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Well, it's Halloween and I have concepts of a costume.

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I genuinely don't understand how they plan on running a society.

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Why isn't anyone talking about Elon's plan to tank the economy? Seriously, I just watched Velshi talking about how voters are still worried about the economy, yet, nobody seems to be putting this story out in front of them.

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Musk's plan: Everyone, except Trump's Pets, works til they drop dead, and he gets all the money he's "saving".

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And little to no discussion of what would happen to the economy with 10 - 20% tariffs on all imported goods, and 60% or more for imports from China.

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Except for the crappy items Trump sells that are made in China.

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I think we need to get Biden to come out and comment on this, because he'll probably make some sort of flub and the media will go nuts and actually cover it.

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This goes along with the way they banned abortion. They had no consideration for the consequences of the people who aren’t them.

Let Them Eat Cake, right Elon?

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Trump's campaign can't be relied upon to stick to any statement or specific proposal. If elected it will be a "whole new ballgame."

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Musk, RFKjr, and MAGA Mike are sure feeling empowered. Trump needs to stop playing dress up and step up with his spanking paddle. He can pretend those bad boys are girls.

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And yet, it's a coin flip as to who will win Tuesday. Either way, the vast voters will never hear these things because they are in a media bubble or the mainstream media can't be bothered to mention it. Even if they did hear them, they're OK with it because "we have to burn it all down to get back to the real America."

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Yesterday, somebody told me they had never heard of Ruby Freeman and Shay Moss, and how Giuliani destroyed their lives on Trump's behalf over a little box of tictacs.

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And while the Trump campaign is loudly shouting that they plan to make life worse for everyone if they're elected, the media is obsessed with whether Biden meant to put an apostrophe in "supporters" while on a Zoom call.

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Great Closing Messages: No Obamacare, Fruitcake in charge of public health, and economic and market collapse via head oligarch, Elon Musk. If Trump is elected, we deserve what we get.

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Close to half of us anyway.

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"....they will turn over the top health agencies to one of the country’s leading vaccine skeptics..."

Please note that this is the colloquial definition of "skeptic." In the technical sense, a skeptic merely requires evidence to accept a claim, and if the evidence is sufficient, they accept the claim. So technically I am a vaccine "skeptic," and given all the evidence, I accept that their benefit greatly outweighs the risks. These people are not "skeptics" but "peddlers of irrational denial." No evidence is ever enough for them to admit the facts, and no evidence is ever necessary for them to make claims that feed their radical, paranoid authoritarian agenda. That is the exact opposite of "skepticism."

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Trump will a) crash the economy b) increase mortality c) start a trade war d) look the other way as Russia incorporates Ukraine e) abandon Taiwan f) deport our neighbors [y'all can add to the list]. A nightmare if he wins.

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Pull 11 million people out of their homes and workplaces and interning them in camps for whatever length of time it takes to establish each person’s country of national origin, after which they can be deported.

Appoint at least 2 conservative Supreme Court justices who are in their 40’s.

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Get Alito and Thomas to retire and add two very young, very conservative judges to the Supreme Court.

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Team Trump's plan for America is nothing more than a great big bank heist. What Trump and his cronies do not steal, they will burn down.

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It’s basic autocracy. Keep the rubes fighting, rob the country blind, enrich your friends, set up barriers so it’s nigh impossible to overturn or remove you from power.

Oh if it gets far enough you can go full totalitarian, so long as your propaganda apparatus is strong.

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Trump, the garbage man... who the heck greenlit that one ... "President Garbage... I mean Trump..."

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