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Neva Brown's avatar

David. Please Stop playing into the hands of Fox, legacy media, and trump supporters by saying the TX dems are "fleeing" the state. From the outside looking in, it seems they made a calculated decision to stand up for ALL Texans, as well as, the American people and our democracy by LEAVING (seemingly their last legal option) the state to slow, halt, stop the inappropriate and unethical gerrymandering of the TX districts. We have asked Dems to grow a spine and fight back. When they do, let's reinforce the behavior not minimize or ridicule it.

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Cee1405151_123's avatar

Correct and on point this option taken by democrats is strategic 🗣🗽💯⚖️🧠👣🎯✨️

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Russ's avatar

Running away from a problem is neither courageous nor advantageous. It makes them look like cowards. All they are doing is delaying and making fools of themselves. I do not support them being arrested as that just makes them martyrs. I would just declare them AWOL, give them a few days to relent. If they do not show, seems to me life has to go on and the voting should then be based on members present.

Are you suggesting that the Dems in DC should flee as well?

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Jessica-Rhea Johnston's avatar

Marjorie Taylor Greene distancing herself from the Republican Party is almost as astonishingly amazing as how Trump believes his own unrestrained bullshit.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Always figured she smelled more like an opportunist than a true believer. She was always just a bit too consistent and coherent to be someone stupid enough to buy into all of Trump's BS, and too passionate to be a drone running scared of being primaried.

This is MTG sensing the ship is going down and getting ready to jump off the ship before it sinks, pulling her down with it.

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lillylove_67's avatar

Attempting to distract from Epstein

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Fred Kirchner's avatar

They wonder if they were conned 🤣

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Alex's avatar

Of course they were conned. What else did they expect. They are all idiots and sheep.

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Tricia Auld's avatar

IMO, MTG is claiming she is distancing herself from the GOP because she is afraid she is going to loose in the midterms. It is BS.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

Trump is STILL running scared of Russian Interference in the 2016 election.

As mentioned, the Various Intelligence agencies AND the Bipartisan Senate committee both declared with certainty that it truly happened. It is also without doubt that Trump publicly invited Russia to 'interfere' at least as far as hacking and distribution of 'Hillary's emails'.

It is also a known fact that Russia (an agent publicly associated with their government) publicly met with Trump Jr, Jared and Manafort, senior members of the Trump campaign after suggesting the ability to be 'helpful' in the campaign. At the meeting they discussed adoptions of Russian Children. Manafort (at least) knew full well what was meant, for he had worked on the sleezy side of Russian interference before (in Ukraine) and understood they were explaining the price. Understanding the history of adoptions of Russian Children and why it stopped, told him Russia wanted an end to all Sanctions on Russia and it's Oligarchs.

The preceding email 'promising help' was the object being sold, and the meeting clarified the price being requested. Trump's public request days later was the acceptance of the deal. Trump never said anything unkind about Putin or Russia. It is unrealistic to expect this sort of deal to be a written contract, or explained (where it could be recorded) in blunt plain terms. This is as plain and blunt as this sort of agreement ever gets. The evidence is solid that Russia did indeed help Trump and Trump did appreciate and make full use of the help. It is also well recorded in the Mueller Report that Trump did repeatedly (10 ways, fully documented) willfully obstruct the investigation.

The Mueller Report is easy to read and excellently well organized, so there is no excuse if you have any questions to doubt my report. You can verify it for yourself. Mueller was a Republican and could have painted a much stronger picture of Trump's 'collusion' with Russia, but specifically avoided that, and even with regards to a conspiracy charge, chose to not be aggressive at all.

Trump is a criminal who thinks like a criminal (lots of experience as a criminal), who talks like a criminal and was trained / mentored by the top lawyer to the Mafia bosses. So whenever trump talks about the Russian Hoax, that is simply Trump pushing his story out there so people don't try to talk about it in any meaningful way. This is not some wild conspiracy theory, the facts are all there in the open record, undisputed. Russia offered, Russia explained the price, Trump accepted and Russia Helped Trump get elected and Trump appreciated it and did his best to help Russia / Putin and obstruct the investigation.

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Gloria Payton's avatar

I love this new format!

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John R's avatar

David, You have mentioned several times the lack of strategy for the Democratic Party moving forward. How about telling us your suggestions. Thanks!

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Ethan Marks's avatar

MTG - her statement(s) are a move to further brainwash people into believing she has had some sort of awakening- and she has: probability of not being reelected. It’s all very orchestrated and same old GOP crap that’s been pulled before. Part of their ‘emergency’ playbook! She’s such a vial POS, I question her status as a human being!!

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Kearyo's avatar

David, I would like you to review and comment on a video clip I saw today. It was played on BTC. It's a video of Trump and Epstein in the ballroom, a static photo which has been shown all over media, that shows someone walking up behind them and then ducking. I believe NBC captured the video at the time. It seems very clear to me that the man who ducked did NOT want to be on video. It seems really strange to me.

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Cynthia's avatar

David - That little bit on video clickbait titles really spoke to me. On Youtube, there are so many of those misleading titles, I really have gotten to ignoring them and not clicking on their videos. I hope someone decides they are pretty ridiculous and chooses to make them more realistic. Thanks for all you do and all you expose, about clickbait videos and on all the more important stuff. :)

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

I love how Trump assumes any president would be corrupt... because Trump assumes everyone cheats, just like he does in golf. Trump equates an investigation with an attack and completely disregards the facts when he addresses a given investigation. To trump, the investigation is the point of it all. He knows he never has any facts and that courts like facts, so to Trump, the entire point is to create an 'investigation' in order to 'dirty' someone up, so that Trump looks good in comparison, or simply to act as another distraction. Remember Trump's first impeachment? Trump tried to pressure / force the president of Ukraine to 'open an investigation' into Joe and Hunter Biden.

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Gordon Bullivant's avatar

Trump is more frighening by the day. Excellent posts! Thsnk you!

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Russ's avatar

The Prez is an employee of the US Govt. So his official communications should flow thru US govt channels. Instead he uses Tooth Social, his for profit business. He raised hell with Hillary using her email server, anyone see any difference? How does dear leader get away with running his business on the side while on the govt payroll?

Wait, I get it, Prez is just a part time gig. Full time is golfing and tweeting.

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AndyO's avatar

Interesting, the comment about clickbait thumbnails, I have unsubscribed from perfectly capable content creators because I got fed up with what were, in the end, 'fake' headlines and exaggerated narrative.

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Douglas Gilligan's avatar

The story should not be: Epstein, no, wait, Russia, no, wait, Abuse of Power, no, wait...

The Story should be: Convicted Felon Trump's other crimes include...

But there are so very many of them, really it requires organization. otherwise it just confuses people and does not sound credible. Even if you just list all the things he did legally, he comes across like a sleazeball, then include all the things on the shady side he looks disgusting, then include all the crimes that are well documented and court judgements and convictions his profession becomes simply 'criminal', then add his other characteristics: Cheated on each of his wives, CONSTANTLY lies, attacks all the time, acts like a bully, corrupt and corrupts people... and you wonder how the man was not shunned and locked up long ago, until you realize he was born rich and taught by the best organized crime lawyer of the time on how to stay out of jail.

But we do not need to be lawyers, we can know things that are obvious, without apology or using language prosecutors have to use. If he objects to any of this, he can sue and we can see him in court, after 'discovery' where he needs to testify under oath. The facts are on our side and as long as we stick to the facts and simple inferences, then we are being WAY better than Trump acts, constantly accusing everyone without a shred of evidence to support his accusations.

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