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You’re absolutely spot on. I had moments when I worried that Biden campaign knew something the rest of us didn’t, but now I recognize it’s a press and republican hit job. What would republicans do? They would NEVER APOLOGIZE. They would IGNORE and ATTACK. They would CHANGE the narrative. You’re right!

It’s time democrats get out of their own way. Trump has acted like a dementiad crazier-than-a-pet-coon psycho for years, and the press ignores. We need to move on.

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In September, Americans will start paying attention to politics, just like they always do 8 weeks before an election.

They look at Biden's economy? It's doing better than any other G7 economy.

They look at Trump's plans? A list of horse heads to leave in beds.

They look at Steve Bannon and The Heritage Foundation's 'Agenda 2025' plans? A Springtime for Hitler/The Handmaid's Tale vision that bans abortion & gay marriage & free speech.

Biden's old. He gets tired late at night and can't think on his feet.

Trump's old. He's been babbling demented nonsense for the last two decades. The producers at The Apprentice admitted they had to cut hours of Trumpian off-script wanderings to get a few minutes of something that Trump wasn't. The NY Times & Politico have done the same thing for the last 8 years. For the same reason as The Apprentice. To sell Trump as competent & focused.

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Fred, please read Joyce Vance’s “Civil Discourse” which dropped a short time ago. And ….. thank you for your brutal honesty. Time to pick up this ball and run with it!

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Middle-aged, white women, bitching UNITE! Says this middle-aged white woman bitching in a red leaning legislative district in Maricopa county Arizona!!! When I first moved to Chandler, AZ 24 years ago, I was afraid to tell anyone I was a Democrat. Now I'm pounding the pavement knocking doors, driving candidates around and trying to keep moms for 3ways, I mean moms for liberty off our CUSD school board and elect three strong women candidates to the school board who will keep all students' education funding and safety and freedoms at the forefront of policy making. Not discrimination and book banning!

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As a middle age white woman I say, yes we can! We have marched for fifty years and are not about to quit. I am going to register voters and knock on doors until we get it done. Biden-Harris and all blue for other races. Failure is NOT an option.

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Thank you Fred for your service, energy and Substack!

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1. Rational and enthusiastic Oklahomans in the tradition of Woody Guthrie, Will Rogers and the Henry family. About 30 years ago I was at an ABA event when Robert Henry, then on the 10th Curcuit Court of Appeals, spoke in favor of agency due process and judicial independence. Sounded like me! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Harlan_Henry Brad Henry is a former governor. Both could be state wide candidates. It could be that when cult members discover that they support an orange antichrist, who stole from kids with cancer and hates dogs, they'll have an epiphany. Maybe the fact that donations to the Trump campaign and the DNC fund Melania Trumps hairdresser at $18 M per month will rapture them.

2. State song. with apologies to Roges and Hammerstein,

He was born in Oklahoma

His wife's name is Betty Jo Thelma Liz

He's not responsible for what he's doin'

His mother made him what he is

[Chorus]

And it's up against the wall, redneck mother

Mother who has raised her son so well

He's thirty-four and drinkin' in them honky tonks

Just kickin' hippies' asses and raisin' hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI1sTyaErW0

Lyric by Ray Wiley Hubbard, sung by the late Jerry Jeff Walker.

I actually recommend"Oklahoma Hills" by Woody Guthrie and "if Your're Ever in Oklahoma" by JJ Cale.

3. Excuse my Senior Moments. https://danielsolomon.substack.com/p/senior-moments

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I am so offended by the Democrats who are going on tv to push Biden to step down. There is no doubt in my mind these backstabbers are doing so for one reason and that is to get face recognition to get on the ticket after they force Biden off or they have an agenda they think will get pushed by someone else. I will never vote to put any of these vultures in office.

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…”There is certainly no doubt Biden can govern. And govern well. He can’t campaign. The DNC can’t campaign. They don’t know how to. They want to educate, not entertain. They are out of touch with how our society has been conditioned the last 50 years. Then have the audacity to scratch their heads while displaying resting dick face as to why our populace only have proletariat ambitions lacking critical thought. They know the GOP got us there by gutting our public educational resources. We are lectured and virtue signaled upon it daily. But the party of the people can’t even relate to how fucked the people really are; and are incapable of relating to that fuckery!”

https://darryllamarkwright.substack.com/p/team-gaslight-denial-part-1maybe

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