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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Judge Merchan is going to be even more pissed off today. Trump has now attacked the judge's daughter as well as the judge. Time for Bragg to ask for a gag order.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

WTF ? Why am I not surprised..... 🙄🙄🙄

scowl sone more you ignorant piece of rancid shit, wave your tiny hamds and stamp your stupid feet.

I hate him. I've never felt so genuinely hateful about anything in all my decades on the planet and I don't enjoy this feeling but here it is. I HATE HIM. 😡🤬😤(there, I said it, I feel better now.)

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

I never thought I could hate anyone more than I hated Nixon, Reagan, and Bush, but I was very wrong. I hate Trump so much that I see the proverbial red when I hear his voice or look at his face.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

It's a visceral reaction. I feel nauseous when his ugly stupid face appears. It's awful.....

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

What's really awful is that he has everyone running on hate. No sanity, no joy, just rage.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

True. It's exhausting. And it all comes so fast and it's so overwhelming- the only relief I get is knowing I'm not alone. I get a lot of pleasure from reading other people's outrage here.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Me too. Keeps me reasonably sane.

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Judy Luchsinger's avatar

Think about this: people were murdered trying to get their civil rights, beaten on the bridge, denied access to polls, had their lands and businesses taken away, and we ended up with the voting Rights act. These backward steps that t-rump has caused, may be the exact springboard we need to codify roe versus wade, a complete voting right acts, enforceable ethics for the supreme Court and the Congress, and a clear procedure for tossing traders out of any elected position that cannot be questioned by a supreme court. Progress never goes in a straight line. Let's help bend that Arc toward justice.

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Shalone's avatar

I'm with you! I hated all three of them, particularly W!

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Nixon for me. I was 18 when he was elected in 1968, and everything that followed was sheer hell. A very bad year all around.

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Linda Fairchild's avatar

I don't think it's actually hate that you feel. It's your body protecting you from pure evil, your entire being on high alert.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

True. But some of it is just unadulterated, visceral loathing.

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Linda Fairchild's avatar

I know. My Norwegian family survived Hitler. In 2016, my friends called me an alarmist. Not anymore. The feeling is overwhelming and yet day after day we see his special treatment in the face of the law.

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Diana-Sedona's avatar

I also see red when I see that there are people who absolutely “worship” him. WTF! I will never understand!

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

I always thought W would be our stupidest President. I was wrong

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arne link's avatar

I know. I've never felt corrosive hate like I do now. We just have to suck it up and work for truth and honorable people.

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Linda Fulcher's avatar

Yet another reason to hate him: he's selling "God Bless the USA" MAGA Bibles for $59.99 the only Bible endorsed by both Trump AND Lee Greenwood. And he claims the Bible is his favorite book. And he's yelling about making America pray again. Just when you think he can't possibly go any lower, he always manages it.

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shee-rah's avatar

I doubt he’s ever read the Bible since he doesn’t/can’t read.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

Pray again...????

What the fuck does that even mean ?

Pray again my ass..... he can kiss my ass. Eeewwww. No, never mind.

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Diana-Sedona's avatar

My first thought when I saw that was where is a gigantic lightning bolt when you need it! Would have made such a perfect picture!

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Nancy Darling's avatar

Well said. I feel the same way. Felt guilty for awhile, and then realized it is our duty and responsibility to eradicate an evil scourge on our country that will change life as we knew it forever. Donny Shitler is going down....to burn in hell for all eternity.

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Shalone's avatar

I know how you feel, it scares me that I could actually hate someone that much....but I do.

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meryl selig's avatar

When does gag order go into effect? And what theoretical outcome would there be for violating the gag order.? It seems t has already crossed the line by attacking both Judge Merchan and his daughter

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Diana-Sedona's avatar

A slap on the wrist and a “don’t do that again!” Is probably about it based on the “punishments” the 🍊💩 has thus far received! 🤬🤬

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

"A writ of shut your fucking face."

I'd like to go to that law school.

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Kay-El's avatar

There are books about lawyers using plain English. Jeff should write one 😉

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Morgan's avatar

Me too Kathleen!! Me too🙌🏽

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Kate's avatar

Jeff, thank you so much for your writing. I read the newspaper daily and other Substacks, but your pieces bring relief, I guess. Just reading someone who feels what I’m feeling and can put into the irreverent words that NYT or WAPO can’t. It’s venting by proxy! Thanks so much!!!💕

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steve robertshaw's avatar

"Venting by proxy". That phrase is a keeper!

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Jodi Richard's avatar

“no, seriously: what the small-batch artisanal fuck?” Jeff, this had me laughing until I was crying for a solid 2 minutes. Just pasting it here has started the laughing again. “Artisanal fuck” OMG that is just perfect!

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Burke's avatar

Donald is a self made victim. He did all of this to himself. He blames the prosecutors and judges for his troubles. He lied to the banks and tax authorities, for decades. He sexually assaulted women, for decades. He invited foreign governments to help him win elections. He attempted to steal control of the Executive Branch of the United States Federal Government. He illegally retained government documents for fear there might be something in those boxes that could make him look bad. When the justice department wakes from its slumber and starts to make him account for all of this self-inflicted pain, he yells "witch hunt". A self-destructive dumb shit.

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Lynn Van Haren's avatar

I think he retained those classified documents to sell to the highest bidder

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arne link's avatar

You know he did. They have probably already been sold and are gone.

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Robert R's avatar

He’s holding on to a get outa jail document at the very least!

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shee-rah's avatar

He had to thank MBS for giving Jared $2 billion somehow.

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Shalone's avatar

Agree!

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counterlife's avatar

This looks like a good place for this reminder:

“Everyone says he is crazy – which maybe he is – but the scarier thing about him is that he is stupid. You do not know anyone as stupid as Donald Trump. You just don’t.”

- Fran Lebowitz

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Burke's avatar

I thought I knew how stupid he was. And then I read Judge Engeron's final ruling:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/f203be39-020c-4f82-a423-96aa20c08e3a.pdf?itid=lk_inline_manual_3

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Burke's avatar

But--says the Press--he hasn't been convicted yet...

Dear Fourth Estate: We, and you, watched him do this shit on TV! Live! With reruns. And you reported all of it!

Donald didn't even try to hide his crimes and frauds. It's all in the open. Yes, we have to wait for a "court of competent jurisdiction" for a legal finding. But we all know every crime, every outrage, every immoral thing he's done. For years and years.

We all watched him walk into that secure room in Helsinki with Putin. Live on TV. For an unrecorded conversation without an American witness. And afterward he goes to the microphone and kisses Putin's ass. Live on TV. And we are expected to think that he DIDN'T commit treason? He sure gave us the APPEARANCE that he committed treason. Live on TV. And his repeated sucking up to Putin after this meeting doesn't indicate otherwise. We all see it live on TV.

"Why can't we be friends with Russia?" Because Vladimir Putin is an amoral oligarch who's stated life goal is to destroy Democracy, Europe and the United States, you idiot!

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Don't miss! This is a seriously good Lincoln Project ad about Trump falling to pieces, mentally and financially.

https://action.lincolnproject.us/phantom_ad

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RW's avatar

And featuring our Rise and Resist Trump Going Out of Business Sale! Filmed by Sandi Bachom, picked up by Jimmy Kimmel https://twitter.com/realsandibachom/status/1760170087670030689 Also can be watched here https://twitter.com/adotwoods/status/1759744928089841897?cn=ZmxleGlibGVfcmVjcw%3D%3D&refsrc=email

and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3thzNCno69U

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Kathleen Weber's avatar

Watch all the versions. I love street theater!

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Tess's avatar

That was great! thanks!

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Jodi Richard's avatar

Love this video!

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Megan Ross's avatar

I didn't care for it. It didn't show anything about him falling apart. It just showed a day in the life of TRump The music won't appeal to a lot of voters and is hard to understand.

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Hard to understand ?

Are you serious ? 🙄

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Deb's avatar

A different ending would be better. Hint: A pine casket slithering into a hearse

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arne link's avatar

Thanks for the link. That is an amazing vid.

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Morgan OCailleigh's avatar

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

AWESOME

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Megan Ross's avatar

I'm so exhausted trying to keep up with the many criminal trials TRump is facing. The delay tactics, especially in Georgia, are getting ridiculous. Fani Willis shouldn't have hired her boy toy, but the mini-trial getting to that conclusion wasted precious time in prosecuting TRump for election interference and the dozens of other charges. It's also absurd that the Orange Stain's attorneys keep getting the case for TRump stealing, hiding and destroying top secret documents delayed, due to the incompetence of our court system. AG Merrick Garland should have been fired by now for having delayed charging Mango Mussolini for his many criminal acts. I'm so tired...

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Tama2U's avatar

The stall just gives the MF more time to sell secrets to our enemies and gather up the cash. I’m not in the least assuaged. Watch for some late night grave digging to happen at the golf cemetery in the next 30 fucking days.

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Mary Hall's avatar

THIS! THIS! THIS!

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Screaming into the Void.'s avatar

When I saw the breaking news about the lowered bond I wasn't really shocked. I figured something was going to happen with it. So rarely does Drumpf not get even the smallest of reprieve that I would've been shocked if everything held. Was I taken aback by the amount the bond was reduced to? You bet your ass. But the more I heard about it and the more I read about it, I, too, realized it was just for the bond. At no time did I see that the judgment was lowered. So the more I thought about it, I took what relief I could in knowing that the full judgement was still going to appeal, and Drumpf still has to come up with 175 million to post bond. It'll be interesting to see if he can get some schmuck to underwrite that much, because by all accounts he is going to lose at appeal.

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Frances Kern's avatar

THANK YOU, Jeff, for explaining this cluster-f so clearly that even I, an 86-year-old woman, can understand it! :)

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NEAL O'CONNOR's avatar

The morbidly obese former president has decided that every felony he committed was done under the umbrella of "I-can-do-whatever-I-want-because-of-my-non-diplomatic immunity" Doctrine. The favors he receives from the courts are mind-boggling! "The People" are getting played by Trump's baloney and stalling tactics!

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Susan Quinn's avatar

And once again, you talked me down from the ledge… I don’t know whether to say, “ thank you” or “ I hate you for doing that. I can’t take this shit anymore!”

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Mike Hammer's avatar

Things could be worse.

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Deb Martina's avatar

Could they? I feel pretty beaten up by him and the rest of the gqp nuts on the Hill. I personally can't wait until this nightmare is over...if we survive 😞

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Charlie Austin's avatar

Could be raining.😂😂

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Kristy Kanen's avatar

Acid rain.

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Charlie Austin's avatar

😆😆😆😆

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MICHAEL OHALLORAN's avatar

THIS WHOLE DAMN TRIAL THING IS BECOMING A COMPLETE SHAM AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE BEING SCREWED OVER BY THE LEGAL SYSTEM WHICH HAS SHOW EXTREME PREJUDICE IN FAVOR OF DONALD TRUMP.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

I still think he's paying off judges. BUT...he's still a dirtbag. I despise him.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

He comes from a line of great anuses.

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Susan Niemann's avatar

😂 how does this kind of evil become so influential? It’s really a sorry statement to the overall intelligence of our society!

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Merc's avatar

Bible Thumpers have been happy to bend their morals to get power

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Susan Niemann's avatar

Right. So much for their Jesus, then. Such hypocrites.

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Mike Hammer's avatar

The only thing preventing all of mankind being subjugated is that there are more good people than bad ones. But if we don’t fight …

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Shalone's avatar

Isn't that the shocking truth.

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MICHAEL OHALLORAN's avatar

IT AMAZES ME THAT DUMBASS FARMERS VOTE REPUBLICANS IN BECUASE RIGHT NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO CRIPPLE SNAP WHICH PURCHASES LARGE QUANTITIES OF FARM PRODUCT TO KEEP THE WHOLE. WTF IS WRONG WITH THESE IDIOTS?

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Mike Hammer's avatar

“Little Donny Luckyfuck” LMFAO!

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Rhoda Ozen's avatar

That’s exactly what I was going to say! Great minds and such…

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