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Heard that the business folk Trump met in DC were not impressed with his program-and especially the complete lack of details. But then again the other guy wants to raise their taxes. Maybe it will be some other guy whose business goes down the Trump drain of looney.

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Businesses like stability and systems they can manage. I suspect that they're not so into a pure "might makes right" approach that MAGA seems to think is a winner. One thing that Trump may not be taking into account is those CEOs were likely very wealthy (generationally so) before he came along. They know how to bend the government to their will and I don't think they will be into joining a pack of leopard on its face eating journey. They may not like higher taxes, but they've survived it before. They know that all bets are off if Trump goes full authoritarian (which we know he will if he wins).

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There are many reasons why I’m glad I’m not Mitch McConnell. The biggest one is that I don’t have to look in the mirror every morning and see the coward who allowed the current travesty (and tragedy) to occur in our politics. That would be hard to live with.

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Mitch McConnell, known as Dr. Gloom, greets the Insurrectionist convicted felon, Trump.

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Right. Higher education and whether or not you live in a city seem to be the main dividing lines, and there is much overlap in the two. And you're right, the cultural upheaval of the 60s and 70s gave women more opportunities than ever (both in the office and in bed) and the effects of that time still resonate. I was there and glad I was. And the music back then. Don't get me started on the music. :>)

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Someone needs to balance the unremitting gloom, doom and defeatism that Bill and Andrew churn out five days a week with a bit of good news. Accordingly, I offer the following from Simon Rosenberg’s Hopium Chronicles of yesterday:

“We’ve started seeing meaningful movement to Biden in new polling. 4 polls - CBS, NYT, Morning Consult, Yahoo/YouGov - have shown movement to Biden of 2 points or more. Today we got a fifth. Echelon, a Republican pollster, found Biden gaining 4 points since their last poll, going from 46-49 to 48-47. A highly credible Democratic polling consortium, Navigator, found Biden ahead nationally this week, 48-44 (4 pts).”

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Just like North Korea. Republicans couldn't stop clapping the Dear Leader.

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Jun 15·edited Jun 15

To Bill:

The GOP as you knew it is dead. They will stay dead until Trump is gone. That has been true and evident since they acquitted him a second time in 2021.

Until then, alarm is obsolete. Righteous anger and determination the only useful emotions. Wield them to punish the cowards for as long as it takes.

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Trump is only a symptom, not the cause. The cause is the Republican base of low information, poorly educated, grievance filled rubes - Trump is only their avatar. The preferred cure is civics education which will require generational effort. Unfortunately we may not have generations to fix the problem.

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I suspect that Trump isn’t scared that Biden might be replaced. Rather, he’s scared that Biden could actually get the better of him in a debate so he’s preparing the groundwork now to lie about how he lost.

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Smart take, he always has ulterior motives

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Absolutely. And his peeps will buy it.

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Mitch McConnell has cemented his legacy as the person who allowed t**** to return. He is revolting.

Ok, I know this is allegedly some “hypothetical” normie Republican saying this but, Bill, could you expand on the “excesses of the Biden administration and the Democrats.” Like, what, specifically, are those excesses? Wanting the republic to survive? Standing by the rule of law? So sick of these meritless accusations.

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He's just telling you how they all think now, that is one of their talking points...

It is mostly culture war stuff

It is just how they feel, it is not based in reality

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Why not start naming those "Republican business types", Bill? If you don't call them out by name then shame on you.

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The Republican Party quite literally makes me nauseated. I'm sick and tired of feeling like I'm going to vomit every time it sinks to a previously unimaginable new low, which lately is an almost daily occurrence.

The only ways to combat nausea--what Sartre called "the feeling of wanting to die"--is to go on, give in to it and hurl till you can't anymore or to breathe deeply through your nose and remove entirely from your ambit the noxious, gag-inducing, revolting substance, circumstance and/or individual agent that's causing it.

Before this godawful farce is over, I'm probably gonna have to do both.

Multiple times.

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Okay. I am quite depressed after reading this (I love you Bulwark--I'm addicted--but I get depressed A LOT reading these posts). All we can do is get into action: Postcard to Swing States. Get involved! They plan to flood the zone to get Dems out to vote w 7 million postcards in October. My friends and I are writing every other weekend, we'll up it to every weekend in August. It feels good!

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No surprises none at all. The republican party has completely given up on democracy. They know they will never again win the popular vote or likely the presidency honestly. They know America does not want their agenda and they no longer care, they are all in to forcibly shove it down our throats and rule and if they need to rule by force all the better.

The new American Century should have started with the election of Al Gore in 2000, but for so many reasons he did not become president. Many of us saw 2008 as the reset that would finally head us into the future, but alas too much money and a republican party that had found that lies work much better than policy so we spent 6 of those 8 years treading water to keep the dream alive. Then 2016 was another crushing blow to the future it was too late for the republican party. 2020 it seemed at last after a harrowing escape from the forces of greatest evil (Jan 6) at last we were "Headed for the Future" (apologies to Neil Diamond). But the forces of evil have coalesced and they have shed any pretense of conscience or respectability. And as we all know "evil will triumph unless good is very very careful" (apologies to Mr. Spock)

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So well said. I've thought this a lot. They are a dying power structure and apparently dying power structures are very dangerous.

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For anyone who thinks yesterday's Republican shit show spectacle in D.C. was about as disgusting as it gets, I'll see your so-called normie Rs and raise you a Tucker Carlson and one healthy dose of vulture capitalism...

https://next-prod.tuckercarlson.com/events

Tickets available through - who else? - Ticketmaster.

Now please, folks, don't break the internet snapping up pre-sale tickets that are now available for about half the locations, according to a story from Newsweek. But don't forget that to access those, you must first "join team Tucker", meaning signing up for a $6 monthly subscription to Tuck's website.

It's not yet officially confirmed, but another news story reports that one of the special guests that's been invited but who isn't on the official list yet is none other than Alex Jones. Considering how his fortunes have recently turned ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alex-jones-infowars-assets-bankruptcy-sandy-hook-conspiracy/ ), he may just need a little while longer to save up the price of a stamp for his RSVP.

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Wow, what a dark read William Kristol. It was my first of the day, glad not my last, I’d have nightmares! Oh wait, maybe that is why I wake up at night shaking!

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Keep in mind, Bill is a natural pessimist...lol

He always worries and focuses on what could go wrong.

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