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NPR gets less than 1% of its budget from the feds. They should tell Brendan Carr to fuck off.

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I am extremely concerned that Musk, who is not U.S. citizen or have a security clearance and may be in US illegally may have access to my personal and and accounts held by the government. This is wrong! I am concerned about oay Federal taxes if Musk can access and divert funds.

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Muskrat actually does have a security clearance because his companies do DoD contract work. Although some have question whether that’s appropriate given his history of abusing Ketamine.

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🤜🏻🤛🏽👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿CHEERING🖕🏻🖕🏼🖕🏽🖕🏾🖕🏿

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I'm getting close to needing to hide completely from all this shit. I'm old, disabled and powerless in my community of MAGA neighbors. I just can't take it. I need hope but everyday I read more that depresses me. I am filled with anger at the people who put this dictator from day one in charge.

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We are here for each other- alone we will be crushed, together we can prevail. History tells us that.

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Who is there though for the poor, sick, elderly...really? It's usually government.. because these folks need help they cannot get from work or elsewhere. Friends and family often abandon the sick, the old, because they are too cash strapped themselves and too mentally worn.

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There’s no other choice, Dean. Resist, or it will persist. ✊🇺🇸😎

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Thank you. Hope is hard to find right now.

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I am in your same boat, disabled, feeling trapped, surrounded by MAGA crap in a rural community and so angry and depressed. Vulnerable people depend on a functioning govt to protect them because private interests never do.

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Me too, but do what you can. VOTE! Keep writing your thoughts about F47 and what you think he’s doing is unfair! F47 is going after Social Security, Medicare, SNAP and more! Tell your story on how this will affect you! Write your Senators and Representative, especially if you’re in a Red State. Call them and Complain! The phone number is:

202-227-3121 and leave a message, every day. Keep doing it until they know your name! Tell them you will NEVER VOTE FOR THEM OR DONATE TO THEM EVER AGAIN!

You can do a lot without ever leaving your home. But you must be consistent, eventually they’ll have to listen to your story and if they support F47 how it will affect you and your family!

You can do this and it costs you nothing!

Remember the phrase:

#IWillNotBeSilent

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But is he trying to be a dictator but without the effort? Siphoning off overseeing that 6 trillion to Musk. Passing off revenge duties to Patel (and Gabbard?). Presumably they’ll bring the bags of cash to the nineteenth hole.

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He’s lazy. That’s why he gets others to do his dirty work.

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But a demon on the golf course

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Too fat and lazy to walk the course.

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Hah! I heard that he cheats.

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Drives a golf cart where others walk!

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Feels like we’re sitting in a movie theater on Bizarro World watching an absurdist comedy … from which we can leave comfortably , shaking our heads, muttering, “What crazy genius—as if!”

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That’s a court case right there.

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Many, I would say.

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What’s next? Proclaiming January 6 as Liberation Day?

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Yes he will turn Jan 6 into a day to honor those who waged the attack the say way Hitler did for his attempted coup. I've already written about that- it's coming

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F47 already sent a memo that America will not be celebrating Martin Luther King Day, Black History Month, Women’s Month, Pacific Islander Month, Indigenous Peoples Month, Pride Month, etc!

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I would be very interested to know how the people affected feel about that. As a human being and a woman I resent it.

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We can still celebrate all of those. If government eliminates a paid holiday for MLK Day, that won't stop us from honoring him. We can choose what we celebrate with or without an "official government edict."

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He'll also probably change MLK Day to Trump Day, celebrating the inauguration of the 4th Reich

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The Red Cap of Courage

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It does not help, not in the slightest. that presumably for "business reasons" Paramount, followed by others, decided to roll over without hesitation to Degenerate Don's clear baseless shakedown. The broadcasters surely know, from their own crime-show programming, even if not from common sense, that once begun, the shakedowns never end until after the victims are squeezed dry, and it's not as though the sadistic psychopath has not shown over and over again how he enjoys seeing his victims squirm.

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Many MSM cable stations are owned by F47’s millionaire friends and they are joining in the lies and propaganda. Look at Jim Acosta from CNN who refused to participate and resigned on air! More journalists should have such guts and integrity! He’s now becoming very successful on Substack. Kudos to Acosta, follow him on Substack and get the truth. Also follow Meidas Touch who does not answer to any outside interests. Follow them on Tictoc, Instagram, and YouTube. Truth is Golden and Truth is Power!!

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In just about 2 weeks, F47 is silencing the press which is a violation of FREE SPEECH! Free speech and a Free Press are in the Constitution! F47 violates the Constitution! Even if he does take away funding to PBS and NPR, I hope the Public who enjoy a Free Press will contribute to these stations to make up the difference. Isn't this BRIBERY by F47? Couldn't this be taken to the Courts? Enough is Enough!! F47 thinks he can control a Free Press, I say WE FIGHT BACK!

#IWillNotBeSilent

#FreePress

#WhenWeFightWeWin

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Trump is a Nazi.

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My take is Mukus is a nazi and Dump is a populist--a populist in that populism is a blank slate to be written on in any way that creates an US v THEM policy to further the agendas of the US to destroy THEM. And this country is THEM.

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Both Trump & Musk. Oh, & Flynn, Steven Miller, Bannon, Thiel, Vance & Putin. And numerous Republicans in Congress.

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Fuck Trump

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I've got to say, Dean, you'll never cease to amaze me. Each day, every day, you're voice is leading the Charge for Democracy and the Rule of Law. You are a True Patriot 🙏 and will reStack ASAP 💯👍

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See that dead, stony-hard, upward look with a slight smile on Orangeman's face? —that is the look of a man perversely comforted by the thought of "getting away with" some kind of cruelty.

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It's amazing the lengths unloved men with little dicks will go to. Or perhaps I should say depths.

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Building effective resistance takes time, extraordinary efforts & persistence.

Firings, buyouts, impoundments...based on zero legal authority. #Resist! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc6zruXD1Tg

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A free press is essential for a healthy society and democracy as well. So if Trump is criticized by the press, maybe he needs to consider that his actions are the reason for all the flack he is catching. This is the price one pays for not only being in the public eye, as well as being in a position of leadership.

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Needs to consider? He’s not going to consider shit. He’s just going to attempt to silence any, and all opposition. Do you actually expect him to be reflective? C’mon man.

🤷‍♂️✊🇺🇸😎

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A normal human with any sense of morality would do just that. But this isn’t normal.

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TRump and his psychophants are literally cruisin' for a bruisin'. They don't understand the American mind and heart at all. I believe that they will be shocked to learn that their intimidation arouses aa great passion in the American people who will not take their anti-American bullshit. Nations like Hungary and Russia, that have lived under dictatorships for decades, are much more easily cowed into submission. The US has not and will not be cowed into submission by mental and emotional defectives like tRump, Musk, Miller and their ilk. In fact, they will be cowed into submission by the American spirit of freedom, equality and justice for all.

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