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I don't think the implications of the threats were noted, much less assimilated.

I am entering Ukraine shortly to volunteer. I am honored and humbled to be here.

I am also disgusted, outraged, and heartbroken that the US as a whole was not able to see through the trump-Vance BS.

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Wow! I really admire you. Please stay safe!

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As an American, I feel responsible for the harm we will cause to so many in our nation, to democratic nations around the world, and to the planet itself. 

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And as a British citizen, I feel ashamed of the sycophantic words of congratulation sent by our Prime Minister Keir Starmer this morning. "We stand shoulder to shoulder in defence of our shared values of freedom, democracy and enterprise"?? Good grief!

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Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. 🇪🇺

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So close they stab you in the back, I fear!

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Watch your back when dealing with lying fascists. 👻

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Heads of state have to be diplomatic. I read his statement as a reminder of what is expected of my country, America.

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Keith Olbermann will do a full podcast about this tomorrow. In his preview he said we MUST treat this as an Act of War ... and I agree. I will call The White House in the morning and use social media to demand Joe Biden take action against this attack. Sadly, I do not think the America of today is like the America that was attacked by the Japanese in 1941. I do not think we have what it takes to respond as if this was an assault by our greatest enemy... an enemy with the added element of being FRIENDS WITH DONALD TRUMP. I hope I am wrong. I hope Joe Biden is up to the challenge... and that Kamala Harris is as well. Reporting is she will not address the American people until sometime on Wednesday. I pray that the core message she delivers is: "Russia interfered with our election. We MUST fight back!" .... and then Joe Biden and she will say what they are going to do.

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I agree with you but doubt seriously that anything will be done about it. Biden is afraid of "provoking" Putin.

Ashamed to be an American.

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Neither you nor I know what Biden will actually do. I choose to remain optimistic until I see factual evidence he has chosen to do nothing. That's just how my autistic brain works.

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Naturally nobody knows what he will do. I based my opinion on his demonstrated aversion to conflict and confrontation. This situation is new, but if nearly three years of back peddling on Ukraine (following his wonderful initial reaction) is indicative, then the most he will do is issue a warning or unleash Mr. Milktoast Garland’s DoJ. Vladimir Putin is no doubt quaking in his boondockers over either prospect.

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Nobody with a conscience likes the idea of sending young people to their likely deaths in war.

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Steve, well said! 100%!

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Dude, it is over. Sigh. The GOP is going to hand our car keys to Putin. We now have to organize a resistance.

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Is there an encrypted version of Substack? WhatsupStack?

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Trump’s world is a man’s world but #WomensRights are still #HumanRights whether they like it or not. 🗽 #NotGoingBack

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I'm with you 100%!

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https://newpittsburghcourier.com/2024/11/07/a-r-shaw-kamala-harris-proved-to-be-a-better-candidate-but-was-failed-by-american-racism-and-sexism/ A.R. Shaw: Kamala Harris proved to be a better candidate, but was failed by American racism and sexism

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Alas, this has been pretty typical experiences for our generation of women. The unprepared, loud braggart gets the job over the thoughtful, well-prepared woman who has studied hard.

- Lynn, NYT commenter reacting to the results of the 2016 presidential election.

Sometimes the fight takes a while 😸

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The orange blob asked "Are you listening, Russia?" They were involved long before and he knew it. They can't eliminate all of us before the next mid-terms. The 100 day machine we have created must be kept moving. Tom Cleaver of TCinLA posted Thomas Paine a few minutes ago.

We are near the shore of the Delaware. It is cold.

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I waited up hoping you would write something about the threats. Thank you for sharing this small note tonight / morning. 🇺🇸

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To awaken this morning and see the U.S. map with so many “red” states is sickening. That so many people would vote for this depraved man is unconscionable.

Add to that the Russian bomb threats, which I read about earlier on Joyce Vance’s Substack, and the people who were denied their vote, in fear of their lives. Yes, they must have a chance to vote. How did we get here? There is still a slim chance VP Harris can win. I’m holding out hope.

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Putin knows that he can control us now that he controls his puppet Trump!

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I m thinking now about Ukraine, Taiwan, South Korea, and Israel. Turkey could take Kurdistan. Who will stop the aforementioned if not the US?

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I was reading just the other day about Putin asking Musk to turn off the Star-link satellites over Taiwan, as a favor to Xi. The guy who holds a security clearance to launch DoD payloads also has a solid-doing relationship with America's adversary. So much for contracting out.

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Amen to that. While our government agencies have not been as efficient as we would hope or like they are agencies that work within the confines of the constitution. Elon Musk is one of the wealthiest people on earth & as such he thinks he can do whatever he damn well pleases & with puppet trump at the helm Putin will tell trump that Elon is going to do him a small favor & there goes StarLink in Ukraine & StarLink over Taiwan & South Korea.

NATO will be hollowed out by trump just pulling us out & Putin can run rampant through Europe. Chi will do what he wants with Taiwan, & South Korea will be absorbed into the Korea.

Won't American be surprised when their TVs & cell phones cars manufactured in South Korea just go away. Oh, I forgot, we can still get them only 20% higher in cost unless trump has someone whisper in his ear that 30 or 40 or 50% will be much better.

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The key to contracting out public services is that they not be *essential* public services--once the in-house capacity withers (NASA) he's got us... .

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This is a huge win for Putin.

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Yes. I am as well...holding out hope. No one can take that from me.

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Supreme Court, Senate and House. Immunity. He will be completely untethered.

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We must face some hard truths in the coming days. I’m interested in hearing what mental health experts say about Trump’s win. Americans had a clear choice even with all the far right media propaganda. Trump showed America exactly who he is. We cannot blame Harris or her campaign or the Democratic Party. They gave it their all. I think misogyny played a bigger role in Harris’s defeat than we expected. It was baked into the Trump campaign and deserves to be examined in depth. It was orchestrated from the top. It is one of those hard truths we must face. Others will become clearer as we go forward.

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Do you follow Bandy Lee? She heads a coalition of Mental Health professionals that have written and spoken out about Trump. www.bandylee.com

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Thanks. I will go to her website.

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Also Mary Trump

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I want a plan to address the interference. We can “do bad all by ourselves,” obviously. But as sad as I feel, and as hard as it is to listen to this drivel from WPB this morning, I am really concerned for countries who rely upon us (and have a right to do so) - and the fact that we do need to move quickly with an investigation of Musk as well. Thanks for checking in.

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Maybe they start with a hotline, as others head to court, for all those who left the polls or decided they could not go as a result of threats.

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I read about the bombs planted on DHL Planes by supposedly GRU in Germany and Poland, some planes bound for the US and Canada. It raises the hysteria stateside, even if just a hoax. Terrorism is a tool to be managed. And now it can be used to influence an American Presidential election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/world/europe/russia-plot-dhl-planes.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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Remember Chechnya and the Apartment Bombing the spurred Russian invasion. And the Reichtag Fire, 1933.

Once True flies out the window, the facts are but levers of manipulation and cascading control.

Do not doubt the lure of corruption. We are experiencing it in Real Time!

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We are now on the verge of electing, for the first time in our history, a man who does not believe in any of the foundations of our Republic - democracy, the Constitution, or the rule of law. There will be much talk of racism, sexism, the economy, the border, Russian interference, Democratic mistakes, the internet, the media, and all the rest. But at the bottom, there is only this one glaring fact. A majority of Americans, for whatever reason, failed to defend America from this man and his badly distorted vision of the nation we were designed to be.

There is a chance that this will prove our salvation - that Trump will validate that old curse to those who supported him; Be careful what you ask for - you may get it. As a nation, we have always been notoriously short-sighted, and now I think we will pay some conclusive price for that. We can only hope that Trump’s presidency will make that price just high enough, but not too high. .

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This is precisely what I have been thinking. Beyond all else he's an invader When we say "defend America" we mean the implicit social agreement, the social contract we have that binds us as a nation. Using all kinds of lies and taking advantage of vulnerabilities he has conned Americans to forget, if they ever knew or really took to heart, what makes this country, if you will, great. Or did. This is a test on us.

Perhaps people are not ready for a woman president, or a black/ Asian woman president. What was the threat? He called her a fascist and a communist neutering HIS threat. Hate and fear are very powerful emotions. If we learn and come out of this it will not be without a price. Yes, now Trump will have it all save the resistance. Save the resistance!.

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There is so much Putin propaganda working on really, really stupid people. I'm thinking we might as well enjoy what's left of life, before it all implodes.

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It’s not going to all implode from Putin any more than stupid people here if which there seems to be too many. Trump has shown that.

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I kinda feel like something is up. It's just all odd. Or is that wishful thinking that somebody somewhere has this under control.

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Putin, Musk, Thiel.

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What a terrifying combo.

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Zillionaire Boys' Club

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It’s going to be a restless night. I’m thinking about endless show trials prosecuted by Jim Jordan upon political rivals. Blackmailing of foreign and domestic leaders. Endless grifting. Project 2025. Shut down the dept of education, the EPA gone. RFK Jr head of HHS and CDC. Brain drain. Tariffs inflation, deportations lead to economic collapse. Oligarchy. Peter Theil in charge of ceremonial elections. Yeah, we are going to need an underground resistance.

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Declan Lichtman, history prof at American University

Best after action and analysis thus far

https://www.youtube.com/live/WuOkzSI9ySo?si=IEYv10yX0hIeVa2T

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Russia has interfered 3 times in the last three elections. Trump has interfered 3 times in the last three elections. We’ve had this information for years. Trump was convicted of ELECTION INTERFERENCE not just hush money. Harris was blamed for a border bill Trump killed as he needed to run on this and for Putin’s help because said bill had funding for Ukraine, the economy he left Biden with after a dormant two years he handed out corporate welfare and then failed on Covid leaving the economy a mess, but that stimulus check was signed by him…it was taxpayer dollars…and a war that has had consequences for several presidents that Harris was yet another admin that supported Isreal, and the best, to date, option for land was under Clinton and YA walked away with no counter. This is American hatred for themselves through Trump and get to blame someone like migrants or accept his rape conviction and ELECTION INTERFERENCE conviction for his own fraud claims. To keep himself out of going to trial. It’s Enough. We knew, have known, his own admin wrote a 1000 page report on their interference in 16, if ya can’t swallow Barr lying about the Mueller report, so as Democrats we needed to do something sooner. Musk has security clearance and contracts with our taxpayer dollars and hands a million bucks to vote for Trump and runs X. It’s a national security threat and conflict of interest that should have been shut down at “Trump and Musk have had several contacts with Putin about WTF knows”. Let the low income low info voters love him so much they haven’t read his economic agenda to know they just gave him their union jobs, retirement, taxes, and freedom. We’re now 1990’s Russia and Putin didn’t need to go to war with us as we just destroyed ourselves for him. And throw Xi in the mix who owns TikTok, sideways, and an investor of that mess provided Trump his tax fraud bail money. No, folks, this time around none of us are snowflakes but we’re too GD complacent and I’m fed the F up. No way bro calling people’s mothers trash, poison, lazy, deadbeat birthers and gets this win. No fkn way. GD stupid American people who don’t understand what they have done.

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Sorry to say, the voters know exactly what they want. They want to stop the clock and a return to Cave Men and their grip on women.

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No one has mentioned Trump’s age. If he doesn’t die in the first 2+ years , they will 25 th amendment him, and Vance will have a chance at 9+ years as president. There will be no real voting it will be the Russian type of voting.

We must start fighting for big change now. In two years we will have a chance to get the house and senate back. Start the organization and running good people now! The longer they have in the public eye the better chance we have to get them elected.

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Whew! Feel better. Then make sentences.

Sincerely, also fed up

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Fuck grammar. Sorry for the expletive but are you fkn serious?

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Incoherent dummy. Sentences are good. However you get your fucking emotional point across. Would make sense if you wrote sentences.

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