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Sheila Nawrot's avatar

Let me point out one, only one of many, fallacies you are writing here. Re: Trump claims people in other countries can request a ballot and receive it without question. Your response: This is a strange accusation considering most of the military overseas vote Republican.

My response: I don’t know if Trumps claim is true. Neither do I know it is false. Unfortunately, no one in the left really cares to do the work to find out, do they? Furthermore, if most of the military overseas vote Republican it stands to reason it wouldn’t be any of those overseas voters that Trump would be worried about so your line of logic there is flawed. To say the 2020 election was fraudulent may or may not be the truth. There again no one in the left cares to work to find out. Please do not respond to me about all the suits filled in court having been thrown out. In most of those cases the courts were never shown evidence. They were denied for lack of standing. I know you people have heard this again and again. You just refuse to see the truth in the events. No standing means that the person or persons bringing the suit have no skin in the game, so to speak. The lawyers who brought the cases to courts were not affected by the events so the judges refused to hear them. The bottom line: If the judge didn’t think that the claimants vote was nullified for any reason the cases were thrown out for no standing. For clarity, I don’t know who the lawyers were representing in these cases so it’s possible they did not have standing. I’m only pointing out that no evidence was EVER presented in any of these cases. It was never proven that fraud did NOT A happen.

The fact that the Democrat Party used every possible unethical method to pack the votes ONLY in blue states and only in pivotal counties should at the very least suggest suspicion and indicate concern.

Lastly, I don’t know your finances but here where I live people are not rich. You can spew that inflation is down, but it certainly isn’t showing up in our grocery stores or our energy prices. You can see gas prices going down, but that’s only because whomever is running things in DC opened up domestic drilling. That is a rabbit hole I’ll save for another day.

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Alan E. Bernstein's avatar

Please draw the logical conclusion. Such a man should never be back in the White House. However hard you must hold your nose, voting for Harris is the only patriotic option. Not voting is no solution; it amounts to a vote for Trump. Endorse and vote for Harris.

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Sharon Maurer's avatar

Thank you.

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judy allen's avatar

I am a feminist and sadly there no way I could ever vote for Kamala! She’s dense and incompetent… seriously, what has she accomplish as Vice President of the United States????

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Delana Forsyth's avatar

How much are the Democrats paying you to write this crap. Your blogs and your newsletters have nothing but lies all through them. It is because of so-called reporters or writers like you that the honest investigative reporters don't have jobs. You are a disgrace to the newspaper and article writing.

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judy allen's avatar

Wow, you must’ve woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. This is a subscription newsletter, and you could simply cancel versus calling names.. Hal is a wonderful civic minded member of our community. I certainly don’t agree with him on a lot of this, but I know and respect him very much.

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Delana Forsyth's avatar

Your being lied to! You need to do your research! What you are listening to is AI artificial intelligence lying to you.

He's not running for president for money he don't need it! He didn't even take pay while he was in White House! He's losing money.

He cut taxes by 5.3 trillion dollars in 2017. There will be no taxes on social Security.

Him Lori corporate tax rates means he is helping people come back into our country to make money. So we can buy America first products.

Trump is also promising one significant tax hike (though he'd never call it that) in the form of a new wave of tariffs that experts say could add thousands to US family budgets. Tariffs are taxes that are paid by importers at US points of entry, with the additional costs often passed on to consumers.

The two proposals were, by Yahoo Finance's count, at least the ninth and 10th distinct tax cut promises Trump has made in recent months. They include his calls for fully extending his 2017 tax cuts with modifications and an array of add-ons such as eliminating taxes on tips, overtime, and Social Security benefits.

You need to stop lying the people! I live in Pennsylvania and you are lying.

Trump would be the one who lost the most. His personal net worth is reported to have declined by 1.5 billion dollars during his time in office. The Covid virus and its effect on the travel industry could have been a major part of that.

As for who gained the most my answer would be Lyndon Johnson. He gained 100 million dollars (current dollars) from bribes and kickbacks during his term in office but that does include his time in the Senate as well. The Vietnam war generated much of that with his involvement with Brown and Root. They were a two-man construction company that was the first supporter of LBJ and with his help became the second largest construction company in the world. For instance, they built 90% of the roads, airports and government buildings in Vietnam with generous kickbacks for Johnson. There were numerous other defense and oil companies that had LBJ on their unofficial payroll.

Others who might be in the running for biggest gain would be Obama and the Clintons who gained a lot of wealth from speeches, book sales and in Clinton’s case generous donations to their foundation in exchange for access.

Barack and Michelle Obama reportedly got paid about $65m for their memoirs, while Bill Clinton earned a $15m advance for his 2004 book.

Bloomberg says the most obvious way Mr Trump can profit post-presidency is with a news channel or social media platform that would appeal to his 74m voters in the 2020 election.

You need to tell the truth! May mercy on your lying tongue. We know these are paid actors being paid to lie about Trump on here because if you were actually here in Pennsylvania and talk to the voters there's a good 90% of us that are voting for Trump that includes every race in this state.

Delana Forsyth

Investigative Reporter

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Delana Forsyth's avatar

No he's not! I am investigative journalist that cannot be bought by the Democrats to lie to the American people.

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Janice Marcus's avatar

14 States don’t require ID. Make that make sense. I think if Liz Cheney was running as a Republican and that was going on, you’d have something to say about it.… It’s not right.

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judy allen's avatar

Hal, I agree we do not have two wonderful candidates. Would you do me a favor and share a list some good qualities of Kamala? I know her from the Willie Brown days up in San Francisco and have found her to be quite a party girl and vapid and I’m hard-pressed to consider voting for her.

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Rick Gordon's avatar

I’m very frustrated at the quality of the candidates - both of them - but must vote. I share your views of our elections and hope that the results will be evident quickly followed election day. The changes in voting period are not helpful. I favor a 10-14 day period and not a month or more that exists in some states. I don’t think any ballots that arrive after polls close on Tuesday should be considered. I look forward to moderate candidates from both parties in 2028 that represent the majority of citizens.

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judy allen's avatar

I agree with you 10 to 14 day seems much more reasonable.

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Sharon Maurer's avatar

Thank you for bringing reason and truth to journalism.

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Sheila Nawrot's avatar

Gahahahahaha. I can only laugh. The completely opposite image you have of The United States of America boggles my mind.

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