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Folks, apologies for the typos - pls check the online version. Apologies, I'm in a bit of a rush before Walter and I tape.

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Oct 26, 2023ยทedited Oct 26, 2023

I'm a Minnesotan (a condition that gets harder all the time). "Funny" isn't an adjective that would ever have come to mind for Amy Klobuchar. "The Marm" was my late husband's name for her. She is self-righteous, smug and self-satisfied. She believes in the vast right-wing conspiracy. She has no accomplishments. I have been baffled for years why Minnesotans keep voting her in by large margins--I don't think she even has an opponent this time. I'm not Republican, plenty of problems there. But I'll vote for them every time against her and her DFL colleagues. She pretends to Minnesota Nice but she's really Minnesota Nasty.

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Senator Karen Klobuchar also threw a stapler at her staffer. The embodiment of Fake Midwest nice passive aggressiveness. She reminds me of Dolores Umbradge from Harry Potter. Too bad she was not intersectional enough to get the VP nod.

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Of all the things Trump has been right about, I'm increasingly feeling his #1 insight was this:

'The media is the enemy of the people'.

Matt, you are a rare exception, but your peers truly suck. They are vain, dishonest, destructive, and evil.

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"These people are the worst. I would pay money to watch them all mauled by bears. Senator Klobuchar, Mr.Bezos, esteemed editors of the Washington Post, to hell with all of you."

A concise mission statement if I have ever read one. On board, one hundred percent.

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I hope you were saying or thinking your headline during Klobuchar's despicable attempted take down of Kavanaugh. What an eye opener that was, slander dripping with self-righteousness. At the time I had a similar thought to you: "How much more can we - as a country - take?"

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"Amy Klobuchar, You Suck"

That was already crystal clear when she and her partner-in-crime Peter Buttigieg abdicated their positions just before Super Tuesday in favor of fifth-place swamp creature Joe Biden in March 2020.

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"These people are the worst. I would pay money to watch them all mauled by bears." Count me in as well

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When I saw a photo of Amy Klobuchar in Ukraine with John McCain, Lindsey Graham and the Azov Battalion, I knew who she was. She is a Nazi masquerading as a Democrat. She used to be an outlier in the party but now she fits right in. Politicalcompass.org places her in the right wing authoritarian quadrant of the compass.

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Thanks Matt for your honesty, your perspective, the articulate way you convey what's going on in the world and for YOUR humor. Literally laughed out loud several times reading this post. So effen grateful you do what you do as I don't know how I would cope with the madness out there without you.

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I donโ€™t understand how government regulating speech doesnโ€™t violate the first amendment. Fuck the bears, letโ€™s maul them with the Bill of Rights.

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"I would pay money to watch them all mauled by bears."

Is this the same Matt Taibbi who so calmly sat through outrageous epithets hurled at him in a Congressional hearing?! I, for one, am happy to see you lash out, Mr. T.

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A strong 3rd place finish -- as in she lost.

One of the few things I can recall from her candidacy was her boast that she had had lots of boyfriends, a few of whom still supported her campaign despite having dated her.

That "joke" seemed to be more on her than them ...

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I'm from the midwest, and trust me, she's not fooling anybody here.

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Matt-Please start covering the excess death and cancer rates caused by these vaccines. Please. We need you.

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More media gaslightingโ€ฆpromoting a candidate who has no chance, as if she could actually win.

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