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Melinda's avatar

I was listening to your live, couldn’t comment because not a paid subscriber. I’m poor and can’t afford it unfortunately. I wanted to comment on your statement that there is no room for moderates in the Democratic Party. That is absolutely not true. The way people voted for AOC & Trump is like you said they wanted authenticity. If you are a moderate Dem and you are speaking your truth with pa, and people can see that you are not full of shit. That is perfect. Saying there is no place for moderates in the democratic party the a huge purity test and is political suicide. Purity tests are a large part of the reason we are in this mess. Period.

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Politicalcadencepod's avatar

Those are great points, and I generally agree. The only thing I might say is, there is room for everybody. In fact we need everybody who is against the regime to come together. But it might not be time for moderation. Today’s Supreme Court is an outrage, and things are just getting tougher.

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Melinda's avatar

maybe this is what you are referring to, but I’m talking about moderate policies held by for instance Elissa Slotkin. I don’t love her but she’s authentic and a good politician for Michigan. Progressives can’t win everywhere. To say there’s no place in the party for Elissa and many other “moderate” dems seems insane. Like you said we need EVERYONE! We have a 34 count felon and rapist and fraudster in the WH. No w is not the time to exclude people.

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Politicalcadencepod's avatar

That’s exactly what I mean. I hear a lot of negativity about Gavin Newsom, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries. Some people have not stood up to the moment, or maybe even misstepped in a bad way. But we all are against this fascist maga movement. Don is wrong if he wants to exclude people who may just be starting to figure this out.

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Melinda's avatar

Agree. The only issue I have with what you said is i wouldn’t list Gavin Newsom with especially Chuck Schumer, who is a special kind of useless, or Hakeem Jeffries who is not as bad as Schumer but pretty useless. Newsom is standing up to DT in some creative ways. I appreciate him. I didn’t think very highly of him before, but he’s showing himself to be a real fighter, which we need….badly.

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Teresa Johansen's avatar

Me too Melinda I am retired and live on Social Security, the one good thing is I have United Healthcare and I love it

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Melinda's avatar

I’m retired too, and living on Social Security as well. I have Medicare and am scared shitless regarding what’s going on with the reconciliation bill in the senate. Thanks for your reply.😊

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Victoria Skarbek's avatar

Biased and racist and lying judges are rising to the top of their scum puddle

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3PAR's avatar

Both Ivana and melania were not citizens when their children were born.

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Steve Raymond's avatar

The comment should have been that there is no room for 'corporate' or 'establishment' Democrats who are beholden to corporate interests and make decisions based on the money they receive from pacs and lobbyists. That describes people like Chuck Schumer and they should not be considered the same as 'moderates' who vote according to their beliefs and not the beliefs or interests of the people who run the corporate pacs. The Chuck Schumer Democrats are not that different from every Republican.

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Sheila Davis's avatar

What everyone needs to recognize is that in 1886 when the Statue of Liberty was built, there were 1.5 billion people on the planet. There are now, less than 150 years later, more than 8.2 billion human population. The USA has a population of about 350 million, China 1.4 billion, India 1.5 billion, Africa 1.5 billion, central and South America 635 million, Europe 745 million, Indonesia 300 million, Middle East 420 million - obviously not everyone, even if only refugees (43 million) can be accommodated by the USA. We have to come up with a solution to the exponential growth in human population, other than fascism! We could start with the Plan of Action that came out of the UN Conference on population and development held in Cairo in 1994 - unfortunately, instead of stabilizing our global population, we have increased it by nearly 3 billion since then.

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Yolanda Green's avatar

Never!

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Rodney Sanchez's avatar

Fuck Israel

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Nikki Lynn's avatar

What an incredibly beautiful man! Heartthrob, indeed! Yo Khali

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Anne's avatar

They bypassed Congress in act of war. Surely that is treasonous behavior. 🤯

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Charisse Peoples's avatar

Please make sure you get information from lawyers who read the decision. It's not about birthright citizenship merits, but about court injunctions. The Contrarians break it down and leaves me with hope.

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Teresa Johansen's avatar

I am going to talk to The Meidas Touch Network today

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Teresa Johansen's avatar

Well, all I know is The Midterms, I am so upset that Trump is the President that’s why we must get the majority back

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Teresa Johansen's avatar

Mandani is the future for the Democrats

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Keith's avatar
1dEdited

Don’t think so. People are going to get their eyes opened here soon!!! Biggest disaster ever. As bad or worse than Crockett or OAC. No common sense, never run or owned a successful business. Why do people elect these people.

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Teresa Johansen's avatar

I love this Podcast

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Hughes's avatar

I will never vote along party lines since my eyes has been open to the Democratic and republican party. Democratic has been know as the people's party. But most of the democrats are out to lunch! The republican has turned to MAGA kkk. I am sick of both parties. CAN YOUR GUESS EXPLAIN WHY AOC AND TRUMP WAS ON THE SAME TICKET DURING THE ELECTION? I AM CONFUSED 😕

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Celina P's avatar

They were not on the same ticket. Don interviewed on the street, voters in NYC who voted for AOC, and then also trump for president.

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Teresa Johansen's avatar

I agree, if Trump knew I have African American Ancestors who came from another country he would probably send me to another country. Why did people vote for this?

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Keith's avatar

They wanted secure borders for one thing. There are a hundred others including no men in women’s sports, no freaks welcomed into girls washrooms, no cash free bail for murderers and rapists, etc, etc, etc.

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