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Oct 28Liked by Roger Simon

Forgive me for adding one more comment. I watched the Rogan podcast Friday night and was impressed, again, at Trump's range of knowledge and how he deploys it with his "weave" style of discussion. Seems to me that Trump's interest in others (shown when he questioned Rogan about wrestling) gives him a deep well of knowledge that he can draw on in considering problems. He is able to compare insights from disparate disciplines to better frame a problem and devise solutions.

Despite protestations from various journalists and pundits, Trump has a truly impressive mind.

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My middle son works for Tesla, hence is a huge Elon fan, as well as being a Trump and Rogan superfan for at least 10 years. I always told him as regards Rogan…and holds for Trump and Elon…”interesting people are interested.” Unlike the narcissists such as Rubin and other liberal so called journalists.

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So YOUR the one to blame for Jennifer Rubin…

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Michael Savage was right. "Liberalism is a mental disorder."

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Happy Sunday all! Forgive me for copy/pasting this passage from the bible, but I believe it sums things up quite nicely:

"But know this, that in the last days [a]perilous times will come: 2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 unloving, [b]unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, 4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; 9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was."

Keep the faith everyone and pray for divine intervention. God bless America, our military, our Veterans and throw in a good word for the Yankees!

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Oct 27·edited Oct 27

From your words to G-d’s ears. I have tried, in my lifetime, to practice the very art of forgiveness. To forgive sets one free of the baggage that comes with anger, wrath, and even blind rage for the truly unhinged. These never Trumpers are prime examples of what has been “diagnosed” as TDS. And as all conservatives know, finding a cure for this syndrome is proving to be a difficult one. But interviews like the Rogan one with President Trump are most helpful in the effort to cure the minds of the unhinged. As for your mea culpa, if we were Catholic, you would probably be assigned a number of Hail Mary’s and other important forms of penance, and will have been freed of your mea culpa when leaving the confessional. Suffice it to say, you can place this at the top of your atonement list for next year. Plus, you hit the nail on the head of why our family stopped watching late night shows since Trump threw his hat in the ring almost a decade ago.

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Ha! Unfortunately I have more to atone for than Rubin. She's more of a sideshow.

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It is one thing to forgive. It is entirely another to forget. Because one is not the other and one does not require the other. I forgive the 5 men who beat me to a pulp when I was 16 because they thought I was someone else. It does not mean I forgot that they intended to end my life. Just an example.

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I sense that ,more so than not, most people with TDS are indeed jealous. Jealous of his fame, family, fortune, tenacity, work ethic and even maybe his humor.

Those who got rich through hard work, sweat and tears have endorsed him.

Those who got rich through insider trading, thus theft, want to take his whole life and living away from him.

IMO

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The greatest betrayal in the history of this once great nation was that of the so called fourth estate. The free press was supposed to protect the people from government overreach and tyranny. Because of the Marxist takeover of our educational system brainwashing at least two generations and because the media is essentially the propaganda organ of the Marxist/Democrat/Hate America Party that fourth estate has become this nation’s most dangerous fifth column. Perhaps the LA Times and Pravda on the Potomac understand Kamala is just so incompetent that even they have to admit that by their non endorsement not to mention their own financial situations.

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I slightly disagree. We haven’t had a real fourth estate since the 60’ at least. I remember having two or more daily newspapers in the major cities and not on the same side of the political spectrum. The three television networks were all the same with some style differences. What is different now is the “Web” allows the sun to shine in, in a way it hasn’t for a long time. When discussing politics and reportage I frequently ask of people if they have ever read anything in the news they already knew about independently and knew that the news providers were wrong. If they have I ask if like me, they are then sceptical of everything else reported? If they never had that experience than there is nothing to discuss.

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If we could just jail Trump, end the electoral college, stack the Supreme Court, ban voter ID, force reparations, and censor Maga speech, end the filibuster, Force taxpayers to pay for transgender sex changes for illegal aliens and prisoners (like Kamala Harris literally wrote down on her ACLU AMA) , conduct lawfare on our political opponents, add Puerto Rico and DC as states, force Virginia to reinstate thousands of self-declared non-citizens to its voter rolls weeks before a national election, and based on a law signed by Dem Tim Kane in 2006, stage a coup on a sitting president they insisted was perfectly mentally competent, and select his successor behind closed doors without a single vote cast plus throw in a couple of assassination attempts against a presidential candidate for good measure and we could save democracy!

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You see how well a similar set of moves worked in Cuba and Venezuela!

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Imagine a world where everyone who said they would leave the U.S.A if their candidate didn't win - did in fact leave. I think of Louis Armstrong's "What a wonderful world"...

Then I woke up.

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Thank you, Roger, for informing your readers who can't take 3 hours, let alone 5 minutes, of Joe Rogan’s "F-Bomb" vocabulary, that his interview with President Trump received 17 million views on YouTube within the first 24 hours. Wow. That reinforces my opinion that "Commiela" will not receive the popular vote (BS Polling Data), at least not legitimately. I'll mention here that what I enjoy most about reading your, and your wife Sheryl's, commentaries, is that one comes away both informed and intellectually stimulated.

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Let them all eat crow and resign. Today's left eats its own when and as necessary. Good riddance.

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The puppet of the Central Committee is broken, and clattering in circles shouting, "Trump is Hitler" while Pravda recoils from her in silent panic. Come back to the barricades, Comrades; surely we can find some joy or some unarmed black felon shot by the Czar's police. The people want bread; not gaslight. No joy in Foggy Bottom; mighty Alinsky has struck out.

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The Will-o'-the-Wisp profiteers (read: liberal billionaires) see the turning tide direction and are quickly changing due course.

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Needed now more than ever -- well-written Trumpian summaries. Many thanks!

The left is obsessed with popcorning kernels of truth about Trump into gotchas, while Trump is (for the lack of a better word) "transforming" Washington "silo-speak."

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I do believe we need to discard the old labels of Right and Left as it seems we have moved to a period more resembling Reason and Emotion. Trump’s interview with Rogan was brilliant, albeit I think a bit late, and was the first time that people really got to see Trump as an interesting, caring, and knowledgeable human being. One hears from people who know Trump well that he is warm, personable, and caring, yet we do not see this in his political world. Could it be that to survive in the political world one cannot warm, personable, and caring?

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