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summer_in_TX

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65. The fury is understandable. Even justified.
Tue Feb 4, 2025, 10:42 PM
Tuesday

But realizing they were victims of a deliberate, well-designed brainwashing plan that has been in play for decades, until the marks were well and truly duped makes it easier for me.

Those news stories were never told or were only told in a way to make them seem totally unbelievable. Or our side was so carefully and thoroughly smeared that they distrusted and wrote off what we told them.

The calculating, cold-blooded schemers deserve 99.9 percent of our fury. The dupes fell prey to common human failings that bit by bit left them vulnerable and sucked in. So many people find they have been conned at some point in their lives.

As Heather Cox Richardson pointed out in her Sunday night live Facebook, she believes the majority of Republicans (and of course the non-voters) don't currently know at all about the fact that Elon Musk has seized control of the Treasury Department. She believes they would be deeply disturbed and start calling their Republican elected officials both at the federal and state level. We are in a constitutional crisis, she said. I believe she said this is a coup, but I may be conflating that.

We have about 3-4 weeks to stop it, IF. She gave all those who watched her video homework.






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