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A couple of days after the debate, the DeWines attended a county fair in Northern Ohio, a county whose name they didn’t want to share for fear of its residents being targeted. And he’s still going to vote for him. Dewine knows the problem. He could help in a huge way. But he won’t.

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A sad, tired, partisan d-bag who adamantly refuses to connect the so-obvious dots...OK, defend resettled Haitian immigrants from the scurrilous tRump, then announce you're voting for the criminal...huh?

No spine, no courage, no sense of morality...we give you today's GOP.

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Dewine is one corrupt MFer

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What do you expect - he's a Republican.

"Party before People". It's their nature.

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Wow- thanks for the link to Hawke’s article on Kristofferson. A work of art.

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Up from the basement came one of country music’s brightest stars (who shall remain nameless). At that moment in time, the Star had a monster radio hit about bombing America’s enemies back into the Stone Age.

“Happy birthday,” the Star said to Willie, breezing by us. As he passed Kristofferson in one long, confident stride, out of the corner of his mouth came “None of that lefty shit out there tonight, Kris.”

“What the luck did you just say to me?” Kris growled, stepping forward.

“Oh, no,” groaned Willie under his breath. “Don’t get Kris all riled up.”

“You heard me,” the Star said, walking away in the darkness.

“Don’t turn your back to me, boy,” Kristofferson shouted, not giving a shit that basically the entire music industry seemed to be flanking him.

The Star turned around: “I don’t want any problems, Kris – I just want you to tone it down.”

“You ever worn your country’s uniform?” Kris asked rhetorically.

“What?”

“Don’t ‘What?’ me, boy! You heard the question. You just don’t like the answer.” He paused just long enough to get a full chest of air. “I asked, ‘Have you ever served your country?’ The answer is, no, you have not. Have you ever killed another man? Huh? Have you ever taken another man’s life and then cashed the check your country gave you for doing it? No, you have not. So shut the fuck up!” I could feel his body pulsing with anger next to me. “You don’t know what the hell you are talking about!”

“Whatever,” the young Star muttered.

Ray Charles stood motionless. Willie Nelson looked at me and shrugged mischievously like a kid in the back of the classroom.

Kristofferson took a deep inhale and leaned against the wall, still vibrating with adrenaline. He looked over at Willie as if to say, “Don’t say a word.” Then his eyes found me.

“You know what Waylon Jennings said about guys like him?” he whispered.

I shook my head.

“They’re doin’ to country music what pantyhose did to finger-fuckin’.”

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Hello Monday...'can't trust that day.'

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We all know nyt et. al will declare Vance the winner no matter how bad he loses. Democrats should refuse debates, there's no upside and only negative outcomes.

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"Israeli airstrike on Friday killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a southern suburb of Beirut."... and killed 1,000 civilians, using 87 tons of ordinance.

Do better

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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 8s quite a big place with several large and shiny and historic cities such as Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. So why is IL TRUMPO spending his time and resources in such left behind and forgotten locales as Erie and Butler? This might be a clue:

Percent White Population(%) 2022

Butler - 93.6%

Erie - 80.6%

Pittsburgh - 63.1%

Philadelphia - 33.8%

Anybody notice anything unusual? Besides the fact that he was shot in the whitest of the 4 - how about that?

But places such as Erie and Butler are hardly characterized as "Vote-rich" - are they? Philly has 1.5 million people in the City. Over 6 million in the Metro. Butler has, what, 13000 people? Erie is down to 92,000. Yet this is where Trump thinks he's going to get his votes on a big weekend 5 weeks out.

I guess when you expect your party to steal the election for you it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to actually do the freaking work. Compare where MRS HARRIS AND THE COACH - THE TRUMPSLAYERS are appearing and doing the work to where FatBoy goes - and tell me who's doing the work and who isn't. And ask "Why?"

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Want better media? How about stop postings from CNN, WAPO, WSJ, NYT, and (CEO prays for Trump win) Politico. I only learned about Asheville unfolding tragedy from a guest at my daughter’s wedding Saturday night. I had to go to TikTok to get news from people posting about towns wiped out. The real tragedy is the demise and corrupted 4th Estate. You’re not helping.

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And the MSM, and we voters, said Howard Dean was unfit to be president because he yelled at a rally. Is this what we “deserve “….?

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