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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit:

"Judge orders release of ‘voluminous’ records in Ghislaine Maxwell case"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/12/09/ghislaine-maxwell-epstein-records-release/

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I’m sure we’ll have those files in about two weeks.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Same time as the Republican Health Plan.

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Bob Bowden's avatar

And tRump’s taxes, allowing is to see the paperwork justifying his paying zero taxes and triggering audits which last a lifetime with no resolution ever coming on any of them, ever. If you and I tried to pull that shit, we’d be put in prison and any SS or investment income would garnished for the balance of our hopelessly impoverished lifetimes

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Keith's avatar

10 years and counting ...

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Imagine what would happen if you or I habitually didn't pay our vendors (or taxes). Next stop: Leavenworth. Or the morgue.

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Gail Dragoo's avatar

From an empty binder. I need better healthcare so I’m really excited about their plan that never existed.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And Donny’s tax returns.

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Morgan's avatar

I hate that Orange Shitstain..

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Join the club.

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John Nerdrum's avatar

I agree......1600%......

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Nailed DJ!

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Or never.

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Lisa's avatar

Never is always a good choice for the gang of pedophiles.

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

The LAW low IQ Trump signed gives them until Dec. 19.

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

He finds a way to punt again. It's one of the very few things he's good-ish at.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And when that date comes and goes, then what?

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

Lawsuits and a further drop in the polls.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

His cult stooges don't notice

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Carol JLH's avatar

They're on Blondie's desk right now...

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

More likely sometime after midterms, if at all Stephanie!

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

More like 2 or 20 years. Don't hold your breath.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Trifecta of stupid? Don't you mean TRIFUCKTA, Jeff?\

BTW confidential to Alina: Angry Alina just isn't very pretty. So, look sweet!

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Linda Weide's avatar

Alina, like Trump and the rest of his cabal, reminds me more of a fifth grade girl on the outs with the mean girl clique she was part of. Let us be the mean girls for once and kick her and her ilk out of everything. I am looking forward to having that opportunity in November of 2026.

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Brenda K's avatar

👍🏻❗️

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Heed the message from the troglodyte men of your own movement, Alina: "You should smile more"

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CA Productions/Carol Ann's avatar

Ali Baba has been a loser from the begining. Trump tried to keep her around, but she must have decided spending all that time on her knees wasn't worth it.

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Nina Simmonds's avatar

Please don’t send us links that can only be read by signing up for The Washington Post or the New York Times. I refuse to support these corrupt billionaires. Couldn’t you just tell us what they said in your own words?

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Steve in SoCal's avatar

Yep it needs to be a gift link

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Yay! 👏👏👏👏👏

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Brenda K's avatar

Damn...we need a whole 'nother category of stupid: "Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit"....

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Brenda K's avatar

Seriously, Tiedrich's Stupid rollups are going to become an important historical record documenting the mind-boggling tsunami of shit unleashed by 77 million apparently brain-damaged Americans.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Paywall

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Here's the text, Linda.

By Shayna Jacobs

NEW YORK — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the release of grand jury materials in the case against Ghislaine Maxwell, saying that public access to the records is required by the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Congress approved last month.

U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer said the new law also covers “voluminous” other records from the case generated during pretrial proceedings, including evidence that was not used at Maxwell’s trial. Before release, the Justice Department must redact information that could identify victims of Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy sex offender whom Maxwell was convicted of assisting, the judge wrote.

Maxwell, a longtime romantic partner to Epstein, was convicted in federal court in Manhattan in late 2021 for her role in trafficking underage girls. Prosecutors argued Maxwell was Epstein’s top enabler, finding young, vulnerable victims.

The former socialite and businesswoman, who had social ties to many prominent men, has been a focal point in the latest push for transparency in all matters related to Epstein and his associates.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche personally interviewed Maxwell earlier this year.

Maxwell was transferred to a lower-security, more comfortable Federal Bureau of Prisons facility after the sessions with Blanche. Epstein died in 2019 while in custody awaiting trial. His death was ruled a suicide.

This is a developing story and will be updated

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Easter's avatar

Thanks!

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

thanks!

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Margaret's avatar

Abigail, I appreciate this.

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Kathy's avatar

Shit, shit and more shit! Always more shit. A constant shit storm. 💩💩💩

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arne link's avatar

Paywall. But I have to ask: Did Wapo commit a journalism?

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George in Atlanta's avatar

This will not go unpunished by the small bald homunculus that owns the WaPo.

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William's avatar

Why does Trump’s treatment of women not seem to bother the women who work for him and the Republican women who voted for him???

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Alison Parker's avatar

Because they are Cool Girls™ who never matured beyond high school where the only thing they cared about was male approval. These are the type of women who will say "I'm not a feminist, I love men" as though the two are mutually exclusive. They are pickmes of the highest order.

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Susie's avatar

Damn, Allison. Well fucking said! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Abigail Norling's avatar

Untill he fires their cool girl asses and and sicks his magats on them!

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Charles Austin's avatar

👍👍

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Touché Alison!

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SethTriggs's avatar

They're Pick Mes! to a person, and generally their reasons for supporting the pricktator amount to "he's going to smash the minorities I find icky." Or the access to power as a Pick Me! Of course they always ignore that when they are no longer useful there's a bus undercarriage made just for them!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Because all they care about is "pretty" (by Trump standards) They think they can fake being human beings.

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rlritt's avatar

Hey, Noem tried to prove she's not just a pretty face by shooting her dog she raised from a puppy. (Or she just had a psychotic break)

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Joyce's avatar

Don't forget the goat. One does wonder how many other animals became the victims of her uncontrolled--but fully armed--rage. Somehow, I don't think Puppy and Goat were the first and only.

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rlritt's avatar

Now that you mention it, you're probably right. I bet she gets off on having animals trust her and then killing them. I think she's a sociopath. She loves the power of taking a life of a helpless, dependent creature. Someone should find out how many animals died by violence on her ranch.

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Joyce's avatar

And there is a standard, that's for sure. In fact, I was just wondering what Parking Garage "Lawyer" looked like before she had all the work done in order to look like all the rest of the Trumpet Girls.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

And that’s why she should have chosen smart instead of pretty. No plastic surgeon can give you a functioning brain

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Thats an excellent question. I've wondered the same thing. Where's the self-respect?

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DrBDH's avatar

Out behind the garage with a 45 caliber hole in its skull.

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Charles Austin's avatar

They wouldn't know self respect if it jumped up and bit them on the ass.🤨

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

It may bother them, but they sold their souls a long time ago. They allow this to happen for the same reason a second grader doesn’t stand up to a bully on the playground. They’re just happy THEY aren’t the target. And they’re too dumb to know that someday they can and WILL be attacked by him. And when that glorious day comes, we’ll give them the same amount of sympathy we gave Marge.

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Kathy H's avatar

Because misogyny is so ingrained, accepted, & normalized that they think degrading themselves & others can somehow work for them. All these sewer clowns are whoring their souls, sacrificing dignity & insulting all of us in the process.

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Jennifer's avatar
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Internal misogyny is a helluva drug. It's why they go on apps run by male billionaires and berate Taylor Swift on their phones made other male billionaires about how she's the problem with billionaires.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Because the category “women” does not exist as a monolithic demographic. Women are just as capable of being soulless assholes as men are.

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Keith's avatar

rack-o-luscious is the name of the game he plays!

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

whut?

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Eva Porter's avatar

They’re all Serena Joy.

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Koko in AZ's avatar

Rhetorical question, yes?

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Neal Stiffelman's avatar

I don’t know how many more times I can yell, “fuck that guy!” And “what the fuck is wrong with these grifting morons?” and “how can anyone be so cruel and stupid at the same time?” And so on. I figured the most fundamental baseline values we hold as Americans were cast in bronze. Hardened.

Then came the nazis. The fucking nazis. Jesus.

So, thank you for helping me, helping us, make it through another day. I mean it and I know I speak for so many of us. Thank you. I got no words, but you keep rolling on.

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Susie's avatar

Well raged, Neal. I concur! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Lord John Whorfin's avatar

The proper reply is: you have a tell, you insult reporters when they catch you lying. Why do you fell compelled to consistently lie, mr president? Why are you acting like a puppet of putin and betraying our country and its allies?

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Daniel M Kimmel's avatar

When Trump tells a story where someone calls him "Sir" we know he's lying. When he calls something a "hoax" we know it's true.

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

Every accusation is a confession.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

How about when he's just talking about anything.

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Keith's avatar

my thoughts exactly!

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Runfastandwin's avatar

if only

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Questions we will never hear from this gaggle of faux journalists.

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Judy Balock's avatar

I sincerely hope that a woman reporter takes you up on your Pulitzer challenge; it would only be fitting.

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Runfastandwin's avatar

me too

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Kim Steeves's avatar

I reiterate, Jeff's challenge needs to be sent to EVERY reporter who has to deal with Preznut, so that they know the assignment.

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Kim Nesvig's avatar

After being lectured by Cotton, Hawley, Vance, Hegseth and so many other MAGA about masculinity under attack and masculinity in general, its no surprise to me to learn that their definition of masculinity is abusing and degrading women. It’s also apparent that many male members of the American press corps lack the balls to ask Trumpet the difficult questions that female reports ask.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I agree with you, and women will right these wrongs, and the men who try to subjugate women aren't going to like it at all. The idea that women are delicate flowers is about to leave the national narrative forever if this keeps up.

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rlritt's avatar

Female reporters don't need male reporters sticking up for them, that's insulting. These women aren't helpless, they can stand up for themselves especially if their networks and newspapers stand behind them. The media today though needs access and access can be denied. So its a fine line. The best thing might be if these women wrote in their columns that Trump is as usual, a pig.

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Joyce's avatar

Both the men and the other women need to stick up for their colleagues. Silence is a dangerous endorsement.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Kim, Personally I would apply the world’s smallest violin to those boys with the world’s screechiest melody of shame in the world. Thanks Uncle Jeff for bringing out for the yabba dabba don’t violin for Ms Habba. She is not going quietly into the night.

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Ole Anderson's avatar

She is also not out pounding the pavement looking for a job - she’s still feeding at the public trough at some made up job as supervisor of all the AGs under bimbo Bondi.

I Hate giving these incompetents my tax dollars!!!

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rlritt's avatar

And thats not counting what she can grift from donors?

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arne link's avatar

That is why there were picked for the press corpse. It is a hand-picked group. The women will be banished in short order.

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Jan Moon's avatar

I think the verbally abused female reporters should form a support group. They number eight so far. A good start.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Alina Habba can't fake "pretty" either, because ugliness bubbles up from the inside.

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Beauty is only skin-deep but ugly goes straight to the bone.

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cablecargal's avatar

Well said DJ. My mom always said that exact phrase.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Isn't that the truth!

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Kay-El's avatar

1. If I was a reporter I’d win that challenge, not just for the win, but for the great satisfaction it would give me to watch Trump sputter and his head explode.

2. Brain Worms is falling down on his job of looking like a strong he-man. Obviously needs a better antiperspirant too

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David M Marko's avatar

If it was me I'd turn around and address the press corp. "You let him treat her like that with no response! What the fuck is wrong with all you spineless cowards?"

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rlritt's avatar

These women are tough or they wouldn't be sent to interview Trump. His comments make him look bad, not them.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

👆👆THIS

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SethTriggs's avatar

He converted all his calories into flopsweat.

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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HI2thDoc's avatar

I will never understand how a guy who was a heroin addict and now possibly takes testosterone and steroids doesn't trust decades-old vaccines. WTF

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arne link's avatar

He takes all the vaccines, trust me. They all do it secretly. It's the ignorant public who kills their children by not taking vaccines.

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Kay-El's avatar

Fun and profit?

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Richard's avatar

Probably the least of it amidst all the chaos going on, but the whole point of a chin up is that you bring your chin just above the bar which he failed to do in both attempts (both-he could only manage two weak attempts). if I were going to demonstrate chin ups in public in front of cameras you can bet I’d make sure I could do a few). I hope he wrenched the fuck out of his shoulders.

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Joyce's avatar

It's a very lovely video of His Weeniness. Although he does fall short of supplanting Nutcracker Kegseth. That's another bar RatFuck failed to reach.

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arne link's avatar

He probably doesn't use deodorant because it is unnatural or something.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Just a run of the mill MAGA liar is all he is. How disgraceful and a slap in the face to his family

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SeekingReason's avatar

The sheer confident arrogance of these laughably incompetent, empty suits is really amazing. Like trump, they are isolated in their own heads and believe everything they tell themselves! 🤭🙄

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Now Habba is to become Bondi’s advisor so that will end well.

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arne link's avatar

I'm stocking up on popcorn for this epic battle.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"you know what airports need? whale heads! when I grow up, I’m going to have a chainsaw! won’t that be awesome?’" 😂😂 Duffy and Bobby are definitely on some kind of high...WTF. That GIF is another outstanding piece of work. Thanks for that one too!

It's all so insane.

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Charles Austin's avatar

MORE WHALE HEADS!!!😂😂😂

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Margaret's avatar

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

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Lisbeth Whitney's avatar

If Occupy Democrats is correct, Nicole Wallace may have won the Tiedrich Prize for Journalism. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16Tt7Kgqt7/

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Judy Balock's avatar

Except that she didn't say that directly to trump.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

It will get back to him. He will absolutely know about it.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

THANK YOU for sharing that. Very very good. It's about time! 👏👏👏

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Lisbeth Whitney's avatar

Here is Nicole Wallace on air talking about this starting at minute 5:48

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lv-s72vjfU

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Margaret's avatar

Nicole is a goddess.

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Charles Austin's avatar

Winner! Winner! Chicken dinner!😂😂

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michellefromchicago's avatar

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Tess's avatar

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Ole Anderson's avatar

She didn’t say it out loud to his face. Unfortunately

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Lisbeth Whitney's avatar

She probably isn't allowed in his press room either. So many journalists have been blocked.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Future Trump comment:

“I barely knew Alina. I think she did a little work for me once, but I have a lot of people who work for me. I hear she said some nice things about me, but that’s all I really know about her.”

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I know there are wonderful men in the world. There are millions of 'em, right? And I've NEVER been a "man-basher" but I have to say, these "reporters" and "journalists" who have swinging dicks hanging off them, supposedly full of testosterone, are little whiny fuckfaces when around trump.

Not ONE has said anything even resembling, "I'd like to know the answer to Ms. Piggy's question, too, Mr. [choking on this] President."

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂😂😂

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George in Atlanta's avatar

Your preamble is now unnecessary, the part prior to the 'but'. The Not All Men whimpering has aged past its shelf life.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I've read your comments before and I thought I'd give men like you, intelligent, critical thinkers all the credit you sincerely deserve.

At a time when women don't have the same bodily autonomy from state-to-state, yet all men do, it's hard not to get angry with those who have a public platform but refuse to use it to stand up for women being demeaned - even the other women. I'm not even sure that sentence made sense. Parse it out.

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P123Sunny's avatar

So are the R women voters behind all this stuff… bc ‘he’s keeping them safe’….? Srsly

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P123Sunny's avatar

Hey - IDEA: Get a panel of R Congressmen’s WIVES - and ask them how they feel about giving up their right to vote, having a credit card in their name, etc. Oh hell YEAH‼️🍿🍿🍿

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rlritt's avatar

Restrictions will never apply to the wealthy.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Keep forgettin

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

And next they'll come for their driver's licenses.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Would be one HELLUVA Town Hall…

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Dave Drell's avatar

They would still back their husbands

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Mark Slattery's avatar

Too bad the media didn't ask Duffy, mid-pullup, about the administration "forgiving" Southwest's $11M fine for screwing over passengers. Rolling back the meager consumer protections for the benefit of the rich.

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