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Just saw Trump has gained in polls. How is that possible? Is it because he ranted send the legal Haitians back which his followers cheered? Or his comments about Jewish voters? How about being protector of women? Not to mention his 9 years of disgusting behavior, deplorable rhetoric and Jan. 6. It's all so depressing. I saw a John King interview with a young black woman who said she may vote for Trump because of cryptocurrency!! I've got an idea. If Trump wins Biden can say Trump is dangerous to the nation and Biden will remain in office. If Supreme Court tells him to resign Biden like Andrew Jackson can refuse order. Impeachment would be next, but Republicans in Senate would lack 66 votes. Of course wouldn't happen.

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I suspect the ever-duplicitous GOP game plan is to call back into action the Republican pollsters who got everything wrong in '22 and have done nothing since. They will now produce polls heavily skewed toward Trump, and when he loses he can use these favorable polls to support his claims that he really won in '24.

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Tell me he had Lara Trump singing in the background for his coin grift!

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Are any of the polls telling us anything about how the very small 'population' (120,000 maybe ?) of "undecided voters in the swing states" are going to vote? Is that small population split as evenly as the national population (which is what the national polls do tell us)? How many of the 120,000 undecideds are going to vote? What if half of them decide to NOT vote because they are still so undecided? All the polls are telling us is that the election is going to be decided by the Electoral College vote, which in turn is going to be decided by maybe 100,000 voters across the six swing states - about which the polls I suspect (for technical, data, and logistical reasons) are telling us nothing.

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Re Trump, I sometimes hear the phrase 'quiet quitting". But too many of his voters aren't quitting; they've hoisted his political coffin onto their shoulders and are enjoying a rowdy parade.

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Dropping this here in case others want to do it. I just called State Senator Mike McDonnell from NE to thank him for his position on maintaining the system in NE that has been in place for 30 years. Apparently, Donald Trump is trashing him by name now. I figured he could use some encouragement that we are grateful. Here's his #, if anyone's interested: (402) 471-2710

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Left a message for him last night!

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Love this :)

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Rip up the constitution and write a modern one. America is a broken country and will never change. It is based on the fallacy that all "men" are created equal. That is a load of horseshit. While that phrase isn't in the constitution, it is part of the thinking that has gotten America where it is today. Back when the world was a much more difficult place to live, it made sense for everyone to have grit and determination to "pull themselves up by their bootstraps". But that isn't the world we live in now. Humanity has figured out how to clothe, feed and protect every person on earth. They just don't want to. They want to keep it all for themselves.

The fact that an absolute moron like Trump got anywhere close to power shows how broken the system is. All it took is one person willing to break the norms. Write a new document that says if you want to be president, you must release all your tax returns and undergo a mental and physical exam. If your IQ is lower than your shoe size, you don't get to run. We ain't all equal.

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That sentiment--rewrite the Constitution--is engraved on the walls of the Jefferson Memorial. The reason that it hasn't been seen as necessary is that until this one, courts have treated it as a living document and come down with decisions that reflected the times and took account of the real life consequences of their judgments. This court is a disaster, and no wonder. Many are Trump-appointed, and everything he has a hand in becomes toxic.

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Sep 24·edited Sep 24

Yes, how did a Midsummer Night's Dream end up more like Blue Monday? Maybe it's due to nothing being remotely normal in this election. And we can be excused for taking polls with a pound or two of salt? This seems at least somewhat reasonable. Or maybe I just need to rehab off of the Hopium- hard to say.

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45 is expressing interest in establishing a cryptocurrency and is now minting coins. A copper round, two silver rounds and a gold round. All with his image on the coin. Will this be the new currency for the nation? Will the treasury be necessary any longer?

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Apparently it's in that Project 2025 where it talks about getting rid of the Federal Reserve - Velshi had a segment on it a couple of weeks ago.

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I'd like to see Harris due Trump for defamation and lies as part of the campaign. I'd like to see him further dragged through court for his inexcusable behavior otherwise he's just left unaccountable.

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I like to imagine that all of the states did the same as Nebraska and Maine. What a difference this would make to presidential elections. In addition to 7 swing states, there would be many many swing congressional districts. This would be much closer to true national vote without getting rid of the small-state safeguards built into the constitution. And it wouldn't require a constitutional amendment. https://mamndw.substack.com/p/electing-electors-5833b773fe6d

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I don't see the value of federalism which was certainly due to individual colonies creating the nation. States Rights are of course the cause of the Civil War and discrimination and Jim Crow for many years. The Senate seems undemocratic when Wyoming and California both have two Senators . And the argument that largely populated states would be over represented, but that is where most of the people live duh! Besides each state has it's own government for local issues.

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Yup, it makes sense for such a huge country. Need to work on the state legislatures.

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Don’t lose heart Bill, the women of America will come through for you! As a 71 yo grandmother, I and most of my friends still want our daughters, daughters in law and especially our granddaughters to have all the right we had for 50 years and will vote accordingly! Go Kamala😸

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Bill, please ignore any poll from the NYT, and for that matter anything period from the NYT. They are completely in the tank for Trump and aren't even making a secret of it anymore. His election will be great for clicks and subscriptions and that's all they and the WaPo are interested in. I've canceled my subscriptions to both and spend that money on supporting Substack writers.

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Team Bulwark, dropping this here again. We subscribe because we care very much about winning this election. Please don't just read this, DO THIS.

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PLEASE READ: Team, we all care deeply about this election. We simply must win. Well, the election isn’t Nov 5, it has started. WE WIN OR LOSE THIS NOW, OVER THE NEXT 4 WEEKS THROUGH OCTOBER. So, please don’t just read this, do this. Relational organizing is everything. We don’t all have to get 100 people out to vote, but if we all get 3-5 people out to vote who wouldn’t have otherwise, we can win in a landslide. It is officially go time.

So, TODAY, please:

1) Make a list of everyone you know and I mean everyone you know in the crucial swing states: PA/MI/WI/AZ/NV/GA/NC (think of friends/family/former neighbors who moved there/former co-workers who moved there/people you know who used to live there/old boyfriends/old girlfriends 🙂 ) Pay special attention to any young people you know: we all have our own kids, nieces, nephews, friends we know who have kids, etc. Gen Z can decide this election and we want to use our personal sway with them to ensure they’re participating. We can communicate that they can’t sit this one out and that they should also make sure all their friends are registered and voting.

2) Reach out to every single one of these people through text or preferably phone calls to ensure they’re planning to vote on Day One in their states. Send them this simple link to register to vote if they’re not: www.iwillvote.com VOTING ON DAY ONE can become our mantra. The more we vote early, the more #s we run up that are impossible to overcome. It also allows the Dems to clear their rolls on focus on GOTV w lower propensity voters, LFG!

3) When you reach out, let them know their Day One, which I’ve put together here: DAY ONE VOTING DATES: AZ: Day one is Oct. 9; GA: Day one is Oct 15; NC: Day one is Oct. 17; NV: Day one is Oct 19; MI: Day One is Oct 26; WI: Day one is Oct. 22; PA: Day one was SEP 16 and is rolling by county – this is the most important swing state so let’s hit it hard!!!!

4) When you reach out, tell them to reach out to all of their networks to do the same and to have their networks reach out to their networks.

We want to and have to win. Now is the time to leave it all on the field, as Coach Walz would say. LFG, Team. Let’s win this NOW.

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That trump con - sorry, - coin.

When's he going to get round to selling his aides second hand cars? Or carpet? Lot of rooms in the White House missing the carpet when he left. It wasn't ALL classified docs in those boxes. . .

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Sep 23·edited Sep 24

IN his TV ad, he needs to be sure people see that the con- sorry-coin is mounted on a 2x2" remnant of WH carpet. Each unique little box makes an extra special holiday gift. A profile of DT's head on BOTH sides of the .......coin!! I had forgotten til you mentioned it the sort of desecration his term must have visited upon the the actual physical interior of the WH. 😦

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Loved your reply - further to it - I'm told the Resolute Desk has been replaced by an Ikea copy (unfortunate that the job of constructing it was given to Eric. . .) and pieces of the original are now being hawked as "Shards of The True Cross. . ."

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Instead of this whacko stuff going unnoticed the networks should spend maybe two minutes per day scrolling Trump's "truths" on the screen and recounting the latest whacko stuff he said at his rallies. They could contrast, without comment, Harris and Waltz's activities of the day.

It'd serve the public way better than pretending it's an exciting horse race where the two campaigns are moral equivalents with simple policy differences.

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My wife wonders how a convicted felon can run for the Presidency.

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America is in such a sorry state that given the shenanigans in the US state of Georgia, judging by the headline alone, it is not clear which Georgia.

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