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Funny how Republicans say the system is rigged when they lose but not when they win: It's never fixed in their favor. Interesting how honest our voting system really is, look how many Republicans get elected evn in blue states. If we were dishonest and could truly conduct massive voter fraud we'd never let them win :)

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They think it's a game.They think Democracy is a joke and a good part of the ones I've met think Christianity is too. They dont really know anything about either one, but they know all about sex and crime so they think they are pretty smart. My favourite word for them is supercilious, fir which i thank Dumas, and which you will only find in old dictionaries .

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Yes, they think they are smart, nut many aren't that smart, even if highly educated. Trump is a prime example he boasts about how smart he is, cunning and manipulative, yes, but not that bright in many ways. Here is more on that book: 1.1k

The Daily Beast

Tue, November 8, 2022 at 1:54 AM·2 min read

In this article:

Donald Trump

Donald Trump

45th President of the United States

David Rothkopf

American writer; foreign policy strategist

Andrew Levy

Commentator and humorist

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters

Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters

Daily Beast columnist David Rothkopf interviewed more than 100 people involved with the Trump White House for his new book, American Resistance: The Inside Story of How The Deep State Saved the Nation, and according to his sources, it took almost no time for Trump’s staffers to realize what kind of boss he was.

“All of them said they realized this either during the transition or in the first few weeks of the administration, and they all found their way to work around it. Whether it was saying, ‘No, Mr. President, this is the law,’ or going to the Congress with oversight or using whistleblower provision,” Rothkopf tells New Abnormal podcast host Andy Levy on the latest episode.

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“Donald Trump would call up the Secretary of Defense [James] Mattis at night and say, ‘We’ve gotta strike the North Koreans now,’ and Mattis’ response would be ‘Interesting idea, Mr. President, maybe we should talk about it tomorrow’ and other people had to do the same thing,” he says.

Rothkopf also completely skewers the argument that Republicans are better for the economy. They’re actually bad for it, says Rothkopf, who has a ton of evidence to back that claim up.

“The business community supports them because the Republicans cut taxes and cut regulation, which means that whether the pie is bigger or smaller, their slice of the pie is bigger,” he says.

Patton Oswalt Thinks We’re About to Hit a ‘Dangerous’ Point

Also on this episode, Defector Media co-owner David Roth joins Andy as co-host and compares Elon Musk (aka Twitter’s new obliterator, er, owner) to a substitute teacher who has lost control of his class.

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Without all that inherited money to back up his bluster and boasting and scheming, Trump would have just been another asshole who ruined family gatherings.

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And he still is that...

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except he ruins our family gatherings, pitting trumpites against the sane members

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It's always possible to learn what a bald-faced liar he is when he talks about his father loaning him only a million dollars and paying his father back with interest. Interest? Not all there was; his father gave him more and more when casinos failed. Trump is good at lying--told his rallies the phony confidence that "my wealthy friends are very mad at me ...because it's [the Tax Reform Act" ] is not good for them." Such a convincing pose and bogus advocacy from the stand-up comic who should buy a nightclub to showcase himself and get out of politics...after paying for his crimes, of course.

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Robert, thank you for these references new to me. I do read To he Beast, but sporadically.Im off to do my homework now.

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Also they lose even in red states where all the voting officials are are Republicans, Of course that's when Trump says they are all RINO's. What a Jerk!

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But the gullible fools who vote for them just don't get it, that it's not about fair elections. We already had the best system possible, and then they came along and put in more "safeguards," yet they're already claiming the elections are rigged. This signals a move towards ending open elections in the future.

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We had the best system possible? Really? For a brief shining moment we might have had something close, in the period between the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the SCOTUS that decided _Citizens United_ and _Shelby County_. I'm not even sure it could be called a "system," singular, since each state does elections its own way.

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Yes I agree. I can see each state having its own election system for state and local elections but you would think ay at least for president there would be a universal uniform system for that and any Federal office holder. Also should be by popular vote. Just my opinion but maybe very good reasons why not this way.

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I'm not the only one who'd love to see the Electoral College amended out of the Constitution! But for the last several decades -- maybe for all of U.S. history? -- voting rights have been a major political battleground, in Congress, in the states, and in the courts. I don't see that changing any time soon.

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Yes, I must confess I don't really understand it all and why it has to be so complicated.

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I don't either, really, but the founders were somewhat paranoid about concentrated power, having dealt with a king and a powerful Parliament, hence all the checks and balances -- especially the balance between federal and state power. "States' rights" started off as a strategy for slave states to hold their own against non-slave states, and it has long been a euphemism for white power. There's an overlay of rural vs. urban, but race plays a big role in that too. And a layer or two up are the very wealthy who don't want any government entity messing with their rights to do whatever they want. They don't have nearly enough votes to accomplish this, so they've cleverly worked racism, sexism, and fear of "communism" to get the votes they need. They, and the current GOP, are dead set against simplifying anything because their advantage depends on the complications.

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So true, Mary, and they try to reject votes on silly insignificant technicalities, lie a missing date on the back of the envelope. Even if no postmark visible , the fact that it arrived b the deadline means it was mailed on time. All designed to eliminate dem votes. Real honest people, hug? But that's the kind the party attracts as well as the haters and the crazies. The act that they voted for and admire even to this day a man like Trump says it all. All cut from the same cloth. birds of a feather flock together.

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A prodigious number of your fellow Pennsylvanians voted early. Usually, that's a good sign for the blue team. Let's hope that remains the case.

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New book out should be interesting, how Republicans are bad for the economy . They cut taxes and regulations for Big Business giving them a bigger slice of the pie, Also mentions how WH staffers tricked Trump constantly to avoid him making catastrophic decisions.

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Trump made a "big announcement" about a "big announcement" he will make next week. What a surprise!

We all know Trump was egregiously incompetent as well as non compos mentis. He has always been merely a figurehead in a political party that has longed to abandon democracy and make America into an oligarchy run by an authoritarian government. Trump isn't the problem, the ideology is. Ron DeSantis, should he become president, would be even worse than Trump.

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By two votes! Glad that you moved there, just in time :)

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Straight blue in NYC. Praying Hochul remains governor. Zeldin would be a disaster!

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I am guardedly hopeful because we visited my daughter in Putnam County, NY, which I had always thought of as a Republican area. All of the lawn signs were for Dems from top to bottom., even as my section of Queens has grown steadily purple/red.

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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 The Pro-Rape Party should watch out for women. We are Amazons when you attack us!

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I love that ... When I first heard the pro rape party I felt like putting that on a sign or a tee shirt

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We used our 2 to help turn NC-11 (and all the other NC races) blue!

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Former North Carolinian here...Cheri Beasley!!!

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Are they really allowed to have campaign materials that close to a polling place in PA?

100' in New Joisey....

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I noticed that same issue. 100’ in both California and Washington from any voting station / center, and 25’ from any ballot drop box in Washington state.

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Just seems so odd to see campaign materials that close to what I presume is LT's polling station! Shouldn't be that way....

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So glad to have two more Democrats in town!

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From my corner of NJ...ALL BLUE IN ‘22!

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My people go back to the Molly Maguire’s.

‘Keep Penn, sylvania.

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Good luck turning Pike County Blue. Other than having spent five summers on Lake Fairview in the town of Paupack about 60-years ago, I have no experience with Pike County since. It was pretty conservative then. I suspect it still is.

Voted early (Blue) in Mass last week. Not much of an issue here. We will get our first elected (gay) woman as governor; the legislature is veto-proof Blue, and will remain so; all state offices will remain Blue. Four ballot questions, two of which are controversial: A surtax on incomes over $1M, badly written; and whether undocumented types should be allowed to get driver's licenses. In the latter there is already a law on the books allowing the undocumented to get licensed to drive, and the ballot question is an effort to (stupidly) repeal it. The millionaire tax is another attempt after several others have failed. It's poorly written, again, and may be defeated.

I intend to go to bed early, read a book, and avoid all election news. We won't know the outcome nationally for a while, and all the media hype one-way-or-the-other has totally turned me off, so I'm turning it off. I'm buying a Powerball ticket, and if I win I'll be able to move somewhere else if the worst comes to pass.

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Considering how much time went into it, I'm surprised that Question 1 is badly written. I voted for it anyway.

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Let us pray that your new state goes BLUE all the way down the ballot. I just voted that way in New York on Long Island.

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I certainly hope you do. I'm here in dark red Lancaster county. Doubt that it will ever be blue. It is without a doubt a sorry state of affairs in our nation when 70M plus thought, and apparently still think that Trump and his MAGA cult are good for the United States.

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We have a weird ticket here in Maine-some races only R's are running, no choice for Dems. Voted a month ago (absentee) for Mills and Tiffany Bond (Jared Golden's seat)-against Paul LePage and Bruce Poliquin, who are just like Donald Trump.

Hope Maine stays blue. Did my best.

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Thanks, Lucian and Tracy! John and I have given two for Beto and all the other Dems on the Dallas ticket. Here's hoping!

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