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THIS should be healine news in NYTimes, WaPo, Gaurdian,

Vox, all of MSM.

I had a discouraging talk with my son-in-law this past weekend. He's 63. He's never

voted. Neither, shamefully, has my daughter. Why? Too

busy "living the life" to pay

attention to the bullshite of

politics. I nearly burst into

tears.

All these months I've shared

so many Substacks and news

articles with them and they're

clueless about what Trump 24 could mean for all of us in

this country. These are 2

highly educated people!

I'm getting to the point where

I firmly believe there's dumb and dumber.😔

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Oh no. Our education system has really failed us, there can be no other explanation for educated people not understanding the threats we are all facing. That's what they are counting on, people who by choice are driving 3 row SUV's, who are more worried about the price of gas than the people being butchered by the russians in Ukraine, or pick any other thing, they all apply. The cost of eggs, or maybe you don't like the way black people vote, or that some Jews go to Synagogues instead of churches. I don't know any more, I feel like I live in a country populated by lunatics, which is what you would have to be to vote for the insipid clown, knowing what we all know.

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Educated people can be manipulated, lied to, coerced, and just plain stupid. A PhD, or MD gives no one immunity. I know them well. And some are old as I am.

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The MDs are even easier to con, since they're told they are God.

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Sure is true for a couple that I know, non-professionally

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I'm not in Europe or Asia looking at this mess we are in for the last 6 years like so many are, I know from my conversations that they are shocked that this malignancy has been allowed to fester. I understand free speech, I also understand that you can't holler "Fire" in a theatre unless there really is one without going to jail which is exactly where the insipid clown and all of his henchmen need to be until their trials are over. Amassing wealth and power can be a good thing if you use it to benefit society, if it's just for your ego, you would be well served to keep in mind that none of it passes with you to the other side, but your karma will.

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Seems like MSM would mention the limits to “free speech.” I have known that my whole life, but chump apparently never got the message. Or ignored it as he has every law, convention, tradition, or even decent inclination. Lots of shocked republicans and their Christian nationalist ilk if they encounter St. Peter. But then, I don’t think that most of them believe their own bs.

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"We don't talk about or post or respond to anything about politics in my house or around my family." So said a heavy FB poster who married into my family. But, you can bitch all you want off FB about how fuc*** up things or your life is. They get their news via comedians and headline news services. I feel it for you.

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Do people put how f**ked up their lives are on FB. Before I got banned, it was all exaggerated wonderful. Fake news all around.

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Most of the complaining passes for conversation and pseudo intellectualizing about the work and "politics", as though governance and the work of government is something that no one would want to do, least of all value as good and worthy. But, yes, a lot of posting on FB is bitching, moaning, and posting goats and puppies and little kids.

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Miss the goats and cats, TC in LA helps with the Feline Fridays

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There's a couple cats on the way.

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Always welcome

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Most assuredly there is dumb and dumber, there are also those ostriches around every corner. I know them too.

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😱😓🤦🏽‍♀️

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