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I've been using the term #VichyDemocrats on social media since two days after the election. I've got a new song, almost done, that I intend to do live and record with my band The Sound Field. I'm waffling on the title. It's either "You Had One Job" or "You Left Us".

Fuck anyone claiming to be a Democrat who opts for appeasement. And John Fetterman can, in fact, go fuck himself. The Krysten Sinema of the New World Order.

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I can't believe the number of postcards that I wrote, and the stamps I personally shelled out for, to elect Fetterman.

I thought I was too old to be disillusioned. Apparently not.

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I am also disappointed in Fetterman and his change in attitude.I too , wrote postcards and donated $$ to him.I am thinking that his stroke may have triggered all of this .That being said, he needs to STFU.

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Oh, I'm so sorry. Please let him know. Perhaps he still has a kernel of the original Fetterless man in there. Might it have been the stroke? Anyway, betrayal is hard.

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Same here.

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Looking forward to the Revival of Protest Songs

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I have been for awhile now and so far it's been disappointing. Plus I want the young to take it up and break open a whole new genre of music with meaningful lyrics that rip open the guts of the domineering, cause the unfeeling to cry, and elevate the social order. Maybe I'm asking too much?

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It would be nice, wouldn't it? But since the majority of Gen Z males voted for trump, I'm not holding my breath.

Thank whatevers for Taylor Swift's "Miss Americana and the Heartbreak Prince", her song about waking up after 2016. "Boys will be boys, then, where are the wise men, darling I'm scared."

Me too, Tay. Me too.

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Oh, Deborah! Fetterman. Bless his hoodie-loving, big-hearted soul, but he can go take a long walk off a very short pier. Sideways. I’ve had it up to here with the kumbaya nonsense of “we’re all in this together.” No. We’re not. Some of us are over here keeping the lights on, while the others are treating the place like it’s their personal monster truck rally.

And speaking of monster trucks, if California gets stiffed on aid, I fully support them pulling a “West Coast Brexit” and becoming their own country. Honestly, it’d be fascinating. The Silicon Valley billionaires can fund their defense, and the east side redneck contingent? Let them pack up their diesel guzzlers and roll on over to Texas. They’ll fit right in, poaching land and drinking Lone Star like it’s a personality.

Now, let me make something abundantly clear: If you so much as breathe a syllable of disrespect about President Biden, I’m coming for you. No hesitation, no second thoughts. Earlier today, I verbally devoured a guy named Angel (yes, Angel—irony at its finest). And let me tell you, it was satisfying. Like a well-seasoned steak or the perfect cup of coffee after a bad day. I’m just saying, I’m not above turning “Angel” into a verb. So, fair warning: don’t make me Angel you.

Consider this my mildly mean public service announcement. Play stupid games, win snarky prizes.

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We're gonna have to agree to disagree, Gloria. Great guy who failed to understand the nature of the threat. I admire his legislation.

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I've had some issues with Biden over the years - not during his presidency, but back when he was screaming at Anita Hill during a crucial set of hearings, and I was screaming at the telly at him to SHUT THE FUCK UP STOP GIVING THEM AMMO GODDAMNIT AND TAKE ANGER MANAGEMENT SESSIONS. But he has never been an appeaser. I can't imagine that ever even crossing his mind. He's been a superb, and beautifully humanist, president during an unbelievably difficult time in history. Kamala would have been even better, and Hillary would have been the greatest in history. Trust me, I feel as strongly about that as you do about Joe Biden, so let us agree not to rip each others' throats out. As it happens, having majored in Elizabethan drama and with nineteen published novels, I have a certain command of repartee as well. Let's use our joint expertise with the language against the common enemy.

I'm actually hoping my excellent state - which has subsidised smaller and occasionally larger red ones for decades, with our fifth largest economy in the world - says fine, we'll just withhold that extra $83B and use it to handle our own recovery, and fuck all y'all and your "conditions". Go suck tailpipes, GOP (which really should officialy stand for "grotesque old perverts"). And then make sure state militia are ready and waiting to kick ICE and the trumpstapo out of here.

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I stepped off to the side a bit to find your performance of Copperhead Road and I love your voice. Please share a link when you have one for your song.

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yeah, like what's the deal with that guy?

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I don't know, beyond that he seems to have lost his mind, his ethics, and his moral compass.

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Could not agree more, make it an albatross that weighs as much as chump’s fat arse.

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Thanks TC. You've said what

many of us want to. ANY

dems who have the yellow

gaul to vote for this

despicable bill, we want their

names! Primary them in 26!

No more playing nice either side.

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Go Navy! 🤣🤣🤣

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Haven't heard "Up against the wall m...." in about 50 years. It really is that time.

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Recently forwarded a salty piece of yours with a caveat that content was a bit “pardon my French”. I loved friend Dolly‘s response: >>>Dire situation demands language of equal strength!<<<

We all saw this hideous strategy brewing, but to think they have the gall to codify it into a bill ?????

And Adam Parkhomento does a great job telling the short version of what Rob Hubbell described with articulate detail, the size and significance of California’s economy, globally, and certainly for the nation… It was the piece where he apologized for his vehemence and I say, Rob, it’s fine to be vehement. I’m sure he read your column today so… You and Adam both expressed great vehemence today and justifiably so!!!!

On repeat: >>>Dire situation demands language of equal strength!!!!<<<

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Say it the way you feel it TC! A lot of us would like to be as colorful as you.

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The Navy-style briefing is fine, but if the “treasonous shit weasels... go along with this horseshit,” a blanket party with spiked steel bludgeons is definitely in order.

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Done: This is my message Dear Senator Schiff, (Padilla and Congressman Bera)

Please vote no on any bill that ties aid to California for the LA inferno disaster to any assistance to the trump administration including raising the debt limit, deporting migrants, changing any of our elected State leaders, changing any State Law, abortion rights, health care. I am aware that Democrats have, since 1981 attempted to compromise with the Republican Party on legislative actions and appointees to Federal posts; but that Republican Party no longer exists, and I, and most of the liberal progressive wing of the Democratic Party have no desire to assist the party of trump in its quest for an authoritarian government.

Thank you,

Fay E.A. Reid

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Copied and sent to my Senators.

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A little colourful for my taste but nobody can accuse you of sitting on the fence.

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I read it as table pounding and throwing stuff.

Totally agree that we must resist or in the end many of our fellow Americans, red and blue, will be living under bridges as 45/47 tanks the economy that Biden built. If they play tricks with the aid bill the Dems should just not show up and dignify it as a legitimate bill.

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Thank you for what you wrote! You put into words what I have been thinking!

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California could outlaw state employers submitting federal withholding taxes directly to the federal government and instead pay them to the California treasury, which will then submit to the Feds.

Or not.

That’s about 20 percent of federal revenues. so….

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Wow, Tom:

"(My apologies to those who don’t like a Navy-style briefing - there are times when nothing else works and this is one of those.)"

That was quite a briefing.

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As usual, succinctly articulated.

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I like Navy-style briefings!

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Me too, and that Navy spirit of defiance could start with a challenge to Trump's first order to the Navy, based on his disqualification not having yet been lifted by a 2/3 vote of Congress (or has the Constitution been overlooked again?). California walking away is a neat plan too.

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Or, I suppose, we could simply pass a law that says that ANY state the fails to control the wind at hurricane force, whether the result is storm surge or fire, shall get no federal aid.

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