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The faux orange god is, and it is not hyperbole or exaggeration anymore, a Hitler wannabe. He differs from Hitler in only one significant respect, and it makes him potentially even more dangerous—he’s a coward. Hitler wasn’t, serving as a runner in WWI, one of the most dangerous jobs in the trenches, on both sides. So Cadet Bone Spurs has to make up in words what he lacks in reality. Sadly, as you write, Mr. Kinzinger, his base doesn’t care. They see and hear what they want. The fate of our country is in the hands of a few thousand undecided voters in swing states, which is frightening. While our two choices (third party types are spoilers, nothing more, and dangerous in that) May both be unappealing, even to think of voting for TFG marks one as lacking in common sense and a commitment to this country’s ideals. That is why I fear we are doomed in November. Yet still I say, with hope, however vain, vote blue everywhere, for every office. Or prepare for chaos and our nation’s demise as anything worth having.

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This is why we must unite. we may only have 8 months left where we can

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💙💙💙!!!

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Actually, I don't think this is the case. As Adam describes, Trump, either through old age or his own boredom, is failing. I think that he is more Von Hindenberg than Hitler, being propped up so he can become president again, but his Chancellor will actually rule. The question is, who will the Chancellor be to Trump’s figurehead role? Maybe someone advising Project 2025? Dunno, just keep an eye on who surrounds him.

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Saying that we are doomed and voting in vain is crazy. Biden has an excellent chance of winning the election.

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Donald J Trump only holds a minority of Americans in thrall. There are enough non-Trumpists to defeat him, if we will. Let’s stop with the hand-wringing over President Biden’s age and his running mate, and start making 2024 the greatest blue wave in the history of voting in the United States. Let those who can, volunteer at the polls on the local level to help thwart would-be election interference. Support non-Trumpist candidates downballot, Democrat or Republican. We don’t have to have Donald J Trump in the Oval Office, if we have the will and the action to keep him out.

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amen. the worry i have is chaos exhausts us, and thrills them. We cant get tired yet

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I agree with you Cathlynn!Vote vote Vote!!

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The key - "If we will"

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As someone said recently, isn’t it past his jail time? I watched a part of his rally on You Tube, and noticed his audience in the background did look bored and antsy-thought it was my wishful thinking, but glad it’s not only me-Vote all blue for sure!!

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theyre bored. And still motivated sadly

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Awake at 2 in the morning. Checked on ohio's voting results. Saw a blurb that I loved. "Ohio republican voters (no number) say they will vote for Biden in November to keep Trump out of the whitehouse." I swore off polls, but I like this one. It gives me hope.

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we dont need all of haleys votes, but we do need some. This is why i stress that we need people from all over the spectrum

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Why isMitch McConnell

Kevin mccarthy mike johnson the SCOTUS as well as the rest being allowed to continue to betray the American people by unleashing this sick man on us who will absolutely take away all freedoms from every American

Like..

making social security his private piggy bank of which he will steal all of it for himself

eliminate any free press

He * WILL* kill people at will anyone and he won't do it because he js a coward ....he will have his militia as well as the military come and kill his perceived enemies

anyone who speaks against him will be jailed and killed

That means you and me our families our children our friends neighbors whomever

Women will have no rights at all snd sexual assault will be the norm for control

He will have camps no he will have concentration camps work camps and kill camps. Period.

Why is this man not in jail ?

why is he still getting secret service to protect him so he can make sure he kills the American people who are cattle to him ?

All of his benefits of being a president should have been revoked immediately after the insurrection.

All his disenfranchised followers will be even more disenfranchised when he steals every penny from them and ehen he is done he will literally throw them away. And if they don't like it he will kill them too

And the only thing that could maybe stop him is swing voters?

Iam disgusted and filled with anger and rage that this subhuman garbage isn't in jail forever Years ago.

These things are not an exaggeration this is what his plans are without his hand waving and speech raving he is the doorway

For all the evil that comes through like Putin Orban and other dictators

And they use Trump through his pathetic vanity he thinks he is sooo special they don't give 2 shits about him

They will kill him too when they are done and they will take America for themselves. And there will be no way out from that

Our children and our grandchildren will Have no freedoms to speak of.

More needs to be done IMMEDIATELY to remove him from running he needs to be jailed NOW

What is the hold up

Why isnt anyone holding him accountable

Why is judge cannon being allowed to play this out so far

Why hasn't she been removed ages ago ? Why?

Why is he being allowed to appeal and appeal and make a circus and get away with it? Why? He lied over and over again

He sends out his minions to threaten intimidate and abuse anyone who goes against him.

Why is this being allowed?

Why is the SCOTUS being allowed to betray the American people here by taking away freedoms and rights ? Who TF do they think they are with no rules for them?

And the money he owes? He basically is up for sale to the highest bidder putin snd the rest will gladly purchase a president who is an abomination to mankind and the world what kind if justice is that?

So if trump goes and kills someone on 5th Ave will he be held accountable?

Taking his money that he didn't have anyway is not justice

putting him in jail in solitary confinement with no contact with anyone for life is justice as well as all his yes men and betrayers

No pardons no home arrest no nothing

This is not directed at you Adam

You standing up to Trump keeps me going

I'm serious you Liz Cheney Cassidy Hutchinson and many others have been my shining light and are my Heros.

You are my Hero for real.

I watched the capital riot after fighting for my life from covid pneumonia a month before. It was traumatizing to see that. I wasn't able to walk without help I was oxygen dependent for 4 months.

thought for sure once it was over he would be arrested and he would

be gone.

But here we are ? What?

How can this be?

The January 6th committee has by far been the only body of government to truly call everyone out

That our government continues allowing this sick and dangerous man to jockey being a dictator and wants to destroy our lives

The fact that it has come down to an election to stop this

is* outrageous *

This means that our government has not done their job protecting us.

Period

He should have been stopped and he needs to be stopped NOW and yet he just tool over the RNC and is installing his daughter in law and people who were russian intelligence who trump pardoned ?

What? How is this being allowed ? How?

Asking the American people to Vote him out is like letting the big bad wolf run free and when comes at your Door hide in the basement and ring the bell and Maaaaybe if enough people ring the bell he will go away.

What?

Point being the wolf should have never been roaming free to begin with.

And then we all vote what about the electoral college voters will they be honest ? Who are these electoral slates of people anyway ?

And the democrats will they be able to.stop this?

I hear about that Trump would win today if there was an election

What?

How can we have been brought so close to the brink here?

This sick man has no business not being in jail

I know this is long and anyone who has gotten to this point reading thank you for taking the time to do so.

As an American citizen like many of us I want answers and I want action this guy needs to GO

I feel we should not be reduced to day dreaming this guy drops dead.

I donate to every cause and i just joined a community zoom to volunteer to write post cards call people anything to.do my part.

All my ranting here I know sounds apocalyptic but this is what we are up against and it's wrong..

We should be hopeful about an election no matter the outcome

The fact that we have to vote this man out and hope that it works or our world of freedom is gone is a disenfranchisement in itself

He needs to BE IN JAIL NOW!!!!

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well said

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Thank you! I know it was long and windy but I had to get that out!

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Amen and amen brother! I read your piece all the way through. I would say most of us on Adam’s Substack believe as you do and agree with what you wrote. Isn’t it crazy that trump’s former “fixers” (Cohen, Navarro, Manafort) are spending time in jail (manafort convicted then pardoned by trump) but the orange man skates free. Don’t forget all the J6 insurrectionists in jail too. All for this dumbass with the intelligence and vocabulary of a 4th grader.

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Thank you for reading it all the way through I had to get put my thoughts and feelings on it. Om glad iam not alone here

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Janine, you are not alone!! I think all of us feel what you wrote but do not vocalize it! Thank you and I hope you feel better!! I'm so glad Joan also wrote her support for you!! I think with Adam's leadership and all of us supporting each other, we will survive this election and celebrate afterward!!

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EXACTLY!!!!!!

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Sorry I said brother. I meant to say sister. I could tell you needed to vent and I was venting right along with you.

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Joan no worries I knew exactly what you meant!! And thank you for understanding my need to just get it out and vent. It was cathartic for me to write it

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Janine, I feel exactly the same way. It’s like the normal people are going about campaign business as usual— THIS IS NOT USUAL! I fear there is so much dark money behind him we don’t even know about. Am beginning to feel, Trump is actually a patsy— Renfield- Draculas servant. I have tried to resist being negative on line, but this day, I feel so powerless (at 72), like a little kid, in the backseat of an old car without seatbelts, with the evil man Trump, driving us off a cliff.

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You said it ALL thank you for reading and for sharing your thoughts and feelings on Here I saw how long my post was and I said Oh boy get the clink chains lol.

But the feedback is just so helpful for me.

I feel we just keep doing the two steps forward and then 1 step back.

And it's so stressful to think of all the unbelievably awful outcomes that are actually possible

Iam actually a half glass full person truly. Its just been so frustrating which iam sure all here can relate

I just hope Adam saw that this is not directed at him. He really is one of my Heros. I look to every post he writes and find so much in all of them

I love how he just Bitch slaps the orange horror and all his MAGA minions!!!!

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You're so funny 🤣! First of all, I do not think Adam thought that was directed at him! Secondly, we're here to support you and it's helpful to me that we're all in this together! Lastly, the worst thing that can happen to trump, even more than jail, is losing his most prized possession, trump tower. I saw him say that years ago. That would undo him! Hang in there and we'll keep watching the $450+mil bond!!

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And i love the renfield dracula reference ! So accurate!!

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Thank you for writing what I too have been feeling since 2016!

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Quite a rap sheet!

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I hardly think that Trump knows who George Orwell was, or in fact almost any major literary figure, but I do however think that Trump could create a masterclass in Orwellian speak. War is peace, up is down, red is blue and staple is genius. These are all oxymorons for MAGA morons. The result of a dumbed-down educational system and the contemporary product of a ruthless, heartless, careless and diseased wannabe mind of one Donald John Trump.

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humpty dumpty?

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The sin of FRAUD is worse than violence. (Watching the Dante documentary on PBS!)

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Thank you Adam for bringing this up now!!Trumpie and his MAGA Minions are a threat to our democracy!!We need to stand together against this threat and keep them from getting near the White House!!!💙💙💙!!!

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HEAR HEAR

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Here's an excerpt from Project 2025 regarding the President.

Here is some text defining what kinds of power they want the presidency to have.

“The President must set and enforce a plan for the executive branch. Sadly, however, a President today assumes office to find a sprawling federal bureaucracy that all too often is carrying out its own policy plans and preferences—or, worse yet, the policy plans and preferences of a radical, supposedly “woke” faction of the country.

The modern conservative President’s task is to limit, control, and direct the executive branch on behalf of the American people. This challenge is created and exacerbated by factors like Congress’s decades-long tendency to delegate its lawmaking power to agency bureaucracies, the pervasive notion of expert “independence” that protects so-called expert authorities from scrutiny, the presumed inability to hold career civil servants accountable for their performance, and the increasing reality that many agencies are not only too big and powerful, but also increasingly weaponized against the public and a President who is elected by the people and empowered by the Constitution to govern.

The great challenge confronting a conservative President is the existential need for aggressive use of the vast powers of the executive branch to return power— including power currently held by the executive branch—to the American people. Success in meeting that challenge will require a rare combination of boldness and self-denial: boldness to bend or break the bureaucracy to the presidential will and self-denial to use the bureaucratic machine to send power away from Washington and back to America’s families, faith communities, local governments, and states.

Fortunately, a President who is willing to lead will find in the Executive Office of the President (EOP) the levers necessary to reverse this trend and impose a sound direction for the nation on the federal bureaucracy. The effectiveness of those EOP levers depends on the fundamental premise that it is the President’s agenda that should matter to the departments and agencies that operate under his constitutional authority and that, as a general matter, it is the President’s chosen advisers who have the best sense of the President’s aims and intentions, both with respect to the policies he intends to enact and with respect to the interests that must be secured to govern successfully on behalf of the American people.”

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so opposite of the old GOP

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I'm thinking of doing a series of posts, each containing excerpts from the chapters to give folks an idea of what the plan entails.

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Do it, Bob! We need to be scared sh..less to let everyone know how crazy he is. Hopefully, some of his base will get bored as he plummets, but the safer bet is GET OUT THE VOTE!!!

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I'd love to see that!

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I've begun the series. Check it out at Polytricks.

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Thank you Bob!!I just read Project 2025!!This is very scary!!We need to keep TRUMPIE out of office!!!

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I'm thinking of doing a series of posts, each containing excerpts from the chapters to give folks an idea of what the plan entails.

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Good idea Bob!!👍

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Superb analysis and commentary. Thanks. However, if the grossly overvalued stock market and the bond market crash before the election, then heaven help us.

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Yep. Youre sadly right

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Right. Saudi Arabia and Russia will also raise the price of gas. Easy as pie for them.

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What a long strange trip it's been

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stranger to come. Hopefully we can look back and wonder how it happened and celebrate out wins. Like the hurricane sharpie, still cant believe that one

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Or injecting bleach for Covid. Geezzze

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In my book, Judge Engoron and NY Attorney General Letitia James, may become heroes of our Country. Seizing his property, might cause Trump to melt down.

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One can hope. But there are too many with deep pockets, lining up to throw their money behind him now that all the other candidates have dropped out. There’s a big fundraiser coming up in Fla for trump put together by Paulson, big hedge fund guru inviting only really wealthy attendees (hoping to buy the next president). Government by the people, yeah right.

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I especially like that (as he claims, which may be another lie) Trump has approached 30 insurance companies to underwrite his bond in the NY fraud case. All of them have refused to underwrite the bond. It appears that the insurance companies see him as a bad risk -much like we do. He has until Monday, 3/25 to get that bond underwritten or the NY AG can start the process of seizing his properties unless an appeals court steps in.

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Too bad there’s no way to get rid of the guy permanently.

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I still like the idea of an "act of God" where a lightning bolt strikes and kills him while he is playing golf. That way his followers can't blame everyone (or anyone) else. I feel horribly terrible for thinking this but any other outcome, including a (hopefully) massive 2nd Presidential Election loss, would still leave our Nation in a state of suffering for years until he passes naturally and his followers fade away.

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I’ve thought about that too. But even a lightening bolt would lead to conspiracy theories.

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Sadly, in this day and age that's true 🥺.

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Well, if he eats enough cheeseburgers, fries and diet cokes, maybe his own body will take of that for us. I’m not advocating death for tfg, just enough health problems that he is sidelined where he couldn’t carry out any duties even if he was elected.

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As long as he can move his lips he's a threat to society.

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The scary part is that polls show that he may win. Hope this changes in the coming months. God help us!

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correct. We have time, but less that it seems

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This is what makes me so so furious and crazy. He has no right to run for anything except during his 1 hour a week outside in the prison basketball court

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I think he should be put into one of his good friend Putin's prisons.

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Good one! But that won't work... they'd need to bring in a golf cart to drive him down court 😉!

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Money is the mother's milk of politics. I'm heartened by Trump's inability to get a bond to cover his $450 million+ business fraud judgment. NYC will strip him of his assets to pay legal debts. Without money he can't buy expensive lawyers to file appeals. The Emperor will be naked.

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YAY! Maybe they'll take his airplanes first?

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I agree with your observations. The problem is you are preaching to the choir. How do we spread the message to those who don't read Substack?

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Karen, Patric is doing the right thing by pointing to what he discovered, but you are right, one discovery is not enough. Trump uses social media to connect naive and ignorant people to himself and to each other.  He is creating a social media cult think Jonestown (Jim Jones) or Waco (David Koresh). We need to use social media to make Trump a joke, make fun of him, get mean, make a cartoon videos with a short fat Trump chasing hookers.

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Jimmy Kimmel makes that a point in his monologue almost every night. And tfg slams him back on his failing truth social. Only Jimmy’s jabs are hilarious and tfg’s are just the sad comments of a 4th grade bully who lives in an old, orange man’s body.

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We need to ratchet it up, turn trump into a meme. like a trump tinman wishing he had a heart, or a trump scarecrow wishing he had a brain.

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It would need to be a tin scarecrow because he needs both a brain AND a heart.

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Should also include the trump scaredy-cat (lion), because he is a coward too.

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