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I just finished cancer treatment last summer. That hasn’t scared me as much as what is happening now in this country with the orange moron, con artists, filthy rich and right wing imbeciles. Their self-destructive, aggressive impulses are harming this country and everything on this planet.

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May you have a complete recovery.

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Ditto

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We have elected a career shakedown artist/flimflam man as our president. What could go wrong? Way to go, America.

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AND he is a puppet for the masterminds behind Project 2025.

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I used to think he was a puppet but I've come to think of him more as the evil puppeteer because of the way he uses what he calls power but is really the bullying technique of threats to get his way.

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i just sold off my Disney stock (in my IRA) - not a big deal, i know, but I had to make SOME kind of statement! just like i cancelled my WaPo subscription just after the "thumb on the scale" decision by Bezos...

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I cancelled WaPo too

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ABC and Stephanopoulos clearly capitulated to the grifter and ate crow. They had a winning case, which should not have survived a motion to dismiss or summary judgment. This is terrible for journalism and journalists.

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Obeying in advance. Sad.

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The vital role played by a free press is being actively undermined by wannabe dictator Trump. From yesterday's NYT's:

"The small flurry of threatened defamation lawsuits is the latest sign that the incoming Trump administration appears poised to do what it can to crack down on unfavorable media coverage."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/business/media/trump-defamation-lawsuit-abc-hegseth-cnn.html

It is fascinating, albeit terrifying, to watch how easily democracy can fail. We thought it was impossible here; now we are watching democracy's demise in real time, in our own country.

And at the hands of a lying, cheating, two-bit con man, sexual predator and reality "star," surrounded by incompetents, crazies, billionaires, racists, religious fanatics, right-wing militias and other sexual predators. As we said in the 70's, "UNREAL!"

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Sadly, Anthony, it's all too real. Sigh.

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I could never have imagined the United States of America falling into a dictatorship with barely a whimper. At this point it appears to be more likely than not.

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Thank you Steve. I subscribed to you in November this year and It's well worth it. Love you for your truths

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Totally agree

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Thanks Steve for the truth! The first challenge for the uncorrupted Not-Stupids is to acknowledge that we now live in a world Autocracy/Oligarchy. A few thousand "new aristocrats" now rule the world. See Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. Carrot and stick.

Bill Browder's books reveal the truth about Putin's Russia. Total control over the host population by the dictator and his loyal oligarch network. The destruction of self-rule, that Donald wants to institute here. 330 million Americans are now peasants, serfs. The rights and protections of the Constitution are irrelevant if the courts and the press succumb to the autocrats' corruption. The Autocrats aren't hiding. When they float anti-Constitutional ideas as "reasonable" and no one fights back (Dems, where the hell are you?) they win. We, the citizens, lose.

Privatize the Postal Service? No. It's in the Constitution as a critical government service.

Deny/cancel citizenship to targeted groups? No. It's in the Constitution.

Unlimited power for the Executive Branch? No. The balance of powers is in the Constitution.

An office holder who violates their oath to the Constitution? They should be tarred and feathered, not coddled like an ignorant child.

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All the things that are "in the Constitution" won't be worth much when trump declares it null and void and makes up a new Constitution.

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We can’t look to legacy media for political news — they’re not about public or political accountablitiy anymore, only about profit and an unrocked boat. They are too big to report. Look to Steve and the Bulwark and Politico and The Guardian and Democracy Docket and whatever/whomever I’m missing. The news will be there, but it will require that you be your own wire editor with your own trusted sources.

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Add NYT; they have some excellent reporters but they have been a consistent let down throughout regarding Trump.

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Steve, you forgot about the filing Trump made against the independent journalist The Meidas Network. They too are fighting Trump's war on the media. I can't be the only one who has turned to Substack and other independent journalists for insight. Having been a WaPo and NYTimes subscriber for decades, and an MSNBC and CNN viewer for a years, I am done with all of them. They equivocate and they no longer inform. Let's hope that an army of independent journalists and their readers stand up to the MAGA billionaire/authoritarian regime while ABC, MSNBC and others wilt away. Next up, we can all stop buying Teslas and going to Disneyland. See how Bob Iger likes it then.

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Appears like bribery to me. ABC should lose its license for this garbage

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I never watch ABC and now I will continue to never watch it. What I am watching is this country (which Helped the world rid itself of the worst dictator ever during WWII) falling for another dictator (who has no gifts except threats to our population) has been given full reign by a political party that has become a puppet to a dangerous dictator. I cannot see a single redeeming quality in this person he‘s on a ego trip and with each victory he becomes bolder and bolder. He will destroy our country in his quest to make himself Emperor! It’s getting more and more dangerous every day with his demands. I want everyone who voted for this Dictator to know we will never ever forgive them for their stupidity. I only hope we don’t have spies in our neighborhoods or families that report comments to the authorities like during the Nazi era in Germany. It is incredible that no one pays any attention to history. No one saw this coming?

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Many people saw this coming. But not enough acted on it by voting against Trump and for Harris.

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Keep it coming Steve.

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I feel badly about ABC hanging GS out to dry. I think if I was him, I would quit. Loudly, publicly and without "regret."

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And he should suggest that the 15mil is for Trump's prison library.

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SLH MI, True that. According to the judge in the article reported declare Trump did rape Ms. Carrol.

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History, if there is such a thing, will remember and condemn these cowards and traitors to our great country. I just cancelled my Disney Plus account, doing my part.

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Whenever a slight turn of phrase, though true in legal circles, allows trump to use the law to make more money or himself, he will do it. He should hsve been sued multiple times for the vile, untrue depictions of Kamala Harris and other opponents. He poisoned the defective minds of his cult followers and escaped with a return to power to further silence people in the media. Well, he cannot sue those of us who call him what he is on comment sections: a rapist, convicted felon, demented malignant narcissist and sociopath.

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I watched Trump's "news" conference this afternoon. Along with all the bragging about how good things are going to be was his comment about the ABC capitulation. It is maddening to see this clown able to say that he was in the right, proven by the court agreeing with him. Like you said, there will be more of this because he already told us of 3 he is also going to sue now that he has won this one.

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