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I just sent the following email to Gov. Hochul:

I read with absolutely fury that you intend to set up a hot line for filthy rich, tax-cheating CEOs who are now afraid they might get shot because their business practices are destroying lives. Tough. They have enough money to hire their own security; they don't need to drain NY state coffers because they're a bunch of snowflakes.

Maybe if they ran their businesses ethically, paid their taxes, paid fair wages, and didn't drive already poor people into the ground, they could relax.

Don't give these greedy bastards the time of day; they don't deserve it. And yes I am in Washington State, but this action will resound across the country.

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Boy, oh boy....is there ever a populist thread to be pulled here.

The right already thinks we want all rich people dead, so we may as well yank that fucking thread, hard, every single day until November 2026.

Time to turn public reaction against the oligarchy.

BTW, am I the only one who finds it NOT a coincidence that Melon Husk's brother owns a drone light show company?

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Well, you could have been before you enlightened me to this fact, but now I can say for sure there are at least two of us. ;)

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Absolutely! How buried is the story of the 3 people killed and 7 injured in a Madison Wisconsin Christian school.

Let’s bury our kids and protect the assholes trying to kill them.

I hate it here ( probably anywhere at this point) I am so sick of this total bullshit .

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YES! Hell with school children…let’s save the CEO’s……disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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That's not true story is on all the natl network now

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The SpongeBob cartoon and #3 had me lmao. My suggestion for Governor Hochul’s meeting with the CEOs: send boxes of Depends to them then bill them for it.

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Roll out the guillotine. Nothing solves the problem of obscenely wealthy, out of touch narcissists like a few heads rolling down the street.

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"Have you tried living your life in such a way that when you get gunned down in the street, millions of people don’t spontaneously burst into laughter?" Love it!

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Imagine having a family of teachers who are trained to sacrifice their lives on school campuses. Also, they are expected to deal with mental health crisis for the students. School funding is bountiful in wealthy districts and the less entitled have to scramble to keep faculty and parents engaged. Some simply lose the neighborhood schools.

END THE DEATH GRIP THAT THE NRA AND THE UNETHICAL WEALTHY HAVE ON HUMANITY!

Hang on to your sanity, get busy to assist in the reparation of this nation! Be merry. Count blessings. Fucking stop the politeness and get busy!

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Contrast tells the story: had this been a school shooting, it would have disappeared from the public airwaves *entirely* by day three. Motherfuckers.

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I want a special police hotline set up for every time there is a threat of an active shooter on a school’s campus.

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I think I love you; I'm going to have to upgrade to paid. Your rants are righteous!

May I suggest to anyone reading this, we ALL have to throw what money we have at progressive voices. Let's PAY for Joyce Vance, Heather Cox Richardson, David Pakman, Tennessee Brando, CHORUS, et al.

We are also going to have to fund national treasures like NPR and PBS once Trump cuts their funding. If everyone who listens to, reads, or watches those platforms gave a little, we could save them.

We're going to desperately need them, so can we stop letting "someone else" do it and all pitch in? Thanks. (Off to hit the UPGRADE button.)

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If you find yourself worrying that you might be held responsible for battening on the flesh of the poor, it is time to pause and reflect.

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Fragile grifting Asshats the top 1% of whiny assed privileged dickwads who think oh my savior Drumpty so we can save all our billions and the peasants can suck it..Fvck Drumpty Dumbty and his fvcking MAGAt minions 🖕🏽 hate to tell you wankers there’s more of us average Joe’s than you

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Why are we still talking about this? People die every day what we need to be talking about is the school shooting in Wisconsin but oh yeah that's right our VP elect said they are a fact of life while our president elect said get over it. The rest of the GOP thoughts and prayers. I send thoughts and prayers to the CEOs for karma getting you got maybe don't be 💩 people and you won't be scared ffs. You have enough to hire 24/7 guards, bullet proof gear and retro fit your vehicles while most school kids can't. Average citizens know when we leave home to go to school, work, church or basically any reason we may not come back. Dang just staying home doesn't guarantee a bullet won't kill you. Suck it up CEOs and welcome to NRA's America where we have more guns than people ✌️

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Hey, set up your own hotline. Gees, these companies have more money then God. They can afford their own police protection. Making states pay for this is absolutely insane. Okay people lets take up our pitchforks and slingshots, march down Manhattan streets with our torches in the dark, and really give them something to be scared of.

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But the school shooting yesterday, with"only" 2 dead so its not a mass shooting... What about the trauma of the children(let alone staff)???

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An excellent column. SPOT FUCKING ON. 👏👏👏👏👏

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