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Crawl back under your rock. You helped almost destroy this country. The bar for trump was so low worms were suffering. And my final comment, “Fuck You”

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Karl Rove

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Fully agree, but when Cheetolini has someone as despicable and pro-fascist as Turd Blossom ripping him, he's in a deep pile of doo-doo. . . .

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They are already beneath whale shit.

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Don't tell RFK Jr.! He might collect it and put it on his desk or something.

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To Christina K -- Hah! Good one.

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To feed the worm.

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He will have no use for a desk now.

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Do not knock unpleasant but true environmentalism. You put extra ions in an ocean H2CO3 and water freezes less and less ( at a lower temperature)and the bones of fish dissolve. With less ice heat is taken into oceans instead of being reflected back into space . Duh!!

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That is an insult to whale shit.

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True ; at least the whale shit is part of the ecosystem, and not a destroyer of it.

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Yes, they are certainly more toxic

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Yes! He should apologize to the whale shit immediately!!

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...in the Marianas trench.

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That may just be low enough.

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Rove spoke the truth but MAGAs can’t handle the truth…to paraphrase Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. 👊🏽

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And they are not even good men.

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I think “few” implies that many, hopefully not most, are not good men.

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I did not use the word "few" for reason : those of whom I wrote are not even good men at all. All of them.

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But they are not honorable men.

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This is something I have found hard to get used to.

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Arthur, Rove spoke a truth, but it was just to make himself look more aware of what happened. He said absolutely nothing that everyone who watched the debate didn't see, maybe even less. Rove is such slime, he will figure out how to slip into the good graces of someone in the party who will help him get past the vengeance Trump may take on him. Although, I doubt that. Trump needs Rove and his slithery self to keep him afloat. The "debate" criticism was the same old same old, Rove trying to be relevant and powerful when he is now old hat.

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Rove showing how smart he is and applying for a job with Trump—even though he wouldn’t last as long as 48 hours. Trump doesn’t require everyone to kiss his ring, you have to kiss his ass. I don’t think Rove could do it many times.

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Oh, you really underestimate Rove. Of course he could.

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Rove craves that power

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So what you’re saying is that Rove wouldn’t even last 1 Scaramucci in a Drumpf administration. How sad it’s come to this for him 😢 <— me crocodile tears

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I think Rove spent his time in office piling up enough billions, banked in the Caribbean, that he doesn't need a job anymore.

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Maurice, with his ego, Rove wouldn't do it once. He would, however, offer Trump all kinds of help and advice for a price and toss out his bonafides like candy to a child and Toddler-/Trump will pick them up and Rove will be in. Rove has been around Trump and knows just who and what Trump is and he is OK with it. He just got mad about the "debate" and that Trump was beat by a woman, again, just as Hillary Clinton beat him 8 years ago, just not in the white states and the states where massive money was pumped in to tear Clinton down. Harris should do better maybe because Rove is less prominent this time. Who knows?

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Dump the Trump!

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In the proper facility that keeps him in. No toxic leakage.

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Ugh, Laurie! 😞😤 🙂

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I'm a little confused – Rove said "tying her to President Biden’s failed policies" - exactly what policies would those be? And, "the argument that she’s a far-left politician out of sync with America’s values" - really Karl? The Republicans are the party out of sync with America's values. And they're going to find out at the ballot box in November.

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I despise Karl Rove, even with this, he’s got a lot wrong with the Harris ticket, but his salient points are quite correct about Chump and his sorry ass performance. Hopefully, enough Republicans will see this and at the least stand down for this election. Chump and his acolytes must be handed the most humiliating, devastating, defeat possible in history, if this nation is to survive.

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Karl Rove, so despicable, proved Stuart Stevens’ book title, “It was all a lie.” Biden-Harris policies have worked so much better for plain, ordinary people. Republicans are the ones who vote for depriving women of essential healthcare, forcing their religious beliefs on everyone else, defunding public schools, not feeding hungry children, AND voting against common sense gun laws and for NO RESTRICTIONS on weapons -the leading cause of death for children. They lie about their records. They are so far in the past, they are medieval. The only good Republicans are pushing up daisies. Harry Truman

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And John McCain.

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Unfortunately, the die hard Republicans will vote for Trump. They may not like him but they will vote for the party even if it will destroy our democracy. So afraid of becoming socialist and , of course, communist. They are delusional...

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It's not the die-hard Republicans I'm worried about so much as the reactive non-thinkers. My neighbors, acquaintances, and read-abouts who will vote for Trump because: 1) he will protect their 401(k), the hell with the free world ending; 2) Harris' homebuyer-help plan will cause the housing market to crash; 3) he'll bring in RFK Jr. who will singlehandedly fix the environment; 4) he's a working class guy like me; 5) I listened to Harris' plans and I don't think she can get any of them through Congress. These are all real examples. I've come up with a new talking-points plan for these neighbors. I ask them what they think about the eating-cats-and-dogs statements. Then I am very sympathetic when they say he didn't mean it or it's not important. I sympathize with them and appreciate their position. I say Of course you have a right to your opinion that he didn't mean it, and you may be right. And Trump is entitled to his opinion that in Springfield they're eating cats and dogs. But the mayor and the police say it's not true, so I think, while Trump is entitled to his opinion, he may be wrong about it. But here's what concerns me: if Trump gets an opinion--maybe he's wrong or confused about something--that the Russians are attacking us, and he thinks he ought to press the nuclear war button, then that's what worries me. He's entitled to his opinions. But I don't want someone with opinions like they're eating cats and dogs in Ohio to be in charge of the nuclear war button. I don't think that's safe for us. What do YOU think about that?

I literally don't know any other way to break through these reactionary voters' mind-sets.

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I just watched Vance reiterating his lie that the Haitians are eating pets in Springfield. Such a racist asswipe. The blood of the legal immigrants and any illegal immigrants is on his hands for spouting that hateful dehumanizing drivel.

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I guess you have to be tolerant of other opinions; that's democracy.

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In the case of many I know, it's willful ignorance. And in this case, that equates to stupidity. I've always run with a "well-educated" crowd (on paper) but this year, I've given up on almost all of them. That education has done them zero good and cannot overcome "mine, my, me me me selfishness". And don't forget to throw in "but the cost of groceries/gas/utilities with a dash of but the babies".

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M K I refer to that as the IGMFY (I Got Mine F*** You) mentality.

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How will the Republicsns see this? Do you think Maga will post it? There is a lost opportunity that we could repost this and other columns if only Reich would make his columns, and especially this one, shareable.

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Karl Rove wrote all this in an opinion article in The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday or Thursday.

It was shocking, coming from him, but all so refreshing to read something truthful in The Wall Street Journal for once.

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You can click the copy button to share these articles. I just did. Wish these were regularly published in NYT or WaPo or Guardian though

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Exactly right about Rove having a lot wrong about Harris' policies. Harris/Biden were blocked at every turn, especially at the border by tRump and his republican congress, which has accomplished the least of any congress in history as a result of their middle school antics.

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They always have to

Disparage her as

Well For the fine people

On both sides narrative.

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😱🥶🤯😱🫣⚖️😳

His suicide note should be a comprehensive apology to appear on his tomb which should be a PUBLIC TOILET😁😁😁😁

Rove tricked 70% of Americans to support the Iraq fiasco.

Rove should trick 70% of Americans to support the Deprogramming of all Americans that don't appreciate:

https://youtu.be/psebm9RJDvU?si=Ym-ispFrWMhszcBs

https://youtu.be/nhI30oC9LAM?si=B77aEYYTV6SRXfWB

FeelingGoodApp.com

etc...

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Let's collaborate!😁😁😁😁

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I totally agree with you.

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Yes, we know exactly to whom you referred, Boss Hog Rove.

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I love it. This boss hog is not pretending now.

He, like so many others, has decided due to Trump’s power and intractability to come out and tell the truth for the sake of the country whose very value to us is now in peril due to a very bad man and an electorate that desperately must be convinced.

For once, I am a little bit proud Rove is an American.

Our ignorance and overconfidence have made us as a nation very vulnerable to Trump. We are at a critical juncture that even Rove sees as a time for true patriotism and self sacrifice to make this country better. It is not just up to George Washington. It is not only up to generals mattis and kell, who have seen that unwilling President at work. We must educate our people and quash Trump’s rampages, insurrection, and get him out of there!!!

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To many ignorant and stubborn Republicans in our country

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Too little, too late.

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And his family never able to resurrect any semblance of his campaign or time in office 🏬

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The one and only Turd Blossom - aptly put, GW.

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Whooo...thanks for clarifying...

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I agree with your last remark absolutely and hope American voters will do so!

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I understood who you meant immediately, but thanks for clarifying.

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Figured.

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In answering Rove's (who I, personally, - well, despise may be too strong, but, whatever, despise) question at the end, "What does that make Trump?" Well, I've considered Trump "dumb as a rock" since the day he came down the escalator - in front of HIS paid "supporters." (re: one of the more STUPID responses to Ms. Harris at the debate) His "great gift" to today's republican party is he lured white nationalists out from under their rocks as he led the "Birther" movement and, therefore, the "Tea Party." The ONLY way he "crawls back under his rock" (in Riker's Island?) is if Ms. Harris defeats him in November and Jack Smith, Alvin Bragg, and Fani Willis are allowed to complete their cases against him!

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Anyone else would be in jail and the key thrown away

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Trump has needs

Might as well put Trump and people like him under a microscope!

He must be on top. He sees it that way.

Like the child of an alcoholic, or a cold that is beaten, molested, abandoned- Trump passes on these norms to his family.

Are any of Trump’s apprentices still with this nepotistic company!!!

What happened besides non disclosure agreements????

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Thank you

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Totally with you! I can't stand the guy, he indeed almost destroyed our country.

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I grew up knowing a rankout artist like Trump!! He grew up to be a surgeon! I hope he does not support Trump. I grew up living near the little hill in Jamaica estates queens that Trump grew up on. I was there in 1971 till 1973. There was a Sri Chin moy center just 27 blocks away.

It is very understandable that this big mind Trump that was transported to military school in his early teens now

Craves affection, adulation, and being a dominant figure since his parents had so much power over him. He was so lonely. Becoming the top of his military class was his only way to power. The same for his football feets. The same for his ownership of golf courses and the perceived ownership of buildings where the owner paid 500 k to put Trump’s name on the door!

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WOW-Top of his class at military school? There had to have been some real morons in his class for that to happen. One of Chump's professors at Wharton said publicly that Chump was the dumbest fucking student he'd ever had.

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and, he aged so ugly, he tRumputin.

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I had a similar response Mark when I read that Alberto Gonzales had endorsed Kamala! I was immediately transported to Ashcrofts' sick bed & his willingness to coerce a very ill man to sign off on an illegal surveillance program.....While grateful for Kamala's growing coalition of support, these people are fundamentally responsible for why we have Trump today, their legacy: the destruction & degradation of our way of life.

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Heartwarming to see we’re not letting that a-hole, Rove off the hook because he admits Trump massively failed the debate, which would be quite a stretch for even him to lie about. His entire essay is filled with back-handers to Harris, so it’s pretty evident Rove would still vote for the guy who would finish destroying our democracy.

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Here's what Kamala should have closed with: WE'RE NUMBER 1!!!

GDP

JOBS

CRIME

The markets.

Energy production.

And by Truth Social which is failing - ye shall know Trump.

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I love that Truth Social is failing but not so much that Trump will make any money on it. Another scheme to rob his cult of $$$.

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Marjorie Taylor Green invested!

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Good 👍 I hope she invested a LOT.

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Doesn't look like he can avoid bankruptcy. Several outstanding lawsuits.

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INDEED! Wave the flag! CLAP! CLAP! Off the chair! FUCK Karl Rove to Pluto and back in a boomerang swing of my fucking pickleball racket to the power of TEN! indeed with the flag clap clap off the chair

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Dana - So I take it that you do not care for Mr. Rove, then?

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But we'll spare the horse he rode in on.

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LOL. Thank you for sparing the horse.

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It is telling that Chump is bragging it was his best debate performance ever (everything he does is the best, right?) On that, I might actually agree with him. It probably was his best debate performance ever. Like all his other abilities, mediocrity would be a far stretch of a compliment. Compared to normal, average people, he’s a complete failure at every level, except possibly being a con man, he’s sometimes good at that, but even that dubious distinction is beginning to wear thin.

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Okay haha. I liked your comment and then was like whoa better verify.

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He destroyed an impossible amount of the good will our allies deserve and expect from us!!

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You are way too kind.

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Wait, is your comment to Reich or Rove?

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Karl Rove

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Thank you.

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Succinct and on-point MH. Well put.

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Thank you for your adios and " fu k you" to Karl Rove......and to crawl back under his rock.So Clean and simple. Truly cleansing. Thankyou!!!!

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He still drinks the Koolaid. There are no failed Biden administration policies at the border or on the economy.

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That's where the new AIbot threw me off! WHAT border issues? Are some of Bunkerboy's "nasty" policies still in place? Likely. Are there 130,000 "CUH-CUH-CARAVANS!!!" marching towards our borders? NO!

Although our borders would be BIGLY safer had those Traitors agreed to the BIPARTISAN border deal . . .

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The "border issues" were due to COVID, and the Biden Administration's insistence on following the law and implementing it in a humane manner. Every R knows this. Yet, they refuse to change the law nor invest in manpower necessary to fix it.

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And the economy was what Trump left. It took

2 years to suffer his plague. Plus 1.2 million people

Dead. Worst in the world. Suffer the fool.

We all know this because Trump enjoyed 2 years of obamas. They need to speak more about the economy he left Them and how they fixed it.

And the low inflation now.

I know prices are killing us here in Canada too.

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Exactly! Biden has only successes, and successes-obstructed-by-the Do-Nothing/Let's Impeach Some Democrat 118th Congress (such as the border bill). Does Rove consider a 2.5% inflation rate, a 4.something% unemployment rate, a booming stock market, and many Biden fans on Wall Street who write public letters of support, a failed economic policy? I also did not like the nasty subtle sneer about "the debate will not help Harris much or hurt Trump much in the final analysis." Disagree! I think his boy Tricky Dick lost to JFK largely because of their debate.

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Christina - not to forget the role sinema and manchin played as obstruction wrecking balls for Biden's plans.

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The more I think about what Rove wrote, the more I realize that Rove is angry because Trump did not tell believable lies--he was too unhinged. "Biden's failed economic and border policies" sounds better than "The worst economy in history," and "Millions of immigrants are coming over the border, committing crimes, and eating your pets," but it's the same message.

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His handlers and no one can

Control trump. They are about to Go through some things…..#dementiadonOld every day is his best. Yesterday was horrendous.

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Fortunately, that was a time of an electorate who read and listened to a journalism that presented both sides of the political parties platforms and events of the day. Today that is difficult to find - on both fronts.

My personal opinion is that 24 hour "news" is one of the problems in being well-informed today. The same iformation, correct or incorrectly slanted, is repeated ad nauseum until it becomes fact in minds.

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Precisely, why do they not pin any of the immigration issue on the billion$ wall that only worked as a grift for his friends? I am so glad she reminded viewers that he meddled in our foreign affairs for campaign fodder... killed immigration bill (also Israel cease fire negotiations not mentioned)... shouldn't there be enforced laws about those acts?! Biden/Harris have Infrastructure plan implemented, tfg never got past talking about it, rather like his 7yr attempt at a healthcare plan and only achieved a concept of a plan...or so he says...I think that is debatable too. Vote 💙

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I would someday like to see who got the contracts for all of the steel and it’s movement to build his wall that Mexico was going to pay for, don’t you know that there’s dirt there. I have often thought that we should tear it down and recycle the massive amount of steel into girders to build bridges with, because bridges build better relations than walls. We could do something creative with all of the assault rifles that no American needs, by using the aluminum and steel to build memorials to those we have lost because of their use.

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The bridges concept is lovely, although I wouldn't trust the integrity of any material involved in a tRump project. I've read he's always been a skin flint, penny pinching, cheat when his own outlay was involved and, while that wouldn't be the case here, he has a track record of hiring all the worst people. Maybe some additional details will come up in this ones (as example) Dec trial which should have already occurred in May.

https://apnews.com/article/steve-bannon-border-wall-scheme-charges-54eda4d7201f73f32f42b3a431429f73#:

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The wall that was impenetrable and blown over in a high wind.

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Or by walking a few sections over to where it never got built, even though he claimed (at times) that he 'd finished it...ditto ISIS...he didn't do that either.

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Leave the damned wall as a monument to Trump's stupidity and hubris. Human traffickers and smugglers cut thru or go over or around The Wall: its discontinuous segments are treated as mere annoyances, something akin to speed bumps.

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It was noted that the previous presser he did at the border was in front of a segment that had been installed during the Obama years, it was structurally more sound than the bits he managed to get upright, yet takes credit for all…and takes responsibility for nothing.

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yep, it's how he stole Obama's economy until he i.e. tRumputin himself ruined it. that's how he rolls.

A little offtopic but not really - American men i.e. American males in general should be especially against tRumputin because he's everything that a real man should NOT be!!

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I couldn't agree with you more! When I found out that the person I started dating in ‘17 had voted for him, citing the “good businessman” BS, I quit seeing him. I have zero respect for anyone that ignorant, immoral or possibly both. Vote 💙

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George Lopez said it best we'll get over it. (HBO special) another celeb that hated the naranja pendejo bigly.

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No mas pendejo, el ladrón, pinche cavron!

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As for the botched Afghan withdrawal, thirteen American deaths were regrettable and preventable, but Biden got us the hell out of there. How many more Americans would have been killed had we not withdrawn from that disastrous campaign. And what would Trumpty-Dumpster have done any differently? Nuke his way out of there?

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Trump negotiated a withdrawal directly with the Taliban and cut out the Afghan government. Part of the deal was the release of 5000 Taliban prisoners – who promptly went right back into fighting mode against our troops. Trump also agreed to an impossibly short deadline for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan, but, as usual, had no plan for implementing that withdrawal. He left his bad deal for Biden to carry out. How dare he criticize them for doing the best they could with every deck stacked against them?

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He probably saw the writing on the wall and knew he would be leaving Biden with a mess for his bid in 2024

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