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They started it. Below the belt crap. Super bad. You can't go "High" when they are hitting below the belt. When I watch these interviews with the MAGA supporters, and the actual lies and conspiracies they accept as gospel truth, I am so torn. What have they done to our great country? This is totally on the GOP. We might be a little nuts at times, but they are off the wall. Look at the Fetterman tweet you referenced. Have you seen any hard right GOP folks express one ounce of decency on anything? Look at the reaction after Paul Pelosi was almost hammered to death. Was there a single kind word from any MAGA official? Not ONE. Yet the crowds roared in approval when any of them suggested it was a gay encounter gone bad. Sorry, this is ALL on you MAGA folks.

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They started it! Is that how we want to go forward in our national discourse? I don't.

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Let's think about this for a moment.

I am a huge fan of yours. Followed you for most of your career. I get where you are coming from. I consider myself a fairly kind and open man. I am a registered independent. My friends point me out as "that guy who can be friends with both sides". I like that.

Those "other side" folks are perfectly happy with our nation as we know it fundamentally changing. No, that wasn't strong enough. They WANT a strong man. They adore him. They hate that "others" have a place in the USA. You can't reason with them. Our food supply would absolutely break down without illegal immigrant workers. That's important, but you know that already. How many big strong white Alabama high school kids sign up to pick crops? None. Again, you know that. But they don't know it.

When they cheered Paul Pelosi getting his head bashed in, it was because they were certain he had a gay lover. We're adults, we can say it. WTF does it matter if he DID?

We're at a deflection point here. And I don't see much of a national discourse these days. As a frequent traveler, when I am flying over the red states, I feel so sad that decent hardworking farmers in Iowa or Nebraska really think Joe Biden is the boss of a crime family. You and I do know the head of a crime family, and he has 91 indictments and his name isn't Joe. I don't know what to do. I can't talk with my friends about this. Their minds are closed and made up.

While they are solid on the Dems having a "Deep State", the GOP is actually making that an open secret to how they are planning to take over. It is ironic that Mitch announced his retirement on the very day his Supreme Court shifted the court in Donald's favor, perhaps forever. I think yesterday was akin to the Comey announcement 2 weeks before the 2016 election. Everything shifted.

How do we have discourse with folks who wish us dead?

Make no mistake, they hate any of us who don't think they are right. When Biden won in 2020, remember the dancing in the streets that Saturday afternoon. Yea, dancing.

Who could ever imagine January 6th?

Love ya man, let's meet for coffee so you can sign your book for me. You are one of the great guys. Keep it up.

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