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Ldubs1965's avatar

Has anyone considered that this is all a diversion/distraction? I cannot believe that anyone is that dumb or careless. The arrogance of all of them is staggering but this is just way too convenient.

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Judy Riggenbach's avatar

Actually becase i have known the Trump Trump’s for over 40 yeas i CAN believe these people ARE able to be both that ignorant AND that stupid! trump himself is truly that stupid and these are his buddies.

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Maitexue's avatar

I was thinking the same thing. There are a bunch of pre-schoolers playing “house” in the WH

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Suseeque's avatar

They feel empowered

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Steve Brant's avatar

Thank you for making this point. So much of what the pro-democracy community is doing is REACTING to what Trump / Musk / MAGA does. We must become a PROACTIVE movement... advocate for what we can have not just say what must stop.

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Mary Watson's avatar

I have thought that all along…what is the left hand doing while we’re complaining about the right?!

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Ldubs1965's avatar

Exactly!!

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Radical Left Lunatic's avatar

And where the hell is fElon?

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Alexis's avatar

Rigging more upcoming elections

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Lyn C Hope's avatar

@Radical Left Lunatic Exactly!!

That was my first thought.

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Caroline Newton's avatar

They are holding hearings and questioning them?!

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Kate's avatar

They are that dumb and careless.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Definitely defiant connards Kate!!

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Deb's avatar

And arrogant

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Eileen M. Forbes's avatar

I can tho. Hegseth is a drunk who probably doesn’t understand the whole thing.

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Ldubs1965's avatar

He understands. I’ve seen him on FOX and he gets it.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

They’ve obviously been conversing on the app since they were approved to their cabinet positions… they’re all peerless children in vacuous idiocy! The glee and use of emoji’s provides proof of their ignorance, or defiance of NatSec!!

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Mary Watson's avatar

And why is the press quiet about one of these “players” was in Russia while this message was being sent? Was it sent to determine if Russia can hack our systems? Of course they can, anyone who thinks otherwise has their head in the sand

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

Signals is easy to hack when your group is on the larger side.

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Ldubs1965's avatar

Our leaders only respond, unfortunately. We need to make sure that they understand the importance of being proactive. He’s playing three dimensional chess and we’re playing Connect Four!

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Ldubs1965's avatar

And while we’re focusing on the shiny object, Johnson is working on eliminating district courts!

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Michelle W.'s avatar

And everything else important.

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Michelle W.'s avatar

Every other thing is a distraction with them but this one is a doozy.

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ThoughtRiver's avatar

Perhaps: President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that will require proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms. The move is in an aggressive push to catch and combat voter fraud, which is exceedingly rare but constantly cited by Trump as a reason he lost the 2020 election.

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Michelle W.'s avatar

Under cover of a "push to combat fraud", this ends up discouraging voter registration. People can't find/don't "have time" to order a/another copy of their birth certificates/will do it later, etc. (We need a system like the one in France, where you just go online and order a copy of your birth certificate from the national vital records office, free of charge, and it is mailed to you within days (or you can get an officialized PDF). You can do it from the public library or the mayor's office will help with it if you don't have a computer. Takes about 6 minutes to order.)

In states like Florida, where you can register when you get your driver's license, there isn't so much of a problem, but in states that may not offer that option, it is discouraging and a form of voter suppression. Do they not realize that it does not only affect those who might not vote conservative? Of course not, and they don't care anyway. It's all show and mirrors.

As to "voter identity" and showing proof thereof, why not just issue official voter cards when the person registers? Nobody asks for POI when you vote by mail.

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Robert J. Rei's avatar

If it intended to be a distraction, it will be a costly one for Trump in more than one way. The one thing that seems to be flying under the radar that Trump and his crony cohort cabal are actively trying to suppress is well discussed in the following linked to newsletter:

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You probably remember when Donald Trump first “joked” about annexing Canada.

You might recall the headlines when he said the U.S. should seize Greenland—or when he first floated renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America.”

But do you remember what Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report concluded that very same day?

That Trump had engaged in criminal efforts to overturn the 2020 election—and that the only reason he wasn’t facing trial was because he won the presidency again.

Most people don’t remember. And that’s not their fault.

They buried it because they knew just how dangerous the truth was.

But there’s another report—the one Trump is fighting even harder to suppress. The one you probably haven’t heard about yet.

[(<https://criticalresistance.substack.com/p/buried-the-trump-report-you-were>)]

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Celest Turner Hall's avatar

Yes but unfortunately it is still believable

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Gretchen  Cervantez's avatar

I wondered the same. It’s just too convenient. Yet, one does have to pause and think, but why? What are they trying to distract from 🤔

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A wrens view's avatar

Is this normal statecraft to 'charge allies' the repeat to 'remunerate' just seems like ethical malpractice

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Teach84's avatar

No, they really are that dumb and careless.

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