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If the press would cover Trump's last rally the way they should, he would lose any sane voters left supporting him. He turned what was billed as a political rally into a dance partyy, during which his own attempt at dancing made him look like the fool he is. Why did he do this? It is because he KNOWS the PUBLIC is TIRED of HIS SAME OLD SHIT!!!!!

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You're right. The more people get tired of his obnoxious ego arrogance, the more he pours it on. It's because it is the only thing he has. He cannot escape his only real talent of selling himself, so he dig's deeper. Even higher-up MSGAs have recognized his empty tank and have moved Vance into place.

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The whole plan is Vance as President so that the oligarchs and Putin have the man they really trust.

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The press only stands ready to pounce on Harris/Walz ready to comment negatively while they ignore

the former guy and say that it is just trump being trump. Getting a little tiresome donтАЩt you think?

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I caught a glimpse of it. It was insane. I would have to be so impaired - drunk, high, tripping - to not think he was a lunatic and someone who should have the nuclear codes. My husband is one of those тАЬmy vote doesnтАЩt matterтАЭ citizens. I explained to him that I understand why he feels that way, but not casting your vote is staying silent. ItтАЩs not acceptable when this is the choice between democracy and fascism. ItтАЩs unforgivable that he will not vote to secure the future of this nation for his children.

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You mus have some way to make him vote!

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Short of putting a gun to head, I donтАЩt know what else I can do. He at least listened to me. I told him, the government has morphed a capitalistic nightmare for the majority, while the extremely lucky few abuse the system to their benefit. Nothing changes if you donтАЩt speak up by casting your vote. I for one, am not willing to throw in the towel on democracy, certainly not to the likes of Orange Hitler and his band of miscreants and bad actors. I cannot give up on freedom for my children. They deserve the same rights that we had growining upтАж.

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I feel for you. It's hard to accept that someone you care for is so disengaged that they cannot vote against a monster. One of my children says he is voting for Trump. He got brainwashed by Rush Limbaugh way back. It's a heartbreaker for me but it doesn't diminish my love for him. I hope he doesn't have to see me carted off to be reprogrammed.

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Rush Limbaugh started on radio right after Reagan vetoed the Fairness Doctrine, which was set to become law for the second time in 1980. Since Limbaugh was using the public airwaves, which belong to all of us, he would have been forced to present equal time to the opposing views of his radical ideas every day. Limbaugh was so profoundly influential in spreading the right wing propaganda that my father became addicted to it and became radicalized in a way that I no longer recognize him anymore.

Believe it or not, the Fairness Doctrine was actually law at one time and was simply being renewed by this new passage. While it was initially limited to just broadcast on the airwaves, and not to cable, there's no reason that a new fairness Doctrine couldn't be written to include media of all kinds. Because not only do the airwaves belong to the American public, but so does cable television. Yes some cable companies have helped pay for the lines that they put into the ground, but the American taxpayers have financed over $200 billion for cable to be delivered throughout the land.

There are also satellites that taxpayers have paid for and now another 83 billion has been enacted in order to ensure high speed internet will reach the more remote places in the United states. In other words all media belongs to the taxpayers and we have a right to see that both sides of every issue are presented on every station about every topic.

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I hope you will repost this on a future Schmidt Substack. It's very worthwhile.

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My brother too. And he will most likely lose his SS disability and Medicare if Trump wins. He wonтАЩt budge from Trump. IтАЩm like, you wanna shoot yourself in the foot, hereтАЩs a gun. Have at it.ЁЯШФ

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Well then, you have done your best.

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Can you get him to vote down ballot?

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Took late. The deadline to register in OH was Oct 7th. I expressed my sadness and disappointmentтАж

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My daughter and I voted Tuesday 10/8, opening day. My son is voting for the first time this election. We have talked about the candidates and why a straight blue ticket is the only way to remain a free country as opposed to evolving into a o banana republic.

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My nephew who was about 48 yrs old in 2020 & had never even registered to vote- ever!!! Fortunately I had the ability to tell him I would remove his name as a beneficiary on my stock market accounts & as an inheritor of my home in the mountains of NM if he didnтАЩt get his ass registered & vote for Biden!! I wasnтАЩt kidding.

His younger brother has voted for Trump twice, mainly because of the promise to appoint those FтАЩing anti abortion justices ЁЯдмЁЯдм & he has 2 daughters!! I am so angry with him I can barely see straight. IтАЩve sent him some articles about how horrible Trump truly is & what a danger to democracy & begged him not to vote for him again. If he persists in doing the selfish thing, then his share of my estate will be given to an abortion access fund.

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Guilt, guilt, guilt... unrelenting guilt. Get him a mail in ballot, fill it in, then just have him sign.

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IтАЩm definitely in favor of using that tactic on any man ignorant enough to not support the women in their lives!

Actually IтАЩm in favor of mandatory vasectomies for every male in the nation beginning at puberty!!

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I think tRUMP was advised by his "handlers" to pivot to the music whenever he felt his train of thought was going south.

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The people in his admin who have joined the Harris side have said that whenever he got bored, irritated, or angry, either he or they would call for the тАЬmusic man,тАЭ an employee who job was to play a list of TrumpтАЩs favorite songs to chill the beast.

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He wasn't pleased with being shut up and he cannot dance. No policies, no plans = dance!

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