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We're going to have a little different kind of morning coffee today. So over the last week, I've been listening to a bunch of different talking heads. And there is a narrative that keeps being pushed through consistently, through all these different outlets and mediums. And it just doesn't sit right with me at this point. Now, I could have done a swell about it, but five minutes really wasn't enough to encapsulate everything that I needed to say here. And this is Long winded
I was partying and twiddling my thumbs. There was no actual learning being done there, but all the time that they spent on Facebook and YouTube, that's much better research than what I was doing. Come on, how do you have a conversation with someone like that? Every time I've tried to do it, they'll say, oh, well, thank you for your opinion. You're bringing forward some very interesting opinions, and it's like, dude, they're not interesting opinions
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 2:24
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. You know, we will be hearing that there are no red States and there are no blue States and all that kind of stuff. And that sounds great, doesn't it sounds fantastic. But at this point, it also sounds sounds like a fairy tale, right? As I said at the end of that piece, we're here, we're waiting. But you first because I think we're all done
phil spade
@Phil · 1:54
I don't have any sort of connection to this, but there seems to be a lot of chatter about this online. This is just the type of information I think or disinformation that I think you're kind of talking about, Joe, that we need to kind of call out and say this is not true. So why are you going to continue to believe this stuff?
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 2:31
Mitch McConnell's comments yesterday kind of seemed to set the tone for the fact that I don't think the Republican Party is going to be expected to continue to protect this guy now. And I think it's highly likely we will see a conviction in the continued impeachment process. But yeah, I've said it on here before. Sounds arrogant, but I don't care. I'll say it again
phil spade
@Phil · 2:09
Where is he going to get money for all these properties that are coming due on debt payments? I think it's about 500 million that he owes. That'll be interesting. And I'm interested to see where the GOP goes from here. I think that this has done significant damage to them in their base, and it seems like there's a fracturing. I think I even heard that Trump may try to create his own party called the Patriot Party, and he'll siphon off some Fox followers
Howie Rubin
@Howie · 1:00
And I think you've done a good job at it as we're talking about swells. I meant to comment on your swell about heavy metal and never got around to it. But the old man in me says, forget about heavy metals. We need the platters, we need the Everley Brothers. We really need some good old fashioned music anyway. Enjoyed it. Very, pretty much
Howie Rubin
@Howie · 1:30
One of the things that I have observed about Swell is that most swells have very limited participation, meaning maybe two or three people are involved in the conversation. So not only is this a meaningful swell that people hopefully would communicate in, but it could be a great experiment that you could have and trying to see how you can inspire more people to get involved by going back to the community unity and challenging them on meaningful things, just a thought
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 0:53
So they're kind of like a weird way, a Journal for me in the moment, I guess. But yeah, I wish I did have an ability to be a little more concise and still get the points out that I want to make. But yeah, maybe I'll send it to him. I don't know. We'll see
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:23
Hey, Joe, I'm just catching upon myself. I've been away for a few days, and I was wondering if you had reposted the article elsewhere because the current link appears to not work. If you have have and if you could share it, that'll be awesome. But if you've taken it down, that's fine. I guess I missed it, but I just wanted to check. Thanks
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 0:13
Hey Sudha. Yeah. You know, I changed the URL of the blog and I forgot to update it so it should work now with the new URL
Shahnaz Ahmed
@bookishpodcast · 4:27
I was doing something and I was like, oh, I should read it. And I didn't. And I will tell you the word Patriot and party. Patriot Party gives me major heart, palpitations. It's just my whole body. I cannot even tell you the physiologic things that are going on within my body just from hearing those two words together
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 4:21
It is because of their need or desire and deep seated desire for their racist agenda that they are willing to act, dump and say the types of sentences and point to the type of fake data to absolve them of what they are actually trying to bring about. And I say this with experience having been born into a very hard right family myself in a different country. But I understand right wing fascism and racism very well
Average Joe
@AverageJoe · 4:11
The Democrats are stealing the election right in front of our eyes, right. He didn't know, had no clue because he's never paid attention to the process. And I think there's so many of them. I think the mistake was that we discontinued counted how many of them. There are. And I think we're starting to really get a good handle on how bad the situation actually is
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