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Dem leaders: Stop playing nice! Get in the game!

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I'd sure like to hear one of the pundits say, after Donnie makes a stupid nomination for an important government office, "Well, the former President showed his ass again today. He's showing us serious mistakes he will make as President. Before he is even in office!"

Donnie has made the following unforced errors and has not been called out for these mistakes yet. He's demonstrating how unfit he is for the office of President.

He selected a dumbass Russian spy to spy on Russia. A dummy to manage "Intelligence Services."

He nominated an astrologer snake oil salesman to manage the critically important health services Medicare and Medicaid.

He chose a sexual predator of teenage girls to be the chief law enforcement officer.

He thinks a reality denier who prefers make-believe over direct observation should manage the top scientists in the world.

Mass Media: These are called MISTAKES. Call it like it is. Stop giving the idiot pass after pass.

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Thinking about Tulsi. The first attribute of the Director of National Intelligence is to be intelligent. And highly educated with deep life experience and management skills. Tulsi is a stupid idiot. A liar. A person of poor judgment. A person who has never been a leader. Corrupted by money and power. The exact opposite of the key characteristics for this critical management position.

Next, think about the level of stupidity of a President-to-be who would appoint such a low quality human to this position? This is a massively important issue and problem. A problem that is being treated by the Dems in power as "oh hum". Treated by the mass media press as normal. When it is bizarre. Wake the hell up!

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How are they mistakes when they are there specifically to break shit? It's a feature, not a bug when a Russian asset is running the country. He's picking clowns on purpose.

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Call it a sign of increasing dementia.

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Nope its intentional, concentration of power directly under the executive

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An eye for an eye!

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Immediate Action is required!!

President Biden and Congress, sworn to uphold the Constitution, MUST DO SO now! Immediately convene an emergency Federal Grand Jury and present the already documented evidence which proves Trump's guilt as an insurrectionist!! Article 14 Sec 3 of the Constitution demands this bold action in order to save our country!

The societal impact would be significant and dangerous, but those consequences would pale when compared to Trump's stated intentions.

Trump is NOT president until sworn in... just don’t swear him in! President Biden, immune from prosecution, still has the hammer in his hand; USE IT, don’t give in… never give up, STRIKE NOW!

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They should have started a long time ago. Let’s hope they have learned.

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They're getting their tax cut they don't care past that.

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Exactly we must fight fire with fire!

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What Dem leaders? The ones that didn’t expel the insurrectionists on January 6, 2021 - 4 years ago?

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We need to grow your network the quicker the better for us all 🙏🤞

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But the news on this network is not reaching the maga crowd that I know of, most of us believe in what you are saying.

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It's not about reaching lost cause MAGA Cult, it's about reaching the 4% of voters that literally are fed the 24/7/365 Right Wing/Corpo Media & Russian/Elon Disinfo BS Ron discussed in the article.

Folks gotta clap back in every comment section across all New Media with the facts that 'Rump WAS & IS A FAILURE POTUS IN EVERY WAY, he is gonna do the same LAZY LIAR shit to Biden successes he did after he inherited Obama's successes.

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Those people who are diehard MAGA are a lost cause. They'll never EVER believe it.

It's everyone else who voted for Trump that we need to reach.

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And the lazy screwballs who didn’t vote.

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Much of the MAGA crowd are just stupid people without critical thinking skills or enough knowledge to understand how the economy, or almost anything else, actually works They have to be repeatedly and mercilessly informed of the truth and the lies, hypocrisy, etc., etc.. in the steady stream of right-wing propaganda.

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Magats are souless creatures, created in the image of Satan. They not follow a single teaching of Jesus, the prophets or his disiples.

Blue states need to become fortresses of freedom able to withstand any attack from the deranged Orange cult that does not create.......Trumpism has a single mission. That is to destroy, maime, rape and pillage.

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What does it matter what Democrats say if people aren’t listening? No explanation for why egg prices or gas prices increased was going to matter to people who are determined to be willfully ignorant and believe lies. The corporate media is not going to truthfully report on Democrats and will always step on or bury whatever may be beneficial to or puts the Democratic Party in a good light.

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My son works for a company of ALL maga's. He cannot tell them anything. They WILL NOT LISTEN. They close their ears and keep blaming the democrats and Biden. It's very sickening!

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Yep, 100%. I get "fuck you old lady" anytime I counter-question and present facts to them with my original question. Worthless waste of time. Like Thomas Paine said "To argue with people who denounce reason is like administering medicine to the dead".

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But they aren't dead. It is a fact that they have been sold a false bill of goods about the evil Dems for decades. It is time to flood the airways with truth and combat the lies to change these people.

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They're brain dead.

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I have to remember that...

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Same almost wherever I go. It's not really worth it to try and make any points. They don't even hear you. My cousin was texting me yesterday to gloat. Not one of my texts to him about Trump did he acknowledge. I told him his obnoxious gloating over the election is nothing to be proud of. Frustrating for sure. There will be some that will cave after the corruption and chaos is exposed.

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Trump tried to dilute the cesspool with his amateur hour verbiage by calling anybody who wasn’t a Republican was a radical left, but the truth the truth is obvious that so many of Trumps and his followers (mike Flynn) have been radicalized by disinformation from the Kremlin and our people that worked in Ukraine saw all the same rhetoric for years in Ukraine, and warned us that the exact same phrases were being used here, from Trump’s mouth.

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Reaching out to the hard-core MAGA media sites might be frustrating, but it can also be entertaining while you stand on the side of truth and facts. The person or persons you may be interacting with may not believe you, most who read it may be mired in their own echo chamber, but there are many who read those posts and you never know that once in a while or even more often you might actually reach someone. Everyone who left the MAGA movement left because of something they read or happened to them.

We have to keep shooting the facts into their territory or it's always going to be a divided country. Should Ukraine give up the fight every time Russia refuses to acknowledge them? If they did, the war would have been over on day 1 - the US cannot cave to people who won't listen. Keep lobbing truth and facts into their territory. Some people will receive the message and leave the echo chamber and eventually the numbers will dwindle into silence.

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Hopefully they’ll catch their videos on YouTube and other platforms.

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i just subscribed

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I forward it to 4 friends. They are loving it.

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Ron and the brothers need to get out and get onto some mainstream shows as guests and reach people that aren’t followers yet! Get the word out, I’ve been following for a long time but so many people I know are clueless of the real truth!

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I agree but they need to stay away from large donations. The oligarchs will try to bye their loyalty.

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I agree, remember when there was a limit on contributions? Yea the Rs got rid of that rule! No one person should be able to give hundreds of millions of dollars, there’s no way that’s not gonna be a quid pro quo

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Ron, some of us HAVE BEEN listening to you and are beyond grateful....keep hammering on the rock ....I sense that someday it will break open (The MAGA lies that they eat everyday)...we hear your frustration and we feel it too. Keep hammering.....

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I have listened to your every word Ron. I listened religiously to MAGA uncovered and I shared your fears with everyone I know. Hopefully they will pass it on and people will wake up to this nightmare about to unfold.

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Write to all your elected folks and let them know that we need their voices! And a subtle hint that we vote for them to work for us won’t hurt. If they’re Republicans,tell them that you know exactly what the egg price problem is and that you don’t want to hear any baloney. If they’re Democrats tell them to speak out loudly enough that we can all hear them.

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Agree. Would love someone to provide short, pithy statements that can easily be re-posted to all social media accounts to spread these facts. Help those of us who are not wordsmiths to resist the lies and gaslighting done by the MAGA and right wing.

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I don’t have any specific examples for you, but in general I think Robert Reich is great at putting a few important facts together, in plain language, into a short post that can be shared. He has videos on YouTube and is also on Substack.

I like Ron’s posts about egg prices. He is masterful at Tweets (or whatever they’re called on Bluesky). His Tweeting game is so good, MAGA leaders notice and try to argue with him. Thank you, Ron!!! And thank you to the Meiselas brothers for having such a kickass team! 💙

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Yes, but not so much here whjere we agree. Post pithy replies on their platforms. Otherwise, all they see is the stuff they like and don't question.

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Try 5 Calls App. Look them up ~ give scripts reps/senators and scripts. Look them up!

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I'm so frustrated by the Democrat's failure to hammer Trump and his minions on this stuff. I know the saying "lie down with dogs get up with fleas" but politics already has fleas so what would we lose? Get Jasmine Crockett and Jared Moskowitz and Eric Swalwell out there to preach - they aren't afraid.

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It is time to remind every single one of those elected in Congress they serve We, The People and NOT THE TYRANT KING AND HIS COURT JESTERS. Write every senator every day write Lankford and every senator sitting over confirmations about the dangers of Gabbard and Hegseth EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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Chop Wood, Carry Water Substack has an easy way to do it.

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I was beyond disappointed with Moskowitz, who posted a congratulations message to Elise Stefanik on X, complete with a picture of her. This is the same woman who calls the Insurrectionists hostages and is a full blown fascist now.

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Melody, could you post a link to that? I just looked at both their Xitter pages and didn’t see anything like that. I STRONGLY doubt that Moskowitz is cozying up to her in any way…could it have been just a common courtesy sort of handshake? He truly is one of the great hard*ss congress members!

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Fuckin prick, all floridian legislators are useless

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Yeah he did the same thing with Gates it's kind of hard to read Moskowitz whether he's joking / satirical or what but it's pretty weird I'd say slander her don't congratulate her

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Democrats are TERRIBLE on messaging. They have senior aging members in their caucases determining how they message. jasmine crockett ran for the head of a committee that does messaging and lost to a 71 year old Debbie Dingell that is on her third two year term doing it. It is time for a change in representation for the message. Every person that Trump nominated for his administraton has one thing in common ; they are strong in communication. Wake up democrats and change how you do things.

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Agreed we have, Democrats have got to be more forceful in their messaging and pushback on the lies. They got to start doing this. If it means getting someone younger and fiestier in there they need to do that that needs to happen.

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I’m so sick of screaming at my phone or my TV saying this very thing! Oh no, let’s not take a hard look at 67 bomb threats in the Democratic precincts in battleground states. Let’s not question ballots that didn’t bother to vote anything but trump.

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The magats think they are apex predators. They are the loud dog that humps everyone's leg at Thanksgiving to which they invited the Taliban.

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Exactly right. If they weren't scared of us, worried about us....they wouldn't be here, barking and biting.

They sure as hell don't act or sound like they think they've won, or are winning.

I find a direct corollation between the obviousness of Trump's horrific cabinet picks, and the criticism of them....and the volume and vitriol of his minions ramping up.

They're desperate to distract from what they've wrought....at least the smart ones are.

I find that to be a good sign.

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I was unaware that any MAGA were smart…..

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I'm sure.

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Remember when Republicans in 2016 were putting the fear of God that Sharia law was being taught in schools and states were running themselves, ragged, making new laws to protect Americans in the schools in the kids from this awful, awful, awful, awful Shira law. Remember how that panned out to be a big nothing. Somebody in the news media should dig up how many times Fox News reported on Shira law being brought to school systems near you just to throw it in their face that their fear tactics are nothing but scam jobs.

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You could have a whole series of shows exposing the lies on Fox that stirred the rights nitwits into a frenzy that went nowhere

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And the projection is a constant. How many times have Repubs tried to introduce prayer into public schools, and use public school funding for vouchers for religious private school tuition? There are current plans in red states for public schools to teach from the Bible

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I think Ron Filipkowski needs to expand his messaging further how Trump has promised to disband (again) any pandemic response agencies and how undoubtedly that will include ASPR (Administration for Strategic Preparedness that just announced a response strategy for preparedness for bird flu in humans) now that WormBrain Kennedy is involved.

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I’m so tired of this narrative about why the dems lost. Just speak the truth … millions of people would rather choose a felon/sexual assaulter/insurrectionist/dictator praising white man over a more than qualified black woman. The narrative that’s being pushed just doesn’t fly and I’m so grateful for those who call it for what it is.

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Let’s not forget that more votes were cast for someone other than him. We can stop giving his “mandate” and “landslide” bullshit oxygen. He wasn’t elected by a majority of voters that voted.

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I totally agree with what you're sayin here Ron....We on the left need to take off the kid gloves we always wear when trying to correct the damage caused by the GOP extreme and put on the "Brass Knuckles"....it's long past trying to play fair with these maga lowlifes....Dems....STOP BRING A BUTTER KNIFE TO A GUNFIGHT ! ....IT'S TIME TO GET REAL !

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This isn’t about “we on the left”. Anybody who is slightly left of Hitler is now considered the enemy within. If you put Harris’s policies side by side to Einsenhower she’s to the right! Of Ike for Godssakes.

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it doesn't concern everyone on the left ? ...you want to sit here and debate whether Harris is middle of the left or right by using a comparison of her policies with Eisenhower ?...what a f**king stupid comment....if you don't think this hasn't anything to do with the left coming together to fight against maga, you're a fool.....

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Guessing you haven’t been burdened with an abundance of education. It’s better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt. If you cannot comprehend the context and concept of a comment, scroll past. I don’t debate pigeons.

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maybe you're the one who sits in the park and feed the rats with wings ?...stop trying to make yourself smarter than you think you are...you surely aren't by the looks of your previous comments...don't be one that's stupid is as stupid does....wake up.

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Exactly bring an armored tank division to a knife fight

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It’s the same ole same ole. The Republicans come into power after the Democrats straighten everything out and take a wrecking ball to everything! It’s Dejavu all over again.

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Egg prices, gas pricies, whatever. Is it going to be fixable? CAN we undo the chaos that

🍊💩 & the repuklicans will do?? I think the Democrats missed the mark. They should have made PROJECT 2025 a main point. They should have made it so EVERYONE knew WHAT it IS!!! So many people I've talked to have said yeah, they heard about it but have no idea what it's about!!! Democrats BIG MISTAKE!!!

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They did talk about project 2025 a lot. Don't know how you missed that. Trump kept denying he knew anything about it and lying to his MAGAts that it wasn't his policy. (He had agenda 47 which was the same thing as project 2025). In fact, he began implementing project 2025 the last time he was in office. Overturning Roe was part of it.

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Exactly he / they lied non stop for at least 4 years. But more like 6

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I think a lot of people didn’t read it because it was so lengthy…big mistake.

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They DID make it a main point. Here’s the other point of fact (and I’m being kind) the willfully ignorant aren’t stupid, they just don’t want to believe they have been agreeing and buying into something so heinous so they pretend to not believe it. The useful idiots that parade around in their full daddy diapers with his face plastered across their ass? You just can’t fix stoopid. He tells them he loves his stupid voters and they cheer for themselves.

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