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Jo's avatar
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If a person being deported, chained, illegally kidnapped, has already been through torture in life - if this human being is bighting at himself we should have compassion. This is fear and panic. The correct response would be care. This dehumanization is grotesque. It must stop and must be reversed. My heart and all logic cannot comprehend this inhumane bullshit. Such a person is terrified, should not be ridiculed, needs care, help, humanity

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Blue Moon Pie's avatar

Another fantastic interview. Am a fan of both of you. I am awed by your composure and eloquence. Thank you and I hope you are enjoying your 4th.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

"Immigrants, citizens, and critics". There is no question in my view that felonpotus will absolutely have ICE, police, and the US military kidnap, detain, and send to US concentration camps, all of the above. He ignores court rulings unless they favor him, so injunctions, rulings, and court orders cannot stop him. There is no law enforcement that will stop him. The SC has allowed him powers of a king. He has the military, so far, behind him. So he will have anyone who dares criticize him and his regime - politicians, journalists, writers, podcasters, professors, teachers, everyday folks on social media, any one of us, or any group he chooses, to be thrown into his own gulags. Who is going to prevent this regime from doing these illegal acts? The constitution has no power now. This is a horrific crisis. There will be no elections in 2026, I'm sure, if he is still in power. What in the world can we do, short of a bloody revolution? We don't have any military backing. This is absolutely frightening.

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Alan Bond's avatar

Americans, you have the ABSOLUTE right to fight back against the NAZI dictatorship. Remembee, you have the RIGHT to bear arms, so use them to take back your country from the nazi oligarchy, it is now the ONLY way for you to restore DEMOCRACY to America. You economy will soon begin to tank as the rest of the world sticks two fingers up to trumpty dumpty. All democracies are beind you in your fight against the NAZI dictatorship.

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BC's avatar

H O L D … Let’s see what happens with the FATWA Khamenei put out on Donald.

AYATOLLAH said he gon’ pop the pedo snitch 🍿

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Christina Gurchinoff's avatar

LOL

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marylou watson's avatar

Not just Pedo info but now also emails, etc in the run-up to the election! Love it!

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Frances's avatar

This is going to be a police state on steroids. Alligator Alcatraz is being duplicated they refer to it as a ONE STOP SHOP. There is a plane runway in this center. Also they deputizing the "legal" work . I don't know what if any oversight will be done. There is no waste or environment plans. Horrible .

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Rain Robinson's avatar

This regime believes in no oversight, accountability, transparency, regulation, or laws. They probably won't let Congressional reps inspect, either, just like at other centers. Lawmakers have a duty to inspect, and ICE refuses them. As for food, water, medicine, sanitation, privacy? Environmental reviews? Pfffft. Everything this regime is doing is illegal or against regulations.

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Frances's avatar

Now Marines are at AA.

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Ginger's avatar

it will be interesting what kind of CRAZY,INHUMANE ACTS OF TERRORISM HAPPENS ON THE BIRTH OF AMERICA

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Lillian Henegar's avatar

Great intelligent conversation. I've known Mike from years ago. Awesome to see his evolution. Always smart. And, I'm a long time fan of Waj! I learned something from this discussion. Thank you. I love the AOCs, Bernies, and now Mamdani.

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Pamela Torpey's avatar

I can't beleive what im witnessing. This idiotic society is like a frog in a pot of water. The water gets warmer over time and when the water starts to boil, its too late!

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Suzette Jensen's avatar

I watched later - not live. Very informative. At 79, I cannot afford to pay for all the Substack subscriptions. Thank you for your paywall approach.

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Roni Windle's avatar

My fear about losing elections is massive. Y'all explain how that's going to happen. How do we fight that?

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Helen S's avatar

💙💙💙, love your in your face truth!!!

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Cindy Ruiz's avatar

I absolutely love Mamdani…and I’m white as they come, and 69, and I don’t live in New York!

He’s so so intelligent… articulate…and he is FIERCE in protecting our constitutional rights when confronted by the felon and other psychologically damaged people in OUR Whitehouse!

I wish he’d run for president … bet he’d win! (If we protect our vote!) we have to protect our vote!

And we have to really start going after the SCOTUS and let those 6 know that they need to stop enabling the felon/dictator wannabe with “their” interpretations of the constitution in supporting “their” federalist society.

SCOTUS is not the god/s of our country…I believe we need to stop treating them as the last word on these matters.

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Elizabeth McIlvaine's avatar

It is time to advocate an agenda of Constitutional Amendments. We need to overturn Citizens United, the immunity decision, and every other right wing decision that is hurting our democracy. We need to limit the Pardon power. It is time o go big or go home. Red areas are going to be hurt by this bill. We need to join together as citizens-not right or left. Mandami can’t run for President because he wasn’t born here but we can amend that too.

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Kathy Roeske's avatar

And little Ron DeSantis is so excited that he’s back in the Orange Turd’s good graces. “Look what I did Daddy! I found a place to keep all the bad people you hate. Maybe we can take a video of one of them getting eaten by an alligator!!!”

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Michael's avatar

The Self-Evident Truths of Freedom — and of Tyranny

by Judge Michael Luttig

https://open.substack.com/pub/telos/p/luttig-the-self-evident-truths-of-freedom?r=56sszr&utm_medium=ios

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Jaime Rosandick's avatar

Great conversation! Thanks

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Frankie's avatar

Love this two! We need mass mobilization of Latinos

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Alan Bond's avatar

Given that there appears to be only a tiny MINORITY of the American populace who voted for trumpy dumpty, which is pretty clear from the almost total lack of comments in support of his terrorism, it is pretty clear to me that the election was RIGGED by his repugnican cronies around the country by disallowing votes for the BEST candidate i.e. Kamala Harris. You now have a NAZI president who is also a dirty little pervert and a CONVICTED criminal. EVERY democracy around the world should now show their contempt for the thug by banning him from visiting and generally treating him for the nasty little hitlerite dictator that he is, and ALWAYS has been. Where is John Wilkes Booth when the world needs him !

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Karen Scofield's avatar

America's the old Germany now, only thing is the Germans,even now, have Healthcare 😩 Thanks Waj, good conversation tonight, and will reStack ASAP 🙏

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Amanda's avatar

This bill is the “let them eat cake” moment of America's new king and his courtiers. It is not going to go well.

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