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The coup was on TV today. Despite all the warnings and Trump’s predictions, the police stepped aside, and they overran the US Capitol. This is what insurrection and sedition look like.
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In September, Poppy Harlow did real reporting. In her interview of Deputy Press Secretary Morgenstern, she didn’t accept nonsense answers. I think I’m in love.
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We cannot envision a coup happening in America. Trump openly called for his DOJ to arrest of his enemies. We shrugged.
That can’t happen here, we think. This is the path of most failed democracies.
Trump is calling for a coup.
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When Trump sheepishly admitted he and Melania had caught the virus, his tweet said they’d handle it TOGETHER! Now Trump is back to his normal, prancing, Pro-COVID fool, holding super-spreader events. Where’s Melania?
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We’ve been robbed. A debate is supposed to explore difficult and urgent topics in depth. Does America misunderstand debate as a concept? Because we’re doing it wrong. Our recent Presidential Debates have been horror shows, but even the older debates settled for campaign fluff over real answers.
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The New York Times got a copy of Trump’s tax returns. Besides being a tax cheat, Trump has payments of half a billion dollars due in the next few years. That’s why Trump hides behind the Presidency so hard.
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Trump promises violence. That’s no surprise. The President started launching the Republican autocracy four years ago. Every day is another numbing debasement. But promising violence during the election matters.
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Now we know: the official GOP policy is to do nothing about COVID. They tout “herd immunity,” that, at a minimum, means two hundred million Americans getting COVID-19 and suffering the short- and long-term consequences, and millions dying. And even then, herd immunity might not work