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Those fucking retarded reps really want to destroy everything. All their actions are to divide the country more and more. Thay want a civil war. They will steal this election by all means possible. Vote blue and screw them all. Send von trump to jail until he rots. Thank you!

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Couldn't have said it better myself.

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I have no words. Who are these people? May they all crawl back under their rocks when Harris/Walz are elected and inaugurated.

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It really would be better if we could get them to stay out from under their rocks & make the extraordinary effort to open their eyes. If they go back under those rocks they will multiply & come out again & again more hate-filled than ever.

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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Louis Brandeis.

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If I've read this correctly, "In the case of Kamala Harris, their argument appears to go, she suffers from a double-whammy: neither of her parents were American citizens when she was born, and her father was Black, and therefore even if he were to become an American citizen, his citizenship would be illegitimate" I continue to wonder why any person of color would ever vote for the party that negates their legitimacy as American citizens, let alone as human beings. The R's in question are so filled with hate, so filled with venom that they will stoop to the lowest level possible to turn America into a white christian nation. How in the name of anything holy can these 🐍s iin the grass gain any traction at all.

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I like that you didn't capitalize christian, as even Jesus would not forgive them.

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Racism writ large. I'm ashamed to share citizenship in this great country with putrid meat-bags like these execrable sociopaths.

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Do any of you remember the old saying that used to be batted around about 60 years ago or so, the saying goes something along the lines of: "Save your Confederate money, the South will rise again."?

Seems that people back then might have been on to something, unfortunately.

I'm sure many of you folks in this forum remember watching the race riots, the burning sections of cities, the brutal treatment of people fighting for the right to "BE" an American, not 3/5 of an American. A person with all the benefits this country has to offer. Well, it looks like at the very least 1/2 the country wants the other 1/2 to go to the back of the bus!

I'm disgusted with what I am seeing. People of color, all women, regardless of race, people believing in something other than the Christofascist religion supported by these right wing thugs, all of these people/citizens are at risk if trump takes the presidency.

During Hitler's rise & rule he kept getting more & more brutal, more & more demented but his loyal followers marched right into the demise of their country because of the lies he told & sold them. Let's hope we can put the brakes on this train & pull back from the brink.

Vote Democratic up & down the ticket!

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Return to: I think that you need to edit your comment because here:

"I 'm disgusted with what I am seeing. People of color, all women, regardless of race, people believing in something other than the Christofascist religion supported by these right wing "thugs,"

What you are saying is that people of color, all women, regardless of race SHOULD believe in the Christofacist religion.

I have always been amazed and dumbstruck by blacks being Christians. The religion foisted on them by their owners, because it teaches them to be satisifed being poor and to obey their masters , Ephesians 6:5 and Colossians 3:22

Elijah Mohammad created the Nation of Islam to reject and escape the slave masters religion, but it was Muslims in Africa who captured, rounded up their ancestors and sold them to the Portuguese and Spanish.

Apparently people need to believe in the supernatural, so believe in something compatible with your culture.

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I am going to go off topic again, slightly. I just received email from Independent Media Institute, one feature article wa Harris’s Failed Opportunity? by Sonali Kohlhatkar.

Now I really like Sonai, but I had to send her an email, because Progressives are so full of themselves, their self righteousness, their ideology, their humanity and morality that have been providing grist for the right wing mill for ages, like trying to shame people for saying homeless instead of unhoused, and telling people that there is no such thing as an illegal immigrant. True or not, they are just adding grist to the right wing mill, but what the heck, better to tp go down as a martyr rather than change the system.

Here is what Sonali and the left are doing, along with those that have an affection for HAMAS. They are feeding the right, and providing grist for the mill that wants to take down Kamala and reinstall Trump.

Tactically and strategically stupid, pure stupidity. Hold your friggin fire until after Nov 5th, then pour it on, rally, demonstrate, flood the zone with propaganda, but for the sake of your IHSus Christo, wait till she gets sworn in, elsewise you'll be watching Trump being sworn in again.

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Also so many of the brown skin people who were conquered by the Christians have adopted Christianity? They're weird!

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Well Jesus was a brown skinned person, (if he had in fact existed), not the blue eyed Aryan;

https://freegrace.in/a-i-reveals-what-jesus-looked-like/

https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35120965

And what about Jesus's facial features? They were Jewish. That Jesus was a Jew (or Judaean) is certain in that it is found repeated in diverse literature, including in the letters of Paul. And, as the Letter to the Hebrews states: "It is clear that our Lord was descended from Judah." So how do we imagine a Jew at this time, a man "about 30 years of age when he began," according to Luke chapter 3?

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South America was not Christian and neither was Hawaii until the missionaries got there including the American Indians who are a lot of them are anyway Christians nowadays. I agree Jesus was brown skinned if he was real but we know that immaculate conception is delusional at best.

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There is only one possible gender from parthenogenesis (virgin birth) and that is female and a clone at that.

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The arguments using the Dredd Scott case are are fallacious. The 13th and 14th amendments repeled the ruling.

The 13th Amendment ended slavery. Therefore no human in the United States can be another person's property.

The 14th Amendment section 1 says:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside."

Section 2 repealed the three-fifths. "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. "

Conservative Republicans, to keep undocumented residents from having children who are automatic citizens at birth, have advocated for the repeal of section 1, may want to repeal the entire amendment, will want to keep the second half of section 1, because that portion of the Amendment was used by the Supreme Court in Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific , which made corporations people, thus in Citizens United, gave corporations the right to flood political campaigns with money.

Thus, Kamala Harris is a citizen of the United States and can run for president. The only devil is the Supreme Court where six Taneys currently play fast and loose with the Constitution.

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As I have said before, the impulse to originalism and textualism in the current Court majority is to the Constitution as it was before the Republican majority amended it after the Civil War. This is the clearest proof that today’s GOP is standing in the footwear of yesterday’s Democratic Party, the party of the Old South, the KKK, etc.

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The Republican party is officially a cabal of pathetic, deranged, small minds.

Every democratic politician needs to start wearing tan suits, and only tan suits, just to mess with the Republicans’ heads.

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More garbage from the let’s go back to the often shameful history of our country as the law of the land from the so-called originalist minority. I’d call them fringe but you know that in his heart of hearts Trump believes in this garbage. And with the Cult Party, if Trump says it is so, then it shall be so. The Rethugs have already proposed using the Comstock Act as the vehicle to turn women into chattel. Believe they are serious when they float this idea also. They’ll deflect when called on it, but if they regain power this will surely be on their agenda. Just when you think there is no bottom with this despicable crowd, the elevator descends another floor

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If you look at Federal Taxes Paid versus Federal Spending Received, currently Utah would be the only Red State that pays more in Federal Taxes than they receive in Federal Spending. ALL other Red States, including Florida and Texas, receive more Federal Spending than they pay in Federal Taxes. Over 40 years of data from the Tax Foundation, 1981 thru 2005, Pew Trust and Rockefeller Institute, with current data from 2015 thru 2022. Red states are Subsidized states, Welfare states. For the Red states with no history whatsoever of receiving less spending than they pay in taxes, and there are plenty of those, you might even call them Socialist states.

9 states have consistently paid more Federal Taxes than than they receive in Federal Spending. Those would be California, the largest by a long shot, Washington, Colorado, Minnesota, Illinois, New York, the second largest, Massachusetts, New Jersey, the state that's gotten screwed the most, and Connecticut. ALL Blue States. If you look at what these states give up on a Per Capita basis, you might say Connecticut gets screwed the most.

For 2022, the worst of the Red Welfare states was Kentucky, as it has been for several years now, getting $2.47 in Federal Spending for every dollar paid. West Virginia was next at $2.24. After that, Mississippi, $2.10, and Alabama at $1.96. The bottom 4 currently, with most of the other Red Staes close behind.

The two 'Whitest' states in the country are West Virginia and Kentucky. According to White Supremacist 'theory', West Virginia and Kentucky should be the 2 most successful states in the U.S. Unfortunately for them, the data seems to indicate the opposite. They are the two worst states in the country, and have been in that spot for decades in the case of West Virginia. Curious what 'White Supremacists' see as 'supreme' about themselves as all their 'states', as it were, are the epitome of failure. You know how Welfare creates that 'Culture of Dependency', at least according to Republicans, so that must be what's going on with all the Welfare states. Mired in a 'Culture of Dependency'. So what the fuck is so 'superior' about that?

My state, California, is the most diverse state in the country. Not really a contest. We're also the most successful state since World War II, with the 5th largest economy in the world. In 2022, we paid $696.8 billion in Federal Taxes, while receiving $578.3 in Federal Spending. Doing the math, we coughed up $118.5 Billion to pay for a bunch of morons who call them selves Americans. Replacement theory? From the looks of things over the last 40+ years, I'm all for it. I've been paying for these idiots all my tax paying life. All their 'hard work', such as it is, has made them last in everything, education, health care, innovation, creativity, productivity, etc. There's nothing whatsoever 'supreme' about these people. Personally, replacement theory may be the only hope for these states turning themselves around, something that started around 1865 when they no longer had 'free labor'.

Blue States are the successful states. Blue States are better at the economy, even with the billions of dollars Blue States have to cough up each year to pay for the Red States. Blues States have high taxes. They have to make up for the billions they give away somehow, no?

It's been this way for decades. 159 years maybe. Red States are also the bastion of Christian Nationalists. No difference from White Supremacists, Chronic Failures. Apparently, just because someone may be a 'Good Christian' doesn't mean they can do shit.

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Well, I have to jump on again this morning, here in California.

Please forgive me for posting a type of rant about a few things not directly connected to today's post.

Like I said, I'm here in California, the most populous state in the country. You know we have the biggest population of all the states. We have the World's 5th largest economy, the WORLD'S 5th largest economy, not in the US. And while I really mean no offense to "battleground states" it is maddening to live here & watch states with much smaller economies & populations get all the news coverage. Yes, we are usually a safe blue wall state it's infuriating to provide so much fruits, nuts & some veggies to the entire country to sit here & watch states that will determine the presidency with just a few thousand votes. Damn & "F" the Electoral College. It's why we have the problems we have here!

Second rant:

JD Vance feels sorry for Kamala Harris because she doesn't know what she stands for!!! Really?! Oh, JD, you are such a pathetic excuse for a human. The colleges you attended should demand those diplomas & degrees back! You are the one that doesn't know what you want. It all depends on which way the political winds are blowing!!! You do know if trump loses AGAIN he'll throw you right under that bus!!!

I guess I could on but you have things to do & I should get my ass in gear as well.

Vote Democratic up & down the ticket!!

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Thanks for the rant normalcy. Totally agree. I appreciate off topic rants, so long as we are told they are off topic.

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It sounds like JD Vance is just doing some more right-wing projecting!

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Fellow Californian here. Amen.

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Today's corrupt, accountable to nobody SCOTUS gave Trump frickin' IMMUNITY, much to the surprise of everybody.

If SCOTUS grants this restriction, be afraid.

Be VERY afraid.

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So very ugly! So sad.

However! “We” greatly outnumber “them”! And we are and will win!

Absolutely!👍

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Clearly, the GOP has — as the idiom goes — The GOP has Lost the Plot.

Or, perhaps their Real Plot is to make SLAVERY SEXY, again.

These Sick F––ks need to take Kenny Rogers' advice in his song "The Gambler," to wit :

HOLD. FOLD. WALK AWAY. RUN ( I'd Run Towards Sanity, were I them !!!)

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Perhaps

Guantanamo

Would be an

Appropriate swamp for these creatures’

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There is also some information laundering of this idea through the Hoover Institute (https://www.hoover.org/research/de-population-bomb).

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Uncommon bullshit.

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Yep!

I have been told that this institute does, in effect, brain transplants. Seems accurate!

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WTF Doug are you for real?

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That was a real comment from a person who had studied at the Institute HTG!

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Holy shit. I've heard of brain transplants on dogs the whole head not just the brain. Brain only is too tricky

Out of curiosity I googled and got this

umans. In 2015, neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced that he could soon perform the first human head transplant, which would involve grafting a person's head onto another person's neck and shoulders. However, as of March 2024, this procedure has only been performed on cadavers.

A head transplant would involve surgically removing the head of a person with a terminal illness and connecting their nerves, blood vessels, muscles, and other structures to those of a deceased donor. The goal of a head transplant would be to save the lives of people who have healthy brains and heads but are suffering from terminal diseases. However, there are many surgical, ethical, psychosocial, and immunologic challenges associated with this procedure. Some say that transferring a brain without losing individuality may not be technologically possible in the foreseeable future.

Another type of brain transplant is a brain cell transplant, which has been used in research studies to treat conditions like Parkinson's disease, stroke, MS, and head trauma. These transplants can be used to restore damaged cell populations, provide a new source of a product needed to regain function, or test hypotheses.

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It was a perjorative comment by the speaker. His literal words were something like "at the H Institute, they take your brain out and replace it with a H Brain." The connotation was that the place is engaging in brainwashing.

Somethings that come out this:

• No need for government and regulation.

• Markets are the perfect answer to all problems.

• Etc.

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Steve Martin's "Man with two brains" comes to mind. The jar with the brain said, "a b normal.

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Dr Doug, The Depopulation bomb has nothing to do with the subject at hand

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What! No claims that she is an anchor-baby?

This is so damn stupid and confusing, it's no wonder that this claim has been given no air time. Guess these Republicans will have to do all their own DIRTY WORK---the media probably won't do it for them this time.

My big question is will Trump start spouting this crap? If he does, he will not be able to explain it. The birth certificate was easy in comparison.

The angel on one shoulder wants this "issue" to fizzle and Trump to not mention it. The devil on the other side wants to see Vice President Harris and Governor Walz go to town on him if he does!

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Have to add that Kamala Harris probably has the most accomplished parents of anyone that has ever run for President. She only surpassed them by becoming Vice President. It might not have been easy for this family that separated, but they have done some real good in the world!

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