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When the "Inflation Reduction Bill" is signed, the Democrats will have a boatload of accomplishments to talk about. The GQP can talk about restricting women's rights, flooding the nation with WMDs and fomenting an insurrection! Our list of positves is long and powerful. The GQP is totally out of step with most Americans. Yes, there are Evangelical whackos that provide a base. But despite their chest pounding and moralizing, they are dinosaurs. Their asteroid is about to hit.

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Just ftr, $3.50/gal at my last fill-up this week. Kemp has suspended the gas tax, so there may be some fluctuations in the future. But I am absolutely down with the GOP going down. Hard.

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Thanks, TC. I am still fussing with my friends who post memes of $6.00 gas signs next to the Capitol riot and say "which of these is more important again" to which it overwhelmingly the money these chowderheads are pumping into their manly trucks and not the attempted coup.

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So glad about the uptick in reader numbers. I know I am pushing your knowledge and storytelling, your “I do not tolerate fools, most are ‘cleavered’”, your accuracy on forecasts and willingness to talk about the good, bad, and the ugly, your ability to respond in such a personable and conversational way with your subscribers, and obv your extensive Rolodex. You’ve met a shitload of people over the years, TC.

Thank you. A toast to you. 🥂🗽

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A lady who knows well that flatter will get her *everywhere*! :-)

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Love " cleavered".....it is almost onomatopoeic.

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No need to despair BUT there is also no need to become euphoric. Work. Work. Work for the best candidates committed to the planet and a political future. Orban gave his usual White Christian Nationalist/racist speech at C-PAC in Texas - and got cheered by most of the room. If folks pay attention, and listen closely, they will hear the telltale sounds of Fascist rhetoric with all the lies, enemies and dark payback times a coming. These times will only come IF we vote for the folks who are pushing the kool-aid. So. Work. Work. Work for the candidates who are NOT spewing conspiracies, lies, and other SH*T. BTW I heard about a new documentary of the same name above that could change how we manage human and other waste for the good of the planet! Wow! A professor at MSU has made this docu all about it. Take a look.

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Yes - you are sooo right. And Orban was truly scary yesterday - the way he got applause for those terrible things he was saying.

Those people are not the people to talk to and try to change their opinions. Those people will only be "Good Republicans" when they are "pushing up daisies."

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That shit scared me. But I am not afraid. The fact that Orban waltzed into this country as a guest and keynote speaker sponsored by loons is beyond bold. Especially when the loons waxed on all week about Pelosi starting a war with China by a diplomatic visit to Taiwan. Good cover while sneaking in Orban.

The vitriol being spewed at that “conservative” conference will get coverage and blowback. I had to bring my winter sock drawer out to my Florida living room so I wouldn’t break the tv with shoes and sharp objects in flight. Get me on a playground with MTGreene or Boebert or greasy Cruz for a hot minute. I’ll kick their asses. What a shameful disgrace. I can hardly bear it. Except when I think of Trump digging his hole deeper on Saturday night. He will be pumped up on his steroids to max. Shocking that the stage this year is not shaped like a Nazi odal rune used by white supremacists as it was at CPAC last year in 2021.

I’m sure some symbol of their intention will show up before conference ends. Tuckems shrieking laugh gets more and more tinged with hysteria and sounds like a hyena in heat.

I loathe all of them.

Let us VOTE every one of them out. In word and deed. No quarter given to traitors. That will be our Action Conference for Democracy.

Unita 🗽

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The "like" button refuses to work, but a truckload of likes couldn't adequately express my enjoyment of your comment! I fully share your sentiments--thank you for expressing them such more eloquently than I could at this hour!

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That Orban speech was insane. The last goon from Mitteleuropa who talked like that would have locked up all Hungarians in a labor camp as Slavic-adjacent and worked them all to death. The irony!

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The Hungarians were good allies to Herr Paperhanger. Since 1918, they were fascists from 1921-45 under Admiral Horthy, then Stalinist from 1947-91, Democratic 91-97, Orban 97 since

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He still would have murdered them as soon as he needed that lebensraum.

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It's an interesting question.

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(Sweden)

Hungary out of EU! Maybe Russia would be interested to take over again, when it has to leave Ukraine.

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YES!

"And then plan how to insure that ten people you know get out an vote in November, because that is how we will win.

There is no reason for despair over November, and anyone who tells you all is lost is a fucking moron you don’t need to listen to."

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