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Gotta love all these whiny conservatives crying about the lurid details. I don't remember their outrage when mtg held up a nude pic of Hunter Biden.

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that's a really good point and I'm jealous of you because I didn't think of it

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I admit I thought today's article would be about Cannon INDEFINITELY DELAYING the document trial yesterday. Surely you have words about that!

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But Jeff knows he doesn't need to splain Aileen to us. That's one chick who's ready to be invited to his hotel room.

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But I wanted 800 words on what a shitbag she is and if We the People have any recourse.

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Maybe Jeff will address this tomorrow?

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Given how bad the story was buried my concern was he hadn't even heard.

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It's only Wednesday!

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Eeeww that photo of him reclining on the bed🤢

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Right out of the creepizoid play book

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Is it real tho?

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Yes, it is real, that is a very old pic & I’ve seen it before, way before we ever heard of Stormy Daniels. Remember he was 60 when she met him, in that pic he’s probably in his late 30s to mid 40s

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Um…is Jack Smith having breakfast with Robert Mueller? I thought that once Aileen took this shot Smith was going to move for her removal. This is ridiculous.

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Aileen Cannon has succeeded expertly at out maneuvering Jack Smith. Jack Smith committed the mortal sin of being Mueller 2.0. He took the highroad. That was his first mistake. What do I mean? I need to quote Maya Angelou here. “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”

Jack Smith and the world were given a preview of who Aileen Cannon was the first time she was brought to bear on the classified documents case. And what did she do? She allowed for a special master, which was totally unnecessary and crazy. But that is when she showed her hand and Jack Smith should have said, “Note to self. That bitch is corrupt pro MAGA.” So when she was assigned the case for real, he should have immediately asked for her to be removed. He was a fool. Mueller was a fool when Mueller did not indict or tell the world that Trump had committed crimes. He bent over backwards to be polite and here we are. Everybody is much too polite. This is Jeff’s point. Stop being so differential to a cesspool of criminality.

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Founders would have strung him up 7th January. Every day since then has been bullshit.

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You are absolutely 100% correct. If anyone is surprised by this...and I mean Jack Smith or anyone else...they haven't been paying attention! I kept hoping that he was a couple moves ahead of her.

Smith's only job was, despite MG's dragging feet and the unlucky draw of Cannon as presiding judge, was to pull out every trick in the book to get this case in a courtroom (preferably televised) before the election! I'm so tired of people who cannot foresee the inevitable when everyone else is screaming!!! I don't care how good they are, or how smart they are, if they can't ever read the writing on the wall...WHAT GOOD ARE THEY???

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I think Jack Smith is a brilliant investigator and am sure he has an air-tight case, and I still hope he prevails somehow. I think he is like many good Americans, still vainly expecting equality under the law.

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I mostly agree, but it is very hard to get a judge removed from a case. I think that is more if a problem than that Jack Smith is reticent.

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We are fighting anti-democratic forces with democratic tools. It's a nightmare.

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Eileen, Agree. He should have fast forwarded to what would have been the her sleaziest play and checked her right then and there. We need to use their playbook. Put the knives down and get a gun.

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She needs to be removed from the trial and the bench permanently. She is so clearly auditioning for SCOTUS if trump gets back to the white house and she will do anything to assist him. How she hasn't been disciplined and removed yet is astonishing to me. And I think Jack Smith is partly to blame. Didn't he have the option to move it to another court? Seems like he mistakenly assumed she would be professional. I'm sure he was worried about the optics of moving from a trump judge's court but he clearly played the wrong hand.

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Oh, Uncle Jeff will get to it

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Wait til tomorrow - he will probably let loose about it then.

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Cannon needs tightening, she's been loose enough!

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she needs to be removed and disbarred.

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We all wish that would be so, but the judiciary are just like the police; they back their own. A judge can be really, really horrible before they will censure them, much less remove them from the bench.

Several very knowledgeable lawyers have weighed in on this & said that it is extremely difficult to get a judge replaced on a case.

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In a Substack I read earlier today someone posted a link to another Substack from someone who had clerked for Judge Cannon. David Lat's Substack on Judge Cannon. https://davidlat.substack.com/p/clerking-for-judge-aileen-cannon-why-clerks-quit

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It is not that easy to remove a judge, which is the good for us but the unfortunate issue of luck of the draw on 3 available judges. I agree everything she has done has been to avoid doing her job.

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Cool. Can she be fired? Let's just do that and spin the judge wheel again.

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That's because Hunter had the Biggest Biggest Best Baddest Package Ever.....No one has ever seen a package like that.Such a Beautiful package.......

Melania would approve.....

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I've seen so much about Hunter's junk that I'm sorry I missed the photos. It must have been magnificent since everyone keeps talking about the photos.

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Or Bill Clinton and the details of the BJ and blue dress.

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It's the typical GOP one-way street when it comes to outrage. In normal times, none of the fibbing, felonious, farting fuckface's behavior would've been accepted by most folks including the media. Now days, the more the shit hits the fan, the more they glorify this despicable asshole.

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Yep. I kept thinking of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky...and the GOP's oh-so-outraged responses...continually.

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They were too busy checking Hunter out.

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They inadvertently turned Hunter into a rockstar.

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Dare we call Hunter a trouser-snake cockstar?

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I came here just to say cockstar. You beat me. Good work!

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Yes, we dare!

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So true!

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They were salivating when shown those Hunter pics. Don’t forget that Marj had them blown up like highway billboards so everyone could see.

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Performative outrage is the only kind they have. Too soulless to actually have outrage.

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that's because there wasn't any...

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In the halls of Congress no less!

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OMG, where is my brain bleach for that sleazy bathrobe picture at the top? Cannot unsee, literally made my skin crawl. 🤢

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the thing about that photo is that Trump is supposed to be a gazillionaire and he's posing on the cheapest, tackiest bedspread imaginable. the guy has zero class

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What’s with his hair? Is he wearing a bonnet? His head looks misshapen

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Or a helmet? Reminds me of a Little Boy Blue haircut.

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😂😂😂 it does look misshapen-he’s always had bad hair!

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Pert Plus!

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That picture was taken before Trump learned that EVERYTHING must be spray painted with gold.

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He has all the class of a bedbug

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And also. See his right hand (our left). See the raised finger? Is that a “come hither” gesture? Barf. 🤮

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I thought he looked a little like Prince Valiant

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Who the F has red flowers on their pillowcases?! Shitt's Creek motel had better decor!

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Really. Too repulsive. Who would find that sexy? He was disgusting then and he is disgusting now but more so.

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I think that Mad Marge would. Although she's "not his type."

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That’s because she ugly as Fck!

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You're my kind of lady Bedhead, a bad girl!

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Yup and honest cause she really is a Fugly Troll..

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I agree with you.

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That was a CENTERFOLD pic I think. Cosmo maybe?

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this is a vile slob who actually said, "if Ivanka wasn't my daughter, I'd probably be dating her"...what kind of sick fuck says something like that, and what kind of morally bankrupt rubes worship that sick fuck????...fuck is wrong with 75 million people in this country??

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Which leaves open the question if he has in fact fucked his own daughter. It wouldn't be surprising at all if he has. There are several photos of Trump and Ivanka when she was young that are truly vomit inducing.

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I remember reading some time ago that a friend of Ivanka’s was convinced that he had molested her. His propensity to like using his finger to penetrate women is classic child molestation behavior.

The disgust and hatred I feel for him is real. 😡

And, still women are willing to vote for him. What the fuck is wrong with you?

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Entirely too many women are complicit in their own degradation, and it has to stop. Wish I knew how to do that.

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I am 79 years old and very recently widowed after 52 years of marriage. A long time friend who can barely walk recently made a move on me. I also thought "how did I not see this coming?" When I told another long-time friend who knows the guy she said "I wondered about that." I understand the feeling of questioning yourself after a weird event. I'm too old to be so innocent and dumb. I get Stormy's bewilderment.

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I get it too. I suspect that most women have undergone something similar and have found themselves wondering if they did something to cause it. That is bullshit and women must stop denigrating themselves. There are times when I really hate most men.

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Or worse - been told they did something to cause it.

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Gawd 🤬. So sorry that happened to you. IT WAS NOT YOUR FAULT! HE, not you, is 100 percent to blame. It's not on you to blame yourself for "not seeing this coming". 💓

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I’m sorry that happened to you. 🌷

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Yep. I’ve walked in her heels as well. In a couple of instances looking back, was damn lucky to have come through the situation all in one piece.

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Amen!

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By stop blaming women. Most of us GenXers were told that if we got ourselves in this situation, it was our own fault. That it was better to agree to sex and pretend to enjoy it than to fight. And then that made it consensual, never mind the coercive elements and sleaziness of it, or whether you would have consented had you known that he wasn't going to use a condom.

I think we're doing a little better now in identifying these sleazeballs, but even a decade ago, this approach was commonplace. Never mind all the things that men do in order to get ahead, but when women use one of the only tools at their disposal that men allow them to use, we blame them and not the man trying to manipulate the situation and coerce someone into having sex with them.

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I'm 74 years old and the women of my generation were told the same bullshit. Second-wave feminism fought back against women being held responsible for men assaulting us, but apparently the same nonsense is still being peddled by too many men (and women).

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Absolutely. In 2024, women are still the ones on trial in rape cases. It's always her fault, unless she's a virgin cloistered nun that fought back and was beaten to within an inch of her life. When will we make men responsible for their behavior? Never it seems.

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Not to mention the piles of thousands of rape kits moldering away that remain untested. Cause who cares? It's the woman's fault.

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Wow. I’m so sorry to read that that was the message you and others received back then. It’s so wrong. Always, always, always, fight back and scream. Never give up your power.

I’m guessing you now that now. 🌷

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I have that same WTAF is wrong with these women who want to vote for that rapist asshat!?!?

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The ARRRRE Aristocrats, so...

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As in the old joke , ARISTOCRATS

Guy has an act with family members boinking each other, Producer asks what do you call your act ? Answer- The ARISTOCRATS 🤣

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Huh?

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There's a long joke describing a lot of really vile despicable acts done by people in this big family, and it goes on and on, and in the end you find out they're aristocrats- samea sthe rest if us, but actually way way worse.

Wait- internet to the rescue, via Reddit:

Gilbert Godfrey is one of the truly amazing performances of the joke. Wasn't it at a Roast right after 9-11 and nobody wanted to laugh. I guess he broke them all down into laughter by just letting out with it.

Also, I think it was Johnny Carson's favorite joke.

Edit: I don't know how many people have seen the delivery that I discussed so here's a link for the lazy. NSFW due to VERY colorful linguistics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiBAfmxwdKc

The intro to his delivery at the roast starts at 0:58 and lasts 'til... No idea. I'm too lazy to figure it out. This is taken from the documentary The Aristocrats.

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I was lucky enough to see Gilbert Gottfried live and it was the only time in my life that I physically hurt from laughing. and yes, he did The Aristocrats

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….a very very very sick fuck!

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Exactly! Thank you for that perfect description!

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Last night I watched on YouTube Lawrence McDonnell, and his guest Jen Rubin, I believe that’s her name, spoke about the questions Dumpster had asked Stormy about the adult film business. I’d heard about that part, but Ms. Rubin really knocked it out of the park. Based on the no-condom near-assault, it’s now clear that he was prepping her for the encounter, that she was “clean enough” for him. When I’d first heard about his questioning her I assumed it had something to do with his being a businessman. Thank you, Ms. Rubin, for making it abundantly clear that this guy is even sleazier and more disgusting and morally bankrupt than anyone could ever imagine.

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Now I think that astute woman was Lisa Rubin; Jennifer Rubin is a columnist for WaPo and is also excellent

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Yes it was. She is brilliant

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Let’s go back to the 1990’s for a moment. The Republicans smeared President Clinton. It was all over the news everyday. The NYT printed the entire, word for word testimony of Paula Jones and the Monica Lewinsky BS for his entire presidency. They impeached him for lying about his relationship with Lewinsky all the while screaming about Family Values, etc.

paybacks are a bitch, and with Trump the hypocrisy is so blatantly in your face I have to laugh. But, that is the Republican Party, one big hypocritical none stop, full of shit, hateful group of lying assholes.

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the party that has actually redefined, "hypocrisy"....they are masters at it and don't give even the tiniest fuck that we call them out on it...they know who they are and what they are doing and know how to manipulate their mostly ignorant base

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Which takes me back to a puzzle I can find no answer to: how do Dems respond in like kind to the Repubs without acting or becoming like those creeps? The creeps clearly know how to use whatever they want to their advantage. What’s to be done? How?

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. Also, I would love to hear one of these political Journalists when they interview republicans, “what exactly, in their opinion, has Biden done domestically that makes him such a bad president and causing the downfall of our country?” I would love to hear their reasons why Biden is such a bad guy. People like Bill Barr and the rest of the turncoats who have said trump should not be back in the WH, yet now say they will still vote for him because Biden is so bad for this country.

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I think they are turning that bill barr bit into a party theme. A message to fence sitters: yeah, we don’t like him, but you gotta vote GOP. Gotta, ya hear? Gotta. Bc Dems are ruining the country. So vote for the orange fart. If they can get enough top level clowns to say that, they might not lose some of the fence sitters who are beginning to doubt the whole orange guy charade.

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How many of these clowns will vote for someone other than trump behind the curtain? Their reputations will be ruined and history will not be kind to them. They are fools to believe anything positive will come out of voting for trump again.

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Who are these pearl clutchers who think her testimony was too " graphic " ? Are the jurors adults or sheltered children ? Of course the story is gross , it's pure disgusting tRUMP. 🤮

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They are the women who are controlled by their billionaire husbands who tell them to to suck it up and vote for trump or you won’t be wearing all those diamonds and designer clothes because the democrats are going to raise our taxes. Pathetic to say the least.

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Nobody but you knows which box you check in the voting booth.

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To “suck it” would have been sufficient. Sorry. Not sorry.

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You can bet that goes on too. 😢

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I remember when he first came on the scene and pretty soon he was fooling around with Marla Maples and she was pregnant so he divorced Ivana and married her. I’ll never forget how disgusted I was when he said they were going to name her Tiffany after a STORE! Then he said I wonder if she will have big boobs like her mother. I have hated that pig ever since.

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I’ve hated him from back then too. I had friends visiting a casino where the Miss America pageant was held. Marla was talking to two little girls and he snapped his fingers at her bc he wanted to leave. POS from day one!

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I've hated him since the Central Park 5.

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Indeed, that was SO despicable,that he would not accept that they were found innocent.

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Me too

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He wanted her to have an abortion at first. Everyone seems to forget that.

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What a vile repugnant excuse for a human being. And if you support him, you’re worse.

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Exactly..really what kind of people support him, besides the obvious super wealthy protecting their tax breaks and deregulation of their companies. There's the religious nutcases and oh yeah, the racists and homophobes, the misogynists and the rednecks still dreaming of winning the Civil War and angry old white men(some) who are bitter and envious of anyone who is happy and content with their lives..that’s who and there're lots of them…

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The common denominator is people who see themselves as losers, and are resentful and bitter. These angry people are in all groups. Even the billionaires who are wired to believe they need to keep winning, to hang onto power, because they are empty shells. Trump, Musk, Putin, Kim … and many many more.

And people who have nothing, who are stuck in the low-life mill of red southern states, have the same bile in their veins. They feel like losers, and they want to burn those who aren’t empty.

This is expressed in the hostility for “woke”. Haven’t we all known people who seem to carry a life grudge wherever they go? Nothing, nor anyone, is good enough. Is correct enough. Is as smart as they see themselves to be. They have nothing to learn from anyone. They have no need whatsoever to take a look at themselves, at their ideas or beliefs.

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Ditto all of the above. It's a white supremacy culture dreaming of when everyone knew their place and life was good. The problem with that is twofold: The good old days is a fantasy. And even if you were/are on top, there's the gnawing fear that it could and should all go away. That is how Trump keeps them in line: I'll get you back what you lost and if you don't stick with me, you'll lose what precious little you have to them.

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I hate him.

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I hate him too, Stormy was HONEST when she said she hated him.

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Right there with you Keeley. Right there with you! 🤬

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Sooo with you all

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Someone in the overflow room reported that there were audible ick reactions while Daniels testified. The trailer park comment... utter contempt toward someone he thinks is his inferior.

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And the punchline: voters who live in trailer parks are turning their wallets inside out for him.

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Trump may think he’s the space cowboy, but he’s really the vomitus of love.🤮🤮

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OOOOH, Good one!

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To our new substack Laureate, I salute you!

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😜😜

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😂😂

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Omg, I can't even. Her description of the "encounter," that disgusting, nasty, stupid, dishonest, horrifying POS... BLECCHH!

I love the term, "disgusting squelch" that spoonbridgecherry used in their reply it's wonderfully apt!

Btw, it's rape. I wouldn't have called it that in my younger years, or possibly even twenty years ago, but the advantage of age is perspective. It was rape. He wasn't going to let her go without screwing him. That's rape.

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Yep, there was so much rape culture embedded in our brains that led us all to believe that if we got ourselves into a situation like that, and decided it was just easier to give in, that made it consensual. But it wasn't.

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`I would “projectile vomit from what a sleazeball he is!” Also…how could the sight of a “beached whale sitting on the bed” get anyone interested? He is thoroughly disgusting. Promises, promises…..yuk. POS !

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For a group of grotesque, sub-human fucks who LOVE rape so much, they sure get queasy and start clutching their pearls when details of their nazi shit stain leader get exposed. Oh, the humanity..........

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I cannot wait for the day that we never hear from or about that disgusting criminal again (except maybe just to know that he is well ensconced in his gross little prison cell.

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I'm with you

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I threw up a bit in my mouth seeing von (probably) shitzinrobe!

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Shitzinpantz, in a Shitzenrobe, on the Shitzinbed

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Perfect

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