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I often read that Trump is unfit for office and I have an inner reaction. “Unfit” seems a bit milquetoast to me when describing Trump’s unfitness. There has to be a stronger word more definitive more descriptive and heavier and nastier than unfit. Unfit sounds like he recently had a stroke. There has to be a word that captures all of Trump’s vulgarity vengeance hate and his wicked desire to destroy the USA because of his low self esteem and his desire to be a dictator where he is the only one with rights.

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I’m 65 and have been watching Will my whole life. My conclusion is Fu*k George Will.

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Um, sure, Charlie. Sure. George thinks 50 R Senators represent the ‘majority’ of the country. When in reality they represent at most 38 percent. It’s time to buy George a calculator. 🤦‍♂️🥺

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Love Augie on guard for treats!

Mike Lindell may be back on coke again. Life is falling apart.

The release of Jack Smith’s filing makes Watergate look stupid but not as evil and treasonist as Trump’s refusal to admit defeat. After the so called debate where Vance didn’t answer questions and parroted the party line as a continuous lie. He lied that’s all.

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Finally after causing this whole mess . Just coveting their butts.

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Love the dogs.

It seems that George, like so many other Republicans is hoping that the MAGA crowd is crushed in November so that he can help hatch a Phoenix that will reconstitute the GOP from the MAGA ashes. Many pundits, left and right are claiming that we need a healthy center-right party to debate and refine policy ideas from both sides. I’m not so sure. What if America seized this opportunity to reject both parties and the primary system that keeps giving us more and more partisan division. The two-party system has failed to weed out demagogues, grifters and frauds, left and right. What if we rejected the system poses every choice as binary?

There is nothing in the Constitution that requires any parties. What if we embraced open, ranked-choice primaries that offered folks more nuanced views on the challenges we face and gave more centrist candidates a chance to prevail? It may be likely that Americans are too lazy or too busy to appreciate this opportunity but perhaps not. It might be refreshing to see whether voters would embrace the opportunity to think as opposed to being told what to think by party-aligned “leaders.”

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Charlie, I don’t have any expectation of the remaining traditional Republicans taking a stand against Trump and endorsing Kamala Harris. It isn’t in their nature to stick their neck out and choose country over party.

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True story. I sent your book to my ex husband (someone I used to believe was rational and reasonable until, well...his cheese slipped off his cracker). I don't know if he ever read it but I keep hoping that someday he'll show up in one of Sarah's ads speaking of how awful another Trump term would be for our kids' futures.

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Hang on to those lists, Charlie. If trump wins, they are the receipts. We will need to recall who was who when there was still time to save the country-- and name those who chose not to.

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Love the dogs Charlie!

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Again and again, you speak the truth, Charlie. It’s like gulping the ice cold water our National thirst so needs. It just saddens and apalls me that

Millions of my fellow Americans still support the orange nightmare. Thank you for continuing the noble fight. And, lastly, seeing sunset boy Pete has made me cry…

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Turns out that the entire conservative, party-of-Lincoln was the synthetic principles party. Who knew?

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I’m here for the dog pics, too 😉. I appreciate your perspective, your voice. My values, the things that are important to me, are almost entirely center left. I’m greatly encouraged every time I learn about conservative people who, though they would get behind different policies than I would, love our country, our constitution, our people in our awesome diversity. We can work respectfully through policy differences. We cannot allow our Democracy to be destroyed.

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😂😂😂

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Imagine assembling all these people (and those who will be joining them over the next few weeks) in one place at one time for a group photo. There are an awful lot of people whose circle of friends shrunk dramatically with their slamming of the Trump door and saying “never again”. The beauty of voting is NOBODY HAS TO KNOW. Say what you will in public, the privacy of the voting booth is sacrosanct.

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Very much still enjoying your commentary. Like all of us in this space, we can find disagreements yet somehow manage to work through them without any demonization! Amazing isn't it. Please keep challenging all of us.

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