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I took a drive through the North Carolina countryside this morning. Pretty state. By my count, yard signs for Black Nazi Robinson outnumber yard signs for Josh Stein by three to one. Ignorance is a stubborn thing.

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That's awful, unfortunate, and sad.

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I’m hoping it will change in days ahead.

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The other aspect is the MAGA people supporting Black Nazi Robinson tend to be the “in your face” type of people. So they have more yard signs up, though I do not believe it means how the vote will be.

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That's not "ignorance".... that's pure MENTAL ILLNESS according to modern psychiatric diagnostic standards... dangerous mental illness because Self-Delusional thinking is now being called "Conspiracy Theories" by totally deluded dangerous minds... who watched people get slaughtered in the chambers of Congress & then just shrug their shoulders saying: "So? So what?" Why haven't any media talked to the Jan 6 "Insurrectionists" in prison & just ask them a simple question? Like: "Before you got to the Capital, did you ever ask yourselves... Is this going to end REALLY well?" The media is doing a crap ass job showing the extend of the MASS PSYCHOSIS going on in this country... Why?

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I think Black Nazi Robinson will lose this election, but he is still going to receive perhaps 40 percent of voters here. If mass psychosis or mental illness is part of that equation, I also believe poor education and the inability to think plays a role. It is very troubling and may get worse rather than better.

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Mass Psychosis is real... Last time it happened they burned people at the stake for "witchcraft" -- When: 1600s// Where: Salem Massachusetts// Topic: "Single, childless, cat-ladies" Who back in 1600's were: Old, wart-nosed, ugly widowed grannies who cooked alot in black cauldrons & had black cats as their only companions -- apparently, the black cats were the only ones to "survive" the "night hunts" caused by the near starvation by the Drunk Trump-Like-Idiots in the 1600s Salem... Mass Psychosis happened very likely due to the Toxoplamosis pathogen/parasite some cats shit out/today they believe such an infection can cause schizophrenia if infected w Toxoplasmosis - it all just earily makes sense: "Black Cats - Childless Cat Ladies // Ugly, single women="Witches" nobody wanted to hang around.... So maybe the Salem Witch Trials was caused by a parasitic cat infection causing mass psychosis that looked very much like delusional beliefs, paranoia (unfounded fears) & other psychotic symptoms... It all just makes sense...

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STRATEGY SOLUTION FOR DEMS: Why not have HARRIS talk about distinguishing between "Gun Psychopathy" versus "Responsible Gun Ownership" regarding mass shootings in the US? It would be easy to analyze the psychopathy that creates this difference in a debate: "Gun Psychopathy" define as: the compulsive, obsessive, abnormal fixation/worship of firearms (not to protect, defend, gather food supplies or sport=target practice/responsible hunting) but to CONTROL, DOMINATE & POWER OVER any/all living things. The connected dots seems to include TOXIC masculinity which craves POSSESSION, DOMINATION, CONTROL, POWER OVER ALL LIVING THINGS in which KILLING IS THE ULTIMATE "HIGH"/ULTIMATE "POWER OVER" others... Case in point: Big game hunters who mount their "trophies" on walls to prove their "POWER OVER OTHERS" at a psychopathic level do share this commonality with serial killers... "Responsible Gun Ownership" defined by: vetted/screened, trained, tested, licensed, psychological exams & unannounced audits of firearms storage, etc. for purpose of -- food supplies; sporting/small game hunting; protection of self/others, etc. And WHY isn't this topic ever discussed other than the "Almighty Gods of Profit & Greed" including the Arms Dealers, Gun Manufacturers="Investment Firms" & other scumbags like pocketed politicians whose pockets get lined with the blood & smeared brains of American 6 yr old Sandy Hook victims... (????) other than the fact that these ELITE BILLIONAIRES IN THE BILLIONAIRES BOYS CLUBS around the world are themselves the most dangerous PSYCHOPATHS of all, willing to slaughter our children, their own children (Rupert Murdoch) & anyone else who dares say: "Common Sense Gun Laws" in order to have a Civilized Coherent Society instead of this Shit Show called The Funked Up Divided States...

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You're making too much sense.

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The Guardian reported yesterday that thousands of Michigan voters, angered by the administration’s effective blanket support of Israel, intend to vote for Jill Stein and, quite possibly, hand Michigans electoral votes to Trump.

The auspices continue to look significantly worse for Harris in the electoral college.

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I once spent a week in the Detroit area and thoroughly enjoyed my visit. The slots at the Motor City Casino did not treat me so well, but I thoroughly enjoyed the Middle Eastern restaurants there. I am of half Middle Eastern ancestry and was struck by the hospitality of a Lebanese family who owned this terrific restaurant. Hopefully someone can get through to the population there that J.D. Vance can and will do to them the same thing he is doing to the Haitian population in Ohio

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Excuse myignorance, but why would Michigan voters be angry about this particular issue?

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Michigan, particularly the Detroit metropolitan area, has one of the largest Middle Eastern populations in the United States. Perhaps the largest. And they pay attention to the Middle East. I do not know if they tend to vote in a bloc, though.

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If Mike DeWine wishes to end his political career as member of the same party as Black Nazi Robinson, there is nothing any of us can do for such a person.

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He looks like he’s about to explode from eating a wafer thin mint.

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One other thing re "Mein Kampf". Check out the chapter "Nation and Race". It is Hitlers rejection/ disgust with the mixing of races and cultures, i.e. the "great replacement theory".

The MAGA-Nazi parallels are many.

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"Great Replacement Theory" could be explained further by Anthropology and human evolution... Even after falling out of the tree branches... 3 million years later... we're still 98% ape... still acting like apes with primitive brains & primitive thoughts as pure animals: when you see something "different" it rings the alarms in our ape brains setting off the message that there's "Danger! Danger! Will Robinson!" -- You'd think after 3 million years we could gain mastery over our ape genes but clearly... that's not happening... at least for some of us...

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This is a good point that it far too infrequently addressed in the debates about what sort of a country we would like to be. We're hard-wired as individuals to regard The Other as more likely hostile than not, and we become acculturated within our societies to regard other cultures as potential threats. The question then becomes what we should do about this. That is the story of civilization. How we answer that question determines the country we shall be.

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There are no "release valves" or open avenues for "We The People" to speak with their own voices that would allow the various warring factions in our society to lower the rage/frustration in order to "discuss" the differences -- But the objective cannot be just to "talk it out" which would just create the same old/same old Gladiator Games of collecting "winning scores" inside the "Capitol/Coliseum" (Excluding all the usual Anarchists, Narcissists, Pot-Stirring Psychopaths & other Predators who just enjoy making chaos for shits & giggles...)... I think we should "re-direct" all those who fall under the category: "We The People" to a new goal of: "He who finds the Solution.... truly Reigns Supreme." That should be the "challenge" to all... everyone... esp. for all the Gladiators & would-be Gladiators. Challenge the Ego to conjure & create something more than an "Opinion" - as Opinions do not solve problems plus everyone's got one.... Like that old saying: "Everyone has a camera... not everyone has film..."

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I will NEVER "defend" a killer of Humanity, but we should look at Hitler's Brain: Hitler's father beat the crap out of him violently when he was a child according to family relatives, which could have caused ALOT of Traumatic Brain Injury at such a young age... which can damage a developing brain.... that's called an A.C.E. (Adverse Childhood Event=Trauma) by psychiatrists -- PLUS Hitler witnessed the domestic violence of his own mother at the hands of his father; perhaps young Adolph tried to protect his own mother from the beatings & may have suffered more brain damage & brain trauma which changes the neuro-networking of young brains... not to mention the emotional damage; then Hitler got brain damaged during WWI on the field... then he gets rejected by the prestigious Vienna Art School which destroyed/damaged Hitlers ego/dreams... then he starts taking drugs that funk ups his neuro-biology... Add the hatred of Jews to that equation of Hitler and is it Any wonder why Hitler was a living "Monster/Murderer/Psychopath?"

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The important question is, why did enough Germans support him to enable his rise to absolute power? Many have suffered abusive childhoods and suffered traumatic brain injury and they do not wind up fascists. Trump was raised as a spoiled rich brat and he has become America's Hitler.

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Good question... I would guess to say that by the time German citizens were psychologically wiped out & traumatized, economically wiped out from WWI, reparations & having a chaotic country w food shortages, infighting, "shell-shocked" soldiers, hopelessness, etc., I would guess that it was a combination of the trauma, stress & sheer desperation to cling to anyone (even a Hitler) who could feed them, pump up their rage/anger & get them out of the decaying situation in their country. Add the enablers/psychopaths that surrounded Hitler and you've got another a former artist trying to light the entire world on fire in his own madness... Trump was influenced by his psychopathic father... at Mach5=Machiavellian Insanity. Trump most likely had a disconnected "Socialite Mother" who may not have been in the close physical & psychological contact with "Infant Trump" as is needed for synaptic brain connections... as the rich tend to have their kids raised by Nannies -- Socialite Mothers tend to be more interested in fashion, their looks & other materialist things & NOT their own kids -- not everyone has a maternal instint...but ALOT of the uber rich tend to (coincidentally)have toxic narcissistic to psychopathic traits...

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Good answer.

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I just watched Netflix's "Monsters" about the Menendez brothers. We'll never know the full truth, but I suspect it was a combination of both abuse and the Socialite Mother thing that created "the boys." Dominic Dunne, played brilliantly by Nathan Lane, said that after he saw the photos of the murders, something just so dark and unimaginable was at play. It makes one wonder, was Trump created or just born this way?

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As I read these posts again I asked myself, "why do so many Americans find Trump/Maga acceptable?" We are not suffering the economic pain and humiliation that Germans suffered following WWII. JAS' answer does explain the German peoples' attraction to Hitler, but not the American fascination with a feeble-minded, inarticulate narcissist.

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Not only that, some Christians believe that colors shouldn’t mix because of some language in the Bible.

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Good answers to three good questions. I was glad to see Mr. Schmidt refer to Sean Spicer's fatuous claim that Trump's inaugural attendance was larger than Obama's. At the time, I was astonished at the lie, and disappointed by it. It was so obviously false. I even felt some sympathy for Spicer in having to mouth such utter nonsense. I did not then realize that lying was going to be Agent Orange's M.O. throughout his presidency, or that Spicer was deliberately complicit. Mr. Schmidt clarifies the use of the Big Lie as a stratagem of dominance. Well done.

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Trump is a fan of "Mein Kampf". That alone is disqualifying for anyone running for..anything..in the United States of America. (To those not familiar with the book, I suggest reading the first ten pages.)

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Excellent Steve, you underscored the importance of supporting the REAL TRUTH brilliantly in this edition of The Schmidt Storm. I just want to add that I have been commenting of late on the only real solution to this problem we face as a country. My use of the metaphor has rarely been liked or replied to, and that’s okay. I know that people are thinking the same thing. After following you for as long as I have, I have come to believe that in your heart you know what the only tangible solution is. However, we must not be deterred from the task at hand, of making the Harris/Walz ticket our next President and Vice President of The United States.

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Harris should ask Republicans in Congress: "Are you a bunch of Jennifer or James Crumbleys or a Colin Gray?" Are you a "Crumbley RepubliCON" or a "Gray RepubliCLOWN?" Like the Crumbleys/Grays in this country... be a moron, turn tail & run when your kid is crying, begging, screaming for mental health help... Because your "Little Boy"=Typhoid Trump... has been front & center threatening you directly to your faces (among other body parts) for the last 9 yrs with DEADLY, CRYSTAL CLEAR SYMPTOMS OF DANGEROUS PSYCHOPATHY/THE MOST DANGEROUS MENTAL ILLNESS IN THE ENTIRE DSM-V and NONE OF YOU "RECOGNIZE' INSANITY WHEN IT'S IN YOUR OWN FACE OR EVEN TRYING TO KILL YOU AT THE CAPITOL... Most likely because most of you are ALSO PSYCHOPATHS willing to destroy yourselves, your own family & the entire nation. Trump's not just causing chaos for your careers & bank accounts -- but killing your constituents by the thousands. TRUMP IS WILLING TO KILL BY PROXY, not just (his own Vice President & members of Congress), but everyone & anyone who gets in his way, including you Mr. & Mrs. RepubliCON! RepubliCONS are the last morons on Earth that should be "debating" guns mass shootings & mental illness! Kindest regards, VP Harris...

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THE GOLDWATER "RULE" IS NOW IMPOTENT.... because nobody is willing to focus on a topic that makes grown men turn tail & run but mostly because it helps the media put laser focus on Trump's dangerous mental illness & that's Trump's cryptonite. Who has the balls to say it? Not the APA; not one psychiatrist except those in "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" Who's got the balls? Harris... If she wants to demolish Trump, that's the way to do it because nobody (least of all MAGA MORONS) have the guts to talk about the one topic everyone is scared sh*tless to talk about: INSANITY & MENTAL ILLNESS & LOSING YOUR MIND...

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CRAZY QUESTION: Take a wild guess... as to what would have happened... had any psychiatrist or therapist got hold of a kid whose lifelong dream was to become an artist/painter; who got violently beaten up as a child by his own father & watched his own mother get violently assaulted by him/her husband... (BEFORE) this artist-to-be lit the entire world on fire? Just Aloise Hitler...

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Typhoid Trump is "WILLING-TO-KILL-BY-PROXY" anyone who gets in his way... like members of Congress & his own Vice President, as proven & witnessed by the entire world on LIVE TV Jan 6th... What does THAT tell you dear MAGA Trump-Voters? That this Psychopath has already tried to kill one of his own... and you think you're not next or would fall out of favor with this verified Psychopath WILLING TO KILL BY PROXY? Donald Trump makes "Norman Bates" look like an Alter Boy & "the SNAKE will always turn on itself..."

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Trumps committment to Robinson is proof that all anyone has to do to get and hold Trumps support is publicly express love for Trump...exactly what so many of Trumps former aides have said is exactly what despots and idiots do to get Trumps favor...compare this behavior by Trump and entire GOP to the Dem's handling of Menendez and so many earlier scandals Dem elected officials faced. The GOP and Trump have no ethical or moral ground for any American voter....pathetic so many of us cant or wont see this.

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Trump is diagnostically dangerous mentally ill -- defined by the fact that on Jan 6th ALL OF US/entire world & those who worked with him, witnessed that Trump was "Willing-To-Kill-By-Proxy" his own Vice President -- by intentionally, sadistically refusing to "act like a President" to protect Pence & members of Congress. It was not Trump who saved Pence/It was Trump's staff who persuaded a psychopath to stop the carnage & death that was happening in real time at the Capitol. Why is this "danger to others" being ignored by Almighty Gods of Psychiatry? Why is it ignored by his supporters? Because they too are self-delusional, corrupt, violent, mentally unstable themselves. Why shouldn't Trump be placed in a psychiatric hold? Not because there are "therapeutic treatments" for a Machiavellian Lunatic/Psychopath, but because everyone (millions) need to be given a "dose of reality." He is not a "typical physical menace" -- his menacing is verbal aimed at his Army of Psychopaths which has caused an entire Nation to turn on itself via verbal & physical assaults of violence. And it's accomplished via the common lie told to his Minions: that "FREEDOM OF SPEECH" means "FREEDOM FROM CONSEQUENCES"

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Trump is deeply psychotic, deeply criminal, deeply evil, deeply violent, deeply racist, deeply antisemitic, deeply rapist, deeply lying and deeply stupid, shallow and repulsive -- the perfect Thanksgiving Dinner guest, no?

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