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imagine if the media had gotten their way, and instead of this awesome unity, we had a brokered shit-show of a convention. ugh

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"If it bleeds, it leads" is still their marching orders over at the media. Conflict and pitting people against each other is so much better for their ratings, doncha know.

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I was streaming the convention,but I had to reset my router,so I switched briefly to CBS at about 11,Nora O'Donnell 'The speeches are running too long,they're losing primetime,is 81 year old President Biden going to speak??' Hey Nora,and all the folks at CBS...maybe time to STFU...it's our time now.

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Oy! Vox went on some sort of tear about "The DNC is BURYING Joe Biden!"—which was what my phone greeted me with when I woke up this morning:

https://www.vox.com/politics/367760/democratic-national-convention-2024-joe-biden-speech

It sounds like he was originally supposed to wrap up the night about an hour earlier so the 11:00 News could cover his speech, but "Nothing Ever Costs as Little, or Takes as Little Time, as You Think it Will". And out of that, Vox shows it belongs to the Mainstream Media after all by ginning up a controversy over a scheduling screwup.... 🤦‍♂️

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Every night the Repub convention ran late...probably for diaper changing time.

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“ probably for diaper changing time.”… 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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That's...DIFFERENT!

It just is.... 🧐

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The RNC should start a GoFundMe effort to purchase a case each of Rasin Bran, ex-Lax, and Metamucil for Zack Beauchamp, who is so full of shit it's a wonder he can reach the keyboard.

That diet of drywall and hard cheese is taking its toll.

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I checked and CBS network was not covering the DNC convention live full-time. First time in my 70 years that CBS has failed to cover the convention live. Apparently they’ve just given up.

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We've given up on broadcast media, too, so that makes us even.

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Yep, I turn on theocal news channel about once a month for 5 minutes. That's enough.

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That’s so sad

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I agree with you totally!!! And the press, all day long, making a big flipping deal out of the late hour... good flipping grief! Joe made it so worth-while!!!! Woo Hoo!

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if Joe, who reputedly is Old, can stay up late, so can they

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I'd actually posit that they are in the tank for Trump. There's almost no other explanation, they're so utterly devoid of actual journalism.

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The problem is that all major media is owned by greedy rich guys that are pouring their money into trumps coffers. They don’t seem to understand that the first thing to go in a dictatorship is free press.

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You are absolutely correct Laura. Just ask any German citizen who lived thru the Nazi era…

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that's right Chet. The free press has already been Nazi-ized by being owned by 3 people/corps

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Jesse Dollomore has a yt video put up today about that exact subject. If you’re interested in having a look:

https://youtu.be/uDtus4v0MmM?si=7X65GtTYr00CXHWz

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Thanks!! I appreciate that

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Leads, ledes , which is correct ?

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Good question! Lede is the opening sentence or paragraph that sums up the story. I used "lead" because news stations in particular "lead" with those graphic stories first in their broadcasts.

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You're all so smart , thank you ! 😊

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Both are correct however American English being what it is, both have been used interchangeably. One still can get the meaning. The lede is supposed to be the most important paragraph in the story because it leads one to read the entire story. I was taught that the lede should cover the 5 W’s; who, where, when, what and why. Detail follow.

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Lede is always a noun.

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With the MSM pushing and manufacturing conflict, it is like living in one of those stupid soap operas, with the villains who run around being nasty and lying about everything, and everyone.

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They're still hoping the pro-Palestinian protesters can do enough damage to make this "Chicago 1968 v2.0." Based on the anemic turnout for the first day, I don't think it'll be easy convincing people Chicago is now a smoking ruin.

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Oh,you mean the folks who ran to the mall with Mom's credit card to buy headscarfs,to cosplay as Arabs for social media clicks?

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Agreed. The majority are college kids that don’t understand what they are protesting. The women wearing the scarves would be put to death in the Middle East, because they are only for men. Crap, the son of the leader of Hamas even said they are misguided

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On the troll-orders of Putin?

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Wait'll they grow up and learn that Israel is not a State in the United States and that Israel has its own government which makes its own decisions regarding Gaza and Palestinians.

They's in for a BIG surprise on that day, Uncle Jed!

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Well, it’s not just young people. I’m all grown up at 74 & I find it completely sickening that we keep providing Israel with offensive weapons & 2K lb bombs to drop on refugee camps, mosques, & schools. Surely I’m not the only person who has heard about the recent story of Israeli prison guards routinely torturing civilian Palestinian male prisoners, even gang-raping them & penetrating their rectums with objects? This one prisoner had a tern rectum, a perforated bowel, & broken ribs. Just as bad, an elected official spoke out saying that it was okay for them to do these things!!! Also when regular Israeli citizens found out that law enforcement was going to charge the guards with a crime, they went out & protested against that. WTAF??!!

Funny that I haven’t heard any of the msm say a peep about that disgusting behavior. I only heard about it because I happened to be watching Ayman on msnbc on the weekend.

Why in god’s name would we be supporting a regime that thinks torture, rape, & the extreme psychological humiliation that goes along with that, is acceptable?

I am absolutely revolted.

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I guess then they'll be super glueing themselves to something,or trying to throw Spaghetti Os on the Mona Lisa..for the environment.

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And maybe they'll learn the difference between holy wars and genocides.

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Joe Biden put the okey doke on 'em.😃😃

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I needed this like water (this reminder of how it felt watching last night, how restorative the news has been for a month), after reading the shit-show of a "fact-check" of Day 1 over at WaPo. This might be the one I cancel for (but the comments are 🔥). (Gift link. Warning: my own hair has spontaneously ignited and been doused repeatedly for the last half hour.)

https://wapo.st/3SRwVbu

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I was really sorry to see WaPo dive into the Trump Septic Tank. I had enjoyed that paper for years.

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It was inevitable with them hiring tabloid Murdoch man Will Lewis to run the place.Bezos is killing the once outstanding, legendary paper.

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You know what I read in WaPo? The daily news quiz ("on the record"?), the puzzle section, and now and then the advice column. And now and then one of the columnists who isn't in the tank for both sidesism will write something interesting. I always swear, every time fucking Ruth Marcus opens her mouth, I'm going to cancel my $4/mo subscription, but the puzzles pull me back from the brink every time lol

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Apple news has some great puzzles like quartiles where they break a multisyllabic word up into four pieces and they have four words and you have to put them together. You can curate your news and block publications that lie as well.

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I like quartiles (and it usually kicks my ass at least halfway around the block lol)

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Jeff, I just needed to make sure that you and the rest of the gang got to see this cartoon. No one has done a better visual of the Republican strategy.

https://deadder.substack.com/p/kamala-picks-walz

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I don't quite get this. Repubs trying to cover Dems with garbage. Nothing new there.

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I make no claim that it's a new idea—I just think it's the best visual representation of it. Kind of like the best photo of your favorite movie star.

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Garbage not sticking maybe?

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Thanks, I didn't get it either.

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Everything including ketchup bottles and kitchen sinks ala Elon.

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The media is still trying to have it that way by distorting and prevaricating. Fuck that.

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You and the substack and other like-communities deserve so much credit for making it clear what’s really happening. Those of us who wanted to know are in your debt.

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Old Feisty Joe was NEVER going to let that happen. He brokered this ENTIRE thing and had to have been planning this for weeks if not months. I'm even considering that his "disaster debate" was planned, to distract the MAGA idiots and let them fight the wrong person at their convention.

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💯💯💯

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The whole thing had to start over from scratch a month ago.

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TY Joe, for the greatest end-run of all time (Harris endorsement) - (and I'm sorry but it looked like NP bit a lemon - yikes!?)... maybe just poor lighting :)

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I’m afraid that it’s only going to get worse from here. I will not be sorry to see the back of this election, when Kamala Harris becomes our next President. I will be doing a big happy dance when January 20, 2025 rolls around. Then I am going to sleep for about a month. There will be a whole helluva lot of work to do and I am going to need the rest. 😉🤣🤣

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Let’s not and quickly put that idea to bed.

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Not even worth considering, not for one second.

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I was in tears at the long, loud ovation for Joe. And what a wonderful speech he gave. We were lucky to have him as our president, and the best way we can thank him is by electing Kamala and Tim.

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Brought tears to my eyes also

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Whatta mighty good man !

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I wanna take a minute or two

to give much respect to

to the man who’s made a difference in my world 💙

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Sing it! 💙💙💙💙

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I also cried a lot watching the DNC ....during Hillary, Jasmine, Raphael Warnock (omg!!!), Jill, Joe, the commercial over Beyonce's Freedom and more. So proud to be in the party of light and love. And I walked the fine line during my legal career to be firm but not "bitchy," dealing with misogyny and unwanted advances, and frankly always had to excel to be treated equally. It's our time, girls...finally.

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Same. I cried all the way through Ashley Biden, too.

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If Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Tim Walz weren’t made for this moment, then there are no moments. I was so proud of my country when Barack Obama was elected President, twice. Then came an orange pos baby-man that is only in it for himself, burning the country to the ground to get what he wants: unrivalled, unlimited power and money. I have never been so fearful for our country and disappointed in my fellow citizens. Especially on January 6, 2021. I wanted Joe Biden for another 4 years.

Obviously, Joe Biden has more wisdom than I. I am forever grateful there is a man who saw stepping back as the best way to defend our fragile democracy. I am ever so proud that our next President will Kamala Harris.

All the little rat bastards in msm can eat 🍊💩 and FUCK. ALL. THE. WAY. OFF.

Love and much respect President Joe Biden. The best President of my lifetime. 💙💙💙

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A big Fuck You to hog romancin’ Jimmy, useless pantload Ronny Johnson, dumb ass Mike Davis and a big fuck you to Megyn Kelly! CHEERS to Parker Short, Jasmine Crockett, AOC, Hillary, the rest of the speakers and most of all JOE BIDEN! I cried when he walked on stage…😭. I thought it was a great night and seeing Harris and Walz watching was joyous and hopeful! (see what I did there!) lol.

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cheers to all the speakers I didn't have time/room to mention, too!

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Ashley made him cry 💙

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And is it rude to note that Biden managed to hug his attractive adult daughter without grabbing her ass?

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😂😂😂😂

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They all too a person did themselves and the country Proud ! Got goose bumps for the first time in ages ! This is how it’s supposed to work!🇺🇸😀

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Ron Johnson is an embarrassment to our state of Wisconsin. He came to our high school last spring to take questions from students. They *grilled* him and he fled the school also cancelling his next day appearance at the school down the road. If high schoolers can own him, why doesn’t the media do the same to this tin foil hat weirdo?

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THAT should have been ALL OVER the media!!!😡

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Oh, the jealousy, envy and rage Trump must be feeling since he’s been trumped by a smart woman of color. Hat tip and mass props to President Biden and probable Madam President Harris.

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The catsup Frisbees must have been spinning like alien flying saucers at Mar a Lardo last night. The closed-eyed, balding wannabe emperor can't come close to generating this level of energy and excitement as some people are finally tiring of eight years of his bullshit, insults and theatrics. The moronic dildos of the GOP like Sen. Johnson will keep spewing their meaningless crap but when it's all said and done, we'll hopefully be celebrating Kamala's well deserved victory.

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Gotta feel sorry for the Mar-a-Lardo staff this morning - having to clean up what must have been gallons of ketchup hurled at the walls.

What a child LDFF is. How Melania stands him I have no idea. She must live behind locked doors. Or offsite!

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Melania is no better than Trump! She was all in for the Obama birther lie. She also wore that inspiring jacket to visit the caged children at the border. I can’t get started on the Rose Garden!!

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They deserve each other.

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She also came up with the line that “grab em by the pu$$y” was just locker talk. Really a nasty person

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She lives in New York because her son is going to school there. At least that's her excuse.

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I went to school in a different state and my mother didn't find it necessary to move to that state. But I guess when the choices are being a helicopter parent or living with Trump, the answer is clear.

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Yah, who wants to live near that creep?

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Ah, that answers it - how much you want to bet she stays there until he graduates???

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You think he'll graduate ? Maybe if he hires someone to take his tests, like his degenerate father.

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Actually, he's up at his First Wife Cemetery now.

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Then the cleanup crew at Mar a Lardo got the night off and

those poor folks at Bedbugminster had to deal with the mess.

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he prob fell asleep in the first half hour

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Too bad he’s only playing golf… ⚰️

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They are all complicit, plenty of other places to work, and tokens to marry for citizenship!

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Agree…help wanted signs everywhere, they are working for orange shitzinpantz they deserve whatever shit they get.

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Apparently she gets about half a million a year for speaking engagements and her hair dresser from the Trump PAC.

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lol -- this time I read LDFF in my head as "little donny foo-foo" (as in "hopping through the forest, scooping up all the field mice and bopping them on the head.") I think in this version, though, it was much more likely he scooped up all the field mice and grabbed their tiny little asses instead...

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Still wondering why Johnson isn't in jail, he was caught trying hand fake elector ballots to Mike Pence.

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Johnson and many others from the GOP Congress should be in jail but the two-tier justice system favors the crooks and shysters.

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Indicted co-conspirator in Georgia Lindsay Graham is on MTP seemingly every week.

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Like

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When Kamala takes the oath of office I predict a huge number of spontaneous repugnantkin resignations in the congress! The Justice Department might be enforcing quite a few bench warrants for insurrection related crimes that have been over looked I’m pretty sure the statutes of limitations won’t have expired on Inauguration Day ! Then the traitor bastards can cry that it’s a politically motivated persecution all they want and you know what ?tough shit 💩! The election is over and so are their days of freedom ! 😎 🤪🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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They're all set to testify against Trump,thats why the Orange Hatecrime wanted to delay trials.

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Wondering the same thing.

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The “Lock him Up” moment was sublime.

And then Joe spoke. ❤️🇺🇸💙

I feel Pride.

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Susan-that was another perfect moment and so appropriate!

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I think I actually guffawed.

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Women aren't allowed to laugh in the REPUBLIFASCISTS party.

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Or they laugh at really weird or mean things.

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Like CRUSH videos, of spike heels stomping baby chicks. Hilarious 🥺

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What makes this lock him up more effective is the fact that we’ve lost our patience. He should be in jail now yesterday and the day before. The man is a criminal so lock him up is more than appropriate!

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Jeff, great column covering so many of the bases, but for some reason, the last paragraph's reality hit extra hard over my head all over again: Trump really DID want Pence hanged, didn't he?

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I'm sure Donny wasn't particular about what method the mob used

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Concrete galoshes?

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Sleep with the fishes.

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Is that piece of shit unused gallows still around ? ...Fatboy might be in the market for a swinging time if things keep going in this direction! We can only hope it doesn’t collapse under his massive fatness !Mike Pence might like to trip the trap door 😵‍💫👎it’s only fair !😅😜

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I remember all the thousands of photos and videos of Pence gazing lovingly, worshipfully at Drumpf and he wants Pence killed? So that he can weep an moan his crocodile tears? At least, thank God, pence is speaking out against him now. I guess the fever has broken.

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Dear Donald, "Nighty Night."

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Buh bye

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👍👍😂😂

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Loved Coach Kerr’s speech! He is a great man and his talk that exemplified the type of person who should be running America was perfect. Love that he is endorsing Harris/Walz! 💙🌊‼️

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Awesome night at the DNC!

Absolutely loved President Biden’s fiery speech!

At the RNC, Fraud Trump had washed up Clowns Hulk Hogan and Kid Rock and wife beater Dana White.

At the DNC, soon-to-be President Harris had America’s Coach, Patriot Steve Kerr!

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Top to bottom-a great start for DNC. There was a very short, not out of control issue of some protesters going through a blockade…(most likely trump plants because the real protesters walked away as police asked). But it was being reported as if Vietnam was starting over. Laughably desperate!

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The corporate owned media showing their pro Trump bias again

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They're desperate, all right!😂😂

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I’m sitting in a diner and smiling reading this. It was certainly a glorious first day. Joe made me cry. AOC inspired me. Hillary was dynamic. Gomer Fudd just pisses me off. Thanks - I’m leaving the waitress here a bigger tip now. 😂

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Enjoy your lunch with shatenfreude dessert.😂😂

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Ha! You bet! 😁

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*diner envy* ngl

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Hi Jeff, reading Donald’s schedule for this week it looks as if he’s going to hit all the KKK strongholds… hmmm.. could this be the new big big plan he thought up all by himself? I especially refer to Howell Wisconsin.. all fellow travellers remember the folks of that town just last week shouting “we love Hitler, we love Trump” Truly a winning strategy to win over independents.. Brilliant… Best to all.

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Isn’t this telling? Next stop Four Seasons Landscaping and chants of “you will not replace us.”

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Someone needs to watch for the worm hole I predict will open if this happens

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Seriously? They shouted We Love Hitler? OMG😳

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Brain wizardry!🥴🥴😂

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This should read Howell Michigan not Wisconsin… but still these events took place… sorry fellow travelers, my mistake.

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I once spoke to an old guy from Howell who said as a kid in the 1920s he saw a KKK parade and although they were all in hoods he recognized the mayor from his distinctive wingtip shoes.

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No one would question your “mistake”. Wisconsin has a reputation for producing some pretty fucked up people. I know, I live there.

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The number of maga cult trolls out today is simply amazing, and they are all failing. Lies, whining, lies, misogyny, lies, racism, whining, and more lies.

Yes, they indeed have nothing.

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They are thoroughly ineffective. It’s fun to watch now.

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They are very effective however, for making people vote against them

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They get more pathetic every day.

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When I see RON JOHNSON , Wisconsin Senator squawk about " COMMIES in the Democratic Representation ,that RUSSIA PHOBE must be reminded that he and SEVEN of his fellow RUSSIA PHOBE SENATORS spent JULY,4th ,2018 with PUTIN! NOW! How PATRIOTIC is that!! Russian MESSENGER BOYS for TRUMP..that is what they are..

I want somebody to tell Americans what kind of Traitors run around in the CONGRESS! UNBELIEVABLE!

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Ron is truly despicable. He didn’t lose by that much either. Wisconsin needs to get rid of him!!

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I believe some of these MAGA morons are going to be washed away in the Blue Tsunami💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊

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We were all stunned when he was re-elected. He is a complete embarrassment to this state and I hope his days are numbered. I think he’s back up for reelection in 2026.

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There are so many who should be in prison for plotting to overthrow the free & fair election of 2020. Of course, they have faced NO consequences

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His smear job against his opponent in WI (and money) is how he won his election….😡 YUK.

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Rick Scott is spending tens of millions of stolen tax payer money to retain his seat in Florida.

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With any luck, people may vote him out, everyone hates him. And my very corrupt county just primried all the developer backed candidates. I hope it is a sign.

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This guy didn't hide how he used his position to stuff his pockets and bank accounts with the funds he grifted voting for Agent Orange's tax breaks. He's a star on the Russian Times. Ron Johnson looks like the headmaster of an all white boys Christofascists boarding school. He personally is in charge of spanking the boys when they get out of line.

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Republicans can't stand to see Democrats confident and unfied. Get used to it, dipshits. And as for Megyn Kelly, w t actual f is her problem? It's not enough to be wealthy, pretty and famous on top of all the usual white woman advantages? She should throw a pity party and invite Laura Ingraham.

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She's just a nasty bitch.

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And another one of those MSNBC epic failures...or how to lose and alienate your listeners, let us count the ways!😡

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Agreed,soul-less troll.

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She works hard at her Ilsa the she wolf, personality.

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I hear that alliteration is back in!

Jasmine Crockett🤭🤭

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Ms. Jasmine was outstanding. What a star turn for her. I was thrilled to see the ovation that Hillary received. She deserved it.

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“Kamala has a resume. Donald has a rap sheet” should be a bumper sticker.

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Feeling so buoyed up by this.

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It's great to see all those MAGA strategists bumping into each other like stoned cockroaches.

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Love it😆😆😆😆😆

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