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Dave Cassenti's avatar

I am pretty sure that they want to scare people in the hopes that they will not vote. I'm not going to let it deter me from voting, nor will their violent rhetoric scare me from defending my family, freedom or democracy from fascist attempts to sow FUD (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt).

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

Michelle, Thank you for replying. My youngest is non-binary and my oldest is on the Autism spectrum, as am I. I have spent my life standing up for the downtrodden and those who are worried. As long as I breathe, I will continue to do so, and want people to know that everything will work out for the best. There are more people out there like me that, instead of yelling and screaming, let our actions guide us.

We will be ok in the end. As long as people stand up for what's right, things will be ok. Just remember that whenever things look bleak.

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bchristopherb's avatar

Wow. There are only two sexes. Nobody (with the possible exception of hermaphrodites) is anything but male or female. EVERYBODY is on the autism spectrum -- that's why it's a SPECTRUM..

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

Thanks for your response, but I disagree. Unfortunately, looking at your profile and the Substacks you subscribe to, I don't believe you have any proof for what you say. So there's no use trying to discuss it with you.

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Wayne Oien's avatar

Science has empirically proven that 'one *may* be born with' certain sexual divergents. Specifically, and generally speaking, these are due to the "abnormal" developments either of certain regions of the brain and/or certain glands.

Understating this then leads to the questions of "what is the responsibility of science","..of the medical industry?","..and of society" to help them to become healthy functioning, and productive members of the world?

Recognizing that sexual divergence is "abnormal" requires a case by case empathetic understanding and sensitivity towards the issue. It does *not* provide an excuse to allow them to expect automatic empowerment towards a perverse lifestyle and to suddenly demand being kowtowed to by everyone else.

Having a chemical, mental, or physical imbalance requires a compassionate, educated, and realistic approach by professionals into treating the individual and preparing them to be assimilated into society. Yes... the general public should also be educated, respectful, and sensitive but certainly not bullied and vilified by interest groups to accept unchecked extreme behavior.

Also, other historical scientific evidence shows that a person is really not fully mentally developed until their mid 20s. This empirical evidence supports previous numerous cultural standards of "age requirements" for driving, joining the military, getting married, voting, buying/consuming alcohol n tobacco, and many other legally enforceable laws.

The devious nature of sexual perversion has convinced its supporters to prey upon children under the guise of "mental health". A child is incapable of making a decision to change its sex, period. The very idea of encouraging sexual dysphoria in children to promote the idea that "they can be anything they want" is the epitome of evil.

Transgenderism should not be "normalized," but medicallv treated and its promotion outlawed.

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Sherri Andrul Nicholas's avatar

Must be a sad life to be so lacking in knowledge. The joy that comes along with embracing others who are different from you knows no bounds. You will never know that feeling because you keep your mind closed and frozen. Like your heart.

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Maggie's avatar

Who cares?!? Unless you are planning to have sex with someone it makes absolutely no difference. If Christians could control their sinful ideations regarding other people's genitalia with prayer, they could do more good works for the Lord!!!

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Cloversall's avatar

If you want transgender children/adults committing suicide, that’s your opinion, but I actually care for other people and want them to thrive no matter who they are. They deserve the medical care that we have worked so hard to achieve, that directly impacts their happiness and freedoms. There is no other way to medically treat a transgender person successfully, conversion therapy DOES NOT WORK and is actively harmful long term. Yet all you do is demonize people who you don’t agree with. If anything, you’re the dangerous one with this sort of false rhetoric.

Source 1: https://www.who.int/health-topics/gender#tab=tab_1

Source 2: https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/sph-blog/benefits-gender-affirming-care#:~:text=A%20study%20published%20in%20JAMA,well%2Dbeing%20for%20trans%20youth.

Source 3: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35212746/

Source 4: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/04/analysis-finds-strong-consensus-effectiveness-gender-transition-treatment#:~:text=The%20positive%20outcomes%20of%20gender,suicidal%20tendencies%20and%20substance%20use.

Source 5: https://intersectionalities.mun.ca/index.php/IJ/article/download/1605/1304/5785

Source 6: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/#:~:text=Transgender%20people%20are%20over%20four,at%20UCLA%20School%20of%20Law.

Source 7: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/09/conversion-practices-lgbt.html

Source 8: https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/07/conversion-therapy-can-amount-torture-and-should-be-banned-says-un-expert

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Wayne Oien's avatar

bchristopherb, I concur!!!!... and here's my 'argument' I wrote up before the election:

Science has empirically proven that 'one *may* be born with' certain sexual divergents. Specifically, and generally speaking, these are due to the "abnormal" developments either of certain regions of the brain and/or certain glands.

Understating this then leads to the questions of "what is the responsibility of science","..of the medical industry?","..and of society" to help them to become healthy functioning, and productive members of the world?

Recognizing that sexual divergence is "abnormal" requires a case by case empathetic understanding and sensitivity towards the issue. It does *not* provide an excuse to allow them to expect automatic empowerment towards a perverse lifestyle and to suddenly demand being kowtowed to by everyone else.

Having a chemical, mental, or physical imbalance requires a compassionate, educated, and realistic approach by professionals into treating the individual and preparing them to be assimilated into society. Yes... the general public should also be educated, respectful, and sensitive but certainly not bullied and vilified by interest groups to accept unchecked extreme behavior.

Also, other historical scientific evidence shows that a person is really not fully mentally developed until their mid 20s. This empirical evidence supports previous numerous cultural standards of "age requirements" for driving, joining the military, getting married, voting, buying/consuming alcohol n tobacco, and many other legally enforceable laws.

The devious nature of sexual perversion has convinced its supporters to prey upon children under the guise of "mental health". A child is incapable of making a decision to change its sex, period. The very idea of encouraging sexual dysphoria in children to promote the idea that "they can be anything they want" is the epitome of evil.

Transgenderism should not be "normalized," but medicallv treated and its promotion outlawed.

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Cloversall's avatar

Funny, I can only find that it has a significant positive impact on the majority of people who end up going through with it. If you want transgender children/adults committing suicide, that’s your opinion, but I actually care for other people and want them to thrive no matter who they are. They deserve the medical care that we have worked so hard to achieve, that directly impacts their happiness and freedoms. There is no other way to medically treat a transgender person successfully, conversion therapy DOES NOT WORK and is actively harmful long term.

Source 1: https://sph.washington.edu/news-events/sph-blog/benefits-gender-affirming-care#:~:text=A%20study%20published%20in%20JAMA,well%2Dbeing%20for%20trans%20youth.

Source 2: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35212746/

Source 3: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2018/04/analysis-finds-strong-consensus-effectiveness-gender-transition-treatment#:~:text=The%20positive%20outcomes%20of%20gender,suicidal%20tendencies%20and%20substance%20use.

Source 4: https://intersectionalities.mun.ca/index.php/IJ/article/download/1605/1304/5785

Source 5: https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/#:~:text=Transgender%20people%20are%20over%20four,at%20UCLA%20School%20of%20Law.

Source 6: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2024/09/conversion-practices-lgbt.html

Source 7: https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2020/07/conversion-therapy-can-amount-torture-and-should-be-banned-says-un-expert

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Pam's avatar

I'm with you! I am willing to fight till my last dying breath.

#TheResistance 💙

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Michelle Brody's avatar

Dave C.,

Thank you for your words. To me, they're confident, hopeful & calming.   💙

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Geotom's avatar

Figures, a former teacher would be buying into the Marxist narrative that permeates our schools, airwaves, and our very being. The insanity is TDS, a severe American phenomenon in which the constant barrage of anti-American, internationally-owned, and controlled mainstream media creates a matrix in which an alternate reality mesmerizes its viewers or listeners. It's likely taken out of Edward Bernays's handbook. He's the master of deceit.

That polarizing started in earnest when President Trump came down the escalator.

The cesspool in DC immediately went on the attack.

Billions of Dollars of anti-American money were poured in. There was no way this 'outsider' would ever be President. All the money they poured into the Clinton Foundation would be worth nothing. And Trump knows their dirty secrets, and being a free thinker and a Billionaire, they didn't trust him to bend to their will. And thank God he didn't! All his policies were America First, and the cesspool fought him at every step, both the Marxist/so-called Democrats and many RINOs. The Hillary Russia HOAX was dragged on for around 3 years and was exposed early on as a Hoax, but it was carried on anyway to do as much damage as possible to harm President Trump.

They used every trick in the book to destroy Donald Trump before, During, and after his successful first term.

His second term should even be better. He made some bad choices for his staff, needing time to figure out who to trust, being a DC outsider. By divine intervention, he survived 2 direct attempted assassinations and a couple of plots on his life, one yesterday. When God is with you, who can be against you?

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

God isn't with him, and you can't even think for yourself. Don't bother trying to think for yourself, I doubt you have the IQ to do it.

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Gary Brantley's avatar

Trump lost any claim for being a "leader" when he ridiculed a disabled reporter and encouraged his minions to do likewise. No decent human being would do that. Like many others, I witnessed this with my own eyes.

He has damaged institutions and norms that have guided us since our founding, he has constantly lied since first running for office, he has embarrassed our nation before the entire world as an American president who has praised dictators and autocrats and expressed his desires to emulate them, he has disrespected the most vulnerable and persecuted of our citizens and at the same time embraced the most odious persons as advisors and supporters.

 He's incapable of telling the truth, he cheats on women and in business, he is the very embodiment of a "poor loser", a shilling huckster who contemptuously fleeces his dim-witted supporters, a braggart, loudmouth and a bully; all things that have traditionally been anathema to Americans, not to mention his dreams of running our country like his dictator friends. He is the poorest excuse for a human that has ever been elected president.

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Robert Austin's avatar

Horseshit

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readbetweenthelies's avatar

Which particular god are you speaking of? One of the really vain and vicious ones? I don't believe he was shot. He's a poor actor.But his producers, like Musk and Miller are sneaky clever. Blood capsules , for fuck's sale!

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Ava Bolstridge's avatar

🤣👎

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OhDonna's avatar

Blocked you, you’re nuts!!

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Wayne Oien's avatar

THANK You!!!

My goodness... th8s whole "substack" thing is 'beyond' me... I've almost no use for it, especially after seeing vastly left win-nut posts and their minions supporters!

Yours is THE first resounding [and articulate] conservative response I've seen in the weeks I've trolled here.

Thanks!!!

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Ava Bolstridge's avatar

👎

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OhDonna's avatar

Buh bye Wayne 👋🏼. Substack does require some smarts!!

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Dave Cassenti's avatar

Thank you for sharing this link. I have read through the article and they did not come to any conclusions about the veracity of the sign. I did look into the JFC and it was registered through the FEC (see https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00770941/ ), but haven’t found anything about them selling or giving out signs.

Could it be a fake, as some respondents to the original post claimed (without providing any actual evidence)? Yes, but it could also be real. Overall, I still think the sign was put up to spread FUD.

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L. A. Tisoncik's avatar

They are Nazis, pure and simple. They may have tried to look "conservative", maybe even "conservative with a spoonful of racism", but they are straight-up Nazis. They may as well change the symbol of MAGA-Republicanism from an elephant to a swastika.

Vote everyone. Vote. Get everyone you know to vote. Nose to the grindstone, and on the 5th we will celebrate America's second great victory over fucking Nazi's.

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Wayne Oien's avatar

https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/10/28/trump-sign-swastika-barnwell/

No... the REAL fascists are the Biden and Obama administrations.

They played you like a Steinway.

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Beatrice Thompson's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Speaking of being played. Trump the sexual predator traitor insurrectionist con man pathological liar, low IQ Putin, loving wanna be dictator did play the Trump supporters

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Ortiz's avatar

Sure did those IDIOTS still don't see it or can't read through the lines of everything that Trump the clown is doing to everyone... So Sad for those people that GOT PLAYED BY MAGA AND TRUMP!!!

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Ortiz's avatar

🤣😆😂👎🏼🤬🤡

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Wayne Oien's avatar

…my “sight” is fine.

You don't like the 1A?… then don't look‼️

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Christopher David's avatar

You’re fucked

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maudo's avatar

Now we’re all fuckec

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maudo's avatar

Now we’re all fucked

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James Vance's avatar

This didn’t age well… have you gotten eh mental health care you so desperately need…

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Robert G Storc's avatar

Democracy or Trump

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Daniel Appleton's avatar

AN EASY CHOICE. For anyone with more than a brain stem.

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James Vance's avatar

Looks like 75 million + including record numbers of Latinos, Asians, Jews and blacks don’t agree with all your fear mongering… you can always move to Venezuela though

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Katrina Train's avatar

I just happened to run into this comment on 1/20/2025. You called it.

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James Vance's avatar

Looks like we got both…

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Janice Laz- Romo's avatar

If Hitler 2 is elected, you will only see Swastika flags and signs. That is what our nation will become The USA will be a country of the past as the monsters kill everyone while fighting for world domination.

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Margaret Wilson's avatar

I am afraid. I have voted BLUE 💙. I believe Kamala/Tim will prevail. Yet I still am afraid. Election Day can’t come soon enough for this 62-year-old disabled lesbian. 💙🇺🇸💙🇺🇸💙

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Jessie S.'s avatar

I’m terrified. I’m an over 50, childfree cat/dog lady. They’ve made it clear how much they hate women, especially the ones who aren’t breeders, or who don’t want or need men. I’m worthless to the MAGA fascists other than slave labor. And I can tell you that I haven’t lived this long in this country I’ve happily called home to just be hauled away into some camp by those Nazi a-holes. We are in this together sister! I’m voting in person on Tuesday (I like the tradition of voting in person) and I am also filled with HOPE. I was driving around yesterday, saw a bunch of recent HARRIS-WALZ signs up and I cried with cautious optimism. 💙💙💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Margaret Wilson's avatar

I’m with you! I’m single, almost 63-year-old disabled lesbian. The nazis would cage or kill me. They are afraid of people like us, because we do have power. I voted absentee with help from township clerk deputy. Vote Blue 💙🇺🇸💙

Hugs to you sistah! 💙💙

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Christopher David's avatar

Omfg I’m screenshotting all these responses and posting them on social media. These are AMAZING! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Deb Vitkova's avatar

I too am afraid, as an old white lesbian with black housemates...

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James Vance's avatar

What are you afraid of hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah… please seek the mental health treatment you desperately need

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Daniel Appleton's avatar

It will have a leader who makes Nero or Caligula look likeable / loveable & relatable by comparison.

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Christopher David's avatar

You’re a fucking dumbass 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Tricia Auld's avatar

Your hate speech is not welcome here.

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readbetweenthelies's avatar

The boy with two first names.

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Follow The Money - cui bono's avatar

I doubt it will be Nov 5. Hopefully they won’t be able to get it to the House or the illegitimate SCOTUS to overturn the real results like they did with Gore. But we probably won’t be definite until later in the week.

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Barb Bernhardt's avatar

are swastikas not illegal in your country?

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Oliver Markus Malloy's avatar

Yeah fascism was banned in Germany after WW2. Spreading fascist propaganda is a felony.

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Brenda's avatar

Unfortunately, it’s considered free speech. To me, though, it should be considered hate speech, which is illegal.

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Melanie Edgecombe's avatar

We have become a lawless country where convicted felons rule the land.

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Barb Bernhardt's avatar

Needs to be illegal

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Zozie's avatar

Nope, hell it's celebrated by the ex president.

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Barb Bernhardt's avatar

Needs to be illegal but that means voting blue everywhere and from eherecwe sit ouside the US that doesn't look likely in the next 16 years

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Jess's avatar

I fucking WISH

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Brenna Harmless's avatar

It’s legal in America. Allegedly bc of “free speech”, but a lot of harmless free speech is NOT legal…

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the Stumble Bees 🐝's avatar

I had no idea omfg

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SPHINCTERPUSS,'s avatar

No they are not

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Kelley trott's avatar

Oh heck no. Freedom of speech and all.🤬

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Karen Scofield's avatar

Holy Smokes?! What the Hell?! This is some Sick Shit and will reStack ASAP 💯👍🇺🇸💙🌊

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Mike McGowan's avatar

History will not be kind to those in America who make apologies for Putin and praise Russian autocracy. Nor will history be kind to America’s leaders who stay silent because they fear backlash from online pundits.”

Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina 2.24

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Becky Gibson's avatar

I absolutely can’t believe my eyes. All those brave soldiers who fought and died for OUR FREEDOM, only for this to be pushed in America’s face. Unbelievable.

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

They are out of their little minds to think this is acceptable.

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Free Spirit 57's avatar

Here's a link to a post on Reddit about it. It looks like it's a cut-out put on by the individual who has the sign. It's still really alarming though. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1gdosex/barnwell_south_carolina/?rdt=43409

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Larry Erickson's avatar

Yeah, I figure it's a prank of some sort since it appears there was only the one sign. I think it was a poor prank 'cause you had to be close enough to the sign to see the change so I expect most everyone who saw it didn't get the meaning.

OTOH, that doesn't mean what it says isn't true. :-)

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Oliver Markus Malloy's avatar

No surprise. At least some of the moderators on r/pics are Trump supporters that will ban anyone who posts anti-Trump pictures.

I was banned from r/pics without warning or explanation, after my post got over 10,000 likes:

https://new.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1g0vek8/dictators_and_their_groupies/

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Free Spirit 57's avatar

Thanks, hopefully that means it was fake put on by the one sign owner and Reddit removed it for whatever reason.

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Bill's avatar

Don't hold your breath. And if it was a one-off, I'm sure plenty of maga are rushing to "update" their yard signs!

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Been Wild's avatar

PHuck Up of the United States = djt puotus

While they support a traitor

WE VOTE FOR GREATER!

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Marc Kennedy's avatar

Perfect placement. Right next to the garbage can

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Open Letters by Mersault's avatar

Make America Hate Again

This wasn’t an accident. It was the point. It’s what MAGA was built on—a message to the white, the bitter, and the fearful that their ginned up anger is a rallying cry, a political stance, and a weapon. It's a promise that America belongs to them and no one else. It’s why Trump’s rallies don’t even try to reach beyond his hardcore base. The sad part is that, for as many reasonably-minded people as he'll lose because of this abomination, he'll gain just as many who want nothing more than a fourth Reich.

An Open Letter to Your Friend or Relative Planning to Vote for Trump: Your Vote for Trump Is an Endorsement of Bigotry, Cruelty, and the Erosion of Rights—No Matter the Reason You Give.

https://substack.com/home/post/p-150725410?r=4d7sow&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Margie Lynch's avatar

Thank You for Pointing this out, just to add to the Trump Halloween Horror Story!! How appropriate that Bannon is now out of prison after refusing to honor a subpoena by the J6 Committee! It seems that Trump had to talk to him the most times that day!! Why is that?? I’m still trying to get over the fact that grown men, who like to wave Swastikas & to do the Nazi salute are, in fact, Trump’s biggest supporters, who destroyed our Capitol Bldg. to the tune of $30 Million$$, sent. 140 Capitol Police to the Hospital, and 9 of those Police have died, the same Bldg. that those on hi-jacked Flight 93, called there families to say goodbye, and LITERALLY DIED TO SAVE THAT SAME BUILDING!! I was encouraged to hear Bannon (Did he give the Nazi salute, as he sometimes does) say that they were in trouble because Cyber Expert, Marc Elias was handling things for We the People! Thank you Elias and also Chris Krebs, former Republican! You are our HEROS!!❤️

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Bill's avatar

I said to my trumper brother-in-law Tuesday that, no matter what else happens at Harris' speech on the Elipse, that they wouldn't be cleaning shit off the walls of the Capitol afterwards...

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LadyHistorian's avatar

Notice how he changed the color of Old Glory to Russian blue.

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