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People keep asking that question. How dumb do they think you are? They think we are dumb as rocks. But they do so at their peril.

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“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.” PT Barnum

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Robinson’s previous job before being elected Lt. Governor of North Carolina?

Mark worked for a furniture manufacturer.

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Someone should check Robinson's government devices for porn. Most places there are pretty serious penalties for downloading porn to a government computer or phone.

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Mike DeWine needs to grow a pair, locate his spine and stand up for his citizens.

Isn’t this Vance’s district?

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He's got 8 kids. I think he has a pair. But, seriously, DeWine is a one-issue voter--he is very much against abortion which is why he continues to support Trump/Vance despite their lies and rabble-rousing.

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While it's commendable that Governor Mike DeWine denounced the words of Trump and JD Vance, it's appalling that he still calls himself a supporter knowing that this type of hateful rhetoric, division, and sowing of political violence is what their entire campaign is about. There is nothing "conservative" about the political motivations of either Trump or Vance. It's about time actual conservatives and Eisenhower Republicans speak out against all the lies promoted by MAGA, lest they hijack the party even more.

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Didn't Trump mean that Robinson was "Martin Lucifer Koon" on steroids?

We generally think about ticket splitters going for Harris at the top and for GOP down ballot... so there might be Trumpian voters voting for Trump at the top and against Republicans down ballot.

Either way Democrats gain some advantage.

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That essay was brilliant Bill! Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.

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His voters won’t notice. The Republican legislature is whittling away at the right to vote, waiting to file lawsuits until nothing can be done when the Republican supreme court does whatever the legislature wants. Republicans have nothing but disdain for the people NC they only want enough to vote to elect them

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Playing the citizenry as "dumb" is the very -not -new -GOP Zeitgeist. Sorry, but they're not wrong. This is evidenced by the staying power of the Sick Felon and his sycophants. Get away with as much as you can, right? None of them ever dreamed it possible until the Orange Member of the Lucky Sperm Club told them so. Yeah, Bill it's certainly a sophisticated theory you lay out but who is to gain from your acumen? There is no nice way of disseminating the truth about an over fed and entitled citizenry who feel they've been wronged somehow, even though it's their own choices that rule their day.

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Can we please see those pictures of trump with Jeffrey Epstein again?

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Yow. When I was a kid, my Dad referred to “Martin Lucifer Coon.” Now I find out that in addition to being a racist, he was also a plagiarist.

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It is a shock - I know. My father never said a racist word in front of me - then when I was 20, he said he was voting for George Wallace. I was speechless for a while - then when we discussed it, he apologized for voting for the guy. But, he not had his DNA done as that was 1968. If he had it done, he would have discovered his has Persian DNA, African DNA, and Chinese DNA, as well as his European Caucasian DNA. I bet his ideas might have been different then at that point.

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Team Harris! The election has begun. VIRGINIA, MINNESOTA, and SOUTH DAKOTA start voting TODAY! We want to win this thing in October! Running up early numbers is crucial: it's hard to overcome, and it lets the Dems clear their rolls to focus on lower propensity voters.

So, please please think through EVERYONE you know in Virginia, Minnesota, and South Dakota and get them to submit their ballot TODAY. And tell them to tell all their friends, family, and neighbors in those states to do the same and to keep spreading the word.

Please spread this far and wide with your networks! It has BEGUN. This is how we win, LFG!!!

#voteondayone #LFG

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Fellow phone-bankers listen up! Time to double our call numbers and recruit friends and family to help.

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Yes, please join in phonebanking, everyone! My friends and I are doing this twice a week! The Harris campaign has dozens of group Zoom sessions for this per week, this is how we win! I figure, if Kamala has the guts to step up for that debate under that tremendous pressure, the least we can do is pound those phones for her, LFG!

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Mark Robinson Bad News AND Matt Gaetz Bad News....on the same day?????????????????????

First off, I'm tingly in the no-no area. Second, this is more evidence to show that the Republican Party has a Republican voter problem...deficient voters put these people on ballots. We can talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Bimbo-bert and Paul Gosar all day, but they did not magically put themselves into office. It is your Republican uncle who makes unfunny gay jokes or uses the word "Cans" to describe certain groups who did that. It's that the musclebound inked up cop who lives across the street who has the "Vote Felon" sticker with a Trump logo on the rear window of his all black lifted Ford truck. It's the self-righteous self-important frosted blonde mom who demands the library at school pull every single Toni Morrison book off of the shelves yet aggressively bullies school officials to cater to her belligerent moron son who mouths off in class, never does his assignments and has physically threatened teachers.

Republicans, you have a voter problem.

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Of course they'll turn on Robinson but not Trump. Is this even debatable?

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"A Biden spokesman clarified that what Biden had meant to say was that he’d never spoken to Powell about interest rates. Probably so! But it’s worth remembering that, in a universe where Biden never dropped out, we’d still be living in a presidential contest driven by one or two of these a week."

Sure, but nothing Biden would ever say even comes close to the extended incoherence coming out of Trump every day. another example of the asymmetry we deal with.

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So...you're saying they're *not* eating cats? There weren't airports during the revolutionary war? Western liberalism *doesn't* refer to California's social policies? Welp - looks like my fainting couch is finally going to get some use.

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