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Democrats stopped showing up! I kept hearing in the 2024 election about the outreach. I live in Michigan in a suburb of Flint and not one Democrat knocked on my door!

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EM needs to go down with his businesses. Period.

He’s a drug addict since years, treats workers also in his companies like shit, is a heavy unionbuster, is a right wing extremist through and through, literally a Neo-nazi and anti-democrat in a suit, non stop lying about the past and fact based history - he’s not even good at car manufacturing at all.

2 journalists from my country, Germany, are just about to release a book about him, named “The Tesla Files”.

I strongly recommend to buy and read it.

That guy is dangerous with all his money.

Same as Peter Thiel.

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Rick, Democrats didn't laugh at Gingrich's Contract for America. We called it "Contract ON America." Maybe because you were on the other side, you didn't notice.

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What?! You don’t know whose great idea it was to let manufacturing leave? I had to listen to that twice to make sure I heard it correctly. It wasn’t any one person or thing that caused this to happen. Ever hear of a little thing called NAFTA? That Bill Clinton put into effect? (Who is one of my favorite presidents, by the way.). In addition, transportation became better, cheaper, and faster thus ushering in the practicality of shipping in stuff from halfway around the globe. Plus other factors that I won’t take the space to get into here.

The problem is NOT in the free trade aspect of this. The mistake that was made, and continues to be made, is that we did/do not make the same requirements of the foreign manufacturers as we do of our own. This is what creates the un-level playing field. They should have to abide by the same OSHA, wage, and other worker laws and regulations as our manufacturing companies have to. They should have to prove they are abiding by them by submitting to random inspections and providing the same documentation that we require of our companies. Force them to PROVE their compliance or have their ability to export revoked.

The answer is NOT to take away the laws, rules, and regulations that our companies have to abide by, as the republican clown car would have you think. The answer IS to force foreign manufacturers to abide by those same laws, rules, and regulations - at minimum.

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yes yes yes

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Hi Rick love your work!! Please keep fighting for all people. I'm Canadian & I feel everything u do in the US will help the globe. Please keep fighting, we are scared at what Trump is saying about Canada 🇨🇦 let alone Greenland ect. This was an amazing show!!! Keep up the great work❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Of course, Trump is tone deaf because he does not plan to run for reelection in any way other than how Putin does it: Just put up the one name and march people to vote for him at gunpoint if necessary. Or allow only selected people to vote. The fascist strategy is to cause chaos until the political, social and legal systems break down. We can't keep talking like the response should be about effective political maneuvering toward the next elections. Four or even two years from now will be way too late.

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Great discussion. Ro Khana is on the ball. I am definitely worried about Social Security and Health Care. Then I have "trickle" down worry about just about everything. Thanks for leading the fight, Rick.

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Great podcast today with Ro Khana, thanks Rick

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Ro has investments still in Tesla

Ask him about that

It is not the lords work

It is our work we the people

Don’t get religious on us

Esp don’t give credit to this guy that is still invested in Tesla

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Please media don't give him ideas. Seriously. Wisdom in what you reveal.

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In addition to dismantling health care and social security, they are destroying scientific research.

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Yes. Have you heard about NIST? A department which measures standardizes spectral analysis just like the Constitution gives our government authority and instruction to do: standardize. They are threatened with being cut and all the data removed. If it hasn't happened already. Devastating.

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The real question: What are Republicans going to do to fix their own dumbster fire? Step up for once. And Dems need to stop trolling themselves about "finding middle ground." If you cannot see any of that, then you are adding to the problem.

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Most of us are so scared I happen to be an 82-year-old on Social Security and a little bit more. If something happens to Social Security I’m gonna end up on the street. Is that fair. I paid into it from the time I first started working at 18 and I worked until I was 74. Sure, I put enough money in there to get money and not have to worry about somebody maneuvering so that they can take it away from me.

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Political Censorship and Free Speech Living in a Police State

Nazis have long been concerned about being silenced and not being able to express their conservative opinions So the diatribes go….being bullied, “thought police” But it’s not that they have been silenced it’s just that their opinions are often so outrageous that they are laughable eg Fox and Friends

So there is a Nazi attack on free speech If the Nazis don’t like what you say then it’s not free speech Complete HYPOCRISY

It’s not about free speech it’s about their protected speech….the Nazi free speech of propaganda

Networks should lose their FCC licenses Judges with differing opinions should be impeached Banning news organizations who don’t go along with the Nazi talking points Going after law firms that don’t favor the regime’s propaganda line Students with green cards who protest with differing opinions should be thrown out of the country because “they are agitators who don’t love our country” Universities should lose federal grant money if they dare speak out against the Nazi regime Take over the Kennedy Center for Continuing Arts to even control the art’s free speech and have only shows that are deemed “appropriate”

But billionaire/oligarchic Nazis protect social media such as X, Meta, and Tik Tok because it’s algorithmic, simply a machine that directs your attention It’s planned Nazi propaganda And it’s not free speech Billionaires are literally rewiring our thinking to solidify their power grab

This is what it looks like living in a dictatorship in the 21st century Fox channel is the only channel available and X will be the social media platform WAKE UP AMERICA To journalists speak truth even if it’s not neutral No one can hide anymore

From Jon Stewart March 24 2025 Daily Show https://bit.ly/41IXEvA

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Every one hates musk because he's arrogant, flaunts his wealth,bought himself the presidency and now going for Supreme Court. His Achilles heel is tesla , our way to inflict pain but let's remember where the buck stops and that's with Pino 47!

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In 2012, Wilson posted to Instagram an image of a cooler emblazoned with a Confederate battle flag and the words "The South Shall Rise Again", prompting allegations of racism.

Any comment Ricky???

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I think Rick has mentioned his past "life" and how when he thinks about it now, some of it really bothers him. He has apologized a number of times that I have seen and I think he's doing a great job making up for it. He's fighting like hell for our democracy.

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