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I hope those convicted and sentenced will not be released at any point for “good behavior” or any such bull excrement, nor permitted to communicate with each other. Fingers crossed.🤞🏼🤞🏾

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That’s hard to determine, or answer right at the moment. But, I will look into their sentence structures and get back to you. Excellent question, by the way.

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Daniel, very nice reporting here. I seem to be having less anxiety lately due to some consequences to those miscreants, finally. I just cannot fathom why anybody would want to bother w/🍊Dump when anyone he associates w/goes to jail. It is disheartening to know that there are so many Americans that hate people of color SO MUCH so that they’re willing to go to jail and even try to kidnap democrats and attempt to harm and even try to kill democrats & people of color. The underlying basis of the hatred is racism. They try cover that up by citing a bunch of excuses as to why they they are so aggrieved. This news you delivered today helps me have a little sense of relief whilst waiting for more of them to face consequences. I believe many who read your reporting will have similar feelings that I have. Thank you so much for sharing. 🥰☮️

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Joanne, thank you so much for this wonderful reply. As I often stare, I’m no professional by any sense of the word, other than law enforcement officer, and firefighter. I spent my entire adult life in those two careers, up to 1995 when the doctors made me give them, and everything else up.

I try to bring the happenings in this screwed up political mess to everyone interested in reading my “Thoughts and Opinions” in a manner a little more understandable. A lot of folks write about all this, but use all that fancy lawyer jargon, and people like me have a difficult time understanding what they’re saying or what’s going on!

Keep on keeping on, Joanne! We all have a lot of work to do. We cannot allow a Republican close to the Oval Office, and we have got to get all these Republican idiots out of our State, local, and the Federal political offices! VOTE 🧢🧢🧢🧢💙 in ‘24, ‘26, ‘28, all between and beyond!

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Yes, as a reader and not a writer, i’ll admit some, maybe MORE than some, goes over my head. 😂 But i can grasp enough to know good from bad, anyway. So i really appreciate reading things presented in an understandable way. And you are so good at that. I have a hunch that your career choices interacting w/a versatile public in an helping manner helped prepare you in now a writing manner helps in our understanding of some complicated issues. You needed to explain laws & what not to the public you served, right? mahalo so much. 🌺

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Yep, almost on a daily basis, usually more than once!

mahalo!

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To exec team: why do you allow such hatred to be inflicted upon the writers here.?!?! It might as well be exec team saying this hateful bs to the writers bc YOU ALLOW garbage to be flung around here, And think that is wonderful. That’s why Substack has reputation as Nazi Bar. You are the ones most complicit than the ignorami bc you have the power to clean up hate on substack and instead you embrace and defend. Tell us how proud you are for FREE HATE SPEECH.

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Joanne, I personally don’t tolerate that. Not on my thread anyway. Just so you know, I did “Report” both of his comments, and since I just saw his second vulgar comment which was, in my opinion, had nothing to do with my writing but only directed at me, I not only reported him, again, but I banned him from ever commenting again.

I don’t know about the “powers to be” if Substack, but I assure you, I’m an oath taken, American that will not ever tolerate any Jen lashing out at anyone like this on any if my threads.

It’s not going to happen here.

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Well, Mike, that’s one thing that we have in this country. We have the freedom to have our own opinions.

I’m so happy you know me well enough to call me an “overweight POS” and that you “HATe fat stupid people.”

I really didn’t know you knew me that well, Mike. Apparently my college degree, and my years of employment in my career I had doesn’t mean a whole lot.

As I said earlier, you are entitled to your opinion. But I’d truly appreciate you keeping these type of comments to yourself.

When one stoops to this depth of commenting about another person that they’ve never physically jet, or even know, then all that person is doing is revealing their own intellect (which isn’t higher than dirt), not to mention ignorance.

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Haha Daniel, He must hate tRump then, bc tRump is definitely “fat, stupid and a POS”. 😂And how do we know if Mike is EXACTLY what he is calling someone else.? I’m willing to bet... , right? we know Mike is not a happy person, tho. Sad.

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Mike, likely you are projecting

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Joanne, folks like this person can’t be helped. They are stuck in an oblivion of space only occupied by ‘sheep’ and are deeply upset that the normal, thinking, Americans don’t stoop into the abyss with them.

It’s just upsetting that they have to go to the level of the former president and use the language such as he’s used here to try to insult someone they don’t know, nor ever met. It’s truly sad. I feel really sorry for his family havjng to live with such an individual.

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Yes, it is really sad that this kind of hate exists. Sorry that a bully attempted to inflict hate upon you. They shouldn’t be here just to create chaos & disturbance. Good that you pay them no mind. 🌺

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I dealt with his kind over 26 years. Word’s don’t affect me.

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