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The Trump team plans to use the DPR to steal everything from everybody

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I assume in the beautiful chart you drew, you meant to say "Make line go from High to Low" and not the opposite?

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I love the charts on this - I literally generated similar ones for my municipal dems meeting… makes me feel pretty cool to be working with the same fancy analytical tools as JVL (ie SnagIt 😂).

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So it would seem we all need to unlike Trump? Is it that simple?

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So the thugs are out to round up immigrants in the name of public safety and trump just released 1600 violent criminals to roam the streets

Really?

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Seems pretty clear. Given the leaderless, rudderless state of the Dems right now, "we the people" should all take it upon ourselves to post or repost or tweet or retweet one of these items every fricking day. JVL - can the Bulwark post suitable material on all platforms, starting now??

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I appreciate the suggestions and am happy to post videos and be loud. Thanks!

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Regarding punishment for Ulrich: a little parable.

A couple of kids snuck one of Grampa's nasty old see-gars and took turns smoking it out behind the barn. Pops caught'em red-handed and somewhat green in the gills. "You boys wanna smoke tobacco? Here take the rest." He made the miscreants smoke all of the cigars, one by one, until they began to puke. They never wanted to try smoking again.

The lesson: a fit punishment would be to take this Ulrich character out to the back yard of the prison and make him consume an entire package of the poison he'd been peddling. Who knows, maybe he'll puke it up and survive (but maybe not). Old-time justice!

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You got it, JVL. No more playing around. From an earlier post:

A general statement:

At a minimum, in reporting on The Donald, the "free" press should first state that the President elect is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist. Then give the Trump delusional blabber and/or the media opinion. The last sentence should re emphasize the first sentence that The Donald is a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.

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JVL - Thanks for writing and pointing out some ways to draw attention to Trump's actions like the records of people whom he pardoned.

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This: Video of Dempsey ought to be everywhere. He should be the face of these pardons. Normie voters should not be able to hear the words “Trump” and “pardons” without picturing this scumbag’s face.

And this: Hang this guy—hang all of these guys—around Trump’s neck like a garlic necklace.

And if that doesn’t work, then find something that does. You have one job: Make line go from low to high.

Do any Dem leaders get this?

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Thanks JVL. Every Democrat in office needs to read this, so they can act like the opposition instead of say, saving the Republicans from their own shutdown, or glowing about how they signed the Republican's immigration bill.

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It would be nice to have a web site you can trust that does hardhitting short reporting on these horrid things. Like resending the medical laws or Silk Road pardon and Trump's advocating for killing drug dealers. Or maybe an internet feed.

It would be helpful for it to not have comments just the reports. By not having the comments I would hope people would take the info and go to their groups on the web or live and discuss the information.

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Went to look on CNN to see what types of stories they were doing about the Jan 6 felons. They are doing fluff interview pieces with grandmothers. What they should be doing is profiling the most violent and coupling it with the video that got them arrested and convicted.

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I heard on Meidas news that Russia and China made a pact while Trump was giving his inaugural speech, and that Trump has delegated ending the war in Ukraine to Xi. I would really like to hear more about that.

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LOVE THE CHARTS

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