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Musk needs to be held accountable. You cannot explain away a threat on a President’s life as a “joke”. Otherwise any threat, be it a bomb threat, etc. could be excused by saying it was just a joke. We don’t do that.

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Trump does it all the time. Just sayin’…

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Yes, he sure does. I’m sure that’s why Musk said it. They are asshole buddies- both with huge egos and a lust for power.

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On Trump's end, he lusts for the power he's never had: the power over his own life.

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KPez - “FOUL WORDS & FOUL FACES AWAYS APPEAR IN PUBLIC PLACES …!!!”

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😉👆🛂US Law:the "Defense Prodution Act"

fema.gov/disaster/defense-production-act

"The ...DPA) is ...to expedite ...resources from the U.S. industrial base to support military, energy, space...." aka take over control of Musk's businesses🙃🙃

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Sounds like beyond the time to nationalize in the name of national security. What he did to Ukraine by shutting down critical Starlink satellites and impeding their inability to communicate at an essential moment in battling Russia was unconscionable. Why should a creep like him have that kind of power? And what’s to stop him from interfering again when he disapproves?

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Boycott anything musk - Tesla and Twitter

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Boycotts don't do much. Many of us won't go to Walmart, but they still have a strong business.

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I never shop at Walmart. Am on Twitter, but I pay nothing for it.

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❤🤔🙄😁🌝

The super rich must wear police style body cams that live stream their antics... the recording tape should be available as admissible evidence to keep them honest and honorable😁😁😁

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🖥📽🔍AI should determine the NPI narcissism score of the super wealthy and shame them into philanthropy:"Carnegie and oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller were rivals in the field of philanthropy. The newspapers kept score. Here's a snapshot of the race to give it away"

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/carnegie-philanthropy-101/

Carnegie was fond of saying, "The man who dies rich dies disgraced."😁😁😁❤

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I bought a Tesla. Musk isn’t the brain behind it, rather it’s the talented engineers who have made a good car.

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That's very true, but who do you think reaps the profits?

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George, you are right, but how can Musk be removed from Tesla, now that he is OK with making the company Chinese with him raking in the bucks? The problem is that super rich men have no sense of the world except that they can get whatever they want and ntions like ours just give it to them. Disgusting!

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— DON’T SWALLOW EVERY NEGATIVE THING YOU HEAR ABOUT , “ DEEP THROAT” ..!!!

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Take a shot of vodka Dimitry.

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Does Ukraine want to prosecute him? If so the US should cooperate with any lawful extradition process.

Also, there are alleged to be serious environmental problems with some SpaceX operations and facilities. These should be dealt with as the laws provide.

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Elon Musk is the Product of Silicon Valley Culture... Move Fast & Break Things... Get Rich before you are 30yrs old... Microdose Stimulants, and Hallucinogens for Speed, and Creativity... $$$ is everything... Employees are Expendables... The characteristic that the TechnoSiths share is Ruthlessness... Unfortunately the USG gave him that Power... Based upon the non-Success of NASA, and Legacy Contractors, such as Boeing, Elon became a Star... Hmm... I wonder what will happen when all those low-orbit Satellites start falling out of the Sky... Where will Elon be? In Moscow, with DJT.?.. Yes, revoke his Security Clearance...

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Anyone who is in business, especially with our defense department and acquiesces to Putin's wishes is a grave danger to our national security. The US, Britain, NATO cannot rely on this man.

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- PUTIN IS NOT AMERICA’S E N E M Y ….!!!!

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— WHAT A DEEP THROAT ESPIONAGE CREATOR YOU MUST BE …!!

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You are so right why has he not been held accountable?? By not he gains even more power

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Lesly, when has anyone who is super rich been held accountable for anything? If they have, I have not heard of it. Heck, the robber barons were never held accountable, unless they were caught in one of the Wall Street Crashes. Their endowments are still named for them and still rake in the bucks in interest which they give away a bit at a time to keep their names alive. Something does need to be done about Musk. I say, we need to step up soon since his drug use is just making him more crazy and ripe for picking by China or fully by Russia. As he holds so many of our national secrets, he would be a prize for either of them and he'd love it, and they would give him even more until he just happened to fall out of a window.

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- I SMELL EXTREME JEALOUSY …!!!

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I agree with every word you wrote!!

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Musk must be controlled.

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Ukraine I s The ANCIENT world center OF DEEP UNDERGROUND WORLDWIDE SATANIC ESPIONAGE •••’ !!!

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I was thinking the same thing, Laura. Starlink IS a national security issue, and should not be entrusted to a loose cannon like Musk. Even if we had to pay him $100 billion to acquire Starlink, it would be worth it to ensure that it wouldn’t be

used for nefarious purposes.

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At least nationalize SpaceX/Starlink, for national security reasons. The threat it poses to national security is orders of magnitude higher than any threat posed by TikTok.

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Nationalizing SpaceX and Starlink is the only rationale answer to curb Musk's weird - and possible dangerous to our nation - behavior!

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I totally agree. No one person should have that much money or power; even Elon Musk’s big brain can't handle it. He is sick with power. and as delusional as one of James Bond’s villains. It’s time to nationalize his businesses and set aside a separate gulag just for him and exile him there for the rest of his life without any means of connection to the rest of the world. This is what Putin has done to some of his oligarchs and critics when they stopped being useful. Make no mistake, I am not supporting Putin or his methods in any way only pointing out that extreme and dangerous behavior must be contained.

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Agreed, he's a white cat shy of full on Bond villainy! And we already have a special gulag for all these asshats: Gitmo.

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yes! i’ve been calling for biden to nationalize spacex/starlink. it’s not too late. yet.

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Where would you go for alternative to SpaceX? Boeing?

Only Lockheed Martin seems plausible but they would be years behind .

Clever Musk has placed NASA/DOD between a rock and a hard olé

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- YOUR AGREEMENTS ARE BLESSED …!!!

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—- A M E N … !!!!!!

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THANK ALL FOR THEIR HIDDEN COMMENTS …!! I RECEIVE THEM AS STATEMENTS OF YOUR TRUE FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS WHO IS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN SON OF GOD, THE FATHER OF ALL, AND, THE ONLY WAY, TRUTH, AND, LIGHT .

“WHOEVER CALLS UPON THE PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS , BELIEVING, SHALL RECEIVE .”

LORD JESUS, WE ASK, BELIEVING, THAT YOU DO BIND SATAN, AND, ALL OF HIS IN HELL, NEVER TO RETURN AGAIN, SAVING AMERICA, ET.AL., FROM ALL LOSSES FROM THE FEARED EVIL ONE…!!!!

JESUS CHRIST I S LORD, AND, LORD INDEED …!!!!!

AND, THE BIBLE IS THE WORD OF GOD. A M E N … !!!!

PRAISE YOU ALONE DEAR FATHER GOD, AND, OUR DEAR LORD JESUS …. !!!!!

HOLY SPIRIT, COME. ABIDE IN U.S. ALL ACCORDING TO YOUR PRECIOUS WILL..!!!

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— MANKIND —- JESUS CHRIST I S LORD, AND, LORD I N D E E D …!!!!

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— THERE IN HELL TO BE CHAINED FOR ETERNITY …

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- “ LUCK ” IS A LIE OF SATAN .

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— SATAN, — WE BIND YOU, AND, ALL OF YOUR’S. WE SEND YOU ALL BACK TO HELL WHERE YOU CAME FROM, NEVER TO RETURN AGAIN, IN JESUS’ PRECIOUS NAME . AAA MEN !!!!!! HALLELUJAH … !!!!

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HAVE THEY ALREADY DELETED ALL MY DEFINITIONS BEFORE I ENDED …??

I CAN GIVE POLITICAL COMMENTS, BUT THE SECOND I GIVE SPIRITUAL DEFINITIONS- I’M DELETED …???

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ALMOST EXCLUSIVELY DEMOCRATIC L I E S … !!!!!

GOD I S S T I L L G O D …!!! THE WORD OF GOD/ BIBLE I S STILL ALL TRUE -

GOD IS SPIRIT, AND, THOSE W H O WORSHIP

H I M, MUST WORSHIP IN “ SPIRIT ” - (FELLOWSHIP, CONSCIENCE, & INTUITION --[ KNOWING WITHOUT Knowing HOW YOU KNOW - GOD, AND, HIS WORD.] )

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- YOU GUYS A R E THE CRIMINALS ••• !!!!!

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- THE ORIGINAL, ET.AL., AMERICAN “ROBBER BARONS” WERE THE GRANITE BASE OF AMERICA’S EARLY SUCCESSES …!!

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I love it! But good luck

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He's going to jail after he loses in 2024. Why do you think his trial was pushed to AFTER the election??? The judge, (was is Chutkan? There's too many!), KNEW he'd lose, so then it would be super easy to send him to a New York or Georgian prison for his last few weeks of pathetic life!

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So do we daily hope and pray.

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I sincerely hope you’re right. I am so tired of these wealthy men turning ultra conservative and abusing their power once they become fabulously wealthy. Why is it that the wealthier they become the worse they become? It seems very few ultra wealthy people are ever truly generous without some catch to it. If being Uber wealthy means being selfish and controlling I can’t find it in myself to admire them. Musk should be ashamed of himself, he has more money than anyone in the world and is behaving shamelessly. There are so many good causes that he could help, starving children in Sudan for example, homeless people, money to help cure diseases but rather than that he is just selfish and sides with a dictator want to be like Trump who hasn’t one redeeming quality.

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This seems easy to me: 1. Declare Musk a Clear and Present Danger to the US and arrest him. 2. Imprison him at Gitmo. 3. Nationalize SpaceX and give it to Space Force. 4. Confiscate his fortune and give it to UNICEF. 5. Rinse and repeat with his tech bro buddies Theil, Andressen, Horowitz, etc. 6. Arrest anyone who signed Johnsons challenge to the 2020 election and send them to Gitmo. 7. Accidentally crash their plane into the Gulf. 8. Sleep easy that night.

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Sounds like a good plan and not a concept of a plan! So who’s gonna take the first step to make it happen? The election is looming and beyond that, if Trump wins (God forbid), every plan to rid us of him and his monsters will be shoved under the rug by the chaos they will bring.

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Biden. According to the sc he has the power of GOD as long as he calls it an "official act". Regardless of who wins, I feel 11/7 has a proper feel. And yes, it's a plan I've put thought into. Guess what I've got in mind for Harris, the Greg's, and the rest of faux news...

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I totally agree

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Couldn’t agree more!!!

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Of course djt does, that is one of the many reasons he is totally unfit for ANY public office, only fit for a public facility that can house him!!

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Yes-/except for Trump—he used that line even in his debate with Kamala Harris. Did you in fact finally admit that you lost Election 2020 to Biden, “by a hair?” Trump: no, that was a joke, obviously.

Those who do not believe in America’s free & fair elections should not be allowed in American 🇺🇸 elections.

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Tracy, and Trump ought to be stopped too, but somehow Republicans and rich people seem to have some kind of teflon coating that keeps any attempts to hold them accountable, sliding off. We don't have to keep that going, but who is going to stop it. Republicans now specialize in cheating, lying, deceit, bribery, misdirection, and more, and the rest of us haven't figured out how to stop it. And, the rich guys mostly support the big cheat, and Musk is one of them.

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During the Obama administration the White House was shot at by deranged gunman twice, in 2011 and 2016. Musk ought to be cognizant of this before he tweets. But he won’t because he’s a narcissist. A less patriotic Henry Ford with worse manners.

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He's ALSO dumb as a sack of marbles!

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That’s an insult to marbles … 😉

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As my father would have said if he's so dumb and you're so smart why aren't you rich?

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Musk was born to extreme wealth. Why didn't I think of that?

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A broken clock is correct twice a day. trump called musk a master con man. He should know! If you can get people (us taxpayers) to willingly give you their money, guess what you get?

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I agree Miriam

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Having the power Musk's money provides him is something only Elon can relate to. Being the richest man in the world has its advantages, as well as its pitfalls. The man is functioning in uncharted waters and his effect on the security of the world is in the balance. Putin and the Russian military both want an open seaport that isn't frozen over and basically useless during the winter months. The open waters of the Crimean Peninsula would provide the Russian Navy with a new lease on life. Zelensky and the Ukrainian people will never agree to a ceasefire where Russia would be allowed to maintain its control of any newly acquired territory. Trump is dreaming if he thinks he could persuade both sides to end their hostilities. In a world where Putin would be allowed to keep what he's stolen from the people of Ukraine the autocracy Trump would have created here in this country would be smoldering in ruin. Maybe Musk can buy his way out of that future dilemma.

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I'm thinking Trumps big plan to end the Ukraine invasion is to simply cut off Ukraine, handing it to his bff... more reason to keep him the hell away from the white house. Elon is a bit of a loose cannon, and not in a cute way. We have to develop alternatives which will be hard, short of nationalizing SpaceX... or at least having a way to take over operational control if the need arises. But as one trader on the mercantile exchange's button declared "money walks, talks, sings, plays, and dances....bullshit walks...." This was 40 years ago but still too relevant to the current corporate ownership of our body politic.

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What would be the justification for nationalization?

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They already have big naval bases at St Petersburg and Vladivostok, and as has been shown access to the Black Sea from Russia proper. The Russian invasion of Crimea, like that of the rest of Ukraine is simply an unjustified land grab by a tyrant with delusions of grandeur.

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Stephen--That they do, but Putin doesn't like ice covered seaports that are basically useless 6 months out of the year.

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In answer to Greg and Donald we need to account for the fact that the Black and Baltic Seas can be quickly and effectively closed off by NATO. The only major Russian naval bases with direct access to the oceans are Murmansk/Polyarny and Vladivostok.

During the cold war our chief concern about the Soviet Navy (aside from their SSBNs) was disruption of US reinforcement and resupply of Europe. In that scenario, the Sov bases in the Black and Baltic seas played an insignificant role.

Surely the Russians know that on day one of a war with NATO any Russian warship at sea in the Black or Baltic will reside on the bottom.

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Also the Baltic Fleet is based at Kaliningrad, taken from Germany in WWII. “the only ice-free Russian port on the Baltic Sea” (per Wikipedia).

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Kaliningrad is separated from Russia (Belarus) by the Suwalki Gap.

The Suwalki Gap is the border between Poland and Lithuania, it is a flat plane and a historic invasion route used by the Teutonic knights, Napoleon and Hilter and is the target of Putin, after he secures Ukraine. next is Lithuania.

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Do other Russia analysts agree with you?

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I haven't asked them.

Look at the map, Kaliningrad is Russia's warm water port on the Baltic.

It is separated fromBelaRus by Lithuania and Poland, that line on the map is called the Suwalki Gap. here I will save you the trouble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suwa%C5%82ki_Gap

There is a rail line and road that runs the length of the gap. Lithuania can shut down that line, of course if they did, Putin would certainly invade.

Putin invaded and claimed Crimea in large part because of it's ports and access to the Black Sea.

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He CAN . . . until his masters get sick of his mouth. Scumbag, narcissistic losers NEVER get a happy ending. My guess is he will spend the end of his life in a federal prison like his buddy Bunkerboy.

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Well put, Hodgins.

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We can either keep financing a futile war or work toward a resolution.

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Raphael--The problem lies in the two sides involved in the conflict. A two-state solution will never happen as long a Hamas exists. That group has vowed to destroy all infidels, and the slaughter seen on 10/7 will repeat itself over and over again until either they succeed, or Hamas is no more. They don't think like us, how do you propose we deal with an entire society which is hell bent on our total destruction? The only way to deal with ignorance on that level is to act like them until the threat is gone.

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Global warming will open the Russian seaport soon enough. Drill baby drill.

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The joke is on us. Money does not make one smart. The worship of those who are wealthy is crazy and very American. Anyone with that much control of communications not to mention X is a real security threat. The government needs to take control of the satellite communication network. It can't be in the hands of an idiot who is beholding to Putin and the Chinese. And someone who should be prosecuted for threatening the President.

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I’m sure Musk is already talking to those vile dictators making arrangements

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lol grow up. Pearl clutching here at its finest.

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They called that a terroristic threat - why wasn’t he arrested?

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It was all TALK no action. Speech, ev we n "advocacy" is (still) protected by the First Amendment

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Threatening a person’s life and calling “Fire” are against the law. No action required.

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Incorrect FALSELY yelling fire in a crowded theater is illegal. Again SPEECH alone is not punishable based on content unless it is directly connected to actual planning of illegal ACTIVITY.

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PRISON anyone??? If ANY American did that, they'd be in prison TODAY!

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Incorrect

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If *I* were to imply any threat against the POTUS, I'd land in confinement as long as the gummint wants to feed me.

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Don’t you realize President Biden has already paid for students debt in part? The Republican House and the Republican Supreme Court prevented him from doing more

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Voting for the Democrats means stopping Republican fascism & the destruction of democracy & rights. It’s about stopping Trump’s tyranny & locking some of us into cages. Telling people not to vote for the Democrats is how we got Dubya who deregulated the mortgage industry that caused the crash of 08. Telling people not to vote for Democrats is how we got a corrupt Supreme Court that stopped Biden’s ability to roll back student debt. Obama was never focused on student debt. Telling people not to vote for the Democrats is how we lost Roe & voting rights. It’s why we’re in danger. Sanders supporters need to have a seat. You’re how we got Trump.

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I don’t have to dig a little deeper. For starters Sanders is ignoring the amount of money Harris has raised from small donors. Over $500 million last I checked. The overwhelming amount of money raised by her campaign is small donors, not Wall Street. He also knows how we got here. Citizens United. The conservatives on the Supreme Court ripped campaign finance to shreds allowing the wealthy to donate unlimited amounts of cash. Conservatives have rigged our entire political system toward the rich. If Dems have any hope of competing they have to have to raise money from the wealthy too. And that does not change why we all should be supporting the Democrats. The Republican Party is no longer a party that believes in democracy. They will turn our country into a dictatorship. If the Dems can win back the White House & both Houses of Congress we can expand the court or indict the corrupt justices. We can roll back all the horrible corrupt decisions made by conservatives on the court including Citizens United. We don’t have time for Sanders & purity policing.

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Too many kids had to give up the dream of college after 2008. It's not fair for the US government to choose winners. Make college affordable again for all.

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Yes, VP/running for PRESIDENT Harris must make practical sense. Whether we remember it or not, the bankers-and/or corporations win all outcomes around 2008 via 'mainstream' Democratic party stances (or lack of a strong stance) created a foundational basis of mistrust for the supposed reputation of the "Democrats are FOR The People" Party. I personally have not understood the hesitancy of our "We the People" nation to squash lives rather than choose to act cooperatively with each other for the common good. Robert Reich sharpened my economic senses via his Berkley class lectures. The lessons of history which I was blind to have recently been sharpened through Reverend Dr William Barber's retelling this history and successful struggles to counter suppression of People Power (via his new, very readable book, White Poverty - How Exposing the Myths about ace and Class Can Reconstruct American Democracy). By the way - I applaud Harris' choice of Tim Walz as a perfect "real stories/real people impacts" partner for waking up the American people to the wealth of possibility we have with real honest stories about both the hope and tragedies that our policies cause.

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I'm so tired of billionaires and corporations owning, running, steering our government. And us taxpayers paying to be ruled by them. This privatization of gov't is killing us.

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Vote Republicans Out of office.

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"Today, there are about 91 million Americans who have voted for Biden and House Democrats since 2016, and about 83 million who have voted for Trump or House Republicans. If this pool of voters votes that way again, and if they constitute 80 percent of those voting in 2024 (a fairly conservative assumption), then the other 20 percent of voters would have to favor Trump by 18 points for him to overcome that deficit." Podheizer.

Not to mention enthusiasm and new registrations favor Democrats.

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Democrats have held the presidency for most of the last 20 years. Don’t you mean vote the Democrats out of office?

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Vote corrupt and do-nothing "just a long for the ride" representatives out of office.

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step #1

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Daniel Solomon, thanks.

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DOJ, DO SOMETHING. CONGRESS, DO SOMETHING.

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I suggest that we have public financed elections which controls equal access to qualified candidates. Make election campaigning limited to 2-3 months. No side "gifts" to elected officials.

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Lawrence Shipley, totally agree. Prob need an army of enforcers to interrupt the gifters and giftees, and of course, the new SC ruling, of bribes are legal if given to a politician after they do what the briber wants, would have to be struck down.

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