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In reply to the discussion: One of the most scary things I have ever read. We are well down the road to a Police State. [View all]duforsure
(11,885 posts)42. putin is behind this
And trump, so this shouldn't be a surprise he has trump trying to hurt his political opponents , especially ones putin hates the most. We're being brought to the same thing putin has done to russia, where opponents and opposition become criminals by having manufactured false evidence to use against them with. If trump gets in again from rigging this election he'll start trying to criminalize Obama, and others in his administration and other presidents he'll claim were corrupt, why , because he knows he's corrupt and it will be exposed he's the corrupt one.
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One of the most scary things I have ever read. We are well down the road to a Police State. [View all]
Botany
Feb 2020
OP
we need to keep sounding the alarm every day twice a day-whatever it takes BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE
demtenjeep
Feb 2020
#2
we are firing people that comply with Congress and produce facts, and "investigating" conspiracy
Takket
Feb 2020
#3
Read Oliver Bullough's "Moneyland,"(2020) and you'll see a whole nother level this serves.
ancianita
Feb 2020
#9
Hold on tight and we'll get through this election and the world will be ours again
world wide wally
Feb 2020
#5
I hear you. All the best. I feel everyone's pain. I was hollering on 2016 election night,
ancianita
Feb 2020
#28
I know. I sometimes escape to when I thought it was worse. And until recently, it was.
ancianita
Feb 2020
#32
before i go to sleep, remember boys and girls, PENDEJO is how we say Republican in Spanish
Celerity
Feb 2020
#41
it only works because we ignore rw radio- the biggest political mistake in history
certainot
Feb 2020
#35
To be fair, I think we've been well down that road since the Patriot Act passed
Algernon Moncrieff
Feb 2020
#53