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“And we won’t ignore what our intelligence agents have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today: White supremacy is terrorism.”

/ President Joseph R.Biden

April 28, 2021

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-dept-now-expected-charge-more-500-capitol-riot-probe-n1265095?fbclid=IwAR0MOBaCAXL52UE2KcEDKONS80CRGo--_71g8HBf2Xx_kX7Wri8U_a9ZiHQ

Thank you Donald Trump for flushing the deplorable moles out of their hidey-holes and parading their insurrectionist faces in the most heavily surveilled space on the planet so they can be systematically identified, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned.

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Apr 29, 2021Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

What was so much fun was watching the Republicans being steam-rollered into nothingness. Because Biden knows so many of them personally, they have absolutely no way to blackmail him or threaten him with some silly punishment for doing his job.

It was just so refreshing and wonderful to see a man who knows what he's doing talking to us. Thank god we elected the right guy. Mitch is depressed because he backed the wrong guy, and his party is falling apart-and he can't do a damn thing about it. Great column, Lucian!

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Apr 29, 2021Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

“a contemptible Kentucky cowpie”: What a magnificently apt line, Lucian, and nobody else could have written it. With respect to Biden, whom I never voted for until he won the nomination last year, his performance thus far as President is testament to the sometimes unfathomable mysteries of human character. Having put his foot in his mouth for decades, he suddenly is exactly the right person for the moment, the very personification of gravitas. I am so grateful that his time has come, because his time is our time.

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Apr 29, 2021Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Is it possible that some blue collar republicans will wake up and realize that Biden’s legislation will help them? Or do they only listen to Fox News about their four hamburgers a year? Or are so racist, they don’t care if they starve!

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Apr 29, 2021Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Excellent column. My question is terribly naive, but I’m going to ask it anyway. When republicans are alone with each other, do they openly admit they are attempting to overthrow democracy?

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Apr 30, 2021Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

And how about the blistering Tim Scott took on all social media after his pathetic "there's no systemic racism in the U.S. and the virus had already started to turn around before Biden was inaugurated." The base will maybe believe that but most Republicans know that's a damned lie as well. We're still at an enormous disadvantage with the results of the Census so we have got to get every single Democrat to vote, every one, to over power, gerrymandering, voter suppression laws, etc., about six or seven things all stacked in their favor. But Joe Biden is a hurricane of fresh, positive air.

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Apr 29, 2021Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV

Joe is the perfect POTUS for this Trump recovery.

The TuckerSeanLaura Moron Fest will embarrass themselves into oblivion...along with the former guy.

Rudy is toast.

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It was comforting to read this and consider your perspective that those folks are "depressed." Maybe I just "saw" what I always tend to see when I watch a bunch of recalcitrant fat cats with their arms crossed and their bottoms firmly glued to their seats - uncaring, self absorbed, selfish, greedy, power hungry beltway malingerers.

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Concur through and through.

Additionally, there is a return to sanity within my own cranium

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