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S. Rose Smith-Hayes's avatar

George Bush ll was the worst until 45 came on the scene in 2016. Now having won in 2024, 45/47 has topped himself as the worst President ever so far. Just my opinion. The only reason that I appreciate Pres. Nixon is that he had the courage and decency to resign. We have had some bad 'actors' in history but 45/47 is the number one worst ever. He totally disrespects the Constitution and the Rule of Law and the American people.

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Kate's avatar
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I agree gw 2 was bad but as you said at least Nixon had the decency to resign but he was FORCED to resign because there were those who FORCED him TO resign! There's NO ONE now who will do that! That's what's so scary now!! And I'll never forget Nixon saying "I'm an NOT A CROOK" which he totally was! But THIS CONVICTED FELON RAPIST is being coddled and enabled daily! And I read yesterday on some channels of utube that this FELON isn't a felon as there were no REAL charges and he's told the truth since day one? OMG!! THIS IS WHY WERE WHERE WE ARE!! Hard to BELIEVE that some people believe he's done nothing WRONG!!! And they think his cabinet is full of great people?!!! I re.ember reading that Woodrow Wilson was extremely ill and his WIFE took over the reigns so as not to let the public know!!! Wish I could say help is on the way!! Hope you have a good day I'm trying to but it's so upsetting to be living this nightmare!!!

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Clarke Shaw's avatar

You know Nixon started claiming not to be a crook in the 50's in his Checkers speech. Lying then also.

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Kate's avatar

RIGHT!! My grandmother who was 90 said Nixon and others were crooked to a point but he wasn't smart enough not to get caught!! She was very savvy about politics...she saw a lot!!

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PleaseMakeItStopPlease's avatar

I hope that we don’t have to wait till midterms to see change. I really hope that what’s left of maga implodes on itself much more soon than that.

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James A Brunell's avatar

Maybe if the judge’s

And the senators with the house representatives

start doing their job and drafting legislation for the people

(We The People)

I fought and believe and served in the military.

Too defend our constitution from all threats

Foreign and domestic

Till the day I die

God bless America🇺🇸

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Kathy Notaro's avatar

Will we survive this era in America?

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Marsha's avatar

I’m not sure our institutions and universities will surviver!

we could it an end to Crump if we were willing to engage in a general strike . Americans are sub, lacking in any understanding of of history and class

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Ann Grogan's avatar

Exactly Marsha. Only we the people in a general strike that we unify on, will prevail. When? Who will lead? We lack a charismatic uniting leader or group. They all solicit me for money and I am a retired senior being careful with her money.

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Hmmm 🤔's avatar

I blame Fox News Entertainment for their part in the misinformation and lies they have spewed over the years before trump.

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Ann Grogan's avatar

You are talking about MALE CONTROLLED POLITICS coming from a Patriarchal, misogynist society. Super-qualified, over-qualified or normal women have NEVER dominated US Politics or even ascended to the Presidency -- contrary to India, Britain, and more humanist female-led countries such as New Zealand, Iceland and many more. ALL these women leaders held to a line of civility and cooperation - compared to testosterone changed men. Plus you will note that NOT ONE of these women leaders wasted our taxpayer dollars and exorbitant public time -- and podcasts -- explaining and refuting women leaders' perverse attacks on men. Oh snap! There were NO perverse attacks on men by these female leader --nor would there be any in this country had we elected Clinton or Harris. Now DJT all has done is frame, market to perfection, and unleash the beast of pure male testosterone, black and white thinking, aggressive violence on others, and retribution -- just like in cave man days. I have no solution, but I do know I'm back on the streets at age 81, doing what I can. BTW an easy thing to do is REFUSE to give your money to support oligarchs and fascists (ie stop using Facebook,Twitter Amazon and the like; don't faint at the suggestion -- just do stop it!). We all know that in the beginning and in the end - money talks. Forget hope and high-faluting protest speech. Forget think tanks and erudite podcasts, as they too, won't save us. History won't save us, nor will historians. Spend your hard-earned money with humanist businesses (not just "local" ones as they could be MAGA owned) and check out this resource to guide you: goodsuniteus.oom

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Maureen's avatar

I could listen to Tim all day. 👍🏻🇺🇸

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Karen Dudley's avatar

Very informative. Thank you very much for this podcast.

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Mary-Chilton van Hees's avatar

When you talked about trump saying Nixon should have burned the tapes, that idea fit in with my theory that trump has the Epstein files and the list, after all, they were on Bondi’s desk! He says it was all a hoax and there is nothing more to see here. Ghislaine Maxwell will be released because “there is no evidence” and the regime will take over the blackmailing of all of the people involved. Trump will burn this information when he thinks it has been depleted.

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Hanneke Wasserman's avatar

NATIONWIDE STRIKE URGENT REQUEST TO SAVE OUR DEMOCRACY

https://generalstrikeus.com/

Please read information so you are well informed, join and share

We are supposed to be a large community here on Substack, what are you waiting for?

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Darrell Scott's avatar

Vote 🔵🔵🔵 this mid-term election!!!

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Linda Ihlenfeld's avatar

Very interesting...thank you.

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Susan Paulo's avatar

Go to UTube for info on General Strike.

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Nancy Werner Mosley's avatar

Wonderful discussion. Thank you. 😊

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James A Brunell's avatar

I have to agree with you about Bush 2

Especially

That I served as a

Airborne Ranger 2/75 Bt under

Ronald Reagan

1982-1984

But now I’m even embarrassed to be

a American.

The way our senators and

Representatives

Selling out the rule of law on top of having no moral or constitutional Care for the working

people of their state. plus purposely,

putting under qualified people in important positions he systematically, destroying our government and our country.

He is definitely the worst president to date without question

he really isn’t even qualified to be a president in my opinion because it was actions on January 6

He should’ve been disqualified

Under our constitution written by our forefathers because of 200 years ago, we had a lot of the same complaints against King Charles. What a coincidence history is gonna repeat itself I hope not.

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Kindness.matters.4ever's avatar

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/3130729/D

Court document that shows case against Epstien and Trump

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Clarke Shaw's avatar

You mentioned Jimmy Carter not serving in the war. Are you aware of his heroic handling of Canada's worst nuclear disaster in 1952? A hero who exposed himself to huge doses of radiation.

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