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Jul 16·edited Jul 16Liked by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

Trump thrives on chaos and violence. Thank you for spelling it out so clearly. Yet, when DJT was in the Whitehouse, he was so terrified when BLM had a rally in DC he ran to the bunker for safety. He’s only excited when someone else is being victimized. Then it’s funny, and no big thing . . . But, he can’t get outside himself enough to have called the new widow of the man that literally took a bullet that was meant for him, and help her with her grief. He’s shameless. So appreciate your voice, Waj.

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Jul 16Liked by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

Thank you for the sanity and truth that you bring, Wajahat.

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Jul 16Liked by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

exactly my thought - such crap from Lester Holt and all the rest of 'em!

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Jul 16Liked by THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali

Yes! I was outraged by Lester Holt. But unfortunately Biden didn’t push back enough. This is the problem...

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Brilliant riposte, Mr. Ali. And it takes a mediocrity like Piers what'shisname to have the gall to attempt a comeback against what you said. It is as though, all of a sudden, the entire Anglo-American world has gone nuts.

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Thank you for pushing back and speaking truth!! There is no “both sides do it” in this environment. It’s dictatorship vs democracy, and democracy MUST win!!

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What a ridiculous panel. Your demeanor, intelligence, command of the facts are heads above Morgan and the other two - who are they anyway?

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Bringing receipts and kicking a**, that was fantastic! It’s GLOVES OFF TIME. We need to take a page out of their playbook and push back hard every single time. I’m spreading the word that we should rebrand P25 as, DONALD TRUMP’S PROJECT 2025. If we write and speak and repeat this at every turn, we can get it into the mainstream vernacular. It’s only fair that we fully associate his name and with this horrific edict. It’s the least we can do!

BIDEN-HARRIS 2024 💥

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Thank you for speaking truth. I will continue to try not to listen to anything Piers says.

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Wajahat thank you for enduring an hour of bullshit on our behalf! You delivered the receipts brilliantly! (as Piers would say) .. However you didn’t really have any intellectual competition.. but that’s a hallmark of Trump and his followers now isn’t it? (Again in Piers parlance!) HOL https://open.substack.com/pub/hol4justice/p/presidential-voting-guide-for-dummies?r=f09mi&utm_medium=ios

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I was impressed with Biden's aggressive handling of Lester Holt and the rest of the hypocritical and malicious media.

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Well said! Thank you for cutting through the bull!! ❤️

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Thank you for this delicious post. I’d love to see you do this with that slimeball Ben Shapiro and turd Sean Hannity. You were so spot on with everything you said. The MAGA whadaboutism has got to be stopped at every corner it’s encountered. I’m going to listen to this every night before bed.

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We've never had a public official, let alone a president, who's inspired so much deadly violence among his supporters. The list of public officials and public employees who've received death threats for simply doing their jobs isn't possible to list here. But there have also been deadly attacks and planned attacks by Trump supporters based on Trump's own rhetoric. A short list:

Cesar Sayoc - Trump loving pipe bomber who targeted 67 people Trump called enemies, including former President Obama, then former VP Biden, former Sec of State Clinton, CNN, Robert DeNiro and others.

Patrick Crusius - Mass shooter who killed 20 people in El Paso, TX after posting an anti-immigrant screed inspired by Trump.

James Alex Fields - Drove his car into a crowd protesting the Neo-Nazi ‘Unite the Right’ rally, one of Trump’s ‘very fine people.’

Patrick Eugene Stein, 49, of Kansas, Curtis Allen, 50, of Kansas, and Gavin Wright, 49, of Oklahoma - FBI thwarted a planned bombing attack aimed at Somali Muslims. At trial, their lawyers all blamed Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants during the 2016 campaign.

Thank you for pushing back HARD on the crapulous 'both sides' argument being peddled by media types right now. The truth is that there's no comparison between the sides - one trafficks in political violence, the other doesn't.

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yas!!!! Thank you for calling out the BULLSHIT -- it's infuriating when people cannot push back the way you just did and let MAGA and their surrogates frame the narrative.

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There are likely those, Trump included, who will try to exploit the assassination attempt all the way to the White House. If I were Trump, I’d be shaken up. Yet, somewhere in his mind, he must realize that this is a taste of his own medicine. With a few months to go until the November, this will sure be a nail bitter election cycle.

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He cannot see past his orange nose.

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