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They didn’t just bend the knee. They bent over and dropped trou!

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lol yup AND then some.

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As hi,

As I listen to this , can’t believe the people chose him to be president. He is absolutely awful , can’t let anything go and lies about everything!

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This is America. At least half of America or so. Always been this way.

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$15M for the semantics b/w rape and sexual assault? Where's the defamation? Absolutely shameful that ABC and Stephanopoulos settled without a fight. Spineless cowards. All we have left to trust is ourselves and the truth. The institutions abandoned us before the election. We're on our own. Even the Democratic party seems to have gone AWOL.

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The US president is not a king. I don't care what SCOTUS says. This thing merited nothing more than a clarification and CBS knows it. They didn't have a losing case. Judge Kaplan called it a rape and what the judge says is it. (A judge actually can overrule a jury if he or she sees fit.) And yes, CBS/Disney has made it worse for all of us. They haven't gained a thing. Trump will step on them too.

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This is such a disgrace. Not only bending the knee but playing right into Trumps hand. He’s always threatening lawsuits or suing and is so vindictive. He knows people don’t have the time or money to be in the courtroom and many just give up/in. ABC/Disney capitulated and Trump won again. Yet, on this one, this is huge and chilling. Further cements our decision to walk away from corporate media.

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Waj, it is my personal belief that what the news media did was to sabotage the country. For that reason I think it is time to kick forcefully them to the curb. I cancelled NYT and WAPO subscriptions. I blocked channels of ABC, CNN, and Fox. I will add to this list more than likely. Hopefully others will also. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/medias-greed-creates-cesspool-within?r=3m1bs

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they're all going to fold

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Just cancelled my Disney subscription just like my facebook and instagram accounts!

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Waj, your commentary as usual is spot on. I never dreamed it would be so easy to move the US towards a fascist kleptocracy. Sadly, Trump and his Republican enablers and sycophants needed only about 25% of eligible voters to win the three branches of government, given those who didn’t bother to register or actually vote. The Nazis in Germany consolidated their power in 1933-34 with the backing of German industrialists. Fascism: Government and corporations working for their mutual benefit.

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they pave the gilded road and will be used as fertilizer later. alas. we never learn.

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Will the journalists with integrity and true love of the USA find jobs in other media?

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Another example of the Illusion of Freedom. Change the clothes, but the same whores underneath.

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Remember this? "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

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Unbelievable?! I've never seen anything like this before In my life,Waj, have you?!! Good read this evening and will reStack ASAP 🙏

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ABC has made it impossible for reporters to do their jobs.

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It's kinda weird Disney had time for DeSantis, but not for Trump.

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Please consider signing this petition to grant green cards to DACA recipients, so that they need not fear deportation by Trump.

https://www.change.org/p/urge-the-government-to-grant-green-cards-to-daca-recipients

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Once all is said and done, we’ll find out how many of them betrayed the people, by bending the knee and more to Trump. Utterly pathetic!

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Look, think you can make me a guest? All my replies aren’t fibs. They’re the real deal!

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