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Holocaust scholar here. Which obviously includes deep work on fascism and everything around it and before it and… you’ve been hitting it out of the park the last few weeks. Thank you.

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Oct 24Liked by David Kurtz

The whole daddy business needs a serious bit of unpacking but who’d have the stomach to unravel that, blech

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Oct 24Liked by David Kurtz

I don't know how you do it, but please keep informing us. Now it's "daddy"--??

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"Who's your daddy?" takes on new significance...do we laugh, or do we worry?

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My gut feeling: 🤮

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Ditto. It’s the most repulsive crap I’ve ever seen.

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Just. Fucking. Insane.

And terrifying.

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Looking forward to her Eclipse speech as a "barn burner" hope they will be bringing video projections of January 6 assault on the Capitol in the background while she speaks.

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It effing better be! ABC! : Always Be Closing, full stop!

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South African-born billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong

Let's make it a trifecta: strip Soon-Shiong, Peter Thiel and Elon Leon Muck of their citizenship and send all three back to South Africa. We don't need any South African-born billionaires.

I've subscribed to the LA Times since I got here 44 years ago, even during the last 10 years as it became "The neighborhood advertiser formerly known as the LA Times." Until last night.

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“I don’t know if it’s the winning message, but it’s the right message.”

If it’s not the winning message, then it’s the wrong message. She can be as morally correct about the dangers of Trump as she wants (and as we want her to be), but if she doesn’t actually beat him, it doesn’t matter. Knowing she said the right things is not going to provide any comfort if Trump wins because of it and turns this country into a fascist state.

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😮‍💨

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Tucker video link goes to Kilmeade/Fox.

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Here's an idea for stalwart rule of law J. Merrick Garland. Write Musk a a sternly worded letter warning him to back off or else!

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