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Hey hey ho ho Elon Musk has got to go. Don’t forget our next big action in April 5th Saturday- probably at your state Capitol- check Indivisible.org and mobilize.us for details and let’s fuckin go ✊🏼

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The Strongman Republicans and Nazis

The American electorate after being lied to by a wanna be dictator who wanted to use the presidency as a get out of jail free card So America got a Fuhrer modeled after

Rand Paul(R Ten) said it best yesterday “After Republicans put the US into a Depression in 1930 with a tariff war Americans didn’t trust us with power for 60y” The Nazis have used the American electorate like a big experiment Test out a theory and see if it works

Nixon theorized that going off the gold standard would create unlimited government support and it has now led to a currency crisis at the height of a credit cycle and runaway inflation

Reagan theorized “trickle down economics” which by studies didn’t work and created the greatest wealth gap in history

George W theorized “weapons of mass destruction” and that got us the long Middle East War Under his watchful eye the Nazis created the real estate mortgage crisis which triggered the Great Recession in 2008

Now the Nazis and SCOTUS theorize that the Unitary Executive(UE) which gave us a Nazi strongman who will lead us to the Promised land or so Germany thought in the 1930’s But the UE has turned out to be a charlatan who will by most observers throw the country into a recession and possibly another depression 1930 is beginning to sound eerily reminiscent “You have to burn the whole thing down” says Curtis Yarvin and parroted by JD Vance with his wealthy billionaire cronies

Unfortunately the American electorate has a bad case of amnesia until catastrophe strikes Then everyone remembers the past

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why is no one saying the obvious. consumer confidence is falling because we are all thinking that trump's economic advisors probably have the same level of competency as the military advisors.

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The Nazi Playbook

Low income Americans can’t help with campaign donations but certainly the megawealthy can open their wallets And so the Orange Nazi mob boss is not only pardoning all his rich cronies who are legitimately in jail but he’s now increasing the federal debt with another massive tax cut to an unsustainable $40+T just to put the affluent in a position of “you owe me one”

This is all at the expense of the disabled, indigent, and less fortunate…...of course the wealthy Nazis demonize those as fraudsters and moochers Their social safety net will be destroyed but the billionaire Nazis don’t care The point is cruelty just as it is with the civil service workers All to serve the billionaire oligarchs and those who are elite enough to lead So arrogant and disgusting

But this is a playbook as old as time but with a twist The Nazi mob boss got this most recent 21st century form from Putin his buddy in Moscow Create a group of rich powerbrokers around you and then make them extremely wildly prosperous and then take their positions of power away from them so they have no where to go but support the Orange mob boss In Russia the oligarchs made a deal with the devil and paid a heavy price Musk is finding out what it means to be an oligarch that will be on the wrong side of the boss and will pay dearly

Americans can easily outnumber and outwork the oligarchs Donate if you can Protest Protest Protest French Revolution 2.0!!!

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Hard Left Hippie Progressive here. I love to hear you guys reveal the ugly floor beneath political consulting. Keep On!

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Great podcast today, fellas. I think the lady winning in Wisconsin is absolutely stunning.

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Just keep reminding the GOP about their security failings like they went on about "Hillary's emails" for years. They never shut their mouths. We can't let them control the narrative.

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I have been a devoted supporter of Cory Booker for years- he is Presidential without being egotistical, a massively hard and intelligent worker and he literally took the oxygen out of Trump and the GOP yesterday in a heroic and successful gift to this country. Truth ruled in his speech and he demolished the legacy media as well-THANK YOU THANK YOU SENATOR BOOKER for your patriotism and honesty!!!

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As much as I appreciate the players in the Lincoln Group, and as close as I come to hatred when confronted with Trump and his group, I believe that HATE is a large part of what makes fascism work, and that we have to avoid hate speech. I believe Rick is somewhat preaching to the choir, and that if any percentage of the far right ever sees his writings, they need to hear clear reason, clear exposure of the lies, and very simple referrals to history, to facts difficult to dispute by the liars. Perhaps some of them can come to their senses, and see the truth when it is revealed clearly and without the hatred.

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I dunno. I'd have to think about all that. To completely negate hate is probably cutting off something fundamentally human, and so far no one has succeeded in 'improving' humans. I have a personal preference for treated everyone with kindness and respect, but I find times that exceptions are necessary.

As far as their coming to their senses from Rick's writings: no. Grandma dying from treatable diabetes, not getting the Social Security check, buying a single egg for $3. Maybe some of that may penetrate. But there are a lot of people who's minds don't function sufficiently to correlate its contents. In simple language: they're too stupid to see what's happening to them is related to who they voted for, their limited view of the universe is that it's all random and nihilistic. Those are people who will just do what they're told, because they are capable of nothing else.

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So. Much. Winning. Are they tired of the winning yet? I hope not, I want them to wallow in their illusions until the very end and it's too late to save themselves. See, that's the real downside of building your entire structure on lies you recite just to stay in the Great One's favor, your aggregate loss of logical or rational thought leads to your spectacular failure. Can they Cruelty and Brutality their way through a fundamental inability to capture the public's hearts or even just govern? We'll see. Soon.

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Now it's time to arrest Musk for breaking campaign laws in Wisconsin. The WI Supreme Court made a good decision because it was to close to the election and may have been seen as a political decision. Go get MUSK now!

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Musk has always been Trump's Achilles' heel. It was going to be either Musk or Vance but now believe it's both of them. LOL

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Cory Booker talked a lot about John Lewis in his magnificent 25-hour speech on the Senate floor. John Lewis, who sacrificed a lot, as Sen. Booker said, because he loved this country even when this country didn't love him back told us never to give up. Never to be afraid to get into good trouble, necessary trouble. And as if the universe was sending us a message, Judge Susan Crawford not only won her race for WI Supreme Court, she stomped her opponent DESPITE all the millions Elon Musk threw into that race to buy it for the republicans - and to make sure republicans could gerrymander another state into oblivion as they've done to mine. But it didn't work. I'd like to think John Lewis had a hand in that.

Thank you, Senator Booker, for your leadership and inspiration. I keep thinking of that phrase he used, over and over, 'Redeem the Dream'. YES!

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Musk may be poison, but we must constantly link him to Trump or it will seem that we think that getting rid of Musk will make this administration acceptable. “Trump’s hand-picked wrecking ball, Elon Musk,” etc.

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Exactly my thoughts; if the far right is allowed to interpret this news cycle to meant that Musk is the primary problem with this administration, Trump and the Project 2025 authors will escape a great deal of criticism in the minds of MAGA voters who are entranced in a state of mind that occurs in the human brain, this ability or need to have a super-human, half god, half mortal, and then dedicate themselves to this being, something that recurs endlessly, down thru time, thus the Jim Joneses of the world. Europe recognizes it better than Americans, since until now it hadn't happened here is as broad a movement. Trump want's nothing but power, money and ultimately worship, and this is why he allows Musk to take such power over us all.

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I love you fellows so much. I have your books – thank you for writing truth and acknowledging the hypocrisy of the GOP which to my mind is the worst sin. Rick, I have long thought that your “Y’all-Qaeda“ term was the greatest ever until you came up with “Incel Jungen” - I’m nominating you for the Nobel prize for Phraseology. 🙏

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We want the Republicans politicians to be traumatically affected.

We want when they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work.

Because they are increasingly viewed as the villains.

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See what you did there, you sly dog.

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