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Functioning media. LOL Alex is doing parody now. The MSM hasn’t done journalism for like ever. They are nothing but a bunch of baying dogs looking for scraps to fall off the table of power so they can feel self important.

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Jul 24·edited Jul 24

Beautiful summation 👍 The whole of Democratic Party leadership, and MSM, is a sordid pack of sociopathic liars, misanthropes, and hypocrites projecting their malevolence onto U.S. conservatives. The consequences of their treasonous behavior is borne by we the people, including their own voters, who they hold in utter contempt. At some point it will come back to haunt them when justice is served. It will have to be divine justice since the system is rigged against us.

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Because I want to not take anti-emetics every time I see or hear a Democrat on TV or in the rest of the media I read this letter to the editor I wrote to the local newspaper in January 2020. Feel free to substitute Biden or Harris, Schumer or any of their other cast of demons or scandal or hoax du jour:

“I would love a remake of the movie “Liar Liar” as Impeachment version with Jim Carrey playing Adam Shifty Schiff. For 24 hours the person who can’t seem to tell the truth to save his life would have to tell the truth. Then we could finally hear how the Russiagate scam was orchestrated by Obama and Crooked Hillary with the help of their “Deep State” cronies to undo 2016 and influence 2018. Now Ukrainegate to coverup the Democrat cesspool of corruption and election meddling in Ukraine because their Presidential candidates are lamer than a year of casting clinics at an Orthopedic Hospital. The scene in the office could be a black and gold impeachment pen where he’d mention how expensive it is, but it cost less than Pelosi’s weekly Botox bill. The conference room scene could be with Pelosi at the head of the meeting with the Impeachment managers there. Wouldn’t have to change the dialogue. But the best would be the Men’s Room scene, before he goes out to the Senate floor, if they made it a very unconventional scene where Schiff plays himself, and “kicks his own a__”. It would be the box office hit of the year guaranteed! There are at least 63 million people, and more than a few both Democrat and Republican Congressmen that would love to see, and laugh hysterically at, Schiff throwing himself against the bathroom wall, and smashing his own head repeatedly with a toilet seat. Probably never happen, but the thought of it lifts my spirits!”

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Oh, it will be divine justice alright. Anyone who celebrates the murder of the unborn is definitely in the crosshairs of divine justice.

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Absolutely…it won’t be pretty! Biden and Pelosi, two pillars of The Culture of Death.

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When you have a government that has unlimited power (since the 1930s) with the press on board to advocate for an un-constitutionally unlimited government and to distort the founding documents to increase their power, today is the result.

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The press is on board only to advocate for the Dems. In a Republican Admin they drive the President crazy. Look what they did to Trump. Push the Russia Collusion BS knowing full well it was all BS

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Mainstream Media has one job -- To tell the population what the oligarchs in control want us to hear: https://unorthodoxy.substack.com/p/who-are-the-bad-guys

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Well duh, for most of us this is way old news. Like decades old. The point is that we cannot go on like this. The situation must change and there ARE those in the media who are there to change things. There are always those that are drawn to a field and go into it in ignorance of how it actually works, and then they wake up. Not many perhaps, but the house of cards IS falling and pointing out how things should be ideally is part of that, we need to see how it SHOULD be.

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Unfortunately, at 78 I won't be around to see the corporate media get its due. The days of true journalism are over and there's few to hold their feet to the fire.

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I still like that he wrote this. I hadn't thought of it this way before. Of course I agree that the media is complicit and total shit, but that didn't mean we shouldn't "demand" that the perform their important role. That's the whole point of this article about Harris and the VP role. I am assuming this isn't written out of naivety. We can ask that others with large audiences make this point. It's a violation of the constitution. Are we just supposed to throw up our hands in a cynical gesture of defeat? No! Cynicism is not an attribute of those that make real change, or repair a broken system. It's not blind hope in the legacy media, it's pointing out a negligence of duty by both the VP and the media. Imo.

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Agreed! And the way we demand it is to stop watching these bozos and hit their ratings.

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Exactly. Since before Walter Cronkite and others, the media were merely mouthpieces for authoritarianism. Bootlicking to get whatever scraps were thrown their way.

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Alas, someone that recognizes that this is far from a new phenomena. Ol' believable, reassuring and reliable Walter was far from neutral. I do feel that the overtness of the BS has ratcheted up recently, but thank God, sites like substack with actual journalists are here to offer thoughtful reporting.

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Is any of this really a surprise though? When you are after power, you will do anything for it.

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My hope is that Americans now understand that what passes for “politics” according to the self-styled champions of Our Democracy™ is basically a game rigged by insiders to select (not elect) a candidate of their choice; and that voters will punish Democrats’ mendacity and vote against the Democratic Party’s idea of democracy: conspiring in a years-long cover-up and one of the most egregious disinformation campaigns in world history to hide the fact that your electoral candidate and sitting President is cognitively compromised and mentally unfit, rigging the primary for that candidate by blocking alternatives, and then disenfranchising your own party voters by organizing a soft coup and overthrowing government processes to remove him once the coverup is exposed and the polling is not to your liking.

https://www.euphoricrecall.net/p/kamala-2024-what-can-be-unburdened

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You said it all. Unfortunately there are many Americans that can't be convinced that Dems don't have their best interests at heart, or even like them.

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Yes, and I seem to know a bunch of them. Hunker down, I think Que Mala will be president. God save the country.

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Jul 24·edited Jul 24

I just explained it to my daughter who voted for Biden in 2020. Biden lied about his ability to hold office, Kamala LIED about his ability also. Kamala took an oath to invoke the 25th Amendment which says it is her duty to report if the President is unable to serve in office because of impairment. Think about that before you vote. Kamala is a liar too, so will she tell you the truth if she is President?

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Most of them are women, screaming about project 2025 and telling me I am controlled by my husband because I vote republican. I'd laugh if it wasn't so sad. Yes, God help us all.

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@Amy (also my real name)- While I haven't been accused of being controlled by my husband because I an a proud Deplorable, I DO agree the left leaning women in my life are spewing crap about Project 2025 AND about women's rights. They simply don't get it, even when I tell them the Notorious RBG was against Roe vs Wade. They fall real silent after that tidbit.

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I have been told numerous times I vote against my own interests when I vote republican. That's another aspect of leftism I cannot abide, the idea that all groups are voting blocks with the same mind set. I am an individual with my own mind and wants/needs. THAT'S liberty.

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My husband hands me his ballot to fill in for him; he signs it and I mail it. My “liberal” friends would be mortified to hear this.

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I do my best to enlighten those types.

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The ones I know are beyond enlightenment.

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@suanee- Que Mala. I'm SOOO going to use that from now on. Muy bien!

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It works in Italian also. Che mala

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I have to admit I stole it.

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Respectfully, why ask if anyone is surprised? What is the point of that question? It smacks of an "I told you so" attitude. YES people are surprised!!! I have been a "truth seeker" for decades and consider myself very very awake to the corruption etc. Yet I didn't see this coming in exactly this way. The point is that we are all learning. All of us. Imo, and this is a bit woo woo, WE (humanity as a whole) actually is creating all of reality (both individually and collectively) in order to TEACH OURSELVES. Humans learn through experience, and unfortunately through crisis. It's drama, yes, but the experience is real. We should not be snooty (not saying you are) towards those waking up. We should support them and have compassion. That will get us much farther.

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@ Carolyn-I disagree. We are shocked but not surprised.

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Harris was the Invasion Czar. She excelled at bringing terrorists and criminals into our country. The biggest traitor since Aaron Burr.

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So, as "Border Czar", Kamala had that job, too, delegated to her by Joe. And she failed at that job, too.

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🎶sad, but true🎶....Metallica

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Brilliant! Impeachable.

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They're going to frame it as "big bad Biden administration kept the WOMEN out of the oval office! Not her fault! Biden's misogyny kept her out of the loop!"

Team Trump needs to focus on these sorts of issues, and how she was in the loop, and how she was responsible for raising the alarm on Biden's mental decline.

This is far more of an election issue than how many men she slept with to help her career.

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Somebody please look up "anesthesia-induced dementia." It often occurs when a person with cognitive problems undergoes surgeries that require anesthesia.

Biden had some sort of brain surgery several years ago. More than a few people claim he's had cosmetic surgery.

If he was already exhibiting cognitive problems at the time of these procedures, his dementia could be the result.

FURTHER, this condition can devolve into Parkinson's dementia.

How do I know to suggest these conditions? My mother displayed all the same problems six years ago. She died nearly five years ago. Her dementia progressed rapidly.

I was stunned in 2019, watching Biden walk. I said then, OMG. He's walking like my mother did before she went into "memory care."

The dim-witted VP knew. Biden's family knew. I'm sure the entire medical staff at Walter Reed knew. And they knew it at least FIVE YEARS AGO.

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If the party elders were doing their job four years ago, Biden wouldn't have been allowed to run in the first place.

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Party elders! LOL. Oh wait a minute, can't throw shade yet, Mitch McConnell is our Achilles heel!

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Thank goodness this is Mitch's last hoorah.

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Good reminder of additional players (medical staff) who had a responsibility to the country, not simply the President and his family.

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To wit: The doctor who in a Feb 2024 said Biden was fit and fully capable of fulfilling the duties of his job. Not a Walmart greeter. President of the United States. I don’t know that Joe could successfully greet at Walmart at this point, but he sure as hell cannot function as President.

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This article should be shared everywhere. CNN and national networks are lulling us into ignoring her dereliction of duty. God save America!

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And now Axios is trying to pretend that she was never named border czar

They literally are trying to wipe it off of public record.

https://x.com/yashar/status/1816144758953369978

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God please, why? Why are there constant references to CNN, NSNBC et al? Stop it, It only keeps them somewhat relevant. Most critically thinking people already know that they're propaganda machines. I don't feel that keeping their brands relevant, even if it is in a bad light, is going to stop them. No such thing as "bad" publicity.

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I get your point, why give them credibility by begging them to ask these questions. I get it and don't disagree that it gives them credibility. Ignoring them (as I do) is powerful. But, I think that there are "rebels in the system" that are waking up, and all the somewhat independent media out there would do well to read this post. Just one example, Megyn Kelly could get a really great discussion going about this point. Basically just saying that we can't let cynicism prevent us from speaking up.

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Unfortunately, there are a lot of book smart people who are not critical thinkers, and they absolutely do not know that MSM is propaganda. They absolutely believe everything they hear on MSM, and never listen to an opposing opinion. It’s sickening.

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At a minimum the article myst be read by Mike Johnson's chief of staff, so that a legal case can be developed in the a[propriate House Committee. The Senate is controlled by Schumer, but that doesn't mean Mitch McConnell should refain from taking up the argument. The MSM and much of thel eftist social media will not touch this, but X should post it now..

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It doesn't have to be sent to the Speaker. Most in Congress are lawyers. They know all about the 25th Amendment. Remember some called for it to be used on Trump? The problem has always been Republicans in Congress. When Trump was President they would not all join together and support him. They didn't present a united party. McConnell was against him and he was Speaker of the Senate. Romney was against him. McCain was against him even though Trump agreed to endorse him his last term before he died. There are others, but you get the point. My sister-in-law says that the Dems could put a piece of poop on a stick and all Democrats would back it. I think they all did that with Joe.

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Just go look at CNN website today. The top story is all you need to know about MSM. 🤢

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What is the most stunning to me is the adulation of Harris by the left. "I'm with her" is back with a vengeance. The social media left is in complete lock step. They are telling us white women to vote for her if we know what's good for us (only abortion, apparently). Like Trump or hate Trump, the republicans had a freaking primary. The dems have had a coronation, it seems. Please, tell me more about how republicans are a threat to democracy.

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Re: that flood of donations pouring into the Kamala campaign ...

ALEX, are you aware that the Harris Campaign does NOT require people type in their CVV code when they make an online gift? This is against all protocol that requires this step - and from what I understand it makes it much easier to get overseas and illegal gifts.

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More precisely, I have seen documentary type reporting on this: that donations are made using people's names (MANY small donations) and the 'donors' are not aware of this. They just need an eligible NAME to 'launder' the money.

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That's concerning.

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Interesting🤔

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"Reporters should ask"

but they won't...

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Jul 24·edited Jul 24

If this isn't taken up sooner, it should be the first debate question she is asked, and it should be RFK Jr asking it.

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Once she chooses a running mate, he, too, should be asked until he answers, "Do you understand this constitutional duty?How will you fulfill it?"

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Rumour is that it's going to be Buttigieg as a running mate with Harris.

He doesn't understand his current duties now - he'll never muster the ability to understand his role as VP.

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The government is like the mafia, it offers no show jobs. How many times was Pete missing when there was a transportation problem? How many times did Kam go to the border when she was Border Czar?

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"The government is like the mafia, it offers no show jobs. "

As a Sopranos fan, I appreciate this comment.

And 100% true.

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shared this in another comment, but now, apparently - well according to Axios anyway - she was never border czar...

https://x.com/yashar/status/1816144758953369978

Stalin and Goebbels would be proud.

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Clay and Buck just played the audio of when Biden announced her as Border Czar. He did name her. She was border czar. Do you remember when Lester Holt of NBC asked her if she had been to the border yet? He considered her the border czar. She told him no and then added "I haven't been to Europe either. " She laughed and said something like I don't know what your point is.

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Oh yes I do remember her interview with Holt - saw it replayed on twitter today and while the logical side of my brain thought "this is vapid and an obvious deflection from the nature of the question he was posing"

However, a lot of women (and I say this as a woman myself), will find that same interview just so witty and funny and rElAtAbLe (for example: https://x.com/clairlemon/status/1815933856018751885)

God help us.

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Beer with Bush, margarita with QueMala

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Can you link to that audio before it gets wiped away?

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I heard it on the radio when I was running errands. Clay and Buck have a podcast. Maybe you can find it there.

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You meant it offers "no-show jobs"?

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You are right!, I'm reasonably sure that show jobs are a reality. Witness Pete and the Dept. of Trans.

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Yes. Did I leave out the hyphen? I've been typing fast.

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Mayor Pete-upchuck. Would not surprise, however. More incompetence advancing.

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OMG.... what a laugh 🤣 the cackling hyena and the kid from MAD magazine.

Seriously though.....We're doomed of she and whoever are elected.

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It's like the cast and crew from the Island of Broken Toys running the country

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Alex, As long as we are asking questions, she had one additional job; Early on in the Biden term she was appointed Border Czar. She has essentially never been to the border. It became 100% porous under her Czarship. So at her one assigned task (besides being a putatively cognizant body-in-waiting) she was a complete failure. So now there are TWO things about which to ask her that the press will studiously avoid.

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The MSM is trying to scrub mention of her job as Border Czar. I saw it somewhere this evening but didn’t note where. Maybe on Substack.

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This country has had no real leaders for almost 4-years. It is being run by oligarchs, tech titans, the media and the deep state bureaucracy. We are being run like a 3rd world country, is it any wonder things are going to Schitt.

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The New York Times put more time and effort investigating the complaints of Mrs. Alito’s Karen neighbor about her flags. The Times will not ask Kamala anything more probing than her favorite flavor of ice cream.

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@Alex has brought some #wise people to this platform….#BRILLIANT ‼️

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This is a 100% spot on it. It should be political dynamite, but in the real world swamps that run America ~ dynamite has a hard time exploding. Jeez you really couldn't make this shit. The whole things runs like a really bad B movie!

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