement of opinion aside you come across as a nice and kind person and I respect that.

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Torrance Stephens's avatar

Did you write it?

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CC Wechsler's avatar

I looked at my Quicken expenses, and my Charlie Sykes To the Contrary subscription gets categorized by default as Rent. So I guess you have a little space of your own in my head, Charlie, and that's okay.

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Victoria Joyce's avatar

Reading Charlie's newsletter is more calming than Restorative Yoga, on the floor with pillows.

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Claudia Boynton's avatar

Hi to Daily Dog. Good boy!

Someone please bring me back off the ledge and assure me that clear thinking and competent people are organizing to combat trumps very obvious build-up to deny the November election results.

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SoCal's avatar

Charlie, Buggies is a very good looking dog! 😍

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Ann Spragens's avatar

Trump is now behind in NC, although within the margin of error. Considering how long Rs have been in power in NC and how entrenched they are (they have gerrymandered the hell out of the legislature) this is something. Trump was up by 7 in May. On the down side, Cornell West has been placed on the ballot, possibly to drain away the African American support for Harris. Rs are running scared now in NC.

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Rama's avatar

Strongly urge folks to research narcissistic personality disorder; Trump is a textbook narcissist. They only have “their emotional truth”; objective truth has no meaning for them. There isn’t any limit to what they can concoct to meet their emotional emptiness. It will get worse; they can never be wrong,

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Cascadian's avatar

"GIVEN THE DISTINCT PROSPECT OF JAIL, TRUMP IS GOING TO GET UGLIER, MORE RACIST, MORE VIOLENT, MORE CRIMINAL."

But Trump has TOTAL IMMUNITY!!!

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