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I confess to being a slow reader and I’m only halfway through Rachel Maddow’s PREQUEL, her laying out the horrifying facts of the level of fascism in America prior to and right up to Hitler declaring war on the USA, following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. The intense propaganda campaign initiated by Germany with the support of the far right to prevent American involvement in the conflict in Europe was staggering. One aspect of the strategy was exploiting divisions in society, inciting conflicts, through bigotry and racism, is being repeated now by Putin’s subversive influences, enabled by his puppet Trump and his GOP enablers. It’s a tried and tested tactic documented in the WW2 campaign of misinformation and the more recent Jan 6th coup attempt. It’s unquestionably the most terrifying attack on democracy for decades. The only antidote is to vote blue. 💙

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The hypocrisy is insane! I’m so fed up with the bias and how they keep giving him free passes when he doesn’t deserve them! Dear Leader and his supporters basically are garbage at this point, I really feel that supporting him this far in shows a lack of conscience, he’s misogynistic, racist, a lying pig, a never ending dumpster fire, I mean, how is it not obvious? It’s been obvious to me since before 2016 that he’s scum, I didn’t even need to live in New York to know it, I just took one look at him and got him with “he’s a total creep” vibes. I’m so scared about the election, I’m terrified he’ll win or cheat somehow. It’s also insane to me the similarities between now and the 1930’s when Hitler was trying to take power, he uses the same rhetoric as Hitler did, I just can’t wrap my head around how anyone can support such hate and divisive behavior. I’m voting blue all the way! Thank you for this piece, the cartoons and posts were spot on! 💙🥰🥰🥰 HARRIS/WALZ 2024!

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>Dear Leader and his supporters basically are garbage at this point,

>I really feel that supporting him this far in shows a lack of conscience

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I agree!

Republicans consider greed a virtue and idolize selfishness. No wonder that party attracts sociopaths and the worst of the worst people.

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It’s the FINAL COUNTDOWN. Harris / Walz 2024 🥁

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Garbage with orange skin to match his Hi-Viz as he plays around, on the campaign trail.

Notice how he's now saying he didn't know who that "Comedian" and how they didn't know what he was going to say, yet he was reading his "joke" from the teleprompter!

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He was sitting in the wrong end of the garbage truck and was was missing his "great friend" farve for company!

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THE best Lincoln Project ad ever!

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Well done, Lincoln Project. This one’s perfect!

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Part of their blame the others for doing their horrors. This one their too blinded by greed to even notice they're doing lol

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TICK TOCK TICK TOCK TIME IS ALMOST UP FOR little orange KOCK!

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Thank you, Lincoln Project! Way to show the mid-moderates how to advance, mitts off, if you want to save democracy.

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Happy Halloween to you All and will reStack ASAP 👀💯👻👍🎃

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Trump is garbage as well as all of his MAGA acolytes in Congress and every level of government! Let’s take out the trash on November 5, 2024! VOTE BLUE!!!💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

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Growing up with it doesn't mean you turn into it. I'm an example. It's a certain disposition you're born with. There are good studies on this.

Below ten years old, I would parrot the awful racist things said by my family, but my best friend at the time had her fireman dad shot dead from sniper fire in the Newark riots. One day I repeated my dad's words to her about black people, and she said, "well if anyone has the right to feel that way about black people, it's me. And I don't."

We were in fourth grade and I felt so ashamed. I questioned in that moment why I was saying any of this shit. And from that point on, to my father's horror, I changed. My sister, too, is a liberal.

So those kids might be just fine. Conversely, my cousin, who comes from a huge Democratic family (12 siblings, all grown know) gave birth to a Maga son, to the horror of them all. It's like being born gay or not gay. The political mindset is still trying to be understood from a psychiatric point of view.

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That’s one of my most powerful memories from childhood. It’s one of those snapshot memories, where you remember exactly where you were standing when the shift in you occurred. Jane and I were in the parking lot of a Newark Catholic grammar school, which doubled as our lunchtime playground. I remember the direction each of us was facing, I remember the time of day, but more than anything, I remember the heaviness I felt inside when she said that…the sadness.

Unfortunately, Jane did not do well after that…after the traumatic and violent death of her dad. He actually had been on a ladder trying to rescue someone from a burning window when he was shot in the back.

I tend to think in hindsight that it was just a stray bullet that hit him, as why would a neighborhood person, sniper or not, shoot an unarmed firefighter in the back when he was trying to save someone you most likely knew? It never made much sense to me, despite the adults’ insistence that a black sharpshooter killed the father of my best friend.

After that, Jane went into a type of depression where she would go completely dark, where one minute we were both kids having fun, and the next she would go quiet and blank, not saying a word. Even if I spoke to her with all the love I could muster, she wouldn’t speak until she was ready to come out of it.

I remember this with tears in my eyes, as it was unbearable for me. Maybe for her, too, as I still had my own fireman dad. Despite his racism, the loving part of him loved Jane as much as I did, and would bring her along with us on family vacations, as her dad was MY dad’s best friend. But my 10-year-old self found it just too painful after awhile, believing that she just didn’t love me anymore instead of understanding that far greater forces were at play, and that her depression had nothing really to do with me at all.

I lost all touch with her after grammar school, seeing her once in a local bar when we were in our twenties. I don’t recall us saying much to each other. My last image of her was that she was talking to a friend, and she was smiling.

Thank you for such loving and understanding feedback.

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