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Michelle Brody's avatar

Waj, Dude your political riffing was brilliant (breaking down the trump/musk bro-breakup fight.) Sublime & captivating chat with @jaredyatessexton (whom I'm now subscribed to). Thank you for your words & truth!

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Janet Walden's avatar

Yes, me too, now subscribed to both of you! TYTY!

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Susana Montano's avatar

They need to leave. All of them. The cabinet, any doge persons, anyone.

Go away, not so far they can’t be reached because they will have to attend the court dates, pay up everything they owe America or go to jail.

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Dannys's avatar

You are a cool dude. Take the compliment.

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Momma Nancy's avatar

You guys KILLED IT with this.. REQUIRED LISTENING! I was already subscribed to JYS’ Dispatches, now subscribed to Left Hook!

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Lynda Phoenix's avatar

Rant on, Waj!!! What a great discussion! I like pouring gas on the Trump/Elon dumpster fire. Thank you having no pay wall. I can't afford to pay right now but it is so frustrating to want to reply only to be rebuffed by the little lock. I'm so grateful to the few of you who let me respond - I find it very therapeutic in this environment we live in. Btw, your mom is a very smart lady.

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Patience Whitman's avatar

Yes, they need to go! And, others like them. A big transformational start would be our inclusion of more women in positions of power.

Heard a PBS Newshour interview tonight with former New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who spoke of many kinds of leadership...not just the kind we're familiar with here. She said that she always tried to lead with empathy and compassion. Novel, huh?!

In quoting former The Nation columnist, Katha Pollitt, "Why do men have to control everything?" Waj, would you and Danielle, please add ideas like this in what you share? Love The Left Hook - a new subscriber and supporter! Only other one I listen to is Heather Cox Richardson. Thank you, Waj! I am so grateful for the education I am getting. Peace and Blessings!

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Annette Frank's avatar

Those old white dems are racist and transactional, they need to be booted!

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Jayne Docherty's avatar

Any Democrat who takes a dime from Musk needs to be driven from the party and if the DNC cozies up to him, I will effing storm their office. Who is with me?

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Sandra Trimble's avatar

Me!

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Dannys's avatar

That discussion was spectacular. As a person who has lived thru democracy, dictatorship, communism and the USA, your discussion was spot on. The more you know …….

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Christina Ronnberg's avatar

NEVER ELON

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Narottama Alden's avatar

"300,000 children have died from Musk cutting off USAID." I can't even compute that information. My soul wants to yell "No!" as loudly as possible. How can that be? And it's all so fast. This news of the cut just happened and the effect is almost immediate. It is so depraved and horrific. We must not let the defects control our world!

PLEASE! STOP THE INSANITY! 🚫

✌️ ☮️ 🕊 🌹

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Sandra Trimble's avatar

Don’t forget felon Trump hired Elon the pig!

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Key Day's avatar

Yates-sexton and Ali, you are spot on! Transactional hoars are running rampant, because the transactional systems continued to funnel power/money to fewer and fewer folks, and the many said OK. Here we are in a system set up to pit us against one another, as racism and all isms are rooted in division based on the many becoming as transactional as they are

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Carl Selfe's avatar

I can only see the BBB and my imperative to seek its demise. There are only a few weeks to render it asunder. Many distractions are being proffered, but I will not look away from the mission to destroy the life-threatening BBB. The BBB will kill and bankrupt our most vulnerable. Food will be taken from children. Our courts will be harmed. Many will be forced into homelessness. Currently we annually pay $1 trillion in interest on our national debt. Our economy interest rates are going up as our creditworthiness declines! Future generations will be forced to deal with a national deficit nearly twice its current $36 trillion size. I can see the current deficit growing to $69 trillion by 2036, and then there will be $3.6 trillion of annual interest on that accumulated national debt. The CBO softballs future inflation rates (2%). The CBO softballs future interest rates (3.5%). I call BS. Let us take a look at more credible drivers, like the current interest rates gradually increasing from the current 4.91% to 5.8% and the current 2.3% inflation growing to 3%. It was the CBO that told us the 2017 TCJA tax bill would be deficit neutral and now we find out that it costs us $4.6 trillion over the next 10 years. And they want to make that tax cut permanent. Over my dead body. https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/the-25-trillion-annual-deficit-plan?r=3m1bs

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Fatarae's avatar

Never apologize for your ‘rants’.

It’s called passion and we need more of it!!!

Thank you!

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Sandra Trimble's avatar

Felon trump cheated every contractor on every construction job out of their payments in New York and stupid Americans call him a successful businessman! Felon trump was a disgusting horrible reality star!

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Jayne Docherty's avatar

The empire was always going to come home. It is here now. We get to decide, end empire and oligarchy or die under fascism. I am going to re listen to this every week.

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