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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

there is a conspiracy theory that I chose not to go into in my post, that the photos released by the White House yesterday were actually from June 28.

https://bsky.app/profile/919billsfan.bsky.social/post/3lxn2anpwgk2m

https://bsky.app/profile/victinibcn.bsky.social/post/3lxn7c6iwl52e

I'm not a conspiracy guy, but that doesn't mean you can't discuss it down here in the comments

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

I’ve heard that too. And although I’m not on TS, I’ve heard that his posts don’t seem to be written by him.

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HI2thDoc's avatar

Because they contain proper grammar?

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BigDaddy52's avatar

And not ALL CAPS. Thank you for your attention....

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Mombeka's avatar
2dEdited

I think other people may have been writing his posts for quite awhile.

There’s speculation that it’s really Nosferatu McGoebbles writing all this sh*t.

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

Nah. That's too pedestrian for NMVG. Not worth his precious tume. Probably just another hotshot DOGE tweeny bopper.

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Mombeka's avatar

Yeah, one of the incel army. You’re probably right.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Probably the same one who AI-ed the trump Gaza resort picture with the bearded belly-dancers.

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Robin D's avatar

I heard most of the worst are by the vampire, but also some from that woman “the human printer”. The blond who followed him during his trials who only printed good news about himself to read. He is a pathetic, mentally ill man baby.🍼👶🏼

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Stephen Miller is simply Beezelbub. That "man" is "Legion". And I'm an atheist!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

"Lord of Flies" libel!

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Susie's avatar

🤣🤣🤣Well pointed out!!!

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

oops "time"

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Lady Emsworth's avatar

Marian - three little dots to the right of you name on your post = edit. You can do it anytime.

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Marian Goldsmith's avatar

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately it doesn't work on my Pixel. I can only do “big” things like deleting and copying but no detailed editing. Maybe possible on more advanced models or other platforms.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

And they aren't in all caps.

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Lisa's avatar

ALL CAPS AND MADNESS IS HIS VIBE! If there are big words, he didn’t write it.

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BigDaddy52's avatar

Bigly!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

Especially if they are spelled correctly and make sense in context.

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Leu2500's avatar

The 1st tariff one Fri definitely wasn’t him. But there have always been tweets that weren’t his.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

AI

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Well if there’s any intelligence to his posts, it’s definitely artificial.

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Cheri Collins's avatar

😂

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Well played Stephanie

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

You think? I’ve said one day he will simply be gone, AI replacing him may be better than another cretinous connard Kristy!

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Jennifer's avatar

I saw screenshots of the posts. They had a very "trying too hard to sound like him vibe" for sure.

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

His handlers should get Gavin to write his posts. He’s created an art out of mimicking Trump.

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Greg Conners's avatar

So how long do you think he has been dead?

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

me? I don't think he's dead — yet. I do think he's gotten so demented that his handlers have to keep him away from the press except in carefully managed situations

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Me, I’m going with gangrene - and for those unfamiliar here is the def.: “Gangrene is a serious condition where a loss of blood supply causes body tissue to die. It can affect any part of the body but typically starts in the toes, feet, fingers and hands. Gangrene can occur as a result of an injury, infection or a long-term condition that affects blood circulation.”

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arne link's avatar

Lord, hear our prayer.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

We didn't pray for this in church this morning. We prayed for immigrants and those being snatched off the streets by ICE and imprisoned. I actually had the reading about showing hospitality to strangers and it was the sermon topic. (It also contained the admontion against Love of money.) Donnie better do some serious repenting if he thinks he is going to heaven. Probably not enough gold for him there anyway.

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Linda Fairchild's avatar

That was a great reading! We prayed for the little kids who were shot last week and our music director had the choir sing an extraordianry anthem about children who leave us too early. I don't think I'd survive this madness without #jefftiedrich and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church here in Belvedere, California.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

I seem to recall something about a camel getting through the eye of a needle easier than a rich man getting into heaven. Maybe that's what CryptoGoldleaf McFuckshit's bankruptcies were all about - his (and it's hard to type this without laughing) sincere wish to sit at the feet of Jesus in the afterlife.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

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James Starr's avatar

Lord has ignored us for over 10 years, but yeah , Hey God, are you there? It's me, James.

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Maureen Moeller's avatar

😂

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Rhoda Ozen's avatar

Sepsis can do the same…

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Oh, sepsis. Yes, sepsis. Six little letters. MRSA could do it, too. Four beautiful letters if your Trump.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

I've seen gangrene. It's not gangrene in his hand. Thankfully, I have never seen his toes. Best bet - he's on blood thinners. Probably for A-fib. If he had some kind of blood cancer, the bruising wouldn't just be in his hand. Most of what we see in the hospital that's gangrene, is in toes of diabetics. He could be diabetic. Who knows? And at this point, I honestly don't care. He's still alive and still here. You can speculate all you want, but until he's gone gone and we're sure of that, the danger is still real and going on right in front of us. Whether we're right or wrong about what's wrong with him, it's not going to change one thing.

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

The newer meds to treat Afib do not cause the issues that the previous blood thinners do. Canada’s drug prices are regulated and we have access to the best meds at a reasonable cost. Health care is not regarded as a money making business.

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Mary Hall's avatar

I ❤️ 🇨🇦. It must be so nice living in a country that actually gives a fk about its citizens.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Got any room in your house for an aging smartass Cam?

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

He has incredible edema in his ankles which suggests a heart issue. It isn't gangrene in his hand either. Gangrene doesn't stay in one spot - it moves and moves fast.

You're right. Until he's gone, nothing is going to change.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Whatever he has, I hope it’s extremely painful, massive suffering before his demise is warranted Cam!

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Where's Nancy Reagan when you need her? She covered up for her Ronnie for quite awhile. The problem is how would we know he has dementia? He is such a moron and talks nonsensical, it will be hard to know when it's the real thing. The double standard of how Biden was treated versus Trump makes me literally sick to my stomach.

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

It's always been the real thing. It can start early.

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Jeff, you know for a fact that Baby Donnie cannot be managed! If he opens his mouth no one in the universe knows what will come out.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True dat Kathleen!

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Linda McCaughey's avatar

Me, too. Keep him focused on remodeling and interior decoration. Hell, give him a dozen cans of gold spray paint and a gallon of glitter and turn him loose in the "new" rose garden!

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

He's not leaving the WH standing. He's building an army, he's building a compound, he's making the WH to his liking so he doesn't have to go back to Mar-a-Lago.

What Newsom said was right. "Who does builds a $200m ballroom and set up a "Trump 2028" gift shop and surround himself with military if he's planning on leaving in a few years? No one.

He may leave the WH on his back. I'd pay to watch that.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

You may get it for free.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

He’s not dead but his bodily functions are dying. The poster of JD and Musk holding The Convict up is exactly what’s happening. And Jeff, have you seen how Dracula is showing up more in legacy media?

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P123Sunny's avatar

Where is the msm pile-on? 😒 yeah right

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Punkette's avatar

Or … maybe Dumpty fell off his wall and is at Walter Reed! Hmmm 🤔

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arne link's avatar

Maybe he's just resting in the cooler? We can dream, can't we?

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Punkette's avatar

Hehe! 😜 Arne, did you see Lev Parnas’ post today? Scary stuff!

Breaking: Dictators Gather in China as Putin and Xi Orchestrate a New Axis of Power

Putin and Xi unite—and for the first time are joined by Modi and Kim Jong-un to shape the world’s future. On the menu: Donald Trump, the useful idiot, the pawn, and ultimately…the punchline.

https://open.substack.com/pub/levremembers/p/breaking-dictators-gather-in-china?r=r55rm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

The Axis of Upheaval - Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

why he has weakened the U.S.

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Katharine Peck's avatar

Thank you for the link! After reading his post, I've now subscribed to Mr. Parnas' substack.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

"Pining for the fjords"?

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Andrea Jennings's avatar

Maybe they lured him into a nuclear bunker with some shiny gold shit.

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Bonnie Council's avatar

I'm thinking he's in a hospital somewhere secretly having some vital medical procedure done. That sounds benign, but I bet it's actually quite serious. Time will tell.

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SLS's avatar

If he were in hospital, I think it would have to be Walter Reed. I don't think his handlers would trust any other establishment, no matter how medically advanced, to guard the secrecy such an event would demand as well as the military hospital that is entrusted with the care of our highest elected officials. It's possible that they might bring in some medical personnel from other establishments, but I think the venue would have to be Walter Reed. Perhaps someone with more knowledge than I can opine on this.

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

My guess would be heart valve surgery.

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Susan P Thatcher's avatar

He looks slack-jawed in that photo.

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Lorraine Parish's avatar

i blew it up, doesn't look like him. different mouth

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Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

Is it time for the locked “memory care unit”?

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Michelle Vancura's avatar

And even when his handlers do let him get near a microphone, he goes off the rails into crazy land so fast they have to shut it down. His newest obsession with heaven is encouraging - looks as though dying is heavy on what’s left of his demented brain.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

I believe he’s crazy and demented…but I’m sorry, until I hear absolute proof that he is really sick I don’t believe all of this artery disease, kidney disease, to

Me for one that would be too good to be true and he is still golfing away!!!! Every news, independent which I like are all on the band wagon about him having this and that! What the hell is all of that? Kind of sick of it all!

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Romaine Voigt's avatar

Wasn’t Slump quoted as saying that avoiding STDs in the ‘80s was his personal Viet Nam? He’s always been such a peach.🤢 So many diagnoses floated but decades of his fave foods and laziness alone would’ve turned his arteries to Playdough. He’s finally toddled from decline to collapse. But Vance scares the heck out of me.The billionaires he answers to make Voldemort look like Mr. Rogers

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HI2thDoc's avatar

He has been dead inside for at least 60 years

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Since birth. His father was a a monster and his mother was emotionally withdrawn. No way could he have grown up whole.

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Lairbo's avatar

Keep an eye out for RW media feel-good stories about what a good president Woodrow Wilson still was even after his debilitating stroke.

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KMD's avatar

Hmm. Was that after Wilson's wife started running the country?

Actually, even Melania might be better than Vance.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I wouldn't go THAT far, KMD. JD may be vile and hated by everyone, but he isn’t totally stupid. Melania is vile AND stupid. And tacky.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Like that time Nancy Reagan was also in charge? And Eleanor R certainly helped her husband tremendously… but we have a national meltdown if we have to OFFICIALLY recognize a ‘girl’.

Yeah real tough

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P123Sunny's avatar

GERMANY literally had a woman leader for crying out LOUD

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

That was Germany a highly educated population. In the US, not so much, sad to say.

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P123Sunny's avatar

CHANCELLOR for 16 YEARS!?

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CAM from 🇨🇦's avatar

Angela Merkel - doctorate in Quantum Chemistry - stack that against trump’s undergraduate studies @ U. Penn, apparently in Economics. I guess he had someone attend in his stead for all he knows about economic theory.

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Romaine Voigt's avatar

Are you implying Melancholia will be pinch hitting?-That would at least give the final clearance aisle gilding project some context.

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Romaine Voigt's avatar

Neck-up dead? Lordy, the tomb raiders have been and gone.

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Cathy Rady's avatar

well, he's certainly dead from the neck up.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

NOT. LONG. ENOUGH.

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Carl Selfe's avatar

EMERGENCY, not!. BLUE state governors hold the key to stop the assault of constituents. Too much is at risk to wait! Mobilize Blue state National Guards when threatened. Wait until then. The invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize their National Guards to resist an UNLAWFUL assault. The U.S. military should not accept UNLAWFUL orders, and should not be present no matter how good they are at spreading mulch and collecting trash. The sooner we get this over with, the better. This confrontation is coming. It is coming! REMEMBER JANARY 6th! They started this civil war right then. We are stronger now than we will be tomorrow. The confrontation is not a battle or a war. It is a standoff at State borders. One state would be trying to invade another. One is the offender. The other, the defender. Spare me the “you are inciting violence”. We all know TACO. Blocking a road at the border is not advocating violence, it is moving the conflict from the cities to the border, a much safer place for the state’s citizens.

Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly PREEMPTIVE strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? NO EXCUSE! Change your state Constitution. Pritzker. What are you doing?

https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs

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Linda Weide's avatar

Carl, as I said yesterday, Pritzker's state, my state is already gerrymandered in favor of Democrats. Done! Done and Done!

I will point out that what we need our own state militia to stand up to any that the Feds send in. It will not play well in the media if the federal government is gunning down a state's own militia in overreach. We need our borders guarded and our airspace from Taxdodging Trump's Troops.

Yesterday the Chicago Sun Times let us know that even residents of the worst crime neighborhood in Chicago do not want Trump's Troops.

https://chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump/2025/08/29/chicago-crime-violence-o-block-oblock-parkway-gardens-donald-trump-national-guard?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=082925%20Afternoon%20Edition&utm_content=082925%20Afternoon%20Edition+CID_1af063905639d30108bb7c4c117eae5c&utm_source=cst_campaign_monitor&utm_term=Residents%20of%20Chicagos%20most%20violent%20block%20dont%20want%20Trump%20to%20send%20the%20National%20Guard&tpcc=cst_cm

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meryl selig's avatar

Chicagoans stick together. Solidarity under duress. We help each other during blizzards. The domestic-strife agitators (Goebbels-Miller) are picking the wrong place for their theatrics

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Carl Selfe's avatar

ILinda, Linda, lllinois has 3 Republican seats and a wealth of Democratic voters to spread about. I will not concede the seats or your point. I vote for more than slashing their throats, I vote for decapitation. We cannot simply try to catch up with their abuse of the system. We must stop them now, and we did not start this war.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Where are those seats? Southern Illinois, which has fewer people, but those counties are mostly solidly Republican. So, how do you carve according to my friend that grew up in Southern Ill. So, I just think it would not gain work. People put a lot of time into creating the districts that we have and making the most for the democrats was the point. It is like squeezing milk from an 100 year old breast. Not easy to do.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

It could work. 80% of Illinois' population is in Cook County (Chicago) and the five collar counties (Will, Lake, McHenry, DuPage and Kane) which have been trending blue for years. That 20% can easily be overwhelmed by drawing more long skinny districts, which Illinois has already done. Make them longer and skinnier; attach Carbondale to Pullman! Here in Ohio, they're good at attaching lots of red voters to areas to obliterate blue voters. They tried (unsuccessfully) to get rid of Marcy Kaptur with the infamous "Snake on the Lake" district which had the longest coastline of any congressional district and at its narrowed has no population other than than seagulls (where it crossed the Edison Bridge over Sandusky Bay). Plus not all of that 20% are red voters.

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Linda Weide's avatar

So, perhaps that will happen, but we shall see. No one going to Congress from Illinois is Republican.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

I was in that district where it took a hard turn south and dipped into Cleveland. It was drawn that way to get rid of Kucinich. A few years ago, there was a slight alteration so that literally a neighborhood or two was put into another district. Our street is now represented by a very liberal and vocal Cleveland-based woman, while residents a few blocks over still have Kaptur.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Linda, it’s astonishing that a Pastor in that neighborhood is a Repub. The teenagers there have a much better handle on what’s going on. I loved that one of them said that if the Nat’l Guard wants to come, then they should help build a safer community rather than cause any chaos.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I liked the kid who correctly said that the military is trained to kill so how would this help reduce killing?

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Linda Weide's avatar

So wise, right!

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Linda Weide's avatar

The truth is spoken by the youth. I would say that a pastor that is Republican in that neighborhood is worshiping false Gods!

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Yeah but you know they'e not going to send them to Auburn-Gresham or North Lawndale. They'll parade them through Millennium Park where the worst crime is occasional pickpocketing.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Well, actually there is a curfew because there had been shootings in the downtown at night and some other areas in the central business district, but of course way more in neighborhoods, on the south and west sides. My local hospital is a good place to train for gun shot wounds, as it the Cook County hospital on the west side of the city. Still, I agree that they will go for photo ops, not true crime areas. It is a waste of resources but that is all that Trump does. People are getting tired of it, because they can see through the performances. Some of that is because we still have a functioning press.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

Just like in DC

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Interesting that none of the troops sent in have entered the most violent and crime ridden areas Linda. Dubious that any of them are willing to meet real violence Linda!

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Linda Weide's avatar

And they should not have to. Is this what they exist for? NO IT IS NOT! Cleaning up DC is not a good use of the National guard. Pay the street cleaners to do it.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Agreed, I’ve never feared being anywhere in DC, where my former in laws both were with the Department of Agriculture. My kids hated the heat and humidity, probably spending too much time staring at art… loved all the Smithsonian buildings, exhibits , the cannons on the mall and fireworks displays on the fourth.

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Linda Weide's avatar

On another Substack talking about Trump's apparent failing health and weather JDV will command the same adulation that Trump has from the MAGA crowd, or can he be a scapegoat for all that ails them? Not sure what the Kool aid will bring. Hope that all this craziness can come to a halt. Does JDV strike you as someone who has the energy to make constant trouble like Trump does? Also, will he be using the X platform the way that Trump uses his own platform to get his messages out?

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

They can hire me to spread mulch. I'm good at it. I just got back from a stint potting at a native plants business.

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Linda Weide's avatar

Anastasia, Wish I had you to help me with my garden in Germany.

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Cheryl ODonnell's avatar

Yes, Carl! Time for a new playbook! And is there room for seeing if the “invading” National Guard wish to defect and make it one big anti-tRump party? Not ICE, they’re too likely to be Proud Boys; lock’em up. Whatever.

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J.R.'s avatar

Carl, you have all of this correct. Let’s see them do it now.

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StacyB's avatar

Well said Carl

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Alison Parker's avatar

It's definitely...........an interesting thing to ponder.

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Richard Von Busack's avatar

Actually, the conspiracy theory I heard is that this golfer is a not too good double. Looking at the pictures, it's plausible that he's a stand in for Emperor Stench.

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arne link's avatar

I can't really see much in the photo. He's much thinner. It could be the stand-in from Southpark. That was really good.

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Deborah Hunter's avatar

Look at the profile picture and look at the turkey neck. Doesn't look like Trump. The neck especially doesn't look like Trump.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

If he gets a good score without cheating, it's not Trump.

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Chris Hierholzer's avatar

Do trumps doubles wear diapers too?

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Leu2500's avatar

Well, if they were from June, he was looking pretty sick back then. His face & neck were swollen up like a pumpkin.

What we need to know was if his motorcade travelled from the WH to his golf course. That can’t be missed; it disrupts traffic too much. And the press pool would have followed. Somewhere (i don’t know where it is anymore) the pool writes/shares a continuous stream of the day, for the media to use for their reporting.

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cablecargal's avatar

You should try Bluesky. I was hesitant but figured that if I hate it, I'll delete it. Turns out I get animals and politics and I'm very happy with the program. Nothing horrible like what I saw on Birdie; I had to immediately delete Twitter after seeing something so horrible I don't want to describe it.

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Betsy L's avatar

I don't have a Bluesky account; tapping on ghe link brought up a blank page.

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Leigh Hamilton's avatar

Why are we so afraid to be conspiracy theorists when every goddamned thing around us is a fucking conspiracy to bring down Democracy? Sure, maybe you're wrong. Wow. Would it be the first time? Will it be the last? I'm reasonably intelligent (I said "reasonably"!) and I'm wrong once in a while).

For Stinky McShitpants to not be heard from for five days is NOT A CONSPIRACY. It's either a fucking godsend or the end times. The "man" is filled with sawdust. As the great Dr. HRC mentioned the other day, JD the Couchboy (my word, not hers) is shivving (her word, not mine) Trump at every available opportunity. It's not going well. Pritzker is telling Trump to, and I paraphrase, bring it on. You harm one of my IL citizens and it's basically 'game on' mf' and Gavin Newsom is trolling and humiliating the MAGA movement with a precision that is sending the talking MAGA zombies back into the ground for another 17 years before they climb out of the dirt and start rubbing their legs together again. (No cicadas were harmed in this post, and I have nothing against cicadas).

We aren't out of the woods, but I can see the forest and I can see the trees.

I can also see a civil war brewing and I fear it is unavoidable. But oh well, they asked for it, they underestimated us, they think we can't defend ourselves, they think we're pussies, and we don't give a shit who is in the Epstein files.

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James Starr's avatar

given the history of corruption and misrepresentation from the far right GOP, it is not a stretch or taboo to suggest the photos are not current.

What, with all the phony Time Magazine covers they produced, the fake Nobel Peace Prize nomination, The fake Vanity Fair cover, the Fake assassination ( deep-seated ex SS members have already declared) Conspiracy? Most likely it is just syllogistic thinking in this case.

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AmericanHistoryGeek's avatar

I agree. The clue is that there is no bruise on the left hand in the photo. After the photos from earlier this week of his badly injured hand, it would be highly unlikely that the bruising just disappeared.

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Jeff Tiedrich's avatar

also, there's a lot of talk on social media about this totally bonkers tweet from Donny:

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115119151783895076

I started to write about it and then stopped, because I decided that Donny didn't write it. it's batshit nuts for sure, but it's too grammatically correct, with proper punctuation, to be his

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

Too grammatically correct. Note the use of actual COMMAS. Also wonder if, among other ghosts of his wretched past, he will be visited by ghosts of stiffed contractors past on some future Christmas Eve.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

If he makes it to Christmas Eve, he'll be visited by A LOT of ghosts. Maybe Ivana will greet him on the golf course.

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Fran Bull's avatar

Yeah, the thing about the staircase...

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HI2thDoc's avatar

And drag him into that awful grave with her

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DJ Headthrob's avatar

"Dahlink, why didn't you spring for perpetual care option on my grave, you cheap bastard?"

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Doreen Garza's avatar

He’ll frikn make it!! Sadly! Poor innocent children and innocent ppl dying while he just keep sucking up all our oxygen!!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Also, There's a correct use of quotation marks!

I think someone proposed the tweet to Donnie and he approved it, although he did not write it himself. It definitely has a message that he wants out there. I have such good taste, and I am so fucking smart!!!

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Sharon Senkiew's avatar

That would be glorious!

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Love the thought DJ!

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L P Inness's avatar

definitely not enough CAPS

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meryl selig's avatar

That post is not from DonDon. It almost reads like a passive aggressive staff member tiptoeing towards parody. MAGAts lack gene for comprehending parody … so they miss the undertone of this post. And yes, too many commas. Almost-dead Don doesn’t really punctuate except for exclamation points.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Nice catch (passive aggressive!)… couldn’t put my finger on it 😅

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P123Sunny's avatar

So many… commas? 🤔😐

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Alison Parker's avatar

Holy lord. That's honestly almost unsettling. Like...very uncanny valley territory.

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Mary Beth Horsington's avatar

While the president obsesses over the gold that has been projectile vomited all over the Oval Office and the desecration of the Roseless Garden, human beings are being kidnapped, healthcare is on life support, prices are skyrocketing and the rule of law is disappearing faster than Stephen Miller’s decency. God help us navigate this nightmare.

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meryl selig's avatar

Gov Newsom’s social team can see it, too. Donny “Dim in the Lighthouse”) has ghostwriters that can’t match his gibberish.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

"A HUGE GASH...DEEP AND NASTY...." JUST THE WAY I LIKE 'EM!

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arne link's avatar

Oh, Lord. You went there.

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

HAHA! I knew this is a safe space!

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T L Mills's avatar

I agree, that was NOT written in Mangolini's usual style. It was far too coherent; complete sentences, for cripe's sake!

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Tess's avatar

The person writing that is definitely an imbecile!

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Eva Porter's avatar

Whether he wrote it or not, it's tiresome

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P123Sunny's avatar

Once I read something abt the Salem Witch era… that suddenly, one day - the hype just broke. The whole ‘Fever’ lost traction and ppl moved on… yr comment gives me hope(!!!)

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Same with the takeover of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s. I recently read a book called "Fever in the Heartland" which is both scary and hopeful. In the 1920s, the KKK had a huge resurgence. They had a massive rally in D.C. in 1926 with an estimated 30-50,000 marchers. And they completely took over the state of Indiana while making inroads in other states such as Ohio, Colorado and Oregon. And they were poised to put their man in the White House. And then the fever broke due to their overconfidence and overstepping their boundaries. And yes, it was a sex scandal that fueled their destruction. Release the Epstein files!!!!

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Gently, Jack Jones's avatar

Except Indiana remained the swamp that it is…and already was by the 1930s…

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P123Sunny's avatar

Never heard that - thx for the context!

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Ethereal fairy Natalie's avatar

See also: the Bonfire of the Vanities.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

It's obviously CHAT GPT

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P123Sunny's avatar

😀😆🤣

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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

And when he dies let’s dig a 6 ft deep by 5 ft long, 5 ft wide hole next to Ivana’s golf course burial plot, jam him in there and take the bulldozed pieces of ‘lovely limestone’ when we restore the paved-over Rose Garden and dump it on their graves-at least it would take the grass a bit longer to cover their burial spots.

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J.R.'s avatar

Perfect 😂

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Sue Pemberton's avatar

It reads like something translated into English from another language.

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Vivian Fletcher's avatar

Good catch, Jeff! The language was too clean, etc, etc!

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Agree. But something is up

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Susan Niemann's avatar

"President Cankles McRottinghand” 🤣🤣 SOMEBODY ADD THIS TO THE LIST!

Something is definitely afoot…I dont care if it's 3am or noon, when I get word of the his demise, I will be popping that bottle of champagne, chilled and waiting.

By the way, Brandon Johnson is the right man for the job in Chicago. He and Pritzker are excellent leaders. Now, bring on the Epstein files and lets get this over with.

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rlritt's avatar

Don't know that much about Johnson, but he sounds great. Love Pritzker. He and Newsom are on the ball. Shapiro and Beshear should join in trashing fat Donnie.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I agree with you! I don’t know why Shapiro is staying so silent. Larry Krasner certainly isn’t!

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I have mixed feelings about Johnson but he's way better than other mayors we've had recently, especially the odious Rahm Emanuel whom some "wise pundits" in the media are STILL hyping as a potential Democratic presidential candidate because they insist were need a corporate centrist. No, we do not. And Raaaahmie can kiss my ass.

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Gently, Jack Jones's avatar

Emmanuel is a disgrace to the Party and emblematic of the issues with Dem leadership currently

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

You put it in a nutshell, Jack. That's a perfect assessment.

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Doreen Garza's avatar

They better get off their asses and speak up instead of hiding out 🤬

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Stephen Brady's avatar

Dumb-as-a-doorknob Donnie is never out of public view for 5 days. Something is afoot! I, too, have a bottle of Champagne with which to celebrate the most beautiful headline ever with!

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

Love the Tennessee pundit who posted on YouTube: "We are all deeply saddened by the tragic news this morning that President Trump is, unfortunately, still alive."

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

Maybe,he’s likely so demented he cannot be allowed to be seen, nor speak in public Sharon.

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steve robertshaw's avatar

Personally, he's struck me that way for the past 10 years - but I feel the same way about Steve Bannon and Alex Jones and Rush Limbaugh, etc. etc., so I'm not a reliable arbiter.

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Patrick Daniels aka Cromulent1's avatar

True, malignant narcissism, has been evident since I first read about him decades ago… his cretinous coterie of miscreants as well Steve!

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Stephen Brady's avatar

He is definitely worse. I'd like to be a fly on the wall of the residence in the WH - I'll bet he is sundowning like crazy.

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J.R.'s avatar

😂

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meryl selig's avatar

Don’t mess with Chicago

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Susan Niemann's avatar

You got that right. I’ll add Philadelphia to the list of tough towns! 🤣

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meryl selig's avatar

I’m a native Philadelphian who moved to Chicago for career. Two seriously great cities who won’t take S… from the dogs’ real ends

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Damn straight!

"Behold she stands beside her inland sea

With outstretched handset welcome you and me

For every art, for brotherhood she stands

Love in her heart and bounty in her hands.

Chicago, Chicago, Chicago is my home

My heart is in Chicago wherever I may roam."

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meryl selig's avatar

Thx so much…. We stand strong and don’t take crap from anyone

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Tess's avatar

…and we will all join you in that champagne and rejoice!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I will toast you from afar, Tess. Maybe we need a Zoom Call Party! HAHA!

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Wouldn’t that be fabulous??!! I would love that!

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Margaret's avatar

I'd love it too. Even if we just all give a toast together.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I once said Dick Cheney's was the only death I'd celebrate. He's dropped way down on my list now, not because he's any better but because we've seen so much worse.

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Susie's avatar

McRottinghand is brilliant wordsmithing, to be sure! 🤣👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣

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Margaret's avatar

Yep, champagne is chilled and I can't wait.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Hold the celebration we’ve got a serious problem with those subs again pitting that cart over the marble. Whining is the old playbook and he’s back to it with the subs again. I couldn’t see fucking shit on that video and that complaint was just crackers enough to put dopey don’s stamp on it. That’s two minutes of my life I’ll always remember, not.

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Eileen's avatar

Susan, Ditto! “McRottinghand” killed me. Jeff’s voice is my sanctuary in this unending nightmare. However, like you, the moment the monster is no more I will celebrate. I will blast the Queen first song side one of A Night at the Opera album, “Death on Two Legs.” Here’s a sample of the lyrics: “Insane, you should be put inside, you’re a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride should be made unemployed then make yourself null-and-void. Make me feel good. I feel good.” A good riddance playlist probably already exists. As a friend of mine said there will be dancing in the streets.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

We sure need Jeff's voice right now! You have a great idea, "A good riddance playlist". No doubt there will be some amazing music! 😂😂

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Doreen Garza's avatar

Haha..yes!! Don’t forget Cankles McFuck!!

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL. The list just grows, doesn't it? 😂😂 I love the ever growing titles!

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Alison Parker's avatar

There was also a great video from Mayor Johnson where a reporter was all "but what if you just make Trump mad, shouldn't you be nicer to him?????" and Johnson was like "hey how about no and also fuck you". But in more diplomatic terms.

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Sharon Hudnall's avatar

I think we now know who really deserves the nickname "Big Balls."

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

That person should be purged from journalism. We've seen what happens when. you're "nicer" to Donnie. If you're not an acquiescent doormat who simply gives him everything he wants, it doesn't work.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Acquiescent doormats are about all that are left.

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P123Sunny's avatar

Wow. SO professional 😞

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Alison Parker's avatar

Who is this about?

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P123Sunny's avatar

The reporter framing that question.

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Alison Parker's avatar

Ah, gotcha.

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Hollie Rood's avatar

🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

release the fucking Epstein files.

I'm sick of shiny object distractions, threats of the national guard invading cities for no reason other than picking up trash and spreading mulch, big ugly bruises, Rfk's incredibly stupid pronouncements of xray vision and ag barbie's threats on non existent crimes. Just release the fucking Epstein files. 😡🙄

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Katharine Hill's avatar

Thank you for the video clip of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. His calm and collected but extremely forceful message of resistance is a joy to behold.

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

Chicago here, and I repeat: do NOT mess with the Hog Butchers of the World!

Go Brandon! ✊

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Well, the hog castrater has dropped out of running again. Joni " We're all gonna die " Earnst

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Songgirl Kim's avatar

If only the dog killer Kristi Noem would get kicked out of Homeland Security.

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T L Mills's avatar

She should be, just for wasting so much DHS money on her cosplay outfits, hair extensions, Botox injections and filler injections, that she blew through a robust budget in months. Not to mention her Argentina vaca with her gigolo for her "ride 'em cowgirl" horsey photos. I felt sorry for the poor horses.

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Leu2500's avatar

We flip the House in 2026, her days are numbered.

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arne link's avatar

I have real fears for election integrity. It's pretty clear that the 2025 election was not fair and honest. There are too many statistical anomalies.

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

The 2025 election hasn't happened, and there have been no significant "anomalies" in any election. WE are helping destroy democracy and fair elections by parroting this baseless conspiracy theory, because it distracts from what the GOP is REALLY doing to try to rig elections. Do you think they'd be ultra-gerrymandering, trying to make it insanely difficult for many people to vote and talking about banning mail-in voting if they could just create "statistical anomalies"? No, those anomalies all fall apart under investigation. Please stop it.

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T L Mills's avatar

I pray morning and night for a Dem majority to be voted for in 2026...

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Patty Mooney's avatar

Puppy Ass-ass-inator

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

To dopey donOld Don’t let the door swipe you in the ass you might just let a pant load go and I think his wheelchair was going to go into that crack in the marble that only exists in his brain cell. Stiff that contractor do it for all the fatassed rich who will fall into the crack, oh well we all die now.

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MargaretT's avatar

I am in near suburbs of Chicago, SW side. NO ONE wants him here! Even former Chicago Police Chief Garry McCarthy, (very conservative; am not a supporter of him) was quoted that Trump and National Guard should stay away.

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meryl selig's avatar

Strong Chicago!! America’s Finest

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Denise Gareau's avatar

As a Chicago native who is stuck like cement in the MAGA corner of Blue Connecticut, I am dripping in pride over Gov. Pritzger and Mayor Johnson's "Fuck Trump" Stance. I hope they go full on "Hank Voight" on their stupid MAGA asses.

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Denise Donaldson's avatar

That's been my thought since the impending invasion of Chicago was announced! Hank would not abide this BS.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Chicago is STACKING WHEAT and MAKING TOOLS, Trump is PAVING OVER a national treasure and WHINING ABOUT a 25-YARD GOUDGE by an ABOUT-TO-BE-STIFFED subcontractor. He wants SLAVERY.

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Marlene Lerner-Bigley (CA)'s avatar

Yep, that’s the bottom line.

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Leslie Goodman-Malamuth's avatar

Slave labor built his Dubai golf resort.

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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

I commend the citizens of Chicago, led by a competent caring Mayor!

I’m wondering if they can block major roads into Chicago and refuse to let anyone in that is carrying out the unlawful, despicable, dangerous agenda of the bloviating PINO buffoon? It would be an inconvenience to others but an inconvenience that could save lives.

If a city knew a serial killer was headed to town, wouldn’t roadblocks be set up?

Democracy lovers across the US join Chicago inviting the mad king to go f himself. 🤩

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Musa, if there’s a way I would hit a ‘super like button’ on that idea!

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Susie's avatar

Me, too!!!!!

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MUSA💙💙💙USAM's avatar

Technology works wonders. Military convoys move slowly, as soon as those idjits are a couple miles out, start blocking their access.

They can’t change course easily.

Now if they are flying those tanks in on carriers that would be different.

I’d have the tower let them know due to recent DOGE cuts the airport no longer has the capacity to handle large cargo planes-turn around and don’t come back!

Hope you’re fussing about the $1M per day this buffoon is wasting on his power play!!!

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Do you have any idea how big Chicago is and how many major roads there are? Nope. The manpower required would be massive and outrageously costly, and you would shut down the economy of the midwest. Trump would love it.

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Dave Drell's avatar

Also the feds will be putting them way north at Great Lakes which is about 40 miles away from downtown area

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

It's actually more than 50 miles and almost an hour away. Competence and knowledge aren't the strong suits of this administration.

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Kay-El's avatar

That weird ass pic at the end, shows a Q and a cross in Donny’s hand. I’m gonna go out on a limb and think that ominous warning is just another QAnon conspiracy. I refuse to take anything Q related seriously.

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John Wiederhirn's avatar

Yeah, this time a million clones of HRC will reveal themselves as being on the "good side" and come and jerk off every male Q believer personally (female Q believers all go to the kitchen and cook meals), while giving them the money to move out of their mom's basement and into a place of their own, and not even laughing at their tiny, tiny penises. Or something.

Hard to give a fuck, they're just childish fabulists always with a new excuse why none of their meaningful predictions happen. Zzzz.

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GW B's avatar

Jim Richardson says Q+ means DJT in Q lingo. Go figure.

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Susie's avatar

Well said!

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meryl selig's avatar

I noticed the Q icons too and agree

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

Yep. And it’s signed by an “artist” who must have some incredible clearance or an inside track on spirits. Lots of sprits, I’d wager.

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Gently, Jack Jones's avatar

The distilled type in great quantity!

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

Also, is that a cider donut whirling about over Cheezit’s head?

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Kay-El's avatar

I’m clueless as apparently was the idiot that made this.

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Susie's avatar

I saw that, too and wondered WTAF?!?! I mean, not even hiding the, as Jeff so eloquently states, “batshittery!” 👏🏻🤣👏🏻🤣

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Eileen's avatar

It used to be that the press would freak out if Trump had a QAnon reference and now he just doesn’t even hesitate. It’s so in your face called monger. It’s unbelievable.

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David Skoglund's avatar

Let’s go Brandon!

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Joyce's avatar

Or, rather, a fervent wish of "Fuck off, Donald--fuck off out of existence!"

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KP Johnson Austin, TX's avatar

Jeff--Your research is always spot on. Thank you for digging up the shit that counters these fools' own words. You, sir, are the antithesis of a corporate-controlled scribbler. Thank you!

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Melinda's avatar

hear hear

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

Have we heard anything from Jake Tapper lately?

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David Skoglund's avatar

Very good question. I think Tapper disappeared up his own asshole.

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Grace Kennedy's avatar

I think we should Santorum him and make “Tapper” the act of inserting your whole noggin in a butthole.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Except there are so many to choose from for that particular euphemism!

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Charles Austin's avatar

😂😂

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

Ha ha—good one. Maybe he's busy writing that book he owes us about how Trump's people are hiding his cognitive decline? Nah, that would be actual journalism.

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DrBDH's avatar

To be published in 2029, when it will be worthless.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

LOL!!!!

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Stephanie Lajeskie's avatar

😂🤣😂

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Tapper has lost a step.

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David Skoglund's avatar

Or two or three, Kristy.

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Elizabeth George's avatar

What is coming is JD Vance. Trump was put into office for a second time by Peter Thiel because Trump agreed to making JD Vance his VP. Peter Thiel spent billions making JD Vance a senator and greasing his way into becoming VP for an incompetent buffoon clearly heading into dementia. Wake up, people. Vance is going to deliver us into white “Christian” nationalism. Vance has been an empty vessel from the start, and into this vessel has been poured the fluid of white supremacy and Project 2025.

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Terri Nighswonger's avatar

Vance is horrid no argument. But the ground swell against him will be horrific Do you question the power of women? Do you KNOW what horrors treatment abuse exploitation bullying WOMEN HAVE ENDURED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS???

WE WILL NOT ENDURE ANYMORE. JUST WATCH. WE HAVE COME WAAAY TOOO FAR FOR WAAY TOO MUCH STRUGGLE AND HAND ON OUR HEAD.

HE WILL FEEL OUR WRATH. IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST STORM HE HAS EVER FELT.

LOOK AT THE RALLIES. PROPORTIONALLY MORE WOMEN. UNAFRAID. DONT CARE WHAT OTHERS THINK. ALWAYS THERE.

FAITHFUL ENDURING UNAFRAID UNACCEPTING OF DEFEAT.

VANCE HAS A BIG AWAKENING. HE WILL LEARN TO WORK WITH US.

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Nancy's avatar

Love your post, Terri. I pray you’re right

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Anastasia Pantsios's avatar

I just read a great column about why Vance cannot replicate Trump. Without the support of the cult, he's basically neutered. GOP congresspeople will have no incentive to rubber stamp Vance because their voters don't care about Vance. As this column said, it's a cult and cults don't transfer. Vance will be powerless to do any of this.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I agree. There IS no worse than Trump. No one in Hell or on Earth has ever been worse.

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DrBDH's avatar

Or, Mike Johnson will defenestrate Vance and become President.

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AmericanHistoryGeek's avatar

He has even less charisma than the couch-lover. Also MosesMike moving into POTUS-position will leave a vacant Speaker position in the House which would be interesting to witness.

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Ann Anderson's avatar

Dead prez walking. It's only the evil inside him and gas from his awful diet that animates this corpse. You know it, I know it, his handlers know it because they can't escape the stench. The angel of death is sharpening the scythe, the devil is licking his chops. I'm deciding what to wear for the celebration.

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arne link's avatar

I think I will buy something new. I want to be appropriately dressed when I celebrate with friends. We have both champagne and prosecco. Your choice.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

Think fall festive. The hour seems nigh; time to dig out snuggly sweaters and hoodies and have a 30-day bonfire and street party. I’ll bring several bottles of prosecco.

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Douglas Paul Truhlar's avatar

Ann, remember the Kavanaugh fuex hearing? He slobbered cried and drank soooo much water there are some very good clips from it that need to be revisited, he did actually say “We do have some heavy pukers in that group, stay classy supremes.

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MzNicky in East Jesus, TN's avatar

I remember at the time SNL had a killer skit about that hearing, with Matt Damon.

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