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Media Matters president Angelo Carusone summed up pretty nicely exactly why our propagandized electorate was perfectly happy giving the rapist, grifter felon another shot at destroying what's left of democracy in America. I've got lots of friends and relatives who are exactly the people Carusone is talking about here, and every one of them has immersed themselves in a right-wing misinformation bubble. Here's the exchange via Media Matters: NICOLLE WALLACE (HOST): We're back with Ian, Angelo and Tim.

Disgraced former General Michael Flynn, who was caught by theFBI and pled guilty to two felonies for being in cahoots with Russia before he was pardoned by Trump, called to start taking a sledgehammer to the federal government including the FBI and the Department of Education just to start. Being on the losing side today we'll hear a lot of insane clucking by many unsavory people.

Miss Know-nothing of the RNC, Lara Trump and Fox News host Sean Hannity want to take away every state's rights to control their own elections and federalize them, implementing voter ID, proof of citizenship, signature verification, chain of custody control, purging voter rolls, and using paper ballots while having partisan poll watchers inspect everything. The nuts are clucking.

Last night as I was absently scrolling through Facebook I ran across a post from a "friend" (though not any longer) who went on an extended rant to justify his vote for Donald Trump as a Black man. He was, and I shit you not, furious because Kamala Harris was thrust upon him as the candidate without a primary. That's right.

In the end, America’s verdict was delivered quicker than many observers had expected. The electorate’s swing towards Donald Trump and the GOP may well have been an immediate result of lingering unhappiness with post-pandemic inflation and public disinterest in the Biden administration’s efforts to restructure the United States economy. Many Democratic voters, however, likely woke up on Nov.

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