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Thanks for your reply, but it seems we have no basis for communication. You've ignored everything I've documented, otherwise you'd never have made the statement that I "conveniently forget Trump trying to get us out of Syria, or that the deep state lied to him." The fact that he was so easily "lied to" and accepted the lies is reason alone that he should've resigned. I'm very well informed on his actions in office involving US foreign intervention esp. his monstrous treatment of Syria. Assuming he "tried," "trying" and failing miserably is another reason he should've resigned. You're describing a pathetic human being. Especially in Trump's case since in 2016 he said he was the only candidate strong enough to stand up to the establishment, would roll back US "big, stupid, bully" foreign intervention. It's not complicated. If he couldn't do what he promised, fine, it happens, he should've resigned and moved on. Your saying "none of us like how Trump was played by the establishment" just adds to your portrayal of a person who doesn't belong in elected office.

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Susan you continue to rant and rant with basically the same message....Trump is a historically bad and incompetent man (a pathetic human being in your words) and you are personally offended by such a man. Does Joe Biden and his Neoliberal/Neocon pals tearing this country apart offend you too? You never seem to say much about them just Never Trump attacks. Does a bought and paid for GOPe candidate like DeSantis, Pompeo, Haley, Pence or any other of the cast of losers who promise big things for their donors, but not so much for the country class, fit your Manhattan sensibilities so much better? There are many things I don't like about Trump, but I also believe fervently that he stood no chance to enact many of the things he promised given the widespread opposition to his presidency. Do you even appreciate how high the cards were stacked against him from his party and his opposition? He achieved quite a number of policy winds that benefitted many in this country especially the struggling middle class. I objected to his daughter and son-in-law participating and having an impact on policy. They did him no favors and were in fact a drag on his administration with Jared as the typical two-faced, self-interested husckster looking to cash in. To refute line by line your accusation of failures is a fools game for anyone since your maniacal hatred would seem to be unchangeable and no facts or evidence would be sufficient to change that hatred you possess.

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I've actually begun to wonder whether "susan" might be one of my brothers.

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brother from another Mother, perhaps? Thanks for the chuckle and we need the levity in these challenging times. I appreciate all you do for those of us who avidly look forward to each and one of your very informative posts.

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If you believe what I've said isn't factual, you're free to provide links to the contrary. Making personal remarks about me doesn't advance your case. As I've said, my blogs are still posted, I'd be happy to provide links for you.

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"Ah, Manhattan?" Therefore what? I'm erased? I've been a registered Republican in Manhattan for a few decades, information which anyone can check. Being in Manhattan allowed me to be a Trump fan for many years. I cited his accomplishment with the Wollman rink on my blogs supporting him in 2015 and 2016 which are still posted. On 11/8/2016 I stood in line at my polling place on Manhattan's East Side which is where most Manhattan Republicans live.

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Since you can't dispute what I've written, your response is to ignore it and write it off as dislike of Trump. Why would you want to dispute reality? I live in Manhattan. During 2015-2016 I spent all my time on my blogs (which are still posted and I'd be happy to provide you links) looking for positive news to post about him. Times were different then. It was almost impossible to find half decent pictures of him. Today media is flooded 24/7 with flattering photos of him. Sometimes the only photo of a rally I could find was maybe one guy in a gym. In 2016 it was supposed to be about us, not Trump. He simply should've resigned if he couldn't do what he promised.

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

Trump is an imperfect messenger, to be sure, because he is human, but superior in every other way. The opposition are a bunch of idiots. They asked themselves could this be done, but did not ask should this be done. I got that from someone else commenting on the net. Tucker is not mistaken, but he gives the impression that the forces against Trump are formidable, and furthermore that they are the warmongers. Some are, but it is a mixed bag. Why shut down Afghanistan? The climatistas, the jihadists, the anti-Americans, the woke and the dogma Marxists all have a place at the table, together with various faddists too numerous to mention.

Now FDR was a genius. An evil genius to be sure, but he concealed his handicap, fostered Crony Capitalism even to trading with the enemy, did all he could to prevent Jews surviving the Holocaust, practically created the Great Depression with his New Deal, had us unprepared for the War and conducted it badly, nor did he prevent the Cold War, and is all the while perceived by possibly the majority of Americans as our Saint and our Savior. He had fireside chats regularly and knew the value of cultivating his public image. Now he was a politician!

We are all too aware of our present government's failures, and have ample articles telling us how they hate us and are incompetent and corrupt. Half the Country considers them illegal, having stolen the election and they in return have severely punished those who dare to hold that way. We are denied the protection of the law, but it is freely employed against us. For their Big Brother they chose Biden, a pathetic, hateful and corrupt individual.

Whatever credit you may give them for being able to pull it off, thanks almost entirely to how much of the Establishment they represent, it does not seem particularly intelligent to lose public support by the blatant in-your-face exercise of their power, as by this indictment.

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Great Tucker commentary but I think the Deep State went after him even before the heretical comments on Iraq. FBI was already on his case in ‘15. Maybe they just were looking for blackmail in case he won.

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Deep State went after Fox you mean.

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Sorry for the bad link. It's fixed.

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I found him noting the pivotal point being when Trump said, no wmd and they knew it, fascinating. I haven't been able to quite square Bush's betrayal of us by siding with Obama and Clinton- this makes it make sense to me.

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Good point

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Sadly Trump cannot win even over a senile Communist enabler

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I'm very sorry Tucker is selling Trump as anti-war which is false and unhelpful. As I've previously posted with links, Trump was totally powerless for 4 years, most specifically when it came to war or military matters. In Aug. 2017 House & Senate led by Trump's pal Lindsey Graham voted nearly unanimously to remove all Russia decisions from Trump and reassign them to the Senate. In front of the whole world, Trump's election was effectively nullified. In July 2017 newly invigorated warmonger Trump went on tv and announced he'd changed his mind, now thinks endless Mid East wars are necessary. Deep State had zero worries with Trump because he immediately became a worse neocon than McCain. Along with hiring Elliott Abrams he was just as vicious as any Reagan-Bush era murderer. Trump bombed Syria twice for no reason except apparently to be patted on the head by WaPo. The selling of Trump as anti-war is sickening. His words are meaningless. As to statements he made as a 2016 candidate, he frequently contradicted himself--which I knew but still voted for him (the only time). As a 2016 candidate, every single day he unconditionally promised desperate Americans that he'd begin building a wall on day one. If he'd once said he'd have to ask congress permission to build the wall, I'd never have listened to another word he said and wouldn't have voted for him. No one would cheer for someone who merely said, "I promise to ask congress for a wall." Nor would anyone have cheered if Trump "promised" to make Jared de facto president. Nor would anyone in 2016 have cheered if Trump bragged that without provocation that in Jan. 2020 he'd assassinate an Iranian general and his staff while they were on a business trip to Iraq. If Trump found that for whatever reason he was unable to do what he promised voters, he should simply have resigned. Instead, he wasted 4 years. Not only did he fail to do what he promised, he spent most of 2020 sitting on television with Fauci or Jared. In 2020 Jared cancelled tv ad buys in battleground states late in the campaign, claiming the campaign was out of money. Trump knew of this and complained that he needed more donors. Still, the billionaire only gave $8021. of his own money to the 2020 campaign. He did accept $2.5 million from Karl Rove. RNC/WinRed/Trump/Kushner has now become a giant parasite on the country. He failed to deliver what he promised in 2016 and should've left the public stage. The US is effectively a military dictatorship anyway, the Pentagon answers to no one. As Angelo Codevilla made clear, absolutely no one in the Beltway is the slightest bit "afraid" of Trump who in any case was all guns blazing when Ukraine started, saying Biden was much too easy on Russia. Then Trump bragged multiple times that Russia would never invaded Ukraine when he was president because Putin was afraid of him, because Trump had told Putin he would bomb all those pretty turrets in Moscow Square if he dared go into Ukraine. When Trump says these things, no one reminds him that all matters concerning Russia were taken away from him. This includes Tucker. I watched a long interview he did w. Trump shortly before his Fox exit, and I was shocked that he let Trump go on and on about his genius dealing with Russia, never interrupted him once, not one word. It was sickening. I can only assume no one is questioning him because they all want him to be the GOP nominee, know that he'll still be powerless and are fine with it. In 2017 Trump authorized sending javelins to Ukraine to kill Russians which even Obama wouldn't do.

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You conveniently forget Trump trying to get us out of Syria, or that the deep state lied to him about chemical attacks to get him to bomb Syria.

Even never-Trump David French conceded that bombing the Iranian general was legal.

Trump never said he was a pacifist. Instead, unlike neocons, he understood that America didn't need to respond to every pinprick, but should reserve the use of force for when it mattered.

None of us like how Trump was played by the establishment, and most of us recognize that he shoulders some blame for his personnel choices. But with that it is also necessary to acknowledge how very few options there are in DC, how the Senate's 'advice and consent' function is a real challenge for overcoming the deep state, and how the constitution's separation of powers has on the one hand protected us but now makes it nearly impossible to fix the government now that we see how far off course it is.

It sounds like you're just pissed off that Trump wasn't the dictator that the establishment claims him to be.

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Susan Mullen, to use a common phrase, "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"

I get it, in the above comment and many previous, you thoroughly deplore the man and everything he has ever done or not done.

I agree entirely with MikeyinFL below.

I wish you well in all your future endeavors.

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Sorry to tell you that I completely disagree with almost everything you state here. Without spending a lot of time rebutting your comments, I would just point out that so much has gone off the rails since they frauded Trump out. Sure he made some poor decisions, but a lot I chalk up to him trusting the swamp rats that surrounded him. I just ask, if not Trump, then who? Joe Traitor, Gruesome Newsome, some other true deplorable ? He’s the only choice as far as we should be concerned to even have some shot a cleaning house.

By the way Jay Valentine has a great article on fraud this morning:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/06/the_2024_reality_tv_show_to_blow_up_leftist_election_fraud.html

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Valentine's articles simultaneously fill me with hope and despair.

Like...somebody gets it, but..I'm not sure I believe they can actually interdict all the phantoms.

Here's a good one:

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/01/2024_republicans_on_course_to_get_blown_out_by_phantoms.html

It's all about the tech needed to stop the democrats, but he doesn't understand that the Republicans aren't just looking the wrong way, but are actually willing to lose for as long as it takes to run the populists out of the party.

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Good article - his thesis is with Kari Lake he gets above the 5%, where cheating is problematic.

And by Kari Lake fighting in Az this should stop that level of fraud at the state level.

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I am awed by the courage of media people like Tucker and Rogan, politicians like Trump, Matt Gaetz and Kari Lake, all those amazing doctors like Malone and McCullough, journalists like Taibbi, Shellenberger, Hersh and Greenwald, and the many ordinary people who come forward as whistleblowers, who risk their lives, livelihoods and reputations to tell us the truth. It takes tremendous strength and resilience to do this. They know the Deep State will come after them with everything they have - phoney indictments, jail sentences, tax audits, taking away your medical licence, sacking you from your job, or just subjecting you to relentless character assassination and ridicule. We all owe them a tremendous debt of gratitude ❤️

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When there's a crisis, you sure learn who your REAL friends are.

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Brilliant Tucker. Long Live “Ain’t gonna study war no more” Trump, whose “sins are minor compared to those of his persecutors.”

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

why cant Tucker call out the DARPA, DOD countermeasures rollout? why does he misdirect to evil China?

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Hopefully he will in Future programs on Covid, sigh, what a corrupt mess.

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Today I felt compelled to stop what I was doing and pray for President Trump, probably at the same time as he went to his hearing. I prayed for him to put on the armor of God and remain strong. I prayed that he would be protected and that the Holy Spirit would enfold him and keep him calm during this corrupt and foul proceeding. I don't think I ever felt such an urgent call to prayer. May our Lord continue to guide and direct this man who has gone through so much.

Sometimes I can't believe this sickening time we are living through -- it is so hard to watch what has happened to our country and realize that men we are supposed to respect, like Bill Barr, Mike Pompeo, et al., deserve nothing but our contempt. I can't believe that there is so much hate directed at us --people who believe in our Constitution, the Rule of Justice and Law, and free speech. I can't believe the liars who occupy and run institutions like our once admired FBI or the Justice Department. Washington, DC, is now the septic tank of America.

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It's so blatant and in-your-face too. Incredible.

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

First you have to restore voting integrity:

- one election day/

- one vote per person in the district where they actually have their primary residence/

- strict signature verification for verified and absolutely necessary absentee ballots/

- universal free voter ID/

- properly printed paper ballots/

- no vote tabulators or other electronic voting machines/

- observers from both parties at every vote counting station/

- no vote harvesting).

- Jay Valentine's articles at American Thinker re: voter registration anomalies and how to fix them are quite reasonable, to my mind.

I've probably left out some things, so please feel free to add to my list.

Note: The RNC's solution is to expand vote harvesting - what a joke.

This is a heavy left and will not happen before 2024 - the Second Coming is more likely.

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

Fixing voting won't fix the system. We can no longer vote our way out of this. The strongest MAGA President possible will be powerless in the face of the Deep State. Sometimes I hope that the Q nutjobs are right and that the military really is in control, ready to clean house. Unfortunately, I doubt it. We need to rebuild from the ground up. I think a fact-finding mission to the Amish is in order here.

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True. Voting alone can't do it. That's the lie of "democracy". Form over content/substance is never the answer. But it can be a signal to others.

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If the system if fixed in the Dems' favor, the only signal we can give to others is that the Dems are cheating and that voting is no longer the solution. That might push the normies into radical action. Might.

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The gauntlet was thrown down by Tucker. Eisenhower warned us, as he left office in 1960, but JFK's death seemed to extinguish the flame. Tucker is blowing on the embers.

https://youtu.be/Gg-jvHynP9Y

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“JFK's death seemed to extinguish the flame.”

That and, as has become clearer to me of late, Nixon’s impeachment. He too had a target on his back for plans to put a leash on the Deep State.

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it also started the tit for tat political law/warfare where the injured party seeks to find retribution by attempting to take out their opponent. Each administration is subject to impeachment actions by the party out of office. The Democrats achieved the ultimate by chasing Nixon out of the white house and now they have upped the anti by indicting Trump after having chased him out of the white house through corrupt hoaxes and cheating at the ballot box. Indicting Trump appears to be the first steps in the real end game which is a fully authoritarian single party system. We are experiencing a Penthouse Bolshevik revolution that, at least at this moment, we are powerless to stop.

I recall the typewriting exercise, "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country." Seems to be appropriate here.

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Jun 14, 2023·edited Jun 14, 2023

Still waiting for the gop reaction beyond words…

I feel like I’m watching “waiting for godot”

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They're just feeding their strongly-worded letter through Grammarly

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Yes.

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I see, said the blind man.

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......to the deaf mute as he picked up his hammer and saw.

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Beautifully put

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