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pat_k

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9. Suspicion is HEALTHY.

Reply to Bread and Circuses (Reply #5)

Fri Sep 12, 2025, 11:53 PM

Sep 12

I just wanted to highlight the working relationship he has built with people I admire -- people like Wes Moore.

That doesn't make him a "do no wrong saint." But it does prompt me to extend the man a bit more grace than I would for others from whom I have seen no evidence of good will.

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I'll probably be hammered, but I want to step in and defend Spencer Cox. [View all] pat_k Sep 12 OP

Thank you FiveFifteen Sep 12 #1

Whatever he may have said in that video doesn't change a thing about what he said in the presser. RockRaven Sep 12 #2

Huh FiveFifteen Sep 12 #4

No one on our side is terrorizing people Keepthesoulalive Sep 12 #8

the man literally said he PRAYED the shooter wouldn't be "one of them" Skittles Sep 13 #11

100 % Bread and Circuses Sep 12 #6

His own statement FiveFifteen Sep 12 #3

Thanks for that reminder too. pat_k Sep 12 #7

🚫🍻As you know,,,,The LDS Church runs Utah and they run... Bread and Circuses Sep 12 #5

Suspicion is HEALTHY. pat_k Sep 12 #9

OK, I understand. We can only hope Bread and Circuses Sep 13 #10

Hope is as much the lifeblood of resistance as Lies are for authoritarians. pat_k Sep 13 #12

yup Skittles Sep 13 #13

The half-Nazis are better than the full-Nazis? Wonder Why Sep 13 #14