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My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

Thune scrambles to save his Senate majority as voters voice concern over the Iran war and gas prices - The Associated Press They do not deserve to be in the majority. Trump has crapped on every Government entity including armed forces. We are in world decline because the Senate never tried him.

Opinion| 'Amy is a liar.' Ramaswamy ad not about childhood rape. They're twisting it | Lawmaker - The Columbus Dispatch The very points the writer tries to make are more valid against Acton’s mother who did not protect her child and lies about it for a very amoral billionaire. The writer is twisted

My vote this year is an obvious protest. I voted for zero R at any level in a county in ohio that is red at all levels. If you have no backbone to stand against obvious stupidity and corruption I will never support you.

In Ohio it is obvious that the GOP and associated PACs have way way more money to spend than the Dems. The overwhelming message is to stoke fear that “the others” will destroy our way of life. The non-fear messages are all basic mom and apple pie nothing balls. Their messages fail to move my vote.

No doubt in my mind that most people will not understand why it is unethical and unacceptable to continue to withhold a scientifically proven cure from a susceptible population and from the confusing “moderate?” headlines i can see why.

When it is said that the Trump administration is taking a stake of X% in public and private firms, what exactly does that mean? Is that taxpayer money? If so, why isn’t the headline “Trump (illegally?) committing taxpayer on opaque investment” or something similar?

So, does Vivek win any votes by promoting a political attack ad that features a mother who not only did not protect her underage daughter from her husband-predator but defended him and stayed in the marriage? I am truly interested in what demographic that wins over…

It is unacceptable that we joined the evil empire and i intend to really make the GOP pay at all voting levels.

If they had showed any independent thinking away from Trump i would have considered at least one GOP this election. But nope!

Does the GOP have way way too much money this year? By my mail, the answer is a big “yep”. And all of it is focused on scaring the folks who have no idea how anything works by attributing how uncountable millions are being spent on waste projects. All lies or misinformation and i get them every day.

Interesting that the Putin loving administration in the US is now directly hobbling the DEFENSE of Ukrainian non combatants. And yet, there is no pushback from our GOP who are claiming in nearly every political ad that communism is abhorrent to them. Vote. Them. All. Out.

Opinion | Pass Trump’s Defense Budget - The Wall Street Journal This is the dumbest thing we could possibly be for at this point. We have the world’s biggest moron in charge of defense, we are not shifting rss based on threats and have a chief exec who redirects $ to himself and against citizens.

Opinion | Russia, Iran and Trump’s Shock-and-Awe Foreign Policy - The Wall Street Journal Talk about spin. You need to turn a large part of your brain off to write something this optimistic about turning the world alignment upside down. USA has lost in every aspect under goofy and the goofettes.

So, the proposition the GOP is making is nakedly transactional and shortsighted and bad for most Americans. $ for your vote. For some reason the GOP doesn’t mind it is at the cost of law, liberty, due process, common sense, cyber and physical security. Honestly folks, why aren’t the polls 95%-5%?

Is it finally dawning on Trump voting Americans that he is a disinterested self-obsessed moron who is making every “executive” decision on the fly and that nearly everything is worse for actual working Americans? We find out in 3 weeks…

We should be supporting Ukraine against Putin, but GOP supports actual communists. I cannot support the party supporting actual communism.

Another thing: why did the GOP suddenly go dead silent on controlling costs? Well, except for improperly clawing back $ for poor folks? Consistency is important and it seems to only be news if the Dems run deficits. Pure, unadulterated hypocrisy.

So, people like me agree with some of the goals of the GOP but cannot abide the lawless and chaotic and corrupt and arbitrary planning and execution. GOP are fooling themselves if they think they can put the genie of stupidity back in the bottle. Or that i will forget or forgive them their temerity

We became a terrorist supporting country with Trump. Somehow we are supporting the terrorist Russian warcrime regime under Putin. Why exactly does that make the US great?

The corruption revelations will not stop until the Trump crime family are removed from power and jailed.

I find it hilarious that Paxton is calling in Vance to help him. I am not sure a bot with no values or personality can help an openly corrupt candidate that isn’t DJT.

"This is an administration with zero policy expertise, zero patience for collecting evidence, and zero interest in getting the right solution." It won't work this time, either. ICYMI @crampell.bsky.social:

As designed.

It is very difficult to take a Trump administration that praises current and former communist leaders so loudly and profusely as a serious anti-communist force.

Is the Trump Administration trafficking humans by deporting them en masse to third party countries? Why is the GOP not exercising oversight on this and so many other issues?

Opinion | Trump Gets New Power Against Putin - The Wall Street Journal It amazes me that so many people believe Trump will use this as intended to hurt Putin in any way. He will not. It will be used against our own though.

Dear GOP fear mongers in Ohio: Yes, Amy Acton is an unknown politically and doubtless she has some skeletons in her closet. However, what is truly scary to me is how many of you know Trump is a lunatic and demented but think that is just fine. Like Vivek who never ever criticizes the orange man.

I doubt we are positioned to assert much influence in the middle east any longer. I hope all of the GOP geniuses are happy with the complete collapse of world norms directly attributable to their spineless supplication towards the Trump cult.

Our current president is in power because he is a monied bully who corrupts everything he touches and marginalizes anyone person or institution that could possibly challenge him.

Face it, non MAGA Americans. You were sold a false product (Trump the successful business man!) and false policy (Project 2025 was going to bring back Christian values) and false economics (tariffs and insider dealing will make America great). At least you helped the rich get richer though!

So, the current situation is MAGA is attempting to erase all cultural references and history that make them feel bad. Trump makes changes he has no right to initiate and the feckless MAGA congress says zippo. The changes belong to the people to change and we need to show this in the midterms.

Seems pretty clear that a winning strategy for future America is to simply do the opposite of what Trump and MAGA have done.

Trump’s GOP Midterm Convention Has a Crowd-Size Problem - New York Magazine Wanna know who to vote against? Anyone worshipping Trump at the “convention” is a good start.

So, we see that the GOP does not support our troops but they support their control of our troops. They also do not support their constitution but do support their party leader no matter how truly stupid his decisions are. Seems like an overall bad combination.

Mystery solved: the Freedom Fuel Network was able to charge so little for gas because it stiffed its supplier and refused to pay for it

People in these countries age the worst, ranked according to science - BBC Science Focus Magazine This is fairly obvious but we do not talk about it enough. The goal should not be to exist the longest possible but to live your best life however long.

John Roberts has allowed work on Donald’s $400M White House ballroom to continue. Please contain your shock at Roberts endorsing the emerging constitutional doctrine of “Donald gets to do whatever the fuck he wants.” I know. Breathe into a bag.

So tired of GOP excuses and cover-ups. They cannot blame Trump for the issues they allowed to blow up in their faces. Vote them all out!

The Trump administration is the new Gomorrah. GOP will be destroyed by what it is doing especially the details unknown at the moment.

Top Trump official asked for more resources to fight a small fire near his Idaho ranch - The Washington Post This is how corruption works.

Shocking that our narcissistic ridiculous President is so busy litigating personal things that he can’t focus on fixing ANY of the myriad things he has broken. And the American people continue to suffer. Luckily i write my representatives and get generic policy replies and no action. Cancel GOP.

Trump's vaccine plan would require millions of individual shots last used decades ago - The Associated Press Just another way they plan to undermine science and knowledge by creating false information under a banner of authority

This treatment of our military members has been sanctioned by GOP politicians to soothe Trump’s boundless ego. Vote them all out!

If you, like me, are a creature of logic and science, you may be wondering about your sanity as the GOP continues appeasing the orange baby. I can no longer support the GOP at any level until the fever nightmare burns out and neither should you. It doesn’t make you a dem, just proves your sanity.

Keep hearing people who should know better say that they voted for Trump because we needed a business man in the White House. I don’t think that is necessarily wrong but we needed a good one. Trump is a failed one. And it should be obvious to everyone why he failed: he is a lazy, stupid cheater.

People need to decide what they stand for. It doesn’t have to last the ages but should reflect how they want to live and what type of society they want for themselves and their children. Trump has upended societal norms simply to take anything he can get away with. And the party seems ok with it.

This is a terrific response, but they can go even further -- the weak attack on "communism" gives Democrats a great opening to call out Trump's massive cronyism and corruption.