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Gollum 😂. Nice, Sarah! I’m not big into name calling, this is wayyy better than Sleepy Joe. I’m pretty convinced having adjectives to associate people with seems petty to most, but it helps all people, especially the Cletuses of the world, (thanks JVL, this is a very helpful one, too) to remember who’s who and how they should feel about them.

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"Data republican' is a ketamine addled oxymoron. Apartheid fElon has overstayed his welcome in this country. We will not get used to being shadow governed by thieves

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Musk is both a deep state agent and a Russian agent, as is Trump. According to Lucian Truscott, Trump sold out the Ukraine to Russia.

https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/what-the-fuck-is-going-on?r=f0qfn&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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And a Chinese agent to boot

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Of course, but that is not the agency to which he sold the Ukraine. That is what he is selling the US to.

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We've already tried sharing sensible rebuttals with the voters, and it didn't help. The burned hand will have to teach now. And unfortunately even when the lesson has been learned, the burn may not have healed all the way, but left damage.

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Sad, but true.

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Yes, thank you, Sarah! It's all ridiculous!

Have you explored the DOGE website, which may as well be government-supported X?

Just a little digging and you come to all sorts ludicrous "analyses" , such as the article supported by the Competitive Enterprise Institute, presenting the "Unconstitutionality Index" - which compares # of regulations per law passed by Congress. These are the folks who want to do away with regulations -but this index is a meaningless value, because e.g., if the law says clean up the air, relevant agencies must figure out ways (regulations) to make that happen! It's not unconstitutional, but an INDEX sure makes it seem like sophisticated research!

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Thank you!!

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Elon Musk will overhaul the FAA. He will replace air traffic controllers with AI and there may be some glitches along the way. Hopefully the casualties will be minimal.

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Musk - Move fast and break things.

Trump - There's risks to everything.

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Thank you for this expose of "taxpayer abuse" that extends also to those doing so much finger pointing. Evidently, there's enough hypocrisy to go around. It's interesting that Elon owes an enormous amount of his wealth to government deals. But now that he's almost a trillionaire, he's ready to arm wrestle that piggy bank into something that could be drowned in a bathtub.

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Grover would be proud.

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I’m disappointed that it took so long for decent people to start pointing out how MUSK, Trump, and their accolades have been milking us taxpayers for tons of money. The only reason Trump is finding financial largesse today is because of all his grifting during the last 8+ Years!

Today’s spineless, elected REPUBLICANS voted to put Gabbard in charge of intelligence! ELECTED REPUBLICANS now own any future demise of our American democracy!

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Brilliant, succinct, indispensable. Sarah blasts it out of the park again.

Facts will never persuade the kool-aid-drunk base, but they might start chipping in at the electability of vulnerable republicans. Every one of them lacks all measures of integrity, but not one will ever run short of self-interest.

Meantime, let's blanket localities with Elon the Welfare Queen billboards, next to his pocketed US taxpayer dollars: specified, with all the commas. Let's start with the farming communities whose goods are now, without the market pathways provided by USAID, starting to wake up.

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Well I shared this on facebook, I can't make people read the truth, all I can do is provide it. Projection has been the way of republicans for years. They have been just flat out making up lies since 2010.

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Maybe JVL will loan me his Van Gogh picture. Normally, I'm optimistic, but we're getting carpet bombed by thieves.

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We need to flee Facebook and Twitter en masse and head over to Bluesky!!!!!! It will be terribly inconvenient but worth it if it puts a dent in the billionaires’ embracement of the MUSK /Trump dictatorship!

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I like BlueSky a lot. Far more intelligent and civil.

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Made a comment on a Judicial Watch post on Facebook today. Judicial Watch was suing the government for the entire interview between Biden his federal interoclutator whose name skips me at the moment so they can show the world that Biden has been aflicted with dementia his entire 4 years of presidency. My comment was that Biden does not have dementia. And I was loaded upon with screaming right wingers denying my remark. We are cursed with people who view right wing media and believe everything they see or hear. But Biden does not have dementia.

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Biden's physical health declined badly, especially his last year in office. But his mind remained sharp. He brokered the Israeli cease fire after the election.

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When "Data Republican" wrote "This is a tool!", they must've been looking at their reflection in their computer screen. Truer words were never spoken by a MAGAt.

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As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

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A GREAT piece. I only wish more people would explain and expose the complete hours s*** being touted by Trump on down on a daily basis. I understand that it is virtually impossible to fact check and call BS in real time to this stuff, but responding to these written messages of nonsense is vitally important. Thanks Sarah, for your clear and compelling response.

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Just because Republicans do it doesn't make it wrong when Democrats do.

The Republicans don't have to follow laws, so rules don't even exist. There is only one rule: Republicans can do anything they want, Democrats are always illegal. Stop us if you can.

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