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Faygo Kid

(21,489 posts)
Fri May 31, 2024, 05:09 PM May 2024

I have been a lawyer for 40 years. I'm ready to fight!

I spent nearly all my career not as a litigator but as a spokesperson, including 10 years as communications director at the State Bar of Michigan. Now I am retired. I could not express my own views, much as they often matched up. Now I can.

TRUMP IS THE GREATEST DANGER TO THIS NATION SINCE RUSH LIMBAUGH. Remember him? I predicted this would happen in 1991.

And so it has.

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I have been a lawyer for 40 years. I'm ready to fight! (Original Post) Faygo Kid May 2024 OP
Glad you are in the fight! ananda May 2024 #1
Welcome to the fight LetMyPeopleVote May 2024 #2
Which reminds me malaise May 2024 #9
We welcome your views and efforts! Bundbuster May 2024 #3
I take your point... thenelm1 May 2024 #4
Oh yes Always Blue May 2024 #6
Yes they have Tumbulu Jun 2024 #13
Limbaugh... Wuddles440 May 2024 #11
Can't argue with that. n/t thenelm1 May 2024 #12
The damage caused by Limbaugh is incalculable Tumbulu Jun 2024 #14
Sadly true DownriverDem May 2024 #5
DAMN STRAIGHT WE WILL FIGHT Skittles May 2024 #7
Communications is the most critical need for us, hopefully you'll find a great opportunity. JudyM May 2024 #8
Interesting! Good to have you Cha May 2024 #10

LetMyPeopleVote

(174,176 posts)
2. Welcome to the fight
Fri May 31, 2024, 06:09 PM
May 2024

I was getting ready to go to Florida in 2000 when Bush v. Gore came down. I did go to Florida in 2004 as part of Kerry Edwards voter protection team and I have been volunteering on voter protection efforts ever since.

thenelm1

(912 posts)
4. I take your point...
Fri May 31, 2024, 06:42 PM
May 2024

but Limbaugh was just a loud-mouth blowhard, but never came close to elected office. TFG on the other hand...

Tumbulu

(6,611 posts)
13. Yes they have
Sat Jun 1, 2024, 01:45 PM
Jun 2024

And urban people, in general, continue to fail to grasp this.

I blame the arrogance of the people in urban areas who ignored the please of those of us who have been terrorized by the behavior encouraged by the rhetoric for decades.

Now with T45 and his MAGA followers, the rest of the country is experiencing what so many liberals in rural areas have come to find normal.

Wuddles440

(1,950 posts)
11. Limbaugh...
Fri May 31, 2024, 07:03 PM
May 2024

might have not actually served in an elected office, but the incessant cesspool of propaganda that he spewed on a daily basis poisoned and permanently damaged the minds of million of his listeners. These listeners (some of whom became candidates) then voted for those espousing similar views and this eventually resulted our current nightmare. While there were many mistakes by progressive leadership in the past, conceding the AM dial/programming to right wing media was one of the worst.

Tumbulu

(6,611 posts)
14. The damage caused by Limbaugh is incalculable
Sat Jun 1, 2024, 01:48 PM
Jun 2024

and only with the rise of T45 has the population at large experienced what rural liberals have been suffering from for 4 decades now. The damage to the nation’s psyche will take generations to recover from. If indeed it is possible to recover from it.

Skittles

(169,214 posts)
7. DAMN STRAIGHT WE WILL FIGHT
Fri May 31, 2024, 06:46 PM
May 2024

to hell with these folk who would prefer to flee the country, I will NEVER abandon my country to fascism - NEVER :hiL

JudyM

(29,564 posts)
8. Communications is the most critical need for us, hopefully you'll find a great opportunity.
Fri May 31, 2024, 06:52 PM
May 2024

Good luck!

Cha

(316,405 posts)
10. Interesting! Good to have you
Fri May 31, 2024, 07:02 PM
May 2024

Aboard and glad you're now able to say what you want, Faygo Kid!

Happy Retirement!

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