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Attacks on our children ... I think they mean school shootings.

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Jul 10Liked by David Rothkopf

Yup that’s what I thought too

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You're probably right. I'll add a note about that...and their position on guns.

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I thought you were still on target with child sexual abuse/assault as well as school shootings added in to the mix.

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Dear David,

I listened to you on John Fugelsang’s podcast yesterday and I liked what you saying. Looking forward to reading your Substack daily. I have a weekly Substack that’s short and sweet.

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Thanks for saying so. I’ll keep an eye out for yours as well.

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Is it a secret to anyone at this point that when Trump says “we are a Nation in SERIOUS DECLINE," he means that the white percentage of the population is trending downward? White people (i.e., women) aren't having enough babies! Non-white people are stealing over the border and having too many babies! True, you'd never know this from the hue of the faces at the top of the pyramid, but still . . .

P.S. You write the best headlines!

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All that you say is so lmportant. I would like to add something I wrote in a different place. Please allow me. It is so clear for those who have eyes to see, how many forces are arrayed against those who can not see. Please see”Bad Faith” shown on u-tube. False religion has made them think they are working for God. Perhaps some of the press wishes only to save itself if Trump were to win.

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Jul 10Liked by David Rothkopf

On Joy Reed yesterday she read out loud the part about abolishing the federal department of education and among the many atrocious consequences , mandating obligatory military entrance examinations in all federally supported (public) schools. Here is the link to her monologue which is a MUST -WATCH segment: https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/project-2025-plans-to-dismantle-current-public-schools-system-if-trump-s-reelected-214536773536

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Jul 10Liked by David Rothkopf

Oh and look I just read a long post written from a family driving vacation with kids that Biden and Democrats are Republicans lite and are just as guilty as the right is for armageddon. You know white rich hetero normal people need to really think about how their words are perceived.

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Edit: have noted it just doesn’t discuss abortion because if you’re … YOUR … party’s position is

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David, I think you underestimate Trump and his minions here.

“It would have to involve the military. How would that look, military vehicles and police cars prowling every town and city in America rounding up families, throwing them into concentration camps? Ugly. Quite apart from the likely illegality of it and the court challenges. This one sounds awful, would be awful and would also be nearly impossible to do.”

SCOTUS gave him pretty much unlimited and unfettered power; he will claim doing so is in the name of national security, and no matter how many lower court challenges opponents may win, they will take this to SCOTUS who will support him 6-3.

Not only that, he won’t just call up the actual military and state guards, he will call on his private armies to “help” as well. They are already talking about Dems being evil and how evildoers need to be killed. God help North Carolina and the GOP loon running for the governor’s seat. And if they shoot us, he will just pardon them.

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You paint a bleak picture. But I don’t discount it altogether.

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Jul 10Liked by David Rothkopf

Perhaps, but people keep underestimating him and his goons. The guardrails and grown ups that stopped him in the first term are gone and SCOTUS gave him carte blanch. It is despicable. I always keep in mind how the Germans and the rest of the Europeans underestimated Hitler. Too many believed it was just rhetoric and it would never come to the horror it was. And then we have Rwanda and before that the breakup of Yugoslavia and the “ethnic cleansing” there. It can happen—and I don’t want anyone to think Trump 2.0 will be just like 2017-2021. It will be much much worse, which is why he must be stopped.

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thanks

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I hope you understand I’m a former paralegal from two of this country’s top law firms back in the 90s so I guess I’m a frustrated disabled person. Since 1996.

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Jul 10Liked by David Rothkopf

I’m not a paralegal but I also saw that typo 😁

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I was thinking about it later, and wondered why I had credited it to that in my career when it was starting off as a proof operator in a bank, as well as a proof, reader and editor in a printing company in Tallahassee when I was 19 before the proofreading at the bank.it’s like it’s in my DNA to proofread. I’m almost almost 70 I thought I would’ve gotten rid of that tick long ago.

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Jul 10Liked by David Rothkopf

Ah yes a very well practiced proof reader!! No wonder. And habits are extremely hard to break - especially when they’re useful 😁

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I'm grateful for the catch and made the change.

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😎 cool, so otherwise I should say I always look for your articles because they read so easily and flow along the same lines as my mind flows. Thank you for doing this hard work.

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