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Aug 17, 2022Liked by Chris J. Karr

A very good summation of where we are and where we may be headed.

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One of Steve's better columns, for sure. I subscribe to Matt Labash, another interesting writer i follow. He exists behind a paywall that i pay for, he's that good. This mornings column was brilliant as he talked about "Trump Fatigue." This paragraph struck me as being really on point:

" Yet no fewer than three friends/family/frenemies have accused me of TDS in just the last week. I assured them as we discussed the Mar-a-Lago raid, in which the FBI seized top secret documents from an unsecured golf club – at least the ones Trump didn’t manage to flush down the commode - that I wasn’t all that scandalized by the implication that Trump might have committed espionage. After all, betraying his country is old hat and settled law. We don’t have to ask if he’d do it. He already does it, nearly each and every day, and in public. We’ve had a lot of bad presidents from both parties over the years, but none that I can immediately recall tried to serially overturn an election that he lost handily, sicced his fanboy droogs on Congress to protest that fact (getting five people killed, and 150 or so cops beaten bloody), nearly got his own vice president hanged while not lifting a finger to stop the mob, and recruits other candidates to perpetuate the fictions that set all this in motion. The question, for any clear-thinking person of any political stripe, is no longer: “Would Trump betray his own country?” But instead: “How many times and in how variegated a fashion?”

The paragraph above caused me to question; how does anyone defend him? I still have no idea.

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Wyoming, and the other primaries you listed show tRump represents a "clear and present danger", not only to US democracy, but to all humanity [among other reasons, because he and his MAGA thugs, including rouge Secret Service agents who pummeled protesters and media at his 2016 rallies, etc., are Climate Crises deniers].. Therefore his removal is of paramount urgency. #Think_Outside_The_Ballot_Box . [and...Dick Cheney has lots of connections inside the Security State.. FBI, LOYAL-to-Democracy Secret Service Agents, etc. Will Dick be a Man and defend his daughter's Honor?] As to the MAGAts, let everyone who defends democracy follow Reagan: "Let the bloodbath begin".. against all MAGAts !

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