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Murray Smart's avatar

More distractions in DonOLD Hump's plan to "CHEAT LIKE HELL" to "win". He is the MOST Corrupt EVER in the history of America. Solution - VOTE!!! Vote for any politician in America who is NOT him and does NOT support him or his Grift and Greed. Send a Massive Message that Americans are FED UP and ARE taking back America from these Monsters!!! Remember America troops are Americans with families that do NOT support this madness. Blind Allegiance to an Illegal Corrupt Monster is NOT going to fly......... The Hump world is shrinking every day he screws more and more people, including screwing the members of the military and their families.........

Ron Poole's avatar

You supported a President that got under a desk and raped a young woman, including with a cigar. The semen on the BLUE DRESS DID NOT COME FROM THAT CIGAR. Yes, she was 22 going on 17 and that is the only thing that kept Clinton out of prison. Now YOu consider Clinton a hero and buy his books that made him a millionaire. You supported President Carter who allowed Iran to keep almost 400 Americans hostage for over a year. Left office with Home Mortgage rates over 14%, You supported a President that created race riots all over the country. Or he is known to me as the GREAT DIVIDER. You supported Biden who Russia invade Ukraine and did not move a finger, However, not surprising as Obama and Biden in 2014/15 allowed Russia to take over Crimea and did nothing. And did 7ou support Bidnen when the Demorat party kicked Biden to the curb because of his One moreperformance with SOON TO BE THE 47th President of USA. SPEAKING OF BLIND ALLIGENC!!! One more thing regarding scrfewing military families. Ask the Moms, Dads, Brothers, Sisters, Wives and Chi

ldren of the 13 Americans that Biden left to die in Afghanistan

Bensnewlogin's avatar

You people are beyond help or hope. There isn’t much else to say.

This column is about Trump. An adjudicated rapist. 34 convicted felon. A half man who lies as easily as he breathes.

Also a man who left Mr. Biden to deal with the mess he left in Afghanistan. Also the man negated Obama’s treaty with Iran, which was working. Also the man who is killing innocent fisherman without a trial also the man who lied about Haitians in Springfield Ohio. Also the man who lies about transgender people on a daily basis.

And then there’s always the deregulation of the financial industry, which led to bush’s depression of 2008. It took Mr. Obama to pull us out of that mess.

There was never a problem with fraudulent elections until Trump started claiming that there was. this is All documentable. His own election security man said in 2020 that this was the most secure election ever. He was fired for telling the truth.

You are beyond help or hope.

Kelly A's avatar

Budget was balanced under Clinton— something that was promised right now and only got worse (Monica was no child, so not the same at all); we got healthcare under Obama and yet you call him the “great divider” — so you must be racist? You have a handful of grievances against 4 presidencies versus the huge laundry list of corrupt and evil acts of one man in office in a short period of time. 🤔

MF's avatar

Thank you, Mike!

Mae B. Haynes's avatar

Anything we can think of pales beside what they’re capable of doing. I agree. Our only voice is our vote. VOTE!!!!

Bensnewlogin's avatar

Mike, I think you're making a small error in your otherwise excellent essay. I don't believe for a moment that MAGAtry lives in an alternative reality. I think it is composed of two kinds of people, the people who live in an alternative reality, and the people that know that they don't, but don't care.

My husband works in a hospital. There are people with medical education – technicians, nurses, even a few doctors – who believe the anti-VAX garbage, despite their education, despite 200 years of sound public health practice. I find this impossible to believe. But as my husband and I were discussing this morning, the whole point of all of this is to put the garbage out there, to keep repeating it, to make it real even if it isn't.

The point is to challenge actual authority and education. Listen to me, don't listen to those people. Your 30 minute Google search is worth their eight years of education. So listen to me while I tell you that you are better than you are, and please send money. That's all it's about.

I truly believe that there are people who absolutely know better than the garbage that they spew. But they do it because they have an interest in power, money, religious Dominion, and revenge on everyone that they think ever offended them.

Uppity Black people, uppity women, uppity gay people, anybody.

As I have said many times, sometimes on these very pages, not all bigotry is hate. So much of bigotry is despite: I am better than you and I will make sure that you know it.

BillRi's avatar

NPR is Center not left

Linda Harris's avatar

Mike, Paxton was involved in that ridiculous story about Talarico. It goes to show how stupid they are, an easily checked story is not how you sow seeds of doubt and yet they ran with it with the help of republican maghats that they call on for just this purpose. Then Elon Musk jumped in and amplified it. I think that all entities that engage in this (bots, spreading lies, etc) should be held accountable under the law. We need to get AI under control and the bots out of the net. I hope Ukraine keeps bombing Russia's Data Centers (bot farms) all the way through our election. About Ilhan Omar, this should not be happening in America and yet this is just more trump BS. A woman of color who is smarter than he is. Have you noticed how extreme his racism has gotten in the last couple of weeks? It is off the charts. Just saw a poll that stated the Ilhan Omar is over 90% for winning. (An aside, trump used the eating dogs and cats again in a speech)

Leslie Kramer's avatar

In mostly-but-not-entirely-blue-MA, folks are concerned about voter intimidation, not just in other states, but here, too. It is critical that plans are made, and maybe, hopefully, have been, are being made, though not being made public. Whether by mail-in, early or Election Day voting, people must vote. Demographic trends have been doing 180s; his lies have been just that- lies. Forget embarrassment- just vote. Blue.

sheryl jeffries's avatar

Thank you, they can only hope that Elon Musk buys the election for them. Trump is not above that. He's so corrupt he'd do anything to hang on to power

Pat Robinson's avatar

Let's hope all of America will be like Wisconsin and let musk spend money and still lose the elections. I don't know where those dollars actually go, but maybe they will help the local economy while still not helping trump and the GOP.

Dennis Ryan's avatar

MAGA = Administration too. Latter now has nothing left to lose so will tear into post election with all they’ve got. Ugly - we will not believe it. Quietly reading Mike will not be enough.

Stuyvesant Bearns's avatar

AMERICAN DEMOCRACY HASNEVER BEEN UNDER GREATER THREASAT THAN IT NOW IS, NOT IN THE CIVIL WAR, NOT IN WORLD WAR II, NOW.

THIS THREAT WILL NOT END UNTIL TRUMP AND HIS CRIMINAL CRONIES ARE REMOVED FRO OFFICE OR OTHERWISE DEFEATED.

WE WILL GET PART WAY THERE IN THE MIDTERMS.

VOTE!

Linda gagnon's avatar

We have to keep shining a light on these continuous (dare I say ramped-up) abuses!

Rose Huston's avatar

Mike, it’s so damn sad that Trump & his administration can hurt innocent people & get away with it. He should pay restitution for his wrongful action. So discouraged what’s happening in America & no consequences for it.

Kelly A's avatar

I knew nothing about the Talarico fake story at the time because I saw him at Austin City Limits the day before he was supposedly released from a hospital in Ohio. There is no more integrity left - so many lies.

Dianna McCullough's avatar

Mike’s right-different news from different folks! Trump’s gang of crooks have been after Omar and treat Somalian people so disrespectful. It’s his trend to go after people with revenge and his lapdogs to follow along with whatever. Omar is tough and she’ll handle this, but Trump is not handling his decline at all and getting more desperate each day (dangerous, too) while all of a sudden his Republican politicians are trying to speak out some, to save themselves, but will or can they stop him from this oil deal with Putin - worse then a disgrace. He and his oligarchs (that includes congress) have failed Zelensky, and that in itself is a devastating crime.

Derek Lightfoot's avatar

Treasonous Traitor Trump is the worst President ever. Trump is the worst human if you can call him that as he has no morality, shame, empathy, ethicality, compassion at all. He is a malignant narcissist, pathological liar, r@pist, S/A’er, leader of an insurrection against the country he is President over, convicted criminal felon on 34 felonies, and demented and delusional!! I have never seen anyone like him. The fact that he got elected the second time is beyond my comprehension. MAGA are idiots. They are about to get another problem when millions lose Medicaid and their ability to keep it after the midterm elections. I will vote for anyone that stands against him and the Republican Party. The Republicans in Congress are traitors as well. They have in my opinion aided and abetted a known criminal felon! They are no better than Trump. Vote Blue and let’s end Trump and the Republicans at the ballot box. 💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊!

Pat Robinson's avatar

This GOP congress and trump have never cared about the law and except for the E Jean Carrol verdict have never suffered any consequences for ignoring it..so while it's handy to know when they do stuff that violates the law, does it really matter? And since lying and cheating are their only plays left these days (blaming Obama and Biden is getting kinda worn out and even most maga folks don't fall for that any more I hope) we still must step up our game and outsmart them by doing door to door visits and other face to face discussions with undecided voters and assuming we can show them the Dems have a better way (and actual plans which they have already tried to implement to help the working class but have been blocked time and time again by the GOP) we need to make sure every single voter goes to the polls...we cannot let anyone leaning Blue sit this one out. To do that we need to be supporting candidates who are reaching out to voters by making face to face contacts...I know things are tough..I just got back from Walmart to do my grocery shopping and put back several items because I could not afford the whole bill..not friviolus stuff, but milk, cheese, spinach, vitamins...but as I've been saying I figure my couple of dollars donated will combine with someone else's and can buy a gallon of gas to help with door to door visits or a program like RideShare2Vote which will provide transportation for voters to get to the polls (and I hope provide them with assurances that they will be safe...maybe make sure everyone goes in pairs with charged cell phones with videos to video ICE/National Guard/FBI folks attempting voter intimidation...getting enough close ups to maybe be useful in prosecution someday.