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As soon as I'm done donating I STOP texts and unsubscribe from all emails. Then, the next time I choose to donate I do it again. I never get spammed as a result and get to choose how and when I donate that way.
At the very least it doesn't have any punch, really Trump is a victim of his own policies by giving every whackjob out there free and easy access to these weapons. Even then those buying them clearly can't use them, turns out they're way more successful at shooting up a bunch of kids in a school than assassinating a president.
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I do not donate to political causes or candidates. However, Mom missed out on this one, and she was the feminist extraordinaire, so I will be sending money in her name. Symbolically. I am sending a money order for $47 and one for $19.20 – there should be a third one, but I cannot come up with the number. (Money orders so that they do not obtain my name or address.)
Yeah, unfortunately too many of the crazies are in positions of power. They aren't going to let go and too much of the base has been fed crazy and loves it. My memory is that the polls indicate about 40% of Republicans are basically Trump cultists. Even saying cults of personalities have difficulties replacing their leaders, this is the Tea Party on steroids and they'll be able to determine the leaders for a while. We could even see that with the Tea Party pre-Trump and this is bigger.
This has been a long time coming in the Republican party, like I mean I wouldn't associate any of those properties with the likes of Gingrich, Hastert, etc ... and even Saint Reagan well wasn't so saintly if you were gay, black, or working class. And then Nixon hangs like a pall over everything (and not just on the perversion of justice level, the Southern strategy as well) though even he might blush at Trump (and was certainly as President better at the job and even helped/tried to help others - though again the Southern strategy undercut a lot of that). And anti-democracy voter suppression has long been a staple of Republican policy. However, it does say something though that the likes of George Will and Dick Cheney endorse Harris/Walz. If even they recognize the crazy has gotten out of hand ... but I don't know how much of a nucleus can be formed around the conservatives abandoning Trump. After all, given the apparent tightness in the polls, it hasn't had much of an effect.
I recognize that conservative views need a voice in America and I'd like that voice to be sane. But I'm not going to hope for much more than that and I think only burning the Grand Old Party down and getting a new one has any hope of getting even that and that hope is slim for the foreseeable future. That's not just me saying that, some former Republican never Trumpers are the ones saying that the Republican party needs to be destroyed as a going concern the loudest (Tom Nichols comes to mind).
Also limiting the effect of these attempts is the callousness which they have shown others, including children, being shot and killed, "just get used to it", and of course their own demonization of people to the point of inflicting terror on immigrant communities.
The past few days I've gotten maybe 50 emails and 20-30 texts each day. Yes, they're annoying, especially because they're so disjointed ("We're disappointed we haven't heard from you" from one group when I just donated to another.) But I'm willing to put up with the bother and have less cash on hand if it'll help the cause.
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I did the same. I was getting a ridiculous amount of emails and texts from the Harris/Walz team.
(and I am voting for them)
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He just uses this attack as more projection. He can say it’s the culmination of democrat rhetoric. Lucky, we have history and facts, no matter how much they ignore it. Trump is a victim to his own policies. The arsonist is getting burned and also screaming fire.
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Attached: 1 image How about trying this? “You know those active shooter drills you have to practise at school because people like me and grandad won’t do anything about lunatics getting access to guns? Well, Grandad isn’t immune to the consequences of those terrible policies either.”
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I hear thoughts and prayers are effective, but maybe now is not the time for action while emotions are high. Maybe they should just get used to it. Alternative below:
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Attached: 1 image How about trying this? “You know those active shooter drills you have to practise at school because people like me and grandad won’t do anything about lunatics getting access to guns? Well, Grandad isn’t immune to the consequences of those terrible policies either.”
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I hear thoughts and prayers are effective, but maybe now is not the time for action while emotions are high. Maybe they should just get used to it. Alternative below:
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Back to my old motto on conservatives - “they don’t care until it actually affects them.”
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BTW why is everyone calling for the SS to do a better job? He's the one out there being bombastic and baiting the worst kind of radicals, he is a civilian now, make him pay for his own goddamned security.
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It's been the law since 1965 that former presidents get protection during their lifetime unless they decline.
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I'm aware but we need an exception here, this isn't just covering someone with a limited crew while they spend their remaining days in retirement. The detail that is going into his campaign must be immense, then they still have to protect the existing sitting president. It's obvious that they're stretched.
I wonder if we're still paying huge sums of money for them to stay at Trump properties and put even more money in his pocket? That was the MO when he was president ...
While this article raises doubts about it, it's what it fucking sounds like to me:
National Review editor-in-chief's pronunciation of the word 'migrants' raises eyebrows
The internet thinks it heard something else.
www.dailydot.com
Even if it's not, Megan Kelly and Rich Lowry are defending "alternative facts" and "creating stories" to bring attention to "what's actually happening" and saying it's just media who should be hated for making it sound like "alternative facts" and "creating stories" are the same as telling lies.
At first in the clip, you think she's condemning Vance for making shit up, then you realize she isn't and neither is he and then he goes even further.The NYT thought, yeah let's publish an article by this asshole. And yes he and Megan Kelley both used to be considered "serious journalists". So they're still defending racial slurs against immigrants even if he didn't use THE racial slur.
This is why I say the rot has gone deep in the conservative establishment and because its establishment, it infects everything that considers establishment to be sacrosanct - including the NYT and WaPo and other media. It's just like how journalists and editors launder their reputations from far right wing news organizations into the mainstream through the WSJ and other Murdoch papers and others feel they have to hire these hacks because of "balance" and "neutrality" regardless of journalistic ethics. Only once can I think of in recent memory was the Editor pick so odious that even the newsroom of WaPo revolted having them as their Editor for scummy shit he had done in Britain.
Incoming Washington Post editor decides not to take job amid ethics concerns
Will Lewis, the publisher and chief executive of The Washington Post, told staff in a note that the editor, Robert Winnett, withdrew from the position and plans to remain in Britain.
www.nbcnews.com
But of course the current WaPo editor is from the Wall Street Journal and the Executive was the unethical British guy's boss. So if you ever wonder what happened to WaPo ... that's what.
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But, it does provide a handy tool to sustain the grift.
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Seems they did a good job - they neutralized a threat before he could even fire.
If it’s a matter of how close he got to Trump, I’m not sure what the rules are on that, but they did stop him and he didn’t get very close, with close being subjective I guess.
But yeah, Trump is making a lot of people’s jobs harder, in many places.
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Hate to even share these polls because we need to prepare as if she's going to lose, but it's better news than watching the Trump news on every channel.
www.msnbc.com
New poll shows Harris with a lead greater than margin of error against Trump
A new ABC News/Ipsos poll gives Vice President Harris a lead against former President Trump among likely voters. MSNBC contributor Jeremy Peters and Republican strategist Lance Trover join Chris Jansing to share their political analysis.
www.msnbc.com
