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Rick: Grassley basically said women don't want to work.
Sarah Kendzior: All women do is work. Women have been doing the bulk of the work of protesting, documenting the atrocities of the this administration.
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Sarah Kendzior: Those in power don't care. Our elected representatives don't care about our opinions, about their constituents, about being voted out of office. That tells me they plan to rig election, disqualify votes after the fact.
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Sarah Kendzior: They want a disempowered, serf-like class struggling for survival. It's the Republican dream. They've designed a transnational economy that benefits the wealthiest.
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Sarah Kendzior: Most people don't have stocks except maybe a 401(k). The average person doesn't think of the economy in terms of stock market b/c they don't live like that.
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Sarah Kendzior: Most people under 40 haven't experienced regular raises, good wages, benefits, extra money to invest in stock market.
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Sarah Kendzior: Most of us can't live like Kavanaugh, buying $200,000 worth of baseball cards with no one investigating how they were paid off. <Muttering "I need to meet new friends.">
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Sarah Kendzior: You hear stories of people investing in weapons to use once Hillary "stole" the election--tanks, automatic weapons. I think most people aren't really looking forward to street fights but others enjoy the chaos.
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Sarah Kendzior: It's extremely important not to mainstream these outlier opinions. I can see Fox News popularizing them.
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Rick: I never thought there was a way to stop Kavanaugh but to me, it was about fighting back & getting people enraged, active for Nov.
Sarah Kendzior: I think that's the best strategy against a legitimate Republican win or tampering.
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Sarah Kendzior: I feel a combination of rage & numbness that my children will have to grow up with that rage-filled, beer-loving person on the Supreme Court.
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Sarah Kendzior: There's something shitty about watching your worst nightmares coming true. Who's the alarmist now? I've been saying these things for two years & others are just now beginning to grasp it.
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Sarah Kendzior: I said in Nov 2016 that we had two months to investigate Russian interference, to strengthen our institutions to be ready for Trump & his onslaught. People said we were hysterical (if we were women) or alarmist (males).
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Sarah Kendzior: There's no one less deserving of benefit of doubt than Trump, yet he gets it again & again. The same will happen w/ Kavanaugh, I fear. "Oh, he was having a bad day." Then we'll wake up when he makes bad decisions, then sleep again.
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Sarah Kendzior: I'm hoping that with the election we'll have a new wave of candidates voted in.
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Sarah Kendzior:
It's become abundantly clear that this is a very long term plan of the Republicans; Hillary will be vindicated for calling it.
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Sarah Kendzior: I worry there'll be a constitutional convention that will bring to an end American self-rule. People like me don't generally fare well in such times.
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Sarah Kendzior: Trust needs to be earned. People need to be held to the utmost scrutiny.
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Sarah Kendzior: Trump will say or do anything, like proclaim his love for Kim Jong-un.
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Sarah Kendzior: We don't have a large platform like a Fox News to blast our opinions out there.
Rick: Once again, I'd argue that the left has done a terrible job of building that platform.
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Sarah Kendzior: Mueller should have his findings out before Kavanaugh gets voted onto Supreme Court--Kavanaugh is Trump's lackey and would stop Mueller.
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Sarah Kendzior: All checks and balances are gone in our gov't. It's up to us, the people, to provide checks and balances. If they want democracy to succeed, they need to pay attn to us, do what we've elected them to do.
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